JerryRigEverything disassembled one of LEGO’s newest products, the Smart Brick, to determine what makes it tick. From the exterior, this component appears to be a typical 2×4 LEGO brick, but it has some fairly complex electronics on the inside. Builders familiar with previous sets will smile because you still have your classic studs on top and tubes underneath, as well as your 80s brick compatibility. Putting the Smart Brick through its paces reveals that it works well with bricks made around 1985. The connecting system remains unchanged from what we have come to expect.
The LEGO Technic McLaren MCL39 F1 Car has arrived, paying tribute to a successful 2025 season. Set 42228 brings that championship-winning machine to life in a magnificent 1:8 scale, with 1,675 pieces that demand focus and reward patience. Builders aged 18 and up can preorder now for $229.99, with full availability starting March 1, 2026.
The LEGO Maersk Dual-Fuel Container Vessel returns after a decade-long hiatus with new sets for the LEGO-Maersk alliance. With set 40955, admirers of large ship models can now experience modern shipping at a scale that will fit on your shelf.
Jamie from Jamie’s Brick Jams chose to get back to basics, thus no fancy motors for him. He’d previously made some sophisticated motors, but for this one, he wanted to go back to simplicity. That’s exactly what he got: simple, easy mechanicals built with basic electromagnetic principles and a few non-LEGO components. Almost all of the pieces can be assembled using regular LEGO pieces.
Kent Survival arrives in a stretch of woodland in a truck with ten boxes of huge plastic bricks, a real-life LEGO project, and sets out to build a livable shelter out of them. These bricks are essentially the same as their traditional LEGO counterparts, but scaled up to a much larger size: they come in 8-stud and 4-stud versions, totaling 1400 pieces. His idea was simple: build the thing and see if it was possible to turn a child’s play into a real shelter.
Nintendo Switch Pro Controllers are not cheap, and they often cost enough to make you think twice before purchasing a replacement or upgrade. So what if you could have it both ways? Builder Brux thought so too and decided to build one out of LEGO bricks, complete with all the bells and whistles, including working buttons, joysticks, and full console compatibility.
The typewriter you see in front of you is not the official LEGO Ideas set 21327 from 2021, which puts on a nice display with moving pieces that simulate typing but fails to produce any genuine text. Meanwhile, this design goes much beyond that, with real letters appearing on the surface intended to imitate paper.
The LEGO Group and Crocs have formed a multi-year agreement to bring the iconic snap of their plastic bricks to the world of everyday footwear. The partnership was announced this week, and it is all about creating products that combine Crocs’ ultra-comfortable, adjustable footwear with LEGO’s creative construction mentality.
The LEGO build that recreates the defining moment from Ocarina of Time has finally arrived. They call it The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time – The Final Battle (77093) is a 1,003-piece set that appears to depict the entire climactic showdown in Ganon’s castle, down to the last bit of tension as you face up against him.
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A six-legged, motorized LEGO Technic walker has recently appeared on LEGO Ideas, and its surprisingly smooth gait is quite impressive given that it is made entirely of bricks and gears. This motorized hexapod, created by French designer Alexis_MOCs_FR, is a livable rover intended for planetary exploration, complete with a crew cabin, solar panels, and even a satellite dish.