Have you ever had a kid yell at you? No, not like that! I mean the good kind of yelling. The wide-eyed, bursting at the seams with excitement, hand frantically waving in the air as high as possible kind of yelling. Well, I have. You see, I work as an Education Assistant at an elementary school, otherwise known as a TA (Teacher’s Aide), Paraprofessional Educator, TT (Team Teacher), etc. And I love using LEGO. This is one of many minifigures that has accompanied me to work. it’s fun to keep treasures in my lego backpack to show the kids at school. Working in an elementary school is an emotionally draining field of work, but it’s also the most rewarding job I’ve ever had. When I applied for this position years ago, I wanted a workplace environment where I could be my weird and nerdy self without judgment. A place where I...

Today is the last day to get your orders in for the LEGO Magic Maze (40596). You can get it for free with purchases of $150 or more. The promotion does stack with the LEGO Halloween Fun VIP Add-On Pack (40608) which only requires a $50 purchase. Keep in mind that the Double Points event starts tonight but you don’t get the maze. As a Rakuten/Linkshare Affiliate, I earn from qualifying purchases. The post Last Day for LEGO Magic Maze (40596) Promotion appeared first on The Brick Fan. Original linkOriginal author: Allen "Tormentalous" Tran

Good Ogel’s Garden by Bricky_Brick is the latest project to achieve 10,000 supporters on LEGO Ideas. The build features four different potted plants including the African Violet, Zebra Cactus, Lavender Cotton, and Arabis Alpina. 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, LEGO Anatomy, WTC Twin Towers & Vista International Hotel 1979, and Coraline: The Pink Palace as the ones to reach the Third 2023 Review Stage. The post LEGO Ideas Good Ogel’s Garden Achieves 10,000 Supporters appeared first on The Brick Fan. Original linkOriginal author: Allen "Tormentalous" Tran

Best of BrickNerd - Article originally published October 11, 2022. Awesome Black Creativity, by Dave Kaleta and Richard Dryden, is a celebration of Black figures in LEGO bricks. The legacies span disciplines such as contemporary dance, photography, music, film, culinary arts, activism, and more. If you only know Dave and Richard from their appearance on LEGO Masters, you can check out their other work on Instagram (links above). I’ve been a fan of each and every one of their twenty-six builds, and the pair honored me with the opportunity to have some of my burning questions about the series answered. The builders recently put together a poster of the series, which can be purchased on Etsy. Gwyneth: Let's start at the beginning. How did you come up with this project? I know that Dave built the Alphabet Starfighters before LEGO Masters, but this project is not a riff on the same...

Best of BrickNerd - Article originally published October 6, 2022. Creating cityscapes has been a love for AFOLs since the very beginning of the brick and a staple of Miniland at any LEGOLAND across the world! It is no wonder the City theme continues to remain in the top five-selling themes for LEGO every single year. If I had to guess I would say it is because these cities closely mimic real life, or like any themed build, creates an imaginative world that pulls us in. I don’t personally have a cityscape, yet. But, this doesn’t stop me from imagining how I might construct one and really get into the finer details such as sidewalk and curb details. Today’s article is all about curb construction, and more specifically, how the introduction of a new element might change some aspects of that. LEGO City by OliveSeon Street Level While the architecture and...

LEGO has put up the product page for the upcoming LEGO Creator Scary Pirate Island (40597) gift with purchase set on the LEGO Shop. The 214 piece set features an island of a shark head with a cave inside the mouth along with a small castle ruin on the side. The official details on when and how to get it are still unknown at this time but a Thai advertisement shows that it’ll be from October 13-22 so it should be around that time. If so, it’ll also run alongside the Double Points Event which runs from October 10-15. LEGO® fans can celebrate Halloween by staging their own adventures on Scary Pirate Island (40597). The island features a shark’s head with a cave inside its open jaws, plus a creepy castle ruin with a staircase. Explorers can find a treasure chestfull of gold and jewelry, a skull and a bat. Paddling...

Ever since LEGO announced they have entered into a partnership with Epic Games, fans have wondered if we would ever be getting any LEGO Fortnite sets and it looks like we may be getting something in the near future. Over on the LEGO Certification page, there’s an entry for set number 5008257 which is for a Llama. If you’ve played Fortnite before, it does have a very similar look to the Supply Llama that spawns at random locations on the map. It looks small enough to assume that it could be either a polybag or a Make & Take set. There’s no word yet on when it will be released. The post LEGO Fortnite Llama (5008257) Revealed in Product Certification? appeared first on The Brick Fan. Original linkOriginal author: Allen "Tormentalous" Tran

Today’s guest article comes from Canadian AFOL Justin Speers who has previously shared his experience on BrickNerd about building modular buildings. Today he shares about a special anniversary for SortLUG. A good portion of BrickNerd’s readers have probably heard of SortLUG, maybe through mentions in various articles or experiencing it themselves. Well, it has now been three years since SortLUG’s formation! Happy Anniversary! The ‘standard’ SORTLug logo. But how did SortLUG begin and how has it lasted so long in a post-pandemic world? Do we really just sort LEGO all the time? Born After BrickCon Organized by Jenn Cavin (aka The Brick Chick), it is generally agreed that SortLUG started their first weekly Zoom meeting on the second Friday/Saturday of October—and we have met every Friday since then. Back in October of 2020, the world was very much in the thick of “the Pandemic” (cue ominous music). By then, many people...

The LEGO Shop has updated their offers page and it has been confirmed that there will be a LEGO Insiders Double Points event starting next week. From October 10-15, you can earn double points o your entire purchase on the LEGO Shop and in LEGO Brand Stores. Now is a great time to have it with so many new sets that have been released since the last time which was back in June. The post LEGO Insiders Double Points Event Coming October 10-15 appeared first on The Brick Fan. Original linkOriginal author: Allen "Tormentalous" Tran

Coraline: The Pink Palace by Thebigchicken is the latest project to achieve 10,000 supporters on LEGO Ideas. The 2,999 piece build features the apartments from the animated movie and also proposes minifigures of Coraline, Charlie Jones, Mel Jones, andn Alexander Bobinksi. 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, LEGO Anatomy, and WTC Twin Towers & Vista International Hotel 1979 as the ones to reach the Third 2023 Review Stage. The post LEGO Ideas Coraline: The Pink Palace Achieves 10,000 Supporters appeared first on The Brick Fan. Original linkOriginal author: Allen "Tormentalous" Tran