In “Neither Fish Nor Fowl” | Episode 262 of The Black Lincoln Collective Comedy Podcast, Parker, Fred, and Allan welcome one of the strangest guests ever to enter the BLC universe: Chainsaw Chicken.

Despite the name, Chainsaw would like everyone to understand two things immediately: he does not carry a chainsaw, and he is not a chicken.

From there, the crew dives into decades of Chainsaw Chicken history, including UFOs, Sasquatch, alien breeding programs, presidential encounters, Richard Nixon’s missing tape, old Hollywood, psychiatric treatment, impostor chickens, arrests, a bank robbery misunderstanding, a twin brother named Buzzsaw, life without a driver’s license, and the strange reality of building an independent comedy character for more than 20 years.

Chainsaw also talks about his creative philosophy, surviving as a nonconformist, algorithms that have no idea how to categorize him, the challenges of making independent comedy, and why sometimes the best thing you can do is simply keep being yourself.

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Episode 262 begins in suitably cursed fashion when the show intro repeats itself over and over before Parker finally regains control of the Black Lincoln Collective Podcast.

Then the guest arrives.

The crew welcomes Chainsaw Chicken, who immediately establishes the central rule of the character:

He is a man.

He has always been a man.

He is not a chicken.

And despite what the name suggests, he does not walk around carrying a chainsaw.

Chainsaw explains that the mask is simply part of who he is. He has been wearing some version of it essentially his entire life, considers himself completely normal, and appears genuinely confused that everyone else keeps treating the whole thing as unusual.

The conversation quickly expands into Chainsaw’s long personal mythology.

He talks about UFO experiences and Sasquatch encounters in the Pacific Northwest before revealing that he is apparently the result of an alien breeding program designed to create a superior human being.

Parker naturally wants to know about the mechanics.

Chainsaw assures everyone the process was probably conducted in a very sterile environment.

Politics comes next.

Chainsaw claims to have met multiple presidents, including Bill Clinton, Joe Biden, and Richard Nixon. Biden allegedly used to call him and tell old jokes. Nixon, meanwhile, supposedly recorded Chainsaw during the Watergate era, with the infamous missing section of tape apparently involving him.

That leads into stories about old Hollywood.

Chainsaw remembers the Brown Derby, Tyrone Power, Johnny Weissmuller, Basil Rathbone, and other figures from an era sufficiently old that Parker, Fred, and Allan have to start Googling names during the interview.

The contrast becomes one of the funniest recurring pieces of the episode: Chainsaw casually describes decades of cultural history like he saw it last Tuesday while the hosts struggle to understand who anyone is.

The crew also asks about Chainsaw’s relationship with modern technology.

His “chronicler” has been documenting his adventures since around 2004, producing hundreds of stories and an enormous catalog of videos. Chainsaw explains that the project has had to evolve from text and images into short-form video, streaming, AI tools, and modern social platforms.

He uses several AI systems but remains realistic about their limitations, particularly when trying to understand the enormous and deliberately confusing mythology contained on chainsawchicken.com.

A potential television project also comes up.

Chainsaw says his chronicler is developing a roughly 30-episode series centered largely around Chainsaw going through psychiatric treatment because everyone keeps insisting he should see a psychiatrist.

Naturally, the entire purpose is apparently to prove there is absolutely nothing wrong with him.

The conversation then produces a potential BLC spinoff character when Parker proposes becoming Grenade Monkey.

Grenade Monkey is not a monkey.

He does not possess a grenade.

His tagline would be:

“Pull the pin.”

This somehow makes perfect sense in the Chainsaw Chicken universe.

The crew asks Chainsaw about the closest he has come to being arrested or killed.

He says he has been arrested twice.

One story involves a bank robbery where the robber supposedly shouted “open your drawers.” Chainsaw misunderstands the instruction as “drop your drawers,” creating enough confusion to derail the robbery while also getting himself arrested for indecent exposure.

Asked about his closest brush with death, Chainsaw gives the answer many married men might understand:

His wife.

The episode also explores some of the practical consequences of living as Chainsaw Chicken.

Driver’s licenses are difficult when authorities want the mask removed.

Air travel and passports present similar problems.

Chainsaw’s solution to not having a valid driver’s license is remarkably simple:

He still drives.

He just drives fast enough that nobody catches him.

The crew eventually asks about his legacy.

That produces one of the episode’s more sincere moments.

