LEGO Ideas 21362 Mineral Collection: Crystals from bricks [Review]
LEGO Icons 21362 Mineral Collection is coming on October 1. Read our review of these appropriately blocky, shiny, and faceted specimens. It’s a gem!
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This Star Wars C-Wing is an A+ in our books
LEGO role-play communities fuse building with storytelling, and one of the biggest rpgs going is Star Wars: Factions. Sentinel_Brix has been spinning epic space opera adventures with original characters and vehicles in the sandbox George Lucas started. The builder’s latest addition is a New Republic era fighter from the Incom-FreiTek Corporation, makers of the iconic X-Wing. The C-wing is rookie friendly and sports the livery of Sentinel’s Flame of Zhar syndicate.
LEGO Ideas 21362 Mineral Collection revealed – a real gem [News]
The LEGO Ideas program is such a strange label, where TV shows and movie vehicles stand alongside pieces that wouldn’t look out of place in a science museum. Case in point, the 70th Ideas set, LEGO Ideas 21362 Mineral Collection, debuts on October 1 alongside Gizmo from Gremlins. The Mineral collection feels akin to the Continue reading →
Pokémon’s fighting dragon Koraidon in LEGO
Koraidon, co-mascot of the last mainline game, Pokémon Scarlet, is a Fighting/Dragon type who can also transform into a motorcycle/jetski/plane. @bigbrickstan worked off-and-on over the past year on this tryhard lizard to learn “constraction” building techniques, skills that served Stan well in this year’s Bio-Cup. That means using minimal stud-based elements and drawing on creative parts usage, like conical hats for the knees and a Vidiyo strap for the chest stripe. This LEGO take on Koraidon has the hulking menace of a Kaiju. With all that beautifully sculpted musculature, flight mode might be a challenge, but in running mode, he probably turns into a monster truck.
It takes a big brain to come up with a color combo like this
Some space builders love their greebles, others seek lines. @space_glove isn’t one to get pinned down to any particular style, gravitating instead to unconventional parts, colors, and themes to make utterly alien models. Ivan’s latest is a starfighter that is swooshable and vaguely reminiscent of a military jet, only I don’t think I’ve ever seen lavender, light nougat, precious sand purple, and even a splash of aqua used like this before! The aliens are a brainy bunch with a curious configuration of limbs. They seem mostly harmless…
LEGO Star Wars 75413 Republic Juggernaut: what’s all the fuss about, then? [Review & Analysis]
We finally take a look at one of this summer’s hottest Star Wars topics – 75413 Republic Juggernaut – and crunch the numbers to find out if it really does deserve its – ahem – lukewarm reception…
An elvish bard makes merry on the streets of Dandelume
Swedish builder T-86 never misses a chance to enter a medieval building challenge. And when possible, this LEGO storyteller uses a challenge to reveal a new piece of the fantasy world of Dandelume. The builder’s latest addition is diorama and scenes featuring Bryndon the Bard, a fixture of the sprawling stone city. Here on the Continue reading →
From the Caribbean to the Grand Line, these fantastic LEGO pirates are ready to plunder [Minifig Monday]
2025 is turning out to be the best year for LEGO pirates since Barracuda Bay opened for business. Fun One Piece playsets, a gorgeous new Black Pearl, collectible minifigs, and let’s not forget that One-Eyed Willy’s pirate ship is currently in design. September is also a big month for pirate minifigs with two contests running Continue reading →
LEGO Star Wars 40806 Gingerbread AT-AT revealed, coming to a galaxy near you in time for the holidays [News]
A long time ago, in the galaxy of Denmark, LEGO created a Christmas-themed X-Wing fighter as an employee-exclusive gift set. This year, LEGO is letting everyone get in on the holiday fun with LEGO Star Wars 40806 Gingerbread AT-AT, an irresistible set we never saw coming. Over the summer, Star Wars LEGO sets rankled many Continue reading →
Scott Wilhelm kicks off SHIPtember 2025 slick summer star cruiser
SHIPtember is an annual AFOL tradition where space builders challenge themselves to create a spacecraft that’s at least 100 studs long, built entirely during September. “SHIP” refers both to spaceship but is also an acronym for “Seriously Huge Investment in Parts.” Simon Liu helped start the trend 12 years ago, and for LEGO space fans, Continue reading →
LEGO Arkham, Pirates, and Hogsmeade lead a packed September of new sets [News]
Summer’s over, September is here, and you know what that means: businesses around the world will start marketing their Christmas wares inexplicably early. LEGO is no different, with their selection of advent calendars is among the many sets hitting shelves this month. There’s a bit of a different flavour to some of them though! Minecraft Continue reading →
Frogust: the bridge between Summer Joust and SHIPtember [Feature]
We round up the best Frogust entries in what is sure to be a froggy fun yearly event.