Each year the online LEGO community takes part in a quirky tradition by expressing their creativity and publishing jokes about our hobby on April Fools Day. From fake sets to wild rumors about LEGO expiration dates, LEGO fans have been trained to take everything with a grain of salt on April 1st.

While some LEGO fans are annoyed by the flood of fake news, I personally love seeing the creativity the community has to offer each and every year. It represents going the extra mile, crafting a narrative, tapping into the desires of builders, and expressing something we wish were true. It shows who is willing to go the extra mile to create their OWN story, photos and renders rather than relying on LEGO alone for set news.

Is every LEGO April Fools joke funny? Not in the slightest! Some can be quite lazy (i.e. monorail/early modulars/rare themes are making a comeback). Others are so well produced and researched that you have to look twice and hopefully remember the date while reading. The best jokes take effort while feeling effortless at the same time. They should be based on some hint of plausibility while still able to speak a truth in a funny way that might be hard to express any other way. And each year is hit or miss. Many LEGO media sites don’t even participate consistently, only running with it when they have a good idea. (You can see the comparison between last year’s April Fools results here.)

That’s why we enjoy April Fools. It is a tradition that even LEGO participates in! It brings the online LEGO community together (if only for a day) to have a festival of foolishness—just because. So in case you missed any, here is a comprehensive compilation of all 33 dubious stories about LEGO we could find for April Fools Day 2022.

Ashnflash: Fourth LEGO Lightyear Set Officially Revealed

Today, we're looking at a previously unknown fourth Lightyear set now revealed!

Beyond the Brick: Epic Amazing LEGO Model Giveaway

What is your favorite combination of any two LEGO bricks? Follow our social media (including Google Plus!) and comment on this video for your chance to WIN!

Brick Train Depot: Introducing the Union Pacific Boy and Biggest Boy

Introducing the Union Pacific Boy and Biggest Boy! These are 1:48 scale models of the Big Boy’s smaller and bigger brothers! Introduced by Union Pacific in the late 40s as an alternative to use in mainline traffic, the Boy was used all around the Union Pacific system. The Biggest Boy, however, was mainly used in Nebraska since it was able to haul long loads over a flat plane.

Brick Vault: Minifigure Scale Death Star

Have you ever gotten the urge to threaten, enslave or destroy other LEGO planets with a metal ball housing a giant laser dish but never really knew what to do about that urge? Now is the chance because our bestseller is only 3 trillion USD for the whole weekend!

Brick Replicas: New SNOT element discovered

Cole Edmonson found a new element on LEGO Pick a Brick and shared it on Discord. Look at that amazing new SNOT element a lot of us wishes were true!

BrickJournal: PLAYGO, A Partnership with The LEGO Group and Playmobil, Launches This Summer!

Bringing together two beloved brands in an unprecedented collaboration, The LEGO Group and the Brandstätter Group, makers of renowned LEGO building toys and PLAYMOBIL toys respectively, announced the first sets from the PlayGo theme, a limited-edition release to be released later this summer.

BricksFanz: Introducing LEGO Brick Separator Replay

The LEGO Group announced the launch of LEGO Brick Separator Replay, a new program that will accept any unloved brick separators and turn them into VIP rewards.

BricksFanz: LEGO VIDIYO Getting A Star Wars Rebrand?

Star Wars Cantina Beats appears to take inspiration from the infamous Vidiyo music theme created in partnership with Universal Music.

Brickfinder: Kjeld To Close the LEGO Ambassador Network

Third-generation owner of LEGO, Kjeld Kirk Kristiansen, has initiated the closure of the LEGO Ambassadors Network because “it has strayed too far away from LEGO’s core values.”

Brickfinder: LEGO Colours of the World 40615 Minifigure Parts Pack First Look!

LEGO fans have been clamouring for a more diverse selection of minifigure heads and LEGO has finally answered your pleas by announcing a minifigure parts pack with a total of twenty-four distinct skin-tones.

BrickNerd: LEGO Expiration Dates Revealed

Do you own expired LEGO? Hidden expiration dates have been discovered on LEGO sets. What do these “best built by” dates mean and how will they impact the AFOL community?

Brickstuff: LifeLites and Brickstuff merge to form Litestuff

LifeLites and Brickstuff are merging to form a new company, Litestuff! We initially thought of going with Rob² Lighting, but the underwriters couldn't do exponentials in the company name.

BrickTracks: Introducing the Narrow Gauge Track Reducer

Say hello to the narrow gauge track reducer! Now you can seamlessly connect your standard gauge and narrow gauge tracks together on the same circuit.

Bricking Around: BrickLink Studio testing NFT features in latest beta release

The NFT feature is an extension of the render features already present. The creation of a NFT requires BrickLink Credits, and BrickLink will act as the platform for buying and selling these NFTs.

