BrickNerd returned five years ago with the intention of celebrating creativity, amplifying builder voices, and creating a home for thoughtful, in-depth coverage of the LEGO hobby. As we head into 2026, the growth and engagement of this community continue to shape not just what BrickNerd publishes, but where it goes next. As 2025 wraps up, it feels like the right time to pause and look back. Below, we’re sharing some of the numbers that shaped the year, a handful of standout articles, and a few New Year’s resolutions guiding BrickNerd as we move into 2026. Reflecting on BrickNerd in 2025 Looking back on 2025, it’s clear that BrickNerd continued to do what it does best by telling meaningful stories from across the LEGO community while staying grounded in the people and creativity that make the hobby special. Over the course of the year, we published hundreds of articles spanning interviews, event...

December brought no shortage of great LEGO content from around the globe! Here at BrickNerd, we started the month by converting the LEGO Ideas steamboat into Master Chen’s ferry, had two talented teams compete to turn a retail set into a GBC module, looked at an innovative way to convert light bricks into Christmas tree lights, and found that new elements sometimes warrant revisiting an excellent MOC to make it even better! We looked at the ever-growing array of costumed minifigs, revisited a hot drink stand MOC, saw the detailed inspiration and planning going into wonderful Spiderman inspired MOCs, and provided instructions to build your own microscale train. We learned how a group LEGO build can be a catalyst for something bigger than the completed model, and looked at how annual MOC collages can be fun historical references as well as a means to see building skill progression. In fact, we’ve...

Every December—well, let’s be honest, sometimes early January—for thirteen years now, I’ve set aside a little time to scroll through my photostream, pull my favorite builds, layer them neatly in GIMP, and then write “Original linkOriginal author: Geneva D

Today I have the great pleasure of shining the spotlight on one of the—at least in my humble opinion—best Bionicle builders out there, Patrick Biggs. I have to admit that when I first got back into LEGO, I had no idea what Bionicle was or that it was even made by the LEGO company. I am a bit embarrassed about that now, but back then (around six years ago) I was just coming out of my dark age and as Bionicle first came out around 2000-2001, I initially missed the first wave by about half a decade. And the (short-lived) re-launch ended just before I got back into LEGO. Fortunately, the internet is a marvellous thing and I quickly started noticing some very cool MOCs showing up in my Flickr feed every now and then. I also had a fellow LUG-member (o0ger) that was always using cool pieces that I couldn’t...

Earlier we took you on a tour of all the LEGO-related lighting products we could find. We called it our “LEGO Lighting Compendium” because it covers hundreds of options at a high level. With many people across the world having just opened presents of LEGO or lighting kits, I wanted to dive in for a bit more of a hands-on look at lighting as a late Christmas present from me to you, our legion of avid readers! Lighting up the Bugle! To be fair, I won’t be able to cover all lighting products by most companies as the breadth of offerings is so great. So what I’ll do is give you a hands-on overview of what it is like to install a lighting kit for a LEGO set. The ones I am looking at today were provided by Lightailing/Briksmax which I believe are representative of a large percentage of the products out there...