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LEGO Collectible Minifigures Series 28 Review: We built a zoo [Review]

Animal mascots have been a staple of the Collectible Minifig line going back to Gorilla Suit Guy in series 3. Love ’em or hate ’em, animal mascots have continued to push the envelope for whimsical designs with bold custom headpiece molds, a range of tails, and even fins and wings as alternatives to minifig arms. For CMF series 28, LEGO is going all in on animals with a menagerie of minifigures guaranteed to bring a smile to your face. You can collect them all starting January 1. Not sure if these collectible critters are for you? Our full review follows.

Collectible Minifigures Series 28: Animals | Available January 1, 2026| US $4.99 | CAN $5.99 | UK £3.49

Are these minifigs more fun than a barrel of monkeys?

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2025 LEGO Advent Calendar Spoilers: Day 8 [Feature]

Our favorite holiday tradition is opening all six LEGO Advent Calendars, one day at a time, with you, our readers! Along with spoiler pics of the daily gifts, we include commentary and alternate builds to celebrate the season and creativity.

We have an all-star cast of custom minifig creators leading our Advent adventure this year. Fool’s Figures is wizarding his way through Harry Potter and Frozen calendars. ExpansionBricks is launching Star Wars and Friends. And beyondb0nes is digging into Minecraft and City. Now let’s open some doors and see what gifts are in store for today!

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Servicing AFOLs around the world isn’t easy, but BrickLink owed its users more [Guest Editorial]

On November 21, BrickLink – the largest community of online resellers of LEGO bricks, owned by the LEGO Group as of 2019 – quietly changed its policies on which countries would be allowed to operate stores on the platform as of December 12 (now updated to January 31) with 35 countries, including most of South America, Africa, and the Middle East. As the community learned of these changes, heartbreak and anger have rippled throughout the community, both for the poor way the changes have been communicated, but also for the reminder that, for as much as Bricklink and LEGO celebrate their global reach, in practice, much of the world lacks the services that other countries take for granted. Today we’re sharing the experience of one fan affected by the change, Pinar, a builder from Türkiye who runs the BukaBricks blog and maintains the LEGO Bestiary.

Pinar’s editorial follows

Arcane cityscape joins Lord of the Rings and other immersive LEGO masterpieces from jnj_bricks

Immersive scenes in LEGO transport you to a universe where everything is made of plastic bricks but feels alive. Creations like these not only require building on a large scale but also need a keen eye for perspective and lighting to create a convincing world. One of the very best builders in the format is Joe (jnj_bricks), whose epic scenes over the past five years have consistently left us spellbound. For his latest, Joe visits the opulent city of Piltover from Netflix’ Arcane show. (Keep your Stranger Things, this is the Netflix show I wish had official sets!). Joe explains that the scene was prompted by his wife, who build the teal-roofed building on the left. The remainder of the majestic cityscape uses a clever mix of scales, starting with minifig scale for the rooftop where Vi and Jinx survey the city (love the subtle mosaic work!), to midi-scale pavilions of glass and gold and aristocratic residences, to distant towers in microscale.

Joe’s Arcane tribute is just the latest in a long line of LEGO vistas from this RebelLUG legend. Let’s take a look back at some of Joe’s other immersive builds, starting with those based on the builder’s favorite film saga: The Lord of the Rings. The seven-tiered Gondorian city of Minas Tirith is famously immense, yet Joe finds a way to pull off the epic impact of a Peter Jackson bigature in Microscale with incredible forced perspective.

Tour more immersive LEGO destinations from this incredible builder

2025 LEGO Advent Calendar Spoilers: Day 7 [Feature]

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2025 LEGO Advent Calendar Spoilers: Day 6 [Feature]

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This king’s coronation is a crowning achievement in LEGO castle craftsmanship

Luke (cathedralofbricks) has enriched the castle community this year with incredible builds that blend gothic detail and fairy tale romanticism on an epic scale. Last time, Luke tackled an iconic location from Middle Earth, but for his latest, Luke builds from imagination and tells the tale of a newly coronated king who has commissioned an “eternal spring” – a fountain that to the people’s eyes might as well be magic in how it harnesses the power of nature.

Explore Luke’s latest castle creation in close up

2025 LEGO Advent Calendar Spoilers: Day 5 [Feature]

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LEGO Icons Modular 11371 Shopping Street: This one’s for the geometry sickos [Review]

Cafe Corner is the set that pulled me out of my LEGO Dark Age. It kindled a joy for building by showing how versatile LEGO bricks can be, recontextualizing parts in fun new ways in service of an immersive display to admire and play with. Since then, the annual modular releases continue to set the bar for innovative techniques and whimsical detail. 2026 marks 20 years of modulars, and as with any long-running tradition, it can be a challenge to satisfy old and new fans and keep things fresh. This year’s modular is the Shopping Street, two angular buildings separated by an alley. Hoang Dang said, “If you can imagine Assembly Square and Boutique Hotel having a child, this is it.” Those sets are both beloved modulars. How does their love child measure up? Let’s find out!

LEGO Icons 11371 Shopping Street| 3,456 Pieces | Available January 4, 2026 | US $249.99 | CAN $349.99 | UK £229.99

Grab a chair and put on some music, we’re going shopping!

These ripping good Chainsaw Man MOCs are a cut above

Chainsaw Man is the latest global anime hit to prove that no concept is too weird to break out. Pochita, a diminished devil who takes the form of an orange pooch with a chainsaw nose and ripcord tail, is an adorable mascot and makes the transition to brick with charm thanks to builder Agung Syam. In bright orange with googly eyes, he would make a perfect Creator 3-in-1 set!

When Pochita merges with human host Denji, they become the titular Chainsaw Man. Mexican builder Brayan Xavier is the latest AFOL to give the character the LEGO treatment. Brayan strikes the perfect balance between shaping and articulation, with a highly poseable body and a gruesomely detailed head. The builder gets an editing assist from David Ainza for a cinematic touch.

2025 LEGO Advent Calendar Spoilers: Day 4 [Feature]

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NovHENber hatched a new challenge, now let’s count the LEGO chickens! [Feature]

This November saw a new LEGO challenge: NovHENber. Participants were invited to build chickens during the month, and many AFOLs answered the call. With the last chickens hatched, we checked in with builders behind the challenge – Syrdarian and Carson Lacy – and cooped up all the hens from the inaugural event.

See the full roundup of egg-celent birds below