Today’s guest article comes from Richard Dryden, a builder who has competed on LEGO Masters and helped create the Awesome Black Creativity project. How Basketball Can Save the World “Dutch Sociologist Johan Huizinga published his seminal work Homo Ludens, explaining that play has always been a safe, sublime, and necessary space for us to find relief from the difficulty of the human condition. Play, as illuminated by Huizinga, delivers a free voluntary experience, disinterested in material gain and separate from the sprawling incomprehensibility of life. Play gives order to that incomprehensibility with clear rules and limits on time, locality, and duration where we can live out real human vices and virtues - teamwork, sacrifice, cooperation, selfishness, risk, courage, cowardice, grace under pressure, winning, losing - without the real-life consequences of life and death, profit and loss. Play, according to Huizinga, is freedom itself. What better human sanctuary has ever evolved than...

For each issue of BrickJournal Magazine, the BrickNerd team creates instructions for a LEGO mini-model to go with the theme of the cover story. For their recent issue about music and album covers, we created a cassette tape! Building a Microscope The cassette tape was a game-changer back in the day, making music portable and personal. To celebrate this retro classic, our design stays true to the real thing. It has curved corners, tape reels, a label, and even the little clear window that shows the tape inside. Building this set is like hitting play on nostalgia. It’ll take you back to the days of making mixtapes for your buddies and recording your favorite song from the radio. And it ever implements a sweet little stud inversion on the sides to keep things interesting. So get your pencils out because it is time to be kind and rewind! LEGO Cassette Tape...

Today is the last day to get your orders in for the LEGO Double Insiders points shopping event. As of this post, there is only about 13.5 hours left to get double points on all your purchases. This will probably be your last chance to earn extra points as I don’t see LEGO doing it in July and if we’re gauging past promotions, we may see it again in August. As a Rakuten/Linkshare Affiliate, I earn from qualifying purchases. The post Last Day for LEGO Double Insiders Points – June 2025 appeared first on The Brick Fan. Original linkOriginal author: Allen "Tormentalous" Tran

July is only a week away and now is a good time to showcase the LEGO sets that will be releasing soon. It’ll be a fairly quiet release as the rest of the summer 2025 sets for the US have an August launch. We do have the new LEGO x Nike partnership that’s officially launching in July with the Nike Dunk set. For the gift with purchase promotions, we don’t have any for them information at this time but will update as we get any news. Icons • Shelby Cobra 427 S/C (10357) – $159.99• Toothless (10375) – $69.99 Marvel • Miles Morales’ Mask (76329) – $69.99 Miscellaneous • Nike Dunk x LEGO Set – $99.99 Star Wars • Battle Droid with STAP (75428) – $139.99 The post LEGO July 2025 Shopping Guide appeared first on The Brick Fan. Original linkOriginal author: Allen "Tormentalous" Tran

As of a few hours ago, the LEGO Tribute to Jane Austen’s Books (40766) has sold out on the LEGO Shop. The gift with purchase set was originally planned to run until Friday, June 27 but it only lasted for about three and a half days. You can still probably find it available at your nearest LEGO Brand Store but you should double check if they still have it. We do still have double Insiders points which will run only until tomorrow night so there isn’t that much time left for that promo. The post LEGO Tribute to Jane Austen’s Books (40766) GWP Sold Out appeared first on The Brick Fan. Original linkOriginal author: Allen "Tormentalous" Tran