We’ve recently got into The Last Of Us from HBO and we can’t get enough of it, so when we spotted Ellie & Joel at our go to place for customs, Minifigs.me, we had to have them. We’ve already reviewed these figures here if you’d like to know more about them.

To honour the arrival of these awesome custom LEGO Minifigures I wanted to recreate a scene from both the Game and TV show. At the time I had just finished episode 2, where they’re crossing the post-pandemic City by rooftop, so what better scene to do than that I asked myself. It seemed single enough to do, a bunch of tan slopes, a window, grey bricks and a mass of foliage.

I love working on a slightly smaller scale and the 16×16 plates are perfect for creating scenes with a ton of details whilst cutting down the amount of parts needed. Rummaging through my pieces I found enough grey masonry bricks to create both the builds, these bricks are great as they not only build up a large space quickly but they also have detail built-in to them.

I won’t go too much into the process as I am in no way a master builder, mustering all my skills to put this MOC together, so please be kind. I know it’s not perfect but it does the job and I’m happy with it, which is what counts.

This also tied nicely into #SigfigScene, hosted by ourselves and good friend Mark (@brick_beat). Popping Lil’ G, my Sigfig, into the scene was great fun and the final image came out better than I expected. Using a tablet that had an abandoned City landscape on it, which I Googled, I positioned it behind my MOC and snapped away on my phones camera. Editing it later to really make the colours pop and blurring the background to draw focus to my Sigfig.

Please feel free to take part in #SigfigScene, simply share your photo on Instagram, tagging myself & Mark and using #SigfigScene.

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Build Day is perfect for chilling out with a LEGO set or a random pile of bits and just building, be it alone or with friends & family. Don’t forget to share your LEGO Build Day shenanigans on social media using the #LEGOBuildDay hashtag.

This year LEGO will mixed it up slightly and introduce a couple of games, these are simple but sound great fun, including the Pickup Brickathon and LEGO Laugh Off!

Will you take part? What will you build? We can’t wait to see all your creations. Don’t forget to use the #LEGOBuildDay!

For more information and to download score sheets and certificates click here.

LEGO posted a silhouette of a mysterious build that looked similar to the outline of a truck, with a date of 1st November for the big reveal.

The caption read “A new holiday icon built by kids. See it come alive November 1st.”.

We aren’t entirely sure what this could be, it’s either a new set or LEGO showcasing a MOC of sorts. Watch this space on Tuesday 1st November for more derails!

It seems as though this year’s LEGO Build Day will focus on imagination and creativity as you’re urged to grab some loose bricks, create something fun and unique, and then share it with the World using #LEGOBuildDay.

Of course there’s nothing stopping you from grabbing the new set you got for Christmas or something from the backlog to build, it’s about having fun and building together.

Last year me and my family took part and we each built a new set we had just got for Christmas. The time spent building and laughing together was great and we all had an amazing and joyous time all thanks to LEGO bricks! 

Will you take part? What will you build? We can’t wait to see all your creations. Don’t forget to use the #LEGOBuildDay!

Each user (upto 5) is required to have the app, LEGO Build Together, to enjoy the new experience, which hits a small selection of BETA sets, listed below.

The very clever idea came from Dominik Brachmanski and will be launching 13th December.

The six sets that will be supported in the new experience include:

• 60307 – LEGO CITY Rescue camp
• 60292 – LEGO CITY City Town Center
• 60291 – LEGO CITY Family house
• 60302 – LEGO CITY Wildlife Rescue
• 10270 – LEGO Creator Expert Bookshop
• 31097 – LEGO Creator 3in1: Townhouse Pet Shop & Café

Official description:

The LEGO Group launches BETA ‘Build Together’ experience, a fan-built innovation that provides new ways to physically build LEGO sets together as a group
The LEGO Group today unveiled a new BETA building experience that will soon be available on the LEGO® Building Instructions app, called Build Together. The innovative feature opens a new dimension of interactive building, designed to multiply play value while turning LEGO building into a social, cooperative activity, that both families and friends can enjoy together.

LEGO Fan Dominik Brachmanski from Germany is the mastermind behind the idea, which is now being rolled out globally as a BETA version with the aim of testing and gathering valuable insights on how to optimise this interactive experience before potentially scaling and adding more products. The BETA experience currently supports six LEGO sets (with more to come) and will be available in all languages supported in the LEGO Building Instructions app. The experience is going to be promoted to English speaking markets only.

