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

This past summer, LEGO released a flagship set for the new season of LEGO Ninjago: Dragons Rising with the Ninjago City Markets (71799). This set comes in at 6,163 pieces and retails for $369.99. I will say beforehand that I am not the biggest Ninjago fan so if I miss or don’t mention some of the many sticker references, please forgive me. Minifigures With a set this size, it’s not surprising that it comes with a whopping 21 minifigures, 19 of which are exclusive to this set. The minifigures include Lloyd, Nya, Detective Zane, Blacksmith Kai, Urban Arin, Urban Sora, Miss Demeanor, Hounddog McBrag, Chamille, Dareth, Cyrus Borg, Racer Seven, Gayle Gossip, Vinny Folson, Sushimi Chef, Baker, Boat Vendor, Street Vendor, Borg Store Employee, Tea Vendor, and Dojo Kid. Lloyd is in his green ninja outfit from the new season. The torso has some metallic gold detailing on both sides with...

The WTC Twin Towers & Vista International Hotel 1979 by Daniel ASC is the latest project to achieve 10,000 supporters on LEGO Ideas. The 2,999 piece build features the World Trade Center Twin Towers from 1979 which also has the Vista International Hotel that was still under construction during the time. 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, and LEGO Anatomy as the ones to reach the Third 2023 Review Stage. The post LEGO Ideas WTC Twin Towers & Vista International Hotel 1979 Achieves 10,000 Supporters appeared first on The Brick Fan. Original linkOriginal author: Allen "Tormentalous" Tran

The rumors have been confirmed as LEGO has officially announced the LEGO Animal Crossing theme on social media. The theme is based on the highly popular Nintendo game which originally came out in 2001. The sets are slated to be released in 2024 as reported by the set names that were revealed last week but we only had the set numbers for them. In the teaser you can see that the characters will be minifigures which include Rosie, Bunnie, Marshall, Kappa, Fauna, Julian, Isabelle, and Tom Nook. The minifigures do give off FABULAND vibes, don’t they, with their big anthropomorphic heads. The post LEGO Animal Crossing Theme Officially Announced appeared first on The Brick Fan. Original linkOriginal author: Allen "Tormentalous" Tran