Advanced Guides for LEGO Fans

Amongst all LEGO Creator Modular Buildings, the #10232 LEGO Creator Palace Cinema is the only one that includes stickers (in the other sets in the series the decorated pieces are all printed). LEGO most likely made the decision to use stickers because the decorations depict large movie posters and signs and would be expensive to […] Read more

There is a very interesting LEGO fan group on flickr that I became aware of through the LEGO Ambassador Forum. It’s called the LEGO Reverse Engineering Challenge. The idea is to figure out how small but complex LEGO creations were built. Once a challenge is posted, members submit their solutions, which are then shared in […] Read more

If you have a good size LEGO collection, you are probably familiar with Brickset.com. Brickset makes it very easy to keep track of the LEGO sets and minifigures you own, and gives you all kind of nifty charts, tables, and other tools to analyze and manage what you have. Another great website often used by […] Read more

If you are a Marvel comics fan, you are probably aware that the Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2 film was released in theatres just about a week ago. The movie has been highly praised by critics for its humor, soundtrack and cast, and a third film is already in the works. We have talked […] Read more

The Online LEGO Shop has an interesting new section that you may or may not have noticed, titled Discover. When the updated website was launched last year, there was nothing here, so I have been curiously waiting to see what was going to be added. And indeed, LEGO has been quietly filling up this space with […] Read more

An increasingly popular side-branch of the LEGO hobby is creating LEGO stop-motion videos, also referred to as brickfilms. While a number of online blog posts and video tutorials are available on brickfilming, there has been a real need for a comprehensive and easily understandable guide to help people get started. Long-time brickfilmers David Pagano and […] Read more

(Written by William) In this Brick Breakdown series, I review official LEGO sets from the perspective of finding interesting building techniques that we can learn from. Today we will be examining the recently released #71042 LEGO Pirates of the Caribbean Silent Mary. But before we begin, let me give you some overall impressions I had […] Read more

(Written by William) I should start out by saying that this Brick Breakdown segment is going to be a bit different from previous ones. As the LEGO BrickHeadz series uses very similar building techniques in all of the sets, I thought it made more sense to write about the entire series, instead of each separate […] Read more

One of my favorite LEGO blogs is New Elementary. It is run by Tim Johnson (a.k.a. caperberry) from the UK. Tim’s focus is on taking a look at new LEGO elements (thus the blog’s name) released by the LEGO Group, and analyze their shapes, colors, angles, connection-points, interaction and compatibility with other pieces, etc. Tim’s […] Read more