Chainsaw says the archive, books, stories, and videos are ultimately there for people who feel different, refuse to conform, or are fighting the world simply to remain themselves.

His philosophy is straightforward:

Stick with who you are.

Don’t give up.

You can still be happy even if the rest of the world doesn’t completely understand you.

The conversation then shifts toward independent creativity.

Chainsaw discusses how difficult it is to get attention online, especially when algorithms cannot easily categorize what he is doing.

That leads to the phrase that gives the episode its strongest title:

Neither fish nor fowl.

Chainsaw isn’t a traditional TikTok creator, isn’t selling a typical product, and doesn’t fit neatly into one category. He describes the project as pushing situations rather than products.

Parker immediately relates.

The BLC crew has spent years writing elaborate comedy segments only to discover that a one-second fart joke can outperform hours of carefully constructed material.

Chainsaw calls it the artist’s dilemma.

The conversation also moves through movie recommendations, remakes, Ghostbusters, satire, recurring characters, the BLC multiverse, killing Fred off repeatedly, and the challenge of generating fresh comedy after hundreds of episodes.

Chainsaw recommends Peter Sellers’ Being There, praising its layered satire and explaining that great comedy can appear simple while operating on several different levels.

The interview closes with Chainsaw talking about new material arriving constantly at chainsawchicken.com and the struggle of existing outside the boxes that internet algorithms prefer.

For BLC, that sounds pretty familiar.

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I get it, movie tie ins are hard. You’ve got a development timeline dictated by by an unobservable force. Expectations that are already lower than a kid who gets all of their candy stolen before they get a chance to eat any of it. The only thing you can do sometimes is get your friends and family and hope that they can help you through these tortuous times.

And then a new kid shows up, going on and on about how someone bigger and badder is going to come around and eat your whole planet. And the new kid is cooler than you because he has a surfboard. And he’s shiney and possibly made of metal? Yeah things are getting weird.

Helping me wrangle all of this insanity is Gary Jones from Divergent Comics. Which is a good thing too because I definitely needed a second opinion about some things here and Gary brought a nice calm perspective to counteract my annoyance that until very recently we just couldn’t get a good Fantastic Four movie no matter how hard we tried. And I really needed him to help keep my thoughts about the movie from staining my thoughts on the game.

Get those forks ready, pitch or otherwise, because I know this one is going to leave a few people hungry for more.

Learn such things as:

• Why can’t anyone just let Sue have the cool powers that she deserves?
• Is Reed stretched too thin trying to bridge the gap between super scientist and action star?
• Is any villain safe when they’re caught between a rock and a hot place?
• And so much more!

You can find Gary @gmtj2k on Instagram and Threads, and catch Divergent Comics on Youtube or wherever you find great podcasts. Here’s the Apple link because why not.

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Play Comics is part of the Gonna Geek Network, which is a wonderful collection of geeky podcasts. Be sure to check out the other shows on Gonna Geek if you need more of a nerd fix.

Play Comics is also part of Art Comedy Pop-Culture Network, which is a long-standing creative organization spawning from a love of Adult Swim. Be sure to check them out for all sorts of entertainment news, commentary, and just plain fun stuff.

You can find Play Comics @playcomics.bsky.social on Bluesky, @playcomicspodcast on Threads, @playcomics on YouTube, or the Play Comics website.

If you want to hear Chris talk with Karrington Martin about the lessons we learned from children’s media and how crazy it is that we’re supposed to just forget about that now that we’re adults, then Sugar, Spite, and Everything is Fine is probably something you should check out.

A big thanks to The Last Comic Shop and Tales From the Fandom for the promos today.

Intro/Outro Music by Backing Track, who promised to always be my friend. And if anyone says I threatened to eat a planet to get that answer it’s a lie.

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In Episode 43 of Tales From The Brick, Jon (8 Bit Bricks) sits down with Greg Avola, creator of Brickd, a social app designed to help LEGO fans track their collections, share their building experiences, and connect with other builders. Greg shares how his childhood love of LEGO Pirates and underwater themes eventually gave way to a dark age, until receiving the LEGO Disney Up house brought him back into the hobby. Now, he's sharing that passion with his own children while building a growing community of LEGO enthusiasts.

Greg takes us through the story behind Brickd, from his experience creating the popular beer-tracking app Untappd to realizing that LEGO fans could benefit from a similar way to document and share their experiences. Inspired while building the LEGO Home Alone house, Greg wanted to create something that captured the entire building process, including the hidden details and Easter eggs that often get overlooked once a set is finished. Since launching in February 2024, Brickd has grown to more than 35,000 users worldwide.

