LEGO® Bits N’ Bricks
Sports & Recreation Podcasts
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 life. For questions and comments, please write to bitsnbricks@lego.com.
Location:
United States
Description:
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 life. For questions and comments, please write to bitsnbricks@lego.com.
Language:
English
Episodes
Conspiracies, Fans, and LEGO® Designers: Inside the Disappearance of the LEGO Goat
6/13/2023
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 bitsnbricks@lego.com.
Duration:00:27:11
Why LEGO® Bricks Stick
6/13/2023
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 bitsnbricks@lego.com.
Duration:00:28:26
Sustainability and the Everlasting LEGO® Brick
6/13/2023
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 bitsnbricks@lego.com.
Duration:00:58:15
Creating beehives, stunning art, and a prosthetic limb with LEGO® toys
6/13/2023
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 bitsnbricks@lego.com.
Duration:00:58:15
Demogorgons, Frogs, and Car Parts: Inside the Creation of LEGO® Botanicals
6/13/2023
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 bitsnbricks@lego.com.
Duration:00:48:42
Season 06 Trailer
6/13/2023
Season 06 Trailer.
Duration:00:04:24
The Tale of LEGO® Bricktales
10/24/2022
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. For questions and comments, please write to bitsnbricks@lego.com.
Duration:00:58:24
A Journey Into the Real LEGO® City
8/31/2022
Discover how The LEGO Group are injecting creativity and imagination into daily life in Billund, the birthplace of The LEGO brick.
Duration:00:59:34
The LEGO Group’s Playful 90th
8/10/2022
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.
Duration:01:12:04
The Rise of BrickLink
1/31/2022
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.
Duration:01:10:21
Postscript
12/29/2021
The final episode of 2021, after a year of celebrating the rich history of LEGO® video games. Stay tuned for more episodes in 2022.
Duration:00:03:15
25 Years of LEGO® Lessons
12/22/2021
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.
Duration:00:55:17
Creating Worlds with LEGO® Bricks
12/15/2021
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.
Duration:00:44:16
The LEGO Game That Unlocked True Digital Creation
12/8/2021
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.
Duration:00:44:21
How a Soccer Net Almost Killed Football Mania
12/1/2021
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.
Duration:00:31:04
When Forza Cars Met LEGO Bricks
11/24/2021
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.
Duration:00:37:27
Alligators, Buckaroo Banzai, and LEGO Studios Backlot
11/17/2021
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.
Duration:00:46:59
LEGO® Harry Potter™ – A Journey Through All Eight Films
11/10/2021
The LEGO Harry Potter video games reshaped the way LEGO action-adventure games are made and played.
Duration:00:54:44
Tiny LEGO Brick Towers, Big LEGO Brick Ideas
11/3/2021
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.
Duration:00:37:38
The Surreal History of the LEGO Galidor TV Show, Game Console, and Action Figure
10/13/2021
How a LEGO game console, sci-fi TV show, and trip to another dimension gave birth to the beloved LEGO toy flop Galidor.
Duration:01:12:47