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)

Violent delights have violent ends...

surfininsf presents the cast of Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet:

(I can see your belly button, Juliet!)

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Heavy Metal Minifigs

I love building musical minifigs, but my taste in music generally runs to indie and alternative rock, and those bands pretty much all look alike in minifig form (white guys in T-shirts and blue jeans). Thankfully, I was chatting with Nelson Yrizarry and he suggested using Voldemort’s face for Alice Cooper. Hurray! :twisted:

How could I build a heavy metal rocker like Alice Cooper without building the quintessential artist of the genre? I couldn’t, so here’s Ozzy Osbourne (with an animal friend):

Earth, Wind, Fire, and Water

I built these elemental mages for BrickFest but I’m just getting around to posting them.

From left to right:
Wind mage Vilhelmina
Fire mage Shihab
Earth mage Dumisa
Water mage Glimbert

Every army needs a cyborg shark!

Danny Rice puts Viktor Krum’s shark head to good use:

Album Art by Taka Hamada

I’ve featured LEGO album art by Digger Digger Dogstar and minifig, I don’t think I’ve ever highlighted Taka Hamada’s extensive collection.

Pink Floyd’s The Division Bell (1994):

Mr. Big’s self-titled debut (1989):

Björk’s Medúlla (2004):

Delian-class Frigate by Brenden Wilson

Brenden Wilson presents a new ship in his microscale fleet, a Delian-class frigate:

Louie Louie!

Jared Burks collaborates with another great customizer, NickGreat, to create the Devaronian Mos Eisley Cantina denizen Labria (nicknamed “Louie” during production):

4 8 15 16 23 42 = LEGO Lost

Jon Furman combines cool post-processing on his photo with an excellent rendition of the scene in which Locke discovers the Hatch in J.J. Abrams’ “Lost”.

Kinkaku-ji by Jumpei Mitsui

Jumpei Mitsui and Sachiko Akinaga have earned international reputations through their participation in the LEGO King Championship TV show. More importantly, they’re both well-known for their great building skills, as Jumpei demonstrates with his recreation of Kinkaku-ji, the “Golden Pavilian” in Kyoto, Japan: