A collection of useful stuff we’ve found on the web.

Abbreviations, Phrases and Jargon

• LEGO Abbreviations List (lego.wikia.com)

Build Standards

• Classic Castle City Standard
• Great Ball Contraption
• MILS (Modular Integrated Landscaping System) (HispaBrick)
• Micropolis City Standard (TwinLUG)
• Moonbase

Build Techniques

• Building With LEGO: Bases and Borders (the Brick Blogger)
• Collection of LEGO Building Techniques (Reddit)
• Diagonal Connection Points (Cactus Brick)
• Gears Tutorial (Sariel)
• Gear Ratio Calculator (Sariel)
• Great Ball Contraption Module Instructions (Lawriege)
• Kinetic LEGO Sculpture Instructions (JK Brickworks)
• MINDSTORMS Building Tutorials (LEGO Education)
• MINDSTORMS Coding Tutorials (MakeCode)
• MINDSTORMS Lessons (LEGO Education)
• MINDSTORMS Lessons (LEGO Engineering Students)
• Physics of LEGO (UMontreal)
• Tips and Bricks (Instagram page)
• Train Track Layout Geometry (Bill Ward’s Brickpile)
• The LEGO Train Depot
• The Unofficial LEGO Advanced Building Techniques Guide

Color and Element Reference Guides

• Bricklink Color Guide
• LEGO Colour Chart Reference (The New Elementary)
• LEGO 2016 Color Palette (The Brick Fan)
• MechaBricks Colour Guide

Community Sites

• BrickNerd
• Brickset (forum community and resource index)
• Eurobricks (global community forum)
• FBTB (LEGO Star Wars community)
• Flickr (search for LEGO tags and Flickr Groups)
• Instagram (search for LEGO hashtags)
• New York LEGO Meetup (NYC LEGO fan community)
• Rebrickable  
• Reddit (r/lego, r/legomarket, r/afol, etc…)

Conventions and Events (North America)

• BrickCon (Seattle, WA)
• Brickfair (Washington DC, Birmingham AL, Manchester NH, Somerset NJ)
• Brickfête (Toronto/Montreal, Canada)
• Brickfiesta (Austin, TX)
• Bricks by the Bay (San Francisco Bay Area)
• Bricks Cascade (Portland, OR)
• Brickslopes (Sandy, UT)
• Brickworld (Chicago, IL)
• Philly Brickfest (Philadelphia, PA)

Digital CAD Designer Software

• LEGO Digital Designer (no longer actively supported)
• LDraw
• LDraw Tutorial (TechnicBRICKs) Part 1 | Part 2 | Part 3
• Mosaic Software
• Stud.io

News and Fan Blogs

• The Brick Fan
• The Brick Show
• The Brothers Brick
• Hoth Bricks
• New Elementary

Official Set Instructions

• LEGO.com
• Let’s Build It Again
• Peeron.com

Organization and Storage

• The LEGO Storage Guide (Brick Architect)

Parts Catalogues and Analysis

• Bricklink
• Brickset
• New Elementary

Shopping and Sale Tracking

• Amazon Discount Tracker (Brickset)
• Bricklink (secondary market for sets, minifigures, parts, etc…)
• Brick Owl (another secondary market)
• Bricks and Pieces (LEGO’s replacement parts service, has a larger selection than online Pick-a-Brick.)
• Brickseek Target Inventory Checker
• Brickseek Walmart Inventory Checker
• LEGO Set Deals (Reddit)

Video

• • A LEGO Brickumentary (2015) 
  • How It’s Made – LEGO 
  • I LUG NY YouTube Channel