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

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

The AdoraBuild is almost over! You only have a few days left to enter the ultimate LEGO contest of all things cute and cuddly. Bring to life your most adorable creations that make us go “Awww!” and you might just win some amazing prizes. Don’t hold back—build something so cute you wanna die! Cute Countdown What Makes Something Adorable? The AdoraBuild isn’t just a LEGO contest; it’s a journey into the whimsical, the endearing, and the outright precious. From fluffy creatures to heart-melting scenes, your mission is to capture the essence of cuteness in brick-built form. Here’s a random sampling of some of the adorable builds entered so far: But what makes a build “adorable”? Is it the splash of color, the clever use of pieces, big googly eyes or the endearing story it tells? Maybe it is about the perfect joke or how much you want to hug it? We...

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...

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...