The LEGO community is lucky to have so many blogs, magazines and channels that create amazing content about our hobby. Here at BrickNerd, we celebrate getting nerdy about the bricks! This past month, we’ve earned our LEGO MBA, delved into Belville figures, fell in LEGO love, and learned how to composite photos. We’ve looked at single color-cats and an ambush of tigers while exploring both cheese slope mosaics and MOCs that look edible. We’ve looked at spaceships, buildings, gearing systems, and table scraps—not to mention our own mundane contest! We’ve published so many interesting articles, that we’ve included an interactive calendar of them at the bottom of this post so you can make sure you didn’t miss a thing.

But there are many more fascinating stories to be told from within the LEGO community, so here are some of the best LEGO articles that caught our contributors’ attention throughout the month of February. We applaud the effort that went into each of these features, so click on the headlines or photos to head to each story or video. They are well worth your time!

Bits N’ Bricks: The Rise of BrickLink

As the LEGO Group retires the fan version of LEGO Digital Designer and transitions to official support of BrickLink Studio, we examine the history of both digital brick designers and how their histories came together.

Brick Alliance: LEGO Polybags - A Natural D&I Tool

LEGO polybag sets, in their current form since 1992, have been the cheapest way to get your hands on LEGO bricks. Because of their low price, they’re actually a great way for LEGO to address multiple D&I issues around minifigure representation and availability.

Brick Fanatics: 25 years on, LEGO lost at sea is still washing up on beaches

Twenty-five years ago today, almost five million LEGO bricks fell into the sea – and new pieces are still washing up on beaches a quarter of a century later.

Brick Science: Building the Strongest LEGO Motor

This is all about torque vs. speed resulting in a LEGO motor that can lift 20 pounds.

Brickset: The Evolution of Minifigure Heads

We all have at least one minifigure. They’re one of LEGO’s most iconic creations, and they have an interesting history. In this article, I aim to inform the reader of the changes that have been made to the design of their heads since their debut in 1978.

Hoth Bricks: It's not just ABS plastic at LEGO, a dozen different plastics are used (translated)

LEGO fans often discuss issues related to the raw material used by the manufacturer for its bricks: plastic. We generally speak of the plastic used for bricks, ABS or Acrylonitrile Butadiene Styrene. However, it is not the only plastic used by LEGO.

Rambling Brick: 4 Juniors Figures - A Reappraisal

Was Jack Stone in the wrong place at the wrong time, to forever remain a symbol of the Dark Times? Or were the 4 Juniors sets a significant retrograde step in character design? Or were these figures ahead of their time in design and innovation?

Rambling Brick: Whatever Happened to Classic Town Part III - Into The Dark Ages

During the ’90s we saw the diversification of design of LEGO Town sets: elements were used across many themes, we saw a broadened colour palette, and we saw more themes/subthemes depicting aspects of contemporary life.

Rambling Brick: Whatever Happened To Classic Town IV - Welcome to LEGO City

After The LEGO Group’s financial crisis, the company set out to return to its core business. A revitalised town theme was introduced – but expectations were greater. Town just wasn’t going to cut it anymore: we were presented with LEGO City.

StoneWars: Evaluating the Price Adjustments of the New LEGO Pick a Brick Service (translated)

After LEGO’s two formerly independent individual parts services ("Pick a Brick" and "Bricks and Pieces") were merged under a common interface, what was the overall impact on the prices of common parts?

The Brothers Brick: Today’s the day to fall in love with Mosaics on Monday

Over on Instagram, there’s been a lot of great art showing up in the #MosaicsOnMonday tag. We recently had a chance to sit down with the innovators behind this challenge and learn where this tag came from and where it’s headed.

The LEGO Car Blog: How to Make (and Sell) Building Instructions!

The single most common question builders hear is “Can I have building instructions?’ In some rare cases it’s a yes, but most of the time the answer is no. They’re tricky and can be seen as a bit of a dark art. However, the very talented SaperPL is here to explain how you can do it!

Tiago Catarino: Illegal LEGO Techniques

What is an illegal LEGO building technique and what isn’t? Learn the differences and why some techniques you might think are illegal actually arent.

Tips&Bricks: Global Celebrations - Black History Month 2022

February has been Black History Month so our team has created today's post which covers a number of topics: LEGO's stance relating to Black Lives Matter, LEGO's feature and competition for the month, and builds from the community with a strong message of Black joy, power and creativity.

Tips&Bricks: History of the Bracket

The LEGO System has given us many weird parts over the years (just ask the early 2000s), many of which have come and gone. Some bricks stay due to their aesthetic appeal, while others prove to be so useful that they change the way sets are designed forever.

Toy Photographers: How To Add Motion To Your Toy Photography

You might think adding motion to your photos is a strange topic for a blog devoted to capturing still photographs. How then do we create motion? Well, there are a large number of ways, actually.

Zusammengebaut: LEGO Pick a Brick Price Increases - Is Everything Really More Expensive? (translated)

We've compared over 500 LEGO elements from “Bricks and Pieces” and “Pick a Brick” and looked at the price differences in detail.

If all of those amazing features weren’t enough to satisfy your LEGO community craving, here is an interactive calendar of everything that BrickNerd has published this last month to make sure you didn’t miss a single article.

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