Making Waves: The Soothing Moves of LEGO Waves
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Okay, BrickNerd fans, better pop a couple of Dramamines and slip on your swim floaties because today we’re checking out some crafty LEGO wave action MOCs!
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LEGO Community Headlines and Highlights for March 2024
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March was a month full of interesting articles, thought-provoking deep dives, and eye-catching videos all about LEGO. These are the best features of the month from around the LEGO community.
Read MoreThe Beginning of LEGO’s IP Partnerships
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Today, we look at LEGO’s forays into promotional sets cobranded with other companies that ultimately led to the explosion of profitable IP sets based on shows and movies. Hop in your VW Beetle, head over to McDonald’s drive-thru, and come check it out!
Read MoreA Rover to Remember
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I always find Febrovery too short of a month, so realizing that this year we’d get an extra leap day of rover goodness was a good feeling, especially when Scott Wilhelm shared this massive masterpiece on wheels.
Read MoreStacking Habitats: An Instagram AFOL Community Challenge
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Minifigure habitats challenges have been bringing together hundreds of Instagram LEGO builders across the world. Join us for a chat with Jen of @brickfambuilds, who hosts these AFOL community events.
Read MoreMaking Hogwarts More Magical with Miniscule Nano Sculptures
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Join us on a magical photographic journey through LEGO Hogwarts to experience a few (minuscule) custom nano-sculptures! You’ll need a steady hand and infinite patience to master this microscale technique.
Read MoreInstructions to Build a LEGO Speeder Bike
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Fly through the streets of New Hashima with this cyberpunk speeder bike! Instructions are available right here on BrickNerd and in BrickJournal’s most recent issue.
Read MoreHow to Build a World Record Vertical LEGO Mosaic
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Ever think about earning a Guinness World Record? Largest ball of tinfoil? Longest time standing on one foot? How about the Largest Vertical LEGO Mosaic? Today Samuel Pister investigates just that about how an AFOL in France built big all because of a boat.
Read MoreQuick Build #6: St. Patrick’s Day Leprechaun
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Welcome back to BrickNerd Quick Builds! We are celebrating all things green with instructions to build a LEGO leprechaun for St. Patrick’s Day, complete with a rainbow and a pot of gold!
Read MoreBizarre Belville Baseplates: A Fine Foundation
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We are going all the way down the Belville rabbit hole to the bedrock and building up the foundation from there. Join us as we explore the bizarre baseplate of LEGO Belville!
Read MoreAll Types, Part 3: Behind the Design of LEGO Typography
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We conclude our exploration of LEGO fonts, ending the series where it all began by discovering the typeface for the original LEGO logo. Come back with us to the 1930s on a typographic journey through toy history.
Read MoreLEGO Fashion: Even More Brick-Built Bow Ties
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LEGO bow ties are so cool that we chatted with three more brick-built bow tie enthusiasts about the endless creative possibilities and deeply personal expressions of these stylish LEGO wearables.
Read MoreLEGO Fashion: Brick-Built Bow Ties
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How do you make a LEGO bow tie? We talk to three LEGO bow tie enthusiasts to find out about the motivation and techniques behind their dashing brick-built fashion statements.
Read MoreBricktastic 2024: AT-ATs on Parade
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At Bricktastic 2024, a parade of modded LEGO AT-ATs greeted visitors at the front of the exhibition hall. From giraffes to walking gardens, we chatted with each builder about how they approached customizing such a huge UCS Star Wars set.
Read MoreMagnetic Movement: Taking LEGO Mario to the Next Level
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To celebrate MAR10 Day, we chat with Bricktendo about their massive Bowser’s Castle and take a peek inside the LEGO creation to see how Mario magically moves using magnets. It’s super!
Read MoreLEGO Pop Art in Paris: The Modern Minifgures of Wawapod
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Walk down the streets of Paris with us as we discover the LEGO pop art of Warren Podguszer, aka Wawapod. His modern art minifigures will move you!
Read MoreA LEGO Community Quilt to Honor International Women’s Day
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For International Women’s Day, we are featuring this LEGO quilt built by the Women’s Brick Initiative and helmed by Daneen McDermott. Hundreds of people across multiple continents have now participated in this woven collaboration.
Read MoreLEGO Building Systems: History Told in Microscale
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LEGO has a rich corporate history, especially when it comes to its three primary building systems. Join BrickNerd as we look at a sampling of the many sets with historical references, some of them very tiny!
Read MoreLEGO Contest Round-Up for March 2024
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Check out all of these amazing LEGO contests and challenges for March 2024. There are so many MOCs to be built and prizes to be won!
Read MoreThe AdoraBuild: A LEGO Contest All About Cute
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Cuteness overload alert—the AdoraBuild contest has arrived! We want you to create the most cuddly characters, tiny things, and sweet scenes that make you smile. Choose the category that sparks your inner “Awww!” and build your heart out to win an adorable avalanche of LEGO prizes!
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Are you one of those people that has a perpetually messy building table? If so, you are not alone. Ted Andes comes out in defense of creative clutter and pleads the case for there being a method-to-the-madness of a messy building table. Read on to find out why a little bit of disorganization can be a good thing.