Around a year ago the Happy Plants were introduced to the LEGO Botanical collection. This set has evidently been very popular ...

You can never outrun your past in this awesome shadow sculpture by William Fong, which depicts a modern diesel locomotive as a 2-dimensional brick painting, while a spotlight reveals a classic steam ...

It’s been a hot minute since we heard from Swedish LEGO computer whiz Johan Alexanderson. He’s had a five-year-plus break from the bricks, but he has just made a welcome surprise return! Last time we ...

There is, apparently, an adage that ‘no-one likes a try-hard’. That’s nonsense for a variety of reasons, and to prove it, let’s look at LEGO building challenges and Jean-Phillippe Leroux. For ...

Our box is truly castle-sized, and the weight was a bit of a surprise – though I suppose it shouldn’t be due to the piece count. At 4,711 pieces, this marks the largest LEGO Ideas set by piece count ...

It’s been a while since we had a normal house in LEGO’s Winter Village Collection. Since the last ‘proper’ one in 2021, we’ve had a high street, a post office, a chalet, and last year we got a train.

Boba Fett has had quite the journey. He went from bit-part cameo and – let’s be honest – a lame death to one of the biggest badasses in all of Star Wars. And although the Book of Boba Fett wasn’t ...

LEGO’s crowd-sourcing Ideas platform has proved to be a good way of getting sets from IP that wouldn’t necessarily be considered otherwise. The X-Files set has already proved to be a hit, and Wallace ...

Typically, the steampunk aesthetic borrows a lot from the dominant global power of the 19th century: the British Empire. It is where the steam engine was invented, after all. But in an alternate steam ...

The dwarf planet Ceres in the asteroid belt seemed like a tempting setting for a new space build in my homebrew hard-scifi LEGO microscale theme I’ve dubbed the Interplanetary Expedition Alliance (I.E ...

Trevor Pearson-Jones has a heck of a talent for building the expressive out of LEGO. His latest creation is of a character known as the Ethical Bug – essentially, a stand-in for antagonist Jack Horner ...

Our old friend Tromas – a master of military and hard sci-fi builds – has set aside space settings for fantasy in recent builds. Our favorite is the Boomfuze & Son Inc. RRFFT-19 “Prickly Buzzard” – a ...