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Issue 41 • September 2016
Contents
From the Editor........................................................2
Review A Look at LEGO’s Ghostbusters HQ...............3
People Building a Space Program..............................10 Luigi Priori: Classic Space Cremona............20 John Wolfe: Rocketman....................................29 Brick in the USSR: Russian Spacecraft.......37 Nick Dean’s Spaceplane Orion......................42
Building You Can Build It: MINI Soyuz Spacecraft....................................46 Minifigure Customization 101: Engineering a Custom Minifig..................51
Community Brickfilming with Kevin Ulrich......................57 Creating a LEGO Idea: Billy Burg’s L.E.G.O................................................60 Countdown to Building...................................67 Community Ads...................................................78 Last Word.................................................................79 AFOLs........................................................................80
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From the Editor: Hi! And now some spacy stuff!
September 2016 Issue 41
One of my favorite interests is space travel and technology, so it wasn’t to hard for me to make an issue themed to this—and discovering Lia Chan’s models online, thanks to a message from Brian Mardis.
Publisher John Morrow
Editor in Chief Joe Meno
Photography Editor Geoff Gray Proofreader John Morrow
Japanese Bureau Editor Nathan Bryan West Coast Editors Todd Kubo Ashley Glennon
LEGO Ideas Correspondent Glen Wadleigh
Contributors: Billy Burg, Jared Burks, Lia Chan, Tyler Clites, Nick Dean, Christopher Deck, Joe Evangelista, Luigi Priori, Valerie Roche, Kim Smith (the fourmonkeys), John Wolfe,and Greg Hyland. Many thanks to the websites who have served as mirrors for BrickJournal:
I also owed an article about another builder, John Wolfe, who builds rockets. Tall rockets. From there, I found some Russian models from Tyler Clites, and got some instructions and columns from Christopher Deck, Tommy Williamson, and Jared Burks. And there are a couple of other surprises too that I won’t talk about here (like the story from BrickJournal Italy!)—you’ll have to read through! All this made for an issue that was a lot of fun to make, so... Have fun reading and building! Joe Meno, Editor P.S. Have ideas or comments? Drop me a line at admin@brickjournal.com. I’m open to suggestions and comments and will do my best to reply. P.P.S... Yes, BrickJournal has a website — www.brickjournal.com! Twitter? Yep, there too — http://twitter.com/brickjournal. Facebook? Yup — http://www.facebook. com/group.php?gid=58728699914&ref=mf. Or you can scan the bottom codes with a QR reader! P.P.P.S. If you want info on a subscription, you can go to: http://twomorrows.com/ index.php?main_page=product_info&cPath=78&products_id=616 or scan below! Website
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About the Cover: Lia Chan’s astronaut takes a spacewalk. Photo provided by Lia Chan. About the Contents: Lia Chan’s Shuttle Complex 39A. Photo provided by Lia Chan.
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Review
Fear, horror, terrifying nightmares, ghosts. None of these sound like a great way to start a day. We tell ourselves that we can overcome our fears; that horror can be overturned by kindness; that nightmares can’t hurt us; and that ghosts aren’t real.
But what happens when ghosts are real? What happens when telling yourself you’re not afraid of ghosts doesn’t get rid of them? Where will you turn? And who are you going to call?
A Look at the Ghostbusters Headquarters Review by Joe Evangelista Photography by Joe Meno and the LEGO Group.
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“This place is great. You gotta try this pole!”
Nostalgia is a great thing. It helps us preserve an age of innocence as we revel in what came before. But nostalgia alone cannot keep a franchise moving forward. It needs to grow, adapt, take risks, and become more than the sum of its parts. For many years Ghostbusters has been a thing of nostalgia, but now with a new movie almost upon us, it is a time of change. Oddly enough, one way to usher in that change is to celebrate the past in a manner that helps create new adventures for the future.
Looks like Slimer has been through this kitchen already!
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“So Egon, you’re saying that we can make this toaster breakdance?” “It’s basic kinetic physics, Ray—slime goes in, toaster go boom!”
