Project Hail Mary: coming in March 2025 I love a good spaceship. I love LEGO Spaceships more. With the first manned Artemis ship set to fly to the moon any day now we are entering a new era of manned spaceflight, bound to spark imaginations around the world, looking outward with an enthusiasm…

Happy 10th Birthday Rambling Brick! Hi Folks, just a quick post to acknowledge that this weekend, we celebrated the 10th anniversary of our first post. What started as a whim one Saturday afternoon blew out over the following 10 years to over 1300 posts on WordPress (including this one), more than…

11503 Flower Wall: Provoking Creativity.[Review] Having used up all of my available bench space last year to display my Botanical sets - gaining respite only by packing them up during the course of some renovations. I'm sure they will come back someday. that said, to take stress of the benches,…

One Helmet to Rule them All: 11373 The Lord of the Rings: Sauron’s Helmet revealed. Things have been a little quiet on the Star Wars and Super Heros helmet cowl and bust collection lately. With 14 Star wars helmets released between 2020 and 2025; six marvel masks released between 2020 and 2025 and…

Botanicals Review and Interview IV: 11509 Flowering Cactus Sorry about the interruption to this series: Our local major event intervened. Brickvention 2026 was great fun, and just a little bit exhausting. Today, we complete our reviews of the January 2026 Botanicals releases, and present the final…

42218 John Deere 1670H Wheeled Harvester, or pretzel deliverer In our review of 71513Nightmare Scorpion Digger we briefly explored how a smaller portion of Technic sets are for something other than cars. Here we can celebrate such a not-a-car set, with 42218 John Deere 1670H Wheeled Harvester, a…

LEGO® Botanicals 11503 Flower Wall Revealed Run out of bench space to place your bouquets of LEGO Botanicals on? The latest lattice design from LEGO Botanicals is designed to hang on your wall, displaying a whole new collection of flowers, or, if you like mixing up with some of the previous…

LEGO® Education at Home: Four problem solving sets revealed. LEGO® Education has revealed 4 sets designed to encourage creative problem-solving for kids aged 7+. These sets are the first LEGO Education sets to be marketed at the home market, rather than directly to schools. The box has been…

Ninjago Turned 15 This Week: Here’s a preview of whats going on! LEGO Ninjago was released back in January 2011, and continues to go strong, with the occasional reboot and narrative refocus, Ninjago embraces a combination of the source materials that might have once occupied both LEGO Space and…

Three 18+ Pokemon sets revealed If you are a person of a certain age, then Pokemon might have been an integral part of your upbringing. I wasn't. But my kids were - they grew up with the mid-noughties version. As such, Passionate, old school Pokémon fans now have the opportunity catch them all...…

31380 Retro Gaming Console: Quick Creator Reviews Time to get another Creator 3-in1 review out. While the majority of sets in the current wave are creature builds, a couple are based on real-world objects. Lets take a look at the 31380 Retro Video Game Console. This set is one of 2 sets in the…

LEGO DREAMZZz 71514 Dino Jet, as in Dino-Soar [review] Dinosaurs are cool. Dinosaurs keep appearing in LEGO sets from time to time for that exact reason. Over time 305 sets have appeared with an association to the word 'Dino', of which 102 for Jurassic world! The most popular dinos in LEGO are…

LEGO Smart Brick officially unveiled at Consumer Electronics Show 2026 After months of rumor and speculation, LEGO® SMART Play™, an I tegrated Smart Brick and minifigure system has been revealed at the annual Consumer Electronics Show. The first sets to include this technology will be in the LEGO…

Is that you Eris? 71512 Crocodile Submarine review Branko continues his reviews of the latest LEGO Dreamzzz Sets, and finds the 'B' on this one strangely familiar. In many different ways! When LEGO gifted this set for review my eye was immediately drawn to the alternate build on the back of the…

71508 Fox Guardian Mech (or could it be a flying fox?) [review] Green and gold, favourite national colours in Australia, but I think my appreciation for this set has little to do with that. 71508 Fox Guardian Mech is the second smallest set released in the new Dreamzzz wave, coming in at 883…

42220 Monster Jam Sparkle Smash: Is a Unicorn a Monster? [review] A sparkling unicorn-themed monster truck. I know that the word 'monster' in this name refers to the truck, not the theme of the decorations, but I am just used to monster trucks having appearances that match the loud, powerful,…

