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)

Lands of sand and water from Gork

Back in December, I wished for more pictures of Gork‘s CCCV entries. Though we didn’t get around to blogging all of them, Gork had six great entries. Just as I hoped, Gork recently uploaded lots of pictures of several entries, including “Edessa’s Annual Fair” (above) and “Rivus Altus” (below).

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Tyrian class freighter by Brenden Wilson

The multiple levels on the bridge tower give some indication of the massive size of this microscale freighter by Brenden Wilson (Flickr). The modular cargo pods work wonderfully.

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News: Screen shots from LEGO Batman game on Kotaku

Head on over to Kotaku for a full gallery of screen shots from the upcoming LEGO Batman video game. Thanks for the tip, Roger!

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Team Fortress 2 minifigs by Brendan Mauro

Brendan Mauro‘s excuse for not building anything lately is the Valve game Team Fortress 2 (part of The Orange Box, which also includes Portal). May favorite is the Heavy.

Here they are in action:

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Clone Wars V-19 Torrent by nnenn

Nnenn had some issues with LEGO’s official version of the V-19 Torrent fighter, from the upcoming Star Wars Clone Wars TV show, so he made his own.

What’s so very very cool about nnenn’s version is that the folding wings are synchronized. Check out the gears:

(Via Brick Blogue.)

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Andrew Lee micros Mark Sandlin’s very 3vil Asmodeus

The Fanboy Micro contest continues! Andrew Lee goes all tiny and adorable on Mark Sandlin’s massive and formidable Asmodeus.

Here’s the original:

Be sure to check out all the photos for a very cool bit of homage to the original.

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Spiky goodness from Stogelley

At first glance, this mecha by Stogelley might be mistaken for one of Izzo‘s excellent mecha.

That’s a huge compliment, but Stogelley also does some really cool things that I haven’t seen before. Check out the snowshoe on the head and the ball turrets on the shoulders. Oh, and about a million cheese slopes. Like their namesake, cheese slopes make everything better.

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White Isz by Legovaughan

Nice legs, Vaughan! On your mech. Ahem.

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Classic Beetle LEGO set revealed at Frechen [News]

Joachim S. Müller attended the big LEGO event in Frechen, Germany and has posted over a hundred photos on Flickr.

Last year’s show yielded the first photos of the upcoming Classic Beetle set, so it’s fitting that the final version would be shown this year:

Lookin’ good!

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Visit lovely Gongfujian! See the sights!

Inspired by Shannon Young‘s Shannonia, mastergongfu recently posted his own micropolis. And I got to name it!

Gongfujian is the beautiful capital of the Democratic People’s Republic of the Gongo. Heh heh.

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More prototype weapons from BrickArms [News]

Corran101 recently won the Bladerunner vignette contest on the BrickArms forums, and his prize was a set of prototypes of new designs. The two designs are for the Auto-9 Pistol (the longer one) and PKD2019.

Click the picture above for the full photoset on Flickr, but here’s Corran101’s excellent winning entry:

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Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess vignette by Dan Sibley

The next game I plan on playing on my new Wii is Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess. I don’t want to spoil anything for myself by looking too much up about this vignette by Dan Sibley, so I’ll trust the comments on Flickr that this is true to the game.

What say you, readers?

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