The much-talked-about #21344 LEGO Ideas Orient Express became available at the beginning of December. It’s a beautiful set bringing back one of the world’s most legendary trains. The original Orient Express was the world’s first international luxury train that carried thousands of passengers across Europe to Istanbul from 1883 to 1977. Released to celebrate the […] Read more
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Many LEGO fans are now counting down the days to Christmas with the LEGO Advent Calendar sets. As you probably know already, these sets have little windows for each day of December with pieces for a small build inside. This year, we got five LEGO Advent Calendar sets from various LEGO themes: the #60381 LEGO […] Read more
(Written by William) Making LEGO mosaics is not a new concept. In fact, LEGO fans have been designing and building them for as long as small LEGO tiles, bricks, and plates have been available. And LEGO’s own designers have been making large LEGO mosaics for public events. The main deterrent for more people to get […] Read more
(Written by William) One of the more recent LEGO themes that captured my attention is LEGO Hidden Side. My favorite set from the theme has been the #70425 LEGO Hidden Side Newbury Haunted High School (see link for review at the end of this post), so I figured that from the most recently released wave […] Read more
While watching the American version of the LEGO Masters competition TV series, one thing that stood out for me the most is how often Amie Corbett and Jamie Berald – LEGO Senior Designers and judges of the show – emphasized the importance of color. They encouraged contestants to use more colors, use colors to tell […] Read more
If you have been building with LEGO mostly by yourself, you may have not realized that there are many different ways to get ready to build a LEGO set. Older LEGO fans who grew up before parts were sorted into numbered bags may still prefer to dump all the parts together before beginning to build. […] Read more
(Written by Geneva – gid617) Have you ever wished that you had a LEGO brick with studs on both sides? Or a brick with anti-studs on both sides? That happens to me a lot, and I thought I’d share with you some of the techniques I use most frequently to connect studs to studs or […] Read more
(Written by Geneva – gid617) If you read my previous articles you know that I have been working on a series of LEGO amusement park mash-up projects by combining sets from different themes (see links at the end of this post). So far, we discussed mixing sets from LEGO Friends and LEGO Ninjago, LEGO Creator […] Read more
I recently came across the YouTube channel of LEGOParadise, run by a LEGO fan from the UK named Liam. He has been building some excellent minifig-scale working LEGO vending machines, arcade games, and other interactive machines. Not only that, but he also shares instructions for most of his projects, so you can follow along and […] Read more
There are a number of ways LEGO fans can share building instructions and tutorials for their custom models. Taking pictures of the building steps is a pretty straightforward process, but it’s quite tedious. Generating building instructions with LEGO Digital Designer (or other design software) is another common method. Although instructions created this way will look […] Read more
