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BrickLink Designer Program Series 4 Finalists Revealed

BrickLink has revealed the five finalists for the BrickLink Designer Program Series 4 in which you will be able to pre-order in the near future. The five finalists will head on to the refining stage which allows the various teams on the projects to make any final necessary adjustments before locking in the designs for pre-production. You’ll probably recognize that a couple of them did reach 10,000 supporters on LEGO Ideas in the past. Crowdfunding for these projects will begin in February 2025. Which one(s) are looking forward to picking up?


Medieval Seaside Market by Bricks_fan_uy


Merchant Boat by NicolasCarlier


Siege Encampment by SleeplessNight


The Riverside Scholars by Hanwas


Wild West Train by llucky

LEGO Ideas Dungeons & Dragons Set to be Released on April 1

LEGO has revealed that the upcoming LEGO Ideas Dungeons & Dragons set will be released on April 1. We are now officially less than 24 hours on the reveal of the set. You can follow any updates over on LEGO’s landing page.

LEGO Ideas Dungeons & Dragons Reveal Tomorrow

Here’s a reminder that the LEGO Ideas Dungeons & Dragons set will be officially revealed tomorrow. The timer on the landing page counts down to just over a day and 2 hours which means everything will be revealed at 10am PT/1pm ET.

What we know about the set so far is that it is based on Dragon’s Keep: Journey’s End by BoltBuilds and the cover design of the building instructions will have a depiction of the Epic Battle Relief Painting by chainsaw yu 電鋸鋸鋸鋸. The set could include the Gelatinous Cube as shown in one of the teasers and possibly the Mimic as well.

LEGO Amazon Spend $50, Get $10 Promotional Credit – March 2024

Amazon has started another Spend $50, Get $10 promotional credit deal on some of the smaller to medium sized sets. For every $50 you spend, you can save $10 and this includes sets that are already on sale. There are some of the new Space 2024 set such as the Interstellar Spaceship (60430) and the Spaceship and Asteroid Discovery (60429).

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LEGO Minifigure Factory Review

LEGO Minifigure Factory

Last week, LEGO announced that the LEGO Minifigure Factory has returned to the LEGO Shop after launching the beta for it a few years back. Here you can personalize your own LEGO character, sigfig if you will, for a price of $11.99 per minifigure. LEGO recently gave us an opportunity to check out the new additions to the system including more heads, bodies, and accessories.

LEGO Minifigure Factory

During the process of making your character, you can choose from a wide combination of head, headwear, torso, legs, and accessories. The torso has more details that you can choose from such as the clothing, decorations, and text. For the clothing, you can pick from solid, plain, patterns, or outfits. The outfits have more stylized options that you can choose from. You are able to design the torso on the back as well with the same options.

LEGO Minifigure Factory

LEGO Minifigure Factory

One thing I noticed when designing the back of my minifigure is that the coloring on the physical minifigure is a little darker than what you see on screen. As you can see below, I personalized the back of the torso and it seems fine on screen but when I look at it in hand, you can barely see the letters. I had to super zoom in on the minifigure to try to make out the words. I would suggest if you’re using a darker torso color, use bright letter. You can also see some issues with the pad printing with the minor scratches.

LEGO Minifigure Factory

LEGO Minifigure Factory

LEGO Minifigure Factory

You also get a printed 1×3 brick with QR codes … Continue

LEGO Ideas Greek Holiday Achieves 10,000 Supporters

Greek Holiday by ponuryy is the latest project to achieve 10,000 supporters on LEGO Ideas. The build fits on a 32×32 baseplate and it features a house with traditional Greek architecture.

The project joins Spirited Away, Appa the Sky Bison, from Avatar the Last Airbender, Venus Flytrap, Minerals Display, Dreamworks’ Shrek’s Swamp 2, Hello Kitty and Friends – 50 Years, Dr. Seuss’s The Grinch, Medieval Tournament, Among Us: The Skeld, Cherry Blossom Ikebana, Roman Forum, The Wizard of Oz 85th Film Anniversary, Interstellar, Working Suspension Railway, Metallica M72 World Tour, Suitcase Express!, Outer Wilds, Medieval Inn by the Gatehouse, Clockwork Solar System, Brooklyn Nine-Nine, My Neighbor Totoro, Tower Chess, Medieval Bee Farm, LEGO Gundam, Dancing House, Prague, The Wizard Peaks, Rocky Reef Restoration, Finding Nemo – First Day of School, Coraline – The Pink Palace, Vintage Record Player, The Highland Cow, and Scooby-Doo! and the Ravenwood Mansion as the ones to reach the First 2024 Review Stage.

LEGO Caught Using AI Generated Content – Releases Statement

We all can agree that the use of artificial intelligence is a controversial subject and LEGO recently has been caught using AI images on their site. Over on the now taken down LEGO Ninjago character quiz, there were plenty of AI images of the characters, some of which were very badly made. You can see that on the hands on some of them.

LEGO has released an official statement about this issue. On one hand, they have a policy of not using AI generated content but they also state that AI “offers interesting opportunities” so I’m not really sure if they’re really against it or not.

We have a clear policy not to use generative AI to create LEGO® content. We fundamentally believe in the wonder and power of human creativity and will continue to encourage and celebrate the talented artists who help bring our brand and characters to life.

These images were used in a test which happened outside of our usual approval processes, and we will take all necessary steps to ensure that it won’t happen again.

We believe generative AI offers interesting opportunities and we will continue to explore how we can use it to improve the experiences we offer and our ways of working.

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