As reported, the LEGO Double VIP Points event is now live on the LEGO Shop. From now until June 13, you can earn double the points on all your purchases including exclusives. Now would be a great time to get some of the newly released June 2023 sets like the Batcave – Shadow Box (76252) and the Pac-Man Arcade (10323). Remember to use Rakuten to earn some cash back on your purchases. As a Rakuten/Linkshare Affiliate, I earn from qualifying purchases. The post LEGO Double VIP Points Event Live on LEGO Shop – June 2023 appeared first on The Brick Fan. Original linkOriginal author: Allen "Tormentalous" Tran

Last year, LEGO released two Bricktober 2022 sets on the Rewards Center and today they have announced that the other two sets in the wave will also be coming soon. The two that will be coming are the Space Adventure Ride and Fantasy Adventure Ride. One is scheduled to be released on June 16 and the other on July 11. There’s no mentioning on which set will be released on which day yet. They are expected to cost 2,400 like with the previous ones and will come in the yellow boxes instead of the decorated ones that Asia got. The post Last Two LEGO Bricktober 2022 Sets Coming Soon to Rewards Center appeared first on The Brick Fan. Original linkOriginal author: Allen "Tormentalous" Tran

Something big is coming! In honor of BrickNerd’s 10th Anniversary, we are building something gigantic to celebrate our brick-built mascot Nerdly and bringing it to Brickworld Chicago this week. That’s right, Nerdly is getting an upgrade! We’re building a Nerdly that is ten times the size as normal to celebrate each of the past ten years! (Well, actually it is 12x bigger to make the math a little easier in studs, but who’s counting?) Here’s a teaser of what is coming… and you can join in the fun too! In addition to the gigantic Nerdly, we are going to create the largest nerd herd ever assembled! If you are going to Brickworld Chicago, bring a Nerdly along to join the brigade! (Here are the instructions.) We’ll also have pieces on hand if you want to help us build a small army of red Nerdlies during the show to go along with...

What math is hidden in your favorite LEGO sets, how can you recognize it, and how does it magically make LEGO geometry work so perfectly? Best of BrickNerd - Article originally published June 10, 2022. To help answer those questions, we are pleased to feature a guest article from Deep Shen discussing the hidden math in LEGO. Deep’s amazing portfolio of work can be found at Towering Brick Creations, on his Flickr page and on Instagram. Hidden Math I am sure I speak for all AFOLs when I say that building official LEGO sets can be quite an enjoyable experience. It is always exciting to crack open the box, find all the numbered bags, and start putting the model together based on the instructions. But every so often there is a technique we come across that confounds us and leaves us wondering, “How does that even work?” It is a safe...

As you are well aware by now, LEGO has released their latest Icons set that pays tribute to another pioneer of the video game era; Pac-Man. As I am sure you are also aware, in the early 1980s, Pac-Man was a mega craze in video game arcades all around the world. In the United States alone, it was estimated to have 30 million active players in 1982… and I could be counted among them. As a young kid, I remember a bunch of us excitedly piling into the car of someone’s older brother to go to a local department store where the game had been spotted - and piling quarters into the coin slots. I also remember being just tall enough not to need a step stool to reach the control stick. Ah, nostalgia. A few weekends ago, I went to a local game bar with tons of retro arcade games...