5009325 The Simpsons Living Room is the gift with purchase when you buy the Krusty Burger, and several paper/polybag sets are free with selected purchases. View full details on the offers page at LEGO.com.
5009325 The Simpsons Living Room is the gift with purchase when you buy the Krusty Burger, and several paper bags are free with selected purchases. View full details on the offers page at LEGO.com.
They'll be available in the USA in few hours, at the strike of midnight on the East Coast.
The 15-wide standard for mid-sized Technic models of supercars was established in 2019 and 42208 Aston Martin Valkyrie is one of five that are being released this year.
The most striking thing about it is the prevalence of bright bluish green (teal) which is a relatively rare colour in Technic sets and that might be reason enough to buy it.
The winner of the A Twist of Nostalgia competition on LEGO Ideas has been announced.
HallowedBrick02's Sea Serpent, an updated version of 6057 Sea Serpent that was released in 1992, will now be made into a set and be offered as a gift with purchase, probably sometime during 2026.
View the two models side-by-side after the break, and also an updated list of the current Ideas backlog.
10348 Japanese Maple Tree is the latest in the popular Botanical collection. It'll be released on June 1st along with the whimsical 10349 Happy Plants which we'll be reviewing in the coming days.
If grown in natural conditions, Acer palmatum can reach 10m tall and 10m wide. They can also be cultivated in a shallow pot, then pruned and trained following the tenets of bonsai, and it's a miniature version that has been represented here, replacing 10281 Bonsai Tree in the product assortment.
Here's the press release for the latest issue of Blocks magazine which'll be in stores soon:
There’s a tale as old as time in the latest issue of Blocks, the monthly magazine for LEGO fans. In Issue 128, LEGO Senior Model Designer Ryan Van Woerkom takes us inside the creation of 43263 Beauty and the Beast Castle. Elsewhere this month, Blocks demonstrates how to build an overgrown jungle layout, goes deep into illegal connections and reviews the new Mario Kart sets.
Issue 128 is available to order worldwide as part of a subscription or as a single issue at blocksmag.com and will be in UK stores from June 6.
In the comments to our review of 42209 Volvo L120 Electric Wheel Loader it was asked whether the vehicle fits on the trailer that came in last year's 42175 Volvo FMX Truck & EC230 Electric Excavator.
Sorry I'm a bit late posting this: if you're in the east of England this weekend be sure to come along to the Norwich Brick Show at the Open Academy, NR7 9DL.
I'll be there displaying GBCs and, if you come and say hello, I might have a 1x8 Brickset brick to give you (while stocks last!)
Tickets are a fiver each and can be purchased from TicketSource. I think they'll be available on the door as well.
One of the most supported requests in our suggestion box is for the size of models to be added to the database.
We have been recording packaging dimensions for some time, because they are available to us in a data feed, but not the size of the actual model.
Initially, I thought it would not be possible without crowdsourcing the data, but then, somewhat belatedly, I realised that dimensions are often given in the product descriptions at LEGO.com, which we import automatically. So, it was just a case of extracting them. Easy, right?
Unfortunately, there's a lot of variation in how they are presented. Usually the imperial measurement is followed by the metric one in brackets, but not always. Sometimes it's reversed. Words such as high, long, wide, deep and tall are used, but not in any particular order.
Anyway, I wrote a script to extract the metric measurements and save them in the database, but only if there are exactly three in the description text. Sometimes measurements are provided for multiple parts of the model, and in others, only one dimension is provided, the height perhaps. The script can't automatically do anything with that information, so discards it. It also doesn't know which plane (x, y, or z) they refer to, so they are saved in the order found in the text.
Model dimensions are now shown in set listings, such as this one, and also on set details pages. They are also exposed in the query builder, allowing the creation of lists of, for example, large models, which are over 1m in one or more dimension.
Voting for series eight ends today, probably at midnight PST, so if you've not done so, remember to vote for your favourite projects which, following our series of articles, might include the following:
The Art theme has encompassed a wide range of styles and genres, and leveraged a variety of building techniques to reproduce artwork in brick-built form.
Keith Haring's bold and colourful imagery of dynamic figures looks like it'll translate perfectly into bricks in the latest Art set, 31216 Keith Haring - Dancing Figures.
BrickLink Designer Program Series 8 is full of tributes to classic LEGO themes – but Soul Keepers’ Sanctum dares to forge a new legend.
Soul Keepers’ Sanctum, a gothic-fantasy fortress, tells the tale of a hidden island, a sacred flame, and an order of skeletal warrior-monks risen from the grave to defend it. At 3,215 pieces and over 50 cm tall, Soul Keepers’ Sanctum is a towering, playable love letter to LEGO Castle – to the legends that continued in our imaginations, long after the battle had been packed away.
Could this be the return of the storytelling magic that made the classics unforgettable?
Here is the next in our series of articles about Bricklink Designer Program series 8 projects, published ahead of the close of voting on Friday.
Hello dear readers! I’m Pau and I have been building MOCs for the better part of a decade. I’m perhaps best known for designing modular buildings. A couple of years ago I wrote a pair of articles for Brickset about how to go about designing them ( 1 | 2 ).
This time around, I’m writing about how my latest project for the Bricklink Designer Program came about.
While we wait patiently for LEGO to add a classic space minifigure to the collection of 6x scale figures we will have to make do with a space baby instead, but it's no great hardship!
The 250-piece 40767 Up-Scaled Baby Astronaut is currently a gift with purchase at LEGO.com, free when you spend in excess of $150/€150/£135.
Three large sets have been released today, coinciding with 40767 Up-Scaled Baby Astronaut being offered as a gift with purchase at LEGO.com.
10360 Shuttle Carrier Aircraft, 72037 Mario Kart - Mario & Standard Kart, and 31216 Keith Haring - Dancing Figures are now available, and the adorable upscaled space baby is free when you spend over £135/$150/€150 from today until the 23rd of May, while stocks last.
Additionally, 40787 Mario Kart - Spiny Shell is available in the rewards centre in exchange for 2,500 Insiders points.
We'll be publishing our review of the youngster later today.
The start of the Bricklink Designer Program (BDP) a couple of years ago encouraged me to experiment more with creating MOCs to share with others. Since then, I’ve created over a dozen submissions for the program and am extremely fortunate to have had Camping Adventure in series 3 and Off-Road Adventure in series 6 selected as finalists.
Although I’ve created many different kinds of builds in many different themes, one area I was always interested in was creating some education for our minifigures. LEGO has created surprisingly few sets in this theme, especially sets fitting for an adult fan’s city layout. This theme started with my series 4 submission, Northpoint School, a model that has continued to evolve and is still being submitted under the name Northpoint Academy. Positive feedback from that model encouraged me to continue exploring educational-themed sets, and the concept of a university for minifigures to further their education seemed fitting.
I first started designing a university-themed model for series 5, but it didn’t work out. It began as a modular-type submission, but rule changes implemented around that time prevented future submissions in the Icons modular format. Additionally, the design was primarily done in tan and ended up looking a bit too plain compared to what I was imagining, and the part count was quickly inflating past what I was aiming for.
A long term goal of mine has been to complete LEGO models of the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World. Between researching, designing and a little thing called life it has been a long, slow process.
The Temple of Artemis was one of my earliest models, dating back nearly a decade. Early iterations were poor, but as more pieces became available and my skill improved the model has grown into something that I believe represents the splendour of the original Wonder well.
I always try to design my models to the standards of regular sets, so designing the Temple around the constraints of the Bricklink Designer Program was a natural fit and here I have prepared it for Series 8.