About Andrew Becraft (TBB Editor-in-Chief)

Andrew Becraft is the Founder and Editor-in-Chief of The Brothers Brick. He's been building with LEGO for more than 40 years, and writing about LEGO here on TBB since 2005. He's also the co-author, together with TBB Senior Editor Chris Malloy, of the DK book Ultimate LEGO Star Wars. Andrew is an active member of the online LEGO community, as well as his local LEGO users group, SEALUG. Andrew is also a regular attendee of BrickCon, where he organizes a collaborative display for readers of The Brothes Brick nearly every year. You can check out Andrew's own LEGO creations on Flickr. Read Andrew's non-LEGO writing on his personal blog, Andrew-Becraft.com. Andrew lives in Seattle with his wife and dogs, and by day leads software design and planning teams.

Posts by Andrew Becraft (TBB Editor-in-Chief)

Closer look at the LEGO mammoth in LEGO City 60195 Arctic Mobile Exploration Base [News]

The summer 2018 LEGO City sets revealed last week feature an exploration team unearthing extinct Pleistocene megafauna like mammoths and saber-toothed cats, preserved in arctic ice. The largest set in the summer wave of City sets, the mobile base has four sections that can be connected, including a trailer for hauling the unfrozen mammoth back to the lab for research.

There’s been a lot of excitement among our readers about this upcoming series of LEGO sets, and we’ll be sure to bring you all the details about them as they emerge. In the meantime, enjoy this closer look at the set and its star proboscidean.

See all of the new photos of the LEGO mammoth

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LEGO 75933 T. Rex Transport from Jurassic World [Review]

We continue our adventures on Isla Nublar with the latest LEGO sets from Jurassic World, looking today at 75933 T. Rex Transport. The set includes 609 pieces, three minifigs, a Tyrannosaurs rex dinosaur, and a baby dinosaur.

Read our complete review of 75933 T. Rex Transport from Jurassic World

TBB Weekly Brick Report: LEGO news roundup for April 22, 2018 [News]

In addition to the amazing LEGO models created by builders all over the world, The Brothers Brick brings you the best of LEGO news and reviews. This is our weekly Brick Report for the fourth week of April 2018.

TBB NEWS & INSTRUCTIONS: As spring 2018 LEGO sets continue to be revealed and we begin looking ahead to the summer wave of LEGO sets, it’s been another busy week of LEGO news here at TBB!

LEGO Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom sets now available – The wave of LEGO sets supporting the next installment in the long-running Jurassic Park and Jurassic World movies has hit store shelves. Check out our hands-on reviews as well!
Claas Xerion tractor instructions by Cole Blaq – We feature plenty of creatures, characters, and spaceships in our instructions, so it’s nice to also be able to build a lovely green tractor for your LEGO city.
Build your own cutie doggie desk buddy – It’s the Year of the Dog, and we’ve put together a step-by-step instructional video so you can build your own LEGO dog with a design by CK HO.
First six LEGO Unikitty sets revealed – Unikitty was one of the great new characters introduced by The LEGO Movie back in 2014, with a follow-on TV show confirmed last year. This is our first look at the LEGO sets supporting the new TV show.
LEGO City summer 2018 sets revealed – We’re finally getting a good look at the rumored mammoths and sabre-toothed tigers in the upcoming Arctic-themed LEGO City sets scheduled for release this summer.

See the rest of our LEGO news roundup after the jump

LEGO 75929 Carnotaurus Gyrosphere Escape from Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom [Review]

The full range of Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom LEGO sets were released earlier this week, and we’re continuing our reviews of these new, dinosaur-centric sets, following on from 75928 Pteranodon Chase and 75932 Jurassic Park Velociraptor Chase. Today, we’re taking a look at one of the sets with a brand new dinosaur, 75929 Carnotaurus Gyrosphere Escape. The set includes 577 pieces, three minifigs, a baby dinosaur, and the main attraction, Carnotaurus.

Read our complete review of 75929 Carnotaurus Gyrosphere Escape from Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom

LEGO Star Wars 75212 Kessel Run Millennium Falcon from Solo: A Star Wars Story [Review]

The largest set in the first wave of LEGO Star Wars sets from Solo: A Star Wars Story is 75212 Kessel Run Millennium Falcon at 1,414 pieces for $169.99. The set depicts an earlier incarnation of Han Solo’s iconic freighter, long before he made extensive modifications and upgrades to it in the years leading up to its appearance in A New Hope.

Other than the color, what’s unique about this LEGO version, and how is it different from 75105 Millennium Falcon from The Force Awakens released barely two and a half years ago? Let’s dig in and find out…

Read our complete review of 75212 Kessel Run Millennium Falcon from Solo: A Star Wars Story

LEGO Star Wars 75209 Han Solo’s Landspeeder from Solo: A Star Wars Story [Review]

The LEGO Star Wars sets from Solo: A Star Wars Story officially hit shelves on Friday, though we were able to bring you a couple early reviews with 75210 Moloch’s Landspeeder and 75207 Imperial Patrol Battle Pack. One of the smallest sets to include the titular hero is 75209 Han Solo’s Landspeeder, which retails for $29.99 in the US. The set includes 345 pieces and two minifigs.

