The Brick Fan

LEGO News, LEGO Reviews, and Discussions

Category: Community (Page 163 of 171)

Brickworld Chicago 2013 Recap with Beyond the Brick

June 17, 2013 / / 0 Comments

Last month, the guys over at Beyond the Brick needed your support on Kickstarter so they could go to Brickworld Chicago 2013. The project was successful and the team of Joshua Hanlon and Matthew Kay got to go to Brickworld last week to film some nice footage of the event. They have uploaded videos of a complete guided tour of Brickworld Chicago 2013 as well as the unveilings of the LEGO Creator Expert Sydney Opera House (10234) and the LEGO CUUSOO Mars Science Laboratory Curiosity Rover Check out their videos below and subscribe to their channel to see more videos of Brickworld as well as their usual video interviews with various LEGO artists.

Brickworld Chicago 2013 Complete Guided Tour

LEGO Creator Expert Sydney Opera House (10234) Unveiling

LEGO CUUSOO Mars Science Laboratory Curiosity Rover

… Continue

LEGO Polybag Promotions Heading to The Daily Mail

June 17, 2013 / / 0 Comments

Brick Fanatics is reporting that The Daily Mail newspaper will be giving out FREE LEGO polybags with their paper on upcoming dates in June. Back in March, LEGO’s partnership with The Sun newpaper ended and UK LEGO fans were fearing that there will not be any more LEGO sets being given along with their papers.

In this new promotion, you will be able to get the LEGO The Hobbit Gandalf at Dol Guldur Polybag (30213) on Saturday, June 29th and the LEGO Creator Little Car (30183) on Sunday, June 30th. There’s no additional information about the promotion at this time but I’m sure Richard over at Brick Fanatics will have the news as soon as it becomes available.

… Continue

BrickLink Sold to Nexon

June 6, 2013 / / 0 Comments

The unofficial LEGO marketplace, BrickLink, has announced they have been sold to Korean game giant Nexon, creator of games such as MapleStory, Dragon Nest, etc. Former CEO Eliska Jezkova and Founder of Nexon Jung-Ju “Jay” Kim have issued a joint statement in regards to the acquisition (see below).

It’s a bit sad that BrickLink has been sold and so far there is mixed reactions in the forums. The site has been extremely helpful to LEGO users all around the world and now the companies will be working to get “BrickLink 2.0” up as soon as possible. Kim will soon be asking users for their input for ideas to improve functionality. We’re also hoping that the acquisition will help address BrickLink’s recent issues and help users have a more enjoyable experience there.

About a week ago I posted a special message to thank all of you for supporting us over the nearly three years since my son Dan died. I thank all those who sent personal messages to me about what BrickLink has meant to them. In my message, I mentioned some progress we made, and also the challenges we faced. Good news remaining is that, despite the challenges, business has been brisk and even impressive. When I took over the website in the name of my son, the representational visitor log (front page of BrickLink) was at about 50 million visitors. Today, it is at nearly 144 million visitors and counting. Nearly two-thirds of all those who visited BrickLink over the 13 years since

… Continue

A Closer Look at The LEGO House

June 4, 2013 / / 1 Comment

Earlier today, LEGO shared a concept video of the design for The LEGO House which will be opening in Billund, Denmark in 2016. The new experience center will be 80 meters by 100 meters and will be about 30 meters tall. From the top view as well on the inside, visitors can see a building that looks like giant LEGO bricks stacked “in a creative way to create an imaginative experience both outside and inside.”

There will be lots things to see and do including exhibition areas, a cafe, a LEGO store, and a public square which is all packed into 7,600 square meters of land. The LEGO House will be built in collaboration between the LEGO Group, the LEGO Foundation, and KIRKBI A/S. Once finished, the LEGO Group will manage the daily operations. LEGO estimates that the new building will attract 250,000 visitors annually. Check out the video below to see more of The LEGO House.

