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This roller coaster is one of the biggest Lego sets ever - and it can even be powered
Fancy a new building challenge? What about this £300 Lego Creator Expert Roller Coaster, an epic set that can use Lego Power Functions parts to motorise the chain lift.Alternatively, you can combine it with Lego Boost as well!It’s a huge set, with... Read more
The latest Lego Star Wars set is a superb model of the Y-Wing Starfighter
Following on from the biggest Lego set ever, the Star Wars Ultimate Collector Series has moved onto the £170 Y-Wing Starfighter which will hit Lego stores in a month’s time - yes it really will be a May the fourth (be with you) to remember if you get... Read more
Omate X Nanoblock is a Lego-inspired smartwatch kids will really want
There are plenty of smartwatches available now but finding one that suits a child, both for style and security, can be tough. Omate believes it has the answer and will be showing its kid-friendly wearable at Mobile World Congress at the end of the month.The... Read more
What’s it like to design a Lego set? We talk to a Lego designer!
Lego has just celebrated 60 years of the ubiquitous plastic brick and to celebrate we spoke to Jonathan Peter Robson who is one of the company’s foremost Lego set designers.The Lego brick has become one of the most popular toys in the world since Godtfred... Read more
Lego AR-Studio brings Lego bricks to life in a digital world
Lego has just launched a new AR app for iOS 11 devices that will let Master Builders the world over combine real-life Lego sets with virtual ones to create a brand new way of playing. Apple's AR platform: These demos show what ARKit can do Lego Boost... Read more
Mega discount on Lego Death Star, this is the Black Friday deal you're looking for
It's Black Friday, and there are great deals all over the web. For those of you who are fans of Star Wars and Lego, there are cracking deals to be had right now, including the huge Lego Death Star. As Lego sets go, few are more desirable or iconic than... Read more
Ultimate Collector Series Lego Millennium Falcon in pictures, all 7,541 pieces of it
Just how much of a Lego Star Wars fan are you? Enough to spend £650 on 7,541 piece Star Wars Lego Millennium Falcon? That's what Lego is hoping as it launches its biggest set ever to date in celebration of the new Star Wars movie, The Last Jedi.Announced... Read more
Lego is honouring the women of NASA with this cool new set
Lego's latest set should make space-geek feminists very happy.The company is developing a new Lego set featuring five historic women who contributed to NASA's space program. MIT News editor Maia Weinstock created the set, called Women of NASA, and submitted... Read more
Lego Life lays the building blocks for a safe online presence for kids
The Lego Group has just launched Lego Life, an app-based social network designed specifically for kids aged 13 and under. Lego Life will work in a similar way to Instagram, where kids can share photos of their Lego creations at home, and others can comment... Read more
Lego City Undercover confirmed for Nintendo Switch, here's the trailer
Warner Bros has confirmed that there will an enhanced Nintendo Switch version of the underrated Wii U title Lego City Undercover.The open world adventure - sort of a tamer, Lego-flavoured Grand Theft Auto - was one of the Wii U launch games and got rave... Read more
Lego Boost sets to bring your Lego alive
Lego has launched a range of new robotics coding kits that are aiming to inspire would-be creators to dabble with more than just building static spaceships and houses.Revealed at CES in Las Vegas, the new range of robots and programmable toys called Lego... Read more
Flybrix is a do-it-yourself flying drone kit that uses Lego pieces
Ever want to build a drone from scratch? Well, now you can using Lego.Flybrix is offering a unique, do-it-yourself drone kit, which is based on the idea that if you crash your drone, you can rebuild it and make it airborne again within minutes. This... Read more
Lego Dimensions Wave 6 in pictures: Gremlins, Harry Potter, Adventure Time and more
From 27 September, Lego Dimensions will gain a new wave of characters and missions. Like before, they are based on movie and TV show licences, but all-new ones that haven't featured before.The are new Level Packs, Team Packs and Fun Packs, plus a new... Read more
Lego Star Wars The Force Awakens review: The best Lego game to date
In recent years, it has become fashionable to adopt an air of cynicism about the Lego games. They have continued to come thick and fast and, consequently, have attracted accusations of saminess. Such cynicism generally evaporates once stuck into their... Read more
Everybody needs to get behind Lego Monument Valley right now
We've often been fond of proposed Lego sets that appear on Lego Ideas, but one of the latest has particularly piqued our interest.Lego Ideas (formerly Cuusoo) is an online place where budding builders put forward their potential toy sets and hope to garner... Read more
Lego Star Wars: The Force Awakens brings new story content
Star Wars and Lego is a mix made in the heavens and it'll be descending to us earthlings in a new form soon. A Lego Star Wars: The Force Awakens game has been announced.Warner Bros. Interactive Entertainment has announced the game which will arrive... Read more
Lego Marvel's Avengers review: A Marvel-lous return to form
Recently, Lego games have strayed into dangerous territory which has seen them come uncomfortably close to becoming victims of their own success. While the world at large is still fully in the grip of a Lego moment, TT Games' relentless Lego-ising of... Read more
These are the Lego sets you'll want in 2016: Nexo Knights, Angry Birds and more
Each year Lego unveils its new sets that combine top name franchises and in-house brands. For families though, there’s a tension between block building creativity and the product becoming a way to get children into other franchises.At this year’s... Read more
Lego Education WeDo 2.0 brings Lego robots to the classroom
Your kids could be about to start playing with Lego at school after the company has launched an educational toy box that encourages robotic code learning.Best seen as a more approachable version of Lego Mindstorms, Lego Education WeDo 2.0 is a hands-on,... Read more
Lego Star Wars Millennium Falcon Review: Chewie, we're home
You probably fall into one of two camps. The ones that have seen Star Wars: The Force Awakens, and the ones that are waiting to see it a second time.The Lego Star Wars Millennium Falcon is a reworking of the original Lego Millennium Falcon launched to... Read more
Which Star Wars: The Force Awakens Lego set should you buy?
