The folks over at No Starch Press have sent a new book over for review. Jacob Berg’s The Great LEGO Puzzle book does just what it says on the cover: It brings 120 building challenges using just a handful of basic bricks. Is this the perfect way to while away time during the holiday season?
Let’s take a closer look.
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The publisher provided this book for review, as well as prizes for the draw, but all opinions are my own.
Deepak Shenoy is well known in the online LEGO Community as Deepshen6 on Instagram, or for his Facebook page, formerly Towering LEGO Creations (now Brick Builder’s Handbook), to say nothing of his contributions posted at Bricknerd.com. His massive LEGO Towers, both real and virtual, have astounded thousands of AFOLs over the past 8 years. In The LEGO Builder’s Handbook – just released through No Starch Press – he takes the lessons he has learned in creating these magnificent structures and clearly communicates them to the reader. He uses worked examples to explain how we too can ensure that our models will take on the shapes that we wish.
This book will not provide you instructions for a massive creation. It will give you a background in sophisticated techniques that will help you achieve your goals!
Read to the end to find out about our giveaway, and our exclusive 25% off code, valid until the new year!
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As a kid growing up in the 70s, I was a little excited about the idea of space travel. I missed the moon landing: The Apollo programme had drawn to a close, Skylab was preparing to burn up in the atmosphere above Western Australia, and we were eagerly awaiting the arrival of the Next Big Thing in space travel – the Space Shuttle.
And so it is into this milieu that as LEGO® Minifigures were unleashed on the world, that we had worlds of Castle, Town and Space unleashed on the world. Past,Present and Future. One had a passing interest, one was the mundane and every day and the other captured my imagination from the moment I saw the catalogue that read “… coming in 1979.” I may not have had many space sets as a child, but the ones I had I could still assemble by heart after 40 years, as I emerged from my dark ages and returned to my childhood LEGO Collection. Of course, while 1979 was the release date in Australia and Europe, a limited range was released in The USA in 1978.
As I have continued to explore the worlds of LEGO Classic Space and beyond, I have seen it through old catalogue scans, battered box photos and crumpled, stained instructions, while cleaning the dust and grime off bulk lots of elements, assembling weathered spacemen and wondering if I need to get my glasses cleaned.
When I saw early mentions of Tim Johnson’s book “LEGO Space: 1978-1992” turning up for preorder on Amazon, I was excited. Tim is a passionate fan who grew up in a similar era to myself and, as a self confessed parts nerd and founder of the website NEW ELEMENTARY, he was always going to bring some interesting insights to the project.
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