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Bricks of the Rising Sun The Magazine for LEGO® Enthusiasts of All Ages! Issue 18 • March 2012 $8.95 in the US Bricks of the Rising Sun Events: Brick Fan Town Brick Fan Castle People: Kazuyoshi Naoe Instructions 0 3 and MORE! 0 74470 23979 6 OutOut ofof thisthis 3rd ANNUAL worldworld LEGOLEGO®® fun!fun! Meet Guest of Honor (and Certified Professional LEGO builder) DAN PARKER, and help him build a 5-foot wide DEATHSTAR! RaleighRaleigh 20201212 Festival for LEGO® Fans Presented by TwoMorrows Inc. and BrickJournal Magazine MAY 19-20, 2012 (Private builders-only event May 17-18) Dive into the See a huge hall of all-new custom at the Hilton North Raleigh FREE BUILD LEGO CREATIONS by top builders 3415 Wake Forest Road, Raleigh, NC 27609 ROOM and from around the world! play with Hours: Saturday 10-5 • Sunday 10-4 thousands of loose LEGO Sponsored by: bricks! Special guest filmmakers SHATTERPOINT ENTERTAIN- MENT demonstrate how to make animated LEGO FILMS, which run non-stop in our THEATER ROOM! Meet JOE MENO, editor of SINGLE-DAY TICKETS: PRE-ORDER ONLINE & BrickJournal magazine, and SAVE $1 PER TICKET! author of the new books • Adults (age 17-up): $12 • Kids (age 4-16) and Order now to avoid YOU CAN BUILD IT and THE Seniors: $8 lines at the door (and a CULT OF LEGO, which debut • Age 3 and under: FREE possible sell-out)! at BrickMagic 2012! Shop for RARE AND HARD TO FIND LEGO SETS with our vendors! Watch FIRST® LEGO® League ROBOTICS COMPETITIONS! • Special discounted hotel rate: $90/night (first 50 people who book their room get a FREE limited edition LEGO Kit, courtesy Preorder our limited edition of BrickMania) SPACEFIGHTER event kit online • Attend the public event on Saturday and (shown above) and avoid a Sunday, or be an exhibitor ($50 fee) and sell-out! ONLY $10! display your creations, and attend the Enter the SPACESHIP BUILDING private convention Thursday & Friday CONTEST and win prizes! (Go online to register!) For more info or to order tickets or Meet your favorite characters from preorder your Spacefighter Kit, go to: Special guest JARED K. BURKS holds a galaxy far, far away, including the free workshops showing how to MINIFIGURE STORMTROOPER! www.brickmagic.org customize your minifigures! BrickMagic is not part of The LEGO Group, but is sponsored by or call 919-449-0344 Attend workshops on MINDSTORMS, them. LEGO, the Minifigure, and the Brick and Knob configura- BUILDING TECHNIQUES, and more! tions are trademarks of the LEGO Group of Companies. Issue 18 • March 2012 Contents From the Editor ...................................................2 News ReBrick: Powered by LEGO Fans ............3 LEGO® CUUSOO Goes to Space ............8 People Jumpei Mitsui’s LEGO Certified Professional Celebration ........................12 Kazuyoshi Naoe: Building in Japan..14 Japanese Builder: Takuya Harajo .......18 Building Set Reviews: LEGO Employee’s Choice (Lighthouse Island, Life of George, Bounty Hunter Assault Gunship, Queen Anne’s Revenge) .......................20 LEGO Pop-up: Kinkaku-ji of Takayuki Kawahara .............................25 Minifigure Customization 101: Introduction to Lighting Custom Minifigures and LEGO Elements ...28 You Can Build It: Japanese Stone Lantern ......................32 You Can Build It: Space Battleship Yamato .....................36 Community The Todai (University of Tokyo) LEGO Club ....42 Japan AFOL Challenge: BrickFan Town and Brick Fan Castle ................................46 Nasu Highland Park: Japan’s Sacred LEGO Land .................55 LEGO Technic® and MINDSTORMS® in Japan ............................................................59 LEGO Education: Big in Japan ...................................................63 From Vacuum Records to ClickBrick: LEGO Bricks and Fashion in Japan ............................................................66 A LEGO Space Elevator? The Sky’s the Limit! ..........................................................70 Brick Words: Japanese LEGO Books ..............................76 Part Index by Mike Doyle ........................77 Community Ads ............................................78 Last Word ............................................................79 AFOLs.....................................................................80 1 From the Editor(s): Well....This issue came from the idea of showcasing builders that haven’t been seen March 2012 very often. Japan is a place with incredible Issue 18 builders, but compared to Europe and the US, they have a low profile. Part of why Publisher this happens is the language barrier, but John Morrow another part is that what is seen is only online, where a good build or layout is Editor in Chief quickly glanced at, only to be put aside for Joe Meno the next hot MOC. Photography Editor Geoff Gray