The LEGO Group has announced that they have acquired LEGO and LEGOLAND Discovery Centers from Merlin Entertainments for £200 million. The deal includes 29 Centers in 9 countries and Merlin will continue to operate the 11 LEGOLAND Resorts around the world. We’ve already seen that you can earn LEGO Insiders points at select Discovery Centers and I’m guessing that they’ll roll it out to all of them now. The deal will close by the end of the year. The LEGO Group to acquire LEGO® Discovery Centres and LEGOLAND® Discovery Centres from Merlin Entertainments • 29 Centres in 9 countries welcome 5 million visitors each year.• Centres provide fans with unique brand and retail experiences that celebrate the fun and creativity of LEGO play.• Merlin to continue operating LEGOLAND Resorts under licence from the LEGO Group. BILLUND, DENMARK, 24 September 2025: The LEGO Group today announced it has agreed to acquire LEGO®...

LEGO has revealed a new LEGO Creator gift with purchase set coming soon with the Celebration Series: 3. Luminous Ghost (40772). The set has 167 pieces and it features a buildable ghost that has a light brick. The set also a little bat and pumpkin as well. There’s no information yet on when it will be released or the price requirement to get it. Play out scary fun with this LEGO® Creator Celebration Series: Luminous Ghost (40772) Halloween gift. The ghost toy comes with a pumpkin toy and a bat with posable wings displayed on a transparent stick to give the impression it’s flying. Kids canpress a handle on the LEGO ghost to activate a light brick and illuminate its mouth and eyes with a creepy red glow! This Halloween toy is great for play and display and makes a cool gift for boys and girls aged 8 and up. Set...

The LEGO Shop has updated their list of sets that are Retiring Soon and currently there are over 100 sets that are scheduled to be done by the end of the year. A majority of the sets are older ones but there are also some that are pretty recent including the One Piece BrickHeadz. Of course this is not the end all, be all list of sets that will be retiring as LEGO will usually update it. Art • Batman: The Animated Series Gotham City (76271) BrickHeadz • Obi-Wan Kenobi & Darth Vader (40547)• Iron Spider-Man (40670)• Potted Groot (40671)• Batman 8-in-1 Figure (40748)• Wednesday & Enid (40750)• Dumbo (40792)• Tom and Jerry Figures (40793)• Revenge of the Sith Heroes & Villains  (40796)• Monkey D. Luffy Figure (40799)• Buggy the Clown Figure (40800) City • Car Transporter Truck with Sports Cars (60408)• Yellow Mobile Construction Crane (60409)• Yellow Construction Excavator (60420)•...

LEGOLAND Calfornia has announced their first new coaster in more than 20 years called the Galacticoaster. Opening in early 2026, the coaster is built inside a 30,000 square foot building and stands over 30 feet high. LEGOLAND® California Resort Reveals First New Coaster in Over Two Decades The West Coast is getting its own LEGO® launchpad: Galacticoaster is coming in 2026! CARLSBAD, CA (September 22, 2025) – All bricks in place…we have liftoff! LEGOLAND® California Resort announced today that its all-new space-themed indoor coaster will be named: Galacticoaster! Galacticoaster is officially blasting off in early 2026 and today the Resort shared, for the first time, the track being installed at the ride’s location in Fun Town. Built inside a 30,000-square-foot building that stands over 30 feet high, this intergalactic adventure is not only the Resort’s first new coaster in more than 20 years, it has been under construction for more than...

It’s Habitat Week at BrickNerd! Join us as we trace how LEGO minifigure habitats began, how they’ve evolved, and where they’re headed next. All week we’ll share smart tips, build techniques, and creative strategies to help you get the most from your habitat stack. Playing with Color Perhaps it’s because so many of us have been locked up in our own little cubes, but LEGO “Minifigure Habitats” have been in the zeitgeist a lot lately. My social media has been full of amazing, creative CMF (Collectible Minifigures) block-mocs this past year. The first LEGO CMF series was released in 2010, and as early as that year, Eurobricks sponsored contests using them in “habitat” vignettes. To the best of our nerd-hivemind research, though, the modern, diagonal, stackable formula for “minifig habitats” came to be in 2016. Pangeran Panda shared his pattern that is based on the design used in the 2016 Olympic...

