The nominees for the 2023 Toys of the Year Awards have been announced and LEGO has quite a few sets in the running this year. As usual you can submit your picks for a chance to win some of the toys. The winners will be announced on November 20. LEGO has eight products nominated in six categories which you can check out below. Collectible • Disney 100 Collectible Minifigures (71038) Construction • LEGO Disney 100 “Up” House (43217) • LEGO Friends Heartlake International School (41731) Grown-Up • LEGO Art Hokusai – The Great Wave (31208) • LEGO Icons Lord of the Rings Rivendell (10316) Infant/Toddler • LEGO DUPLO 3-in-1 Tree House (10993) Preschool • LEGO Disney Celebration Train (43212) STEAM • LEGO Technic NASA Mars Rover Perseverance (42158) The post LEGO Nominated for 2023 Toy of the Year Awards appeared first on The Brick Fan. Original linkOriginal author: Allen "Tormentalous" Tran

Earlier this year, LEGO announced that they will be moving their North American headquarters to Boston in 2026 and they have just revealed the location of where it will be. The new headquarters will be located at 1001 Boylston Street which is just a short ways from downtown Boston and only a few minutes walk to Fenway Park. The office space will spread out over five floors in more than 100,000 square feet with innovation and design being a central focus. In turn, there will be enough space for both collaborative work as well areas for individual work zones. All of the Enfield employees will have a position at the new office and will get relocation assistance if they wish to move. The move will begin in 2025 and is expected to be completed by the end of 2026. The LEGO Group announces location of new Americas office in Boston, MA...

In the past year or so, LEGO has released sets in the LEGO Icons line that pays homage to the classic sets and the latest one is the Eldorado Fortress (10320). It has 2,509 pieces and retails for $214.99. This set is an modern look for the Eldorado Fortress (6276) from 1989. Minifigures There are eight minifigures in the set, six Imperial Soldiers and two Pirates. The Admiral has on a different blue uniform than the others. The bicorn that he wears with the red feather is similar to a minifigure in the original set. There are two female officers that have the similar uniforms but have different colored epaulettes. They also have hats molded on to their hairs. They also have double-sided heads as well. In addition, there are also three soldiers with their classic Imperial uniforms. Each of them have their own unique faces but they all wear the...

Best of BrickNerd - Article originally published August 23, 2021. Wait, is that smaller than I remember?? We’ve featured Wayne Tyler’s updated and gigantic “micro” build of the United States National Mall (actually it was a second update from our original post in 2018). He has built like mad and expanded the already impressive layout greatly. But now there’s a new twist to his journey—building a micro version… of his micro build! The New MOC in all its glory - And look, he labelled all the buildings! We saw the build and knew we needed to get the inside scoop, so read on to find out more: Doug: So how big is the new “small” version of the National Mall compared to your prior MOC, and were you able to cover the same subject material? Wayne: The microscale version of the National Mall is about 16 feet long and uses a...

Best of BrickNerd - Article originally published August 4, 2022. Today’s guest article is written by Ben Bartlett who is a student at St. John's College. You can find his work on Flickr as #1 Nomad. From TFOL to AFOL This year, I attended my first convention as an AFOL. And, in celebration of this, I displayed with a LUG and in a collab for the first time. It felt like I was ascending from my former TFOL self, becoming a grown-up doing grown-up things. It felt as if I had become a fully-fledged member of the LEGO community at large. However, I couldn’t have felt this way without the rich environment I had as a TFOL. I was fortunate enough to have great builders supplying advice and encouragement for my MOCs. These people made me feel included in the community at a young age; they wanted me to be heard...