Scooby-Doo: Ravenswood Mansion (V.2) by Tobnac is the latest project to achieve 10,000 supporters on LEGO Ideas. The 4,973 piece build features an updated Ravenswood Mansion that uses the new limit of 5,000 pieces. The tree in the original submission has been switched out for the Mystery Machine. The project joins Civil Engineering: Types of Bridges – Revisited, National Lampoons Christmas Vacation, Go Go Power Rangers! LEGO Megazord, Booknook: Story Laboratory, Medieval Knight, Coraline – The Pink Palace, Taylor Swift Lover House, Jellyfish Collection, Nolinor Boeing 737-200, Portal 2: Core Replacement Station, Ancient Roman Temple, The Holiday – Rosehill Cottage, Gilmore Girls: Stars Hollow, Appa the Sky Bison, Grand Central Station, “Love Enlighten Me” The Bench of the Lampposts in Love, Bob Ross – The Joy of Building, Peter Rabbit and the Garden, Disney’s Phineas and Ferb Doofenshmirtz Evil Incorporated, Muppets – Statler & Waldorf’s Balcony Key Rack, Junkyard with Working...

In honor of Pi Day (π = 3.14 or, as I love to think of it, Pie Day!), what better way to celebrate than by indulging in some delectable dishes? But since you’re here at BrickNerd and not some fancy food blog, we’ll be feasting exclusively on LEGO creations. So, I hope you’re hungry for another technique spotlight because we’re serving up a full-course meal. Rise and Dine: Breakfast First off, you can’t cook up anything tasty without a decent kitchen. Perhaps this nostalgic kitchen (at least if you were born in the 80s or 90s) by Aukbricks will spark some culinary inspiration. I love how things aren’t quite minifig scale. Now that we have got our surroundings taken care of, let’s get started with the most important meal of the day—breakfast. Tyler has whipped up this tasty looking waffle and decided to go for breakfast in bed. A tried and...

I have spoken in passing before in previous articles on the changing nature of The LEGO Group’s marketing when discussing what I hold as the best online campaign The LEGO Group has created in the last 20 years: LEGO Club TV. I alluded to the idea that LEGO has begun to lean into the brick as a lifestyle as opposed to a force of creativity and imagination. With the Adults Welcome campaign starting in 2020, the presence of sets designed for display like the Botanicals Collection has only grown with time. It’s a sign of the times, and one I’m personally not so keen on as someone who grew up with a LEGO with an incredibly different brand identity 15 years ago. Is LEGO a lifestyle brand now? I’d like to explore what a lifestyle brand is and how The LEGO Group has, perhaps surprisingly, been following its key tenets since...

Hey BrickNerd fans! Long time, no see! I emailed Dave the other day to see if he needed an article for the month and if we have posted anything space-related in a while. “Wait, who are you?” he replied. Exactly! If you’ve been paying attention, you may have noticed a multitude of various sci-fi vehicles rolling through your Instabook, Facegram, TockTick feeds. I figured I’d feature a few for FebRovery here on BrickNerd, based on several criteria that are vaguely floating around in my head, and in no particular order. SpringTime Let’s start things off with Whitetron Color Research, in The Planet Frost series by Frost. It’s been a long winter here in Vermont, and something about this, in spite of it being on an alien world, reminds me of springtime. The rover itself has great wheel-to-chassis proportions, ready to take on the most challenging terrain. Even if it’s just to...

Two weeks ago, the UK’s largest LEGO event and only official AFOL Networking Event landed in Manchester for its eleventh year: Bricktastic 2025! I was all signed up, packed up, and ready to roll to the convention when our beloved cat fell ill, meaning that I stayed behind, leaving my husband to brave the crowds alone. Luckily, many friends were there to greet him—and luckily for BrickNerd readers, they were more than happy to share their experiences from the weekend. There were hundreds of AFOLs to choose from, so let’s hear from a few who had very different experiences at Bricktastic 2025! The First-Timer: Nicole Nicole is one of the most wholesome LEGO content creators you’ll ever come across—and I’m hugely proud of her progress in building both LEGO and confidence. With a bit of gentle encouragement, she started to create her own MOCs and now builds live for her viewers...

Welcome back to “The Conversation Piece,” a BrickNerd series 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 feedback. This will be a place for you to ask all of your trickier questions about creativity and building out of LEGO bricks. Have a question you'd like us to consider for a future article? You can submit it here. Enjoy! Can I Have Too Much LEGO? Anonymous asks: “How does lack of parts impact our building style? What links can be drawn between collection size and the need for original solutions?" The importance of a LEGO collection’s size has always been a point of debate. Some may be quick to quote a familiar green friend from the 80s: “Size matters not!” After all, it is in the mind—not in the expanse of...

Today’s guest article for International Women’s Day comes from Meredith Najewicz, a builder from Atlanta who has built colorful creations from towering New Hashima buildings to epic Elves-inspired landscapes. The Importance of Visibility Every year, especially in these post-COVID and “Adults Welcome” times, the AFOL community seems to keep getting larger and bringing in new fans from all walks of life. Some of the most well-known people in the LEGO social media world are now, in fact, women, such as EllieVToys and Emmasaurus. Progress is always a wonderful thing. However, this International Women’s Day, I asked BrickNerd if I could highlight women in our community who are helping to “make a seat at the AFOL table” for women and others who are new to the community. Now you may be asking “Why is this important?” so I’ll do a quick trip down memory lane to explain. Displaying at my first AFOL/LEGO...

Jan Beyer has handed out his last exclusive minifigure business card as a LEGO employee. In this third and final part of his farewell interview with BrickNerd, we take a look back at how The LEGO Group has changed over the past two decades—and find out what Jan is up to now. (You might want to read the first and second parts before we begin.) Jan Beyer with his minifigure counterpart, the exclusive business card that only very important LEGO employees now get to hand out 21 years. That’s how long Jan Beyer was a LEGO employee. In that time, The LEGO Group went from almost bankrupt to the most valuable toy manufacturer in the world. Some journey! “Yeah, when I started out, there were some really tough years. The company was in the middle of their worst crisis. We got no bonuses and people were fired. We were down to...

In the first part of our chat with Jan Beyer who recently left The LEGO Group, he told us about how he ended up working for the Danish toy manufacturer for 21 years. Now, we’ll talk a bit about what he accomplished there. Jan Beyer receiving BrickNerd’s Nerd Of Note award, from the author of this article, at the 2022 Skærbæk Fan Weekend If you were to compile a list of all the things Jan Beyer did in his years at The LEGO Group and ask people to pick the one they value the most, chances are that one achievement in particular would stand out: Skærbæk Fan Weekend, born as the LEGO Fan Weekend in 2005, which was incidentally the setting for this interview. But how did it come to be? “Well (laughing), it started almost by accident. AFOLs always wanted to do events, and for LEGO, that was interesting because...

A few months ago, after 21 years in the company, long-term AFOL liaison Jan Beyer said goodbye to The LEGO Group. We sat down for a long chat about his journey with LEGO… and found out that he’s not planning on being a stranger in the AFOL community. Jan Beyer, next to a modest Star Wars display, at Skærbæk Fan Weekend—the event he started 20 years ago When we heard Jan was leaving LEGO, we very quickly reached out to ask for a little sit-down interview. He immediately said yes—and what better place would there be for that than the very event which may well be his most treasured legacy in the AFOL community: Skærbæk Fan Weekend… or LEGO Fan Weekend as it was called from the very beginning in 2005. We’ll get back to that story later, though, because our chat started at the very beginning—but not the beginning of...