by Noah de lange | Jul 24, 2024 | BrickNerd
I can’t count the times that LEGO builders or even the general public see an awesome GBC (Great Ball Contraption) layout at an event and want to make one themselves… but just don’t know how to get started. So today we are going back to the basics, breaking down GBC...
by Caleb Huet | Jul 23, 2024 | BrickNerd
Castle… If you’re like me, your first thought upon hearing that word is a giant gray structure with maybe the occasional bit of green for terrain. Castle and gray have become synonymous terms, which is a shame as the castle genre really has so much more to offer. Now,...
by Brian Everett | Jul 22, 2024 | BrickNerd
I had a very long dark age from the LEGO hobby (approximately 25 years!). My best guess is I stopped collecting somewhere around 1993 and wouldn’t return until 2018. Even though some Castle sets came out before my dark age, we did not seem to have any growing up. We...
by Isaiah Durand | Jul 21, 2024 | BrickNerd
Building scenes from movies and TV series has always been a thing with LEGO builders, but there is one very popular and long-running TV show that has a very special relation with LEGO, and yet it seems like—maybe for that very reason—it has been astonishingly...
by Dave Schefcik | Jul 20, 2024 | BrickNerd
Today’s BrickNerd article features a guest post about LEGO monorail by Joe Meno of BrickJournal Magazine. Bring Back Monorail!One of the perennial requests that come from long-term LEGO fans is to bring back the monorail. Year in and year out, the request is made at...
by Dave Schefcik | Jul 19, 2024 | BrickNerd
Today’s guest article comes from Casey McCoy, an AFOL from Chicago. You can find him online on Flickr and Instagram. The Decade of Awesome Today on BrickNerd, we’re continuing our retrospective on our very own Simon Liu—an AFOL whose reputation precedes him. If you...