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LEGO Skylines City Builder Game Announced

August 25, 2026 / Allen "Tormentalous" Tran

At Gamescom 2026, LEGO and Paradox Interactive has announced a new game called LEGO Skylines. If you’ve every played City Skylines, it’s a city builder where you control what goes on in your city. In LEGO Skylines, it’s pretty much the same but everything is in LEGO. There’s no release date yet but it’ll be on all the major systems including Steam, PlayStation 5, Xbox X/S, and Nintendo Switch 2.

Build a city where everything just clicks

Create a city like no other in LEGO® Skylines. It’s a city-builder you pick up for five minutes and suddenly it’s tomorrow. Seriously, it happens. Build whatever pops into your head or get lost in the details. What happens next is up to you. Make it beautiful. Make it weird. Make it yours.

Cover the basics like electricity, food, and water. Then make it a place your citizens will love. Give them homes that one-up the neighbors. Good jobs. Great parks. Donut shops on every corner because that would be awesome. A frankly absurd amount of buildings, decorations, and other cool stuff (customization stuff) will make it easy to create a city that’s got your fingerprints all over it.

LEGO Skylines puts you in charge of, well, everything. Remember hospitals to keep everyone in one piece. Wheat for the donuts. Garbage collection, sewage, and all the other things that make a city click. How it all comes together is up to you. So stick your hard hat on and greenlight your weirdest ideas. Tweak one thing more times than

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The LEGO Group Launches LEGO Fan CoLab

August 25, 2026 / Allen "Tormentalous" Tran

LEGO Fan CoLab Recognized LEGO Fan Creator

A few weeks ago, LEGO officially launched the LEGO Fan CoLab which replaces the LEGO Ambassador Network. If you didn’t know the LEGO Ambassador Network (LAN) was a centralized place where LEGO communities, LUGs, content creators, blogs, etc. could interact with each other but mainly it was for a line of communication with LEGO directly. There were also some perks for being a recognized community including access to press releases, early review sets, support for events, etc.

The new LEGO Fan CoLab builds on what they have learned on the LAN and expands on how LEGO interacts with the fan ecosystem which includes communities, creators, event organizers, media, developers, artists, builders, and many others who contribute to the LEGO fan experience. Of course, we can still interact with various recognized communities and share information.

All the participants are separated into three groups, Recognized LEGO Fan Creators, Recognized LEGO Fan Communities, and Recognized LEGO Fan Events. We here at The Brick Fan are now called a Recognition LEGO Fan Creator and LEGO has sent over a neat little sign, among other things, to help us promote both our site and the Fan CoLab itself.

Changing from the LEGO Ambassador Network to the LEGO Fan CoLab doesn’t change what we do here at The Brick Fan. We’ll still be doing the normal LEGO news and set reveals with some LEGO reviews and shopping deals thrown in here and there. Of course, we will also be attending San Diego Comic Con every summer as well so everything is business … Continue

LEGO Announces 1HY Financial Results with Massive Continued Growth

August 25, 2026 / Allen "Tormentalous" Tran

LEGO has announced their financial results for the first half of 2026 with continued growth. Revenue increased by 21% while sales grew 22%. LEGO released 330 products in the first have of the year and the most popular themes include Speed Champions, Botanicals, Technic, Icons, and Star Wars.

Strong demand and brand relevance drive LEGO Group revenue up 21%, operating profit up 22% in H1 2026

Highlights vs. H1 2025

• Revenue increased 21% to a record DKK 41.9 billion. In constant currency, revenue grew 26%.
• Consumer sales grew 22%, driven by strong demand across a broad product range and excitement for the LEGO® brand.
• The company outpaced a growing global toy market and gained market share.
• Operating profit increased 22% to DKK 10.9 billion, supported by strong top-line growth, scale efficiencies and productivity efforts, while maintaining significant spending on strategic initiatives, such as sustainability. In constant currency, operating profit grew 29%. Net profit grew 32% to DKK 8.6 billion.
• Free cash flow was DKK 2.1 billion, up from DKK 1.7 billion while increasing investments in long-term growth, including factory capacity and the acquisition of LEGO and LEGOLAND® Discovery Centres.
• Significant continued investments in sustainable materials and solar capacity expansion.

BILLUND, DENMARK, 25 August 2026: Today, the LEGO Group reported financial results for the first half of 2026, with revenue and operating profit both growing double digits and building on a record performance in 2025. The company continued to grow significantly ahead of the global toy market, gaining market share. Consumer

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LEGO Retiring Soon List – August 2026 Update

August 24, 2026 / Allen "Tormentalous" Tran

It’s been a few months since we’ve updated the LEGO Retiring Soon list for North America. There’s been a lot of changes since our last update in June. A lot of sets from the old list has been retired to make way for the summer 2026 sets but there’s still some left over. We can expect these sets to be retired by the end of the year or while supplies last.

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LEGO One Piece Dorry vs. Brogy – Giants of Little Garden (75644) Review

August 23, 2026 / Allen "Tormentalous" Tran

The next LEGO One Piece set we’re checking out for season 2 of the Netflix show is Dorry vs. Brogy – Giants of Little Garden (75644). The set has 733 pieces and retails for $79.99.

LEGO Pokemon Woot! Deals – August 2026

August 22, 2026 / Allen "Tormentalous" Tran

Woot! currently has deals for some LEGO Pokemon sets that have some decent discounts on them. The deals last for another day or so, while supplies last. The sets are fulfilled by Amazon and Prime members get free standard shipping like usual.

Eevee (72151) – $41.99/30% off

Pikachu and Poke Ball (72152) – $164.99/18% off

Venusaur, Charizard and Blastoise (72153) – $549.99/15% off

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LEGO September 2026 Shopping Guide – Back to Hogwarts and More

August 22, 2026 / Allen "Tormentalous" Tran

September is right around the corner and it’ll be a unusually large month for new LEGO releases on the LEGO Shop. With so many new sets coming out next month, I feel that there is something for everybody.

For the promotions, early September will have the LEGO Harry Potter Back to Hogwarts 2026 event which will run until September 6. The flagship set for this event is the Ministry of Magic – Collectors’ Edition (76476).

As with the larger flagship releases, there’s an exclusive item that you can only get with it. For the Ministry of Magic, you can get the Ministry of Magic Phone Booth (5011072), while supplies last.

Next is the Ministry Munchies & The Daily Prophet Stands (40901) which you can get with general LEGO Harry Potter purchases of $130 or more, while supplies last.