Eurobricks: Pirate-themed creations now accepted on LEGO Ideas

This is exciting news for all of us LEGO Pirates fans that want some fun new fan created sets!

Jay's Brick Blog: LEGO Goats Spotted In Build A Minifigure Stations!

LEGO have been ramping up their Build a Minifigure offering to draw people in-store, with new and exclusive characters only found in-store, so it’s been really interesting to discover new surprises including the much-coveted goats!

LEGO: Introducing the brand-new LEGO Maxifigure!

The life-size LEGO Maxifigure is the missing piece from your collection and is the ultimate build for any situation.

LEGOLAND Discovery Centre Melbourne: LEGO Launches Melbourne Architecture Set

To Celebrate the city of Melbourne’s birthday, LEGO is launching a brand new Melbourne Architecture set complete with brick built landmarks including The Eureka Tower, The Royal Exhibition Building, Flinders Street train station, and a mini Melbourne Tram.

LEGO House: The Wooden Duck has gone missing!

An old classic icon from LEGO history from when the company started to produce wooden toys in 1932 has disappeared from the History Collection. If anyone has seen it, please let us know so we can have it back.

Ministry of Sound: New Nightclub LEGO Set

We're so excited to announce our brand new LEGO x Ministry of Sound club set. Get yours now while stock lasts!

Phoenix Train Works: El Loco Ocho

Hey LEGO, we're gonna need more wheels over here. Introducing our largest train design ever: EL LOCO OCHO !!! Over 8ft long, weighs over 8lbs, has 8 sets of 8 driving wheels and 8 PF motors.

Promobricks: LEGOLAND Germany: Signal Iduna Park replaces Allianz Arena (translated)

The amusement park announced that the famous model of the Allianz Arena, home ground of FC Bayern Munich, has been dismantled and replaced by a replica of Dortmund's Signal Iduna Park.

RacingBrick: Goodbye LEGO, I switched to Playmobil

Since LEGO sets are becoming more complicated and there are simply too many of them, I decided to ditch LEGO and switch to Playmobil completely. This is your first review of the BTTF DeLorean!

Rambling Brick: New LEGO X IKEA Collaboration Announced. This Time, AFOLs Are The Focus

A new desk optimised for building LEGO sets promises to revolutionise the AFOL LEGO building experience, providing solutions for all but the most common problems that AFOLs experience in their daily builds.

StoneWars: LEGO presents "LEGO Lifestyle" illustrated book (translated)

LEGO announced the book “LEGO Lifestyle” will be published this summer as a coffee table book and combine numerous images from the official LEGO Group marketing material in a high-quality illustrated book. [Edit: You can actually download the book now!]

The Brick Fan: LEGO Galidor 20th Anniversary Theme Announced

The Galidor 20th anniversary line will reintroduce the action figure line complete with the limb switching functionality which was the core mechanic of the original line.

The Brick Post: New Left-handed Brick Separator

In a surprising turn of events the powers that be have revealed a new left-handed Brick Separator! Being left-handed myself I can't express how helpful it will be, I can finally take bits off and dismantle some of my sets.

The Brickman: LEGO Brick Life Hacks

Awesome LEGO Brick Life Hacks to make your life easier! #lego #legotips #legolifestyle #legolifehack #lifehack #lifehacks #legoskills

The Brothers Brick: Contributors feature their own “least-impressive MOCs”

In addition to switching our Instagram to be an automated repost account for the day, April 1st posts featured our very own writers and editors, considered by themselves to be the least impressive MOCs they've built ages ago. Some of them got proper articles on the website for a good self-deprecating laugh.⁠

The Darkside Detective: New LEGO Darkside Division Set

We've teamed up with LEGO to produce a limited edition set of The Darkside Detective. The set includes mini-figures of McQueen and Dooley and an amazing build of the Popo Moto! Pre-orders will be online soon!

Tips&Bricks: Useful Illegal Techniques

Today we're discussing illegal building techniques, specifically the most unique ones we could find. What are illegal techniques you ask? They're actually infamous in the community - they achievable very desirable effects, but at what cost? Some say the LEGO police will come knocking on your door if you're not subtle about your use of them.

Zusammengebaut: LEGO institutes new “Pay what you want” policy (translated)

In recent years, there has been talk that LEGO sets are too expensive. So we will bring special sets onto the market and sell them in the LEGO Stores worldwide (except in Switzerland), and the fan can “pay what you want!”* (some conditions apply).

Zusammengebaut: LEGO launches alternative sets with prints instead of stickers (translated)

LEGO is launching a new option to buy alternate versions of sets with all printed elements instead of stickers, but at a steep price.

Did we miss any LEGO-related April Fools articles published this year? Which one did you like the most? Leave your thoughts in the comments below.

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