Episodes
This is a story about a very particular LEGO creation, the people who designed, sculpted and mass produced it, the fans who came to love it, the designers who tried to bring it back, and the conspiracies that today swirl around its mysterious disappearance. For questions and comments, please write to
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Published 06/13/23
The original LEGO bricks didn’t stick together. How and why that changed offers deep insight into the very core of the now 90-year-old toymaker. For questions and comments, please write to
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Published 06/13/23
LEGO bricks can last generations. Here’s how the company makes sure they never land in a landfill and other ways its working on environmental sustainability. For questions and comments, please write to
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Published 06/13/23
Chatting with the talented creators behind a LEGO brick-compatible prosthetic, amazing, often Afrofuturistic sculptures, and a working beehive made of LEGO bricks. For questions and comments, please write to
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Published 06/13/23
The blossoming success of the LEGO Botanical Collection started years before they hit stores thanks to the popularity of two employee creations that took over the company’s offices. For questions and comments, please write to
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Published 06/13/23
Season 06 Trailer.
Published 06/13/23
LEGO Bricktales is a game born in a bathtub of LEGO DUPLO® bricks, inspired by Nintendo’s own Captain Toad, and created by a team behind a game played by one in every 100 people on Earth. The story of LEGO Bricktales is one of childhood friendships, big gambles, and unexpected success.
Published 10/24/22
Discover how The LEGO Group are injecting creativity and imagination into daily life in Billund, the birthplace of The LEGO brick.
Published 08/31/22
In the lead-up to the LEGO Group’s 90th anniversary this month, we journey to the company’s home in Billund, Denmark to talk with some of its eclectic employees about how they create the future of play, informed by the past.
Published 08/10/22
As the LEGO Group retires the fan version of LEGO® Digital Designer and transitions to official support of BrickLink Studio, we examine the history of both digital brick designers and how their histories came together.
Published 01/31/22
The final episode of 2021, after a year of celebrating the rich history of LEGO® video games. Stay tuned for more episodes in 2022.
Published 12/29/21
As the Bits N’ Bricks one-year celebration of LEGO Games’ 25th anniversary wraps up, we examine what lessons we learned, speak with some of those behind the podcast, and talk to LEGO Games thinkers about its future.
Published 12/22/21
LEGO Worlds was a slow-burning success, the byproduct of the LEGO Group’s innate desire to make its own Minecraft™, empowered with lessons learned from LEGO Universe and LEGO City Undercover.
Published 12/15/21
Perhaps the most important video game ever made for the LEGO Group was almost more tool than plaything. Over its nearly 25-year lifespan, LEGO Creator evolved from an early ‘90s masterpiece to the LEGO Digital Designer, used in crafting toys, games, and movies.
Published 12/08/21
The LEGO Group’s dip into creating a sports video game almost ended at the net. A look into the early history of Football Mania.
Published 12/01/21
The 2019 collaboration between Microsoft’s Forza Horizon and LEGO® Speed Champions started at a car show in Detroit and includes a fun little bit of fictional backstory.
Published 11/24/21
LEGO Studios Backlot is a hidden gem that sparked creativity in the children who played it and opened their eyes to the joy of exploration.
Published 11/17/21
The LEGO Harry Potter video games reshaped the way LEGO action-adventure games are made and played.
Published 11/10/21
LEGO Tower wasn’t just a brickified take on smash hit Tiny Tower. It was an evolution of both that delightful game and LEGO Games’ approach to mobile games as a whole.
Published 11/03/21
How a LEGO game console, sci-fi TV show, and trip to another dimension gave birth to the beloved LEGO toy flop Galidor.
Published 10/13/21
Why the LEGO Group decided to create games for preschoolers and how it continued its focus on empowering children while doing so.
Published 10/06/21
How a meeting alongside an English motorway kicked off a three-year journey for LEGO Star Wars™ Battles.
Published 09/29/21
LEGO Batman wasn’t just one of the LEGO Group’s most popular video games and most visited topics, he also arguably had one of the biggest impacts on TT Games’ long history of brickified game making.
Published 09/22/21
While LEGO Nexo Knights was a massive transmedia property that spanned television, books, magazines, toys, and even an amusement park ride, it was the video game that held the property together and fueled its success.
Published 09/15/21