Kieron Verbrugge

Last year’s 10349 Happy Plants was a great little win for the LEGO Botanicals theme, further expanding the world of brick-built botany towards a younger audience with a tiny, incredibly adorable age 9+ set that captured plenty of adult builders alike. And now, it’s time for a sequel! 11506 Rocking Plants launches on 1 May […]

Brick-built bouquets are a core pillar of the ever-growing LEGO Botanicals theme, and have proven incredibly popular for adult builders looking to add a floral touch to their home without the risk of murdering yet another house plant (hello, it’s me!). But one of the biggest bugbears of LEGO’s flower bouquet efforts that’s remained true […]

Out of all of the collaborations so far between LEGO and Nintendo, I think that 72037 Mario & Standard Kart is one of the sets that impressed me the most when it launched last year. It had everything going for it – mass appeal thanks to not just one of the most popular and recognisable […]

LEGO has unveiled its next wave of LEGO Botanicals sets, with three new releases coming on 1 June 2026, and fans of the theme should be excited about these ones! This is one of the more diverse groups of LEGO Botanicals builds we’ve had in a while, with the headline 11505 Woodland Mushrooms set moving […]

Among a slate of reveals today, LEGO has shown off its next wave of LEGO Fortnite sets, with a grand total of four new releases coming on 1 June 2026. There’s a fairly diverse collection of sizes and concepts here, so hopefully a little something for LEGO Fortnite fans of all kinds. The headline set […]

June is set to be a typically huge month for LEGO fans, with new launches across nearly every theme you could imagine, and that includes LEGO Minecraft. The company has officially revealed its next wave of Summer 2026 sets, with four new models launching on 1 June 2026.

Jay’s Brick Blog has been serving the LEGO fan community for over 14 years now, and after bringing on experienced games industry writer, Kieron Verbrugge, as the blog’s dedicated LEGO Gaming Correspondent back in 2024, Jay and Kieron have expanded the idea even further. We’re delighted to formally introduce covergeek to the Jay’s Brick Blog […]

My first-ever video game console was a SEGA Master System, a hand-me-down from a very cool aunt who had just decided to switch sides to Nintendo, anticipating the release of the Super Nintendo Entertainment System (SNES). And although I had plenty of fun with Alex Kidd in Miracle World

LEGO Botanicals has quickly become one of the brand’s most enduring and popular themes, offering fun and creative builds for LEGO fans but also bringing in a heap of newcomers with the promise of great looking, maintenance-free house “plants” that make for fantastic decor.

This week sees over 350,000 gamers of all kinds and from all around the world descend upon the iconic Koelnmesse in Cologne, Germany, to see the latest and greatest in the world of gaming. Walk the public-facing show halls and you’ll see huge booths and extravagant activations for some of the biggest games of the […]