by Markus Rollbuhler | Sep 30, 2024 | BrickNerd
September has come and gone, and pumpkins have started lining the fields and your foam-covered lattes. High time for our monthly LEGO community round-up! Take some time out of your busy day and relax with this month’s smorgasbord of interesting articles, deep dives...
by Andreas Lenander | Sep 28, 2024 | BrickNerd
Let’s get Nerdy about bridges! Today I thought it would be fun to do a little deep-dive into something that’s been around for a very long time in human history: bridges. And since you’re here on BrickNerd, I figure we’ll keep the discussion about LEGO bridges, sound...
by Are M Heiseldal | Sep 27, 2024 | BrickNerd
Today is AFOL Day at the LEGO House in Billund, which is the sort-of-official start of the Skærbæk Fan Weekend, the world’s most international LEGO event. I figured this would be a good day to tell you about my very first encounter with other adult enthusiasts of the...
by Ronald Vallenduuk | Sep 26, 2024 | BrickNerd
Apart from my dark-age gap of about 14 years, I’ve built Technic since my parents bought me set 850, the forklift from the first wave of Technic sets in 1977. I’ve a thing for tinkering with mechanisms. I take things apart to find out how they work, and...
by Brian Hickey | Sep 25, 2024 | BrickNerd
Color is a funny thing. On the one hand, it’s subjective; there is no universal favorite color. But on the other hand, it’s objective; a company like LEGO needs everyone to agree on what the color blue is. LEGO colors similarly have a duality. They need to be...
by Andreas Lenander | Sep 24, 2024 | BrickNerd
Welcome back everyone! Not sure why, but over the last few years, I´ve noticed more and more owl MOCs showing up in my Flickr-feed. And I must admit, I really like it! So for the beginning of autumn, I decided to dig around and find some great examples of owl-builds...