Oh wow. Just wow! I’ve heard complaints from some people all season long about “filler episodes”. And to some extent I agreed. Chapters 2 and 4, “The Child” and...[[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]Original link

2011 feels both forever ago and just a few days ago… for me (Nick), it was a year that would come to represent the end of an era in my life – big changes were coming in 2012, which...[[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]Original link

Priced at a mere $249.99, Best Buy is offering an exclusive boxed set with all 9 Star Wars Skywalker Sage films. Details are a bit scant and by that I mean non-existent. The title of the item does...[[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]Original link

It's a little late, but YouTube today completed the second round of implementation of their changes to comply with the COPPA lawsuit settlement (that I've talked about quite a bit in the past) as well as some questionable add-ons they've bundled along.  The settlement was announced in September 2019 and in November we learned a lot of the specifics of what would be changing.  Now comments & end screens are completely disabled from most of my videos, and you will generally not get subscription notifications when I upload new content (not that many of you got these anyhow).  Some other features will be impacted as well.  All of this is because these videos count as "mixed audience" content according to YouTube's own definitions and had to be marked as "for kids" and restricted as such. The actual COPPA rule that YouTube flagrantly broke and is now forcing us creators to follow...

It’s not often that a LEGO set transports me back home. But regular readers of The Brothers Brick know that I was born in Tokyo and lived in Japan until I was a teenager, so I was incredibly excited when LEGO announced 21050 Tokyo. I’ve enjoyed each of the previous LEGO Architecture skyline sets I’ve built, but how does this one stack up for someone who calls Tokyo their hometown? Tokyo was revealed as part of the LEGO Architecture skyline series for 2020, alongside 21052 Dubai. Tokyo is built from 547 pieces and will retail for $59.99 USD | $79.99 CAD | £59.99 GBP. Both sets will be available starting January 1st. The packaging & instructions Looking beyond LEGO’s core market of kids and even the kind of adult builders we feature here on The Brothers Brick, LEGO Architecture sets are often sold in tourist hot spots, museum gift shops, and...