Both December and 2022 are almost over, and we once again had a month full of deep-dives, interesting features and other LEGO-related articles. The LEGO community is also lucky to have so many other blogs, magazines and channels that create amazing content about our hobby, and these are the best of the month.

Here at BrickNerd, we carved wooden LEGO Christmas trees, celebrated LEGO nativity MOCs, and learned about the history of LEGO employee holiday gifts. We traveled to New York City to learn about LEGO events and continued on to a galaxy far, far away on the search for Leia in advent calendars. We learned about how part updates change building techniques, read about THE LEGO book from its author, continued our deep-dive on LEGO Inside Tour Exclusives (there’s even a part 2!), and learned about LEGO investing. And we even managed to sit down with two masters of the LEGO Chibi style and got to learn some techniques from them. In fact, we’ve published so many interesting articles for December, that we’ve included an interactive calendar of them at the bottom of this post so you can make sure you didn’t miss a thing.

But there are many more fascinating stories to be told from within the LEGO community, so here are some of the best LEGO articles that caught our contributors’ attention throughout the month of December. We applaud the effort that went into each of these features, so click on the headlines or photos to head to each story or video. They are well worth your time!

Bill Ward’s Brickpile: Brick Geometry & SNOT Building

Bill Ward’s been talking about SNOT and LEGO brick geometry for almost 15 years. Now you can find a new recording of the latest version of his presentation on his blog, along with a PDF of the slides to follow along.

BrickCentral: Artist Spotlight: rennerbricks

BrickCentral’s Artist Spotlight highlights a young photographer from Japan and his work. While you’ll get to see some amazing LEGO scenes, you can read about his progress and even get to see a peek behind the curtain of the image to the right!

Kotaku: The Complete, Surprising Eight-Year History of LEGO's Poop Piece

LEGO pieces have the tendency to be used for more than a single purpose. So when an innocent swirl of ice cream turned into a swirl of poop, AFOLs really weren’t all that surprised. Kotaku digs into the piece’s history and highlights its use over the years.

Jay’s Brick Blog: A Conversation with Jamie Berard on 10312 Modular Jazz Club and LEGO’s Modular Building Street

Go behind the scenes of the latest modular building and read from Jamie Berard himself about design decisions, the bigger picture of the modular collection and - maybe unexpectedly - about pizza toppings!

Josh Builds Stuff: When Too Much LEGO Becomes Too Much

From collecting sets to MOC building, Josh explores the many aspects of LEGO fandom and how too much can become too much, including the amount of creative edits in the video!

matyho kostky: The BrickLink story: From a good idea to the world's largest online LEGO marketplace (translated)

What would the AFOL community be without BrickLink? matyho kostky’s Vlastimil uncovers the history of the platform and more specifically its creator, Dan Ježek.

New Elementary: LEGO Icons 10312 Jazz Club - New parts in the musical Modular

LEGO hosts a roundtable with the designer of the latest modular building and suddenly there’s a whole array of articles covering just that. However only on New Elementary will you find it intertwined with all the new interesting pieces the set offers!

Rebrickable: Is this LEGO? - Clikits

Like clockwork, Rebrickable’s TobyMac is back and takes a look at another long-forgotten and/or ridiculed LEGO theme. After Znap and Galidor, this month it was time to look at another wondrous LEGO theme from the early 2000s: Clikits!

SpitBrix: The History and Demise of LEGO Chima

LEGO Legends of Chima was a theme that was both loved and hated by LEGO fans. Despite its strong first year and passionate fanbase, the theme would suffer a slowdown in popularity and declining viewership for the animated episodes.

Stonewars: Bricking Bavaria 2022: An event report from the fan exhibition in Fürth (translated)

Stonewars shows us around Germany’s biggest fan event Bricking Bavaria and highlights creations and activities alike.

The Brick Blogger: LEGO Winter Village Dioramas & Display Ideas

With more sets in the Winter Village collection, LEGO fans are able to add more variety to their displays. It’s fun to check out how others are arranging their villages, and you may even get some inspiration and ideas for your own setup.

Tile and Dye: Custom Advent Calendar Instructions

We saw lots of posts about LEGO’s advent calendars this month but Malin created 24 festive custom builds and posted the free instructions for each. Now you can expand your LEGO Winter Village even more!

Tips&Bricks: TECHNIQUE ANALYSIS - The Watchtower by Lech Kulina

One of the highlights of Tips&Bricks is their look at amazing creations from the community to uncover what fun and crazy techniques were used to create those masterpieces. This time it’s all about geometry with a look on the inside of Lech Kulina’s mind-boggling watchtower.

Toy Photographers: Feature Friday - Janee Landroth

Toy Photographers interviews Janee Landroth, a retail assistant from Queensland Australia, whose toy photography is just wonderful to look at. Find out what got her into the hobby, what tools she uses and what tips she can share!

If all of those amazing features weren’t enough to satisfy your LEGO community craving, here is an interactive calendar of everything that BrickNerd has published this last month to make sure you didn’t miss a single article.

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