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LEGO Masters Commercial Airs on Fox

If you’re watching Thanksgiving Day football on Fox, you may or may not have seen the commercial for LEGO Masters that came on. The 30 second commercial shows Will Arnett as the host along with builder that you may recognize in the LEGO community. LEGO Masters will premiere on Fox on February 5.

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The Brick-Changer LEGO Float Rides into Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade

Happy Thanksgiving Day everybody! Today at the Macy’s Thanksgiving Parade, LEGO will be showcasing their new float called The Brick-Changer. It is essentially part turkey and part dragon and LEGO has been posting images on social media on it including a smaller version of it. K-Pop band NCT 127 will be performing on it as it goes down Central Park West to 7th Avenue. Check out some of the behind the scenes image of The Brick-Changer float below. Stay safe and eat some good food. The real fun begins tonight at midnight.

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The LEGO Group Announces BrickLink Acquisition

One of the biggest news in a long time which came out of left field was announced earlier today as it was reported that The LEGO Group has officially acquired BrickLink. If you’re not familiar with BrickLink, it is an online marketplace for LEGO prodcuts that was created by Dan Jezek in 2000 and later acquired by Nexon back in 2013. It is most known as a marketplace to purchase individual LEGO elements in bulk quantites. There’s lots of implications as a result of LEGO acquiring BrickLink but we will see what happens in a few months. The deal should be closed by the end of the year. Brickset and The Brothers Brick has done interviews with LEGO Global Marketing Officer Julia Goldin which you can check out.

The LEGO® Group acquires BrickLink, the world’s largest online LEGO® fan community and marketplace to strengthen ties with adult fans

BILLUND, Denmark, November 26, 2019: The LEGO® Group today announced it has acquired BrickLink Ltd (www.bricklink.com), the world’s largest online community of adult LEGO fans from NXMH to strengthen its connection with its important adult fan base.

The BrickLink platform has more than one million members and comprises an online marketplace of more than 10,000 stores from 70 countries; a digital building software where builders can design and showcase their creations; and a vibrant online community where fans share ideas and builds.

The platform was founded in 2000 by Dan Jezek as a way to connect like-minded adult LEGO fans from around the world. It was acquired in

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From AFOL to LEGO Designer Fan Event at LEGO House in March 2020

If you are going to the LEGO House next year, there’s a neat event that will be held in March that you may be interested in. On March 13, LEGO will be holding an event called From AFOL to LEGO Designer in which you’ll be able to meet three LEGO Designers, Mark John Stafford, Justin Ramsden, and Marcos Bessa. They’ll talk about how they were regular AFOLs and how their passion for the brick became their job.

There are limited seating and it will lst for 4 hours (16:00-20:00). You can sign up by going to the link above.

Every year the LEGO Group hires in skilled LEGO builders with a great passion for the brand and many of them have a history of longtime membership in the AFOL community. This evening you’ll meet 3 LEGO designers (Mark John Stafford, Justin Ramsden and Marcos Bessa) who will talk about their way into the LEGO Group. And how they have managed to turn their passion into their day job.

The evening will be hosted by the Norwegian journalist and AFOL Are Heiseldal, who has facilitated several Brick talks before.

The Fan evening will be held in LEGO House on March 13, 2020.

Capacity: 60 seats
Language: English
Duration: 4 hours (16.00-20.00)

Sign up for the fan evening in the link below and go to the “Event & Tour” calendar at the bottom of the site.

Please aware of that LEGO House Experience Zones and LEGO Square (including BRICKACCINO and MINI CHEF) are closed due to a conference

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LEGO Ideas Winter Chalet Achieves 10,000 Supporters

The Winter Chalet by sdrnet is the latest project to achieve 10,000 supporters on LEGO Ideas. It build features two floors with the ground floor being the restaurant while the upper floor has the bedrooms. The outside of the building has a lot of nice detailing such as the stone wall on the lower areas.

The project now joins Queen: I Want to Break Free, Seinfeld 30th Anniversary, The Legend of Zelda: BotW Stables, Planet Express Delivery Ship, Ratatouille: Open The Doors!, LEGO Typewriter, The Legend of the BIONICLE, and The Huascar as the projects to reach the Third 2019 Review Stage.

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Three New Members Added to LEGO Certified Professional Program

LEGO on the LEGO Ambassador Network has announced they have added three new Certified Professionals to the LCP Program. LEGO has added Graeme (Dymond Bricks), Wei Wei (Playable Design), and Balazs DÓCZY BALÁZS EV) from the Entry Program to the LCP Program. There are now 20 LCPs who are independant builders that are not LEGO employees but are officially recognized by LEGO and work closely with the company as business partners. You can check out the list of other LEGO Certified Professionals here.

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LEGO Nominated for 2020 Toy of the Year Awards

Earlier today, the 2020 Toy of the Year finalists were announced and as usual, LEGO was nominated in several categories. The nominees and categories are less than previous years so there’s a lesser chance that LEGO doesn’t win anything next year but that’s where your help comes in. You can now vote for your favorite nominees and the winners will be announced ahead of the 2020 New York Toy Fair in February. When you vote, you’ll be entered into a raffle win all the toys in a particular category so there is an incentive to submit your votes.


Construction Toy of the Year

LEGO City Space Deep Space Rocket and Launch Control (60228)

LEGO Marvel Super Heroes Iron Man Hall of Armor (75125)


Specialty Toy of the Year

LEGO Ideas Central Perk (21319)

LEGO Stranger Things The Upside Down (75810)


STEM/STEAM Toy of the Year

LEGO BOOST Star Wars Droid Commander (75253)

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