LEGO Community Headlines and Highlights for May 2024
May is coming to a close – high time for your monthly LEGO community round-up! Take a refreshing drink outside onto the veranda and enjoy this month’s inspiring serving of interesting articles, deep dives and insightful features from across the LEGO community! We are lucky to have this many outlets and channels that keep creating incredible content, and these are the best of the month.
Here at BrickNerd, we met the B Boys of Canada and visited LEGO Shows Qatar, and learned about inclusion and accessibility at LEGO House and LEGOLAND promo bricks. We joined a Brick Derby race, parted out LEGO sets and got crafty for our display cabinets. We celebrated summertime MOCs, launched into space, and published instructions for a LEGO builder’s studio. And we learned all about Notre Dame’s McKenna Hall as well as about the stained glass windows of Notre-Dame de Paris, announced the winners of the AdoraBuild, and learned about seamless SNOT techniques and LEGO gears. We even saw the Northern Lights and chased Chase McCain! In fact, we’ve published so many interesting articles in May that we’ve included an interactive calendar of them at the bottom of this post so you can make sure you didn’t miss a thing.
But there are many more fascinating stories to be told from within the LEGO community, so here are some of the best LEGO articles and videos that caught our contributors’ attention throughout the month of May. We applaud the effort that went into each of these features, so click on the headlines or photos to head to each story or video. They are well worth your time!
Brick Fanatics: Exclusive LEGO Star Wars interview: TT Games’ Jonathan Smith
To many the LEGO (Star Wars) brand isn’t just about brickbuilt toys. After all there TT Games has made dozens of fun LEGO video games over the years, starting with the iconing LEGO Star Wars: The Video Game back in 2005. Time for Brick Fanatics to sit down with TT Game’s Jonathan Smith to talk about it all.
Brickset: A Survey of Posthumous Minifigures
There are thousands of LEGO minifigures that are based on real-life personalities, be it actors, musicians or even scientists. But did you ever wonder if your minifigure’s real-life counterpart was still around? Brickset’s guest author Aaron Damon-Rush takes inventory and presents a list of some notable recipients of posthumous minifigures.
Brickset: Nostalgia: What's Up With That...?
Peak LEGO design – we all think of something when we hear that. Likely of something nostalgic – but why is that? Time for an in-depth analysis of childhood favorites, nostalgia-celebrating LEGO sets and even some Castle, Pirates and Space!
Cheesey Studios: Celebrating 10 Years of LEGO Minecraft
From its humble beginnings in 2014 to 141 sets total 10 years later – LEGO Minecraft has won over many a fans. Time for Cheesey Studios to take a look back at the theme’s first wave, and to recreate them as block-accurate MOCs!
Kos Brick: Lego Farm Mini Vehicles – Part 6 (Tutorial)
Kosmas Santosa of Kos Brick is back with another video on wonderful micro builds – and this time we’re heading to the farm! Combine harvesters, tractors, or micro scale cows ready to be abducted by an U.F.O. – Kosmas has it all!
The Brothers Brick: Building with character: a conversation with NPU wizard Djokson
Djokson needs little introduction – there are few builders more prolific and creative in the AFOL community, few that can use crazy pieces as naturally as this Serbian wizard. Reason for The Brothers Brick to sit down with him and find out how he got started, his process and everything in-between.
Tips & Bricks: Technique Analysis: Very Old Friends by Eero Okkonen
The Duplo Grass round of Iron Builder is the stuff of legends – Jonas Kramm and Eero Okkonen had a month-long build-off that left the AFOL community in awe back in 2017. Tips & Bricks have put together an in-depth analysis of one of Eero’s standout pieces, a peaceful scene from The Lord of the Rings, chock-full of smart piece usage and wonderful techniques.
Tips & Bricks: Beginner Series Lesson 1: Terminology
If you’re struggling with all the weird terms the AFOL Community can throw at you at any given moment (or need a refresher), Tips & Bricks has you covered. Head over to their post and find explanations for terms such as SNOT, jumpers, Technic elements and a variety of acronyms – it’ll be second nature to you soon!
Toy Photographers: Photographing Toys Outdoors
We all have seen these amazing photos of minifigures adventuring in the outdoors. But how does one actually go about capturing such images? Toy Photographers’ Shelly Corbett takes us outside and equips us with a handy equipment list to get us started!
If all of those amazing features weren’t enough to satisfy your LEGO community craving, here is an interactive calendar of everything that BrickNerd has published this last month to make sure you didn’t miss a single article.
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