LEGO Hong Kong’s Instagram has posted a teaser for two new LEGO Animal Crossing sets coming this August. The top set shows the Town Hall and it includes minifigures of Isabelle, Audie, K.K. Slider. The other set features the Airport for Dodo Airlines and it includes Wilbur and Tangy holding a Nook Miles Ticket. View this post on Instagram A post shared by LEGO香港 官方帳號 (@legohk_official) … Continue The post Two August 2024 LEGO Animal Crossing Sets Teased appeared first on The Brick Fan. Original linkOriginal author: Allen "Tormentalous" Tran

LEGO’s product catalog is saturated with promotional tie-ins and intellectual property (IP) LEGO sets. So how did we get from McDonald’s Happy Meal toys to today’s movie tie-in sets and Comic-Con exclusives? Join us on our journey as we look at LEGO’s IP partnerships of yesteryear. I do highly suggest you take a read of the first article in this series about the earliest instances of partnerships and co-branded sets, as there were a few I missed in the early years which I will cover starting right now! (Pictures in this article come from BrickLink, BrickEconomy and Brickset.) Have You Had Yours? Promotions with UK cereal maker Weetabix were in full swing in the 1970s. Consumers collected tokens from Weetabix boxes and could redeem them for these exclusive sets. 00-1 Vintage Castle was one of the four that was offered. Others included the Weetabix House v1 (1976), Weetabix House v2 (1976), Weetabix Windmill...

2024 is the year of LEGO Space sets and today LEGO has revealed two new ones with the LEGO Icons NASA Artemis Space Launch System (10341) and the LEGO Art The Milky Way (31212). Both releasing on May 15 for Insiders, the Artemis has 3,601 pieces and retails for $259.99 while the Milky Way has 3,091 pieces and retails for $199.99. Check out the images of the set below as well as the press release for today’s announcement. THE ART OF ENGINEERING: LIFT OFF INTO SPACE AND EXPLORE THE MILKY WAY WITH TWO NEW LEGO SETS 25th April 2024: Today the LEGO Group unveils two new sets that allow space enthusiasts to go out of this world, by exploring the art of engineering excellence behind the human space missions to get a glimpse of what’s out there. The LEGO® Icons NASA Artemis Space Launch System set is a 3,601-piece set for...

The LEGO Shop has officially put up the product pages for the upcoming LEGO DREAMZzz which are all set to be released in August. The wave will consist of eight sets and they mostly feature new animals and I really like the one with the panda. You can pre-order a few of the sets today and they will ship by release date. The Never Witch’s Midnight Raven (71478) – 1203 pieces/$99.99 Zoey’s Cat Motorcycle (71479) – 226 pieces/$19.99 Logan the Mighty Panda (71480) – 342 pieces/$29.99 Izzie’s Dream Animals (71481) – 328 pieces/$39.99 The Never Witch’s Nightmare Creatures (71483) – 457 pieces/$44.99 Cooper’s Robot Dinosaur C-Rex (71484) – 917 pieces/$79.99 Mateo and Z-Blob the Knight Battle Mech (71485) – 1333 pieces/$129.99 Castle Nocturnia (71486) – 1742 pieces/$199.99 The post LEGO DREAMZzz August 2024 Official Product Details appeared first on The Brick Fan. Original linkOriginal author: Allen "Tormentalous" Tran

Just in time for the LEGO DREAMZzz Season 2 trailer, JB Spielwaren overnight has revealed three more sets that will be coming later this year. Unlike the sets that were revealed a few weeks ago, these will be releasing on August 1. Zoey’s Cat Motorcycle (71479) – 226 pieces Izzie’s Dream Animals (71481) – 328 pieces The Never Witch’s Nightmare Creatures (71483) – 457 pieces The post Three More LEGO DREAMZzz Sets Revealed appeared first on The Brick Fan. Original linkOriginal author: Allen "Tormentalous" Tran

Bendigo Bricks is an annual event held in the regional city of Bendigo, Australia. Bendigo is the third largest city in the state of Victoria. It has a thriving and active local LUG, Bendigo LEGO User Group, with around 45 people attending their monthly meetings. This year over 130 exhibitors displayed at the event with a number traveling from interstate to attend. I chatted to some of the interstate AFOL exhibitors about the reasons why they attend, and the logistics in travelling with a MOC. For those readers not familiar with the geography of Australia, BrickNerd has added a nice colorful map of the various states and territories for you to follow along. Amanda Amanda and her husband, Grant, live just over the border of Victoria, in Thurgoona, New South Wales. Their three hour drive was one of the shortest journeys of any of the interstate visitors. Amanda’s colourful MOC featured...

Amazon has limited time deal for the LEGO City Tracks (60205) for 20% off. It is now listed for only $16 which saves you $3.99 on them and you get a variety of train tracks which includes eight straight, four curved, and eight flexible ones. As an Amazon Associate, I earn from qualifying purchases. The post LEGO City Tracks (60205) Amazon Sale – April 2024 appeared first on The Brick Fan. Original linkOriginal author: Allen "Tormentalous" Tran

All my contributions to BrickNerd to date have explored various topics in the LEGO train theme. However, none of these articles have offered the most fundamental and yet familiar type of informative content: instructions! There is nothing more unifying in terms of content in our vast hobby than a set of building instructions. Every LEGO set has them, fan community sites such as Rebrickable, MOChub and others are dedicated to sharing this content, and countless times as a LEGO fan, I have been asked “do you have instructions for…”. Therefore, as an experiment in generating and sharing this type of content, this article will show you how to build the ubiquitous, often ignored, but endlessly useful ISO shipping container. Since the concept of multi-modal standardized shipping containers was introduced in the 1960s, the ISO shipping container has become a vital backbone of global trade delivering products to every corner of the...

After numerous takedowns from NBC Universal, LEGO has officially revealed the four LEGO Despicable Me 4 sets on the LEGO Shop. We’ve already seen three of them, to an extent, but we can now see the Mega Minions which was what all the fuss was about a few weeks ago. Minions and Banana Car (75580) – 136 pieces/$24.99 Minions’ Music Party Bus (75581) – 379 pieces/$39.99 Brick-Built Gru and Minions (75582) – 839 pieces/$54.99 Minions and Gru’s Family Mansion (75583) – 868 pieces/$99.99 The post LEGO Despicable Me 4 Sets Officially Revealed appeared first on The Brick Fan. Original linkOriginal author: Allen "Tormentalous" Tran

If it has a LEGO logo… it can NPU! Many an AFOL started with humble beginnings. LEGO Duplo is a theme intended for the littlest of LEGO fans, the future of the hobby. But if you dig out that old Duplo part bin, you may find yourself with a great deal of Nifty Parts Usage (NPU) potential! You know it, you love it. Duplo The Duplo parts catalog is pretty vast, ranging from animals to aliens, food to furniture, and anything in between! And, of course, it’s primarily within the same system as any LEGO piece, although you gotta get creative here and there. Standard bricks can sit atop most Duplo bricks, as they are twice the size of your standard brick of the same stud count. Neat, eh? View fullsize View fullsize And because Duplo pieces are within system, naturally a bunch of builders have gone crazy, using them for...