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The Magazine for LEGO® Enthusiasts of All Ages!

Issue 64 • November 2020

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Fan Tributes to LEGO Themes Piet Niederhausen’s Classic Yellow Castle Dioramas Chris Giddens and Neo-Classic Space

Visiting the LEGO House’s Masterpiece Gallery

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Issue 64 • November 2020

Contents From the Editor....................................................2

People Chris Giddens: Pre-Classic Space Master..............................3 Jeffery Viens: Answering the Collector’s Call...................8 Andrea Girotto: Making Music and Motion with Bricks........................................................12 Piotr Pitold Maciejewski: Making Dioramas, Models and Games......................................................18

Building Sarah Beyer: Home Builder.................................................24 Builder Profile: Jaap Bijl.............................................................30

Christy Hempel’s Design with Nature, Design with LEGO........................................34 A Yellow Castle Tribute..................................40 You Can Build It: Classic Space Revisited: Small Space Cruiser.....................................49 Minifigure Customization 101: M:Tron 2020....................................................54

Community Bantha Bricks: Todd Wright’s BAAT (Battlefield Armored Assault Transport)........................................58 The LEGO House: Masterpiece Gallery 2019.........................64 Community Ads...............................................78 Last Word.............................................................79 Bricks in the Middle........................................80

Building

Chris Giddens:

Pre-Classic Space Master!

Article by Joe Meno Photography by Chris Giddens and Joe Meno In the early 2000s, a fan theme was born from revisiting the Classic Space sets of the ’80s. The question was posed: What did spaceships look like before the Classic Space models? This became the foundation of Pre-Classic Space, first created by Chris Giddens.

Chris, now a Minister to Children and Families at Kennesaw First Baptist Church in Kennesaw, Georgia, still builds. His building has slowed as his family and work commitments have grown, but in 2003, he launched an astounding array of spacecraft for the then-new Pre-Classic fleet.

Chris started LEGO building in the late ’70s when he got the Universal Building set (#400) and the yellow Spirit of St. Louis (#456), followed by his first space set, the Mobile

Space Lab (#801). He continued building, focusing on building a space fleet inspired by Star Trek and Battlestar Galactica.

While building the fleet, he saw the LEGO space-oriented sets at the time, which included LEGO City Space sets (which included Space Shuttle-related sets), Star Wars, and the NASA Discover theme (which also had a space shuttle set). Chris didn’t like these sets that much, so he started thinking about a different direction: If LEGO’s Classic Space sets were the future, with spacecraft that could hop galaxies with one engine, what would the spaceships before that look like?

Chris thought about it and came up with some design ideas to transition from the LEGO City Space themes to Classic Space: • City Space sets in the ’90s were primarily white in color, while Classic Space in the ’80s was blue and gray. PreClassic Space would have white and gray with a little blue to hint at the future.

• Classic Space crafts had computer slope pieces. To Chris, this mean that the computers were incredibly sophisticated—if that slope could manage a jump anywhere in the galaxy, it was powerful! The same thought applied to the engine technology. Pre-Classic Space would bridge the technology by having larger computers and engines and also showing piping and construction details on the ships—they weren’t as smooth as the Classic 3 Space craft.

• By using curved transparent parts for LEGO’s Paradisa theme, Chris added another design hallmark: the rounded forward profile. There’s some Art Deco and ’60s futurism also added to the Pre-Classic Space look.

Since the theme was set during the time of the Space Race, there were the good guys (the white and gray ships) and the bad guys (black and red ships, with skulls somewhere on their ships—they were called 3vil, as in 3 times as evil). The good guys needed a leader, and Chris created Fazoom, a cross between Flash Gordon and a redneck. His sidekick was Sterling, a very British butler droid. Both of them would make a hilarious combo, and in fact Fazoom appeared in BrickJournal in its very early online issues.

From all of this came over a dozen spacecraft by Chris alone from 2003 to 2005. He has also displayed the ships at many US events, including BrickFest, Brickworld and BrickFair. His building was affirmed by the LEGO Group when he and the creator of the 3vil space faction Mark Sandlin were invited to make LEGO sets in their themes

P.E.Li.C.A.N. (Planetary Expedition Light Cargo Astro Navigation) The PELiCAN is the backbone of planetary colonization in the PCS command. The PELiCAN can transport sensitive cargo with a soft touch, but she is fast enough to outrun many attack craft. She also can be equipped as a troop transport, science vessel, and temporary command base for new colonies.