Star Wars: The Force Awakens is now out in cinemas across the globe and to coincide with the new movie, Lego has released a number of new Star Wars Force Awakens Lego sets so you can relive the action of the film, after you've built it of course.With... Read more
The Great Christmas Giveaway Day 3: Win £300 worth of Lego Technics
Welcome to The Great Christmas Giveaway 2015, giving you the chance to win some great prizes in the run up to Christmas right here on Pocket-lint.All you'll have to do to enter is check Pocket-lint each day to see what prize is up for grabs, answer a... Read more
Lego Dimensions review: Everything Is Awesome
Lego Dimensions joins the toys-to-life race this year in impressive form. Because from the very start the focus is as much on the toys as it is the screen - within minutes of play you'll put the controller down to build the Lego Toy Pad peripheral, which... Read more
Lego Dimensions wave 1 in pictures: The Starter Pack, Team Packs, Level Packs and Fun Packs in the flesh
Lego Dimensions is Warner's answer to Skylanders and Disney Infinity in that it is a "toys to life" game where you get to add additional characters and vehicles to an original starter set through the included portal, but where it differs from the other... Read more
We've only gone and built the Lego Mercedes-Benz AROCS 3245
With over 2,793 pieces of Lego in the box, the replica Mercedes-Benz AROCS 3245 (£169.99) made from Lego Technics isn't a build that you should approach lightly.Even blitzing your way through the 482 pages of the instruction manual is going to take you... Read more
WIN: 8 Lego Technics sets worth over £450 including the new Mercedes-Benz Arocs 3245
Pocket-lint has teamed up with Lego to give two lucky readers the chance to win a mega haul of Technics Lego sets.From the iconic partnership with the Mercedes-Benz Arocs set to a giant Crawler Crane, there is plenty of fun to be had building whether... Read more
Scooby Doo trailer shows how Lego Dimensions is taking toys to life to a new level
As momentum builds towards next month’s launch of Lego Dimensions, a new trailer focusing on Scooby-Doo underlines the multiple franchises available in the Starter Pack along with a staring role for Shaggy and Scooby.Scooby-Doo is one of the 14 brands... Read more
Doctor Who confirmed for Lego Dimensions: All 13 Doctors to appear, even John Hurt
Although it was previously leaked - by Lego itself no less - it has now been confirmed that Doctor Who will be joining the cast of the game/toy collection Lego Dimensions.The 12th Doctor will be voiced by Peter Capaldi, who plays the character on TV,... Read more
The Big Bang Theory gets Lego-fied, see the cast in minifig form
Those of you who love The Big Bang Theory will be stoked to hear Lego has had its way with the show.According to Entertainment Weekly, Lego has created a set for The Big Bang Theory. It's described as "Leonard and Sheldon’s Lego living room set" - and... Read more
Lego Worlds is like Minecraft but with Lego bricks, watch the new game's trailer here
Lego has added a Minecraft-like video game to its toy box. The Danish company just unveiled Lego Worlds. It's being billed as an open-environment game, in which you can generate worlds made entirely of Lego bricks. So, it's basically a Minecraft knock-off.... Read more
The guy who made Lego Ghostbusters a thing has now dreamed up an X-Files set
Sci-fi geeks will be glad to learn that the man who designed last year's Ghostbusters 30th Anniversary set for Lego has gone back to the drawing board and mocked up an entirely new and brilliant idea: a Lego X-Files set.The Lego Group allows people to... Read more
Great Scott! Watch Christopher Lloyd return as Doc Brown in new Lego Dimensions trailer
Although we've had both an official announcement and accidental leak for Lego Dimensions already, neither has excited us as much as the latest teaser trailer for the game. It features Christopher Lloyd reprising his most iconic role, as Back to the Future's... Read more
Everything Lego is awesome! Including Lego Google Street View
Lego is awesome, this is true. Making real world things into Lego versions is awesome too, just look at Lego Star Wars or the Lego Simpsons house. And now we have a Lego version of Google Street View, Lego Brick View, that turns areas on a map into Lego,... Read more
Lego Dimensions figures leaked: Doctor Who, Portal 2, The Simpsons and more
Warner's forthcoming Skylanders-rivalling Lego Dimensions will have possibly the greatest cast of characters ever assembled for a single videogame. As well as the figures revealed as part of the official announcement, which include characters from Wizard... Read more
Live your own Jurassic World adventure, in Lego
Jurassic World, the latest in the series of cult dinosaur movies, will be hitting cinemas on 12 June, but you can get in on the action now, in classic Lego style.Lego has released six new Lego sets to celebrate the movie, letting you set the dinosaurs... Read more