If you’re a Target shopper, one of their current weekly deals is for 15% off select LEGO sets and on the list includes the upcoming LEGO Ideas Gizmo (21361). They are taking pre-orders for it while also saving 15%. If you have the Target Circle Card, you can also save an additional 5% with free shipping. This essentially saves you 20% which equates to about $89 even before the set is released. As a Mavely Associate, I earn from qualifying purchases. The post LEGO Ideas Gizmo (21361) Target Deal – 20% Off appeared first on The Brick Fan. Original linkOriginal author: Allen "Tormentalous" Tran

This month is just flying by and it’s time for our LEGO October 2025 shopping guide for sets that will be releasing on the LEGO Shop next week. The main set that will be releasing is the new UCS Death Star (75419) which will be the first ever set priced at $999.99. We also have the release of this year’s Winter Village set with the Holiday Express Train (10361) along with the other Seasonal Christmas sets. For the gift with purchase items, we only know of one so far which is the LEGO Star Wars TIE Fighter with Imperial Hangar Rack (40771) which you can only get when you purchase the Death Star. In the Insiders Reward Center, you can get the LEGO Star Wars Death Star Supersize Premium Print which will cost 5,000 Insiders points. Botanicals • Bouquet of Pink Roses (10374) – $59.99 Icons • Holiday Express Train (10361)...

Let me introduce you to Thomas S. Tank, or maybe Sherman T. Tanker (Apologies to MASH). Either way, Caleb Flutur has produced a mash-up I never knew I needed! Caleb has crossed Thomas the Tank Engine with the US Sherman Tank from WWII. Excellent shaping and color blocking really sell the combination. When I first saw it, I couldn’t believe I hadn’t run across a tank/Thomas and Friends paring before! I could go on about the philosophical musings about this mash-up and the world of Thomas the Tank Engine in general, but Caleb had a lot to say that I’m pretty sure you will find much more interesting! Michael: Hey Caleb, we featured your Pick-A-Brick cup blender in our LEGO Dark Arts: Incorporating LEGO Packaging Into Your MOCs, Part 2 round-up earlier this year but, this is the first spotlight we've done on you. Would you mind sharing a little bit about yourself? Caleb: My...

I love Gundam. Just like LEGO, these Japanese giant robots have a hardcore fanbase. It has a rich history of animated series and movies, mangas and of course the most important one, Gunpla (the plastic toys showcasing all the amazing robot creations). I love building those mobile suits myself—it’s relaxing and a very satisfying process, just like building LEGO sets. So obviously, combining Gundam and LEGO can result in fantastic MOCs, just like the Barbatos made by Ransom Fern. The Barbatos, from the Iron Blooded Orphans series, stands out among the classic Gundams because it is sleeker and has an animalistic vibe to it with its claws and angular features. It has those classic colors too—white, red, blue and yellow. Despite standing out, the series and the Gundam itself are quite popular. So I get that Ransom Fern liked the idea of creating a LEGO version. And he has done a...

With the most release of the latest LEGO Ideas set, Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory (21360), we can now update our list of projects that are currently under development. Since our last update, we have taken six projects off the list and added a few on with the winner announcements since late June. The next LEGO Ideas set to hit shelves will be Gizmo (21361) which you can pre-order today. We’re also waiting for LEGO to announce the winner(s) of the First 2025 Review Stage which should be some time this month. The Goonies (1985) by Delusionn Brick Approved August 14, 2024 from If We Can Turn Back Time building contest. Love Birds by ModularManiac Approved February 10, 2025 from Build from the Heart building contest. Floating Sea Otter by HisBrickMaterials Approved March 21, 2025 from Second 2024 Review Stage. Snoopy – Campfire by bossofdos64 Approved March 21, 2025 from...