Rebrickable

Rebrickable
The Rebrickable logo features the beginning of the word, "Re", in blue, the second part of the word, "brick", in yellow, and the last part, "able", in green.
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A screenshot of the website Rebrickable, taken in February 2026. The image shows a page displaying MOCs uploaded to the website.
Screenshot of Rebrickable as of February 2026
Country of origin
Australia
CreatorNathan Thom
Websiterebrickable.com
Users2.1 million (as of October 3, 2026)
Launched2011

Rebrickable is an online platform where users post and sell instructions for custom Lego designs, known as "My Own Creations" (MOCs), as well as alternate builds of sets. The website also contains a database with information on different Lego sets and parts. It was started by Nathan Thom in 2011 and has over two million users.

Overview and features

Users on Rebrickable are able to sell and distribute instructions for custom builds, known as "My Own Creations" (MOCs), with the buyer obtaining the pieces elsewhere to build it. Creations uploaded to the website also include alternate builds, which reuse parts from existing sets. The website also features a database containing information about different Lego sets and parts, allowing users to see what MOCs they can design with their existing Lego collection.

Rebrickable's database containing information on Lego sets is crowdsourced, with a team of administrators monitoring it to maintain its accuracy. Among the projects developed by them was RebrickNet, an artificial intelligence system for identifying Lego parts in photographs.

History

Rebrickable was founded by Nathan Thom in 2011; initially, it was primarily meant to index Lego Technic sets. Thom told the American technology magazine Popular Mechanics in March 2020 that "I began Rebrickable because I had thousands of pieces I collected from sets and wondered if there was something else, already designed, I could build with them". The website went through major updates in 2014 and 2017. In 2017, a similar platform known as MOCPlans was merged with Rebrickable after it was shut down.

The website hosted over 15,000 MOCs by 2020, and as of 2026, now hosts more than 200,000. According to the business newspaper Australian Financial Review, designs for ships, trains and large buildings are particularly popular.

See also

References

  1. 1 2 Morgan, Clare (15 August 2025). "What it's like to be a Lego widow". Australian Financial Review. Retrieved 12 January 2026.
  2. 1 2 3 Herz, J. C. (29 April 2015). "How We Can All Be Like Lego Master Builders". Wired. ISSN 1059-1028. Retrieved 10 January 2026.
  3. ↑ Drew, Tom (2 December 2024). "The 10 Best LEGO Sets for Alternative Builds". The Direct. Retrieved 10 January 2026.
  4. 1 2 Perry, Kati (14 September 2023). "How Lego bricks went from five colors to nearly 200". The Washington Post. Retrieved 12 January 2026.
  5. ↑ Fox, Killian (26 August 2023). "On my radar: Danny Robins's cultural highlights". The Guardian. Archived from the original on 21 September 2026. Retrieved 10 October 2026.
  6. ↑ Vidal, Joel; Vallicrosa, Guillem; Martí, Robert; Barnada, Marc (8 February 2023). "Brickognize: Applying Photo-Realistic Image Synthesis for Lego Bricks Recognition with Limited Data". Sensors. 23 (4): 1898. Bibcode:2023Senso..23.1898V. doi:10.3390/s23041898. ISSN 1424-8220. PMC 9967933. PMID 36850495.
  7. 1 2 Herkewitz, William (4 March 2020). "One Man's Epic Quest to Build a 20,000-Piece LEGO Star Destroyer". Popular Mechanics. Retrieved 12 January 2026.

Primary sources

In the text, these references are preceded by a double dagger (‡):

  1. 1 2 Huw (12 July 2024). "Interview with Nathan Thom, founder of Rebrickable". Brickset. Retrieved 9 January 2026.
  2. 1 2 "Rebrickable - Build with LEGO". Rebrickable. Retrieved 10 October 2026.
  3. ↑ "Rebrickable". Blocks Magazine. No. 68. June 2020. pp. 64–70.
  4. ↑ Thom, Nathan (4 November 2017). "MOCPlans has merged with Rebrickable". Rebrickable. Retrieved 9 January 2026.