The AFOL world is a great, global community united by our love of LEGO. Within that greater community, there are many smaller interest groups, from local LUGs to people interested in specific themes like Castle, Space, Mosaics or Microscale. For International Women’s Day, we wanted to take a look at some of those groups through the lens of representation, but as I looked, one of the themes stood out to me the most… a theme where I searched high and low for female builders: trains. After searching around the globe through my network of AFOLs, I could still only count female LEGO train builders on the fingers of my two hands! (I hope to be proven wrong that there are more!) So let me introduce you to two women from this very select group: Sarah Brennan-Dunn and Ingrid Broeders-Bos, who have very different stories to tell. Meet Ingrid & Sarah Ingrid...

Top of the mornin’ to ya, brick-building aficionados! You don’t have to be Irish to celebrate St. Patrick's Day, so crack a set open (or maybe even a beer) and try your luck building this little guy. Here are instructions to build a LEGO leprechaun complete with a pot of gold at the end of the rainbow! We wanted to give you something green and we came up with this green mean money-making machine on your screen. Instructions to Build a Leprechaun The build starts with the stand, which in this case is a pot with no gold. (We'll get there, don't worry, I know you came for the coins.) Right after that, we bring some color to the build with a simple rainbow. Finally, when you have everything built and ready, get around 20 gold studs and just drop them into the pot. See, now you have all the dough...

Deejay Chiama Italia by FACEBRICKUP is the latest project to achieve 10,000 supporters on LEGO Ideas. The build features a radio station room where Deejay Chiama Italia broadcasts his show. The project joins Dr. Seuss and LEGO, Sweet Honey, The Botanical Garden, The Crown – A Piece of History, Stargate SG1: Embarkation Room, Roscosmos Soyuz MS Spacecraft, Motorized Howl’s Moving Castle, The Stargate, Medieval Seaside Market, Brick Boulevard, Retro Comic Store, Shrek’s Swamp – 20th Anniversary, Baby Green Sea Turtle – Kinetic, Humpback Whale, Shrek’s Swamp, Brooklyn Nine-Nine: 99th Precinct, LED Lamp, Bricks Coffee, Ogel Creek Saw Mill, Hollow Knight: Forgotten Crossroad, LEGO Godzilla, Claus Toys, Twilight: Cullen House, Where’s Wally/Waldo?, V.&T.R.R. #12, Genoa, River Side Lodge, Catan – The Game, Daft Punk – The Robots, Monsters Inc: The Door to Monstropolis, Iljinai Family House, Multi-Tool, Portal 2 Quantum Tunnelling Device. The “Portal Gun”, LEGOLAND Central Station, E.T. The Extra-Terrestrial, Amethyst...

LEGO has officially announced the next LEGO Icons set with the Land Rover Classic Defender 90 (10317). Releasing on April 1, the set has 2,336 pieces and will retail for $239.99. LEGO® ICONS 2023 Land Rover Defender 90 – PRESS RELEASE GO ANYWHERE, BUILD AND REBUILD THE NEW LEGO ICONS CLASSIC LAND ROVER DEFENDER 90 16th March, 2023: Ignite the spirit of adventure with the new LEGO® Icons Classic Land Rover Defender 90. Launched as Land Rover celebrates its 75th anniversary, the 2,336 piece set is based on the classic design of the Land Rover Defender from 1983 to 2016 and comes complete with all the accessories needed for an off-road adventure. To celebrate the launch of the set, the LEGO Group placed a bright yellow classic Land Rover Defender in the Scottish Highlands and transformed it into the hardest to reach LEGO Store in the world. In fact, it could...

Today’s guest article comes from Kelly Bartlett who shares how creating multiple drafts of a LEGO MOC can help with problem-solving and the creative process. Recently, I built a LEGO MOC for someone who wanted a 1:1 scale model of a laptop. It seemed like a fairly straightforward commissioned project, but I ended up going through several drafts before I deemed it “complete.” Whether builders design their MOCs digitally or build them with bricks like I do, we inevitably go through various drafts, making changes along the way before arriving at a final product. So let me take you through my process of designing the “BrickBook Pro” and how problem-solving over the course of multiple drafts made the end result a better creation. First Draft: Shape and Color The first draft of any MOC I build is to explore the basic shape and look of the build. It is quick and...