Jeremy

Name, age, suburb, occupation?

Jeremy Beckett, 47, Nundah, freelance AFOL journalist/bicycle mechanic.

What are your very first memories of LEGO toys?

I have a couple of early memories - the first would be buying a pack of street signs in the mid 70s and getting a Shell fuel tanker while recovering from a childhood illness. My favourite though is buying the Galaxy Explorer for Christmas. My worst is waiting out the months to Christmas so I could open it!

What’s your favourite LEGO theme, if you have one, and why (ie. Star Wars, Harry Potter, City, Friends, Classic Space, Creator etc)?

It's easily LEGO Star Wars. Are there other themes?!?!?

Do you MOC (ie. build your own creations, sans-instructions)? If so, describe your best ever MOC?

Kind of, but not really. I OPC (Other Peoples Creations) because I never learned the various design and building techniques.

Describe your current or most recent LEGO project?

Writing about LEGO Star Wars for Rebelscum is my current project, and I've got the new The Rise Of Skywalker sets to build and review (I'm really looking forward to the new Yoda statue.) Further down the line I've got some talks and articles to write for Star Wars Celebration in California next year.

Dream big. If you could build anything out of LEGO bricks, what would that dream build be?

I'd love to build the umbilical tower for the Saturn V set. My boy is getting the rocket for Christmas, as well as the Lunar Lander - don't tell him though - so I'd love to have a cool display to put it on.

If you were building yourself as a LEGO Minifigure, what would be the defining characteristic or LEGO accessory that your sigfig would have, that would make it so you?

I'd get a custom torso printed with the same graphic as the minifigure that came with the black VIP card holder that early bird owners of the UCS Millennium Falcon got!

Weirdest place/s you’ve ever seen or discovered a LEGO brick?

Like most kids I've got a "I had LEGO brick pulled out of my nose" story but I don't remember it happening, so I suppose it's the 2x4 red brick I embedded in my newly poured cement drive because selling off my much-loved UCS collection paid for the deposit on our first house in Australia.

Complete this sentence: I know I’m a total LEGO geek/fanatic because...

Because my front teeth are criss-crossed with microfractures caused by forty years of separating bricks.

Tell us about your history/experience with BrickResales? What do you love most about BrickResales?

It's easily the most welcoming and least judgmental community - in the LEGO world or otherwise - I've ever been part of in my life. That, and the fact that I know all the bricks are clean, makes Brick Resales my go-to source for loose LEGO elements.