Finding Myself in LEGO: The Struggle to Make a Black Sigfig
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Today’s guest article comes from Levi Knighten who shares their experience and struggles trying to create a sigfig as a black, queer fan of LEGO.
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Is FebRovery the Best Month of the Year?
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How did FebRovery get started in the LEGO community and what is the standing appeal of this building theme-month? Come with us as we explore its creation and discover the nostalgia, ingenuity and community-focus that brings us together over rolling rovers.
Read MoreLEGO Community Headlines and Highlights for January 2025
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A new year brought a multitude of interesting articles, fascinating features, insightful deep dives, and eye-catching videos from all across the LEGO community. These are the best LEGO features of January 2025 from around the fan community.
Read MoreOur Family’s First GBC Module
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Ever wanted to build a Great Ball Contraption? Here’s how we tackled our family’s first GBC module—from choosing a design to keeping it running at a LEGO convention.
Read MoreGOATLUG: The Greatest LUG of All Time
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Is the LEGO goat the G.O.A.T.? Find out how a love for these rare animals turned into one of the quirkiest and most creative AFOL communities: GOATLUG.
Read MoreLEGO Community Headlines and Highlights for December 2024
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December brought a multitude of interesting articles, fascinating features, insightful deep dives, and eye-catching videos from all across the LEGO community. These are the best LEGO features of the month from around the fan community.
Read MoreIt’s A (Wonder) FOL Life
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Discover a holiday story about the power of asking for help and the LEGO community’s unique way of proving no one is a failure who has friends.
Read MoreThe RogueBricks Christmas Bauble Secret Santa
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220 custom baubles and running, the annual RogueBricks Secret Santa keeps on giving! Find out how the tradition started and peek inside some LEGO Christmas baubles to see all the beautiful microscale creations people have gifted.
Read MoreDeck the Halls with Balls of LEGO
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Have you ever considered decorating a Christmas tree using only brick-built LEGO ornaments? A group of builders in Louisville set out to do exactly that, in support of a charitable foundation raising funds for a local children’s hospital.
Read MoreLEGO Community Headlines and Highlights for November 2024
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November brought a multitude of interesting articles, fascinating features, insightful deep dives, and eye-catching videos from all across the LEGO community. These are the best LEGO features of the month from around the fan community.
Read MoreEvery LEGO Collab Standard, Themed Month and Recurring Contest
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From MILS to Micropolis, there are many different themes that have become “standards” in the AFOL community. This extensive article seeks to list and document every LEGO collaboration standard, themed month, recurring contest, and any other coordinated excuse to build.
Read MoreHow to Become a Better Builder
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How do you become a better LEGO builder? Brickworld Master Casey McCoy shares some of the things he has learned along the way, from surrounding yourself with inspiration to “stealing” the techniques you love.
Read MoreBuilding Together: How to Organize a Collaboration
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Building together many times beats building alone, so how do you approach starting a LEGO collab? What kinds of options are there for the organization, layout and theme?
Read MoreThe Future of LEGO: A Builder's Perspective on AI
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AI-generated “LEGO” MOCs continue to impact the LEGO community, but what does this cyber future entail? What does the creative process look like in the age of AI? And what impact will it have on real-life gatherings of AFOLs?
Read MoreLEGO Community Headlines and Highlights for October 2024
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October brought a multitude of interesting articles, fascinating features, insightful deep dives, and eye-catching videos from all across the LEGO community. These are the best LEGO features of the month from around the fan community.
Read MoreCreations for Charity: Using LEGO to Build a Community
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For 16 years, Nannan Zhang has been organizing Creations for Charity, a fundraiser where LEGO fans can donate and purchase custom MOCs and more to help raise money to send LEGO to kids in need.
Read MoreClassroom Connections: How LEGO Connects Kids and Educators
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Sometimes kids are hard to connect with but LEGO can be the perfect icebreaker. Join Melissa Rekve as she shares what it is like being the LEGO lady at school and what fun connections that creates.
Read MoreThe Story of SortLUG: Friends Don’t Let Friends Sort Alone
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What is SortLUG, how did the group start, and why have they had global Zoom calls every week for three years? Join guest contributor Justin Speers as he shares the origin of the group that is all about sorting LEGO and more.
Read MoreLEGO Community Headlines and Highlights for September 2024
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September brought a multitude of interesting articles, fascinating features, insightful deep dives, and eye-catching videos from all across the LEGO community. These are the best LEGO features of the month from around the fan community.
Read MoreMandatory Fun: LUG Building Contests
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We all love a good online LEGO contest, but how do you run a building contest for a LUG? Michael J. shares his thoughts and experiences of running contests for the last seven years.
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