The first LEGO Dragon Ball set is here, and Shenron costs $180
LEGO has been making anime for about fifteen years now, it just never bothered to license any. Ninjago is a spiky-haired ensemble of teenage martial…
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Your Old Barbie Dolls Actually Become Speakers and Power Banks
When I was young, a lot of my stuff was pink. Not just any pink. It had to be Barbie pink. I eventually grew into…
San Francisco’s most iconic buildings are now a 4,200 brick LEGO diorama
Every city has one view that ends up on the fridge magnets, and San Francisco settled that argument a long time ago. It’s the row…
MetMo Eddy Makes Gravity Look Like It Changed Its Mind
Watch a small metal ball drop through a tube, and normally that’s it; blink, and it’s over. But drop it through MetMo Eddy, and something…
Pink Floyd has never gotten a LEGO set. This fan built the one everyone’s been waiting for
Fifty one years. That’s how long Wish You Were Here has been sitting in the canon, selling something like 20 million copies, topping the charts…
Gorgeous LEGO Book Nook Has a Steam Train Blasting Straight Through Its Snowy Pages
Every kid who grew up with Chris Van Allsburg’s The Polar Express remembers that moment where the story stops behaving like a story. A train…
This $120 Lumibricks Manga Shop Glows Like Cyberpunk Shibuya at Midnight
Anyone who has wandered Tokyo’s Nakano Broadway knows the joy of a cramped shop stacked floor to ceiling with secondhand manga. Those shops smell like…
Delightfully Retro LEGO Art Deco Hotel Celebrates Vice City with GTA 6 Right Around The Corner
Here’s a fun bit of trivia to drop at your next party and watch people’s eyes glaze over: LEGO made its own version of Vice…
Pingu Is Getting A New Show, And Now LEGO Fans Want In Too
Here’s a fun fact for you. Pingu is getting a brand new show. Yes, that Pingu, the clay penguin from 1990 who talks exclusively in…
LEGO’s 1:1 PlayStation replica lets you put the iconic ’90s console on your desk
PlayStation 1 changed the complexion of gaming when it first came out in the mid 1990s, and the rest is history. The graphics on the…
The 5 Best LEGO Sets of September 2026
You cleared the display shelf in July and told yourself you were waiting for something worth the space. The shelf is still clear. You set…
This 1,608-Piece LEGO David Comes with Its Own Historically Accurate ‘Detail’
Michelangelo never gave David a fig leaf. Prudish museum directors did that centuries later, and one particularly famous plaster cast fig leaf still exists today,…
Business Cards Were Forgettable, so Bandai Built a $22 Mecha Case
Handing over a business card is, in most professional settings, a fairly unremarkable moment. You produce it, they take it, everyone moves on. Bandai Spirits,…
LEGO’s new Executor Super Star Destroyer is its longest Star Wars set yet
LEGO is giving one of the most imposing ships in the Star Wars universe a suitably oversized treatment. The new Executor Super Star Destroyer set…
Someone Finally Built the Three’s Company Apartment in LEGO, Celebrating the 70s Sitcom
Sitcom apartments are basically stage sets pretending to be homes, and nobody understood that better than “Three’s Company.” The entire show ran on doors slamming…
Mattel’s 1:1 brick-built Xbox is a 3,509-piece tribute to gaming’s early 2000s era
The original Xbox is turning 25, and Mattel is marking the occasion with a collector’s piece that transforms Microsoft’s first gaming console into a 1:1-scale…