Outside of LEGO conventions and LUG meetups, the LEGO community primarily gathers online. With forums, social media and chat apps, AFOLs have been sharing their creative work digitally for years. The rise of the decent phone camera has exacerbated this trend, making sharing your MOCs the easiest it has ever been. But when you have a lot of ideas and build quickly, sometimes completing only the MOC's front side that will be photographed is all I have time for… and who else will know? Is this a LEGO building sin that needs to be confessed or a shrewd speed building secret for the digital age? Is only building the parts of a MOC that will be photographed sheer laziness? Is it a smart strategy to build more? To explore these questions, let me share with you a bit of my building process. The Need For Speed When I build MOCs, my...

Amazon has kicked off their Early Black Friday 2023 sales and there are about a dozen LEGO sets that have been discounted from 25%-60% off. The list isn’t too expansive but there are some good ones on the list including the LEGO Icons Police Station (10278) which is 25% off. There is a limit on the amount of sets that claimed during these and a lot of them are about a third claimed already so get on it if you see something that you like. As an Amazon Associate, I earn from qualifying purchases. The post LEGO Amazon Early Black Friday 2023 Deals Now Live appeared first on The Brick Fan. Original linkOriginal author: Allen "Tormentalous" Tran

LEGO has kicked off their LEGO Insiders Weekend 2023 sales in which you can get some good deals on various sets. You’ll need to log on to the LEGO Insiders Rewards Center to redeem the free discount codes to get the savings. Note that only one code can be used during checkout so you’ll need to make multiple orders if you want to get more than one of the sets on the list. In addition, you can earn 3X or 4X Insider points on a number of other sets as well. • LEGO Icons Eiffel Tower (10307) – Save $100• LEGO Star Wars Republic Gunship (75309) – Save $60• LEGO Icons Assembly Square (10255) – Save $60• LEGO Marvel Captain America’s Shield (76262) – save $40• LEGO Creator NASA Apollo 11 Lunar Lander (10266) – Save $20• LEGO Ideas Winnie the Pooh (21326) – Save $20• LEGO Ninjago City Gardens (71741)...

LEGO has officially revealed the next LEGO Ideas set with the Orient Express (21344). Releasing on December 1, the set has 2,540 pieces and will retail for $299.99. The set celebrates the 140th anniversary of the real-life luxury train that carried passengers across Europe to Istanbul. ALL ABOARD! TRAVEL THROUGH TIME WITH THE NEW LEGO IDEAS ORIENT EXPRESS SET The LEGO Group today unveils the LEGO Ideas Orient Express – a beautiful brick recreation of the one of the world’s most luxurious and legendary forms of travel. Known as a ‘rolling palace’ the Orient Express was the world’s first international luxury train that carried thousands of passengers across Europe to Istanbul from 1883 to 1977. Released to celebrate the train’s 140th anniversary, the new 2,540-piece LEGO set transports builders back to the Golden Age of travel, with some stunning key features, including the main locomotive, tender, dining and sleeping cars. The...

Earlier this year, a new website joined the AFOL eco-system: Open L-Gauge. It is aimed at a very specific target audience of LEGO train builders but could have impact far beyond the train community. Open L-Gauge logo Instead of describing the site for you, I’ll let the site speak for itself: “The goal of Open L-Gauge is to make high-quality LEGO train models available to everyone in the community, but we do want to set some rules for how these models can be used. The goal of the site is to encourage the sharing and remixing of ideas with other LEGO train fans and simultaneously protect the original designers against commercial parties reselling their designs without permission.” I wanted to find out the story behind the site so at a recent LEGO train event in the Netherlands, I met up with two of the driving forces behind the creation of Open...

Wreck-It Ralph 10th Anniversary by Vaicko is the latest project to achieve 10,000 supporters on LEGO Ideas. The 2,879 piece build features the building from the game that Ralph destroys while Felix repairs it. The other side of the building show various references from the movie. 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, Coraline: The Pink Palace, Good Ogel’s Garden, Happier Than Ever, City Burger, Phineas and Ferb!, JWST, Harry Styles Love on Tour 2023, LEGO Microscope, Sequoia Tree, Tesla Center, Working Canal Lock, and Christmas Theater as the ones to reach the Third 2023 Review Stage. The post LEGO Ideas Wreck-It Ralph 10th Anniversary Achieves 10,000 Supporters appeared first on The Brick Fan. Original...

LEGO has put up the official product listings for the new 2024 LEGO Super Mario sets that will be releasing on January 1. A majority of them look pretty detailed and surprisingly, the price points for them are very reasonable. One new thing about this wave is that paper instructions will be included in the box as you no long need the app to build them but you’ll still need it to get the full interactive features. Yoshis' Egg-cellent Forest (71428) – 107 pieces/$9.99 Nabbit at Toad's Shop (71429) – 230 pieces/$19.99 Penguin Family Snow Adventure (71430) – 228 pieces/$19.99 Bowser's Muscle Car (71431) – 458 pieces/$29.99 Dorrie's Sunken Shipwreck Adventure (71432) – 500 pieces/$44.99 The post LEGO Super Mario 2024 Sets Officially Revealed appeared first on The Brick Fan. Original linkOriginal author: Allen "Tormentalous" Tran

Bonus points if you can work out which fonts have been used. Hint, all have been used by LEGO and some can be found below! In the last couple of years, you may have noticed the boxes, instructions and LEGO website looking a little different. A small facelift perhaps? What you might’ve seen but not realized is that LEGO is now almost fully switched over to a new brand font. Cera Pro is now in full flight within the brand, and I have one main theory as to why I believe this switch was enacted. Other than shaking up the style a little with Cera Pro’s slightly playful characters, accessibility is its strong suit. The website now follows the same typographic choices as the packaging; not previously possible with Chalet. Cera Pro in its entirety supports more than 270 languages with its Cyrillic and Greek character sets, allowing for a far...

During the LEGO Insiders Weekend 2023 promotions that are starting this week, there will also be sales on various sets as well as opportunity to earn triple or quadruple points on select sets. For the Insiders sales, you’ll have to go the the Rewards Center to redeem the rewards for the sale that you want which I’ve been told will cost 0 points to get. You’ll have to enter that code in the promo area during checkout so if you want to get multiple sets from this sale, you’ll have to do multiple orders. • LEGO Icons Eiffel Tower (10307) – Save $100• LEGO Star Wars Republic Gunship (75309) – Save $60• LEGO Icons Assembly Square (10255) – Save $60• LEGO Marvel Captain America's Shield (76262) – save $40• LEGO Creator NASA Apollo 11 Lunar Lander (10266) – Save $20• LEGO Ideas Winnie the Pooh (21326) – Save $20• LEGO Ninjago...

Finding LEGO-themed clothing in adult sizes can be a problem. There have been times when LEGOLAND theme parks or LEGOLAND Discovery Centres have stocked clothing for adults, but it’s usually limited to t-shirts, jackets or hats. Occasionally there have been t-shirts in Uniqlo, sportswear from Adidas and various clothing from Target US. And, of course, there are any number of print-on-demand or fan-designed products available from various online sources. But this story is not about any of those retailers—rather, it is about Target Australia, adult-sized pyjamas (PJs) and the patience of AFOLs. The PJs as seen on the Target Australia website One of the things I like to do is highlight to other LEGO fans when new licensed products become available, with the hope that they will do the same for me. I’m as big a fan of the themed merchandise as I am of LEGO sets and parts. If it’s...