Lego Brickmaster

Lego Subscription Brickmaster is worth the money?

My son is 9 years old, is a lego fanatic. His birthday is August 12 and I thought to get him a subscription Brickmaster Lego. Can anyone tell me this subscription has achieved # 1 – Is it worth the $? # 2 – What type I get games every 2 months? A 10 year old boy like them? # 3 – How long does it take to get the first set? If I order today – I go to 12 August? # 4 – Any other thing you can tell me about the subscription. Thanks!

1) The journal itself is not all that wonderful. It is more or less the same as the magazine normal club, with some additional things in it. If you're not a member of the club magazine, check out – you may be able to get for free (often large Lego Sets come with coupons for one-year subscription). Anyway, the magazine of the club to give a good idea of what to expect in BrickMaster. They are very similar, with a bit more content in BrickMaster. If you live near a retail store Lego, which often have free copies of the magazine of the club to take home. 2) The sets are quite varied. Some, no doubt, will be up the alley, and some will not. However, I believe that none of the packages they offer are available elsewhere, so it is kind of neat to see what they are. 3) Do not remember. I think that is published every two months, so January, March, May, July, September, November. I guess if you order now you get the July / August, and get it fairly quickly. But that's just a guess – I'm not sure how handle new subscriptions. If it is above and beyond a Lego fan, there BrickJournal magazine (quarterly subscription.) It is the content adult level, but is much more complete than any of the club magazine or BrickMaster. Designed for adult fans of Lego, so depending on the interests of his son, the amount to feed, and how their reading is perhaps worth visiting. Davee

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How I got Started with Lego Trains

I started building LEGO trains by building the refrigerator car
from the instructions in Jacob McKee’s “Getting Started With
LEGO Trains” book. This is still the basic design for the current
refrigerator cars I build, but I changed the side details to better
accommodate my stickers.

I have always favored box cars, so I adapted the refrigerator
car design to build my custom freight cars. This freight car was
intended to be a less costly design that also looked a little more
contemporary, while the refrigerator car was meant to have a
more classic look. This allowed me to go to a much cheaper sliding
door, which is also more readily available. I would prefer to
use a Black Door, but due to cost and availability, the gray door
is a compromise.

Next, I started looking at what to build, and I saw that people
seemed to like gondolas, so I first created a MOC gondola on a
6 x 28 train base. I didn’t find this design to be very popular, and
the gondola always seemed a bit too large to me, so I took the
design and adapted it to the shorter 6 x 24 train base. This design
lowered the cost and seemed to be a hit. I have to admit, I
was a bit surprised, but happy. This design is not really based on
any Santa Fe designs, but I tried to give it some real detail on the
ends, which I felt was not very well done on other MOC gondolas
I have seen. I also chose to use reddish-brown Lego Parts, because
I always imagine gondolas to be rusty and well used. The
reddish-Brown Brick selection allows you to capture that rustic
look, but still look good.

My latest MOC was inspired simply by the fact that it seemed
that the rest of the world, unlike me, is crazy for grain hoppers.
I still prefer box cars, but I started looking around for a Santa
Fe Grain Hopper design, and found exactly what I hoped for. I
don’t think reality could have provided a better design for me
to recreate as a LEGO MOC. It was also very fortunate that LEGO
came out with its large Space Shuttle set a while back, and that
they went on clearance at all the Targets about a year and a half
ago. This created a massive surplus of the required parts at super
good prices! I couldn’t believe my fortune. So I ordered the parts
I thought I would need and wanted to try using, and after getting
my first couple of BrickLink orders, sat down to build. With
a picture of the real grain hopper in hand, and a pile of parts in
front of me, the design came together in about 2 to 3 hours; it
felt like it almost put itself together. This has been the design
that I think really started to get my trains noticed out there, so
needless to say, I’m really pleased with it.

About the Author

Son of 2, Brother of 1, Father of 6, Friend to all, Bother to Many.  Born and raised all over the world I now reside in Southern California near my true love LEGOLAND.  My wife and I operate a Lego Store in which we sell all things Lego.  Stop by our store anytime and drop us a line www.BrickTrainShop.com