Advanced Guides for LEGO Fans

Although these days there are many hundreds of specialized LEGO parts, the heart-and-soul of LEGO is still the regular LEGO brick. If you ever get overwhelmed by all the choices, or feel like you are not up-to-date with all the possibilities, I encourage you to go back to the basics and see what you can […] Read more

(Written by William) The major difference between an official LEGO creation and a model made by an Adult Fan of LEGO (AFOL) are the number of parts AFOLs use. It’s a rather common occurrence to talk to other AFOLs about a LEGO set, then hear that they had to buy multiple copies of it to […] Read more

(Written by William) When you go to a major outlet for LEGO needs, like Toys’R’Us or an official LEGO store, you can get a little frustrated if they don’t have what you want. Many times you will have to go out of your way just to get to these places. This is especially true with the official […] Read more

(Written by William) Anyone who has ever been in an official LEGO Store knows that it’s filled with cool displays. Some are models of the current sets that are out while others are decidedly different. On occasion, one of these different displays is much larger than the rest and has a name card. For those […] Read more

(Written by William) Buying enough LEGO to satisfy a group of Adult Fans of LEGO (AFOL) can be a rather expensive process. After all, building life-size snowmen out of white bricks is hard when you don’t have an official LEGO Store anywhere near your club. Fortunately, LEGO is aware of this problem. The thing is […] Read more

(Written by William) When we build with LEGO, we spend much of our imagination time trying to figure out how something can be done. We are often stopped by the realization that a piece we could have sworn we saw doesn’t really exist. Well, it did in our pizza-induced dreams from the night before. Thousands […] Read more

Due to reader requests and comments in response to the Glued Magnet Minifig Removal tutorial, I created this guide to LEGO magnets. This is especially relevant because you can still find both glued and- no-glued versions at LEGO’s Online Shop, LEGO stores and other retail outlets. I hope this will help you selecting the magnets that you want […] Read more

(Written by William) One of the big steps in being an AFOL (Adult Fan of LEGO) is the point where you start buying extra sets for their parts. Some AFOLs get to this step much faster than others. It all has to do with how you played with your LEGO sets earlier in life. As […] Read more

Miniature building has been a favorite of generations of model builders. Think of ships-in-a-bottle type models, miniature trains, dollhouses, castles, and landscapes! Some of the tiniest of miniature models is referred to as microscale. How small? Well, that depends on the skill of the model builder! Willard Wigan made his fame by building micro sculptures […] Read more