Deliberate Destruction: Storytelling Amid a LEGO Apocalypse
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How do you build a post-apocalyptic world in LEGO? And how do you convey clear, meaningful stories within the deliberate destruction?
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A Walk Through Brickvention 2021
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Take a literal stroll through a virtual art gallery of LEGO creations, watch some of the best videos, and experience a bit of what the Brickvention Online convention from Australia was all about this year.
Read MoreBuild a Nerdly and Win Big!
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There is only a little more than a week left to enter our “Nerdly Strikes Back” contest! So far we’ve seen some great entries, and we are excited to give away some big prizes and some shiny trophies!
Read MoreHitting the White Curved Slopes: How to Create a Luxury Car
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Where do you start when building a luxury LEGO car? How do you determine the color and shape, let alone the interior? My philosophy is to let the pieces guide you.
Read MoreLEGO Contest Round-Up for February 2021
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Sometimes a spark of imagination, a group theme, prizes or even a deadline is all you need to get building! Here are all the LEGO community contests for the month of FebRovery… um, actually February!
Read MoreBlack Rover, Black Rover, Send the Impeder Over!
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Despite being a year old, or from the “before times” as some members in my LUG call it, Capt. Dad’s first building foray into the land of Neo-Classic Blacktron got noticed by BrickNerd’s Message Intercept Base. I do love a good rover, and it is a great way to kick off Febrovery!
Read MoreSupport BrickNerd (and Get Swag!) By Becoming a Patron
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BrickNerd has brought together an amazing group of international contributors and we are excited to continue highlighting the fan community—but we need your help. Today, we are launching the BrickNerd Patreon— and some pretty cool swag!
Read MoreLEGO Community Headlines & Highlights for January 2021
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At BrickNerd, we celebrate getting nerdy about the bricks (I mean, you’ve read some of our articles, right!?). So we are starting a new series curating the best LEGO stories that caught our contributors’ attention throughout the month.
Read MoreA Bonsai Strong Enough to Weather a Winter Storm
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If you have noticed the internet being overrun by LEGO bonsai trees as of late, it is for good reason. Brickset’s Build a Bonsai Competition is churning out some amazing entries (all because of the goats for a prize, I’m sure!), and Carter Witz is throwing his hat into the ring. His elegant bonsai would look at home on the neatest desk, but there’s more to this creation than meets the eye!
Read MoreFly Casual, Chewie! This Massive LEGO Imperial Star Destroyer is the Size of a Car
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You would need 30 copies of LEGO’s newest Star Wars Imperial Star Destroyer set to even come close to the 140,000 pieces in this nine-foot-long behemoth. Builder Garry King has really outdone himself this time!
Read MorePieces of Ink: Lucas "Legorio" Peña’s LEGO Tattoos
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LEGO fans manifest their love of the hobby in many ways—some collect, others build. But Lucas “Legorio” Peña makes LEGO a permanent part of his life—literally.
Read MoreA Tribute To Trebek
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With the tragic loss of Alex Trebek last year, I wanted to build a meaningful tribute to the man and his legacy of knowledge. So I built a moving kinetic sculpture of the “Greatest of All Time” tournament and discovered that building LEGO is not too dissimilar to Jeopardy. I knew the answer of where I wanted to go, I just needed to figure out the right questions that would get me there.
Read MoreMastering the Art of Bonsai
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The art of Bonsai is an elusive one, taking years to learn, requiring careful decision-making and patience above all. In that sense, it feels a lot like creating LEGO models—which is definitely an art Marius Herrmann has mastered. Marius, widely known as steponabrick both on Flickr and Instagram has shared an entry for Brickset’s ongoing Build a Bonsai competition—an expressive and lifelike sculpture, making masterful use of a variety of elements and beautiful techniques.
Read More"Know Your Pieces" Like This 10,000-Piece Framed LEGO Painting
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Being a fan of highly detailed facades, especially most from the Oriental part of the world, I must say that the more you look at this one the more you will find. Builder Hoang Dang—known in the LEGO community as Know Your Pieces—has practically created a “Where’s Waldo” of spectacular nice-part-usage (NPU) out of 10,000 pieces.
Read MoreThe Art Of Silly Walks
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This tribute to the venerable John Cleese by Swedish builder Rikard Stensby (aka stensbylego on Instagram) tickles my funny bone, something I really need these days.
Read MoreMOC TALK, Part 2: If You Build It, They Will Come
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In my last article, I discussed the issue of displaying LEGO sets at a fan convention and the plans I made to create a local MOC-building community to help change the situation. The grand plan was to create a MOC TALK series of small “show-and-tell” sessions, requiring attendees to bring something with them that they have designed and built themselves to talk about and show off. But would it work?
Read MoreMOC TALK: How to Cultivate a Local MOC Building Community
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Many times, change is born out of irritation. One day, you finally decide to take matters into your own hands and take action to change something for the better. Sometimes that momentum leads to reinvigorating a community-focused AFOL blog when other LEGO community-oriented content seemed to have fallen by the wayside. In my case, I became frustrated seeing the growing number of built LEGO sets being displayed at LEGO conventions. This is my story of how to cultivate a community of LEGO builders that go beyond sets.
Read MoreThe Classic LEGO Theme You Should Vote For
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To celebrate LEGO’s 90th anniversary, the company is letting fans vote for a classic theme that will be the inspiration for a new singular set released in 2022. But which of the 30 themes on the ballot should you vote for? Our BrickNerd team weighed in and came to the conclusion that the single perfect LEGO theme to make a comeback is…
Read MoreCreativity, Pain and LEGO: A Personal Journal
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It's not easy to write about pain… But I feel it is important to explore an aspect of the LEGO passion that many don't think about. In a series of articles, I will try to tell you about my personal journey expressed through LEGO and explore several topics related to my experiences as an AFOL. … For me, deep down, LEGO is the one thing that feels safe and uncomplicated in a complicated life.
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