The Unofficial LEGO Builder's Guide

What exactly is a slope? What's the difference between a tile and a plate? Why is it bad to simply stack bricks in columns to make a wall? "The Unofficial LEGO Builder's Guide" is here to answer your questions. Focusing on building actual models with real bricks, "The Unofficial LEGO Builder's Guide" comes with complete instructions to build several cool models but also encourages you to use your imagination to create your own fantastic creations. Inside, you'll learn: The best ways to connect bricks and creative uses for those patterns Tricks for calculating and using scale (it's not as hard as you think) The step-by-step plans to create a train station on the scale of LEGO people (a.k.a. "minifigs") How to build spheres, jumbo-sized LEGO bricks, micro-scaled models, and a mini space shuttle Tips for sorting and storing all of your LEGO pieces "The Unofficial LEGO Builder's Guide" also includes the Brickopedia, a visual guide to nearly 300 of the most useful and reusable elements of the LEGO system, with historical notes, common uses, part numbers, and the year each piece first appeared in a LEGO set. The firm foundation for your LEGO hobby starts here!

Reviews

"This guide is full of the techniques that will help you and your kids build . . . just about anything." -- Power To Learn, March 2006
"We were so pumped . . . All aspects of Lego building are covered, using principles found in other walks of life." -- Uncrate.com, June 2006
...mixes the levels of information to allow the book to reach to a broad audience. -- Brick Journal, October 2005
(http://www.legofan.org/brickjournal/)
All of this information is organized in easy-to-follow chunks, with accurate illustrations, and straightforward and understandable writing. -- Blogcritics.org, October 9, 2005
(http://blogcritics.org/archives/2005/10/09/234743.php)
If you like building with Lego bricks, this is the book for you. -- Teddy the Bear blog, October 5, 2005
(http://teddythebear.blogspot.com/2005/10/unofficial-lego-builders-guide-book.html)
If you're... a precocious youngster wishing to absorb some formalized knowledge of the system, [this book] fills in the gap. -- Ink19, September 2005

Table of Contents

The LEGO System: Endless Possibilities Back to Basics: Tips and Techniques Minifig Scale: Oh, What a Wonderful Minfig World It Is! Miniland Scale: The Whole World in Miniature Jumbo Elememts: Building Bigger Bricks Microscale Building: More Than Meets the Eye Sculptures: The Shape of Things to Build Mosaics: Patterns and Pictures in Bricks Technic: Not as Technical as It May Seem Putting It All Together: Where Ideas Meet Bricks Beyond Just Bricks: other Things to Do Besides Building Sorting, Storage, and Sitting Down Besides Something Making and Using Tools for LEGO Projects