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Lego

Retro Ant Colony

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 […]

Behold my works.

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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

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 […]

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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!