Lego Resources
I’ve been running into a lot of people lately who are newer to Lego than I am with many questions about the history of Lego or where to find some of the things I’ve learned throughout the decades I’ve been a Lego person. I decided to do something of a “Master Post” to start compiling all the places on the internet I’ve found to be very helpful :) 1) the Lego website itself (https://www.lego.com/en-us/) at the very bottom of the page is a bunch of links to a variety of different places on the Lego website, including “Finding Building Instructions” () and “Replacement Parts” (https://www.lego.com/en-us/service/replacementparts). “Replacement Parts” takes you to another screen where you can choose between “Missing Bricks”, “Broken Bricks”, and “Buy Bricks”. The “Buy Bricks” option takes you to the actual “Pick-a-Brick” wall where as of 13 September 2022, there are 584 pages of selectable bricks. 2) also on the Lego website is access to the Lego VIP program. While logged into your VIP account, you can go to the “Rewards” section (https://www.lego.com/en-us/vip/rewards-center/rewards) and choose to spend some of your VIP points. The “Rewards” section also allows you to use VIP points for real and exclusive purchases, including passes to Legoland Parks and Legoland Discovery Centers. 3) if you’re located in the Pacific Northwest in the United States, you might want to check out BrickCon (https://brickcon.org/). It’s an amazing display from builders at all levels, plus a variety of vendors. Some of the local vendors I know are Bricks and Wheels with locations in Kent and Bellevue (https://bricksandwheels.com/ or https://www.facebook.com/bricksandwheels), the Brick House from Olympia (https://thebrickhouseolympia.business.site/ or https://www.facebook.com/TheOlyBrickhouse), and Sasquatch Bricks from Tacoma (https://www.sasquatchbricks.com/ or https://www.facebook.com/sasquatchbricks/). 4) if you’re interested in checking the inventory of Lego sets or want to see different sets within specific themes, you should check out BrickLink (https://www.bricklink.com/), officially purchased by the Lego Group several years ago. From there, you can search for parts inventory on specific sets, find and order things online, and eventually set up your own shop and sell online, if that’s something interesting to you. While there are instructions available for purchase, if you just want to download instructions, I would recommend checking the official Lego website first, in case you can find it as a free download. Otherwise, I’ve had a lot of great success downloading instructions for free from Toys Period (https://www.toysperiod.com/). 5) the Brick Nerd did a post several days ago about some of the harder to recognize Lego bricks and rather then copy all their links, I’m just going to link to their post on the topic (https://bricknerd.com/home/what-is-this-hard-to-identify-lego-parts-9-9-22), which has a lot of good resources intended to help people figure out what pieces may or may not be official Lego bricks. 6) interested in some of the print and visual history of Lego bricks, including the older magazines and catalogues? This website (https://emilyinternet.zone/realm/scans.html) has an extensive collection of magazines from the 1960s until the early 2000s, including Lego Mania, the Lego Magazine, Lego World Club Magazine, and Lego Adventures. This is just the beginning of my resources. As I find more, I’ll definitely update this post. If there’s anything you would like to see here or something I missed, let me know and I’ll include your updates :)
