About Bright My Bricks

Bright My Bricks is three people in France who don't think a finished set should sit in the dark.

LEGO The Lord of the Rings Rivendell 10316 lit by a Bright My Bricks LED kit, on a dresser in a dark room
LEGO The Lord of the Rings Minas Tirith 11377 lit by an LED light kit, on a dark table
LEGO Icons Captain Jack Sparrow's Pirate Ship 10365 lit by a Bright My Bricks LED kit on a coffee table
LEGO Pokemon Venusaur, Charizard and Blastoise 72153 lit from within by an LED kit, on a side table
LEGO Icons Shopping Street 11371 with lit shop windows, on a sideboard
LEGO Ideas Tuxedo Cat 21349 and Orange Cat 21376 lit by Bright My Bricks LED kits in a living room
LEGO Art Claude Monet 31220 backlit by an LED light kit against a blue wall
LEGO Super Mario Mario Kart 72037 and Luigi Mach 8 72050 lit by LED kits on a shelf
LEGO Pokemon Pikachu and Poke Ball 72152 lit by a Bright My Bricks LED kit on a round table

Making a finished set look finished

You spent hours on that build. Then the lights go off and it turns into a dark shape on a shelf. Every kit we make exists to close that gap — between the model sitting in front of you and the one you had in your head while you were building it.

We are three people in France. We hold our own stock near Paris, we design every kit on a physical copy of the set, and we answer our own emails. That is the whole company, and it is deliberate.

What we do differently

Four things we decided not to compromise on.

A builder adjusting the lit gazebo of a LEGO Rivendell 10316 LED light kit
01

The wires are the job

Anyone can put a light in a brick. Making the cable disappear is the work.

02

Designed on the real set

We build a physical copy, light it, take it apart, and start again.

03

Stocked in Europe

Shipped from near Paris. Days, not weeks, and nothing to pay at customs.

04

Your set stays your set

No glue, no cutting, no drilling. Pull the kit out and the build is untouched.

450+ LEGO sets covered
4,180 Kits now switched on
36 Countries we ship to

A word from the founder

I live in Paris. For years I walked past Notre-Dame at night without really looking at it — the stone going warm under the lights, the way you stop seeing what you pass every day.

Then it wasn't there any more.

When LEGO released set 21061 I built it in two evenings, and it sat on my shelf grey and flat, nothing like the thing I remembered. So I wired a strip of LEDs myself. The first attempt was bad: wires visible from three sides, one light dead within a week. But I switched it on in a dark room and got the feeling back.

I have built around 650 sets. Every kit I tried had the same three faults — instructions written for someone who already knew the answer, wires you could see, and a two-week wait from the other side of the world. We built the company around those three.

The Notre-Dame kit is now the second best-selling thing we make. I did not plan that.

Mikail Yenilmez Founder

Mikail Yenilmez, founder of Bright My Bricks

Meet the team

Three people. It means we answer our own emails, and someone who can fix a problem will read yours.

Mikail Yenilmez, founder of Bright My Bricks
Mikail Yenilmez Founder
Sarah K., LED kit designer at Bright My Bricks
Sarah K. LED kit designer
Matteo U., customer support at Bright My Bricks
Mattéo U. Customer support
Reviews

What builders say

Left on the sets we sell most of. We have kept the complaints in, because a wall of five stars tells you nothing.

★★★★★
After making a mistake on first buying the lights for Rivendell, the company sent out a new one quickly to replace the lights that got sent back to the company. My Dad is now going to be enjoying his Father's Day gift from his children and we can't wait to help him with the lights.
Elena A.Rivendell #10316 — United Kingdom
LEGO Star Wars Death Star 75419 lit by a Bright My Bricks LED light kit★★★★★
MAGNIFIQUE LES PHOTOS PARLENT D'ELLE MEME
Emilien B.Death Star #75419
★★
The instructions are poor. The terms used in the instructions do not match the terms on the bags. It would be better to have instructions that refer to correctly labeled bags.
Torben L.Home Alone #21330 — Germany
★★★★★
WELL LITE EASY TO FOLLOW INSTRUCTIONS SHIPPED QUICKLY GREAT CUSTOMER SERVICE. WHATS NOT TO LIKE?
Vincent G.Eiffel Tower #10307
★★★★
Delivery time: more than a week. Good quality but delivery too long.
Oliana H.Notre-Dame de Paris #21061 — France
★★★★
I purchased the remote + sound and extremely happy with my decision.
Fareed A.Rivendell #10316 — France
★★★★★
snel geleverd en zeer goed verpakt, zal zeker nog bestellingen doen ;-)
Rachel N.Eiffel Tower #10307 — Belgium
★★★★★
배송 빠르고 좋았습니다 강력 추천 합니다
Erica C.Rivendell #10316 — South Korea
★★★★★
conforme à la description
نعيم ا.Eiffel Tower #10307 — Switzerland
★★★★★
Looks amazing.
Teresa W.Eiffel Tower #10307

Read all customer reviews

Show us your shelf

The best part of this job is the photos. People send us their Millennium Falcon at 1am, their Rivendell lighting up a hallway, a whole Star Wars wall glowing in a spare room.

Tag @brightmybricks or send us the shot. The good ones end up on our feed.

No kit for your set? Tell us which one. We read every request, and it is how we decide what to design next.

If something goes wrong

Not what you expected? You have 30 days from delivery to send it back for a full refund, opened or not. The law asks for 14. We think a set you have to build deserves longer than that.

Fewer than one order in a hundred ever comes back. We keep the 30 days anyway — you should not have to gamble on whether a kit is any good.

Something wrong with the kit itself? Every kit is covered for two years. An LED that fails, a wire that breaks, a part missing from the bag: write to us and the replacement goes out. No receipt to dig up, no photos to prove it, no arguing.

It works the same way when the mistake is ours. Wrong kit shipped, instructions that are not clear enough — we fix the order, and we fix the kit itself when the problem is on our side.

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Find the kit for my set
LEGO Vincent van Gogh The Starry Night 21333 illuminated with a Bright My Bricks LED kit
LEGO The Lord of the Rings Rivendell 10316 lit by a Bright My Bricks LED kit
LEGO Icons Shopping Street 11371 with lit shop windows
LEGO Art Claude Monet Water Lilies 31220 backlit by an LED light kit
A LEGO build lit by a Bright My Bricks LED kit
LEGO Super Mario Mario Kart 72037 and Luigi Mach 8 72050 lit by LED kits
LEGO Star Wars Death Star 75419 with a Bright My Bricks multi-colour LED lighting kit
LEGO Ideas Tuxedo Cat 21349 and Orange Cat 21376 lit by Bright My Bricks LED kits