Chris can be found on Instagram (Fazoom7) and on Youtube as Fazoom.

You can see his videochat on Youtube, Old Gray Bricks, Thursdays at 7pm EST at https://www.youtube.com/user/ legoober or scan this QR code!

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for the LEGO Factory theme in 2008. Chris’ set was Star Justice (#10191), while Mark’s was the Space Skulls set (#10192).

In 2013 Chris developed Testicular Cancer, and realized just how sick he was getting at Brickfair 2013. He felt such support from the LEGO community. Many friends from across the country and even the world supported him... some even shaving their heads as Chris lost his hair to chemo. Brickfair 2014 became a goal and finish line for Chris. He returned there having finished his biggest ship to date, The Atlas. But it was the friends he wanted to see, and thank. The LEGO community is always more than the sum of its parts. Always.

Here’s a gallery of some of Chris’s Pre-Classic Space models.

In the years since, he has revisited some of his spaceships and rebuilt them. You can find those ships on his Flickr feed: https://www.flickr.com/photos/fazoom/.

People

Jim Demer, Lisa Welchel (host of Collector’s Call), Jeffery Viens, and his girlfriend Julie Blair.

Jeffery Viens:

Answering the Collector’s Call!

Article by Jeffery Viens Photography by Jeffery Viens and MeTV

Jeffery Viens is a LEGO fan whose collection was featured recently on the MeTV Network show Collector’s Call. Here, he talks about collecting and having his minutes of fame on the show.

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I started collecting in the late ’90s. I was buying sets for my nieces and nephews, saw what LEGO was doing with the Model Team and Technic themes, and was hooked. My family gave me a few of the construction equipment sets as gifts, including the pneumatic combination backhoe set (#8862).

In the early 2000s, I started a new career as a heavy equipment operator and my LEGO fund grew quickly. I began spending between $5000–10,000 a year on LEGO, buying anything that struck my fancy: City, trains, and even bulk sets at flea markets and garage sales. My dining room table became a LEGO train layout and I began to let my creativity flow. My collection grew quickly and started to take over more parts of my house. At the time, the running joke was that I ran Tonka trucks at work and came home to build with LEGO. In 2007, I saw an advertisement in the LEGO store for Brickworld, a fan convention. The manager suggested I look into it, and I began attending. It didn’t take long before my building would be noticed. In 2009, I achieved two world records in LEGO when I built the world’s largest LEGO Trebuchet and a smaller trebuchet that has the title “furthest Distance Thrown by a LEGO siege Weapon,” having thrown four 2x4 bricks 38 ft, 7 in. In 2014, I was one of the many builders credited in The LEGO Brickumentary film. Since that LEGO store visit in 2007, I have displayed at Brickworld every year, but I almost didn’t make it to Brickworld 2013.

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Andrea and a few of his music boxes.

Andrea Girotto:

Making Music and Motion with Bricks!

Article by Joe Meno Photography

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Andrea Girotto (known online as JOLLY “3ricks”—3ricks means Bricks as well as Tricks) is a 40-year-old builder and a legal assistant at a transport company in Italy. He started LEGO building in his childhood, building Space and Light and Sound sets. He stopped building at the age of 12, becoming more occupied with video games and then girls. 23 years later, he got out of his Dark Age when he found out there was so much more beyond buying and building a regular set.

By then he was building Creator Expert and Architecture sets. His adoration for the Light and Sound sets returned in a very unique way.

He was thunderstruck by talented builders like JK Brickworks (Jason Allemann) and Teun de Wijs, who build animated LEGO models. One day, he saw a beautiful Laputa-inspired music box by Bangoo and he decided to build his own music box with LEGO as a gift for some friends. Then he built another for his wife, then another, and another…

As seen here, Andrea likes to build kinetic sculptures and automata. He calls himself a beginner since he started out with only a limited amount of mechanical knowledge. Yoshihito Isogawa’s building guides have helped Andrea a lot in the mechanical area.

Andrea gets inspiration from classic automata makers and he tries, with LEGO bricks, to make something all his own: Musical, dynamic, and communicative. Creating these musical automata has become a way for Andrea to express himself.

Andrea makes his creations by combining a kinetic LEGO MOC with a music box mechanism. He is inspired by different subjects, depending on his mood.

Usually, his building begins when he starts thinking about an ideal movement he wants to reproduce, along with a scene and an appropriate melody or song.

From there, he starts sketching and building.

