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LEGO kicks off their Build to Give initiative for the 2024 holiday season [News]

First started in 2017, the Build to Give initiative is a yearly event put on by LEGO to help get our favorite building sets into the hands of the children who need them. This is done each year with the help of LEGO fans across the globe who use social media or shop in physical LEGO stores. Repeating the same goal as was used in 2023, every LEGO heart made in-store or shared on social media (or on the LEGO Play app) with the hashtag #BuildtoGive sends a LEGO set to children in need of play all around the world.

The donation process is done through a network of charities partnering with the LEGO Group this holiday season, which has resulted in helping more than 9.1 million kids over the last 7 years, and can help up to another 1.5 million in 2024. Here at TBB, we’ve got some ideas pumping with an appropriately-themed heart of our own. What kind of heart will you make for #BuildtoGive?

The heart wants what it wants

If you’re not that into this new LEGO creation by Corvus Auriac then here are some cute doggies for you. However, you know how some people have a tennis ball hanging in their garage that indicates that sweet spot to park your car? Well, in my household that aforementioned tennis ball is a severed doll’s head because, as it turns out, I’m one of those people. So, you can come to the logical conclusion that I’d be way into this. And if you’re even just a bit like me (you know who you are!) you’re probably way into it too. Corvus calls it Heart Artifact. This builder tends to like things on the creepy side, which is just the thing to make my dark heart go pitter-patter. If you’re like me you should still also check out the cute doggies though because even dark and brooding weirdos love puppies.

The heart is the soul, and sometimes the path to death

Biocup 2019 has kicked off this year with a preliminary theme of all things scary. Biocup is a fan friendly organised event where builders challenge themselves to use Lego Technic, Bionicle, CCBS (Creature and Character Building Systems) and Constraction with having little or no traditional LEGO System bricks involved. This particular round is themed on creations built on things that scare or put fear into your heart or send chills down your spine. Builder [VB]’s creation of a heart nailed right through is something to be afraid of. As much as the heart is one of the strongest muscle in the body, it’s also the one that can be the weakest or darkest in soul.

Unseen Adversary

Getting to the heart of the matter

In this enigmatic piece, builder why.not? creates a heart from the negative space formed in a wall of black bricks. Acting like a window it draws our attention towards the red and white quadrants behind. Two opposing figures face off across the coloured fields, separated by rugged chains. As a builder myself, I find the use of the imperfect connections between elements to create glowing cracks particularly effective. As we’ve seen before, why.not? is careful not to give too much away, leaving the work untitled, but this shouldn’t stop us pondering the turmoil of the heart it passionately expresses.

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