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)

MINDSTORMS NXT fans launch LEGO into space via weather balloon

A group of LEGO fans, college professors, and students recently participated in H.A.L.E., the High Altitude LEGO Extravaganza. The goal? Launch a bunch of LEGO MINDSTORMS NXT systems with cameras covering the ascent to nearly 100,000 feet and subsequent descent (via parachute) back to Earth.

This amazing photo shows the weather balloon bursting at 99,712 feet:

You can see a whole bunch more photos and videos from Eric (Burdo?), as well as additional photos from the University of Nevada, Reno.

Via BB Gadgets, Gizmodo, and several posts on The NXT STEP.

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Tentacle monster + schoolgirl = Legohaulic’s disturbing vignette

Things are unlikely to end well in this vignette by Tyler:

Note the suckers on the tentacle, as well as the Lowell-Lambrecht sphere from which the unlucky girl is suspended.

More virtual Final Fantasy minifigs from Morgan19

I just loved Jamie Spencer‘s recent Final Fantasy X-2 minifigs, created by combining his custom decal designs with scanned minifig photos in Photoshop.

Jamie has added another batch of Final Fantasy minifigs, from Final Fantasy XII and Final Fantasy Tactics A2, as well as a couple more from X-2.

Ashe and Balthier from Final Fantasy XII:

Penelo from Final Fantasy Tactics A2, along with Rikku and Paine wearing their mascot dressphere outfits:

This chair’s bark is worse than its bite

Nannan’s post earlier today about Matt’s bitey yellow schoolbus reminded me of Teikjoon‘s bitey yellow chair.

Behold the “Barkalounger!”

Note how the rider’s legs form the eyes. How cool is that?

Radiohead’s House of Cards video in LEGO by Ian Mackinnon

The music video for Radiohead’s “House of Cards” from In Rainbows (naturally available from ) just seemed to be begging for the LEGO treatment.

Ian Mackinnon obliges with this strange and gorgeous rendition (with a hat-tip to reader wb):

Ian used the 3D plotting data from the original video to do his time-lapse LEGO interpretation of “House of Cards”. The result is sheer brilliance.

And here’s the original video for “House of Cards”, for comparison:

Previous LEGO + Radiohead on The Brothers Brick:

LEGO version of Radiohead’s In Rainbows album art by woordenaar

The harvester of Primal Bot souls

Mechanical anthropologists have long speculated about the afterlife of the Primal Bots captured on film by field researcher Rong Yiren.

Now we have the answer in this photo titled “Damnation!”

Yes, but where do good Primal Bots go when their power sources run out?

Easily distracted by microspace cargo haulers

Yup, that’s me. My latest distraction is this little beauty from Vdude, with cargo modules in a variety of colors:

For more salient commentary on the finer points of this LEGO creation, you may prefer to reference Yahtzee Spittoon Assignation Blowfish.

At peace in Mister oo7’s Zen garden

As a continuation to his tea house, Nathan has posted a lovely Zen garden.

The beauty of the leaning tree is likely to distract those seeking to clear their minds, while the perfect torii evokes thoughts of Shinto-Buddhist syncretism — but we won’t go there. ;-)

And now for something completely different. A Wells, Fargo & Co. overland express and assay office:

JRM-66 MkVI “Skew” & JRM-87 MkIII “Kala” mecha by Jas Nagra

Inspired by Brian Kescenovitz, Jas Nagra has posted a lovely pair of armless mecha in black and gray:

Rocko hunkers down for the Great Panic

Rocko reveals another LEGO creation he’ll be bringing to BrickCon in a couple of months. This modular building is Rocko’s contribution to our LEGO Zombie Apocafest:

Don’t miss Rocko’s Brickshelf gallery for lots more details.

The power of life

Although the studs-sideways road is a fairly common sight in post-apocalyptic dioramas these days, Moritz Nolting goes two studs deep in this smaller scene to add greater detail, including the first signs of life:

Evil, be thou my good.

Whence and what art thou, execrable shape?

“It’s just a robot by Peter Reid. Sheesh!” So spake the Fiend, and with necessity, The tyrant’s plea, excused his devilish deeds.