It’s almost Halloween, and of course, we have something to celebrate it. No, it’s not candy, it’s a dandy! We give you Mousferatu… it’s Nosferatu, only with a moustache. Yes, now you can build your own LEGO vampire for Halloween! Unfortunately, I couldn’t find the big brick separator in BrickLink Studio, so I made the instructions using the ancient method of taking pictures. (Pardon my dust.) I was concerned by the fact that vampires can not be seen in mirrors, and thought it could be same with cameras, but it was just fine. Instructions to Build a Halloween Vampire First thing, you need to have the wide black separator (part #55819) coming in these Art LEGO sets. This will be the cape for our antihero, as you know, vampires love capes, hats, gloves, etc. They just want to look good. Once you have the body, you need to capitate the vampire,...

The LEGO Inside Tour (LIT) is a “once in a lifetime experience” that entails a multi-day VIP experience for LEGO fans in Billund, Denmark, the home of LEGO. Sign-ups for the 2025 tours (10 of them!) start today and close on October 31st. You can get a day-by-day event description in our series here. One of the biggest perks of going on the LIT is receiving one of the rarest LEGO sets, which is given only to those on the tour. Before we continue the journey, you might want to refresh your memory of the LIT sets from Part 1 and Part 2. As a quick refresher, here are all the LEGO Inside Tour models that have been produced in a scrollable gallery below: 2022 LEGO Factory AGV (Automated Guided Vehicle) (4000037) via brickset One of the memorable LIT experiences is seeing the Kornmarken molding factory in person. There is a...

The LEGO Inside Tour (LIT) is a “once in a lifetime experience” that entails a multi-day VIP experience for LEGO fans in Billund, Denmark, the home of LEGO. Sign-ups for the 2025 tours (10 of them!) start today and close on October 31st. You can get a day-by-day event description in our series here. One of the biggest perks of going on the LIT is receiving one of the rarest LEGO sets, which is given only to those on the tour. Before we continue the journey, you might want to refresh your memory of the LIT sets from Part 1 and Part 2. As a quick refresher, here are all the LEGO Inside Tour models that have been produced in a scrollable gallery below: 2022 LEGO Factory AGV (Automated Guided Vehicle) (4000037) via brickset One of the memorable LIT experiences is seeing the Kornmarken molding factory in person. There is a...

We’re only a few days away from November which will be a big LEGO shopping month on the LEGO Shop with all the new releases and upcoming Black Friday promos. Here’s a quick guide on what will be available and we we can expect in a few weeks. As far as new LEGO sets, there’s only a couple but they are big hitters. For the promotions we know about, the LEGO Ideas Books Are My Passion (40698) will be available starting on October 28 and will run until November 11, while supplies last. For the other big ones, the LEGO Marvel Cerebro (5009015) is available from November 1-7 with the purchase of the X-Mansion and the LEGO Botanical Entrance Gate (5009005) is only available from November 1-7 with the purchase of The Botanical Garden. For Black Friday, there should be some promos towards the end of the month and Insiders should...

San Diego Comic-Con (SDCC) has been one of the most prolific sources of exclusive LEGO sets over the past twenty years. Starting in 2004, a wide variety of exclusive LEGO sets were sold at San Diego Comic-Con (aka The Nerd Prom). Join BrickNerd as we look back at this unique assortment of sets. We hope you have fun learning about some sets you never knew existed! To keep the scope of this article manageable, we’ll focus on exclusive buildable sets. If I’m brave enough, I’ll tackle all the Comic-Con exclusive minifigures at a later date. via brickLink 2004 - Humble Beginnings The first exclusive SDCC set I know of was the Bionicle Toa Vakama from 2004. This was a repackaged version of the retail version of the 8601 set. The set was supposed to include an exclusive shooter disk with the SDCC logo. There must have been a production issue since...

Turing Machine – Working LEGO Computer by The Bananaman 201864801 is the latest project to achieve 10,000 supporters on LEGO Ideas. The 2,900 piece build features a working Turing machine that you can use to make your own programs with LEGO. The project joins Cliffside House, Gravity Falls – The Mystery Shack, Round House Ski Lodge, Italian Villa, Summit Station, Betta Splendens, The Moon: Lunar Landscape, Overpass Park, Motorized Howl’s Moving Castle, The Discworld Unseen University Library, Clue – The Playable Mystery Game (AKA Cluedo), Mr. Brick Coffee Pot, Bob Ross: Studio & Paintings, Woodland Wildlife, Sawmill, Gravity Falls Mystery Shack, and Godzilla as the ones to reach the Third 2024 Review Stage. The post LEGO Ideas Turing Machine – Working LEGO Computer Achieves 10,000 Supporters appeared first on The Brick Fan. Original linkOriginal author: Allen "Tormentalous" Tran

UK retailer WHSmith has revealed the exclusive minifigure for the upcoming LEGO Star Wars Character Encyclopedia Updated Edition to be Emperor Palpatine. This version of Palpatine is from The Rise of Skywalker in which he had the black and red robes. If LEGO made this version of Palpatine, perhaps we can finally get another version of the character in a set based on Exegol. The book is listed to be released on August 1, 2025. **Via BricksFanz** The post LEGO Star Wars Character Encyclopedia Updated Edition Exclusive Minifigure Revealed appeared first on The Brick Fan. Original linkOriginal author: Allen "Tormentalous" Tran

Now that I have your attention, this article could actually be called, “How I lost the love of the brick…and found it again bit by bit through LEGO dragons, inspiration from a TFOL, and laughing at least 50 times a day at a LEGO fan weekend.” Let’s begin. Losing Your Love of LEGO I always used to feel bemused when I heard that people had lost their love of the brick. I felt shocked when people admitted to the fact that they had lost their love of and interest in LEGO and were making the hard decision to sell their collections. Living in a mostly neurotypical world as a neurodivergent person, it is often a confusing place for me. I have spent most of my life trying hard to fit in. The LEGO and AFOL worlds are one of very few places where I have felt at home, slotted in, without...

Next week, LEGO will be releasing two new gift with purchase sets that ties in to some of their new releases but is LEGO going overboard with these types of promotions? The two in question are the Entrance Gate for The Botanical Garden (21353) and Cerebro for the X-Men: X-Mansion (76294) and including those, there have been I believe five sets are similar that have been released this year which includes the Mimic Dice Box, the Technic P1 Logo, and Fell Beast, Borgin and Burkes: Floo Network, Luke Skywalker’s Lightsaber. From a business perspective, it’s smart for LEGO to tie in certain GWPs with sets they go with since they know fans will buy them. From the buyer’s perspective, it hard to keep up with some of the releases if you’re into those fandoms and there’s a sense of FOMO since there’s only a limited time to get them. If we’re...

I have a niche. I think a lot of LEGO builders do. Sure we like to expand our array of techniques, push our boundaries, and build outside of our comfort zone. We like to experiment with different concepts, themes, and scales. But at the end of the day, a lot of us have that comfort food type of build we like to return to; that one thing that we fall back on; that one thing that we do the best, or at least have the most fun doing. For me, that’s building 6-stud-wide Speed Champions cars, and specifically muscle and sports classics. That’s so specific, right? It might at first thought feel as if there isn’t a ton of water to draw from this well. When I began working in the 6-wide scale once I made two or three cars, I thought I might have figured out the formula for this...