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 explored Florence, the great outdoors, and bargain bins. We’ve chased elephants, LEGOLAND exclusives and mechs. We’ve learned how to clean track, use chaos to your benefit, overcome builders block, and take photos with phones. We even inspired a frog collab and published instructions to build a vintage camera and a mini AT-AT, all while sacrificing some LEGO along the way. And more! 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 November (aka Nerdvember!). 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!

At Your Leisure: Helping Adults Find that Joyful Focus

LEGO launched a new podcast aimed specifically at adults hosted by comedian Sue Perkins. The series seeks to explore the world of celebrity hobbies, pastimes and passions, LEGO included.

Beyond the Brick: Creations for Charity 24-Hour Live Stream

Beyond the Brick brings LEGO antics to their annual 24-hour live stream to raise money for Creations for Charity.

Bits N’ Bricks: LEGO Harry Potter – A Journey Through All Eight Films

The LEGO Harry Potter games proved to TT Games that the studio could branch out beyond the traditional action titles that focused on combat and physical confrontation to make games with a more explorative nature.

Brick Alliance: Diversity & Inclusion in LEGO Fan Media

Why should a blog about LEGO building techniques care about Diversity and Inclusion? Before we propose our answer to this question, let’s back up and look at the LEGO ecosystem.

Brick Architect: Updated Guide to LEGO ‘Powered Up’ System

The LEGO Group has accelerated their transition to the new Powered Up system. Here is an updated guide to help builders understand the new system.

BricksFanz: LEGO Group Helps To Rebuild After German Flooding

LEGO has announced a donation of nearly one million dollars to rebuild schools in flood-affected areas in North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany after massive flooding earlier this year.

Brickset: A History of Farmyard Animals

Minifig-scale farm animals are among the most coveted and, in some cases, rare LEGO pieces that the company has produced. The introduction of sheep earlier this year completes the collection of 'classic' farm livestock, so let's remind ourselves of what's available.

Brickset: How to Make Your Own LEGO Set

What is the process like putting together a professional quality, custom building set? This is a journal of all the effort involved from design to packaging.

JK Brickworks: Making the Reindeer of 40499 Gallop

With the release of set 40499 Santa’s Sleigh, I was excited to try to make the reindeer gallop, like I did many years ago for the reindeer from the Santa’s Workshop set.

New Elementary: Forbidden Elementary: Car Sandwiches

Join us as we explore a rather terrifying area of the LEGO parts inventory: promotional tie-in vehicles. Specifically the "cereal cars": a range of LEGO Racers promotional sets for General Mills and Cheerios.

New Elementary: LEGO Element Development: The Friends Hoop

We speak to Poul A Thomsen, Mechanical Engineer at the LEGO Group, about the LEGO Friends “hoop element” (77107) and then investigate the geometry of this new element.

Rambling Brick: A Simple Holiday Project(ion)

A DIY guide on how I incorporated LEGO Minifigures in my Halloween decorations.

StoneWars: Adventure Islands: The Big RogueBricks Community Project (translated)

For Bricking Bavaria 2021, 11 MOC builders have teamed up and created a tropical adventure landscape together.

StoneWars: Bricking Bavaria 2021 (translated)

Last weekend the Bricking Bavaria LEGO fan exhibition took place in Friedrichshafen. Here is a little insight into what was there to discover.

The LEGO Car Blog: We’re 10 Today!

TLCB turned a decade old—and celebrated it a day late! We wish them well as they are one of the few blogs doing things right for the LEGO community (much to their chagrin). Go and check them out to see lots of brick-built vehicles (though fair warning, they are not as big of fans of BSG). Here’s to another perfect 10!

Tiago Catarino: Everything You Need to Know About the Brick Separator

From taking apart pieces to using it as a doorstopper, Tiago explores the past, present and future of the humble brick separator.

Tips&Bricks: Introduction to Color Theory for LEGO Building

Today we’re taking a look at how to create color schemes for your MOCs! Using examples pulled from some of our favorite builders and MOCs, we wanted to break down the science of what makes certain colors look great next to each other.

Toy Photographers: In the Cabinet of Dutch Angles - LEGO On Tilt

What is a Dutch angle and how can you use it to add an unsettling effect in LEGO photography? These are three crucial things you should pay attention to before using the Dutch angle.

Women’s Brick Initiative: WBI’s 2021 Top Ten LEGO List for Equity and Inclusion (and Five Opportunities)

We took a look at all of LEGO product offerings for 2021, reviewed them through a lens of gender equity and diversity, and compiled a list of the best and worst of LEGO this year.

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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