(Written by William) Back in 2016, theBrickBlogger was contacted by a production company looking to create a documentary about toys. To be more specific, they wanted to look at iconic toys that shaped the fans of today. The goal was to pick out eight major toy lines and focus in on their social impact. As […] Read more
LEGO News & Updates
An interesting piece of news that came out at the end of last month that we haven’t discussed yet, is that the LEGO Ideas team announced their decision about the latest batch of fan-submitted projects for the potential to become official LEGO sets. There were six projects in this review period, and to the disappointment […] Read more
January-February is usually very exciting for LEGO fans; we get the first large wave of new sets, and we also get a chance to see sets coming out later in the year through the various toy fairs. Traditionally, LEGO participates in three major toy fairs; the London Toy Fair at the second part of January, […] Read more
At the beginning of the year, we got the first large wave of 2018 sets, but LEGO saved some exciting happenings for February as well. So, let’s take a look at all the interesting new sets and promotions during the month! :) :arrow: FREE 60 YEARS OF THE LEGO BRICK SET: This freebie started at […] Read more
LEGO likes to keep their fans entertained and challenged with new contests every month! You can read about the other currently running contests at the end of this post, and today we will discuss the most recently announced contest at LEGO’s ReBrick website: LEGO Ninjago Continue The Chase. Details of the contest are below. :) […] Read more
Just about a week ago was the celebration of National Hugging Day. According to Wikipedia, Kevin Zaborney is credited with coming up with the idea of National Hugging Day in 1986. He chose January 21, as it fell between the Christmas and New Year’s Holidays and Valentine’s Day when he found that people are generally […] Read more
Just a quick reminder that the #40290 LEGO 60 Years of the LEGO Brick set is available this weekend (January 28th)! We have talked about this special release before (see: 60 Years of the LEGO Brick Anniversary Set), but to summarize, this is a free promotional item to commemorate the 60th anniversary of LEGO brick […] Read more
We just talked about the winners of the first LEGO Ideas contest a few days ago, and now the LEGO Ideas team is ready to challenge fans with another great contest, titled LEGO Ideas Moments in Space. Details of the contest are below, but I also wanted to point out that the grand prize includes […] Read more
When we recently talked about the newly released 2018 LEGO Friends sets, several of our readers pointed out that the #41339 LEGO Friends Mia’s Camper Van looks very much like a LEGO Scooby-Doo vehicle due to the very similar color-scheme. :) Indeed, the #75902 LEGO Scooby-Doo Mystery Machine (and also the #75901 LEGO Scooby-Do Mystery Plane Adventures) […] Read more
Back in November of last year, LEGO Ideas introduced building contests as a new feature to their platform. The very first contest challenged LEGO fans to design their own version of the LEGO Ideas logo for a chance to win some very generous prizes (you can read more about the contest here: LEGO Ideas Build […] Read more
