Customer Reviews:
 Not very useful December 19, 2007
5 out of 8 found this review helpful
This book tries too hard to include everyone. As such it has large sections on the most basic and simplistic ideas, such as offsetting bricks in walls, and what is meant by 'scale'. But also sections on fairly advanced design techniques, and how to organize huge lego collections. In the end, I belleive the book won't satisfy either the new collector learning about simple lego idea, nor the experienced lego builder.
The list of lego pieces is somewhat interesting if only for including the date of introduction of the pieces, but even though it takes up a large portion of the book, it is by necessity very incomplete. Most of the ideas in the book are used in many lego sets, so will be allready familiar to people with more than a couple of sets themselves. The book doesn't mention Modulex lego (which would be of some interest to many collectors). It also includes the incorrect factoid that 6 standard identical 2x4 bricks can make 102,981,500 possible different structures (the real number is 915,103,765).
Good points are:
Explanation of the Legoland scale models and creating figures at that scale.
Full guidelines on making a lego 'sculptural' sphere out of standard bricks.
 Excellent Reference Book and Helpful Author September 16, 2007
6 out of 7 found this review helpful
The Unofficial Guide helped me to figure out the next step to helping my sons with Legos. We have several kits and its all a big mess. However, now with this book, I have been able to organize my thoughts and come up with a way to make Legos a good learning tool. The book has many helpful tips about Lego building techniques and terminology. Its a great reference book. Specifically, the Brickopedia section in the back shows that each part has a part number. In addition, the reference to the BrickLink web page to order missing parts was helpful. I also sent an email to the author and Mr. Bedford responded within 24 hours with a kind and courteous note. Its a great book with an honest and helpful author. Five stars!
 The Unofficial LEGO Builder's Guide May 8, 2007
3 out of 30 found this review helpful
this isn't very understandable. I didn't like it at all
Helpfull guide with lots of examples January 15, 2007
9 out of 11 found this review helpful
As a adult fan of Lego (AFOL) it was a helpful guide in helping me
to design and build my own creation (MOC).
I now have detailed plans combined with creativity and it has begun
to take shape.
Like in the real world building your own house;
With this book you become archetect, contractor and builder.
The book gives a lot of infrmation in 320 pages!
Packed with useful information January 13, 2007
9 out of 10 found this review helpful
Who knew there were so many ways to put bricks together? I loved the part showing building techniques which I hadn't tried before. The tips on microscale building allow you to build large scenes with less bricks than other scales. There is a lot of content here, and I highly recommend it.
Eric and Barbara Strand Frisco, TX
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