Featured LEGO Creations

I have been thinking about adding a Chinatown section to my LEGO Modular Buildings layout for quite some time now, and when the LEGO Chinese New Year sets were released, the idea solidified even further. Many LEGO fans use #70620 LEGO Ninjago City and #70657 LEGO Ninjago City Docks for their Asian neighborhood, but because […] Read more

(Written by William) When I originally started writing about LEGO Ideas, it was for two major reasons. The first was to share some of my own creations with the larger fan community. The second was to document the LEGO Ideas process. I was hoping that, with each successive project, I could learn from my mistakes […] Read more

The #21319 LEGO Ideas Central Perk set has been inspiring many LEGO fans to turn it into a LEGO Modular Building. The set was released towards the end of last year to celebrate the 25th anniversary of Friends, the very popular American TV sitcom. It recreates the café style studio setting with many authentic details, […] Read more

Tensegrity has taken the LEGO world by storm over the past couple of weeks. You have probably seen these fantastical “floating” creations on social media, as more and more LEGO fans are sharing their own tensegrity structures (image below: Floating Island by Seb_E). According to Wikipedia, “tensegrity, or tensional integrity, or floating compression is a […] Read more

(Written by William) With all the LEGO-related and other social events being canceled due to the virus, I haven’t been able to display my first LEGO Ideas project, Ahoy’s Seafood Restaurant. (You can read about the projects via the links at the end of this post). Judging by the statistics, chances are that project won’t […] Read more

Two of the most popular sets from The LEGO Ninjago Movie are the #70620 LEGO Ninjago City from 2017 and the #70657 LEGO Ninjago City Docks from 2018. The sets can be used separately or connected together for a larger layout. They represent a chaotic cityscape with structures stacked on top of each other, as […] Read more

LEGO fan Jason Allemann is well known for his LEGO kinetic sculptures. Jason also openly shares instructions for most of his models on his website, JKBrickWorks.com, so other LEGO fans can learn from them. Interestingly, although Jason’s expertise is with mechanical models, he never built a LEGO Great Ball Contraption (GBC). GBC models are very […] Read more

(Written by William) Like many of you during these unusual times, I found myself stuck at home with a bit more time on my hands than I knew what to do with. So, I turned to the LEGO Ideas platform, which is the home of the majority of official LEGO contests. Sure enough, one of […] Read more

Even if you don’t have time to participate in LEGO Ideas contests, it is a good mental exercise to spend a few minutes thinking about what you would build for each of the challenges. Then, when the contests are over, and the winners are announced, you can go back to the contest page to see […] Read more