September was a big month for Minecraft. Minecraft Dungeons II arrived, Minecraft Live revealed the first new dimension in over 14 years, and the Wilderness Bound game drop gave builders a stack of new cosy blocks to play with. Here…
This week brought the longest Lego set ever made, the biggest Ideas set to date and a long list of video game sets heading for the exit. From the Executor Super Star Destroyer to Downton Abbey, here is everything adult…
Every Lego city ends up with the same problem eventually: you’ve built the town hall, the fire station and a row of shops, and now every minifigure in the place is sleeping on the pavement. Apartment blocks solve density, but…
Most Technic steering tutorials assume you’re building a supercar with a wide chassis and room to spare. That’s not much help when your actual vehicle is a minifig-scale City car, six to eight studs wide, with barely enough room inside…
LEGO confirmed this week that more than 300 sets are being discontinued in at least some markets, one of the largest single waves of retirements this year. The list is headlined by the Millennium Falcon and the X-Men Mansion, alongside…
Pick up two grey 2×4 bricks from different decades of your own collection and hold them under the same light. You will spot it almost immediately: one leans warm, faintly yellow, the other sits cooler and closer to true neutral.…
This week brought a headline release date, two new Ideas milestones and a reminder to check your wishlist before Christmas. From the longest Star Wars set Lego has ever built to a nearly two-metre Polar Express recreation on the Ideas…
Somewhere between a snowy taiga and a cherry grove, Minecraft is about to get its first proper autumn. The Dappled Forest is the centrepiece of the Wilderness Bound drop (Java 26.3), and if the pre-release builds are anything to go…
Most Nether bases get their lighting treated as an afterthought, a scattering of torches jammed in wherever the mob spawns got annoying. That’s a waste, because light in the Nether is doing double duty whether you plan for it or…
This week brought a genuinely packed slate of news for adult builders. From five new BrickLink Designer Program sets going up for pre-order to a fresh Book Nook announcement and a sobering retirement list, here’s everything worth knowing from 4-11…