He doesn’t use software to virtually build. Instead, his creations grow step by step, often changing many times from its initial design due to lack of pieces or movement not working as hoped. In his first creations, he couldn’t help ‘hurting’ some brick in order to incorporate a music box mechanism into his MOCs, but he later found ways to integrate them without altering parts. The end result is worth the effort, with Andrea’s efforts recognized online and at events.

Here’s a collection of Andrea’s creations. While they do not show the motion in his work, they do show the detail and effort he places in each of his MOCs. Two of his models also have their development sketches, so you can see how Andrea progressed from idea to final model. He also gives a little background on these.

THE NUTCRACKER One of Andrea’s oldest MOCs. Movement is simple: the two minifigs just spin as they dance. It represents a little theatre and the ballet. The music box plays Tchaikovsky’s Nutcracker suite. This was built as a gift box for his wife, with two tickets for the ballet inside the little hidden drawer.

The Nutcracker music box.

The Nutcracker’s music box opens its hidden drawer.

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Pitold working on his layout.

Piotr Pitold Maciejewski:

Making Dioramas, Models, and Games!

Article by Joe Meno Photographs by Piotr Pitold Maciejewski

Piotr Pitold Maciejewski (known as Pitold online) is a Polish LEGO fan that has been building for over 35 years. As he recalls, since he was 12 or 13, he started building when he got his first set, the Tractor (6608) with minifigure. He had to play with just this set for the entire year until the next Christmas. Poland was depressed in the ’80s and ’90s and so his LEGO collection was very small. When the Iron Curtain collapsed, his parents were able to buy him a few more sets. His first years LEGO building, he built not only with the bricks and elements he had, but also with anything he found: paper, styrofoam or box cartons. For him, this was a creative learning and shaping experience that led him to his career, and eventually back to building.

Pitold stopped building in high school and while he attended the Fine Arts Academy in Poznań, Poland. He graduated specializing in animation and became a graphic designer for advertising agencies. After graduating, he also got married and had two sons, which eventually led him back to LEGO. Careerwise, Pitold had started making advertising videos and art movies, so after leaving agency work, he and a friend started a small film company where he still works as an art director, director of photography, editor, and 2-D animator. One of their advertising campaign movies was honored with a Silver Dolphin at the Cannes Corporate and TV media awards in 2018.

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A panoramic view.

LEGO. He also has used LEGO Digital Designer software to build his concepts, but he has never ordered parts to make those creations. That may be his next step.

With his layout, he used more than a few of his filmmaking skills. The layout is set up like a stage for a photo shoot, using lighting and cinematography tricks to set the mood for the environment. Like a movie set, the layout is built only around a restricted camera view. His layout is along a wall of his office, so it’s impossible to see it from all sides. Lighting is done using small, inexpensive LED lamps from IKEA that are sold around Christmas. These are usually battery powered, but Pitold modified them to be powered from a wall outlet.

Watching the land below from the Crab.

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Pitold also worked on another project, his ’pandemic quarantine project,’ as he calls it: the Crab. He started building the craft in March during lockdown, as all of his work was frozen. Like building his layout, building the Crab was very good psychotherapy for him. lt took him two weeks to build the Crab, including all its modifications and lighting it. He didn’t have to buy any new sets or parts for it— he already had all the parts on hand.

When asked about the Crab’s pups, Pitold is happy to explain, as he was thinking about it while he was building.

The Crab is a two-person flying workshop. An antigravity flying system gives the Crab flight and hovering capability.

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Sarah Beyer

home builder Article by Sarah Beyer

Sarah Beyer has been displaying and building models in Europe for only a few years, but has been showcased online and at events. A resident of Sweden, her building interests are varied, so for BrickJournal, the focus is on two of her houses. She took some time to answer our questions about her building process and style.

curry house: a calm and silent place to call home The Curry House is a great example of the thoughtfulness of Sarah’s builds. The house is completely realized, from the rounded window bay on the second floor to the swimming pool on the ground level.

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Inside, there are rooms with shelves and furniture and even wall art. It’s a perfect place for a minifigure to live.

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Jaap’s Fallen Temple.

Builder Profile:

Jaap Bijl Article by Joe Meno

Jaap Bijl is a 24-year-old builder that has been LEGO building all his life.

Beginning with LEGO Primo (if you remember that), then going to Duplo, then in to the regular sets, LEGO was always in Jaap’s life. A hint of his hobby showed when he got LEGO sets for his birthday. He always built the sets, but never really played with them—he immediately started transforming and expanding them. Building in one way or another has always been something that Jaap has been doing. As a kid, he never played with his toy, he was just building with them, even if it was not made for building. As he says, “Maybe I’m just a bit stubborn.”