Simpsons Minifigures series 2 is another dose of Lego awesome
Rejoice! A second series of Simpsons and Lego Minifigs has been released.There are now 16 new Simpsons Lego Minifigs to collect, hitting any reputable stores from 1 May. There's a great selection of characters in the mix here, including some of The Simpsons... Read more
Lego Dimensions is here to let you play as Batman in Back To The Future
What if the myriad worlds of Lego were to cross-over into one giant adventure? That's the question that Lego Dimensions is here to answer with inevitably awesome gaming.Lego Dimensions is a new way of experiencing Lego both in the real world, building,... Read more
Lego Powerloader from Aliens can be yours, even if Lego doesn't want to share
A Lego version of the Powerloader from the Aliens movie has been created by builder Mark Nathan Willetts and will be available to copy soon.Lego has a strict policy about creating anything from movies with an 18 rating since it wants to be for children... Read more
If there's just one Lego Ideas project to vote for today, make sure it's this
Ever since the Lego Ideas (nee Cuusoo) program started there have been some amazing fan-made sets greenlit and sold as consumer products.Popular and cult movies have been represented and seen their properties made into official Lego sets, including Back... Read more
Everything is awesome, again: The Lego Movie Sequel is coming
Just when you thought you couldn’t watch The Lego Movie yet another time, in the same day, a sequel has been announced.The Lego Movie Sequel, as it's being comically called, is due to arrive in 2018. But before you start readying yourself for years... Read more
Fifty Shades of Grey in five shades of spoof vids: Lego, Barbie and more
It's been almost four years since Fifty Shades of Grey became an international book sensation, initially available in digital format but soon hitting every other conceivable medium as it smashed sales records. Now the long-awaited movie adaptation is... Read more
Forget fake Doctor Who Lego, now you’re getting the real thing
It wasn't real Lego but Character Options' Doctor Who Character Building range was the closest we got to the Time Lord (indeed, all of the incarnations) being rendered in minifig form. The sets were compatible with Lego too, so you could mix and match.However,... Read more
Robot-body upgrade anyone? A worm has had its mind put into a Lego robot
It's finally happened, the mind of a living organism has been put into the body of a man-made robot. Specifically a Lego robot has been made that now thinks like a worm.The OpenWorm project has mapped connections between a worm's 302 neurons and simulated... Read more
You must watch this: Top Gear and Lego team for perhaps the weirdest trailer for a show yet
Ever wondered what Top Gear would be like if it was animated and in Lego? No, us neither but bizarrely the BBC's official trailer for series 22 is exactly that. It is Lego representation of the show. Wow.It's actually quite good, with each of the presenters... Read more
Bet you'd love your car made into Lego like these
Regular readers of Pocket-lint will know we have a fondness for Lego here on Pocket-lint. We've built many constructions of our own and even interviewed the UK's very own, genuine master builder recently. However, we've never had our cars made of Lego... Read more
Secrets of a Lego master builder: What's involved in building a 500,000 piece Lego sleigh?
What did you want to be when you grew up? A pilot? A train driver? Maybe an astronaut? Maybe you just wanted to play with Lego for your entire life, but surely that wasn't possible? Well, get ready to have your mind blown...Not only is it possible, there's... Read more
Best extreme sports video ever? Watch this stop-motion featuring Playmobil toys
If you love extreme sports and toys, than you'll love Xtreme Videos' latest stop-motion film. It features Playmobil characters with BMX bikes.Playmobil has been making toys for 25 years and is considered a major competitor to Lego toys. It also has a... Read more
Best Lego minifigures complete Series 12 picture gallery
Lego is constantly updating with new builds and new characters. The latest minifigures range to be released is Series 12. These new figures offer a code with each character which can be used to unlock access to the playable character in the Lego Minifigures... Read more
Lego Serious Play is the grown-up office toy you'll always wish you had
Some of the sparkly new offices on the start-up scene have their fun foibles installed, such as foosball and ping-pong tables (table tennis if you like). Some have slides and swings, fun is positively promoted, and yet these outfits continue to get the... Read more
Lego Minecraft brings online bricks into the real world, full-sized
Lego has released a new range of Minecraft kits, with full-sized bricks, available to buy now. These are just the start as more sets are due to follow.Until now the only Lego Minecraft available was micro sets with the blocks and characters shrunk down... Read more