40812: Snowman Ornaments Set Review
For many years, LEGO Christmas ornaments have featured minibuilds enclosed in baubles. More recently, these builds have gotten a little bigger, slightly more complex and broken free of the transparent shells to offer fully brick-built decorations. The latest are the Snowman Ornaments, and here’s a quick look at another of the 2025 Christmas LEGO sets. Product Details Set Name: Snowman Ornaments | Set Number: 40812 | Pieces: 168 |...
Santa’s Enchanted LEGO Grotto At John Lewis
This Christmas, the LEGO Group will team up with British retailer John Lewis for a series of LEGO-themed in-store experiences. Depending on location, visitors to John Lewis stores can visit the Enchanted Grotto or take part in Santa’s Tea Party. Santa will also be dropping by selected stores for a Meet & Greet. Regardless of which sort of event you attend, there will be a special LEGO® gift to take home with you....
LEGO Party! Game Review
What do you get when you combine millions of digital LEGO® bricks, hundreds of digital minifigures and a frantic array of LEGO-themed minigames? The answer is LEGO Party! Party games, in various forms, have been a staple of gaming for a long time. But the genre was truly born when Nintendo released the first Mario Party game on the N64. This saw Nintendo characters battle against each other across short minigames. The party game is...
40809: Festive Gingerbread House Set Review
There are many different symbols of the festive period, but one of the tastiest is gingerbread. The slightly spiced sweet treats have been used to create decorations and structures such as houses. Gingerbread has also been the focus of several Christmas LEGO® sets, including the upcoming Star Wars AT-AT. But the set, which is the focus of this review, is a little more traditional. Here’s an early look around the Festive Gingerbread...
BricksFanz Weekly LEGO Recap Sept 22nd – 28th
Another week has passed by, but it’s been a quiet one in terms of LEGO® news. The only real news was the LEGO Group’s intention to take control of the LEGO/LEGOLAND Discovery Centres from Merlin. This will see the smaller LEGO attraction become part of the LEGO retail line-up. We also got the first official look at the next big-screen Star Wars adventure, which will most certainly inspire plenty of LEGO builds. I’ve...
Minecraft Minifigs – What Could Have Been
I’ve briefly touched upon it in my review of the upcoming LEGO® Minecraft Visual Dictionary and shared the image on social media, which has proven rather popular. So I thought I’d highlight it in its own article. As mentioned, the new LEGO Minecraft book includes a behind-the-scenes section detailing how the long-running theme was conceived. This includes several images of sketch models and an interesting piece of concept...
LEGO Halloween Ghost GWP Now Available
The recently revealed LEGO® Halloween-themed Luminous Ghost GWP set is now available. The promotional LEGO Creator set features a Light Brick-powered light-up ghost, accompanied by a bat and a pumpkin. The set is part of the Celebration Series, which previously included the Valentine’s Day Box and the Ferris Wheel with Fireworks. The promotional set will be available until October 7th. Oddly, it’s not appearing on the promotions...
LEGO Minecraft Visual Dictionary Book Review
Minecraft is an interesting LEGO® theme. It began life as a LEGO CUUSOO set, the forebearer of LEGO Ideas, in 2012 and became a standalone theme the following year. Now, 13 years on, Minecraft has been a regular theme inspiring countless playsets, a monthly magazine and even a 2025 LEGO Advent Calendar. It’s also inspired another title from DK Books, with their Visual Dictionary series taking an extensive look at the sets,...
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