The conversation explores Brickd's features, including collection management, wishlists, build progress tracking, community discussions, set ratings, and the ability to share custom MOCs. Greg explains how users can document their builds bag by bag, discover other builders with similar interests, import existing collections from spreadsheets and other services, and even use AI-powered image recognition to identify LEGO sets. He also discusses the app's leaderboards, achievement badges, privacy controls, and why he wants Brickd to complement the building experience rather than keep people glued to their phones.

Greg also shares some of the latest additions to Brickd, including the ability to photograph an entire LEGO collection and automatically identify multiple sets, estimate collection values, and search for sets using natural language. Along the way, he talks about the generosity of the LEGO community, the challenges of keeping up with an ever-growing number of new releases, and what it's like developing an app as a one-person operation while listening to feedback from thousands of users.

Find Greg Avola & Brickd:

• App: Brickd, available on iOS and Android • Website: http://brickd.app

To find the best LEGO deals, check out the Bargain Bricks app.

View the video version of this podcast at https://youtu.be/_G2u4TSeb6M

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Until next time... play well.

In “Crotch Orange” | Episode 261 of The Black Lincoln Collective Comedy Podcast, Fred returns from his Dave Chappelle adventure in Charlotte with casino losses, golf, expensive drinks, locked-up phones, multiple opening acts, a surprise Queen of Hearts singer, and one small problem: he can barely remember a single joke Chappelle told.

Then Parker, Fred, and Allan get ready for Halloween by planning questionable Renaissance Fair costumes, inventing the seasonal color Crotch Orange, debating whether Parker should become a slutty blacksmith, and working through a list of supposedly trending 2026 Halloween costumes that none of them recognize.

The crew also talks Heidi Klum’s legendary Halloween commitment, last year’s ER Halloween experience, a high school quarterback reportedly kicked off his team after changing a play at the line of scrimmage, and who should really control the Super Bowl halftime show.

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• Episode 261 opens with Parker discovering “Let’s park the show” 261 episodes too late.
• BLC continues campaigning for its third local podcast award.
• Fred recaps his Dave Chappelle trip to Charlotte.
• The trip begins with gambling at the Kings Mountain casino.
• Fred discovers $25 table minimums and no live poker room.
• Two kings lose to the dealer’s two aces.
• Fred and his friends play golf the next day.
• They pregame in Charlotte before heading to the Spectrum Center.
• Phones are locked in sealed pouches during Chappelle’s show.
• Fred drinks enough that he remembers laughing but cannot remember a single Chappelle joke.
• Fred hopes the show becomes a Netflix special so he can finally see what he watched.
• After the show, the group ends up at a cigar bar and discovers a Queen of Hearts-themed singer downstairs.
• Fred does not clearly remember getting back to the hotel.
• Hotel ice becomes the greatest beverage Fred has ever consumed.
• The second half turns into a Halloween episode.
• Parker plans a medieval blacksmith costume.
• The costume evolves into a slutty blacksmith.
• Parker’s shirt becomes the official shade Crotch Orange.
• The crew reviews a bizarre list of trending Halloween costumes.
• Most of the alleged popular costumes are unfamiliar to everyone.
• Heidi Klum gets credit for consistently dominating celebrity Halloween.
• Parker remembers spending the previous Halloween in the ER with his child.
• BLC Sports discusses a high school quarterback dismissed after changing a play.
• Twelve players reportedly get suspended after supporting him.
• The crew debates whether the coach overreacted.
• The episode closes with Super Bowl halftime-show talk.

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Bruce Banner has the worst anger management plan in recorded history. Step one: don’t get angry. There is no step two, because the world is full of slow Wi-Fi, hold music, and a military that answers “please stop chasing me” by chasing him harder. It always ends the same way: one enormous green man, one miraculously intact pair of purple pants, and a repair bill the city will still be paying off in 2060.

This episode is about The Incredible Hulk, the video game spun out of the 2008 film. It’s a story about a man who just wants a quiet life, a decent cup of coffee, and a cure, and who keeps getting interrupted by helicopters. His entire personality is a mood swing with a gym membership, and he is somehow still the most reasonable person in any room that contains Ross.

