A new month is upon us which means more competitive building! Are you ready? Here’s the latest batch of LEGO contests and challenges from all around the AFOL community for October 2023 to help you find some inspiration and motivation to build! There’s nothing quite like a theme or a prompt to take you out of your comfort zone and give you something new to try. Besides, contests are the perfect place to interact with other contestants and judges and get to know your fellow builders. And if you’re like me, a deadline helps make sure you actually finish! We’ve listed them in order of deadline so you can plan your building time to the best advantage. Make sure to check the LEGO activity calendar for local challenges and events near you. Here at BrickNerd, some of our fondest memories, greatest building achievements, coolest trophies, and best friendships came from LEGO...

The WTC Twin Towers & Vista International Hotel 1979 by Daniel ASC is the latest project to achieve 10,000 supporters on LEGO Ideas. The 2,999 piece build features the World Trade Center Twin Towers from 1979 which also has the Vista International Hotel that was still under construction during the time. The project joins Modular Heritage Museum, Great Temple of Abu Simbel – With Secret Treasure, Rolls-Royce Phantom 1 “Phantom of Love”, Moon Palace, NASA’s SLS Block 1 & 1B Rockets – Artemis Missions, and LEGO Anatomy as the ones to reach the Third 2023 Review Stage. The post LEGO Ideas WTC Twin Towers & Vista International Hotel 1979 Achieves 10,000 Supporters appeared first on The Brick Fan. Original linkOriginal author: Allen "Tormentalous" Tran

The rumors have been confirmed as LEGO has officially announced the LEGO Animal Crossing theme on social media. The theme is based on the highly popular Nintendo game which originally came out in 2001. The sets are slated to be released in 2024 as reported by the set names that were revealed last week but we only had the set numbers for them. In the teaser you can see that the characters will be minifigures which include Rosie, Bunnie, Marshall, Kappa, Fauna, Julian, Isabelle, and Tom Nook. The minifigures do give off FABULAND vibes, don’t they, with their big anthropomorphic heads. The post LEGO Animal Crossing Theme Officially Announced appeared first on The Brick Fan. Original linkOriginal author: Allen "Tormentalous" Tran

If you’ve been to past LEGO events and conventions and there are LEGO employees attending, there’s times where they could hand out minifigures representing their business cards. The minifigure would resemble the employee in some ways and would also have their names on it. Since these are fairly rare, and do fetch a premium on the secondary market. Today LEGO has announced that they will be discontinuing this tradition and will only be for the owner family and their Executive Leadership Team. There’s no official reasoning given in the statement but there’s a chance that LEGO could bring it back for other LEGO employees and departments, although there’s no guarantees yet at this point. I was fortunate to get one from a former employee many years ago and I’ll keep it stashed away in my vault. We recognize the culture of trading amongst fans and trading minifigures with employees. We recently...

A Thailand Certified LEGO Store has revealed a couple of upcoming promotions for late October which includes a LEGO Creator Scary Pirate Island (40597) and the LEGO Disney 100 Mini Steamboat Willie (40659). The Pirate Island runs from October 13-22 with a general purchase while the Steamboat Willie runs from October 23-31 with Disney, Star Wars, or Marvel purchases. Of course, the purchase requirements and dates could change for the rest of the world but do expect these two promotions to be coming soon. The post Two LEGO October 2023 Promotions Revealed appeared first on The Brick Fan. Original linkOriginal author: Allen "Tormentalous" Tran