All four dates of the LEGO Inside Tour for 2016 are now passed, which means that we can talk a bit more in detail about the tour without spoiling the experience for anyone. As we have discussed previously (see links at the end of this post), the LEGO Inside Tour is considered the ultimate experience […] Read more
LEGO News & Updates
I was going to write about something else today, but this offer from LEGO is so unusually great, I wanted to let you know about it right away. You can earn an extra 500 LEGO VIP Points on your purchase of the #70751 LEGO Ninjago Temple of Airjitzu set for a total of 700 VIP […] Read more
LEGO Rad Robots 1980! and LEGO Arcade Machines 1980! are two projects on LEGO Ideas by LEGO fan BreaksBricks. The projects themselves are great, but what I really like is video featuring them both. It is one of the smoothest LEGO stop-motion video I have seen. You can watch the video below, and there is […] Read more
LEGO City is on fire! At least that’s what the July LEGO Store Calendar depicts. And there are also some fiery LEGO City Volcano sets that where released last month, with a second wave coming in August. But let’s take a look at what special promotions and new sets are available during the month of […] Read more
Last week LEGO updated their Guidelines and House Rules and Terms of Service to clarify the range of submissions that would make good candidates for LEGO Ideas sets. This includes new limits to project size, scope, and subject matter, as well as simplified guidelines for collaborative projects. LEGO Ideas is a very innovate initiative from […] Read more
Korean professional building team OliveSeon is well known for their amazing large LEGO dioramas. Below I will show you some of my favorite ones from their collection. Photographing such huge models is tricky, and it is hard to see all the details from just one overall image, so I recommend you check out the more […] Read more
LEGO has been one of the sponsors of an event in California called Dad 2.0 Summit. According to their website “The Dad 2.0 Summit is an annual conference where marketers, social media leaders, and blogging parents connect to discuss the changing voice and perception of modern fatherhood. More men are defying stereotypes by taking active […] Read more
ReBrick is turning out to be a really exciting place for LEGO contests. As you may remember from our previous discussions (see links at the end of this post), LEGO’s ReBrick website was recently re-launched to focus on LEGO contests for teen and adult LEGO fans. There has been several interesting contests with great prizes, […] Read more
LEGO designer Mark Stafford shared some very sad news on his flickr page a few days ago. Daniel August Krentz, designer of the famed #375 LEGO Classic Yellow Castle and many other iconic LEGO sets recently passed away. Daniel was the first LEGO designer recruited from the LEGO fan community, and the first LEGO designer […] Read more
Towards the end of last year I was contacted by Dongwon Lee from the South Korean LEGO fan magazine simply titled CREATOR. They mostly cover the work of LEGO fans from Asia, but they wanted to do an interview with me, because apparently the LEGO Mini Taj Mahal I built a few years ago was […] Read more
