How you can Construct Your Lego Assortment Like a Lego Grasp (2023)

I don’t bear in mind when my household first acquired our first Lego bricks. Like awakening from a fever dream, I regained consciousness up to now few years and realized we now have a complete room devoted to Lego, with 1000’s of bricks organized by coloration in a chest-high shelving unit (and a giant bin of combined items on the ground).

Most lovers can empathize and have the same expertise. None extra so than Stacey Roy, the “brickfluencer” who received final yr’s season of Lego Masters. The Fox present is a contest between numerous pairs of Lego lovers as they compete in opposition to one another in a collection of, frankly, insane themed constructing challenges. Final season, actor Chris Pratt guest-hosted a Jurassic Park–themed episode the place the groups needed to embody fireworks and explosions of their dinosaur builds. Roy and her associate, Nick Della Mora, received in a finale that challenged them to include their very first Lego set into their grasp construct.

The competitors removes one main constraint: Every staff can decide no matter items they want and nonetheless many from the Brick Pit, an unimaginable wall with hundreds of thousands of bricks and specialty bricks for every problem. Should you’re just starting out, accumulating sufficient items to construct something can look like step one on a path to insolvency. Sure, generally you’re simply broke. (I promised my husband the Colosseum for Christmas, FML.) However all of us have to begin someplace. We requested Roy for her recommendations on how one can get began constructing a Lego assortment. 

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Begin With a Theme

Most of us get into Lego the identical method—we discover a set we actually need and go from there. “I felt the urge to get again into Lego a number of years in the past, in essentially the most insane method potential,” Roy says. “I purchased the Millennium Falcon ($850). It’s an incredible set and I extremely suggest it.”

Lego began making licensing deals way back to 1999, including iconic properties like Star Wars and Marvel to its roster. Should you’re into Star Wars, beginning out by accumulating every of these units might be one of the simplest ways to construct up a set of specialty items to reuse. Essentially the most recognizably distinctive items are probably the minifigures, however with somewhat creativeness, different items could be repurposed as properly. Roy factors out that the Lego pink frog on a bonsai tree seems to be precisely like a cherry blossom while you take a step again.

When you’ve began with a theme, Roy recommends the modular building sets, which include numerous notably helpful constructing items. For instance, the Boutique Hotel ($230) has Victorian-style wrought-iron railings that, while you look nearer, are literally skeleton arms. “Lego is extremely imaginative in terms of reusing items,” Roy says. Take note of what you need to construct, and you’ll study which items and constructing kinds you like.

Discovering Particular Items

If there’s a particular piece it’s good to have to finish a construct, Lego’s on-line Pick a Brick—the place yow will discover items by key phrase, piece quantity, coloration, and set—is the pure first place to begin. Nevertheless it’s not your solely useful resource.

My household is subscribed to the Lego Insiders program, which, relying on what number of Lego bricks you purchase, is value it. You get factors for purchases and a heads-up on Lego gross sales. My 8-year-old additionally enjoys the Lego Life children’ journal. It’s vital to notice right here that you simply don’t get factors for purchases made outdoors of official Lego shops or Lego.com, which signifies that purchases made at Legoland and at Lego-certified or affiliated shops received’t depend towards your totals.

Roy recommends visiting your native Lego retailer in particular person. “As a result of each Lego retailer is totally different and provides various things, I make it a precedence to go to each retailer in particular person once I journey,” she says.