Returning to the show to take the green wheel is Russell Moran of Kaiju ComicCast. Russell spends his days with some of the biggest monsters ever to flatten a skyline, which makes him the one guest who won’t flinch when a city block gets treated like a chew toy. That gives us the big question: is the Hulk a superhero, or a kaiju with a great publicist and a gamma-radiation origin story? Russell is here to rule on it.

Keep a spare pair of stretchy pants handy, don’t make us angry in the comments, and let’s find out whether this one leaves you roaring or just leaves a very large hole in the wall.

Learn such things as:

• How do you mess up a game about smashing things when you have basically the perfect example of that as a blueprint?
• Is Rick Jones the most prominent character who hasn’t gotten to be in a game yet?
• Why can’t Hulk just live a peaceful life in the middle of the rain forest doing his science stuff?
• And so much more!

You can find Russell talking about Hulk on Gamma Charge for a blast from the past, and his current podcast Kaiju ComicCast.

If you want to be a guest on the show please check out the Be a A Guest on the Show page and let me know what you’re interested in.

If you want to help support the show check out the Play Comics Patreon page or head over to the Support page if you want to go another route. You can also check out the Play Comics Merch Store.

Play Comics is part of the Gonna Geek Network, which is a wonderful collection of geeky podcasts. Be sure to check out the other shows on Gonna Geek if you need more of a nerd fix.

Play Comics is also part of Art Comedy Pop-Culture Network, which is a long-standing creative organization spawning from a love of Adult Swim. Be sure to check them out for all sorts of entertainment news, commentary, and just plain fun stuff.

You can find Play Comics @playcomics.bsky.social on Bluesky, @playcomicspodcast on Threads, @playcomics on YouTube, or the Play Comics website.

If you want to hear Chris talk with Karrington Martin about the lessons we learned from children’s media and how crazy it is that we’re supposed to just forget about that now that we’re adults, then Sugar, Spite, and Everything is Fine is probably something you should check out.

A big thanks to Death Between the Stars written by Nico Vincenty and Saved as Draft for the promos today.

Intro/Outro Music by Backing Track, who looks just smashing in purple pants.

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In Episode 42 of Tales From The Brick, Jon (8 Bit Bricks) sits down with Adrian Drake, longtime AFOL, legendary SHIP builder, and the creator behind BrickFrenzy. Adrian shares how growing up in Germany surrounded by LEGO sparked a lifelong passion for building, and how the release of LEGO Star Wars in 1999 helped turn that passion into decades of creating some of the most ambitious LEGO models in the AFOL community.

Adrian takes us back to the earliest days of the online LEGO community, from Usenet and LUGNET to attending BrickFest in 2001, when conventions were small gatherings of just a few hundred builders. He talks about helping pioneer the SHIP building movement, contributing to the original Moonbase Standard, and watching the LEGO community grow from a handful of dedicated builders into the massive worldwide fandom it is today.

The conversation explores some of Adrian's most recognizable creations, including his massive Serenity from Firefly, an eight-foot-wide Deep Space Nine, a life-size six-foot-tall Bender from Futurama, and his latest project, the Highwind from Final Fantasy VII. Adrian shares what goes into designing these enormous builds, from engineering internal structures strong enough to support thousands of bricks to figuring out how to transport creations that can take years to complete. He also reveals why Bender once had several bottles of whiskey stored inside his chest and what happened when a fellow builder accidentally knocked off his arm at a convention.

Along the way, Adrian discusses building with his family, the friendships formed at LEGO conventions, and why he prefers creating for the enjoyment rather than chasing awards. He also offers advice for anyone looking to tackle their first large-scale MOC, explaining why the best way to improve is to study other builders, experiment with techniques, and simply start building.

Find Adrian Drake & BrickFrenzy:

• Website: brickfrenzy.com • Instagram: @brickfrenzy • Flickr: BrickFrenzy

To find the best LEGO deals, check out the Bargain Bricks app.

View the video version of this podcast at https://youtu.be/uM8ZAtv8xE8

For more Tales From The Brick, visit talesfromthebrick.com.

Until next time... play well.

Episode 260 opens with Parker, Fred, and Allan celebrating another milestone and immediately campaigning for help. The Black Lincoln Collective is once again nominated for a local podcast award, and after winning the previous two years, the guys are officially chasing the three-peat.

That means sizing up the competition.

The crew runs through several fellow nominees, including a church podcast, an old nemesis, real estate shows, a Reverend David Tipton, and a podcast hosted by an investor-attorney-Brazilian-jiu-jitsu black belt and a bodybuilder/music artist. That last combination is enough to make Parker briefly reconsider the usual “talk shit about the competitors” strategy.