The latest entry into the world of busting ghosts is the LEGO Ghostbusters Firehouse Headquarters (set #75827). LEGO has struck at the heart of what makes Ghostbusters great with its new set—a throwback to the Kenner and Mattel playsets of old with incredible attention to detail, and overflowing with nostalgic references and nods. Colander on Louis Tully’s head? “Check.” Mood slime possessed dancing toaster? “Check.” Plasmatic refractor? Anti-Ectoplasm destruct mechanism? Bipolar adjustor? “Check, check, and check.” Trans-warp drive? “Check...” well, maybe they’re still working on adding that last one. Ever since the Ecto-1 was released in 2014, fans have been eager for more minifigs from the movies and more ghosts to bust. There is no shortage of either with this Firehouse Headquarters set—an impressive 9 minifigs and 3 ghosts are included for your busting delight. The attention to detail on the figs is equally impressive. Highly requested ghosts—the librarian and cab driver ghosts—both make their LEGO debut in this set. Additionally, there are alternate versions of the Ghostbusters with arm printing (sporting the iconic shoulder no-ghost logo patch and elbow pads) and even a Venkman that has been covered
in slime. Peter can’t seem to escape any iteration of the source material (movie, cartoon, comics, toys, LEGO) without getting some hugs from his best bud Slimer. Weighing in at over 4,600 pieces, this is not a set for the faint of wallet. It’ll run you a hefty $350 (USD) and leave you feeling like the floor of a taxicab when you are done building it. But then again, if you’re planning on having your Ghostbuster minifigs take their Ecto-1 set and go up against a Sumerian (not Babylonian) god, then you’re going to need a place to store the beast once the job is done! And store it you can as the set comes complete with a red containment unit built into the rear corner underneath the main staircase. The unit itself is based off of the first movie, and is much smaller than its Real Ghostbusters cartoon counterpart. Had LEGO included the massive sized containment unit somewhere in this set, not only would it have pushed the parts count to well over 5,000, but they would have had to supply an army of Walter Pecks to make sure there weren’t any biological or environmental impacts! (Hint, hint—Walter Peck is noticeably absent from this set. Does this mean we’ll see him in a future, unannounced set?) The first thing many LEGO fans will notice is that the set opens in a decidedly different way—from the middle of the left side. Clips on the roof hold in the sides so that they don’t come loose when the containment unit burps or gets out of alignment (you can only stuff so many spuds and slimers in there before you have to do a tune-up!). Once the panels are open, the detail inside is a delightful return to childhood: it’s a giant playset. From looking at the promotional pictures one might think that there is an abundance of blank space inside the firehouse, but upon building the set it becomes clear very quickly that there is an overabundance of fantastic details. The interior of everyone’s favorite firehouse is brilliantly decorated with scenes from both movies seamlessly integrated together. The set is a tribute to the overall franchise, and is sure to be a fan favorite for years to come. The build itself will take some time, even for the more seasoned builders. At each step along the way the set becomes more completed and impressive. And it is a fun build! Snapping together all the unique details, setting the stage for many Ghostbusting adventures—it all has a sense of purpose as you move from one step to the next. That being said, once you finish the garage level, the next two floors will feel a bit repetitious. You’ll find yourself building the outer walls in the same manner for each level and using the same techniques over and over again. You’ll also find yourself snapping countless 1x1 and 1x2 tiles to their matching 1x1 and 1x2 studded bricks for the brick
Louis: “This thing is safe right?” Egon: “Of course, that’s why you have the colander on your head.”
Oh Slimer!
fascade that goes along the windows. Those parts quickly pass though and then you’re back building fun details and scenes from the movie. All-in-all the build balances itself out with what needs to be done (the 4 walls of a firehouse with impressive detailing) and what builders want to do (create fun details and play features for the set). When finished, builders are treated to a playset that allows them to play out their Ghostbusters dreams with the hope of maybe one day adding an official chapter to the newly reenergized franchise. One thing that jumps out as you build this set is that the designer, Marcos Bessa, really knows his source material. While there are only so many ways that you can build a NYC landmark firehouse, the use of parts and selection of elements included in this set is wonderfully diverse. A vast sticker sheet full of details helps to aid the overall immersion. The dark red and gray exterior evokes a very New York City vibe; all that’s missing is the graffiti and
We’re the best, we’re the beautiful, we’re only the first of many Ghostbusters!
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People
Luigi and his Winter Village (only partially visible in the photo) at ItLUG Lecco 2014.
