Blowing up

A 20-PAGE CELEBRATION

Nick Bidwell , Tim Vickery , Mark Gleeson , John Duerden and James Nalton earmark 50 young talents who are set to make their mark in 2025

LEGO House Managing Director Kathrine Kirk Muff talks about realising Kjeld Kirk Kristiansen’s vision and leading the LEGO Group’s social responsibility agenda while building an exclusive set with Blocks Editor Graham E. Hancock

When we started playing Wingpsan, there became a whole subsect of our already niche hobby that were suddenly able to identify a few more birds than we could before. I don’t know about you, but I later

For SMALL FACES , 1968 was a year of extremes, from hit singles and a career-defining album to a final, onstage bust-up. But while the bonds between them were strained by internal tensions and external dramas, the music they made in their last months together pointed tantalisingly in bold new directions. As an expanded version of their posthumous The Autumn Stone set reveals fresh treasures, Rob Hughes discovers what really transpired during the band’s final, tumultuous 12 months. “We were splitting up,” says Kenney Jones. “But we sounded so great.”

Oakland-born director Ryan Coogler is always conscious of his roots. With a filmography in which each work threads the needle between franchise legacy and personal struggle, his characters are usually