Editor of Brick by Brick, adult LEGO fan and collector
I'm Jonny Utah, the editor behind Brick by Brick. I'm an adult LEGO fan who built this site to answer the questions I kept running into as a collector: which set is worth the money, whether a retiring set is likely to hold its value, and what to buy for someone else.
Every guide and comparison here starts from the same sources: our catalog of official sets for piece counts, years and inventories; current market pricing; and community feedback from Reddit and YouTube. Where a page uses AI-assisted summaries it says so, and the numbers on it come from that data, not from the model. I don't build every set I write about, and the site never claims otherwise. When an article draws on hands-on experience with a set, it says so in the text.
I also build the tools on this site, from BlockTalk to the price-per-piece and display-space calculators, because I wanted them for my own collection. The full methodology is on the How We Review page.
Full methodology: How We Review.
Every LEGO Pokémon set released in 2026, wave by wave: the February 27 display builds, the August adult sets and SMART Play range, and the October Poké Ball with the first trainer minifigures, plus which SMART Play sets include the SMART Brick and which set to buy first.
Brickcraft is a brick brand built on licenses LEGO does not have, from Futurama and Breaking Bad to The Golden Girls and 90s Nickelodeon. Here is what it sells, where to buy it, what it says about compatibility, and which current LEGO pop culture sets to consider instead.
Of LEGO's three giant landmark sets, only the Titanic is clearly still on sale. The Colosseum retired at the end of 2023 and the Eiffel Tower is past its expected exit. Here is how the three compare, and the giant sets to buy instead in 2026.
The LEGO podcasts still putting out episodes in October 2026, from Back 2 Brick's weekly news to AFOLs Welcome and The Hidden Bricks, checked against each show's latest episode, plus the shows that have gone quiet.
Where each LEGO film and series streams in the US as of October 2026: the four theatrical films are split across Paramount+, HBO Max and Prime Video, while Ninjago, DREAMZzz, Friends and LEGO One Piece live on Netflix and Monkie Kid on Peacock.
If you want a building set that drives, JMBricklayer sells remote control trains and construction vehicles with the motor, battery and remote included, while LEGO's current motorized range is small: one CONTROL+ car leaving at the end of 2026, a motorized excavator and two Powered Up City trains. Here is what comes in each box and who should buy which.
LEGO alternatives cost far less at list price, but are they worth it? We compared sets from CaDA, Reobrix, MEGA, and JMBricklayer on quality, RC features, and long-term value, drawing on builder reviews and published specifications.
JMBricklayer is a Shenzhen brand of building sets for adults, many with motors and a remote in the box. This comparison covers who makes it, whether its bricks fit LEGO, what an independent review found on quality and instructions, how its range differs from LEGO's, and who should buy which.
The six-pin LPF2 connector links LEGO Powered Up, SPIKE and Technic hubs to their motors and sensors. This guide gives the pinout, how a hub tells a simple motor from a smart sensor, how the LEGO UART Message Protocol works, and the libraries that let you build on it safely.
Turn a LEGO Powered Up train layout into an automated railway. RFID readers under the track report which train passed, an MQTT broker carries the messages, an ESP32 in each train drives the hub with the Legoino library, and a small Python script decides when trains stop and go. All code here connects, reconnects and handles an emergency stop.
A LEGO sorter is a feeder, a camera, a classifier and a gate. This guide builds each part with a Raspberry Pi, the Build HAT and OpenCV, with working code for capture, detection, colour and shape features, a trained model or the Brickognize recognition API, and the sorting gate.
ESPHome has no LEGO component, but an ESP32 running ESPHome can still drive a LEGO Powered Up hub over Bluetooth by writing LEGO Wireless Protocol commands, and Home Assistant then treats the train as a fan you can schedule, automate and control by voice. This guide gives current, valid YAML for the hub, an LED strip for lighting a set, and the automations.
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