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If you haven't, you are not a true Lego collector/investor. It's basically the table top Lego version of Warhammer 40k, but better. It's so fun to play with your friends or siblings or whatever. Just look it up on the interweebs. Oh and they made a Lego Brikwars game for computers, it's free too. With the help of programs like Hamachi, we can actually be able to fight each other. I love Brikwars, I recently created an army. And I'm awaiting in the mail for my hero unit, Boba Fett, since my 8 other men I have are Mandalorians from 7914.

In a recent issue of the longtime running MAD Magazine, there are a couple pages with some panels of satirical humor on our equally long lasting favorite building block brand. They are rather silly in a relatable way. I suggest clicking on each image to enlarge seeing how squeezed these forum reply boxes tend to make them at regular viewing. Source: The Brick Fan

Hi everyone! I have been considering creating a monthly LEGO club for my son and other kids in our area. I am trying to look at ways to put one together. I know a lot of the groups just buy a bunch of legos and have the kids just come and build, but I really like the idea of them getting to build something to take home. I did see one group that did some of the mini builds and that is what I am really interested in. Use the past monthly mini builds and I would order all the bricks and that way they could make it and take it home and add to their collections at home. However I am coming across a problem because it seems as though most sets I spend a long…

Strong performance of product lines, such as LEGO City, LEGO Creator as well as THE LEGO MOVIE products contributed to sales growth in all regions of the world and led to a highly satisfactory annual result for the LEGO Group with sales increasing to 28.6 billion DKK.

http://video.cnbc.com/gallery/?video=3000355132 Here's a link to the video. Didn't like the interview, they seemed like they were trying to "bash" him in a passive aggressive manner. Interesting video to watch. Sent from my HTC6525LVW using Brickpicker mobile app

Lifehacker article: http://lifehacker.com/career-spotlight-what-i-do-as-a-lego-model-designer-1686123935?utm_campaign=socialflow_lifehacker_facebook&utm_source=lifehacker_facebook&utm_medium=socialflow

Brickpickers, A local boy is battling a rare form of bone cancer and has been quarantined in his house for months. His aunt is asking the community to cheer him up with a special Lego wonderland at his school. He was scheduled to make a trip to the Lego world headquarters in Denmark but that has been postponed due to recent setbacks. Read more here: http://www.toledoblade.com/local/2014/03/12/Lego-build-aims-to-cheer-ill-boy.html I am planning to donate some sealed sets but I wanted to ask if there was anyone else that would be willing to donate? The aunt's goal is 10,000 bricks. I am hoping that we can get enough support to turn this into a LE…

This looks like fun for those of you who live within traveling distance of Philadelphia. https://www.fi.edu/exhibit/art-brick

Cool. http://laughingsquid.com/an-artist-paints-with-lego-bricks-in-clever-stop-motion-animation/

Found this on the official Doctor Who tumblr and had to share.

For anyone who may have collected this piece of LEGO history or wanted to should read this Brickset article. Here's the short of it. Modulex Bricks were an offshoot for the LEGO company way back in 1962 to be used in architectural and commercial purposes. The pieces were considerably smaller than their standard LEGO bricks and could be considered on par in size with the current Nanoblocks product of another company. Talk of reviving the Modulex line spur until early January this year when it seems the parent company for The LEGO Group, KIRKBI/AS, cancelled the whole thing without any plans of future production. To better help give some visuals as to the size of Modu…

You're welcome. http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2015/01/06/the-short-news-lego-photos_n_6423302.html http://theshortnews.com/about-the-short-news/

I'm looking to buy a Lego set for girls that are 6-8 years old. One of them has a lot of Friends and some Disney princess sets, as well as tubs with her dad's old Lego to play with. The other has only Friends sets but would like different themed sets. What set do you think would be fun for a girl at that age that isn't Friends or Disney? I'm looking for something that might have a female minifigure in the set, maybe treasure, a castle, cool building or something. All the Castle sets have exclusively male minifigures, which is disappointing to me because I love Castle sets and I think they would too. Cloud Cuckoo Palace is the best I've thought of, but one of the gir…

http://www.fastcompany.com/3040223/when-it-clicks-it-clicks Good read.

