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My creations with Lego bricks

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8mm Home Movie Camera

8mm Home Movie Camera in Lego

Introducing your new 8mm Home Movie Camera!

Vote for this to become a real LEGO set
in the Bricklink Designer Program!

Features include:

  • Adjustable zoom lens to frame the perfect shot!
  • Working trigger
  • Comes with one cartridge and one reel of developed film
  • Camera body opens to insert film cartridge
  • Working rolling shutter: simply turn the crank on the side to recreate that film look!
  • Light meter in viewfinder ensures the proper exposure
  • Removable lens cap
  • Carrying strap

I own a collection of 8mm and Super8 cameras that I love shooting with, and have even developed my own film! I packed this model with lots of little features to show how much fun small-format filmmaking can be. Watching 8mm home movies of old family outings is a delightful window into the past!

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Retro Ant Colony

Retro Ant Colony
Retro Ant Habitat set made of Lego

Industrious little ants have carved out a colony right before your eyes! Keep them fed with little sugar cubes plus the occasional lollipop, donut crumb, and… chocolate bar?

The reverse reveals more surprises for those willing to dig for treasure.

Enjoy the tiny details, and relive the childhood enjoyment of a retro ant habitat. What other treats will you sneak down into their maze of tunnels? And why do they appear to have eight legs?

Instructions for this set were available for purchase through the Bricklink Designer Pop-Up Store in November 2023.

(Originally the Vintage Ant Farm MOC)

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Lego Myst Island

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.

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Griffith Observatory

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.

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Bricks by the Bay: Cable Car

Bricks by the Bay Cable Car
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 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.

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The Brick Moulding Machine badge

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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SigFig Cube

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.)

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Vintage Ant Farm

Your industrious ants have foraged a mint, a lollipop, and… pizza? There is a chamber of eggs in the top right, a compost pile in the lower left, and who’s that in the lower right corner?

This MOC would later be available as Retro Ant Habitat in the BrickLink Designer Pop-Up Store pilot program.

MOC of Note, BricksLA 2021

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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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Blue Monday

New Order’s hit 1983 single. Design by Peter Saville (FAC 73)