I have wanted to go beyond the borders of the builders I have met and seen, and this issue is a major step to the horizon. Thanks to Nathan Bryan, who wrote, met AFOLs Proofreader and photographed for this issue. He also has some thoughts too... John Morrow It has been a pleasure traveling around Japan, meeting other people involved with European and enthusiastic about building with LEGO bricks. Everyone was so helpful, from doing and LEGO Group Bureau Editor research, providing information and contacts, to helping with or actually writing articles. Megan Rothrock I hope that through these articles, the many wonderful things being done with LEGO Japanese Bureau Editor here in Japan shines through. I would like to say a big Domo Arigato Gozaimashita to Nathan Bryan everyone for their support in putting this issue together! West Coast Editors 2012 is the 50th year since LEGO products became available in Japan, and their Todd Kubo popularity, with both kids and adults, continues to expand tremendously. This year a Ashley Glennon LEGO Discovery Center opens in Tokyo, and in 2015 a LEGOLAND in Nagoya. The popularity will just build and build and build! Contributors: Jared Burks, Christopher Deck, Nathan Bryan - Japanese Bureau Editor Kunie DeVorkin, Mike Doyle, Ashley Glennon, Geoff Gray, Comments on this issue are welcome! Are there other places to spotlight? I’m sure Takuya Harajo, Yoshihito Isogawa, there are! Nobuo Miki, Jumpei Mitsui, Joe Meno, Editor Kazuyoshi Naoe, nyangroove, Megan Rothrock, Yoshikazu Saito, P.S. Have ideas or comments? Drop me a line at [email protected]. I’m open Kozo Takayama, Kenichi Tohya, to suggestions and comments and will do my best to reply. Akihiro Youshimura, P.P.S. Yes, Brickjournal has a website — www.brickjournal.com! and Greg Hyland. Twitter? Yep, there too — http://twitter.com/brickjournal. Many thanks to the websites Facebook? Yup — http://www.facebook.com/group. who have served as mirrors php?gid=58728699914&ref=mf. for BrickJournal: P.P.P.S. If you want info on a subscription, you can go to www.LUGNET.com, www.Brickshelf.com, www.twomorrows.com or scan the code at right! www.peeron.com, www.brickmodder.net www.rustyclank.com Glossary About the Cover: Japanese Mountain Temple. Built by Takuya AFOL (Adult Fan of LEGO) POOP (Pieces—that can be or should Taxon. Photo by Takuya Harajo. NLSO (Non-LEGO Significant Other) be made—Of Other Pieces) About the Contents: MOC (My Own Creation) SNOT (Studs Not on Top) Closeup of Brick Fan Town. Photo provided TLG (The LEGO Group) LUG (LEGO Users Group) by Yoshikazu Saito. BURP (Big Ugly Rock Piece) LTC (LEGO Train Club) LURP (Little Ugly Rock Piece) LEGO®, TECHNIC, MINDSTORMS, Belville, Scala, BIONICLE, ExoForce, Mars Mission, World City, and other LEGO theme lines are trademarks of the LEGO Group of companies. All articles, photos, and art are copyright BrickJournal Media, LLC 2011, TwoMorrows Publishing and the respective writers, photographers, and artists. All rights reserved. All trademarked items are the property of their respective owners and licensees. Subscriptions are $57USD Media Mail, $75 Canada, $86 International Surface, $128 International Airmail and can be purchased at www.twomorrows.com or payment sent to: TwoMorrows Publishing, 10407 Bedfordtown Drive, Raleigh, NC 27614 USA. The editorial/advertising office address forBrickJournal is: BrickJournal Editor, 5610 Briar Oak Lane #510, Raleigh, NC 27612 USA or [email protected]. First Printing. Printed in the USA. ISSN 1941-2347. BrickJournal and its staff would like to thank the LDraw community for the software it makes available to the community, which we use for making all of the instructions and renderings in this magazine. We would especially like to thank Kevin Clague for his continued upgrades of the LPub tool that is a part of2 the LDraw suite. For more information, please visit http://www.ldraw.org. The LEGO Group Powered by LEGO® Fans! Article by Megan Rothrock Images provided by the LEGO Group You know ReBrick.com is a new website from the BrickJournal: How long has LEGO ReBrick been in LEGO Group, but did you know that this innovative development? Tormod Askildsen (TA): We started the ReBrick project social media hub which highlights what AFOLs create about three-and-a-half years ago. An external agency, Naked with the LEGO Brick was created with help from Communications, pitched an idea to us. The idea was pretty members of the AFOL Community? close to the LEGO Fan concept (a web portal for both new and experienced LEGO fans and the community) which BrickJournal met recently with Tormod Askildsen, was born back in 2004 and established by a group of fans. Senior Director of Community Engagement & Events; In September 2008, there was a meeting near London with Peter
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