Advanced Guides for LEGO Fans

Merry Christmas and Happy Holidays! Hope you have a wonderful and peaceful time with your family this holiday season, and that you might even have some time to build and play! Below are a few small holiday-themed LEGO projects by LEGO’s own designers, that you might like to build with your family. You can follow […] Read more

It has become a Christmas tradition that Canadian LEGO builder, artist, and photographer Chris McVeigh releases a series of charming LEGO Christmas ornaments for the holidays. You can either download the instructions to make your own ornaments, or purchase the ornaments as building kits from Chris’ website. Chris also published a beautiful book, which includes […] Read more

Two of my favorite LEGO trains are the #10254 LEGO Creator Winter Holiday Train from last year, and the train from the #79111 LEGO The Lone Ranger Constitution Train Chase set from 2013. They are very similar old-style steam engines, each with a coal car, a flatbed wagon, and a closed-in wagon. I like them […] Read more

Have you ever considered submitting a project to LEGO Ideas? If yes, did you ever wonder how you can improve your chances of reaching the 10,000-supporter milestone, and ultimately getting your project approved to become the next LEGO Ideas set? It certainly feels like a daunting task to design, build, submit, and promote an idea […] Read more

The #21309 LEGO Ideas NASA Apollo Saturn V has been out of stock from pretty much the day it became briefly available back in June. Since then, there were a couple of very short periods of just a few hours when it was available at the Online LEGO Shop, but then it went out of stock […] Read more

Earlier this year, I mentioned how I was really inspired by JANGBRICKS’ minifigure display wall, using LEGO compatible plates by Strictly Briks, and remade by own wall using the same method (see: Updating My LEGO Minifigures Display Wall). I’m very happy with the quality, interesting shapes, useful sizes, and huge color selection of Strictly Briks […] Read more

You might remember that back in March we talked about a new series on LEGO’s YouTube channel titled Beyond the Instructions. In the series, Erik Beck from Indie Machines takes a wide variety of official LEGO sets and transforms them into something even more awesome – usually by motorizing them and making them fly, launch, […] Read more

I recently had a chance to try out an interesting new product called Bakku Backgrounds. They are basically a combination of a playmat and a backdrop, and can be used with LEGO, or other toys and collectibles. :) Bakku Backgrounds was created by Brian Woodman from Canada, who watched his own children play with LEGO. […] Read more

The official LEGO YouTube channel is a great way to watch some LEGO-related videos. It includes everything from product-videos, tutorials, alternate builds for official LEGO sets, brickfilms, animations, webisodes, trailers, and more – all in several different languages. And this is where the problem comes in; LEGO’s YouTube channel is like a giant toy-box with […] Read more