“I originally started playing with the idea of a new co-building experience back in 2017, and since pitching it to the LEGO Group in early 2020 it’s been an honour to oversee the many iterations that have helped shape the feature to where it is at now. It’s been a long time coming and I’ve been fully determined to see this project through, but it’s only been possible thanks to support from members of the AFOL community, close friends and people within the LEGO Group who believed in the idea and contributed to it”, says Dominik Brachmanski, LEGO Fan and Inventor of Build Together.

“There’s a saying: If you want to go fast, go alone. But if you want to go far, go together. I am excited to discover, where the journey will go from here and I hope “Build Together” will entertain and inspire many people out there”, Brachmanski continues.

How it works
The experience can cater for a group of players of up to five people. Each builder needs their own smart device, either a phone or tablet with an active data connection to download the Building Instructions app, if they don’t already have this installed. The team will need one of the Build Together Enabled SKU’s to connect to a session. Players will then have to scan the QR code on the physical building instructions booklet to join together as a team. Once everyone has joined the session they can start building together!

The Build Together experience personalises the steps to each connected builder and will continue to give new tasks as soon as they have finished one. During the build, each person will be told to pass a mini build on to one of the other builders for them to then progress the build. In the end, the final model will be exactly the same as if had it been built the traditional way.

“When Dominik shared the idea of enabling LEGO sets to be built together with more people in a new social and engaging way, we immediately thought this was a great invention that we wanted to make available to many more fans. It’s been a pleasure maturing the experience in close collaboration with Dominik who during the development phase provided his technical skills and understanding of the algorithm behind the experience to evolve the concept further with our consumer insights and design support”, says Sisse, Open Innovation Insights Manager, the LEGO Group.

Sisse adds: “Thanks to a strong collaboration with Dominik it’s been a really smooth and fun ride getting to this point, and we can’t wait to see how fans take to this new experience. We hope that the learnings and insights from this BETA will show that there is a real appetite from our fans to scale “Build Together”.

The forthcoming holiday season makes for the perfect occasion for friends and families to try the experience out having fun whilst unlocking essential skills such as collaboration and communication along the way. The BETA will be live from December 13th and fans can read more about the experience here.

The Book will show readers how to cope with real World problems with the help of the mighty LEGO brick, through small exercises and activities.

LEGO Build Every Day

The 2023 Wall Calendar focuses on Minifigures, and features different shots and Minifigures each month. We get that it’s a little early to start thinking about 2023 especially when we have 2022 to look forward, so until then you can pickup the 2022 Wall Calendar from LEGO.com.

Official descriptions:

LEGO Build Every Day 

A collection of inspirational, bite-sized lessons on creativity and life taught through LEGO® brick building.

A handful of LEGO® bricks can change the way you see the world. They can ignite your creativity, help you solve problems, focus, and find your flow. In LEGO® Build Every Day, Master Model builder Alec Posta show readers how to build their way through problems—by using LEGO techniques to solve real life challenges. Filled with bite-sized lessons on creativity, perspective, and process, each illustrated chapter explores a LEGO concept and follows with a building prompt to put the idea into practice. Its bold typographic design and thought-provoking topics and prompts make LEGO® Build Every Day a thoughtful gift for graduates of all ages, or anyone in need of inspiration at a milestone moment. What might you discover about yourself by simply sitting down and building something every day?

• BITE-SIZED TOPICS: Readers can dip in and out or read all 22 mini-chapters in one sitting.
• IDEAS INTO ACTION: Each inspirational topic is followed by a building prompt or activity, to motivate readers to put what they’ve learned to work, right away.
• INSPIRATION FOR LIFE: The lessons in this book starts with LEGO building concepts, but translate to all parts of life—whether your writing, drawing, composing, acting, competing, or working toward a goal at school, work, or home. This book is meant to help readers overcome creative challenges of all kinds.
• BOLD DESIGN: Each chapter is a visual treat, with bold typography, colors, and a modern take on iconic LEGO bricks and minifigures. The perfect LEGO gift for grads, dads, and all LEGO lovers of all ages.
• GO BACK TO THE LEGO BIN: Rediscover what you can do with the bricks you already own. You can build something every day-no new sets needed!