My creations with Lego bricks
In 1993, video game developer Cyan released the CD-ROM puzzle game Myst, which became the best-selling video game title of the 20th century.
Building the island from Myst in Lego bricks took over six months of design and building, and approximately 20,000 elements, to complete. It measures 4×7 feet and was unveiled at 2023’s Mysterium fan convention in Spokane.
For more info, read my post about The Making of Lego Myst.
What would be the third (and unfortunately final) con kit for the now-suspended BricksLA in 2022 was the iconic Griffith Observatory. This was a lot of fun to design, with a hidden feature inside of a printed globe and information panel, like the exhibits in the museum’s lower level.
Includes a 32-page information booklet and instructions. Limited run of 200.
Like the previous year’s Brick Brunch Truck for BricksLA, 2021’s Bricks by the Bay requested a small kit for their virtual convention, and what could be more distinctive for the bay area than a cable car?
For a small build with under 60 parts, there are some clever connections to place the trolley on the street and connect a section of open seating. Instructions fit on a folded two-sided flyer, replicating Lego polybag sets, with custom-printed bricks exclusive to the set. Limited run of 250.
As part of the unveiling of the new set The Brick Moulding Machine (40502) for Lego House, employees were given small brick-built badges. From reference images, I have reverse engineered a badge you can make yourself!
(Magnetic back not included.)
You’re muted! One of the BricksLA themes is an 8×8 habitat for your SigFig. And what better sums up my 2020 than to see me on a Zoom call in my PJs in front of a virtual background? (Haircuts not included.)
Your industrious ants have foraged a mint, a lolipop, and …a pizza? There is a chamber of eggs in the top right, a compost pile in the lower left, and what’s that in the lower right corner?
MOC of Note, BricksLA 2021
Owing to the 2021 BricksLA convention being virtual, the con kit was scaled down to another LA icon: the gourmet food truck. This 47-piece set was limited to 200 polybags, with ’90s-era Lego City graphics by Alex Saar.
New Order’s hit 1983 single. Design by Peter Saville (FAC 73)
Don’t leave home without it! Filters germs down to one stud.
Winner Social Distancing, BricksLA 2021
Artificial? Of course it is.
A replicant of a tile from Frank Lloyd Wright’s Ennis House in LA — also known as Deckard’s apartment in Blade Runner.