Read our full review of 75209 Han Solo’s Landspeeder from Solo: A Star Wars Story

Showdown on Biker Street

Austrian LEGO builder Sanel Lukovic has been building a large-scale diorama depicting hot rod culture. The scene has a lovely vintage vibe, and Sanel displayed it recently at LEGO exhibitions in Slovenia and Croatia.

The diorama includes a fully brick-built street surrounded by a diner, hot rod garage, biker bar, and gasoline station. Let’s take a closer look!

See more of this detailed LEGO diorama after the jump

Porco Rosso’s racing plane takes to the skies

We’ve featured half a dozen or so Savoia S.21 flying boat from Porco Rosso over the years, but it remains one of my favorite LEGO aircraft whenever I run across a new version. This latest incarnation of the racing plane from the 1992 Hayao Miyazaki film is brought to us by Volker Brodkorb. The airplane’s huge engine mounted forward of the cockpit makes this plane instantly recognizable, as do the striping on the angled wings.

Volker uses curved slopes attached studs out to achieve the sloping shape of the boat-plane’s hull, and the pop of yellow on the front of the propeller is a lovely touch.

LEGO Imperial Patrol Battle Pack 75207 from Solo: A Star Wars Story [Review]

We continue our early look at the upcoming LEGO Star Wars sets from Solo: A Star Wars Story, following our review of 75210 Moloch’s Landspeeder. Each new Star Wars movie spawns another batch of characters, including stormtrooper variants that generate another batch of Battle Pack sets. Solo is no different, with 75207 Imperial Patrol Battle Pack. The set includes four minifigures with 99 pieces and will retail on April 20th for $14.99.

Despite the official release date a couple weeks away, many brick-and-mortar retailers have begun stocking the sets on their shelves, and they’re also showing up from reputable online sellers. As with the previous LEGO Star Wars Solo set review, it’s unlikely that a LEGO set released ahead of the movie will contain spoilers, but without seeing the film or having reference books in hand yet, our speculation may cause unintentional spoilers for you.

Read our complete, hands-on review of 75207 Imperial Patrol Battle Pack from Star Wars: A Solo Story

TBB Weekly Brick Report: LEGO news roundup for April 1, 2018 [Not Fake News]

TBB NEWS, REVIEWS, & INSTRUCTIONS: With the next wave of LEGO sets upon us, it was a big week of new products and LEGO set reviews.

Build your own snowspeeder from Empire Strikes Back – Can’t afford the UCS Snowspeeder? Build your own microscale T-47 airspeeder instead.
Collectible Minifigures 71021 Series 18 Feel Guide – Want to catch them all? Use our handy-dandy Feel Guide to locate all your favorite figures in this just-released series.
Review of 30525 The Guardians Ship freebie polybag – One of the first LEGO sets released in advance of Infinity War is this microscale version of the Guardians’ ride.
LEGO Ideas 21314 Tron: Legacy now available – The Grid. A digital frontier… The latest LEGO Ideas set has arrived. Enter the grid.
Review of LEGO Star Wars 75210 Moloch’s Landspeeder – The first LEGO sets from Solo: A Star Wars Story have begun hitting store shelves. What do we think of this new vehicle?
LEGO BrickHeadz 41597 Go Brick Me now available – We love the new BrickHeadz customization kit, and we’re very pleased that all of you out there can pick up your own copy now as well.
Fake news: Trump & Putin BFF BrickHeadz? – We had a bit of fun on April Fool’s Day with a LEGO set that you’ll never see in real life.

See what else happened in the world of LEGO this week

LEGO Minifigure Factory set giveaway from the LEGO Store [News]

The promotional freebie from the LEGO Store for April 2018 is a Minifigure Factory (set number 5005358). The giveaway includes a LEGO factory worker, along with five micro-figures depicting classic LEGO themes. Orders over $75 are eligible, and the promotion runs from April 1st through April 20th (when the next wave of LEGO Star Wars sets from Solo hit stores), or until supplies run out.

The micro-figures include the original police officer from 1978, a LEGO Pirates fig with a striped shirt, a blue Classic Space fig, a Ninjago character called Pixel Rebooted, and a doctor from LEGO City.

LEGO BrickHeadz 41597 Go Brick Me now available [News]

It’s no secret that we’re madly in love with the new BrickHeadz customization kit, so we’re very pleased that all of our readers can join in the fun of building your own BrickHeadz characters by picking up your own copies of 41597 Go Brick Me, which is available starting April 1st from the LEGO Store ($29.99 US | £25.99 | $39.99 CDN).

41597 Go Brick Me includes a whopping 708 pieces and has the necessary brackets, eyes, and other unique parts to build two complete characters, with enough other parts to customize them in literally thousands of different combinations. The set is a screaming deal as a parts pack even if you don’t intend to build a single BrickHeadz character.