WBI Decided to look at sets from the $20 price range to see the similarities and disparities between themes. The sets examined here range from princesses to super heroes The set examined first was a Disney, Frozen II set. The minifigures included in this set are Princess Anna, her snowman… Continue reading
What do you get for $20? We asked one of our interns (and their daughter) to build several 2021 sets and let us know what they thought. 60283 – Holiday Camper Van Easy, took about an hour. Adorable, too, even in its tiresome heteronormativity. For me, even though I also… Continue reading
It’s almost time for BrickCon, and like last year, we’re hosting a collaborative build! Many thanks to WBI members Kat Sipe (@drkatbuilds) and Naomi Takeuchi (@brickanista) for coordinating everything. Interested in participating? Naomi explains how to join below: 1) We’ll be using tan plates for the bottom of the aquarium… Continue reading
Taking the time and effort to make good photos makes a huge difference in the likelihood your creation gets blogged. Here’s a quick guide from comic artist and AFOL Paul Lee on photographing your MOCs. Continue reading
Using Brickset, LEGO Designer videos, instruction booklet features, LinkedIn and Google, we’ve begun compiling a list of women LEGO creatives and designers and the products they’ve worked on. Some of these designers have created and maintained their own set lists at Brickset which is why their numbers are (currently) higher and more complete. We would love your assistance in making this list more comprehensive! Continue reading
It’s time for another contest! We recently reached 500 members in our Facebook group, so we asked our members how to celebrate in a contest. One suggestion to build what WBI means to you, and another was having a build of no more than 500 pieces. So we’re going to… Continue reading
by Stephanie Taylor In the first half of our Disney Princess analysis, we looked at Disney Princess sets. We conclude the analysis by taking a closer look at characters in these sets and how they’ve been portrayed in minidoll form. After looking at the sets themselves, the second category… Continue reading
If you’ve been on social media at all over the course of the last few months, you’ve undoubtedly seen the ads for The Periodic Table of LEGO Colors. Last month, our friends from We Love What You Build sent us one of the periodic tables to check out. This is… Continue reading
by Stephanie Taylor As a building toy that generally markets towards children, it makes perfect sense that LEGO would want to partner with Disney. Afterall, Walt Disney himself said “I make them [films] for the child in all of us”, which is eerily similar to one of LEGO’s most recent… Continue reading
Four to one. That’s the ratio of male to female actors included in the June 2020 analysis of “Which Actor has the most minifigures?” on Brickset. The article profiles actors, both live action and voice, who have more than two minifigures of themselves as any character they’ve played. According to… Continue reading
