How-To

Have you wondered what to do with that extra piece you get in some sets? It is normally orange, but sometimes it comes in dark turquoise.  It is called a brick separator tool, and you are supposed to use it instead of your teeth. In fact, you should never put any LEGO pieces anywhere near your mouth. Only monsters chew on LEGO pieces. Here is a link to LEGO's official page on how to use the LEGO Classic Brick Separator tool: https://www.lego.com/en-us/service/help-topics/article/lego-c

We do not guarantee your results or that you will not damage your LEGO pieces or your dish washer. Like any new skill you learn on the internet, check multiple sources and form your own intelligent opinions and then proceed with caution. It is important to turn off the dry setting on the dish washer so that any pieces that fall in the bottom do not get warped or melted by the heating element. We prefer to only wash pieces that have at least one edge that is 16 studs or longer. An 8x16

We do not guarantee your results or that you will not damage your LEGO pieces or your dish washer. Like any new skill you learn on the internet, check multiple sources and form your own intelligent opinions and then proceed with caution. We have been washing LEGO pieces in the laundry machine for many years and wash at least 100 lbs a week this way. We selected a machine whose drain holes are smaller than a LEGO lightsaber or bar piece so it was less likely we would damage it if a mesh bag

Don't sort LEGO pieces by color. It is easy to sort it by color. It looks pretty sorted by color. It is difficult to actually make use of LEGO sorted by color. Instead, sort your LEGO by part family if you must sort it. Better yet, don't sort it at all unless you are an adult builder or a very serious teenage builder. Shallow tubs of mixed LEGO pieces drive the highest levels of creativity and require the least amount of work to maintain. Stop creating work for yourself as a parent trying t

Sort your LEGO by part family if you must sort it. Better yet, don't sort it at all unless you are an adult builder or a very serious teenage builder. Shallow tubs of mixed LEGO pieces drive the highest levels of creativity and require the least amount of work to maintain. Stop creating work for yourself as a parent trying to keep your kid's LEGO pieces sorted. If you have a child or teen that wants to sort their LEGO pieces to support a more advanced building style, it is more effective to

Please don't ever use any form of glue on any LEGO pieces, not even glue that claims to dissolve in water. The whole point of LEGO pieces is to be able to build and rebuild with them producing an infinite number of possible outcomes. If you just want a unchanging built plastic model, there are far better plastic model kits designed for that purpose. When a LEGO set is glued, nearly all of its value and potential is removed. There are a couple very specific uses cases for gluing LE

We like using plastic razors and clean hands. If you are extra particular, you might want to clean your hands, the LEGO piece and the plastic razor blade with an isopropyl alcohol pad and then letting them all dry before placing the sticker.   Somewhere on most LEGO instruction manuals they provide a link to a survey to say how you liked the set. Every time you build a set, submit the survey and let LEGO know if you thought it should have printed pieces instead of stickers.

There is a little secret in the LEGO fan community that most people do not talk about because they do not want new LEGO fans to feel bad. It is nearly impossible to get a new LEGO set with a missing piece. How is it that some people have several "missing" pieces in every set they buy, and other people have built hundreds of sets and never had one missing piece? LEGO's quality control and precision is insane and is the industry standard for excellence that many other manufacturing

We don't normally get asked if you say the word correctly as LEGO or legos because it gets used so commonly in both forms. At Music City Bricks, we won't beat you up for saying it wrong. However, if you want to learn how to say it correctly and why one way is correct, keep reading. LEGO is the name of a company. More specifically, the company is called The LEGO Group. The company makes toys and parts. We call these LEGO kits and LEGO parts. You could even call them LEGO sets and LEGO bricks

If you need to move built LEGO sets long distances and do not want to take them apart, you can use the box - bag - padding method. Before moving, blow off the dust. There is no need to move dust to your new place. Take a moving box and securely tape the bottom. We like three strips of tape. Lower an unscented plastic garbage bag into the box. Lower the built LEGO model into the bag in the box. Gently pull up the bag edges up like you would tie it shut. Next, pour St