Back in the 15th century, THE renaissance man Leonardo Da Vinci had a dream to design a human-powered flying machine. He never realized his goal, but he quite impressively worked out an early understanding of many laws of physics behind flight—often based on observing birds and their mechanics. This allowed him to devise some pretty fantastic concepts that were ahead of his time, such as his famed “flying machine” (an ornithopter). The flying machine design revolves around a central wooden platform that the human lies on and works mechanisms with their arms and legs to power bird-like wings and a tail with ropes and pulleys. To be fair, Da Vinci’s ornithopter couldn’t get past the weight-to-power ratio that the inefficient flapping motion required. But, it sure looks cool, doesn’t it!? Isn’t she beauteous!! The creative folks over at LEGO decided to adapt Da Vinci’s ornithopter concept into set 10363, Leonardo da Vinci’s Flying Machine, and...

“The Conversation Piece” is a monthly BrickNerd series about creativity and building with LEGO authored by our friends over at the Builder Improvement Initiative (BII), a Discord-based community that helps LEGO builders of all levels get better at their craft through knowledge-sharing and constructive feedback. Have a question you would like us to consider for a future article? You can submit it here. Enjoy! Why So Many New Molds? Browsing the LEGO element catalog the past few years can make you feel like a kid in a candy store, or perhaps more accurately, a mall of candy stores. For nearly every category of part, we’ve seen several groundbreaking additions to the family: plates now come rounded with bar holes, wedge plates are becoming tiles, and brackets are always getting a new variant. The graph below charts the amount of new parts per year (taken from Brickset), although it is inclusive of...

In just a few days, there are five more projects that have reached the 10,000 supporter goal for the First 2026 Review Stage. We’ve already seen different versions of these projects before but these are new spins on the general themes. With this update, we’re now up to 10 projects already that have reached the review stage and we’ve barely just started. It looks like it’ll be pretty busy for this round. Locomotive: New York Central #5405 – Olivier312 Cuphead – Vaicko Beetlejuice Beetlejuice Beetlejuice! – Brick Built Labs Steve Irwin, the Crocodile Hunter – King of Crocs Bring Back the Retro Hype : Vinyl! – brickmotionID The post LEGO Ideas January 13 Update – Up to 10 Projects Already appeared first on The Brick Fan. Original linkOriginal author: Allen "Tormentalous" Tran

Despite the higher price point, LEGO has sold out of the pre-orders for the LEGO Pokemon Venusaur, Charizard, and Blastoise (72153). Even though it has a $650 price point, fans were still wanting to get the set especially with LEGO also offering the Kanto Region Badge Collection (40892) gift with purchase set early for the first 21,840 pre-orders. The same offer was also on the Pokemon Center and they sold out there even faster. There’s been a lot of criticism online about the set after the official reveal this morning, mostly about the price and some of the design features. LEGO is kicking the LEGO Pokemon theme off in a big way in terms of size and the accompanying prices of the sets but that didn’t deter fans from still ordering them. The LEGO Pokemon sets officially release on February 27 and they will be bringing back the Kanto Region Badge...

LEGO has officially revealed the highly-anticipated LEGO Pokemon sets that will be releasing on February 27. There are three sets in the wave with pre-orders starting today on the LEGO Shop! There are also details about the gift with purchase set which is the Kanto Region Badge Collection (40892). It will run from February 27 – March 8 but no information about the price requirement to get it. In addition, there will be a Mini Pokemon Center (40911) Insiders Reward item which you can get for 2,500 Insiders points. Update: Free LEGO® Pokémon Kanto Region Badge Collection (40892) gift offer is valid for first 21,840 pre-orders online at LEGO.com from 01/12/2026 9am EST, while supplies last. Eevee (72151) – 587 pieces/$59.99 Pikachu and Poke Ball (72152) – 2,050 pieces/$199.99 Venusaur, Charizard, and Blastoise (72153) – 6,838 pieces/$649.99 Kanto Region Badge Collection (40892) – 312 pieces Mini Pokemon Center (40911) – 233...