Publishing my first LEGO MOC
Wednesday, September 9th, 2026 at 05:29pm
It has been a few years since I last put together unofficial LEGO sets using MOC instructions from Rebrickable and ordering parts from BrickLink. Today is when I clicked publish on one of my own designs.
Once of the core podcasts that I listen to is Do Go On, a fact based comedy podcast hosted by these three Melbourne comedians:
I don’t recall exactly when I first saw it, but there was LEGO set for creating a custom BrickHeadz figure of yourself. The marketing images for that set include a figure that is a spot on Matt Stewart, and another that is close to Jess Perkins:
There was no immediate example that was close to Dave Warneke, but to be honest he is a white guy that records a podcast, so how hard could he be to represent?
I sat on this idea for a while, until a few months ago I decided to finish off some incomplete MOCs. If I was going to be ordering pieces, I might as well order more.
I didn’t go straight to building, first I downloaded the instructions for the Go Brick Me set, this is broken up into the variety of hats, hair, facial features, clothing and other choices. After a few hours of tinkering in Studio I had a design I was happy with:
I added these parts to my orders, waited for them to arrive and then put them together:
More photos can be found at Do Go On as LEGO BrickHeadz on Flickr.
But what now? How should I get these to the podcast? I have seen them at a number of live podcasts in Melbourne (and in Koh Samui back in 2019) but I knew that their next Melbourne live shows wouldn’t be until October, which I would not be able to make it to. I could post it to them, but then I wouldn’t be able to see their reaction.
For Do Go On I am on the Patreon tier where you can submit a “Fact, Quote or Question” that they will read out at the end of the podcast. I have submitted a number of these before and I could do so again, making sure that the package had instructions to wait for the FQQ and the FQQ opening with a note to ensure they had the package.
This worked as today (episode 568, skip to around 2:26:00) the package was opened. In the video version of the episode the reaction from Jess is exactly what I was after.
I have now shared this information and photos with the other Patreons, and also hit publish on the design file I had uploaded to BrickLink.