Lord Business in his natural habitat. It's a massive, pretty impressive setup.

This is just a little tid bit of info for how I will be trying to keep my inventory organized. A lot of you have a closet or tucked away place where you store your sets out of carboard boxes. While this is great to see it's not so great for little prying eyes. Of which I have two sets to contend with. The storage closet where I keep my sets is locked most of the time, but it also has bikes and other outdoor toys in it for my boys. Just about all of the sets in this closet are in carboard boxes of varies sizes. Enough of the back story. I have created a pdf Label template to put on the outside of my cardboard boxes to help me keep track of whats inside ea…

Figure I would share my pictures here will do a new one each day...23 Days of "Lego" Christmas here is the Lego Indiana Jones haul from today in front of the tree. Christmas came early! Got the entire theme of Lego Indiana Jones it looked so good in front of the Christmas Tree we are going to try to do a new picture every day for the next 23 days leading up to Christmas; The 23 days of Christmas (In all the Lego Goodness) Check it out delivered today 12/2/2014 Its like being in a time Machine All brand New Mint in Sealed Box MISB 16 sets total!

Thanks to the thebrickfan for sharing the article on Facebook. http://www.abc15.com/news/region-phoenix-metro/north-phoenix/police-4-arrested-in-organized-retail-theft-of-legos-40000-in-toys-stolen-from-phoenix-toys-r-us Police: 4 arrested in organized retail theft of legos; $40,000 in toys stolen from Phoenix Toys R Us PHOENIX - Phoenix police have recovered an estimated $200,000 in Lego products, and arrested four people, during a months-long retail theft investigation. In the 4 1/2-month investigation, police discovered that Garry Fairbee and Tarah Dailey, both 35, stole multiple Lego play sets from many Phoenix area "Toys R Us" stores, accordin…

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/lego-letter-from-the-1970s-still-offers-a-powerful-message-to-parents-40-years-later-9878303.html Kindof related to "Research Institute." Lego is killing it in all aspects including Public Relations.

http://lego.fluidsurveys.com/s/Q4_2014/ Do I really need to say any more than what the title already says?

An interesting article about Hasbro looking to acquire Dreamworks Animation to help them dethrone LEGO from the number one toy maker position in the world...

when i saw this guy's booth i was drawn to a unique and eye catching Thor action figure that i remember coveting back in 2011 when i went to comic con... what GRABBED my attention was a lego minifigure miniature duplicate of the 6" comic con exclusive action figure... YOU HAVE TO SEE THIS GUYS CUSTOMIZING WORK! it's awe inspiring. i love that double bubble gumball machine lego minifigure custom!

...hello everyone... I need your help/opinion in deciding whether I should buy this latest publication in the UK, The Block Magazine. My dilemma is that I live in the US. My cost is BP 12.99 (includes shipping) which translates to US$22.08 - Quite steep for a magazine but considering it's Issue #1... I don't want to kick myself in the butt later on when the publisher decides to sell here in the US for a lower price but at the same token, would not like to miss out if they don't and Issue 1 sells out... Your input is greatly appreciated...

Hi, everyone. I'm new to this board, appreciate all the knowledge present here. In addition to collecting sets, I used to buy bins of Lego from Craigslist until the wife had enough of that. Anyway, one of the things my son and I like about the bins is treasure hunting and seeing what cool stuff we can find. But, sometimes we find some unusual things in the Lego bin. Here's some interesting things we've found - Old Pok

Hello Folks. I'm thinking about producing after market lego stickers. Just wanted to start a conversation about this to get some ideas flowing. Would you buy these? What would you want to see?