Today’s guest article is by Val Dmitrieff from Vancouver, Canada, who is the current Vice President and charity coordinator for the VLC (formerly Vancouver LEGO Club), which is celebrating its 25th year as a group. Origins of the VLC It’s hard to believe it’s been 25 years since a handful of LEGO fans in Vancouver, Canada decided to make things official. What started as a few like-minded enthusiasts gathering around kitchen tables has grown into a thriving, award-winning, community-driven LEGO club known as VLC—Vancouver’s Community for Adult Fans of LEGO. Back in the late 90s and early 2000s, AFOL life in western Canada wasn’t quite what it is today. If you were lucky, you found someone on LUGNET. If you were really lucky, you made the trip to Seattle to hang out with SeaLUG. But for a group of LEGO fans in the Vancouver area—Robin, Dean, Alex, Bryan, Andrew, and Kevin—the...

If you missed it back in February, LEGO will be bringing back the LEGO F1 Steering Wheel Make & Take Event on Thursday, April 24. This will be during after work hours like they used to do many years ago from 5-7pm local time. This event is only for participating stores in the US and Canada on a first come, first serve basis. Double check with your store to see if they are doing it and get there early if you can if you want to attend. Since it’s not during the weekend hours, there may be less people attending since they’re still getting off work but don’t chance it. The post LEGO F1 Steering Wheel Make & Take Coming Back in April appeared first on The Brick Fan. Original linkOriginal author: Allen "Tormentalous" Tran

In 2010, AFOL: A Blocumentary was released, highlighting the lives of several members of the early AFOL community of the late 2000s. Back then, being a fan of LEGO past the recommended age printed on the sets was not as “cool” as it is today. In fact, dare I say, the lifestyle of an AFOL as presented in the documentary was actually quite awkward. Yes, there was a time when an adult purchasing LEGO for themselves was not something to trumpet online. Fast forward to the present, and there isn’t a better time in The LEGO Group’s history than now to enter the hobby as an adult enthusiast. The LEGO Movie and LEGO Masters both brought the brick to a new level of status in popular culture, the latter making the creative talent in the LEGO community more known in the public eye, where previously it would have been unknown. And...

Welcome back to “The Conversation Piece,” a BrickNerd series authored by our friends over at the Builder Improvement Initiative (BII), a Discord-based community that helps LEGO builders of all levels get better at their craft through knowledge-sharing and feedback. This will be a place for you to ask all of your trickier questions about creativity and building out of LEGO bricks. Have a question you'd like us to consider for a future article? You can submit it here. Enjoy! How Do You Decide What to Build? Anonymous asks: “Do you always have an idea for a certain build? If not, how do you come up with or obtain said idea?” In any artistic hobby, creativity is a critical skill to have. However, all creative works need to start with an idea. Most of the time, we tend to go into the build process with some inkling of what we want to...

The 2025 LEGO Easter Sale is now live and there are deals on items that are up to 50% off. Also the items are region specific so if you’re not in the US, you may see other items that we don’t have on sale. The Easter Sale runs until April 20. Unfortunately, there are currently no gift with purchase sets that are running concurrent with the sale in the US. As a Rakuten/Linkshare Affiliate, I earn from qualifying purchases. The post LEGO Easter Sale 2025 Now Live appeared first on The Brick Fan. Original linkOriginal author: Allen "Tormentalous" Tran