Nightmare Scorpion Digger 71513, an issue with construction [review] Branko woke up from a dream wondering if Construction Equipment was on the way out. He couldn't get back to sleep until he came up with the answer... In January 2026 LEGO will release another wave of Dreamzzz sets and the balance…

Botanicals Interview and Review III: 11504 Daisies Its time for the third part of our interview with Thoe Bonner. If you have missed out on the previous parts, you can catch up with them in our review for the 11501 Tulip Bouquet and the 11504 Peace Lily. Before taking a look at the 11508 Daisies,…

Botanicals Interview and Review II: 11503 Peace Lily Earlier in the month I was visiting Denmark, and had the opportunity to visit the LEGO Campus and have a conversation with LEGO Botanicals senior designer, Theo Bonner. In part one, we discussed recolours and the rationale behind new elements…

Tiger! Shark! Tank! – 71515 [review] Branko's been thinking a lot about Dreamzzz lately. Here is his first formal review for the wave: I imagine the brainstorm sessions for the latest wave of Dreamzzz sets went something like this. Get a group of children in a room as ask them what they like. They…

Dreamzzz 2026 Collector’s Guide The next wave of LEGO® Dreamzzz contains a collectable aspect, as such themes often do. In the past we've had spinners, golden weapons, shields... and in the 2026 Dreamzzz sets, we have two collectables; HUGE swords, and crystal creatures. The boxes seem fairly…

Botanical Insights: Interview and Review – 11501 Tulip Bouquet Theo Bonner, Senior Designer, LEGO Botanicals In December, 2025 I had the good fortune to visit LEGO Campus in Billund, Denmark. While there, I had the chance to talk with Theo Bonner - One of the Senior Designers working on LEGO's…

It’s a matter of torque – 42219 Monster Jam Grave Digger [review] Since 2021 LEGO has released 10 small Technic monster trucks, linked to Monster Jam. LEGO generously sent us the latest pair to be released in January so we can share our own opinion on them. Monster Trucks are unusual vehicles that…

Are Our Dreamzzz Getting Bigger? I was quite excited when I saw the announcement of season 4 of LEGO Dreamzzz (as in: the 5 sets that are to be released in January 2026); they are all animals, reminding me much of Legends of Chima! And then it struck me; these are all LARGE sets! When I was…

It's 20 years since Santa first appeared in a LEGO Advent Calendar - let's see how he has changed!

WE start our 2026 Creator 3in1 reviews with 31376 Cute Hamster with Flower. We also have insights from the set's designer into the 3in1 process.

Go Off the Grid with LEGO ICONS 11371 Shopping Street. [Review]

11371Shopping Street is our Next Modular Building - January 1 2026

The Great LEGO Puzzle Book [Review] The folks over at No Starch Press have sent a new book over for review. Jacob Berg’s The Great LEGO Puzzle book does just what it says on the cover: It brings 120 building challenges using just a handful of basic bricks. Is this the perfect way to while away…

New 2026 Botanicals Revealed. After last week's reveal of the 11501 Bunch of Tulips at the Chinese International Import Expo, another three Botanical sets in the 2026 lineup have been revealed. These sets will be released on January 1, 2026, and cover the range of sets we are becoming accustomed…

LEGO® ICONS Prepares to Boldly Go. 10365 Normally a picture release of a large grey spaceship heralds the arrival of something from the LEGO Star Wars team. But this is much more exciting. After moving around a series of alternative toy brick companies over the years, the Star Trek License has…

LEGO® Spring Festival, Ninjago and Botanical sets revealed at Chinese International Import Expo. Monkie Kid Absent from the Announcement. The 2025 Chinese International Import Expo is now underway, and we have seen several sets across a range of themes revealed. These include Chinese New Year…

Get Your Brickvention 2026 Tickets: 50% Discount for LEGO Insiders! The countdown is on for LEGO® fans! Tickets are now available for the Brickvention 2026 Public Expo, and the team organising the event are thrilled to announce an exclusive 50% discount on tickets for members of the LEGO® Insiders…

10366 LEGO® ICONS Tropical Aquarium 3: Customisation We have been taking a look at the 10366 Tropical Aquarium, coming out in mid November 2025. This is a large, expensive set, quite unlike anything that the LEGO Group has produced at this scale before. It's not based on a renowned piece of…

