Massive clearance sale from LEGO Shop@Home on 2009 LEGO sets [News]

The LEGO Shop online has updated its Sales & Deals page with nearly a hundred deeply discounted items, including most of the first wave of Power Miners sets, Racers, and Bionicle. We’ll update this post with more specifics soon, but wanted to let you all know as quickly as possible. (This probably means the official Continue reading →

MisaQa launches her 2009 LEGO Advent Calendar

One of my favorite holiday traditions in the LEGO fan community is MisaQa‘s annual Advent Calendar, taking us day by day from December 1st through Christmas Eve. This year, she’s presenting a new microscale building each day. Keep an eye on the Flickr photoset or MisaQa’s website, STUD & TUBE.

Black Friday deals on LEGO for 2009 [News]

Tomorrow is Black Friday, which means we Americans head out with our bellies still bloated from Thanksgiving dinner and stand in line to buy things. If that’s not really your thing (or if you just want to double up on LEGO shopping fun), here are a few deals from the Web. The Official LEGO Shop Continue reading →

Happy Halloween 2009!

Ok, so I’m jumping the gun by a couple of days, but I couldn’t pass up Keith Goldman‘s latest creation. The lighting is just gorgeous.

Weekly LEGO news roundup for October 10 (and 2), 2009 [News]

We skipped a week last Saturday for BrickCon, so here we go with a two-week roundup. Dan & Nannan in LEGO Book: Our fellow bloggers Dan and Nannan are featured in a new LEGO Book from DK. Ben 10: The new Ben 10 figures evoke the dreaded Galidor for many of us. But are they Continue reading →

Doctor Who visits BrickCon 2009

Through a fortunate series of events, Alan McMorran was in Seattle last weekend and dropped by BrickCon for a day. When he wasn’t hanging out with the zombie overlords, he was taking a really cool set of pictures featuring his Doctor Who minifig and LEGO TARDIS. Here, the good Doctor manages to avoid Josh’s motorized Continue reading →

Zombie Apocafest 2009: After-Action Review

Zombie Apocafest 2009 has come and gone. The undead have been blown up, shot up, and mulched to oblivion. The humans stand victorious among the ruins of their civilization. Fortunately, that civilization was, by good fortune, built from LEGO, and it can be rebuilt, brick by little plastic brick. Check out the full gallery of Continue reading →

BrickCon 2009: Andrew’s wrap-up [News]

Like years past, BrickCon 2009 was both exhausting and exhilarating. Bear with us as we travel home, sort through photos, and put our thoughts in writing. I’ll update this post over the next couple of days, along with a full write-up of Zombie Apocafest 2009. In the meantime, please enjoy the photos we’ve all been Continue reading →

Zombie Apocafest 2009 BrickArms Defense Pack debuts in 72 hours [News]

Why yes, that is a BrickArms Cricket Bat and M1 Carbine. Thanks to the generous folks at BrickArms, we’ll be giving away a bunch of these to those of you who contribute to Zombie Apocafest 2009 at BrickCon 2009 later this week. Each Zombie Defense Pack will include a prototype cricket bat and M1 carbine, Continue reading →

Weekly LEGO news roundup for September 26, 2009 [News]

It’s not so much that this was a slow news week, but that most of us have been too busy with last-minute preparations for a certain LEGO convention happening in just a few days to blog everything. Anyway, here we go. BrickCon: If you’re coming to BrickCon, be sure to check out our post about Continue reading →

BrickCon 2009: Last-minute logistics

Well, if we haven’t convinced you to attend BrickCon next week, you’re pretty much stuck following along at home, so we’re moving on without you. For those of you who’ll be joining us at Seattle Center a week from today, this post includes a bunch of important information — especially for first-time attendees. Past attendees Continue reading →

Weekly LEGO news roundup for September 19, 2009 [News]

Arrrr!!! The LEGO Pirates theme will be going on hiatus starting in mid-2010. Flickr. Tim gave us some great guidelines for participating in LEGO groups on Flickr. Brick shirt. ThinkGeek gave us the Brick Construction Shirt. We eagerly await the ability to build on our chests. Sean Kenney. David Pagano interviewed Sean Kenney, the first Continue reading →