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Brick Breakdown: Legends of Chima polybags

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(Written by William) In this Brick Breakdown series I’m reviewing official LEGO sets but with a bit of a twist. Instead of just writing a general review I focus on unusual and clever building-techniques LEGO designers used in the set. This way we can all learn new building ideas to use in our own LEGO creations, [...]

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Brick Breakdown: LEGO Ninjago Samurai Mech

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(Written by William) In this Brick Breakdown series I’m reviewing official LEGO sets but with a bit of a twist. Instead of just writing a general review I focus on unusual and clever building-techniques LEGO designers used in the set. This way we can all learn new building ideas to use in our own LEGO creations, [...]

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Brick Bending – making LEGO circles & more

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We have talked about making circles and other rounded shapes out of LEGO bricks before (see: Round Shapes with Square Bricks!), and today I would like to introduce you to a LEGO artist who takes Brick Bending (as he calls it) to a whole new level. Jeff Sanders bends square LEGO bricks in all kinds [...]

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Brick Breakdown: LEGO City Alarm

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(Written by William) In this Brick Breakdown series I’m reviewing official LEGO sets but with a bit of a twist. Instead of just writing a general review I focus on unusual and clever building-techniques LEGO designers used in the set. This way we can all learn new building ideas to use in our own LEGO creations, [...]

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Brick Breakdown: LEGO Battle of Helm’s Deep

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(Written by William) In the Brick Breakdown series I will be reviewing official LEGO sets but with a bit of a twist. Instead of just writing a general review I will focus on unusual and clever building-techniques LEGO designers used in the set. This way we can all learn new building ideas to use in our [...]

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LEGO contest to awe & inspire: Iron Builder

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One of the best way to get inspired in the LEGO hobby, learn new techniques, and sharpen your LEGO-building skills, is to follow LEGO contests. Even if you don’t participate in the LEGO contest yourself you can learn a lot and keep your hobby fresh and interesting as you watch contestants stretch their creativity and [...]

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LEGO poseable mini-legs for shorties!

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LEGO introduced a shorter version of minifigure legs back in 2002.  It has been used for LEGO minifigure children, shortie characters from Star Wars, Ninjago and Harry Potter, and most recently the dwarves in the LEGO Lord of the Rings and LEGO The Hobbit sets.  Personally I love short LEGO minifig legs. They make the already [...]

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More LEGO brickfilms behind-the-scenes

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Here is another great behind-the-scenes LEGO video from LEGO brickfilms creator the BrotherhoodWorkshop. In this video Kevin Ulrich invites his brother David Ulrich to share some of his secrets. In today’s video David talks about how he built that great looking LEGO Treebeard in their Christmas special video. (You can see the original video here: LEGO Christmas the Orcs Way…) As you [...]

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