Do you hear that rumble? Is it the sound of a far off battle between the Galactic Republic and the Confederacy of Independent Systems? No, it’s just the Light My Bricks office cheering wildly at the announcement of a new LEGO Star Wars UCS set! That’s right, an official Ultimate Collector Series set is finally here and we are all beyond excited to see the LEGO Star Wars UCS Republic Gunship 75309 lit up and on display, among the other hall-of-famer UCS light kits! While we absolutely loved the R2D2 upgrade we got for May 4th this year, technically that wasn’t a UCS set (even though it was choc ..read more

One good turn deserves another! The Volkswagen Camper Van is back again, this time with a new coat of paint and fitted out for a beach trip! We couldn't be more stoked - Surf's Up!   Light My Bricks has a lot of fond memories when it comes to VW auto sets. The T1 Camper was one of our first ever light kits, followed shortly by The VW Beetle. Back then LMB hadn’t develop more advanced components like our NC Push Board or Flicker Effects Board, so in comparison to more up to date kits, it may look a bit more stripped back! However the fundamentals of a great light kit are all there with th ..read more

Marvel is fast becomming a favourite theme over here at Light My Bricks, between the Venom and Carnage helmets and the recently released LEGO Infinity Gauntlet set we've been busy lighting up these dynamic display pieces. But, we knew we well and truly had our work cut out for us once the Daily Bugle was announced!   Measuring a towering 82cm tall, with 3772 pieces used to create 5 separate levels of Marvel mayhem, the Daily Bugle is definitely an 18+ set! You know the team here at LMB wasn't intimidated or deterred at all by the enormous size of the Bugle - we always relish the challeng ..read more

So no one told you lights were gonna be this wa-ay! *clapclapclap* The LEGO Friends Apartments 10292 set is here and it’s definitely lights, camera and action for the LMB team!  An amazing follow up to the wildly popular LEGO IDEAs Central Perk set, the LEGO Friends Apartment is roughly twice the brick size and a lot more than twice the detail size! This thing is full of great details spanning all 10 seasons of the show! Set size comparison image courtesy of Jay Bricks Blog! After the somewhat no-nonsense design challenge of building and lighting the NASA Discovery Shuttle and Hubble Telesco ..read more

There appears to be no limit to LEGO's innovation when it comes to new products - and all of these newly developed helmets are no exception!  It began with a DIY experiment at the start of the year and followed with the exciting expansion of the Star Wars helmet range during May 4th week. Now, focus is turning to the Marvel universe (in more ways than one!) and we're beyond excited! LEGO first launched the all new concept in April last year with the Boba Fett, Storm Trooper and Tie Fighter Pilot helmets. An awesome innovation that saw them follow up quickly with the equally iconic Iron M ..read more

LEGO x Super Mario is a combination that's too good to be true. However, still, they surprise us by adding another Super Mario character to the mix with LEGO The Mighty Bowser #71411. "Here we go" - Mario. The LEGO The Mighty Bowser #71411 features a fully poseable character with many authentic details. However, the most notable attribute of this character is that it features 100% NEW LEGO elements that consumers will have only seen in October of 2022. LEGO explains, "This buildable figure uses new-for-October-2022 LEGO elements to recreate the look of Bowser's spikes and has many features, i ..read more

Well, Rome wasn't built in a day - and neither was our new light kit for the LEGO Expert Creator Colosseum!   Light My Bricks fans have been asking since the sets release "will you design a light kit for the Colosseum?" and "when is the light kit for the Colosseum going to be released?!". We're proud to say the wait is finally over and the historical Roman LEGO landmark is now lit. The extended delay from LEGO set release and light kit availability was the result of a few different factors. First, when the LEGO announced the set back in November of last year, it wasn't obvious to our te ..read more

"A breeze ruffled the neat hedges of Privet Drive, which lay silent and tidy under the inky sky, the very last place you would expect astonishing things to happen." Well, we all know how that turned out, don't we? Astonishing things originated from 4 Privot Drive, and now LEGO has given us the opportunity to travel back to where the Harry Potter story began. This LEGO set is based on the iconic Dursley family home, which, as LEGO states, is "bursting with imaginative fun and adventures for Harry Potter fans to explore." LEGO also promises this set will provide endless fun for Harry Potter fan ..read more

"Follow the light to a truly moving experience.' - LEGO. The LEGO Motorised Lighthouse #21335 was a truly welcome surprise after a string of movie and game-inspired sets. The LEGO Motorised Lighthouse set was met with a lot of excitement from the Light My Bricks team as it is a callback to the classic days of LEGO, where you could just build for fun without worrying about recreating an exact replica of something on-screen. It’s for this reason that the LEGO Ideas series consistently produces some of our favourite sets! With a hefty 2065 LEGO pieces in the set, it's one of the biggest LEGO set ..read more

It seems the team at LEGO can read our minds from time to time over here at LMBHQ. Just when we were starting to mumble about wanting a new auto project to work on, LEGO goes ahead and announces the TECHNIC Ferrari 488 GTE ‘AF Corse #51’ An awesome looking TECHNIC set, the GTE appears to contain the same level of amazing detail as a Supercar, such as Lamborghini Sian or the Porsche 911 GT3 - just at a smaller scale, which helps with build time... and with the wallet! At a reasonable piece count of 1677 our team had the GTE built in around 5 hours total, though a chunk of that was taken up app ..read more