10 YEARS ANNIVERSARY

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You can download the instructions for free HERE (ca. 10 MB)

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Ten years ago today, I uploaded my first MOC.

 

After weeks of sorting and cleaning my old LEGO collection, after countless hours of getting to know to the new parts that had emerged during my dark ages, after days of trying and failing to build something that looked remotely like the Time Machine from the 2002 movie, after finally being satisfied with the result, after my first timid Bricklink order, after dozens of photos and after I comprehended the complicated process of dealing with MOCpages , yes, after all that, I uploaded my first MOC and … nothing happened.

 

For 2 whole days.

 

Then, oh glory, I received my first comment (thank you so much, McVitie 15). Somebody actually had a look at my MOC and even wrote something (I’ve only read the book, but this is the sort of thing I’d imagine it to look like.)

 

It took the whole, hot summer of 2010, a lot of stamina and willpower, to keep building. I dreamed of huge MOCs that I was going to build, of how to be blogged one day by the almighty The Brothers Brick and of how to be noticed by the great ones, like Nannan Zhang , Mark Kelso or Mark Stafford .

Please don’t be mad at me for not naming more or even all of them, because there are far, far too many people in this fantastic community that motivated and inspired me, that I met online and in real life, and some of them became good friends over the decade.

 

Thanks so much to all of you. I don’t know where I’d be today without you and this incredible hobby.

 

To give something back to the community, I created instructions for the little vignette that I uploaded for the ‘Hobbit Day’.

You can download them for free HERE (ca. 10 MB)

 

Have fun with them and be creative.

 

And thanks to everybody for 10 amazing years.

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