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BrickNerd - All things LEGO and the LEGO fan community

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By Brian Hickey
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LEGO conventions often offer play-based fun for younger attendees. From Duplo pits to mosaic walls, from free play to building challenges, there’s lots to do for kids. But at a recent visit to Bricks Cascade, the clear winner in our family was the Brick Derby. What’s A Brick Derby? Glad you asked! Similar to a Pinewood Derby, a Brick Derby is a chance for kids to build cars from their own imagination using a standard chassis. They’re then raced down a slope powered entirely by gravity.
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AFOLs With Kids: Should You Combine Your Collections? - BrickNerd - All things LEGO and the LEGO fan community

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By Brian Hickey
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A question that often gets asked in my house is, “Whose LEGO piece is this?” It could just as easily be mine as one of the kids. If it’s mine, it goes into my ‘to sort’ box. If it belongs to the boys, it goes into their ‘bucket of doom’ where the pieces of all their disassembled sets go to live in chaotic harmony. But trying to figure out what to do with these lost pieces has got me thinking: When, if ever, should AFOLs combine their collections with those of their kids?
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BrickNerd - All things LEGO and the LEGO fan community

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By Brian Hickey
| BrickNerd
While we focus mainly on the AFOL community here at BrickNerd, I thought it would be fun to reconvene my scientific panel of children for another round of “LEGO According To Kids.” As builders and hobbyists, we use a lot of acronyms and nicknames to discuss LEGO. But can someone with little to no exposure to the hobby understand any of the lingo we use? I quizzed my kids, aged 3, 6 and 7, to see what translates from our comprehensive BrickNerd AFOL Slang Dictionary.
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