Dag's Bricks

I'm rather thrilled to be building my first ever LEGO commission.  The news coverage on my 1:1000 scale downtown Portland garnered some...

I tout myself as a purist and would never cause any harm to any living LEGO piece.  That said, sometimes reconstructive surgery is called fo...

Think it can't be done?  Let my kid show you.  My 5 year old daughter showed me a little "table scrap" the other day telling ...

When I was kid I had two tools at my disposal for separating plates from other pieces.  The first one was my fingernails.  But as I have a h...

Quite a while ago I ran a series of posts describing the different sizes of Systems and how they all were part of the greater whole.  That i...

Here's a fun parlor trick.  If you've got a single bag set, try building it in the bag.  No tearing open the bag and dumping the con...

Roof slopes (or Roof Tiles according to TLG) are a lot of fun to play with.  As a home designer by day, I enjoy working out dramatic roof la...

Roll them bones!  Probably one of the greatest things to come out of the new generation of LEGO Games has been the dice.  They seem to sell ...

I'm not much of a CMF collector.  I had a little run on Series 6 but beyond that it's been hit and miss.  But when Series 11 came ou...

After our recent discussions on DUPLO , Quatro , and Primo , there is one even larger size of stud to consider.  Did you realize that The LE...

Continuing with our subject of big (and out of production) LEGO pieces, today we're going to play with some Primo.  In following the log...

Quatro makes DUPLO look like LEGO.  Wait, what?  See, DUPLO is a double sized LEGO brick.  You can see that in the name itself.  Quatro is ...

DUPLO (if you haven't noticed) is a larger sized LEGO compatible brick made by the same company.  The target audience is usually pre-sch...

It's been a while since I posted some examples of how I finish the street edges of my Micropolis blocks.  The final piece of the puzzl...