While he never really stopped building from his childhood, Jaap thought that he had outgrown the bricks at the age of 14. He barely built then, until he stumbled upon some of the medieval builds by Derfel Cadarn. When he saw what was possible with the bricks, Jaap thought, “I want to be able to do that as well!” That became the point that his bricks transformed from a toy to an artistic medium.

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When he returned to building, Jaap made medieval models and focused on being a castle builder. This began to change as he expanded his building efforts and started taking more unconventional paths, so much that the Castle

Home Sweet Home, an entry for another online building contest, Summer Joust 2019.

Agent CP-230, a creation built for an online vignette contest.

theme no longer applied to his work anymore. He just builds things he likes—if he had to place his building under a theme, fantasy would make the most sense.

Being very creative, Jaap can be inspired by anything around him. For example, he has a castle build that was inspired by the shape of a fallen leaf he found in the forest. Outside of that, he follows many builders on Flickr—so many that he has a hard time picking his favorites. If he had to choose, though, Jaap credits the works of Derfel Cadarn and Legonardo Davidy for having really pulled him into creating his own stuff from the bricks.

For Jaap, a build starts with an idea or starting point in his head, and proceeds to him starting to put together some bricks. From there on, he continually looks at what direction

he wants to take it and if there are parts he doesn’t like or would look better in a different way. It’s a constant process of building up, breaking down and rebuilding until he is fully happy with the result. For some of his bigger builds, he makes quick sketches, as the main build is harder to change halfway through than it is with his smaller builds.

Building time for a model depends a lot on the size and complexity of the build.

Some builds he creates in one try, and some have been rebuilt many times before he’s happy. The build shown on the next page falls in the last category, with over fifty hours on it. As long as he enjoys the creative process, he doesn’t really care about how much time it takes. When Jaap finally completes a build and he is totally happy with it, it’s worth the effort for him. Even uncompleted builds are not wasted time for him, as these ‘failed’ 31 creations improve his creative process and technique.

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Christy Hempel’s Eco-City.

Christy Hempel’s

Design with Nature, Design with LEGO Article by Joe Meno Photography and Art provided

by Christy Hempel

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How do you make a city? For centuries, the idea of a city was that of a specially built metropolis, where a grid is imposed on a sector of land and smoothed out and paved.

From there, the city is built over the previous environment.

The location of a city was defined by the benefit to citizens—a harbor city was a port of transport and travel, and a land-locked city would be a central point for goods and services of a region. The environment itself was something malleable for the city designers to work with. In the past few decades, though, this began to change.

50 years ago, urban designer Ian McHarg wrote the book Design with Nature, where he talked about designing with the ecology instead of in spite of it, joining other important books at the forefront of the environmentalist movement.

People began to understand the consequences of human inventions and started looking at ways to work and build in harmony with the environment. A display in Denmark uses LEGO to present his ideas. Conceived by Christy Hempel, herself an urban designer, the display is the largest part of a budding program to bring McHarg’s insights to the public.

BrickJournal talked to Christy about the program, called Design with Nature, Design with LEGO.

Inspiration can happen anywhere. For Piet Niederhausen, his inspiration was a classic LEGO set—the Yellow Castle (#375). From that set, he created nine different models, each mashing up a different theme with the set, which opened up to show the interior.

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Piet talked about building and his creations with BrickJournal.

Making paint.

A Yellow Castle Tribute

Article by Piet Niederhausen

The Yellow Castle set.

Yellow Castle Construction

Duke August has commissioned a new castle, and his people are hard at work on it. For no apparent reason the Duke wants it to be bright yellow, so they are painting over the natural tan rock. And a stonemason is being kept very busy carving odd-looking knobs into the crenellations...

Under construction and opened up.

There was a wonderful interview with Daniel August Krentz in Bricks magazine in 2015. Daniel was an early AFOL who became the first non-Dane to work at LEGO as a designer. The article had photos of Daniel at home with his “yellow castle” set 375, one of many timeless LEGO castle sets he designed. It stuck in my mind that I’d like to rebuild one of those.

The first castle started from a tiny part, the 1x1 Minecraft Eye of Ender plate. Its colors reminded me of tiles I’d seen in palaces and mosques in Istanbul. I decided the first castle would be Middle Eastern themed as a counterpoint to the European style of set 375.

