Lego Technic was released in 1977 and from the first sets released, many people probably started making the first Technic MOCs. Every person who makes a MOC is great in their own right, but some are just more well known than others.These days we have many popular MOC makers for example Crowkillers, Sariel, Sheepo, and so many more that it would take forever to name all of them. Recently Crowkillers dedicated a topic to an impressive builder from 15+years ago and because of that I was inspired to make this topic.So I was thinking, who were the popular builders from before the 2000s era? Obviously it would have been far more difficult to attain popularity in the Lego community due to far more limited technology and sites like Eurobricks not being around, but are there any builders you guys all know of? I only joined the community a couple years back so I don't know much about this.

I know some great, very inspiring builders from early 2000s, but not necessarily from earlier than that. From the top of my head: Andrea Grazi and obviously Jennifer Clark. Generally speaking, I think Technic has kind of bloomed after 2007, when the Power Functions system was released. It brought an amazing number of very skilled builders to this hobby, while the earlier 9V Technic system was, I think, frustrating to many. Not to mention the 4.5V system:

Edited February 19, 201510 yr by Sariel

Here is another builder who I was highly inspred by... This website is very cool...

Note the date on that site... "Lego Cool Site of the Week October 2000"... Still impressive today....

This guy was building some amazing stuff back n the day... His website doesn't work anymore, but his Brickshelf folder is still up...

Edited February 19, 201510 yr by Paul Boratko

You can tell these are antique because 8880's rims are actually white ;)

The site of Anders Gassedal has a lot of stuff from old builders, just look here:http://www.gaasedal.dk/eng/main.html He has a section of his site devoted to links to other builders, but a lot of the sites are defunct. Two builders I can think of, that I don't recall being active or as active anymore, are T.J. Avery, and Beat Felber. I think those two still have sites that are up and running, but finding a lot of stuff from even the 2000s era would be difficult, let alone anything predating that. Websites go inactive, builders quit the hobby, that sort of thing. But, on occasion, I have found some really old creations while Googling other stuff

Beat Felber's site: .http://www.engineeringwithabs.ch/

T.J. Avery's site: http://www.texbrick.com/models/index.html

Some of the models that have been built are outrageous in size. And yet they are able to perform outstandingly well, the port crane can lift 48lbs.... That's like 6 of my tanks worth of weight... and it's powered by weak old 9v motors.

Liebherr LTR 1800 by Engineering with

ABS, on Flickr

Edited February 19, 201510 yr by Tommy Styrvoky

I know some great, very inspiring builders from early 2000s, but not necessarily from earlier than that. From the top of my head: Andrea Grazi and obviously Jennifer Clark. Generally speaking, I think Technic has kind of bloomed after 2007, when the Power Functions system was released. It brought an amazing number of very skilled builders to this hobby, while the earlier 9V Technic system was, I think, frustrating to many. Not to mention the 4.5V system:

Thanks Sariel for mentioning them, I found their websites and I was truly amazed, check them out guys :)

Jennifer Clark's site: http://www.genuinemodels.com/

Andrea Grazi on Brickshelf: http://www.brickshelf.com/cgi-bin/gallery.cgi?m=grazi

El Caracho was one of my favorites whe I got back to LEGO, both because of his great mocs, and his great writeups about them.

Also great but not active anymore:

http://www.texbrick....dels/index.html

http://www.raffatag....ne_modelle.html

edit: TJ already added, but he deserves it :)

Edited February 19, 201510 yr by Milan

El Caracho was one of my favorites whe I got back to LEGO, both because of his great mocs, and his great writeups about them.

Also great but not active anymore:

http://www.texbrick....dels/index.html

http://www.raffatag....ne_modelle.html

edit: TJ already added, but he deserves it :)

Thank you very much, I didn´t know these builders and their models at all! How beautifull studfull building can be! This humvee cannot be beaten, even by Sariel (he will agree I guess .

Yeah, Raphael Oswald is to me by far the best retired studfull builder!

Edited February 19, 201510 yr by Milan

What about Misha or what was his name from NL?

That crane is insane

with the work of Raphael I might start liking bricks .

One of my favorites that hasn't built (that we know of) in a while.....

http://www.mocpages.com/home.php/17884

Leo Dorst made some really inventive and creative stuff back in the day. No idea if he is still building, but his website is here;

https://staff.fnwi.u...l/l.dorst/lego/

Fredrik Glöckner also made some excellent models, and was a big influence on my building, but I'm having difficulty locating them on the web.

And Eric Brok, who had the amazing "Lego On My Mind" website, now sadly not with us;

http://www.thenxtstep.com/2007/06/sad-news-eric-brok-has-passed-away.html

Jennifer

Edited February 19, 201510 yr by Jennifer Clark

Let's not forget all the great RCX era Mindstorms builders. I don't know how many of them still have sites, but I found many books on them at my local library.

What about Misha or what was his name from NL?

Misha van Beek: http://www.brickshelf.com/cgi-bin/gallery.cgi?m=miezel

What about Misha or what was his name from NL?

Misha Van Beek was a good friend and a great builder.. I haven't talked to him in years though...

I don't think FiveStarBrick has been mentioned. He released two incredibly nice models with detailed instructions, then vanished. he intended to charge for them, but changed his mind.

Yes indeed. 2 very interesting models this pneumatic wheeled excavator and this skid steer loader