Being a LEGO Master

Building

Anders Horvath: Pod Building!

What can I do with a few Vidiyo Pods? Anders Horvath contemplated this question and created a building. He wanted to incorporate the rounded corners on the pod glasses on the structure as well.

Black stripes were added in his second iteration of the build to give it more of a black and white look

Article and Photography by Anders Horvath

John Randall’s train display.

Building

Rui Miguel’s Chamber of Secrets, as seen in the Harry Potter film.

Rui Miguel: Building Micro to Star Wars!

Article and Photography by Rui Miguel

Rui Miguel, a Portuguese builder, has been on the scene making creations for a few years and has been featured online recently with some outstanding builds. At the age of 27, he has completed a Master’s degree in Design and Multimedia from the University of Coimbra and is preparing to enter the job market. While he is developing his resume and design portfolio, his LEGO portfolio has already gotten him recognition online. Rui has been building since childhood, having strong memories of building classic pirates and castle sets at the age of four. His mother recalls him building even earlier, with him creating towers and strange houses at only eight months old. He never stopped building since, as for him, “No other product that would emerge could offer me what LEGO does then and now. Imagination has no limits and LEGO has always allowed me to physically bring anything from the realm of my imagination into existence.” Growing up with all the recent LEGO themes, Rui doesn’t have a single favorite theme. Instead he has a group of themes he likes: Adventurers with Johnny Thunder, Star Wars, Classic Pirates, Castle, and Space. His inspiration to build beyond sets came from the activity of building itself: he wanted to expand the experience of creating his own stories and universes. Inspiration behind a specific build can come from a variety of factors for Rui. If it’s a creation with creative freedom such as no piece count, inspiration could be from a music track, an action scene in a movie, a simple phrase from a book, or a fellow LEGO fan. Sometimes he can look randomly at a LEGO piece and be