Desert Castle

In the deep desert, water is the most precious resource! This castle keeps the peace at a spring, and its interior is a place of rest and beauty in the harsh wilderness.

This was the first castle in this series and was originally inspired by those 1x1 printed Minecraft tiles, which reminded me of the tilework you can see in Middle Eastern architecture, such as the Topkapi Palace in Istanbul.

I used as many plates instead of bricks as I could in order to get a dried-out, cracked texture.

Opened up.

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You Can Build It MINI Build

Parts List (Parts can be ordered from Bricklink.com by searching by part number and color) Qty Color 1 Lt-Bluish-Gray 1 Lt-Bluish-Gray

Part Description 99780.dat Bracket 1 x 2 - 1 x 2 Up 2436b.dat Bracket 1 x 2 - 1 x 4 with Rounded Corners 2 Blue 3005.dat Brick 1 x 1 2 Blue 3010.dat Brick 1 x 4 2 Lt-Bluish-Gray 98100.dat Brick 2 x 2 Round Sloped 1 Blue 2456.dat Brick 2 x 6 1 Black 3942c.dat Cone 2 x 2 x 2 with Hollow Stud Open 2 Lt-Bluish-Gray 6231.dat Panel 1 x 1 x 1 Corner with Rounded Corners 5 Trans-Yellow 3024.dat Plate 1 x 1 2 Red 4085c.dat Plate 1 x 1 with Clip Vertical 4 Blue 3023.dat Plate 1 x 2 3 Bright-Lt-Orange 3023.dat Plate 1 x 2 3 Lt-Bluish-Gray 15573.dat Plate 1 x 2 with Groove with 1 Centre Stud, without Understud 2 Lt-Bluish-Gray 18649.dat Plate 1 x 2 with Handles on Opposite Ends 3 Blue 3710.dat Plate 1 x 4 1 Black 3022.dat Plate 2 x 2 1 Blue 3021.dat Plate 2 x 3 1 Black 3795.dat Plate 2 x 6 1 Blue 3795.dat Plate 2 x 6 2 Lt-Bluish-Gray 3832.dat Plate 2 x 10 1 Blue 3032.dat Plate 4 x 6 2 Blue 15068.dat Slope Brick Curved 2 x 2 x 0.667 1 Blue 3700.dat Technic Brick 1 x 2 with Hole 2 Trans-Orange 98138.dat Tile 1 x 1 Round with Groove 2 Trans-Green 3070b.dat Tile 1 x 1 with Groove 2 Trans-Red 3070b.dat Tile 1 x 1 with Groove 4 Lt-Bluish-Gray 2412b.dat Tile 1 x 2 Grille with Groove 2 Lt-Bluish-Gray 63864.dat Tile 1 x 3 with Groove 2 White 2431.dat Tile 1 x 4 with Groove 2 Lt-Bluish-Gray 14769.dat Tile 2 x 2 Round with Round Underside Stud 2 Lt-Bluish-Gray 87079.dat Tile 2 x 4 with Groove 2 Blue 3680c02.dat Turntable 2 x 2 Plate with LightBluish-Gray Top 1 Blue 41770.dat Wing 2 x 4 Left 1 Blue 41769.dat Wing 2 x 4 Right 1 Lt-Bluish-Gray 54384.dat Wing 3 x 6 Left 1 Lt-Bluish-Gray 54383.dat Wing 3 x 6 Right 2 Dark-Azure 2412b.dat Tile 1 x 2 Grille with Groove

Classic Space Revisited:

Small Space Cruiser Design and Instructions

by Christopher Deck

Hello everybody, and welcome to a new building session in BrickJournal! I am glad we meet again in this special issue which is about revisited themes. We will have a double challenge today by building in the style of an older theme, and additionally limiting our parts available for the build.

You have guessed right—we will do an alternate build resulting in a revisited theme model.

The set of choice for our little project is a newer Creator set of the year 2016 which is still widely available in the market: the “Super Soarer” jet, counting 104 pieces in total.

The set has blue, black, gray (light bluish gray) and yellow (bright light orange) pieces, all we need to build in the style of the Classic Space theme launched back in the year 1979.

A challenge when doing alternate builds is that you’re always short on the colors you need. As a result you often have to fill the inner structure with different colors which eventually should hide in the finished model. This will save you bricks in essential colors for the outer facing of the model.

