LEGO Community Headlines and Highlights for July 2021
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The LEGO community is lucky to have so many blogs, magazines and channels that create amazing content about our hobby. At BrickNerd, we celebrate getting nerdy about the bricks! This past month, we’ve discussed monorail, drafting partsies, using MILS for train layouts, mail shenanigans, LEGO store openings and PAB destinations, robots, fairies, chemistry, puzzles, lighting and Eclipses, and round-ups of LEGO conventions, Bio-Cup and more! Whew! In fact, we’ve included an interactive calendar of all our articles 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 July. 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 Fans, Devs, and Remake of RTS Classic LEGO Rock Raiders
Digging into the fascinating underground world of real-time strategy video game LEGO Rock Raiders, we undercover a passionate fan base, dedicated developers, and more than a few remakes.
Blocks Magazine: How LEGO Magazines Evolved
Blocks is by no means the first LEGO magazine – many fans grew up getting a regular publication from the LEGO Club. In this feature from the Blocks archive, we take a look at how those classic LEGO magazines evolved
Brickset: Raised baseplates: A Short History of CRAPP
As far as raised baseplates go, it seems like AFOLs don’t love ’em or hate ’em, they just hate ’em or hate ’em. This has always intrigued me since some of the most iconic LEGO sets ever were built on raised baseplates. But where did they come from, in which LEGO themes could they be found, and where did they not go to?
Jay’s Brick Blog: An Interview with Lego Minifigures Team Astrid Graabæk and Mark Tranter
What is the LEGO Minifigures theme all about, what is coming next, and what are the favorite minifigs of the designers?
hachiroku24: How to Build a LEGO Indiana Jones Boulder Chase MOC
LEGO builder hachiroku24 shares step by step video on how to make an Indiana Jones scene that rocks!
HispaBrick: LEGO's Waste Line
Reducing packaging isn’t difficult and doesn't require a marketing blitz, although if implemented it can justify doing it. So can LEGO go all out on environmental responsibility?
LEGO YouTube: Our LEGO Stories - Making LEGO Bricks Sustainable
LEGO has announced they will make their products from fully sustainable materials by 2030. Find out if they will meet the target, the obstacles they’re working to overcome, and discover their brand-new prototype, which might just hold the key to a sustainable solution.
Rambling Brick: Builders’ Journeys - Stefan M Presents 10228 Monster Fighters Haunted House
Welcome to our first guest post in our series of Builders’ Journeys. We all have a LEGO set that is special to us for some reason or another. In this series, I am asking readers to send in stories of a set that is important in some way.
StoneWars: Crazy, Colorful, Different: the LEGO Time Cruisers from 1996 in Retrospect (translated)
LEGO Time Cruisers was flashy, colorful, and possibly a bit ahead of its time. Using parts from a wide variety of popular themes, LEGO’s mismatch theme had quirky sets, catalogs, advertising and merchandise.
StoneWars: The Old Bell Tower
The bells are ringing, because I’ve built something again and this time it's a medieval MOC! You will get a detailed insight into how the model was created and which interesting construction techniques were used.
The Brothers Brick: Why Do LEGO Sets Have Stickers Instead of Printed Parts?
LEGO has been using a combination of stickers and printed elements since the 1970s. While there’s a variety of reasons from the cost to play experience, one aspect is less obvious: manufacturing and storage warehousing considerations.
Tiago Catarino: LEGO World Flags Tutorial - Part 2
A simple tutorial on how to build even more flags of the world out of LEGO.
Tips&Bricks: LEGO brick Dimension's and Units
Getting to know the LEGO dimensions is not just being nerdy for the sake of it, but it can actually be useful for building techniques like the ones shown utilizing headlight bricks!
Zusammengebaut: LEGO Revolution - Pin-Surface-Cover-Prints for Technic
Is it April Fools again? For far too long, LEGO fans have been annoyed about visible blue Technic pins. A solution to the problem is finally emerging! Stickers!
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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