BrickHeading PlayStation’s Astro Bot
Beyond enjoying LEGO® building, I’m partial to a bit of gaming and my platform of choice is PlayStation. Next month will see Sony’s cute little Astro Bot return in a fully-fledged platformer after being the star of a couple of shorter technical showcases such as Playroom and Rescue Missions. A few days ago, I got the urge to recreate Astro Bot in LEGO form and what better way to do so than via the versatile media of...
Ideal Loose LEGO Storage Solutions Returns To Aldi
It’s been a while since UK Aldi stores have stocked these but as part of next weekend’s Specialbuys, Workzone Accessory Drawers are back. These are perfect for keeping all those loose LEGO® elements together. Making them great for MOC builders, Bricklink sellers or people with a lot of loose LEGO pieces. There is a 33-drawer unit and a 17-drawer unit, which has various sized drawers, including 8 open front ones. They can...
More Modular Expansion Models Revealed
During last night’s somewhat interesting LEGO® Black Friday ‘Preview’ livestream, instructions were shared for a vendor kiosk minibuild which could be used to expand your LEGO Icons Modular Buildings Collection. Well, it appears there are actually a trio of modular expansion minibuilds. Better still, as well as offering the instructions there’s also the ability to purchase the required elements directly from...
BrickLink MOC Pop-up Store Now Open
Back in July, BrickLink announced a new initiative called the MOC Pop-up Store. This would allow fan designers to share and earn money from their instructions as well as harness the vast collection of sellers on BrickLink to make sourcing the required elements much easier. After finding the MOC you’re interested in, you can click the purchase option and then choose where you’ll be purchasing your elements from, along with...
Bricklink Designer Program Series 2 Sets Revealed
The five sets that make up the finalists for the second series of Bricklink Designer Program sets have been revealed. The five sets will begin crowdfunding in June 2024. All sets that receive over 3,000 pre-orders will be produced. Up to 20,000 of each set will be manufactured during a limited, one-time production run. These should then start shipping in 2024 or early 2025. The search for Series 3 sets will begin on September 18th....
BrickLink Set To Launch MOC Pop-up Store
BrickLink will be giving fans another means of being able to build some of their favourite BrickLink Designer Program submissions which don’t make it through to the official selection. The BrickLink Designer Program is a way for LEGO® fans to share their creations and get them turned into BrickLink Series sets. It’s similar to LEGO Ideas, but BDP sets have a limited production run, feature digital instructions and are...
BrickLink Designer Program Submissions Open
It was announced back in December that the BrickLink Designer Program is would return as a regular program for fans to take part in. If you’re unsure what the BrickLink Designer Program is similar to LEGO® Ideas, where fans can submit their LEGO creations with a chance of being offered to other LEGO fans to support and purchase. This time around original designs can be submitted in place of those previously submitted to LEGO Ideas....
NINJAGO 10th Anniversary Display Instructions
Back in 2021, the LEGO® NINJAGO theme celebrated its 10th Anniversary. As part of the celebrations, a number of special golden 10th Anniversary minifigures were featured in a selection of LEGO NINJAGO sets. Through a combination of getting sets to review and purchasing the others, I managed to get the full line-up of characters which included Lloyd, Kai, Jay, Cole, Nya, Zane and Master Wu. They inspired me to create a special display...
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