BrickNerd Patron and guest contributor Karyn Murphy talks about the history of LEGO’s architectural sibling, Modulex, and shares her experience going to their 60th-anniversary event in Billund, Denmark. M For Modulex Sixty years ago while he was the managing director of The LEGO Group, Godtfred Kirk Christiansen came up with a new idea. He thought the LEGO bricks currently in production could be used by adults (specifically architects) to communicate and visualize building projects. However the existing bricks did not have the right proportions for building projects, so he decided there might be a market for a new product. And, the Modulex company was born. From the MODULEX manual showing the size of bricks. The new size bricks were scaled to represent building materials. A 1 x 1 is a perfect cube: 5 mm x 5 mm x 5mm with a stud on top.  A 2 x 4 is thus 5...

Fans have been asking for it for a long time now but LEGO Masters has finally announced that there will be a LEGO Masters Junior. for the US. Other countries have already had a kids version of the show but it has taken the US almost four seasons to get their own. This was one of the topics during the LEGO Masters panel at SDCC 2023. You can now register your kids to participate as contestants by submitting the form in the link above. Kids must be between ages 9-17 by October 1, 2023. A parent or legal guardian ust be available during filming which lasts about two weeks from October 30-November 22. The form has 82 questions so prepare to take some time to fill it out for each child you want to enter. The post LEGO Masters Junior Announced – Registration Now Live appeared first on The Brick Fan....

FOX has announced that there will be a LEGO Masters Celebrity Holiday Bricktacular coming this December. This was talked about briefly during the LEGO Masters panel at San Diego Comic Con 2023 and it will be a 2-night special event. It will be airing on Monday, December 18. The post LEGO Masters Celebrity Holiday Bricktacular 2023 Announced for December appeared first on The Brick Fan. Original linkOriginal author: Allen "Tormentalous" Tran

LEGO has updated their Retiring Soon part of the LEGO Shop with a vast number of sets that will be going away soon. Some of the sets on the list have already been discounted which means that LEGO was having a hard time trying get rid of them as they were flops. Avatar • Neytiri & Thanator vs. AMP Suit Quaritch (75571) – $44.99• Floating Mountains: Site 26 & RDA Samson (75573) – $99.99 City • Fire Rescue Police Chase (60319) – $39.99• Fire Brigade (60321) – $99.99• Smashing Chimpanzee Stunt Loop (60338) – $69.99• Double Loop Stunt Arena (60339) – $149.99• The Knockdown Stunt Challenge (60341) – $34.99• The Shark Attack Stunt Challenge (60342) – $34.99• Wild Animal Rescue Missions (60353) – $39.99• Water Police Detective Missions (60355) – $39.99• Stunt Truck & Ring of Fire Challenge (60357) – $59.99• Dunk Stunt Ramp Challenge (60359) – $29.99• Spinning Stunt Challenge...

In October last year, LEGO announced a contest celebrating 50 years of Dungeons & Dragons. Although I am a fan of board games like Dixit, Mysterium, Gloom, Exploding Kittens and many more, I have never had the chance to play D&D. Of course, I've heard about it mostly from TV shows and people online, and I wanted to do something for that contest myself. Building Character First, I opened Google and searched for Dungeons & Dragons. I read the Wikipedia article on it and discovered that there is something called classes—character classes, to be exact—which got my attention. After that, I started searching for art based on those classes and characters; this is how the initial idea of building characters was born. The whole search took me about an hour, but one can easily get lost in the vast universe of amazing heroes and mighty monsters. I made an initial list...

Season 4 doesn’t begin for another two weeks but FOX has announced that LEGO Masters has already been renewed for Season 5. It looks like Will Arnett is also back to host the show as well. We won’t know the contestants who are vying to be named LEGO Masters for a while but it may seem that the show is still pretty popular here as FOX has already wanted the show back for another season. The post LEGO Masters Renewed for Season 5 appeared first on The Brick Fan. Original linkOriginal author: Allen "Tormentalous" Tran

Moon Palace by legotruman is the latest project to achieve 10,000 supporters on LEGO Ideas. The build is based on the story of Chang’e, the goddess of the moon and it shows a scene of a palace built inside a floating crescent moon. The project joins Modular Heritage Museum, Great Temple of Abu Simbel – With Secret Treasure, and Rolls-Royce Phantom 1 “Phantom of Love” as the ones to reach the Third 2023 Review Stage. The post LEGO Ideas Moon Palace Achieves 10,000 Supporters appeared first on The Brick Fan. Original linkOriginal author: Allen "Tormentalous" Tran

In one of the more interesting collaborations in recent times, LEGO looks to be having an upcoming partnership with Lofi Girl very soon. Formerly known as ChilledCow, Lofi Girl is a YouTube channel that provides livestreams of lo-fi hip hop music and usually has the iconic girl in the green sweater studying or relaxing. In the video clip shown on their social media channels, the girl is just studying and suddenly her pen turns into building bricks. While looking at her hands, they also turn into minifigure hands and more bricks fall out. Seemingly confused, the screen turns black with a date of September 19. If it’s really a LEGO collab, we’ll see what happens next Tuesday. View this post on Instagram A post shared by Lofi Girl (@lofigirl) One thing to note is that LEGO already had a subtle nod to Lofi Girl back in 2021 with the LEGO Monkie...

Picture this: You are from Canada and are on the last night of a cross-country road trip where you just spent several weeks attending LEGO Conventions and sightseeing across the United States. You are alone, your car is jam-packed full of your custom LEGO models, your best clothes, travel stuff, and the results of multiple shopping trips. You stop at a hotel for the night, exhausted after a long day of driving. You know there is no way you can unload the car alone into the hotel. Some MOCs are just too heavy… View fullsize View fullsize You think to yourself, “Well, it’s 10:30 pm and I’ll be up early to get on the road again. I will park as close to the hotel as possible, under the hotel security camera, by the front door… that’s the second safest thing you could do. Plus, the hotel will monitor the parking lot,...

Whether you call them Tokens of Appreciation, Fan Trophies, Trophy Tokens or some other variation of the name, these small LEGO-related items have become well-established at many of the major AFOL events across North America. Although often attributed to the late Arthur Gugick at Brickworld in 2012, there is some evidence of AFOLs leaving tokens as early as 2007 and 2008. The actual tokens vary greatly but can be mini-MOCs, printed tiles, stickers, cards or some other small item given to an AFOL or placed near their display to recognise that you really liked their MOC or some part of their build. This year, Tokens of Appreciation were introduced to the Brixpo LEGO Fan Event in Adelaide, South Australia. The Australian version of the Tokens of Appreciation first appeared at Brickvention 2023 in Melbourne. Aspen Arnold surprised a small number of builders by placing a token near their MOCs. As the...