Click & Snap: Playing With Your Food
They say you shouldn’t play with your food, but it’s fine when it’s made from plastic and worn by a minifigure. As LEGO® minifigures have become elaborate, they have donned all sorts of weird and wonderful outfits. This is most prevalent in the long-running LEGO Minifigures line and began back in 2015 with Series 13 and the Hot Dog Man. Since then over foodstuffs have inspired other similar costumed Food Mascots....
Celebrating 15 Years Of LEGO Modular Buildings
Back in 2007, the LEGO Group welcomed the arrival of a brand-new range of sets aimed at the ‘Adult Fans of LEGO’ community. These much-loved sets were a passion project of a small group of LEGO® Designers as well something requested by fans. In fact, during the early stages of the creation of the first set, fans were invited to offer feedback on what they wanted from the sets. The LEGO Modular Buildings have since become...
What If LEGO Friends Were Minifigures?
This year marks the 10th anniversary of the LEGO® Friends theme, making it a perfect time to take a look back at how the theme went from concept to toy shelves. The LEGO Group had dabbled in ‘girl’ themes before with products such as Belville and Scala, but the brand had a greater connection to boys. So LEGO Friends was introduced to capture the interest of girls, who at the time were not engaging with LEGO construction in...
LEGO Look Back 2021 – Rise of The AFOL
The LEGO Group have recognised the importance of the adult fanbase for a number of years but it wasn’t until recently that they actually created and marketed sets directly at AFOLs. Although this began in 2020, this year truly saw the ‘Adults Welcome’ ethos hit its stride. Previously LEGO® Creator Expert was considered the most prominent collection of sets skewed towards older builders. But the branding was dropped...
LEGO Look Back 2021 – Many Minifigures
This year saw three series of LEGO® Minifigures released as well as two series of LEGO VIDIYO Bandmates including the elusive second series. 2021 also saw the format of the Minifigures series change, switching character counts from the usual 16 down to 12. The years began with a gang of original characters and the 21st series LEGO Minifigures. As has been the case with past Minifigures, Series 21 included plenty of fun new elements...
Click & Snap: Snowflake Plaza 2021
Every year I, like many LEGO® fans, like to celebrate the festivities of Christmas through the magic of LEGO sets. The basis of most displays are the annually released Winter Village sets and as the years have gone on my display has become considerably larger. You can see how it began here and here. What was once a single level village with a few buildings, is now a wonder some multi-level plaza. So Snowflake Village is no more and my...
Click & Snap: LEGO 2021 Holiday Gift
As a LEGO® Ambassador, I’m lucky enough to receive a wonderful Christmas gift from the folks at the LEGO Group. It’s not just us Ambassadors who are graced by some festive generosity. Every year members of the LEGO Design Teams create festive-themed sets, with one being chosen to become the set gifted at Christmas. The chosen set then gets given to all LEGO employees. Thanks to the AFOL Engagement Team, all of the Ambassadors and...
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