Today’s BrickNerd article features a guest post about LEGO monorail by Joe Meno of BrickJournal Magazine. Bring Back Monorail! One of the perennial requests that come from long-term LEGO fans is to bring back the monorail. Year in and year out, the request is made at conventions to LEGO representatives, and year in and year out, the company’s reply is the same: “We are not currently planning a monorail.” It has almost become a badge of honor for a visiting designer to get the question—to the point that asking the questions has become more of a cultural phenomenon rather than a sincere request. IMage via Brickset Of course, there are a number of reasons why monorail from the 80s and 90s is likely never going to make a comeback. The molds and the motor aren’t available anymore because they were produced by a contractor that no longer exists. There would be...

If you missed out on the LEGO Dungeons & Dragons Mimic Dice Box (5008325) the first time around back in April, LEGO has brought it back again for a limited time. From July 22-28, you can get the gift with purchase set with purchases of the LEGO Ideas Dungeons & Dragons: Red Dragon’s Tale (21348), while supplies last. As a Rakuten/Linkshare Affiliate, I earn from qualifying purchases. The post LEGO Dungeons & Dragons Mimic Dice Box (5008325) Returns to LEGO Shop appeared first on The Brick Fan. Original linkOriginal author: Allen "Tormentalous" Tran

Today’s guest article comes from Casey McCoy, an AFOL from Chicago. You can find him online on Flickr and Instagram. The Decade of Awesome  Today on BrickNerd, we’re continuing our retrospective on our very own Simon Liu—an AFOL whose reputation precedes him. If you missed our last article: Go back and read it! To recap, we learned about his early life origins, early days in the AFOL world, and how a LEGO fan convention experience from over a decade ago inspired him to go on and lead his own part of the LEGO community. When we left off, Simon was using his Brickworld Master 2012 title as a blank check of goodwill to do a whole lot of awesome for the LEGO community over the next decade. Now, Simon has done a ton of incredible things in his LEGO career, and if I sat here and talked about all of them,...

Amazon has recently put the LEGO DC Batmobile: Batman vs. The Joker Chase (76224) on sale again by 20%. This drops the price down to $38.39 and saves you about $10 on it. This version of the Batmobile is the latest one that LEGO has released and features the iconic 1989 Michael Keaton version. As an Amazon Associate, I earn from qualifying purchases. The post LEGO DC Batmobile: Batman vs. The Joker Chase (76224) Amazon Sale – July 2024 appeared first on The Brick Fan. Original linkOriginal author: Allen "Tormentalous" Tran

Over the last few weeks, I was faced with a decision that I’ve been both dreading and yet knew was necessary. That is, to “retire” my first and most ambitious LEGO train layout called “Fareham.” Occupying a little over 13.8 sq. m (150 sq. ft), it was consuming valuable basement real estate, which was needed for other priorities. Therefore, the decision was taken to pack and store Fareham indefinitely. As an homage to this beloved and important layout project, I thought it would be nice to review and reflect on this layout and its significance to me. Background Before I became an active LEGO train fan, I was a scale model train hobbyist. I’ve built model trains and layouts in various scales, such as OO, HO, and N scale. My main interest was British trains from the 1970s and 1980s, as I remembered them from my youth; more specifically, from the...