SetToBuild, also known as Jonny, has been part of the AFOL community for almost 20 years. While his oldest interactions with the AFOL community have been online, his involvement became more serious when he started attending meetings for his local RLUG in Sacramento, California in 2011. After some time, the Sacramento Brick Builders found themselves in a transition of leadership. He was elected president and served as Ambassador for over a year.
SetToBuild explored streaming on Twitch after graduating from college in 2015. Before starting his LEGO building channel in 2016, he briefly streamed Minecraft on another account. Initially, he exclusively built LEGO sets on stream, but with encouragement from his community and a lot of practice, he started exploring MOC building on stream.
To practice building with prompts, SetToBuild created custom minifigure portraits for anyone who followed the channel. There were a few questions asked of the viewer like their favorite LEGO theme and color. This project went from 2016 to 2020 and ended up with over 700 figures!
FUN FACTS
SetToBuild started streaming in January 2016.
He is a co-founder of The BrickBuilding Community. The community started as a Discord and has expanded to a Twitch Stream Team!
His favourite set is 6086 The Dungeon Master's Castle.
His favourite MOC themes are space and castle.
In 2020 SetToBuild spoke on a panel at Bricks by the Bay all about live streaming.
In 2022, SetToBuild and his partner, CrankyBricks, won an award for their N-1 Starfighter collaboration MOC at Bricks Cascade. The award was called "What a Piece of Junk" for the best Star Wars ship!
SetToBuild writes reviews for Brickset.com. He was brought onto the team to focus on video game-themed sets.
Watch SetToBuild's interview with MoreAmor on Crossing the Streams to hear more about how LEGO has impacted his life!
Catch SetToBuild at TwitchCon EU 2024! He will be on a panel talking about LEGO on Twitch.
