Today’s guest article comes from Bethany Wright, a builder, LEGO educator and Tips&Bricks contributor who makes MOCs move and runs Interactive Bricks. Making MOCs for a LEGO Convention “But could you make it move?” I remember looking skeptically at my friend, who had just challenged me to try something with LEGO movement. I knew nothing about gears. I’m not an engineer. But here he was, daring me to try something new. I had seen plenty of builds with complex movements. I even found some free instructions that helped me go from zero knowledge to understanding basic movements. But when it came to incorporating that movement into MOCs that I displayed at LEGO shows, I was woefully unprepared for what I was about to encounter. I’ll spare you the details of what went wrong at my first show. Instead, let me share the lessons of everything I learned the hard way… Starting...








