Series 27 of the LEGO Collectible Minifigure (CMF) line has delivered some very cool new prints and molds that will most assuredly appear in future sets and other products down the line. Included in this series is a redesign of a minifigure familiar to AFOLs who grew up with the Classic Castle theme in the late 80s and early 90s: The Wolfpack Beastmaster. The Wolfpack Beastmaster is just one of many minifigures in the last several years to revive classic themes and designs of what many consider to be the golden age of LEGO—and as such it is already demanding top prices on the secondary market. The M-Tron powerloader is definitely a contender for one of the best minifigure remakes This trend of revamps and redesigns is not reserved for just the CMF line. While Basil the Batlord, the Falconer, and M-Tron spaceman are just a few examples of classic minifigures...

LEGO has officially revealed a new LEGO Star Wars Helmet set with the AT-AT Driver (75429). Releasing on March 1, the set has 730 pieces and will retail for $69.99. The set features the helmet worn by the AT-AT Driver in Star Wars: The Empire Strikes Back. Memories of the thrilling Battle of Hoth scenes come flooding back with this LEGO® Star Wars AT-AT Driver Helmet buildable model kit for adults (75429). Take time out to enjoy a complex, hands-on creative project, using LEGO bricks to recreate the iconic contours of the helmet worn by drivers of AT-AT walkers in Star Wars: The Empire Strikes Back. This buildable helmet comes with step-by-step instructions, or you can download the LEGO Builder app, which lets you zoom, rotate and visualize a 3D digital version of this construction model as you build. Once it’s complete, place your creation on the buildable stand with a...

Yesterday, LEGO announced a new Restaurants of the World subtheme for the LEGO Icons line with the first set being the French Cafe (10362). This new line of sets have a smaller form factor and the main focus is at the front of the shop. Unfortunately, this comes at the expense of the interior and mainly, the back of the set. Although it is hard to see in the official images, there is a very small interior, just enough to get some details in. On the backside, it’s pretty bad. Of course the images don’t show you the back but LEGO does provide a 360 degree shopper video of the set and you can see the emptiness when it spins around. There are some modified 1×1 bricks with holes so it makes me think that you’ll be able to connect future sets with bars so you won’t get the flat backside....

Today’s guest article comes from Blake Foster (Instagram/Flickr), a sci-fi builder and member of ILUGNY from Brooklyn. Primarily a spacecraft builder, he has taken more than a year off to build his tower for the New Hashima collab. Building Big I am not a fast builder. As such, when I joined the New Hashima collab about ten months in advance of Brickworld, I did not sign on to build one of the towers—as much as I would have liked to—as I doubted that I would finish on time. Instead, I built the Cybertrain. After Brickworld, without a deadline hanging over my head, I had barely finished sorting the debris from my final New Hashima builds before I was working on the beginnings of a topper for some to-be-determined future iteration (a topper is New Hashima speak for the tower on the very top of a stack of cubes). This would be...

With the Chinese/Lunar New Year just a few days away, LEGO has recently released some Spring Festival sets and the first one we’ll be checking out is the Good Fortune (80117). The set has 1,021 pieces and retails for $89.99. Build The whole build pretty much sits on a 16×16 plate. You can’t really see it later on but there’s a very intricate design made up of pearl-gold curves. There are some jumper plates and turntables for the various objects in the set. The first of the objects are the three gold ingots. All three are exactly the same and the resemble the yuanbao used as currency during Imperial China. In present day, Chinese use it as a symbol of wealth and prosperity. The next object is the persimmon fruit that is place in the middle of the build. It is actually made up of three sections that are stacked on...