Luigi Priori: Classic Space Cremona Interview by Francesco Spreafico Photography by Luigi Priori
This issue we go to Italy, interviewing one of the best ItLUG (Italian LEGO® Users Group) builders: Luigi Priori, wellknown in the Italian AFOL world for his Winter Village… and not just for that anymore! BrickJournal: Hello Luigi, could you introduce yourself to our readers? Luigi Priori: My name is Luigi Priori, I live in Cremona, a town in the north of Italy, and in the AFOL world I’m known as Priovit70. In 2010, after discovering the ItLUG website, I realized that I was not the only adult who had started building with LEGO bricks again. So, together with six friends of mine, I founded the “Cremona Bricks” association, with the intent of gathering fans of LEGO from my hometown
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and the surrounding area. Four years later, after Cremona Bricks had been recognized by the LEGO Group as a LUG, I became its Ambassador. Now Cremona Bricks has 95 members and still growing. Obviously, I’m very happy with that. Routine question: did you have a Dark Age? And if you did, how long did it last and how did you get out of it? I think that almost every AFOL experiences a Dark Age. Years pass, priorities and tastes change, you become 18 and you don’t even look at bricks anymore. That happened to me too. It’s nothing odd. In 1993, while I was at university, I bought some Pirates sets, like the Renegade Runner (#6268), and those brought me out of my Dark Age for a little while. After that, I was definitively through with LEGO for fifteen long years. I kept loving LEGO, as I browsed avidly through the new catalogs whenever I had the chance to keep me up-to-date with sets and themes, but nothing more than that. Until, in 2009, surfing on the Web, I chanced upon a picture of the upcoming set 10199, the Winter Toy Shop, just presented, but not available yet in Italy. Being a mountains and snow enthusiast, I could hardly believe my eyes seeing such a set, with an unquestionable mountain style and a lot of snow, even if in form of white bricks. It was love at first sight! I bought it immediately from a California seller on eBay (because I didn’t even know of LEGO Shop@Home) and, just in time
Luigi’s sigfig with Cremona Bricks members.
for my 39th birthday, I got my hands on this beautiful set that I built in a flash. And this is where everything started, or, even better, where everything started again. For a year I’ve laid low, but when the set 10216 (Winter Bakery) came out, I heard a click in my head and I started thinking of a winter diorama. In Italy you are well-known as the builder of amazing winter MOCs (it’s simply impossible to choose between you and Sandro Damiano [another ItLUG member with a love for snow; sdrnet on Flickr] in this field.) Lately, though, we’ve seen you wander in different lands. What brought on this change? I’ve spent five years working, in my little spare time, almost exclusively on the Winter Village, taking idea and sets from other themes and processing them with the right amount of white pieces. My friend Sandro Damiano, (another ItLUG member) and I started our winter villages almost at the same time, often taking similar ideas, even without seeing each other or talking to each other, and finding out from our photos uploaded to Flickr. Then, after a while, ideas began to run out. This is what happened to me, while Sandro kept working on his awesome Winter Village that now is just out of my league, for both size and details. Accidentally, just when I started losing winter ideas, at the end of 2014, inside Cremona Bricks, we were talking about a great CITY diorama for an upcoming event, therefore about modulars, trains, tracks and a serious lack
Pretzel van in Luigi’s Winter Village (a modification of the set 70804). Luigi’s Winter Village with lights on.
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John’s Saturn V first stage.
Saturn V First Stage The real Saturn V first stage.
John Wolfe: Rocketman! Article by John Wolfe
Origins My idea for building a rocket came from a family trip to New Orleans in 2011. While there we visited the Michoud Assembly facility where NASA and their contractors built the Saturn V first stage, and they still have one on display outside. I took many photos for reference and began thinking about how I could build it in LEGO.
The first model I built was an S-1C first stage booster that measured 33’ diameter by 178’ tall. After several tries at making a brick-built cylindrical structure, I settled on a diameter of 22 studs—1.5 feet per stud. From that dimension, I calculated that the height should be 1.9 feet per brick. To match my picture from New Orleans, I also built the shop transporter that was used to move the boosters around during manufacturing and testing. Initially I didn’t think about using a specific scale, I just used 1.5 feet per stud and 1.9 feet per brick. Eventually, I calculated this as approximately 1:60 scale. This is slightly too small to be minifig scale, but the math worked out better for many of the pieces I used. All of the large rockets I’ve built has been to this same 1:60 scale. It’s important for me to have the correct sizes, but I think it is more important to be able to show the relative sizes of most of our rockets and spacecraft. I was happy to have built a MOC that was special to me, but my LUG friends felt I shouldn’t stop at only a first stage. They challenged me to build a complete Saturn V rocket, a kind of challenge they would continue many times.
