A few days ago, California Highway Patrol serving search warrants in Los Angeles and Orange counties discovered $300,000 worth of stolen LEGO sets. Investigators states that the sets were stolen from retail stores like Target and resold to unsuspecting buyers. Four people were arrested and charged with retail theft, grand theft, and conspiracy. **Via KTLA** The post $300,000 Worth of Stolen LEGO Sets Found in Southern California appeared first on The Brick Fan. Original linkOriginal author: Allen "Tormentalous" Tran

“In the garage, I feel safe. No one cares about my ways. In the garage where I belong, no one hears me sing this song. In the garage.” – In the Garage, by Weezer “Every builder needs a garage” by Hejin_Quilones If anyone has been wondering where I have been lately, I guess you could say I’ve been “in the garage.” By strict definition, a garage is the structural part of a house where you park a motor vehicle (assuming you aren’t using it for storage space instead) or a place where vehicles are maintained and repaired. However, as captured by the song by Weezer, “the garage” can also be a place to find refuge from the day-to-day outside world; a place to be ourselves, to listen to our music, to read our comics, to roll our 12-sided die, and not having to care about what others think. Most of you...

Impure! Monster! Heretic! There are many terms that can be used when discussing drifters from the pure LEGO crafting code. Today I will be the devil's advocate for LEGO purism to show that we can and should be doing whatever we want with our beloved bricks. First off, let me start by saying that there is a purist LEGO code. To be very simple, I believe it to be using LEGO pieces only how LEGO Corporate intended their use. In essence, “If I were a LEGO set designer, what would I be allowed to do?” I am well aware that there is a lot packed into that statement. While I am not a set designer, we can see how that statement could include copyrights, partnerships, regulations, being able to create new elements, piece counts restrictions, or for any of the above, the lack thereof. Fortunately, lots of that stuff does not...

Purist. It almost sounds like a dirty word, like elitist or other words that end in -ist. Yet whenever I come up with an idea for a new build I always think about how I can accomplish that with bricks that LEGO has produced themselves without altering the bricks in any shape or form. To me, that is the essence of being a purist. It’s the love for the unaltered LEGO brick. Even when the company has encouraged altering LEGO bricks, like flex tube for example, it just hurts to cut it. It feels wrong to purposefully break something that is perfectly fine as it is. I’m probably more purist than most builders who label themselves as such (especially considering all the barely legal “purist” techniques out there). Illegal building techniques are things that give me an itch and I steer clear away from them as much as I can. So...

LEGO DreamZzz is turning out to be such a fun theme! Combining fantasy and dream worlds, it’s full of imaginative sets. Last year we got some fantastic sets like the #71460 LEGO DreamZzz Mr. Oz’s Spacebus, the #71461 LEGO DreamZzz Fantastical Tree House, and the #71469 LEGO DreamZzzz Nightmare Shark Ship. This year, we already […]Original linkOriginal author: Thita (admin)