Building the Lego Duck
This is a very exclusive set – it’s only available in Billund, so you have to go there or get a friend to pick up a copy. It retails at about £75 for 621...
Northern Brickworks
Older Articles
Here are older articles, that you won’t find direct from the home page of our site. Lego from Stuttgart 2019 Calendar Cheese Slope Mosaics – a tutorial 2018 Calendar The Evolution of Lego Sorting...
MOC of the Month
For March 2020, we have a memory of winter – the Icebreaker barge seen on the canal at Lymm: It’s a commission build by NB member Steve Guinness of thebrickguys.co.uk and he can be...
How do you store your Lego?
Some time ago, an AFOL called Remy Evard wrote an article on sorting lego, and it has become a classic. We republished it on our website (here) with a link to the original item...
City Safari Off-Roader, set 60267
Review – City Safari Off-Roader, set 60267 By Amanda Wakes Today was my first LEGO store visit of 2020 and I couldn’t help but pick up the new City Safari Off-Roader set. City sets...
2020 Calendar
Here are the shows we know of so far in 2020. Last year we spotted over 40 events, and as new ones turn up, we’ll add them. If you are planning a lego event...
Minifigure habitats – Series 19
Series 19 Minifigure Habitats: by Stephen Guinness Having seen the idea over on the ramblingbrick.com I thought I would have a go at making a couple of minifigure habitats to go with some of...
How to get 60% more bricks into a Pick-a-Brick tub
Right at the back of the lego shop there’s a wall of assorted bricks, and you can have as many as you can fit into a PaB tub for £11.99 (£11.24 if you bring...
2019 Calendar
Here are the shows we know about so far – we will add more as we hear about them, so if you are organising a show and it’s not listed, please get in touch...
Lego from Stuttgart
On my travels I saw an exhibition of Lego in the German city of Stuttgart, put on by the German LUG ‘Schwabenstein 2×4’. The builder was Andreas Reikowski, and you can find more of his...
Cheese Slope Mosaics – a tutorial
Back in 2012 Katie Walker published this article on making lego mosaics with cheese slopes, and we thought it was such a good reference piece that we are republishing it here with Katie’s permission....