LEGO 90 Years Of Play – When Classics Return
With the LEGO Group celebrating its 90th Anniversary this year, the LEGO® Design Team has delved into the LEGO Vault for inspiration for a number of new sets. But the Galaxy Explorer, Lion Knights’ Castle and Forest Hideout GWP aren’t the first time classic LEGO sets and themes have inspired other LEGO sets. Here are just some of the other sets released over the last few years which have reimagined the early days of LEGO...
Retro Rebuilds – The King’s Castle
My very first LEGO® set was bestowed upon me in the late 80s. Santa kindly bought me set 6080: King’s Castle set. The set was first released in 1984, but I received it a few years later. Almost 40 years on, I still own that set. Like many childhood toys, it’s been living in a storage box, along with other old LEGO sets. It’s been in the loft and for a short time even visited the shed. As today is the 90th Anniversary...
Life-sized LEGO Jurassic World Big Build
Dinosaur Week continues with a look at how the life-sized LEGO® T. rex head was created. This impressive Jurassic World Big Build took a team of LEGO Master Model Makers 2000 hours to create and 200,000 LEGO elements. The build was featured with Chris Pratt during his appearance on the Today Show, where it got told off for climbing in the mouth of the model. You can build your own LEGO Jurassic World adventures with the new LEGO...
The Dinosaurs Of LEGO Jurassic World
To celebrate the cinema release of Jurassic World Dominion, it’s Dinosaur Week here at BricksFanz and over the next few days, there will be features celebrating how the blockbuster dinosaur franchise has inspired a number of LEGO® sets, books and TV shows. Starting with the most important aspect of the LEGO Jurassic World sets – the LEGO Dinosaurs. Way back in 1993, legendary director, Steven Spielberg helped to kick start...
LEGO Watch & Build – Marvel’s Multiverse Of Madness
Get ready to experience the madness of the Multiverse as the Doctor Strange sequel hits cinemas today and the MCU treads new ground. Exploration of the Multiverse began in Loki and played a major part in Spider-Man: No Way Home as well as playing into the animated series What If…? It’s already inspired a number of LEGO releases including characters featured in the Marvel Minifigures series, Spider-Man and What If…?...
Amazing MOCs: LEGO Kirby
He may not be as famous as Mario, Link or the various Pokémon, but Kirby is one of my favourite Nintendo characters. What better day to share this wonderful MOC than the day Kirby’s new game hits the Nintendo Switch as well as Kirby’s 30th Anniversary. Below are two versions of Kirby, built from LEGO bricks by Swan Dutchman from the Netherlands. The builds perfectly capture the pink blob’s cuteness as well as his...
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...
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