LEGO® Bits N’ Bricks
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LEGO® Bits N’ Bricks
An official LEGO® Games podcast dedicated to digging out and exploring some of the many fascinating stories and lessons learned from a quarter century of game development. The podcast will feature the most memorable games and, importantly, some of those dedicated developers who helped bring them to...
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Conspiracies, Fans, and LEGO® Designers: Inside the Disappearance of the LEGO Goat
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 desig...
Why LEGO® Bricks Stick
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 q...
Sustainability and the Everlasting LEGO® Brick
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 sustaina...
Creating beehives, stunning art, and a prosthetic limb with LEGO® toys
Chatting with the talented creators behind a LEGO brick-compatible prosthetic, amazing, often Afrofuturistic sculptures, and a working beehive made of...
Demogorgons, Frogs, and Car Parts: Inside the Creation of LEGO® Botanicals
The blossoming success of the LEGO Botanical Collection started years before they hit stores thanks to the popularity of two employee creations that t...
The Tale of LEGO® Bricktales
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...
A Journey Into the Real LEGO® City
Discover how The LEGO Group are injecting creativity and imagination into daily life in Billund, the birthplace of The LEGO brick.
The LEGO Group’s Playful 90th
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...
The Rise of BrickLink
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...
Postscript
The final episode of 2021, after a year of celebrating the rich history of LEGO® video games. Stay tuned for more episodes in 2022.
25 Years of LEGO® Lessons
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 behi...
Creating Worlds with LEGO® Bricks
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 fro...
The LEGO Game That Unlocked True Digital Creation
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...
How a Soccer Net Almost Killed Football Mania
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.
When Forza Cars Met LEGO Bricks
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 f...
Alligators, Buckaroo Banzai, and LEGO Studios Backlot
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.
LEGO® Harry Potter™ – A Journey Through All Eight Films
The LEGO Harry Potter video games reshaped the way LEGO action-adventure games are made and played.
Tiny LEGO Brick Towers, Big LEGO Brick Ideas
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...
The Surreal History of the LEGO Galidor TV Show, Game Console, and Action Figure
How a LEGO game console, sci-fi TV show, and trip to another dimension gave birth to the beloved LEGO toy flop Galidor.
DUPLO® World, Create & Cruise, and LEGO Games for Pre-K
Why the LEGO Group decided to create games for preschoolers and how it continued its focus on empowering children while doing so.
Return of the LEGO® Star Wars™ Battles
How a meeting alongside an English motorway kicked off a three-year journey for LEGO Star Wars™ Battles.
Holy Game Development, LEGO Batman
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 T...
Nexo Knights and the Big Bang Theory
While LEGO Nexo Knights was a massive transmedia property that spanned television, books, magazines, toys, and even an amusement park ride, it was the...
The Life (and Legacy) of George
Inside the birth of Life of George and how a flat, LEGO brick puzzle game sparked a reexamination of the role digital experiences can play in the phys...
Prototype, Playtest, Repeat: Inside Light Brick Studio
An intense weekly playtesting schedule is at the heart of Light Brick Studio’s follow-up to the award-winning puzzler LEGO® Builder’s Journey.
The Legacy of LEGO® Legacy: Heroes Unboxed
LEGO® Legacy: Heroes Unboxed isn’t just a snappy LEGO minifig take on action role-playing games, it’s also a nostalgia-filled examination of the dimin...
Junkbot: The Lovable LEGO® Garbage Game
Nearly two decades before LEGO® Builder’s Journey had players assembling their way through brick levels, the trash eating, side-eyed Junkbot inspired...
The Fans, Devs, and Remake of Real-Time Strategy Classic LEGO® Rock Raiders
As we wrap up season two of LEGO® Bits N’ Bricks, we dig into the creation of real-time strategy game LEGO Rock Raiders and its tremendous fanbase who...
Roblox Meets Minecraft™ in China’s LEGO® Cube
LEGO Cube may be the LEGO Group’s most ambitious title to date, delivering a fully realized LEGO brick world to users who can create and share their o...
Rocket Racer, Veronica Voltage and the Legend of LEGO® Racers
The first LEGO® video game to hit consoles outside of Japan was born of one man’s idea of allowing children to build LEGO brick cars and then race the...
Myth, Maori, and a Brain Tumor: The BIONICLE® Saga
From Boneheads of Voodoo Island to a Star Wars™--meets-Pokémon inspired transmedia mega hit: The metamorphosis of BIONICLE contains multitudes of fasc...
Inside LEGO® City Undercover: From Segway® to Zombie Hordes
Considered by many to be one of the LEGO Group and TT Game’s best titles, LEGO® City Undercover is a masterpiece packed with referential humor, hidden...
LEGO® Loco: The LEGO Group’s Take on SimCity
The story behind second-wave LEGO video game LEGO Loco and how it drew deep inspiration from SimCity and Will Wright’s theories around digital toys an...
LEGO® Marvel and the Missing Spider-Stan Song
A deep dive into the making of LEGO® Marvel Super Heroes, one of the top-selling LEGO video games, unearths a wealth of interesting secrets. For insta...
Birth of a LEGO® Brawls-er
LEGO Brawls was born as a fun run mobile game, but a little bit of Nintendo inspiration transformed it into a sort of LEGO-themed Super Smash Bros. br...
May the Fourth Be With You
From brickifying emotional movie death scenes to the creation of the LEGO® Star Wars™ Pooper Trooper, Lucasfilm Games doesn’t just hand over its belov...
To Be Continued
In the season finale, some of the Bits N’ Bricks team unite to discuss the making of the season’s episodes, their favorite stories, and where the show...
A Fabled History
In this episode of Bits N’ Bricks, journalist Brian Crecente and documentarian Ethan Vincent chat with Kjeld Kirk Kristiansen, former CEO and grandson...
LEGO® Video Games and Digital Play
In this episode of Bits N’ Bricks, journalist Brian Crecente and documentarian Ethan Vincent chat about the 25th Anniversary of the first LEGO video g...