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Lego

Bricks by the Bay: Cable Car

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 […]

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Lego

The Brick Moulding Machine badge

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.)

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Games

Backyard Benny

Flying through an open window, Benny’s spaceship crashed on a strange new garden planet! Can he find the six parts of his ship and make it to the Beta-1 Command Base to meet his friends for blast-off?? Backyard Benny is a puzzle game and my entry for the Unity x LEGO microgame contest. It uses […]

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Lego

Brick Brunch Truck

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.

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Lego

Closet’s Full!

A Lego collector may have just run out of room for his sets… Winner Sig Fig Vig, Bricks by the Bay 2020

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Lego

Big Tiles

A couple of human-sized Lego tiles, scaled up 16 times, complete with anti-stud and recessed lip.

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Lego

99¢ Only Store

There’s a sale on Lego Dimensions and customers are raiding the store!

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Lego

Joe’s Brewery

A family member is quite the skilled brewer. To celebrate that, I made a one-off Lego set of him with his home brewery. The detailed brewery features boil kettles containing studs for hops, barley, yeast, and water, a fermentor with tap, and propane tanks with a temperature control pad. The set has a stirring paddle, […]

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Blog

Forever.

Here’s a chilling article from Cracked about 5 Guilty Pleasures The Web Killed. That rant against corporate greed you made on the Nine Inch Nails forums in 1998? It’s still around, waiting to be Googled by your prospective employer. Your short-lived career as a blogger and passionate advocate of heroin legalization and lowering the age […]

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Blog

The stud that stands out must be hammered down

You may recall earlier my philosophical disagreement with the American imperialism implied in the LEGO Mars Mission sets. Maybe I’m imagining things, maybe it’s because sci-fi is really the domain of social commentary, but the LEGO Space Police sets are setting an unsettling tone as well. “If you ask me, it’s the $10 withdrawal fees […]