… Continue

Bricktrader Relaunch on June 1

May 25, 2013 / / 0 Comments

If you’ve recently been on Bricktrader, you’ll notice it’s been down. The reason is because Richard, aka TyoSolo, has been working hard for the relaunch of the new Bricktrader. Starting June 1st, the site will now become “The Unofficial LEGO Auction Site”. The purpose is to be the only LEGO specific auction site on the internet. We all know about Bricklink where you can buy out parts at a certain price. What if you can have an auction for those parts and possibly get them cheaper than other sites? This is one of the goals of Bricktrader. Most of the listings will only have a 5% fee with no listing fees for standard listings. When the site is relaunched, they will also have a Welcome Week promotion in which you only pay 1p (GBP) regardless of the final value fee (restrictions apply). Check out more details in the press release below:

For Immediate Release: 25th May 2013

Bricktrader Re-launch, 1st June 2013

We are pleased to announce the re-launch of Bricktrader.net, under the new heading of “The Unofficial LEGO® Auction Site” on Saturday 1st June 2013. Bricktrader (beta) is the latest LEGO® marketplace, and is the only LEGO® specific auction site on the internet.

Bricktrader aims to provide fans of LEGO® young and old alike a place to trade their LEGO® without attracting extortionate fees or having to navigate their way around a clunky interface. Designed to be easy to use for anyone familiar with popular auction sites, you can list your items for sale

… Continue

LEGO and Sony Considering Creating Next Generation Toys

May 24, 2013 / / 2 Comments

Researchers of Sony Computer Science Laboratories in Tokyo and LEGO are joining forces to think of ways they can create next generation toys for kids in the future. In the demonstration, the researchers have attached motors and cameras to LEGO bricks and are controlling the pieces with a Playstation controller. The companies are trying to make the LEGO bricks play like video games. The objective is to keep the pieces small so kids may use them along with some other toys and games.

The reason why LEGO decided to forge this partnership is because LEGO is extremely worried that more and more kids are migrating to video games at a younger age while they should be playing with more tangible toys.

As it currently stands, the LEGO/Sony project is still in it’s infant stage and there are no plans for any products to be released in the near future.

**Via PC Gamer**

… Continue

Buildings Created By LEGO Bricks Infographic by Movoto

May 10, 2013 / / 0 Comments

What All the World's LEGO Could Build

We’ve featured Movoto before here on our site with the LEGO My House Calculator article and they’re back with a neat infographic on what buildings and landmarks you can build with all the LEGO bricks in the world. There are about 472 billion bricks that have been made since 1958 and what kind of building and landmarks you can build using those billions of bricks are staggering.

  • 2,972 of the White House
  • 588 of the Taj Mahal
  • 200 of Buckingham Palace
  • 74 of the Empire State Building
  • 66 of the Burj Khalifa (the world’s tallest building)
  • 1 Great Pyramid of Giza

What else is neat is that you can also build about 46,000 medium sized houses for around 122,000 people. Some other facts that Movoto has stated are the number of bricks used for some of these buildings. Check out their site for much more information and stats.

  • Burj Khalifa: 7,067,231,175 bricks
  • Empire State Building: 6,325,329,353
  • Buckingham Palace: 2,350,135,986
  • White House: 158,783,167 bricks
… Continue
« Older posts Newer posts »

When you make a purchase or, sometimes, carry out some other action as direct result of clicking on a link at The Brick Fan, we will receive a small commission.

The Brick Fan is a participant in the Amazon Services LLC Associates Program, an affiliate advertising program designed to provide a means for sites to earn advertising fees by advertising and linking to Amazon.com. As an Amazon Associate I earn from qualifying purchases.

We partner with Rakuten Advertising, who may collect personal information when you interact with our site. The collection and use of this information is subject to the privacy policy located here: https://rakutenadvertising.com/legal-notices/services-privacy-policy/

Terms of Service | Privacy Policy | Disclosure Policy






Web Analytics


© 2025 The Brick Fan

Theme by Anders Noren — Up ↑