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Volume #1 Issue 8 Contents From the Editor ................................................................................................. 2 Events BrickFest 2007 Report: Some Assembly Required .......................................................... 3 BrickFest 2007 Report: BrickFest Returns to Portland ...................................................... 8 Creating the Children’s City .................................................................................. 10 12 Looking at LEGO Art with the Reverend ................................................................... 12 Build or Build Not, There is no Try (A Yoda Build Event) ................................................... 15 People Constructing a Park .......................................................................................... 19 Building Brickfilms with Blunty ............................................................................. 24 Building a Perfect Minifig Wordl with Barbara Werth .................................................... 26 Building Outside the Box .................................................................................... 28 Female AFOLS: Jessi Pastor, Saskia von Doesburg, Ann V. McKee, Janey Cook ....................... 32 Special Reports: Previews and Reviews A Look Behind the Market Street ........................................................................... 42 19 Market Street Reviews ....................................................................................... 44 Furnishing the Market Street ................................................................................ 48 More Than the Market Street (Alternates) ................................................................. 51 Buillding modules for the Market Street in LEGO Digital Designer ..................................... 53 Power Functions Motor Comparison ...................................................................... 56 Power Functions Spotlight .................................................................................. 60 Building Minifig Customization 101: Custom Cloth Accessories .................................................. 62 You Can Build it: Commodore VIC-20 Keyboard .......................................................... 66 You Can Build it: Droid Starfighter .......................................................................... 73 42 Brick Separator. 74 WWYB Winner ................................................................................................ 76 New Destroyer Makes Waves ............................................................................... 80 To Build a Building ............................................................................................ 84 Constructing a Big Rig ....................................................................................... 88 Gotta Build Them All ......................................................................................... 91 Community Comunidade 0937 (Portugal) ............................................................................... 96 ABSTechnology: A Short History ........................................................................... 98 80 Reviews: Not Quite LEGO (NQC) .....................................................................................103 Castle Review ...............................................................................................106 Star Wars AT-ST Review .....................................................................................111 Last Word .....................................................................................................116 AFOLs ...................................................................................... Back Inside Cover 98 From the Editor: It’s another issue and another launch - the Market Street set hit the street earlier Summer 2007 this week! BrickJournal was set to launch with the set, but things did not work out Volume #1, Issue 8 as planned. Editor in Chief What did go as planned were all Joe Meno the articles about the set and all the Photography Editor possibilities it has. Not only did we Geoff Gray review the Market Street set, we did Business Manager alternates, made furniture and built and Proofreader different modules to fit the set. It was Carin Proctor initially a little odd to have so much on Copy Editor any one subject, but once I laid everything out, things just fell in place to make our Allan Bedford spotlight on the Market Street really special. European Bureau Editor There’s also a lot more stuff inside to read over, from a naval destroyer built with Melody Krützfeldt LEGO parts to an interview with a brickfilmer.There’s also LEGO Pokemon, and West Coast Editors some great event reports from the US and Europe. So relax and jump into this issue! Todd Kubo Ashley Glennon Joe Meno Layout Artists Editor Didier Enjary Mark Larson Camille Goureau-Suignard P.S. Have ideas or comments? Drop me a line at [email protected]. Or go to www.lugnet.com and leave a comment on their forums! I’m open to suggestions Contributors: and comments and will do my best to reply. Matthew Crandall, Todd Kubo, Dan Sabath, Jakob Bindslet, Brendan Powell P.P.S. Many thanks to the LEGO Group staff for helping us out on getting materials Smith, Scott Lyttle, Joe Meno, Melody for the Market Street Set. Thanks especialy to Tormod Askilsen and Jan Beyer. Krützfeldt, Joe Evangelista, Barbara Werth, Felix Greco, Tormod Askildsen, Phillipe Hurbain, Didier Enjary, Jared Burks, Arvo, Christopher Deck, Steve DeCraemer, Ed Diment, Matija Pazar, Pedro Agnelo, Azumu Kawasaki, Luis Baixihno, ABSTechnology, Greg Hyland, Johannes Koehler, Cynthia Bradham, and Mark Larson. Many thanks to the websites who have serve as mirrors for BrickJournal: www.lugnet.com www.brickshelf.com www.peeron.com www.brickmodder.net www.rustyclank.com About the Cover: The Café Corner! Photo by Joe Meno. LEGO® is a trademark of the LEGO Group of companies which does not sponsor, authorize or endorse this magazine. All articles, photos, and art are copyright BrickJournal Media, LLC 2007 and the respective writers, photogra- phers, and artists. All rights reserved. All trademarked items are the property of their respective owners and licensees. 2 BrickJournal • Issue 8, Volume 1 • Summer 2007 BrickJournal • Issue 8, Volume 1 • Summer 2007 3 Wow…what a ride! BrickFest 2007 has come and gone, and in a whirlwind of three days. I have seen how Event: adults can act like children, and children act like there’s magic in the air. BrickFest 2007 A little background: I’ve been building with LEGO for 37 years, off and on--mostly on. I thought that with 23,000 elements, I had a good sized collection. (That thought actually got shot to ribbons by joining LUGNET.) I’ve been a member of the LEGO Club since 1993. I’d been to LEGOLAND California twice, and a number of LEGO retail stores including the first one at the Mall of America. I’d even seen thereally huge model of the U.S. Capitol building. But a convention for “adult” LEGO builders? In my backyard? This I had to see. *Some In essence: this was the first AFOL convention for me and my wife. Deena came along for the ride, and the following is a chronicle of what we experienced in the organized Assembly chaos that was BrickFest 2007. Four weeks prior: Required I discover that I am going to be able to attend all three days of the convention. A quick change to our hotel reservations, and an e-mail to Matt Chiles to let him know what I can bring to the Classic Space Fly-In. Then I take all my Space models and assemble them, just to make sure all the parts are there. Amazingly, considering that much of my Article and Photography LEGO was stored where others could get to it and then it got moved some 2,000 miles, By Matthew Crandall they are intact. Only one element was broken; the