Inking The Incredible With The Brick Illustrator
Over the last few months you may have seen some pretty impressive LEGO® illustrations pop on on social media. Which is exactly where I discovered the amazing work of The Brick Illustrator. As a LEGO fan I love it when people present their similar passions is creative ways, which is exactly what The Brick Illustrator does. From fan favourite characters to custom creations, each piece of LEGO is brought to life with brush strokes and...
A Look At LEGO…. Lando Calrissian
He may be the galaxy’s smoothest smuggler but the legendary Lando Calrissian hasn’t managed to sweet talk his way into that many LEGO® Star Wars sets. It’s one of the main reasons that the original Cloud City set is so sought after. Lando made his Minifigure debut way back in 2003, in set 10123: Cloud City and over the ten years since, there have only been four variants of Lando, across six sets. This includes his...
Click & Snap: King Richard III Mosaic
Since Friday, visitors to the King Richard III Visitor Centre in Leicester have been helping Fairy Bricks to build a huge LEGO® mosaic of King Richard III. Over the last four day over 96,000 LEGO bricks have been pieced together to recreate the famous ‘red’ portrait of the fallen king. The event drew people young and old, to dive into the piles of 2×2 bricks and help construct the picture. If you missed out on taking...
International Women’s Day: Ladies In LEGO
Today marks the celebration of women across the world, although women should be respected and treated equally all year round, International Women’s Day is a great moment to reflect on some of histories iconic heroines. But it’s not just real life ladies who inspire the next generation, there are a number of fictional favourites who have stepped in to become role models for many. LEGO® and the toy industry in general, is...
A Look At LEGO…. Elves
When LEGO® Friends was introduced in 2012, it split the LEGO community. Some loved its use of new and unique colours, whilst others lambasted the inclusion of mini-dolls in place of minifigures and its focus toward the female market. This ‘genderizing’ of toys is nothing new but the mainstream media soon jumped at the chance to criticize The LEGO Group for its new ‘girly LEGO’. But despite all the controversy, LEGO Friends...
Marvellous Marvel Movie Posters
To celebrate the release of Marvel Studios’ Black Panther, we taking a look back at some of the past Marvel movies which have been given the LEGO® treatment. The LEGO Super Heroes range has become immensely popular over the last few years, fuelled in part, thanks to continued success of the Marvel Cinematic Universe and its connected array of movies and TV shows. Later this year an accumulation of 10 years worth of movies will collide...
Click & Snap: Love is… LEGO
A few years ago LEGO® celebrated Valentine’s Day with a number of images dubbed “Love is…”. These fun images featured various LEGO minifigures enjoying some of the odd things they love. So we thought we’d borrow that idea for a few fun images of our own. Why not snap some of your own and share them with us on Twitter, Instagram or Facebook. There’s still time to grab this years Valentine’s Day...
A Look At LEGO…. Black Panther
To mark the UK opening of Marvel Studio’s Black Panther, we’ve taking a trip to Wakanda for our latest A Look At LEGO®…. special feature. Despite only having a short venture in the Marvel Cinematic Universe, Black Panther has already had an impressive LEGO career. Long before appearing in a LEGO set, T’Challa made his debut in digital form as part of the first LEGO Marvel video game. Since then the defender of...
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