Uncle Perry's Lego MOCs

I was very lucky to participate in a massive collaborative display at BrickCon 2018 (Seattle), put together by the Brothers Brick. Here's a look at that amazing Ninjago City display that included dozens of builders! My building was a humble section with a modest lower section, utilitarian upper area, and a motorized shark tank. Many thanks go to out to my friend Brett who got me into the collab build, helped motivate me during creative blocks, and hauled the entire build to Seattle for me when I had to miss BrickCon at the last second. I was more than a little surprised to win "Best Upper Level" -- a great honor amid a very high caliber of builders!

My first collaborative build was for BRICK ROGERS, first shown at Bricks Cascade 2018. Together with the very talented Troutdale Build League, we created a space outpost themed after Lego's retro spaceman CMF. My contributions included a Power Generator Building, Rover and Green House.

No matter what you thought of the standalone Solo  Star Wars movie, it was hard to miss the radical changes made to the Falcon. The iconic ship was nearly showroom fresh in white and blue, with a streamlined sensor dish and large escape pod covering the mandibles. The interior is bright and reflected Lando's interests: entertaining in style and showing off his prodigiously large space cape collection. I challenged myself to build an escape pod for the front of my classic 10179 UCS Millenium Falcon. Because I like rules, I saddled myself with a few guidelines: 1) The exterior should maintain the color scheme and visual language of the UCS Falcon, 2) The escape pod should snugly attach to the UCS Falcon, 3) Make no changes to the UCS Falcon, 4) The escape pod should be able to open up to reveal an interior, 5) Try to use only Lego elements that were available circa 2007. To make sense of why this version of the Falcon would exist in the Star Wars world, I imagin...

Big thanks to Boone  for coming up with the idea to mash up DUPLO and MAD MAX into DUPOCALYPSE. We ended up building quite a few apocalypse-ready vehicles to show at the 2018 Bricks Cascade .  My contribution was a MOC I call "Hell Hath No Fury Like a Toddler Scorned." I didn't own much Duplo, so first thing I did was to find a Duplo vehicle. After looking at quite a few options, I got this truck on eBay: Luckily it had anti-studs on the bottom that I could attach system bricks to! And here is my completed MOC. It has a pose-able rolling crusher in front, extra gas tanks on the roof, side-mounted weapons and a rake in the back. If you saw Fury Road (2015) you know rakes come in handy for slowing slowing down vehicular prey. The back opens up to reveal a fold-up remote-controlled Duplo Rover!

"CRYSTAL CAVERNS - First opened in 1994, this attraction transported guests to the mysterious and dangerous arctic base X-42, where researchers uncover the secrets of the Crystal Caverns. The ride was closed permanently after a serious incident involving an animatronic snow creature." One of my favorite features of Google Maps is the ability to look at satellite photos my favorite theme parks. A ride like Disneyland's Indiana Jones Adventure looks completely different from overhead than as a guest. As a guest you see the winding jungle-themed path, then an amazing temple interior. But as seen from above (or from back stage), the queue disappears into a soundstage -- a simple squared off building painted green to help camouflage it from the parking lot and other areas you might catch a glimpse at it.  I've always been fascinated at this marriage of guest-facing areas and backstage, behind-the-scenes areas. My MOC was built around a classic Lego Sp...