LEGOLAND California has revealed a new addition to MINILAND with our very own LEGO City version of San Diego. Coming in at 1:20 scale, the layout has some of the more well known locations in San Diego such as The Rady Shell, Petco Park, Coronado Bridge, Emerald Plaza, San Diego Convention Center, The San Diego County Fair, and Downtown and Gaslamp Quarter. CARLSBAD, CA (March 23, 2023) – Tour all of San Diego in just minutes! Today, LEGOLAND® California Resort revealed the world’s first LEGO® City version of San Diego. Located only 30 minutes from downtown San Diego in nearby Carlsbad, the new MINILAND San Diego provides locals and out-of-town families the chance to take in the entire city by land and by brick! “San Diego is a beautiful destination filled with stunning architecture, landscapes, and history and there’s nowhere else in the world you can experience America’s Finest City like...

Top of the mornin’ to ya, brick-building aficionados! You don’t have to be Irish to celebrate St. Patrick's Day, so crack a set open (or maybe even a beer) and try your luck building this little guy. Here are instructions to build a LEGO leprechaun complete with a pot of gold at the end of the rainbow! We wanted to give you something green and we came up with this green mean money-making machine on your screen. Instructions to Build a Leprechaun The build starts with the stand, which in this case is a pot with no gold. (We'll get there, don't worry, I know you came for the coins.) Right after that, we bring some color to the build with a simple rainbow. Finally, when you have everything built and ready, get around 20 gold studs and just drop them into the pot. See, now you have all the dough...

Deejay Chiama Italia by FACEBRICKUP is the latest project to achieve 10,000 supporters on LEGO Ideas. The build features a radio station room where Deejay Chiama Italia broadcasts his show. The project joins 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 Robots, Monsters Inc: The Door to Monstropolis, Iljinai Family House, Multi-Tool, Portal 2 Quantum Tunnelling Device. The “Portal Gun”, LEGOLAND Central Station, E.T. The Extra-Terrestrial, Amethyst...

LEGO has officially announced the next LEGO Icons set with the Land Rover Classic Defender 90 (10317). Releasing on April 1, the set has 2,336 pieces and will retail for $239.99. LEGO® ICONS 2023 Land Rover Defender 90 – PRESS RELEASE GO ANYWHERE, BUILD AND REBUILD THE NEW LEGO ICONS CLASSIC LAND ROVER DEFENDER 90 16th March, 2023: Ignite the spirit of adventure with the new LEGO® Icons Classic Land Rover Defender 90. Launched as Land Rover celebrates its 75th anniversary, the 2,336 piece set is based on the classic design of the Land Rover Defender from 1983 to 2016 and comes complete with all the accessories needed for an off-road adventure. To celebrate the launch of the set, the LEGO Group placed a bright yellow classic Land Rover Defender in the Scottish Highlands and transformed it into the hardest to reach LEGO Store in the world. In fact, it could...

Today’s guest article comes from Kelly Bartlett who shares how creating multiple drafts of a LEGO MOC can help with problem-solving and the creative process. Recently, I built a LEGO MOC for someone who wanted a 1:1 scale model of a laptop. It seemed like a fairly straightforward commissioned project, but I ended up going through several drafts before I deemed it “complete.” Whether builders design their MOCs digitally or build them with bricks like I do, we inevitably go through various drafts, making changes along the way before arriving at a final product. So let me take you through my process of designing the “BrickBook Pro” and how problem-solving over the course of multiple drafts made the end result a better creation. First Draft: Shape and Color The first draft of any MOC I build is to explore the basic shape and look of the build. It is quick and...

The promotion for the LEGO Seasonal Easter Basket (40587) is now live on the LEGO Shop. You can get for free with purchases of $70 or more until April 9, while supplies last. The 368 piece set has a little rabbit sitting inside a basket along with some flowers. Remember to use Rakuten to earn some cash back on your purchases. As a Rakuten/Linkshare Affiliate, I earn from qualifying purchases. The post LEGO Seasonal Easter Basket (40587) Promotion Live on LEGO Shop appeared first on The Brick Fan. Original linkOriginal author: Allen "Tormentalous" Tran

DuckTales: The Money Bin by sxavalentine is the latest project to achieve 10,000 supporters on LEGO Ideas. The 3,000 piece build features Scrooge McDuck’s Money Bin where he keeps all his cash. It can also double up as a real piggy bank as well. The project joins 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 Robots, Monsters Inc: The Door to Monstropolis, Iljinai Family House, Multi-Tool, Portal...

BIONICLE: Toa Head Statue by yannickbuildsthings is the latest project to achieve 10,000 supporters on LEGO Ideas. The 597 piece build features a 9″ Toa head sculpture display piece. The project joins 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 Robots, Monsters Inc: The Door to Monstropolis, Iljinai Family House, Multi-Tool, Portal 2 Quantum Tunnelling Device. The “Portal Gun”, LEGOLAND Central Station, E.T. The Extra-Terrestrial, Amethyst Geode,...

When it comes to collecting LEGO, do you build and then keep sets together or do you part them out into pieces? Or do you fall somewhere in between? Let me tell you a story of my personal journey finding out where I belong on that spectrum… a story that starts… in SPACE! Sets as a Whole Images via BrickLink As a kid in 1978, I was fascinated with space. I was also a maker—I loved Lincoln Logs, Erector sets and the “newest” sets (to me anyway) of the “Highly Sophisticated Interlocking Plastic Brick System” called LEGO. They were Space sets 462 Mobile Rocket Launcher and 483 Alpha-1 Rocket Base. I loved these sets and still do. I looked at these two different products as one complete “set” when combined back then. I kept them together for years. After branching out into a few Town sets, I started to intermix and try to...

The LEGO Ninjago TV series ended last year with Crystalized and it would be the end of the series as we knew it. 2023 will bring a new LEGO Ninjago series but there have been little to no detail about the show until recently. Over on IMDb, there’s a new listing for Ninjago United with the first episode premiering on April 7 and an early look at some of the images of it. Many people were skeptical of it but writer Chris “Doc” Wyatt has confirmed that the images on the page are indeed real. There are many false things on that fan generated imdb page… But those images are real. #Ninjago2023 @LEGO_Group @KevinBurke20 @AsaTait https://t.co/xr0XTSPOk4 — Doc Wyatt (@otherland71) March 13, 2023 There’s even a synopsis of the series which states: When the fate of their world, Ninjago, is challenged by great threats, it’s up to the ninja: Kai, Jay,...