Blog of Josh Hall

 Someone had found my previous version from a few years ago and asked if it was for sale. I tore it down shortly after it was built, but I said I could recreate it pretty easily. I fixed a lot of the problems the old one had, and ALMOST had its weight centered on that […]

Fellow Steel City LUG member, Greg, pointed on a contest for classic movie vignettes on a 16 x 16 base plate using a collectible minifig.  He did a great version of Tangled, but realized it wasn’t a classic movie.  I jumped in with E.T., after googling what movies were released in my birth year.  I […]

I saw this set on LEGO.com and I thought the front didn’t look quite right, especially using the white bricks. It’s also less functional since it’s only 1 brick deep. Here’s my modified version with instructions – http://joshuadhall.com/lego/Building%20Instructions%20%5Bheartshapedbox%5D.html those 72 parts will run you less than $3 on bricklink.com. Here’s an inventory file if you’d […]

I’m a part of Steel City LUG, and we’re displaying at LEGO KidsFest this weekend, so I wanted to put together something special for it.  I was imbued by the Batman/Joker of Arthur Gugick, who was inspired by Christopher Doyle’s Dorian Bley.  I originally had a different idea, but it was my wife that came up […]

This was an award for MAN Growth at a gathering of friends to give each other man awards.  The event focused on all of our unique talents; mine being LEGO creations. At first, I wanted to do a bonsai tree, but after seeing that a bunch have been done already, I lost some steam.  I […]

This probably the most impressive LEGO build I’ve ever seen.  Forget the Lord of the Rings tower.  This is just so awesome on so many levels.  I actually think it might be my favorite build I’ve ever seen.  Seriously.