Snowflake Challenge 2026 Day 4

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Challenge #4: Rec Your Last Page

Any website that you like, be it fanfiction, art, social media, or something a bit more eccentric!

For today's Snowflake challenge entry, I thought I'd flag up Rebrickable. Anyone who's had to take part in the VidUKon quiz in the last few years (or is in my Welsh class) knows I'm a big Lego fan, and I think Rebrickable is a great site for the community. I started visiting the site because I wanted a way to track which sets and spare parts I had, and got hooked almost immediately.

Rebrickable goes well beyond tracking sets and parts; it's a big part of the Lego MOC world (MOC being shorthand for "My Own Creation") where people post up models they've designed, either based on the parts from existing sets completely from scratch, with both free MOC plans available and MOCs you can buy. The site's also regularly updated with both upcoming new official sets and a steadily-growing record of past Lego sets going back to the very first ones. It has a build engine that takes your part lists and set lists and suggests other sets and MOCs you can build with the parts you have.

Beyond this, one of the big reasons I love the site is that it hosts instructions for past sets, including a lot that aren't available on the Lego website, and has links to other sites that also host instructions, helping you build old sets you may have collected the parts for. I'm currently slowly collecting the classic Lego Space sets from my childhood that I wanted but could never afford, and there's a member on Rebrickable who's finding, scanning and uploading hi-quality PDF files for the instructions for these sets, which were on sale from ca. 1979-1988.

I also really appreciate that people involved with the site are digging into really niche areas of Lego history. For example, how many colours do you think Lego parts have been produced in? Have a guess, and then go and look at this Rebrickable Colours page and see how close you were. One of the site admins has a personal project running in which he's hunting down and buying sealed Lego sets of varying degrees of age from long out of production themes in an attempt to identify, catalogue and photograph every shade of pink Lego brick that's ever been produced.

Rebrickable also has regular review articles, essays about bits of Lego history, and a lot of people post workbench posts detailing the things they're doing with Lego. It's a great community hub, and I visit there basically every day.