It took a while but I’ve finally had some time to do a 2023 recap for The Brick Fan. Some of you guys might not be interested but it’s for my reference since I love stats. Our post count went down again last year, down to 885, however, we almost hit the 30 million page view mark. We barely missed it by just 100,000 views which sounds about right since we had less posts. Last year, it was more family time for me as I was taking care of my mom more after her cancer surgery and I prioritized that a little more than what happened LEGO-wise. I expect that’ll be about the same this year as well. The highest traffic day was on May 1 with 251,277 page views when a lot of the summer 2023 sets were revealed that day. The higher traffic trend continued for the next seven...

Best of BrickNerd — Article originally published January 27, 2021. You might think since LEGO has populated the world with more than 4 billion minifigures that there would already be every part in existence to satisfy anything a fan could want. Yet the world of custom LEGO minifigures is vast! From head to toe and all the accessories in between, devoted LEGO fans have customized minifigures to be exactly what they want them to be through printing, injection molding, painting, sculpting, cutting and more. But what do all of these terms mean? What goes into each of these processes and why does it matter? These are a few of the questions I aim to answer, but before we start, I must ask another question… What Is Custom LEGO? Custom LEGO could be loosely defined as any official LEGO piece that has been physically modified by the user or any custom accessory...

Dreamworks’ Shrek’s Swamp 2 by The Real Ashnflash is the latest project to achieve 10,000 supporters on LEGO Ideas. The 2,000 piece build features an updated project that also hit the 10k goal last year. The project joins Spirited Away, Appa the Sky Bison, from Avatar the Last Airbender, Venus Flytrap, and Minerals Display as the ones to reach the First 2024 Review Stage. The post LEGO Ideas Dreamworks’ Shrek’s Swamp 2 Achieves 10,000 Supporters appeared first on The Brick Fan. Original linkOriginal author: Allen "Tormentalous" Tran

Minerals Display by ddf72 is the latest project to achieve 10,000 supporters on LEGO Ideas. The build is a revamp of the minerals project that also reached the goal a few years ago but is now 100% buildable with parts that have been released since then. There is now also a case to hold all of the rocks. The project joins Spirited Away, Appa the Sky Bison, from Avatar the Last Airbender, and Venus Flytrap as the ones to reach the First 2024 Review Stage. The post LEGO Ideas Minerals Display Achieves 10,000 Supporters appeared first on The Brick Fan. Original linkOriginal author: Allen "Tormentalous" Tran

Today’s guest article comes from Josh Parkinson, a LEGO builder specializing in forced perspective. He shares with us the final build progression and lighting of his North Pole MOC. It was five months since my interview here on BrickNerd, and I had just completed the next major section of my largest build yet, The North Pole. I now had the elf workshops, the foreground foundation built, and the microscale background landscape done (check out Part 1 for the full details). Things were coming together and moving along smoothly. Next up was finishing the foreground trees, building the backdrop, lighting it, and bringing it all to my first LEGO convention, BrickCon. But it was time to put the North Pole MOC away for a bit as I was about to head out on a warm Southern California road trip for my birthday. I had several months before BrickCon—plenty of time, right? Well,...

Although it’s still a fairly recent set, Amazon has the LEGO Sonic the Hedgehog Sonic vs. Dr. Eggman’s Death Egg Robot (76993) on sale for 20% off. The set is now priced at $47.99 which saves you about $12 on it and you get the a cheaper set with the Dr. Eggman minifigure. As an Amazon Associate, I earn from qualifying purchases. The post LEGO Sonic the Hedgehog Sonic vs. Dr. Eggman’s Death Egg Robot (76993) Amazon Sale – January 2024 appeared first on The Brick Fan. Original linkOriginal author: Allen "Tormentalous" Tran

Venus Flytrap by Bricky_Brick is the latest project to achieve 10,000 supporters on LEGO Ideas. The build features a potted Venus Flytrap that has the white flower along with about six of the jaw leaves. The project joins Spirited Away and Appa the Sky Bison, from Avatar the Last Airbender as the ones to reach the First 2024 Review Stage. The post LEGO Ideas Venus Flytrap Achieves 10,000 Supporters appeared first on The Brick Fan. Original linkOriginal author: Allen "Tormentalous" Tran

Today’s guest article comes from Josh Parkinson, a LEGO builder specializing in forced perspective. He shares with us the build progression behind his charming North Pole MOC. Sometimes things don’t go as planned. I’m Josh Parkinson, and my first year of MOC building was a productive one. So much so that I got featured here in BrickNerd a little less than one year after starting to create my own creations. A year later, my look back at my progress was bittersweet. It included my biggest build, my first con, but also a huge gap in my MOC building where life was completely disrupted. No matter what we achieve, there’s the part of us that longs for what we didn’t accomplish, the cons we didn’t get to attend, the numbers we didn’t garner, or the work that we couldn’t complete (or complete to our satisfaction). Especially when life gets in the way. And it...

Appa the Sky Bison, from Avatar the Last Airbender by Yarrostudios is the latest project to achieve 10,000 supporters on LEGO Ideas. Consisting of over 1,500 pieces, the build features the flying bison with moveable parts as well as its saddle. The project joins Spirited Away as the ones to reach the First 2024 Review Stage. The post LEGO Ideas Appa the Sky Bison, from Avatar the Last Airbender Achieves 10,000 Supporters appeared first on The Brick Fan. Original linkOriginal author: Allen "Tormentalous" Tran

Welcome back to Gringotts Bank! In our first exploration, we followed a questionable goblin and opened Vault 687. Today’s journey to Gringotts will give us more color, secrets and adrenalin because we’re going to rob the wizarding bank! Remember how Harry Potter was so interested in the secrets of Gringotts’ depths? After six years of waiting (poor Harry!), he’ll finally get to explore them again but maybe not as he expected. Be ready for our heroic mission: Bellatrix Lestrange keeps one of Voldemort’s horcruxes in a high-security vault, and the destruction of these dark artifacts is crucial to defeating the Dark Lord. Today we have two fun tasks as we revisit 76417 Gringotts Wizarding Bank: 1) photograph this second part in an absolutely new way by giving more color to the magical building; and 2) re-tell part of the eighth movie but make the atmosphere seem more alive rather than use...