Nick got a minifig, while Ace and I got burned with crappy models. Par for the course this deep in the calendar. Maybe today will be more even across the board. The tally so far: City: 9/7 Harry...[[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]Original link

LEGO Ideas recently held a poll to celebrate the upcoming release of the 150th BrickHeadz set. The poll asked fans to vote on the next BrickHeadz set with the choices being Minecraft, Star Wars, Lilo...[[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]Original link

Update: An earlier draft of this post incorrectly stated that the minifigures will come 30 to a box. It has been corrected to 36 per box. LEGO is changing up the format of the Collectible Minifigures...[[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]Original link

Merry Christmas, everyone! Hopefully today is one of the best days of 2020 and that you unwrapped several LEGO sets from under the tree. We wanted to share a few more insights into this year’s LEGO advent calendars before the holiday season ended. These include leftover parts, minifigure collections and scenic displays that you can make with your advent calendar. Let’s jump in, shall we? The Harry Potter Advent Calendar was a huge success this year. With characters and individual builds being part of the Yule Ball segment from Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire, it stood out as LEGO taking a new direction for its advent calendars. As our esteemed panelists below can tell you, we hope to see more comprehensive advent calendars like this one in the future. Adam: I’d go to this party! But seriously, what a clever idea to make this year’s Harry Potter theme be...

The Temple of Twin Monkeys by Caleb Saw has nice part usage, but also a hefty dollop of mystery. For example, just what are these twin guardians protecting? (My guess is the legendary great lost shipment of Blue Food Dye #2.) The use of grill tiles for fingers works really well, and I like how their use as toes melds into the pedestals. The repeated use of 2×2 dome-bottom bricks for mouth adds uniformity and a touch of sculptural feel to idols, too, while the eyes are some excellently used train wheels. The temple itself has some great details in the curved stonework at the base, and the lines and leafy overgrowth give things a sense of age and neglect. If you came across this temple, would you explore it? Or would it be better not to monkey around? For what it’s worth, there is an animal called a blue monkey,...