The BricksFanz Awards 2022
It’s New Year’s Eve and 2022 is coming to a close as the clock ticks down to another year and the BricksFanz Awards are back. I’ve taken a look back over the past 12 months and picked some of my favourite LEGO-related things to occur in the year gone by. It’s certainly been another eventful year, with the LEGO Group celebrating 90 Years of Play. In fact, it has been a year of LEGO milestones with LEGO Friends reaching its 10th...
Daily LEGO Advent Round-up: December 4th
The countdown to Christmas rolls on, as we open door number 4 of the LEGO® Advent Calendars. But what does the 4th day of December give us? Each day I’ll be sharing the goodies behind each door as we build up to the countdown to Christmas. I’ll be leaving it until late each day so the surprise isn’t ruined. I’ve started seeing so many people post the builds on social media, which is annoying for those who may not have opened theirs...
New 2022 LEGO Advent Calendars Now Available
It may not yet be Christmas but it’s the time of the year to start getting ready as the 2022 LEGO® Advent Calendars hit stores today. This year’s line-up includes five different themes to choose from with the LEGO Marvel Avengers Advent Calendar returning alongside the annual LEGO City, LEGO Friends, Harry Potter and Star Wars versions. Each advent calendar features 24 days’ worth of new LEGO goodies, including exclusive...
New 2022 Polybags From The Minifigure Store
Some of the new-for-2022 LEGO® Polybags are now available from The Minifigure Store. These include licenced sets based on Disney’s Frozen, The Batman and Volvo as well as various LEGO themes such as NINJAGO, LEGO City, Friends and DOTS. It was hoped many of these sets would be available from LEGO.com after being added to the ‘Coming Soon’ section before being removed. So they aren’t the easiest things to get...
Build Your Own LEGO Escape Room Book Revealed
An interesting new LEGO® title has been revealed from DK Books. The Build Your Own LEGO Escape Room book does exactly what the title suggests, offering tips on how to create your own escape rooms with a LEGO twist. The book includes more than 50 LEGO elements as well as a sticker sheet and offers ways to use these to create puzzles and objects to use in an escape room. The book will be published by DK Books in October. You can check...
Nuremberg Toy Fair 2022 Has Been Cancelled
And then there was one. Following news that the New York Fair has been cancelled, today it’s been announced that the upcoming Spielwarenmesse German Toy Fair 2022 has also been cancelled. The physical event was due to take place early next month and will now become a digital event, due to rising COVID cases and exhibitors withdrawing from the event. For LEGO fans the German Toy Fair was often the first chance to get details of...
NINJAGO The Virtues of Spinjitzu Shorts
Although the latest LEGO® NINJAGO sets aren’t connected to or inspired by a series of the TV show, they are being featured in a series of animated shorts dubbed The Virtues of Spinjizu. The first is called Curiosity and features set 71766: Lloyd’s Legendary Dragon, along with Master Wu teaching the gang an important lesson. Check it out below, along with the series overview trailer. There will be further shorts featuring...
LEGO Marvel Mech Get A Release Date
The saga surrounding the LEGO® Marvel Mech Suits continues as the previously canned sets get a new release date. Back in November last year, three new Marvel Mech Suit characters were revealed featuring Back Panther, Iron Man and most excitingly Wolverine. After the sets were added to LEGO.com, they suddenly disappeared and those who had them to review, were asked not to review them, the reasoning was ‘stability issues’....
Advertisement
