LEGO News & Updates

There is a new contest on LEGO Ideas, this time celebrating the new Land Rover. Please note that you do not have to own the #42110 LEGO Technic Land Rover to participate in this contest. You can use LEGO Digital Designer, or just build your own Land Rover of any size. The details of the […] Read more

A few days ago, I shared some really cute Halloween pumpkins and Gingerbread houses by LEGO fan Chad Parker (see: LEGO Halloween Pumpkins & Gingerbread Houses). Since then, Chad also built a Halloween version of the newly released #10267 LEGO Creator Gingerbread House. Check it out below and let me know how you like it. […] Read more

(Written by Geneva – gid617) If you’ve been following my LEGO set mash-up series, then you know that I’ve been combining LEGO sets from different themes and building amusement park rides (see links at the end of this post). Naturally, the next thing to do is to combine the mash-ups in one large LEGO amusement […] Read more

(Written by Mark H. Avery) In Learning From Model Train Layouts – Part 1, we discussed some basic tips and tricks LEGO train fans can learn from traditional model train layouts. And now that we covered the basics, let’s talk about some of the finishing touches. You’ve built or bought tables. You’ve laid your tracks […] Read more

With Halloween coming up, it’s time to build some LEGO Halloween creations! I recently came across a very talented LEGO builder on Facebook named Chad Parker. Last year, Chad built a series of gingerbread houses for the holiday season, and this year he decided to build a series of pumpkin houses for Halloween. Below, I […] Read more

(Written by Geneva – gid617) If you read my previous articles in this series, you know that I have been working on several 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 […] Read more

You might remember that at the beginning of last year, LEGO Ideas ran a contest called Moments in Space. The challenge was to build a small to mid-size space model that was going to be used as an exclusive LEGO gift-with-purchase set in the future. The contest was very successful with almost a thousand entries, […] Read more

There is a new contest on LEGO Ideas for LEGO Harry Potter fans. The LEGO Ideas team is looking for recreations of iconic Harry Potter winter scenes, across any of the films. The contest is fun, the prizes are amazing, so if you are a Harry Potter fan, this is your chance to have a […] Read more

(Written by Mark H. Avery) Reading and re-reading all the model train magazines I own (mainly Model Railroader and Classic Toy Trains) is almost a hobby onto itself. Doing so is supposed to teach model railroaders (and by extension, LEGO City train builders) many lessons. Some are lessons that I’ve absorbed; there are others that […] Read more