The general campaign message is simple: vote BLC, ignore everyone else, and maybe don’t antagonize the jiu-jitsu guy.

Fred then brings some genuinely good news: after previously missing out because tickets sold out too quickly, his upgraded internet connection finally pays off and he lands tickets to see Dave Chappelle in Charlotte. The guys talk ticket prices, making a full day of the trip, potentially golfing, staying overnight, possibly hitting a casino, and Fred’s history of seeing Chappelle before and after Chappelle’s Show became a phenomenon.

Parker follows that with his own personal update: he is officially back in the gym.

The real selling point isn’t fitness. It’s childcare.

Parker discovers a gym where his kids can hang out in a surprisingly elaborate children’s area with game consoles, a theater, a play structure, basketball, and staff supervision while he exercises. What begins as a fitness plan quickly sounds more like Parker has discovered affordable short-term childcare with complimentary weight machines.

He explains that he is trying to repair his knee, back, hip, and essentially every other part of his body that has started making noises. That means using machines he associates more with glute and hip work, including abductors and glute kickbacks.

Naturally, he decides the correct solution is to add increasingly dramatic grunts, poses, and “look back at it” energy to every rep.

The conversation shifts into gym memberships and how notoriously difficult some companies make cancellation. That becomes a broader discussion of contracts, legal jargon, companies burying unfavorable terms in the fine print, and the idea that a company can do nearly anything as long as somewhere in the agreement it effectively says:

“Lube is not included.”

Which evolves into the legal phrase nobody learned in law school:

Lubricus Not Includicas.

The gym discussion continues with Parker becoming irritated by someone occupying a machine without actually doing any reps while waiting for a friend to teach her how to use it. He and another gym member silently bond over their mutual frustration before both eventually abandon the exercise.

After the break, the show revisits last week’s most important guest.

The Business Manatee is alive.

Charles Mangrove III returns to publicly address the dramatic ending of Episode 259. He says the North Florida-South Georgia fish markets had tanked, he lost a great deal of money, and his previous behavior came during an extremely low point.

The show briefly makes an explicit point that suicide is not a joke and that people experiencing suicidal thoughts should seek help. Charles says he did exactly that, got help, spent time recovering, and is now doing much better.

Even better, the fish markets have bounced back.

Charles has apparently made all his money back and claims he “pulled himself up by his flipper straps,” immediately creating another potential episode title.

That launches an on-air debate between “Flipper Straps” and “Lubricus Not Includicas.” Business Manatee solves the problem using timeless business strategy: throw everything against the wall and see what sticks.

Charles then offers a fresh investment idea: GameStop. His reasoning involves executive stock purchases, “moon tickets,” and the kind of financial confidence that makes Parker question whether the Business Manatee learned anything from last week.

Before leaving, Parker asks Charles for help with another economic crisis: expensive organic half-and-half creamer repeatedly spoiling weeks before its printed expiration date. Business Manatee admits dairy is outside his North Florida-South Georgia fish-market expertise and provides almost no useful answer.

After Charles leaves, the show pivots into health news.

Parker brings up reports about drug-resistant Shigella, which the episode describes as an increasingly difficult-to-treat bacterial infection spreading in part through sexual contact, particularly among men who have sex with men.

That sets off exactly the kind of discussion BLC listeners would expect.

The guys try to understand fecal-oral transmission, why Shigella historically spread in daycares, how sexual behavior can transmit it, and which parts of the human body should remain strictly exit-only.

The explanation then transforms into a full airlock analogy involving astronauts, facilities, alien invasions, dinosaurs, inner chambers, outer chambers, and whether a person can technically be “inside” without being inside.

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Congratulations! You’ve been hired by the Justice League. Your title is “Hero,” your qualifications are “showed up,” and your first assignment is standing in Metropolis next to Superman while a stranger in a very small cape asks you where the good loot is. Welcome to DC Universe Online, the game where you can create your own superhero and then spend the entire first hour in the character creator, agonizing over the exact shade of your cape and a name that isn’t already taken by eleven thousand other guys who thought “Night-something” was original.

