Review: #21325 Medieval Blacksmith (LEGO IDEAS)
From fan submission to official LEGO Set—This blacksmith shop leans in to the classic castle theme (but slightly misses the mark).
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Review: #45025 DUPLO Coding Express (LEGO Education)
Want to teach simple coding concepts to young kids using DUPLO? Coding Express includes everything you need—we’ll explore whether it’s a good fit for your classroom or home.
Most Common DUPLO Parts
Ever wondered which DUPLO parts are the most common? With a 2-year old in my house, I’ve decided to take a closer look at DUPLO this year.
Building on the popularity of my Most Common LEGO Parts analysis (which I update at least once a year), I’ve created the first draft of a similar analysis of the Most Common DUPLO parts.
Ranking assumes that you bought one of every DUPLO set released in the past 5 years and sorted the pieces by part. With so many fewer DUPLO sets every year (and so many fewer parts-per-set) that’s fewer than 8,000 pieces. More surprisingly, there are only 16 unique parts which you would have in quantities of 50x or more.
Take a closer look at brickarchitect.com/most-common-duplo-parts/
December 2020 LEGO News Roundup
While the new year can’t fix all of the challenges we faced in 2020, at least we have some exciting new LEGO news to share!
Review: #21323 Grand Piano
A playable LEGO Piano–or maybe not quite? Let’s see why this massive LEGO set aimed at AFOL’s keeps selling out!
Review: #10278 Police Station
A beautifully detailed 1940’s era police station, a tone-deaf product release on the heels of BLM protests, or maybe both? Let’s take a closer look at the latest addition to the Modular Building Series.
Review: #6374 Holiday Home
The Holiday Home is an iconic set from 1983. In this article, we’ll review this set and all six alternative builds while reflecting on how LEGO sets have evolved in the past 37 years!
November 2020 LEGO News Roundup
Get ready for the holidays with this cute advent calendar and the new LEGO Star Wars Holiday Special.
Review: Adidas ZX 8000 LEGO Shoes
LEGO and Adidas have announced an extended partnership for LEGO-branded shoes and clothing. Let’s see how well their first co-branded product functions as a shoe while expressing the LEGO brand.
Review: 2020 LEGO Advent Calendars
With the longest year in recent memory coming to a close, it’s time to plan for the holidays. What better way to get into the holiday spirit than with one of these four LEGO advent calendars; which one (or more) are you going to get!
Review: #10276 Colosseum
They say Rome wasn’t built in a day. As you will learn in this review, neither was the largest LEGO Set ever released—at 9,036 pieces you’re going to need a large table and a (very) long weekend!
Event: Auckland Brick Show
Let’s see how a LEGO User Group (LUG) in New Zealand collaborated with a larger pop culture event to put on a uniquely 2020 brick show in Auckland!
