About The Brick Builder Blog

Welcome Aboard!

Welcome to "Brick Builder Snarf"! This is a blog dedicated to all of my adventures involving anything LEGO. Here you will find me building sets, time-lapse videos, loot box reviewing, and anything else LEGO related. Any age of persons is able to enjoy a good, wholesome LEGO build.

How Did This All Start?

I recently got back into building some LEGO sets again because they have always proven to be a great stress reliever. The more I got into them the more I discovered there is a whole community surrounding the art of building and sharing LEGO content. This ranges from all ages and all genres of builds. People build sets and some people build their own sets. People collect mini figures and some people create their own mini figures. The amount of different ways to enjoy LEGO is pretty endless. Discovering all the different blogs, Instagram profiles, and Facebook communities really opened my eyes to what can be found within this niche community. From all this, I was inspired to create my own LEGO content and share it with other people.

What Are Your Plans For All Of This?

There really isn't an end goal. I just enjoy building and want to share it with other people. Building a large viewer base would be really neat but beyond that, I just want to share the joy of the craft. I hope that other people will be able to relate and see that all different skill levels of LEGO builders are able to take part in the LEGO hype. I want to give an honest and casual look at what it is like to be a hobbyist in the LEGO community because I am far from an expert myself.

So hopefully you'll stick around and enjoy the content as I begin to expand more on this blog. I warn you though, it is an addictive hobby and you'll find yourself down quite a few pretty pennies the deeper you dig into it. But enjoy none the less!

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Stop-Motion Build - LEGO City - Airshow Jet

After learning how to create stop motion videos today I decided to up my game and create my first Stop-Motion build video. This took quite a bit of time but the pay off was well worth it. This 43-second clip probably took me about 2 hours to shoot. I have a long way to go, that's for sure. I need to master a lot of lighting techniques and movement techniques still. But that's half the fun and you guys will get to watch the content become better over time. Enjoy!

Let's Build - LEGO City - "City Pizza Van"

Here is a build that I did a while ago before my craze of capture content started. This set was actually a gift my wife bought me one night. She has gotten herself a Disney Princess castle to build and I got this set to build. It is set item #60150 ( you can see it on the front and back bumper. I like clever code placement like that) and contain 249 pieces. I do not have a time-lapse video to accompany this build since it was done a while ago. Going forward I'm going to try and capture all builds though. Enjoy!

Let's Build - 3rd Party "bricks" - Mr. Universe Van

I've always been a huge fan of Steven Universe and when I saw that there was a series of LEGO knock offs dedicated to the show I was super excited. I didn't mind that it wasn't LEGO brand, because there are a lot of decent 3rd part "brick" products (and I'm a Brick Builder!) So I figured this set wouldn't be too bad. Eventually, I was gifted this set by my wife because she knew I love the show, I love LEGO, and (hopefully) she loves me. I went into this build thinking it was going to be extremely easy. Boy was I wrong. The finished product is nice and it is still themed to Steven Universe, but the journey to get there was awful. None of these pieces like to stick together, there are about 4 different colors for white, the gray are too similar and can be used in the wrong spots, and the stickers we're super difficult to apply (you can see where I ripped a few). I'm not saying I don't appreciate this as a gift and that I like the finished prod...

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