The result shows a small space cruiser with gray wings, blue hull, a small black/yellow element and trans-yellow cockpit glass. The model uses 65% of the original set’s pieces which is a pretty good quote for an alternate model.

You will have a lot of Classic Space fun for little money with this set. I wish you happy building and see you next time!

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The updated M:Tron team.

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The Sergeant

Lieutenant

Mag Tracks

The Captain

The Rookie

Minifig Customization 101:

2020 Article and Photography by Chris Campbell, Michael Marzilli, and Jared Burks

Jared Burks:

We all get our inspirations from various places. When speaking with Joe (Meno, editor of BrickJournal) he informed me that this issue of BrickJournal covered renewed/revisited themes—revisiting themes with a Fan twist, like Pre-Classic Space. Having this assignment, I reached out to fellow customizers Chris Campbell and Michael Marzilli. Chris immediately popped off with, “You should make Magnatron,” to which Michael replied, “Ooooo… I always did have a soft spot for Magnatron.”

To this statement, I said, “Magnatron?” I was quickly schooled in Magnatron or M:Tron. You see, M:Tron fell in my Dark Ages; however, it was prime childhood for both Chris and Michael. Since I was going to make something from their childhoods, I decided they get to help me write this issue’s feature and design and create these figures.

Promotional art for M:Tron sets.

Todd Wright’s BAAT with crew (front row) and troops.

Bantha Bricks: Todd Wright’s

BAAT (Battlefield

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Galactic Greetings! I’m Steven Smyth from Bantha Bricks: Fans of LEGO Star Wars. Since the community’s founding in 2016, on an almost daily basis, I have witnessed amazing and creative Star Wars builds in the best Star Wars themed building brick group on Facebook. Todd Wright was recently spotted in the Bantha Bricks community with an amazing Resistance gunship/troop transport MOC. I thought it would be great to learn more about this talented builder and his custom LEGO build.

Steven Smyth: Please tell us about yourself.

Todd Wright: Well, first of all, I’m a husband of 12 years, and a father of six children, three boys and three girls, ages ten and under. As with anyone who has young children, LEGO is a big part of my life.

What attracted you to LEGO? LEGO has been in my life as long as I can remember. I still remember my first set, #1888 Black Knights Guardshack. I was eight years old and even have a picture of me with it!

What drew you to the Star Wars theme?

Of course, growing up in the 1990s, my parents showed me Star Wars very early in life. I remember building my first minifigure LEGO lightsaber out of whatever parts I could. I built my first X-Wing from various space-themed

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The LEGO® House:

When the LEGO House opened in 2017, one of the display areas was specifically reserved for LEGO fan builders.

Called the Masterpiece Gallery, this would be an area that would be updated annually with creations from the best builders around the world. Selection is done by nomination from a LEGO Users Group (a group of LEGO builders that is recognized by the company), then final selection by the company. In September, the gallery is switched over to the next group.

Article by Joe Meno Photography provided by the LEGO House

The builders that were selected for 2019 converged on ISSUE IN PRINT OR DIGITAL FORMAT! Billund, Denmark in late September, and over a few days, set up their models. 15 builders from around the world presented their creations and celebrated their achievement.

However, when the LEGO House was closed due to the COVID-19 virus pandemic, the gallery was also closed to visitors. With the reopening of the facilities in June, the Masterpiece Gallery display was extended to September 2021.

Masterpiece Gallery 2019

Above: The 15 Masterpiece Builders of 2019 1. Milan Sekiz, 2. Sven Franic, 3. Marion Weintraut, 4. Ryan Van Duzor, 5. Eero Okkonen, 6. Timofey Tkachev, 7. Simon Hundsbichler, 8. Hsinweil Chi, 9. ZIO Chao, 10. Matthew Goldberg, 11. Stephen Gofers, 12. Jason Allemann, 13. Kristal Dubois, 14. Paul Hetherington, 15. Caroline Mockett.

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For those who were not able to go to the LEGO House, BrickJournal was provided photos of the many builds that are currently on display. As a result we are showing a peek of the Masterpiece Gallery. The builders were also contacted and asked about their experience at the LEGO House—here are their replies.

BRICKJOURNAL #64

Classic LEGO themes re-imagined! PIET NIEDERHAUSEN’s creations based on the Classic Yellow Castle, CHRIS GIDDENS (originator of Neo-Classic Space theme), and tour the Masterpiece Gallery at Denmark’s LEGO House! Plus: “Bricks in the Middle” by HINKLE and KAY, “You Can Build It” instructions

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