LEGO Community Headlines and Highlights for September 2024

September has come and gone, and pumpkins have started lining the fields and your foam-covered lattes. High time for our monthly LEGO community round-up! Take some time out of your busy day and relax with this month’s smorgasbord of interesting articles, deep dives and insightful features from all 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 dissected LEGO boxes and went on the hunt for LEGO owls. We sat down with the winner of Vignweek, a Chibi builder, a Hong Kong artist, and looked at the legacy of a LEGO leader. We learned all about GBC, ladybugs and bees, LUG contests and Friendshiptember. And visited Bauspielbahn-Treffen in Germany and a medieval alley, and took a trip to Paul Hetherington’s Bricktacular. We even had kids guess LEGO color names, dabbled in obscure parts usage and paid tribute to James Earl Jones and LEGO Club TV. In fact, we’ve published so many interesting articles in September 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 September. 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!

Brickset: BrickCon 2024 from a newbie’s perspective

For those that are wondering if they should attend a fan convention, this short report by arselus about his experience at BrickCon 2024 will be informative. There’s a tl;dr at the top for the impatient but reading about the different days and arselus’ verdict was insightful, even for a seasoned con-goer.

Brick Fanatics: LEGO Dungeons & Dragons designer walkthrough

The new Dungeons & Dragons LEGO Minifigures line has sparked overwhelming interest and praise – time for Brick Fanatics to sit down with LEGO Minifigures Creative Lead Esa Petteri Nousiainen and LEGO Graphic Designer Tore Magelund Harmark-Alexandersen to find out more about the lovely figures that make up the series. This is a six part series, each one diving into two of the minifigures and they are all well worth your time. (1) (2) (3) (4) (5) (6)

Cheesey Studios: Expanding LEGO's Life on Mars Fleet (23 Years Later!)

Long-time followers of Cheesey Studios will know of his mild obsession with sand purple and his love for Life on Mars. It seems it was high time to combine those two and build an expansion to this often-overlooked space theme from the early 2000s: A sand-purple mech and docking station expansion for 7317 Aero Tube Hanger!

Collider: Lucasfilm Didn't Set Limits for 'LEGO Star Wars: Rebuild the Galaxy’s Showrunners

The latest LEGO Star Wars series on Disney+ has won fans over with their delightful humor and adorable antics. Collider sat down with its showrunners and writers Dan Hernandez and Benji Samit to find more about its inception and development.

Eli Willsea: How I Photograph My LEGO Builds

Eli Willsea – Iron Builder, The Brothers Brick Builder of the Year, multiple Summer Joust champion – is known far and wide for his imaginative builds and his outstanding photography skills. Earlier this month he pulled back the veil on how he does it all – the photography and editing part, that is. In-depth and insightful this video will help many builders to level-up their presentation!

Jay’s Brick Blog: Announcing the Jay’s Brick Blog x MUGs Scholarship program!

Every now and then something truly special comes along: Jay Ong of Jay’s Brick Blog has teamed up with MUGs (Melbourne LEGO User Group) to support and develop the next generation of LEGO builders with a unique scholarship. Read on to find out about this amazing initiative and the first “class” of recipients and what they are doing with this unique scholarship.

Kos Brick: LEGO Farm Mini Vehicles - Part 7 (Tutorial)

Kos Brick is back with another treat: His collection of micro scale farm items covers everything from the humble horse and cowboy to the mighty combine harvester. Always a treat, Kos Brick has a great way to guide you through his builds – I’m sure you might learn a thing or two!

MitchBuilds: Creating a D&D Character… But with LEGO

MitchBuilds is back with another treat and coinciding with the launch of the latest minifigure series, he’s running us throug a Dungeons and Dragons character made from (largely) Constraction elements. As always with Mitch it’s a mesmerising and relaxing treat, chock-full of interesting techniques.

New Elementary: Are the latest LEGO® Marvel sets worth the money?

Kev Levell’s varied satisfaction with the value of recent LEGO Marvel sets has sent him on a deep-dive into the relative cost of the latest wave of LEGO Marvel sets – comparing costs of different themes and themes.

rebrickable: Woden Bricks Show

LEGO shows come in many different sizes and flavors – this month rebrickable’s icedragonj visited one on the smaller end of the spectrum: A local show called Woden Bricks in Canberra, Australia.

R.R. Slugger: LEGO Rock Raiders is NOT a Space Theme*

Teal and yellow – an iconic color scheme that would mesmerize (not just) space builders since the late 90s. But is it actually a space theme? R.R. Slugger’s Rock Raiders Retrospective explores different ways to categorize and classify this iconic LEGO theme – let us know how you feel about Rock Raiders after this video!

Stonewars: Looking back on 25 years of LEGO Star Wars (translated)

25 years of LEGO Star Wars – a milestone for LEGO and its fans, and a great reason for StoneWars to take a look back and examine its inception, the various milestones and its development over the years. And because 25 years are a long time, there’s also a second part, and a third one will follow soon.

The Brand Inquirer: LEGO Unveils New Visual Identity

The Brand Inquirer dives into the new visual identity that the LEGO Group recently launched, rooted in distinctive shapes and elements that foster an emotional connection with kids. LEGO Typewell, a new dedicated brand typeface, adds to it – read on how it all comes together.

The Rambling Brick: A Brief History of Crossing the Themes Part 2: Introducing Max Timebuster

As part of their series of LEGO Dreamzzz reviews, Richard and his team took a deep-dive into past instances of LEGO themes and characters crossing over. What started with a loving look at an Ideas Book and culminated in an ode to LEGO Time Cruisers, took an interesting turn with a portrait of Max Timebuster, the charismatic hero of the LEGO Klick magazine and the LEGO catalogues of the mid-90s.

Tips & Bricks: Beginner Series: Lesson 14 – Plants and Flowers

If you’d like to liven up your creations, Tips & Bricks has you covered: This month they highlighted everything from dandelions to vegetable gardens. An all-around amazing resource for anyone starting out – or even experienced builders looking for a new idea or two.

Tips & Bricks: Discussion: Makeup in LEGO

Makeup is ultimately just another way of expressing oneself – and LEGO has done so with a plethora of prints over the years. This interesting round-up is a trip down memory lane, featuring everything from Paradisa to licensed themes, and provides a diverse and critical view on the topic. Did you know that there were even LEGO animals that were wearing makeup?

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.

Did we miss any of your favorite LEGO articles and content for the month? Leave your thoughts in the comments below.

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