Tom Alphin Author: Tom Alphin

Tom is the Editor-in-Chief at Brick Architect. He founded the website in 2015 just before releasing his bestselling book The LEGO Architect (which teaches 7 architectural styles using LEGO bricks). In addition to reviewing new LEGO Architecture sets, he likes to write articles exploring technical aspects of the LEGO hobby including LEGO storage, and the LEGO color palette.

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LEGO Parts Guide improvements

More parts added to database, more custom images, and the ability to see retired parts in galleries!

New Parts

In the past couple weeks, I’ve reviewed the top 1250 Most Common Current Parts, and the Top 1250 Most Common Parts of All Time, and added all of the missing parts to the database!

A few of the 80 new parts added to the database since September 1.

A few of the 80 new parts added to the database since September 1.

While parts need to be added to the database to appear in the main galleries sorted by part, placeholder pages are automatically created for parts which haven’t been added yet. That’s why I also added 232 additional part images since September 1 — this ensures even more parts appear nicely in the lists of most common parts even when I haven’t added them to the guide fully.

New Feature – Retired parts in Galleries!

I’ve finally added enough retired parts that it seems appropriate to include an option to show them in the galleries sorted by category as well.

You can now toggle between seeing Current Parts (default) and All Parts in the galleries sorted by category.

You can now toggle between seeing Current Parts (default) and All Parts in the galleries sorted by category.

By default, you will contine to only see current parts. I added a new option to show ‘All Parts’ which displays both current and retired parts in the gallery.

Check out these improvements to The LEGO Parts Guide by visiting https://brickarchitect.com/parts/