How to Build Your Lego Collection Like a Lego Master (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 hundreds of bricks organized by colour in a chest-high shelving unit (and a giant bin of blended items on the ground).

Most fans can empathize and have an identical expertise. None extra so than Stacey Roy, the “brickfluencer” who received final 12 months’s season of Lego Masters. The Fox present is a contest between numerous pairs of Lego fans as they compete towards one another in a sequence 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 group can choose no matter items they want and nevertheless many from the Brick Pit, an unimaginable wall with tens of millions of bricks and specialty bricks for every problem. In the event you’re just starting out, accumulating sufficient items to construct something can seem to be step one on a path to insolvency. Sure, typically 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 the way to get began constructing a Lego assortment. 

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Begin With a Theme

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

Lego began making licensing deals way back to 1999, including iconic properties like Star Wars and Marvel to its roster. In the event you’re into Star Wars, beginning out by accumulating every of these units might be one of the simplest ways to construct up a group of specialty items to reuse. Probably the most recognizably distinctive items are probably the minifigures, however with just a little creativeness, different items might be repurposed as nicely. Roy factors out that the Lego pink frog on a bonsai tree appears to be like 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 significantly 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 with regards to reusing items,” Roy says. Take note of what you wish to construct, and you’ll study which items and constructing types you like.

Discovering Particular Items

If there’s a selected piece it’s worthwhile to have to finish a construct, Lego’s on-line Pick a Brick—the place you’ll find items by key phrase, piece quantity, colour, 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 youngsters’ journal. It’s necessary to notice right here that you just don’t get factors for purchases made outdoors of official Lego shops or Lego.com, which implies 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 presents various things, I make it a precedence to go to each retailer in particular person after I journey,” she says.