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Astronaut downtime. My Homage to the FebRovery Flickr group—the spirit of Lego in online form! https://www.flickr.com/groups/1841195@N22/
Creating a LEGO Idea:
Billy Burg’s L.E.G.O. Article and Photography by Billy Burg Surface Skimmer mapping the lunar surface.
Billy Burg is a 40-something AFOL from the UK. He’s also a lover of: climbing, cycling, whisky, the great outdoors, science (I was a researcher/academic in Organic Chemistry), aviation and spaceflight, nature, music, photography and most things small—especially little plastic bricks! Bitten by a tick, he contracted Lyme Disease 12 years ago. As a result, he has been very ill and largely housebound since. Billy has been rediscovering LEGO and when up to it, for him, putting bricks together has been a great therapy and real lifesaver. Billy’s building began in 2010 with an alternate build to a LEGO Technic motorcycle. From there he progressed to building modern vehicles and now builds space-related builds and models. His latest project is one close to his heart: the Lunar Exploration Geological Outpost, or L.E.G.O. Inspiration for the set came from a love for the Classic Space sets. While Benny and his Spaceship were kind of cool, his ship did not feel like the Classic sets of old. Also, there are no Classic Space sets to buy at the moment! No disrespect meant to LEGO, as they make the most wonderful fun creative ‘system’ in the world, but Billy thought any Classic Spacer knew what he meant:
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“I’ve always loved the blue classic space men. They always put a smile on my face, so by default they would have to be my favourite thing about the set I designed. In terms of the rest of the Idea/set, it’s hard to pick out a most-liked feature, which brings me nicely on to the most difficult aspects of the design process for me. As might be imagined, a lot of my other Flickr models/uploads are intended as display rather than playthings.”
LL-1923 Galaxy Patroller off on a mission.
Billy’s idea is intended to be a fun self-contained play set. There is a larger Galaxy Patroller spaceship, a 6 -wheeled Lunar Utility Vehicle, a Lunar Surface Skimmer for zipping across and mapping the lunar surface, together with a total of six minifigures, dog- and hover-bots plus other accessories. Including the baseplate, there are just under 800 pieces in total. He thinks a retail price of £60-65 (or $70-80) should be realistically achievable. Each model has been developed to be child friendly and only ‘legal’ LEGO connections have been used to join the parts together. The Galaxy Patroller (above) has been dropped from several feet and it stays virtually intact. It features retractable undercarriage, opening canopy and removable under-wing stores. It’s fun to play with and is very swoosh-able!
The Lunar Utility Vehicle and Lunar Surface Skimmer (below) are also robustly built. The Utility Vehicle features a detailed seating area, spare air-tanks for the astronauts, tools, working rear suspension, multi-position crane/grappling claw and sides that can be lowered to allow the easy loading of the accessories. The Surface Skimmer features retractable landing gear, a large underside radar for mapping the lunar surface and a positionable rear radar dish for monitoring the flights of the Galaxy Patroller. Other accessories include a small transportable radar station, cargo for the Utility Vehicle, a tool box, a jet pack for one of the astronauts, and roller skates and hand held rockets to give the Outpost team something to do on their days off!
Utility Vehicle, Surface Skimmer, crew and accessories. Ready for play.
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Countdown to Building Article by Valerie Roche
My name is Valerie Roche, I am the mother of two creative “AFOL” children. Everything started about eight years ago when my husband found a trunk containing his old LEGO bricks from the ’70s, which has given our family passion for LEGO. Having purchased and assembled many LEGO sets, we quickly realized that we obviously still lacked the necessary bricks to build our own original designs! It was then that we discovered this awesome freeware: LEGO Digital Designer. From that moment, my children have had the freedom to design without the limits of missing pieces. My husband and I have tried to help realize some of our children’s ideas by bringing our experience in the artistic or mechanical and technical fields. The concept of the LEGO collaborative design was born! I leave it to my children to do all the research and documentation for their chosen project ideas because I think it brings more culture in this wonderful educational plastic brick. Once the project is finalized, we submit it at LEGO Ideas so that maybe, it becomes an official LEGO sets sold in toy stores. Because I think again that for my children, in addition to the satisfaction of one day seeing one of their idea compete with LEGO Group products, this will bring to them some values like humility, culture of well finished work, and the spirit of competition. After submitting twenty family original projects, I was invited by some LEGO Ideas friends to collaborate with Dr. Circe Verba on two science-related projects called Research Geology and Research Geology Adventures. Left: A version of the Apollo 11 rocket with the launch gantry and transporter crawler. Below: A closer look at the crawler.
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