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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 life. For questions and comments, please write to [email protected].

Documentary Society & Culture Games Hobbies Leisure Video Games
Update frequency
every 6 days
Average duration
48 minutes
Episodes
57
Years Active
2020 - 2023
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DUPLO® World, Create & Cruise, and LEGO Games for Pre-K

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.

00:42:23  |   Wed 06 Oct 2021
Return of the LEGO® Star Wars™ Battles

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.

00:44:27  |   Wed 29 Sep 2021
Holy Game Development, LEGO Batman

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 TT Games’ long history of brickified game making.

00:42:58  |   Wed 22 Sep 2021
Nexo Knights and the Big Bang Theory

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 video game that held the property together and f…

00:43:59  |   Wed 15 Sep 2021
The Life (and Legacy) of George

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 physical toy business.

00:39:22  |   Wed 08 Sep 2021
Prototype, Playtest, Repeat: Inside Light Brick Studio

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.

00:42:34  |   Wed 01 Sep 2021
The Legacy of LEGO® Legacy: Heroes Unboxed

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 diminutive LEGO figure’s roughly 40-year history.

00:37:19  |   Wed 25 Aug 2021
Junkbot: The Lovable LEGO® Garbage Game

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 digital LEGO brick creativity.

00:40:43  |   Wed 18 Aug 2021
The Fans, Devs, and Remake of Real-Time Strategy Classic LEGO® Rock Raiders

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 work to ensure new players get a chance to try t…

00:46:29  |   Wed 14 Jul 2021
Roblox Meets Minecraft™ in China’s LEGO® Cube

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 own content in a mobile-first game. It may also ne…

00:53:44  |   Wed 07 Jul 2021
Rocket Racer, Veronica Voltage and the Legend of LEGO® Racers

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 them around a track. This week’s episode dives into …

00:47:04  |   Wed 30 Jun 2021
Myth, Maori, and a Brain Tumor: The BIONICLE® Saga

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 fascinating stories and challenges including the tale…

01:14:04  |   Wed 23 Jun 2021
Inside LEGO® City Undercover: From Segway® to Zombie Hordes

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 jokes, and not a few fascinating developer stori…

00:49:26  |   Wed 16 Jun 2021
LEGO® Loco: The LEGO Group’s Take on SimCity

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 and playful experiences.

00:35:07  |   Wed 09 Jun 2021
LEGO® Marvel and the Missing Spider-Stan Song

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 instance, did you know Stan Lee actually sang for the …

00:47:33  |   Wed 02 Jun 2021
Birth of a LEGO® Brawls-er

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. brawler. In this episode, developer Red Games Co. w…

00:52:18  |   Wed 26 May 2021
May the Fourth Be With You

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 beloved properties, it also makes sure they’re handled…

01:02:13  |   Tue 04 May 2021
To Be Continued

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 is headed after season one. A 2-minute quick rea…

00:55:29  |   Wed 14 Apr 2021
A Fabled History

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 of the founder of the LEGO Group, and Jørgen Vig…

01:01:13  |   Wed 07 Apr 2021
LEGO® Video Games and Digital Play

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 game with LEGO Group CEO Niels B. Christiansen, ch…

00:46:35  |   Wed 31 Mar 2021
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