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)

Iron Reich Chaingunner by lego2000

Chuck brings in the heavies with this Iron Reich soldier with a heavy-duty gun.

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Timmy Kennedy

Name: Timmy Kennedy
Occcupation: Third-grader.
Interests: Candy and cowboys and ninjas and Legos and Star Wars and pizza pockets and Bionicle and Coca-Cola and Grand Theft Auto and peanut butter and Yu-Gi-Oh and…

Coworkers

Once you let it slip that you build stuff with “Legos,” the floodgates open for “Oh, oh, can you make a minifig of me?” So I finally broke down and did so. The resulting minifigs were all pretty boring, so I made alternate versions that give each person a little more personality.

First up, Joe, who’s always annoyed about something, and likes Audis:

Next, Melissa, who’s a contractor and is therefore my henchman (as opposed to a minion; thus the Oddjob outfit):

Pete, whose Greek heritage is a point of pride (of course, Pete’s family comes from a mountain village, not an island — something much harder to represent in a LEGO minifig):

Paul has a podcast (RSS), in which he plays really cool music and interacts with a mechanical entity named Weasel_bot:

(Paul gets a full-size picture only because both of his figs appear in the same pic; everybody else is like Superman and Clark Kent — they can’t both be in the same picture at the same time.)

Finally, just when you thought you couldn’t look at any more minifigs of my coworkers, BAM!!! NINJAS! Here’s Sky as himself, and as a totally awesome ninja:

Star Wars Hina Doll Display by Izzo

This is just too funny to pass up. A couple weeks before Girl’s Day (Hina-Matsuri) on March 3, families with young girls display a multi-tiered stand of dolls (picture). You can see a minifig-scale version in Nelson Yrizarry’s recent vignette in this picture.

Izzo has turned this idea on its head with his Star Wars Hinamatsuri:

Note the brick-built Jabba the Hutt between Boba Fett and the Gamorrean Guard, as well as the mini-scale AT-AT and AT-STs. Sweet.

Johnny Weir

To welcome the figure-skating fans referred here to see my Michelle Kwan vignette, here’s Johnny Weir:

Johnny is wearing his unique swan outfit, and he apparently named the red glove on his right hand “Camille” (presumably after Camille Saint-Saens, who composed “The Swan”).

Too bad Johnny didn’t even medal…

More Characters from MisterZumbi

MisterZumbi brings us a couple more interesting characters.

The Predator:

And the invisible man (visible on the left, invisible on the right):

Mike Psiaki’s World War II Fighters

These aren’t brand new, but Mike Psiaki recently updated his P-38 Lightning, so that gives me an excuse to post these — two of my favorite World War II fighter planes in LEGO form.

The Lockheed P-38 Lighting:

The Vought F4U Corsair:

(Click each image for the full gallery.)

And just for fun, check out Brenden Wilson’s Corsair Light Fighter — a space-worthy version of the F4U.

Michelle Kwan, Figure Skating Legend

A good friend asked me to make a minifigure of Michelle Kwan, who recently withdrew from the 2006 Olympics. Unsatisfied with the minifig on its own, I hauled out my white bricks and whipped together this vignette — my first non-minifig creation in several months:

Those are supposed to be my friend and her husband in the background. For a better representation of skates, check out Uda-san’s Mao Asada (and for good measure, the obligatory PPB cross-link).

Giant Revive Bicycle by nias

Brickshelf user nias, whose wheelchair and Ferrari Knight I featured previously, recently posted another minifig-scale vehicle — the Giant Revive bicycle:

Click the image to see the full gallery, along with a picture of a real-life Giant Revive bike.

Moko Spawns a Demon

I’ve been waiting for Moko to post this on Brickshelf, but it’s too cool to wait any more:

Nice use of the new Viking horns, helmet, and axe heads, as well as the Harry Potter Deatheater face and black wings.

Valentine’s Day in Japan

Bruce just posted a Valentine’s Day vignette by mumu, so why am I posting about it here on Pan-Pacific Bricks? Isn’t Valentine’s Day common to both the U.S. and Japan? Look closely at the minifigs in this vignette:

In Japan, girls are the ones expected to give chocolate to boys — not the other way around. The interesting thing is, Valentine’s Day on February 14th is followed a month later on March 14th by “White Day,” on which men give women chocolate. You can read all about Valentine’s Day in Japan here.

And what PPB post would be complete without a little something by Izzo? Nothing specifically Japanese about this, but it’s a lovely bar of chocolate:

Mmmmm… Chocolate…

Mr. and Mrs. Chen

Names: Charles and Judy Chen
Occupation: Artists.
Notes: An eccentric son of a New York real estate developer, Charles met and married Judy while attending Burning Man. At the age of forty, Charles grew a Fu Manchu mustache and began wearing traditional Chinese clothing to “get in touch with my roots.” Of course, Charles doesn’t speak either Mandarin or Cantonese, and the furthest east he’s been is Taos, New Mexico.