The premise is gloriously simple: you get to live in the same world as Batman, Superman, Wonder Woman, and the rest of DC’s heavy hitters, and the heavy hitters are weirdly cool about it. Nobody asks for a résumé. Nobody questions why a hero named “SteelGhostFlash7” is suddenly on the Watchtower. The Joker is out there being the Joker, Lex Luthor is out there being smug, and you are out there trying to figure out whether you’re a legend in the making or just a guy in tights who’s very good at following the glowing arrow on the map.

Leaping into the DC playground with us is David Gallaher, writer of some of your favorite video games and comics, which means he’s spent years inventing heroes and villains on purpose, a luxury the rest of us only get in a character creator. David has been on both sides of the page, so he’s perfect for the question at the heart of this episode: when you drop yourself into a universe where the icons were already established decades ago, do you feel like a hero, or a very enthusiastic extra with a better costume?

So grab your most dramatic cape, practice your brooding stare in the mirror, and settle in. Somewhere out there a hero is saving the city, and he’s definitely using a username he regrets.

Also be sure to check out the full post so you can see some of the stuff that Daybreak sent over for me to share. It doesn’t play nicely with RSS feeds.

Learn such things as:

• How weird do character names get when you can’t have repeats even after 15+ years of a game existing?
• Is it really that important to pick a good mentor?
• What happens if there’s a big giant threat and they need everyone to come help defeat it and you just… don’t?
• And so much more!

You can find David on BlueSky @DavidGallaher or on LinkedIn @dgallaher.

If you want to be a guest on the show please check out the Be a A Guest on the Show page and let me know what you’re interested in.

If you want to help support the show check out the Play Comics Patreon page or head over to the Support page if you want to go another route. You can also check out the Play Comics Merch Store.

Play Comics is part of the Gonna Geek Network, which is a wonderful collection of geeky podcasts. Be sure to check out the other shows on Gonna Geek if you need more of a nerd fix.

Play Comics is also part of Art Comedy Pop-Culture Network, which is a long-standing creative organization spawning from a love of Adult Swim. Be sure to check them out for all sorts of entertainment news, commentary, and just plain fun stuff.

You can find Play Comics @playcomics.bsky.social on Bluesky, @playcomicspodcast on Threads, @playcomics on YouTube, or the Play Comics website.

If you want to hear Chris talk with Karrington Martin about the lessons we learned from children’s media and how crazy it is that we’re supposed to just forget about that now that we’re adults, then Sugar, Spite, and Everything is Fine is probably something you should check out.

A big thanks to Across the Whoniverse and The Glitterjaw Queer Podcast Collective for the promos today.

Intro/Outro Music by Backing Track, who is already a hero in my eyes.

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In Episode 41 of Tales From The Brick, Jon (8 Bit Bricks) sits down with Dana Knudsen, longtime AFOL, Classic Space enthusiast, and one of the founding members of Old Grey Bricks. Dana shares how his childhood love of LEGO Space eventually led him back into the hobby, from rebuilding his original sets to discovering the AFOL community and setting out on a mission to collect every Classic Space set ever released.

Dana takes us through his journey of restoring all 74 original Classic Space sets, hunting down rare pieces, and eventually expanding his collection into nearly every LEGO Space theme that followed. He talks about joining Peach LUG, becoming its ambassador, and working alongside legendary Space builders like Chris Giddens and Mark Sandlin to create massive collaborative moon bases. Along the way, he shares how those friendships introduced him to a larger LEGO community that has become like an extended family.

The conversation explores some of Dana's most ambitious creations, including a collection of monochrome minifigure habitats spanning 50 different LEGO colors, miniature versions of all 74 Classic Space sets built to accommodate the blue Space Baby, and a massive 10-foot-tall David Bowie mosaic made from approximately 70,000 LEGO tiles. Dana also discusses the challenges of sourcing rare elements, experimenting with unusual building techniques, and why he builds for the enjoyment rather than chasing convention awards.

Dana reflects on the friendships he's made through LEGO conventions, the creative outlet that building provides, and why the AFOL community has become such an important part of his life. Plus, he shares some hilarious stories about his name being repeatedly mispronounced, including the convention award ceremony that accidentally gave birth to his alter ego, David Zuell.

Find Dana Knudsen:

• Instagram: @troublesbricking • YouTube: TroublesBricking • Old Grey Bricks: Find the show on YouTube • Gunpla Instagram: @troublesmeching

To find the best LEGO deals, check out the Bargain Bricks app.

View the video version of this podcast at https://youtu.be/MLRLHzOIYQY

For more Tales From The Brick, visit https://talesfromthebrick.com.

Until next time... play well.