The LEGO web in 2026 is bigger and noisier than it was a year ago: the Executor Super Star Destroyer (75457) reveal in August and the Winter Village Holiday House (11387) reveal in September each produced dozens of articles, videos and threads within a day. This guide lists the 21 LEGO blogs, news sites, databases, communities, channels and podcasts we would actually keep open, grouped by what each one is for. We checked every site in late September 2026 and rechecked them in October, and for most we point to something specific it published this year, so you can judge the coverage yourself.

What changed since last year's list
  • Last year's guide was really a deal-sites list. This edition covers the whole hobby: news, reviews, parts databases, price tracking, forums, video and podcasts.
  • BrickHawk, on the 2025 list, showed us only a sign-up screen on every check this month, so it is out until it shows public prices again.
  • Brick Hound, r/legodeal and The Brothers Brick from the 2025 list are all still active and stay in.
  • None of the external links in this guide are affiliate links.

If You Only Follow Two

Site Best For Updates Seen in 2026
Jay's Brick Blog Reviews and monthly buying guides Most days Holiday House 11387 review, September 18, 4 out of 5
r/lego The community's real-time reaction Constant A discussion thread within hours of every reveal

LEGO News Sites

These are the sites that had the Executor and the Holiday House up within hours of the official reveal, and that cover the gift-with-purchase calendar, retirements and price changes in between. Pick one or two; they overlap heavily on the big stories and differ on depth, region and tone.

The Brick Fan

thebrickfan.com
Best for: the fastest word on promotions and stock. Updates: several posts a day.

Allen Tran's site is the one to check when you want to know what the gift with purchase is this week and whether a retired promo is back. In late September 2026 it had both the Scary Haunted Tree (40900) gift with purchase and the return of the Grond (40893) promotion up as they went live. It also publishes a monthly "LEGO Retiring Soon List", which is the quickest way to see what leaves shelves next.

Jay's Brick Blog

jaysbrickblog.com
Best for: honest reviews and a monthly "every new set" guide. Updates: most days.

Jay Ong writes from Australia, so prices appear in AUD alongside USD, and the reviews are long, well photographed and willing to say a set is overpriced. His September 18, 2026 review of the Holiday House (11387) gave it 4 out of 5 and noted the interior is built around fitting the big tree. The monthly "Buying Guide: Every new LEGO set releasing in ..." posts are the cleanest summary of a launch month we have found anywhere.

Brick Fanatics

brickfanatics.com
Best for: UK pricing and follow-up stories after a reveal. Updates: many posts a day.

Where most sites publish one reveal article and move on, Brick Fanatics keeps going: after the Executor announcement it ran a first-impressions piece, a full review that scored the set 9 out of 10, and a story on how LEGO tested the engine section for sagging when the model was too long for its usual heat test. It also tracks every BrickLink Designer Program finalist round. Note that the site blocks automated fetching, so it will not work in some reader apps.

The Rambling Brick

ramblingbrick.com
Best for: context and history rather than speed. Updates: roughly weekly.

This Australian blog is the one to read when you want to know why a set matters. His September 11, 2026 post on the Modular Buildings turning 20 in 2027 is a good example, as is his September 15 write-up of the Holiday House. Fewer posts than the big sites, but rarely a wasted one.

Beyond English: StoneWars and Hoth Bricks

stonewars.de (German) and hothbricks.com (French, with an English edition)
Best for: European pricing, promotions and rumours. Updates: several posts a day each.

Both sites often run European retailer sales and rumour round-ups before the English-language press catches up. In 2026 StoneWars covered the advent calendars and the Sagrada Família (21065) reveal, and Hoth Bricks published its own review of the Executor (75457). Browser translation handles StoneWars well; Hoth Bricks publishes its own English version.

Reviews and In-Depth Coverage

News sites tell you a set exists. These sites tell you whether it is any good, what is new inside the box, and how it compares with what came before.

The Brothers Brick

brothers-brick.com
Best for: reviews from builders' eyes, plus the best fan creations. Updates: daily.

Running since 2005, The Brothers Brick mixes set reviews with a daily feed of custom models, which makes it the place to see what talented builders do with the new parts. Its September 16, 2026 review of the Holiday House (11387) and its September 30 review of the Bookshop Book Nook (11379) show the review side.

New Elementary

newelementary.com
Best for: new parts, new colours and building techniques. Updates: a few posts a week.

Nobody else does this: every month New Elementary lists every new element in that month's sets and which sets contain them. The September 4, 2026 edition catalogued 352 new elements and noted that most were licensed pieces for Shrek, Star Trek and SpongeBob that will probably never reach Pick a Brick. It also tracks Pick a Brick additions and removals, and its reviews (Sagrada Família 21065 in September) focus on parts rather than play features.

Brick Architect

brickarchitect.com
Best for: the LEGO Architecture line, adult sets and storage. Updates: a few posts a month.

Tom Alphin, author of The LEGO Architect, runs regular news round-ups for adult builders, and its reviews are thorough and slow: the Tower Bridge (21067) review on July 27, 2026 walks through the build bag by bag.

Databases, Marketplaces and Deal Alerts

BrickLink

bricklink.com
Best for: buying individual parts and minifigures, plus Studio and the Designer Program. Updates: continuous.