Does the LEGO IDEAS review team look at competor brands? Or Vice versa? I enjoy looking through all the ideas that are proposed and reviewed on LEGO ideas, and I have gotten the impression I'm not the only one. More and more am I seeing competing brands release sets that seem very closely related…

What did I learn from 10366 LEGO ICONS Tropical Aquarium? The 1066 Tropical Aquarium will be released in mid November. In our previous article, we looked at the overall build experience. The set is the most expensive LEGO® Set that is not based on an external IP, such as a movie, or large piece of…

10366 Tropical Aquarium: Build Experience The Tropical aquarium is a premium LEGO® set, which at first glance seeks to tie the neat parts usage that characterises the Botanicals range, with the less official 'Life Size Objects' sub-theme that we have seen in recent years across LEGO ICONS and…

Goonies Never Say Die. Now they can say build? It was the mid-1980s, and Steven Spielberg's Amblin Entertainment seemed to do no wrong. On the tail of E.T. the Extra terrestrial (1982)and Gremlins (1984), in 1985 Steven Spielberg's production company went on to present Back to the Future and The…

Brickvention 2026 Convention Day Tickets Now on Sale Great news: Tickets for the Brickvention 2026's Convention Day are now on sale. As Australia’s AFOL networking event, we expect to see a fantastic collection of models on display. By attending the Convention Day, you are among the first to see…

Great Scott! The Delorean Time Machine gets the LEGO Speed Champions Treatment! Let your mind drift back to the past. To a time when things were much simpler. Take yourself back to 2013. The Time Machine from Back to the Future was the fourth set to be released through the relatively new LEGO…

10366 LEGO® Icons Tropical Aquarium Revealed The latest LEGO® Icons set has been revealed, a 4154 piece model of a tropical aquarium. If you have been observing the range adult-focused LEGO models released over the past few years, you will have noticed a number of recurring , popular subjects for…

Lego® Voyagers Review: A Unique Co-op Puzzle Adventure We first took a look at Lightbrick Studio's Builder's Journey back in 2021, and while that game has been updated a couple of times, the announcement of their latest game, LEGO Voyagers, back in June that really piqued my interest. We bought a…

If anyone can, 31173 Tropical Toucan, can! Birds are dinosaurs. This is no longer a weird statement but well established; birds are the only dinosaur species still alive today. It's no accident that Jurassic Park III starts with an opening shot of a raptor-like claw that turns out to belong to a…

10374 LEGO® Botanicals Bouquet of Pink Roses: More than just a recolour? When you are on a good thing, stick to it. When 10328 Bouquet of Roses was released in January 2024, I suspect the LEGO Group knew they had a hit. The set periodically sells out, and compared to actual red roses, it offers…

76785 LEGO® Wednesday: Thing’s Apartment (review) Growing up in the 1970s and ‘80s meant that sitcoms from the 1960s were standard after school fare in Australia, and among these was the Addams Family. Occasionally it would alternate with the 1973 Cartoon, and eventually the inevitable slew of…

31175 Unicorn Castle Gave Me a Visual Sugar-Rush! Do you know the feeling of having too much cake with icing and a soft drink? Perhaps you've seen the effect such a combination at a children's party? That is the feeling I got from this set. The highlight of this set would obviously be the unicorn.…

Feeling old in a good way with 31174 Retro Telephone It has been a little while since calling someone by phone actually involved 'dialling' their number. This term is still sometimes used, although I suspect the majority of humans in Australia have not had the experience of turning a rotary dial…

Build a Basketball Poster with 43010 Nike Slam Dunk We continue our look at the September Nike releases today with a look at 43010 Nike Slam Dunk. When I first saw pictures of this set, I felt it was setting out to imitate the posters of the 80s and 90s, with creative photography photography…

Melbourne Brick Show: LEGO® Fun Awaits This Weekend Melbourne LEGO® Lovers, rejoice. MUGs, the Melbourne LEGO Users Group have their inaugural Melbourne Brick Show coming up this weekend. at the Coburg Town Hall. The show will be open from 9am -4pm Saturday; 9am-3pm Sunday. Tickets are available…

Score a basket with 43021 Nike Dunk Trickshot I have to admit, 6 months ago, I had no idea what to expect from the LEGO-NIKE collaboration. It could have been all about producing replica life-size sneaker models, as well as LEGO-branded sneakers and other apparel, as we saw with Adidas a few years…