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The Magazine for LEGO® Enthusiasts of All Ages! Issue 12 • October 2010 $8.95 in the US BACK to SCHOOL! School Sculptures by Nathan Sawaya Angus MacLane’s CubeDudesTM Building Standards AND MORE! You Can Build It: School Bus 1 82658 00017 2 ® DIGITAL THE MAGAZINE FOR LEGO EDITIONS 6-ISSUE AVAILABLEY ENTHUSIASTS OF ALL AGES! FOR ONL SUBSCRIPTIONS: $3.95 BRICKJOURNAL magazine (edited by Joe Meno) spotlights $57 Postpaid in the US all aspects of the LEGO® Community, showcasing events, ($75 Canada, BRICKJOURNAL #11 BRICKJOURNAL #13 people, and models every issue, with contributions and $86 Elsewhere) “Racers” theme issue, with building tips Special EVENT ISSUE with reports from on race cars by the ARVO BROTHERS, BRICKMAGIC (the newest US LEGO fan how-to articles by top builders worldwide, new product DIGITAL interviews with the LEGO Group on TOP festival, organized by BrickJournal), BRICK- intros, and more. 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(84-page FULL-COLOR magazine) $8.95 (84-page FULL-COLOR magazine) $8.95 (84-page FULL-COLOR magazine) $8.95 (84-page FULL-COLOR magazine) $8.95 (84-page FULL-COLOR magazine) $8.95 TwoMorrows Publishing.Celebrating The Art & History Of LEGO.® TwoMorrows • 10407 Bedfordtown Drive • Raleigh, NC 27614 USA • 919-449-0344 • FAX: 919-449-0327 • E-mail: [email protected] • www.twomorrows.com Issue 12 • October 2010 Contents From the Editor ........................................................................................2 Cover Gallery: The Brick as Art ......................................................3 People Marcos Bessa: Builder of Large and Small............................5 Cindy English and Aaron Westbrook: A Family of Builders ........................................................................11 Angus MacLane: CubeDudeTM Creator ..............................15 Jordan Schwartz: Building a Nepali Diorama ................20 Building Your Universe Awaits! ......................................................................24 Building Group Displays ................................................................25 Train and Town ...................................................................................26 PennLUG Town/Train Standard .............................................28 Moonbase ..............................................................................................30 Classic Castle .........................................................................................31 Great Ball Contraption ...................................................................32 Microscale ..............................................................................................33 Miniland ...................................................................................................36 CubeDudeTM .........................................................................................37 From Power Miners to Atlantis: How a Model Jumped Themes .............................................38 You Can Build It: Luke Skywalker’s Jedi Academy.......41 Minifigure Customization 101: Expressions!..................46 You Can Build It: Schoolbus ........................................................48 Community Family Fun Day .....................................................................................54 Event Report: LEGO World Zwolle 2009 ............................56 Mastering FLL: The Basics of Batteries .................................61 Building Castles in the Sand ........................................................64 Building Castle Instructions .........................................................67 The LEGO System: Endless Possibilities ..............................68 From the Designers Desk..............................................................77 Community Ads ..................................................................................78 Last Word ..................................................................................................79 AFOLs...........................................................................................................80 Right: Marco Bessa’s Villa Maison. From the Editor: Back to school. There’s not much at all about schools October 2010 per se in this issue, except for the Issue 12 school bus and maybe the Family Editor in Chief Fun Day (but that is a bit of a stretch, Joe Meno admittedly). This issue changed Photography Editor direction midway through gathering Geoff Gray articles. Business Manager and Proofreader What originally started as a back to Carin Proctor school issue became a back to building Proofreader school for anyone interested in being Eric Nolen-Weathington part of a group layout. Many of the European builders of displays at conventions and events build layouts that have to be moved and LEGO Group Bureau Editor and have to fit together. This issue has many of the standards and guidelines that are Megan Rothrock used by builders in many different themes. These standards are in different places Japanese Bureau Editor online, so Geoff Gray (the writer of the standards article) placed the source links to all the guidelines he found. There’s a lot that had