LEGO-owned since 2019, BrickLink is the marketplace where thousands of small sellers list parts, minifigures and sets, and its price guide is the reference for what a used minifigure actually sells for. Studio is its free building software. The Designer Program, which turns fan designs into limited-run sets, picked its five Series 11 designs in 2026 (Royal Nest, Elven Citadel and The Village Parlour among them), with crowdfunding from June 1, 2027. Our BrickLink buying guide covers how to shop it without overpaying on shipping.

Brick Hound

brickhound.com
Best for: stock and price alerts by text or Discord. Updates: real time.

Brick Hound watches LEGO.com, Amazon, eBay and r/legodeal and pings you by SMS or Discord when a set you follow drops in price or comes back in stock. The site was live when we rechecked it in October 2026. Subscribe only to sets you are actually waiting for; the firehose channels are relentless.

r/legodeal

reddit.com/r/legodeal
Best for: clearance finds and store-specific codes. Updates: hourly.

Posts are titled with the retailer, the set and the discount, so it scans in seconds, and shoppers post the in-store clearance finds that no price tracker catches. Our own deals page covers the online marketplace side with prices checked daily.

Communities and Forums

r/lego

reddit.com/r/lego
Best for: the immediate reaction to anything LEGO does. Updates: constant.

The biggest general LEGO community we know of, and the first place jokes, complaints and spotting threads appear. Every reveal gets a discussion thread within hours. Sort by Top for the week if you only visit occasionally.

Eurobricks

eurobricks.com
Best for: deep, theme-specific discussion and MOC feedback. Updates: constant.

A classic forum with sub-forums for every theme, Eurobricks is where the Star Wars, Technic and Train communities keep multi-year threads going. If you build your own models, this is where you get useful criticism.

For in-person community, see our guides to LEGO User Groups and LEGO conventions.

YouTube Channels

YouTube pages could not be loaded for our October recheck, so this section describes each channel's format rather than its latest upload or subscriber count.

Beyond the Brick

youtube.com/@BeyondtheBrick
Best for: fan-built models and convention tours. Updates: daily.

Joshua Hanlon's channel is a near-daily walk through the best fan builds at conventions worldwide. Almost no set reviews; this is inspiration, not shopping.

JANG's LEGO Reviews

youtube.com/@JANGsLEGOreviews
Best for: independent, purchased-at-retail set reviews. Updates: several a week.

JANG has reviewed sets for well over a decade and moved his set reviews to this dedicated channel so his main channel could focus on reveals. Every title carries "#NotAd" because he buys what he reviews.

Solid Brix Studios

youtube.com/@SolidBrixStudios
Best for: big-set reviews and comparisons. Updates: roughly weekly.

The channel reviews large sets at length and is known for side-by-side comparison videos.

MandRproductions

youtube.com/@MandRproductions
Best for: LEGO Star Wars news, rumours and opinion. Updates: weekly ASK MandR plus news.

The channel is the Star Wars specialist, and the weekly ASK MandR question show is where rumours get discussed first: episode 423 took on whether the UCS Jabba's Sail Barge is retiring. Expect strong opinions.

RacingBrick

youtube.com/@RacingBrick
Best for: Technic and vehicle "detailed building reviews". Updates: roughly weekly.

RacingBrick films the whole build, not just the finished model, so you see the gearbox before you buy. Recent uploads include a detailed building review of the Bookstore Book Nook (11379).

Podcasts

Back 2 Brick

back2brick.buzzsprout.com
Best for: a weekly news recap you can listen to on the commute. Updates: weekly.

Garrett Gourley's news episodes summarise the week: the September 18, 2026 episode covered the 300-plus sets marked as retiring, the Yu-Gi-Oh reveal and the Holiday House; the August 28 episode was the Super Star Destroyer week. Between news episodes he interviews LEGO designers and builders.

AFOLs Welcome

AFOLs Welcome on Apple Podcasts
Best for: conversation about the hobby rather than the news. Updates: weekly.

Hosts Gr!ncH and Cat pick one topic per episode and bring in a guest who knows it. Episode 116 on September 21, 2026 was about being a parent and an adult fan at the same time; earlier September episodes covered building on a budget and a web tool for planning display layouts. A good fit if you want something slower than the news.

Investing and Retirement Tracking

One of the news sites above doubles as a retirement tracker: The Brick Fan's monthly Retiring Soon list. Our own LEGO investment guide explains how we read retirement data, the 2026 retirements list covers this year's departures, and every set page on this site has an Investment Analysis section built from our own market data.

How We Picked

We started from last year's list, then searched for the sites, channels and podcasts that covered the two biggest reveals of the season, the Executor (75457) and the Holiday House (11387). Every site had to be live in late September 2026 and had to have something published in 2026 that we could point to; if we could not find one, the site did not make the list, however well known it is. Brick Fanatics blocks automated requests, so we checked it in a normal browser. We dropped BrickHawk because it showed only a sign-up screen, and in October we dropped Brick Insights, which had no review scores for the big 2026 sets. Reddit and YouTube cannot be checked automatically, so those entries describe what each one is for rather than a single post. Descriptions are our own; we have not copied any site's own wording.

Final Thoughts

You do not need all 21. One news site, one review source, BrickLink for parts and r/lego for the conversation will cover almost everything; add a YouTube channel or a podcast for the format you actually enjoy. Whatever you follow, the test is the same one we used here: does it still publish things you can point to this year?

External links in this guide are not affiliate links. Site details and dates were checked in late September and October 2026 and will change.