How Sidelining My Dream MOC Reinvigorated My LEGO Passion
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What happens when your dream LEGO project turns into a burden? One builder shares how stepping away from a massive castle helped them find joy in the hobby again.
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Flying With MOCs: Should You Check LEGO in Your Luggage?
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What are the best ways to fly with MOCs? Today we look at the pros and cons of checking LEGO creations in your luggage to see which packing techniques mean less rebuilding upon arrival.
Read MoreHow to Build Bionicle: Combining Constraction with the LEGO System
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Bionicle and constraction pieces can really make your builds look more organic and natural, but what are the best ways of incorporating them into a LEGO build? With Bio-Cup back, here are three techniques to learn how to build Bionicle.
Read MoreFrom Sunflowers to Surrealism: A Color-Driven LEGO Art Remix
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What happens when you remix a masterpiece using only what LEGO gives you? This color-driven alt-build of Van Gogh’s Sunflowers proves you can reframe the original even if all the pieces are flat.
Read More1,000 Miles to Madness: A North Dakotan’s First BrickCon
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What drives someone to travel 1,000 miles for their first LEGO convention? For Becky and Renee, it was curiosity, community, and a love of LEGO that brought them to BrickCon—and keeps them coming back.
Read MoreThe German Grandma Creating LEGO Ramps to Access Buildings and Imagination
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Meet Rita Ebel, a grandma better known as the ‘LEGO Oma’ who is using LEGO to build ramps that make buildings more beautiful and accessible in Germany.
Read MorePainting The Sky: Creating The Northern Lights For LEGO Photography
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Ann Megacolormix explores the world’s greatest light show. No, not The Pink Floyd Experience; the Northern Lights! She demonstrates how to incorporate this amazing phenomenon into a LEGO build.
Read MoreWe'll Fix It In Post: How to Edit Photos to Make MOCs Pop
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Have you ever taken a photo of your amazing LEGO creation at a convention but the background is too distracting? BrickNerd guest contributor Wayne Tyler shares his process to make MOC photos pop, no matter what is behind them!
Read MoreIt Came From Outer Space: Space Baby GWP Available Now
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We can’t repel cuteness of that magnitude! An adorable Space Baby has crash-landed into LEGO’s latest Gift With Purchase available now, and we’ve got all the close-up details.
Read MoreWhy the Eurobricks Event Isn’t Like Any Other LEGO Meetup
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The Eurobricks Event may not be the biggest or flashiest LEGO gathering, but for those who attend, it’s the one that feels most like home. Join us as we explore what makes this low-key, quirky meetup a favorite among longtime AFOLs.
Read MoreHow to Part Out LEGO Sets: Sorting Your Way Out of a Dark Age
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How do you part out a LEGO set into pieces that you can build with? Guest contributor Katie Walker shows us her sorting process and storage system and describes how sorting helped her back into the hobby.
Read MoreLEGOLAND Promo Bricks: Collecting May Be Addictive!
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Many LEGOLAND Parks and Discovery Centers have offered promotional printed bricks over the years. Join BrickNerd as we look into the past, present, and future of promo bricks and the community that collects them.
Read MoreHave Shuttle, Will Travel: A NASA Engineer’s Take on the LEGO 747 and Space Shuttle
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What does it take to move the Space Shuttle? A really big airplane! LEGO 10360 Shuttle Carrier Aircraft captures a legendary piece of space history. But how does it measure up to the real thing? A former NASA engineer weighs in.
Read MoreLEGO Contest Round-Up for May 2025
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Check out these amazing LEGO contests and challenges for May 2025. There are so many MOCs to be built and prizes to be won!
Read MoreThe Conversation Piece #5: How to Use Color in LEGO Builds
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Not sure which colors to choose for your next LEGO MOC? The Builder Improvement Initiative breaks down the basics of color theory and offers tips to help you build with more confidence, contrast, and creativity.
Read MoreThe Winners of Imperial March 2025 Are…
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Last month we challenged you to bring to life your most iconic LEGO Star Wars creations for our Imperial March contest. Today for May the Fourth, we are excited to reveal the winners who went to the Dark Side and beyond!
Read MoreChasing Chase McCain: Tracking Down Every Variant of LEGO’s Police Mascot
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Join us as we track down all the versions of Chase McCain, the main character of LEGO City Undercover. It’s an old-fashioned investigation!
Read MoreA New Horizon for LEGO Games (with Bonus Instructions)
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What do you get when you mash up LEGO and Horizon Zero Dawn? A new Horizon Adventures game full of wild machines, brick-smashing fun, and a physical tie-in set. As a bonus, we’ve even got free instructions to make your own in-game training dummy at home!
Read MoreNew LEGO Sets for May 2025 Include Star Wars Day Deals, Technic and Pre-Sales Galore
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Star Wars Day is arriving in full force in LEGO form! If you use BrickNerd’s affiliate link for LEGO.com, you are helping support community-focused journalism to take down the Empire!
Read MoreLEGO Community Headlines and Highlights for April 2025
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April brought a multitude of interesting articles and eye-catching videos from all across the LEGO community. These are the best LEGO features of the month.
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Did you know there is a LEGO convention held inside a world-renowned glass museum? Let’s step through the looking-glass together and learn what BrickNerd contributors Ted Andes and Daniel Zimmerman found at Empire Brick Con.