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)

6950 Mobile Rocket Transport, Reimagined

For reasons I can’t remember, I had two copies of 6950 Mobile Rocket Transport when I was a kid. Peter Morris had none, so he built his own:

(Via How Many Studs to LEGOLAND?.)

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It’s too bad she won’t live! But then again, who does?

We featured Kaitimar‘s micro-Spinner last month, so it’s only natural that we post the scaled-up version:

(Via Moyblik.)

Mike Yoder’s Golden Sentinel

Microscale master Mike Yoder gives mecha a try. And rather successfully, I might add.

The Dark Mark by Drew Ellis

Drew Ellis demonstrates what you can do with a host of Death Eater heads:

Bonus, a Ministry of Magic poster:

The Simpsons visit Blockoland

In American:

For our German readers:

And for all you Portuguese Simpsons fans:

Sebastian Dick’s LEGO Chaingun

The bloggers at Neatorama seem to love LEGO, and for that The Brothers Brick love Neatorama. As one of the top 50 blogs in the world, we also love the traffic they’ve sent us several times over the last few months. :-D

Sebastian Dick‘s LEGO chaingun is at the top of the page on Neatorama right now, so it seems as good a time as any to feature it here (I know it’s a bit old, but I hope it’s new to some of our readers):

Baron Von von Baronhoffen

Just having fun with Chris Bragg‘s arm-swap technique.

Winners announced for the LEGO Castle Contest

Winning entries have been announced for the recent LEGO Castle Contest on Classic-Castle.com. Nearly all of the winning entries have been featured here on The Brothers Brick, but there are a couple that we missed.

In the Joust category, DARKspawn topples the competition for his aptly named “Joust”:

Piotr Slezak puts a bolt through the other entries in the Ballista category (don’t miss the animation in his gallery):

LakeHold Castle by Jeramy Cooke

I’m sometimes confused by (and jealous of) the talent some brand-new builders display. New Classic-Castle.com member Jeramy Cooke says that he hadn’t touched LEGO for 18 years before building this beauty. Wow. Head on over to his Classic-Castle Forum thread for links to more great pictures.

Guns. Lots of LEGO guns.

Custom or non-LEGO weapons not your thing? Never fear, Nannan Z. has the solution in his “Guns Museum v. 5”:

StarCraft Factory by keika03

This might be old, given the hit-count in the folder, but keika03‘s Brickshelf gallery includes a pretty cool factory from StarCraft we haven’t featured here previously:

The Yihaggothan Imperium

Mo-ph III, Emperor of Yihaggotha:

A Yihaggothan commando, equipped for cleansing human-infested worlds:

(Grabbing a batch of new deatheater heads from the Bellevue store’s build-your-own minifig bin, I’ve quickly put them to use. I also purchased a batch of rare and non-production parts from Germany that I wanted to use immediately. The black pikes don’t appear in any sets.)