LEGO (39 page)

My entire animal repertoire consisted of a yellow whale and a rainbow camet—everything else looked like something from the island of Dr. Moreau.

Here is the stegosaurus that Kate and I put together in an attempt to avoid talking about the child we wished was there to put it together with us.

This biplane is the first my own creation (MOC) that I was proud to have built. (The next one will include space for the pilot’s legs.)

I built this zombie defense vehicle for BrickCon 2008, Seattle. It’s been packed carefully in suitcases thrice and, thus, rebuilt twice.

AFOL Adam Reed Tucker managed to complete this to-scale recreation of the Burj Dubai tower for the 2008 BrickWorld convention in Wheeling, Illinois.

The Victorian architecture of San Francisco is recreated in LEGOLAND California’s Minitand—where I briefly pretended to be Godzilla as I walked the streets.

The inauguration ceremony for President Barack Obama is recreated in LEGO bricks at LEGOLAND California.

Some of the world’s most elaborate Bionicle creations are by Breann Sledge, who offered building demonstrations and examples of some of her larger works at the 2008 BrickShow in Bellaire, Ohio.