The Unofficial LEGO Builder's Guide

Just a quick note to let everyone know that I’m back online now, after about 10 days of being disconnected. That’s what can happen when your laptop takes the brunt of a lightning strike when it hits your apartment building. At the moment you see a blue flash of light coming out the side of your Thinkpad, you can probably assume it won’t properly boot again. And that’s exactly what happened to me.

So I’m back now… with a new APC battery backup unit hopefully isolating me from the wrath of Nature like that again.

If you tried to reach me in the last couple weeks and haven’t heard back, please email me again right away. Unfortunately I lost all my recent emails (including ones I’d not yet responded to) so I’m just letting you know that I may need a reminder of any questions/discussions that were left on the table.

All the best!
Allan B.

If you can’t have fun when you’re picking your subjects for LEGO models, then what’s the point, right?

For whatever reason I never had a Mr Potato Head when I was a kid. So now that I’m an adult I figured, “why not build myself one out of LEGO bricks?”

So I did:

He was built for display at a one-day Toy, Train and Doll show back in May of this year. But I had so much fun building him I thought I’d share.

He’s sort of based on a blend of the different versions/styles of Mr. Potato Head from over the years. So he may not look like one specific Mr. Potato Head that you’ve seen, but hopefully he reminds you of the toy in general.

All the best,
Allan B.