Welcome to a new fortnightly series – Monday Musings – devoted to random musings on the LEGO hobby, community, my collection and beyond. This is a new content series I’m trialing for the second half of 2021, and will be published every two weeks on Mondays. Some of these musings will be long-form, or short…
Guide: How LEGO’s Lunar New Year sets celebrates the best of Chinese culture
People of Chinese heritage around the world are currently celebrating the Lunar New Year – a 15-day long festival that marks the start of a new year in the Chinese calendar. Yesterday (12 February) was the first day of Chinese New Year (or today if you’re in the US!), where the festivities begin. Recognising the…
First Impressions: LEGO Vidiyo
Now that we’ve had the official reveal, here are some super early thoughts on VIDIYO – LEGO and Universal Music Group’s new app-powered theme, which has a global release date of 1 March 2021. The sets are now available on LEGO.com, your local LEGO/toy store or on Amazon In a nutshell, the name is a…
LEGO Animal Crossing could be Fabuland’s spiritual successor we all need
Over the weekend, LEGO and Nintendo surprised everyone with an in-game Animal Crossing ‘activation’ – which just turned out to be LEGO Dot patterns that you can use as Custom Patterns within the game. If you play Animal Crossing, you can grab the Patterns and QR codes here. The oversized presence on LEGO’s official social…
What’s the deal with all these LEGO brand collaborations?
One of the biggest developments with the LEGO Brand in 2020 is the sheer volume of brand collaborations that have been revealed, especially in the last few months. In the last 3 weeks alone, we’ve seen collaborations with Swedish furniture giant IKEA, American denim icon Levi’s, and German sports titan Adidas. The response from the…
Decade In Review: The Decade of the AFOL
In just a few days, the 2010s will come to a close, marking an end to a decade that many consider LEGO’s best. In the next week and maybe beyond, I’ll be writing a series of essays looking back at LEGO in the past decade and some of the most significant trends and shifts that…
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