LEGO has announced that the results of the LEGO Ideas First 2023 Review Stage will be revealed tomorrow at 6am PT. There were 71 out of 73 projects that qualified to have a chance to become the next LEGO Ideas set. Below are the 71 sets that are in contention. Which one(s) do you think will be chosen? • Dr. Seuss and LEGO• Sweet Honey• The Botanical Garden• The Crown – A Piece of History• Stargate SG1: Embarkation Room• Roscosmos Soyuz MS Spacecraft• Motorized Howl’s Moving Castle• The Stargate• Medieval Seaside Market• Brick Boulevard• Retro Comic Store• Shrek’s Swamp – 20th Anniversary• Baby Green Sea Turtle – Kinetic• Humpback Whale• Shrek’s Swamp• Brooklyn Nine-Nine: 99th Precinct• LED Lamp• Bricks Coffee• Ogel Creek Saw Mill• Hollow Knight: Forgotten Crossroad• LEGO Godzilla• Claus Toys• Twilight: Cullen House• Where’s Wally/Waldo?• V.&T.R.R. #12, Genoa• River Side Lodge• Catan – The Game• Daft Punk – The...

When the LEGO Animal Crossing sets were announced a few months ago, we only had the product images but there are now box arts for the sets coming out of Smyths Toys. Not surprisingly, they’re very coordinated with the bright colors and the leaf background. The sets won’t be available until March 1, 2024 but we can look forward to some of the more iconic characters from the series in minifigure form. Julian’s Birthday Party (77046) – 170 pieces/$14.99 Bunnie’s Outdoor Activities (77047) – 164 pieces/$19.99 Kapp’n’s Island Boat Tour (77048) – 233 pieces/$29.99 Isabelle’s House Visit (77049) – 389 pieces/$39.99 Nook’s Cranny & Rosie´s House (77050) – 535 pieces/$74.99 The post LEGO Animal Crossing Official Box Arts Revealed appeared first on The Brick Fan. Original linkOriginal author: Allen "Tormentalous" Tran

LEGO has been building minifig-scale snowmen with varying levels of success for decades. I’ve seen some people speculate in online communities that perhaps LEGO has never seen an actual snowman before (even though it has been snowing in Billund, Denmark this last week!). I certainly won’t go that far, but I will say that some of their designs align with what I would consider to be the ideal of a snowman far more closely than others. This thought process led me to wonder: is there a “best” LEGO snowman? If so, how would I find it? Well, this is BrickNerd, so the answer to me was clear: by spending way too much time looking for and judging every minifig-scale snowman LEGO has yet made. Do You Want to Build a Snowman? (I promised myself I wasn’t going to use that song title in this article and already I failed… sigh.) Let’s...

Nutcrackers and Toy Soldiers are two Christmas icons steeped in holiday tradition. With their distinctive uniforms and classic designs, they have long been a staple of holiday decor in homes around the world—and have each been reimagined in LEGO form several times. Join BrickNerd as we stroll down memory lane to explore the many LEGO interpretations of Nutcrackers and Toy Soldiers. Nutcrackers: The Tall and the Small For those who are unaware, Nutcrackers are traditional wooden carvings, often resembling soldiers or royalty, equipped with a lever-operated mouth to crack nuts. Their association with the holiday season primarily stems from the popularity of the “Nutcracker” ballet, a festive story in which a nutcracker figurine comes to life. In LEGO form, Nutcrackers are a bit more challenging due to the moving function of the mouth. As you will see, most iterations include this play feature while others don’t. Technically the Best Let’s start...

All aboard the Polar Express (or should that be Orient Express!?) to see some creatures we might discover on a journey to the North Pole! So get your hot chocolate and binoculars ready because we’re about to see all the LEGO animals of the Arctic. Polar Bears Naturally we have to start with the biggest, baddest predator on the ice, the Polar Bear. They are also the LEGO creature in today’s article with the largest number of versions. First up, the Duplo family. Three each of adults and cubs at least; the earliest adult and cub arrived in 1990 and the latest started life in 2009 but has most recently shown up in the 2022 Wild Animals of the World set (10975-1). The range, unsurprisingly, exhibits lots of characteristics that are typical for many Duplo creatures that have appeared across an extended timeline—we have the ‘change-in-eye-decoration-without-change-in-mould’; the ‘cub-on-a-2x2-coloured-tile’; the ‘moveable-head’ and...