Beyond the Instruction Booklet
Welcome to beyond the instruction booklet. This website explores creative building ideas made from Lego. While instructions help people build official sets, this site focuses on original creation and ways to think creatively with the Lego bricks.
On this site you will find examples of custom designs, inspiration for new builds, and multimedia showing different Lego creations. The goal is to encourage builders to go beyond the instructions by using their imagination to create some of their own unique builds.
Displayed here are several of my original designs. In the Lego community these are known as MOC’s (My Own Creations), projects designed and built entirely from imagination refined through the years of practice.
Star Wars MOC’s
This is a MOC located on the planet Alderaan. It is depicting a scene of some droids finding a clone base in the middle of a forest. The bunker includes a blaster rack, bench press, and a jail cell for a prisoner trying to escape. This was made on a 32×32 base plate, which is approximately a foot long and took more time than expected due to all the tiles needed for the interior of the base.
This is a MOC based on the planet Rodia. There wasn’t too much thought for any background information, but I wanted to make a scene that was aesthetically pleasing. This includes a river that looks like it is flowing rapidly and a clone trooper trudging against the current. Made on a 16×16 base plate, this was an easier model to create due to all the chaos the plants and river need to create, just like in a jungle.
This Moc is based on the show Andor in Coruscant. The robot (K2SO) is a powerful war machine, who was reprogrammed by rebels so they can get into profound bases of the Empire in disguise. In this scene, the man asks if he is on their side, then K2SO proceeds to throw him off the bridge.
This is an Imperial Transport made purely out of imagination with no reference point. My own backstory is that it is on a more deserted planet with a lot of crates containing credits, along with a highly dangerous prisoner. They are going through abandoned territory, so they have an abundance of weaponry just in case some bounty hunters come along.
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