It’s been a tough three years for fans of Lego and the Harry Potter stories. When the theme was discontinued at the end of 2007, many of us despaired of them ever coming back. When Lego and Warner Brothers announced earlier this year that six new sets would be coming ...

If you’re anything like most of us here at GeekDad, the Toy Story franchise is well, a Very Important Thing. And so is Lego. So when reader Will tipped us off about this awesome Toy Story Lego build of the famed Claw, we just had to share. A detailed description ...

This Lego-produced video highlights some of the company’s activities and promotions at last week’s Star Wars Celebration V, including life-size statues and fan-made costumes. My favorite part, of course, is the time-lapse of the giant mura...

Jon Ippolito, Associate Professor of New Media at the University of Maine and an oft-quoted source in some past Wired stories, has a problem. You see, Jon purchases Lego sets for his son — specifically Star Wars Lego sets. That’s not the problem, as we all know how awesome those sets ...

My son and I built the Lego Slave I this weekend. It was a quick build — we finished in a couple of hours — and we were impressed by the model’s detail, but the best part was the brick of Han Solo encased in carbonite! Check out the video ...

No hinge pieces. No tricky angles or layered builds. Just 160,000+ Lego bricks hand pieced onto 4,608 six-by-six-block tiles over the first three days of Star Wars Celebration V. Watching this 8-by-15-foot mural come together has been one of my favorite things this weekend. You came up to the often-crowded table, ...

I have to admit: I don’t play a lot of classic board games. I don’t even own Monopoly (or any variations thereof) and the last time I played Risk I may have still had some of my baby teeth still. My sister used to have Battleship when we were growing ...

LEGO bricks + R/C Cars + Demolition Derby = Fun! My publisher decided they wanted to put out a video with me and my kids working one of the projects from my book (see that link over there on the sidebar? —-> ), and this seemed like the best combination of ...

Over at planningwithkids.com there is an excellent guest post from Australia author, Susan Stephenson, on how to use your child’s love of Lego to encourage them to read and engage with the written word. It has a bunch of great ideas worth considering with a whole bunch of links to YouTube ...

The following is a guest post from Will Pomerantz, Senior Director of Space Prizes at the X Prize Foundation. This post is a continuation of my series of profiles for teams competing in the MoonBots educational competition. In brief, MoonBots challenges teams of students (aged 9-18, with adult ‘team ...