Diving right in. MOC stands for “my own creation.” The wild, one off, lego stuff you may have seen out there are MOCs. People can get very serious about it, they compete and stuff, it’s weird.
About a year ago a buddy of mine built this actual LEGO kit of a Land Rover Defender for his desk. Admittedly, the kit looks awesome. It’s very detailed and a substantial, but not too substantial size. It’s high quality and unique, and doesn’t look at all out of whack in the office of a C level exec.
So, naturally I’ve been fantasizing and hoping (against hope) that LEGO would roll out a Grenadier kit. And, while this particular fantasy of mine is pretty much at the very end of my fantasy list, it is nevertheless something I would very much like.
During my interweb journey this past week, I chanced upon a company in Spain called Build A MOC. As the name implies they specialize in MOCs, and you can, if so inclined, buy some really neat LEGO kits from them. I searched for the Grenadier on the off chance one of their designers has made a kit for one yet. They have not. I am devastated.
Downtrodden, I moped my way over to the “contact us” section and fired off an email asking if they could produce a Grenadier kit for me. I should note, that some of the MOCs they have on their site are next level detailed/accurate looking. At any rate, they reply and say that they do not do one off MOCs for individuals, but they do do corporate/ bulk MOC creations. They were kind enough to share the names and contact of some of their MOC designers for me to reach out to as an individual.
However, not wanting to dick around, I inquired about the bulk buying minimum. To which they informed me that it was $1500 to do a design study, generate a parts list for the necessary LEGO blocks and pieces needed, make a plan to source those pieces as they are frequently from discontinued LEGO sets, and craft assembly instructions. At that point, it’s another $1500 to build the model. Pricing drops relatively quickly from there on per unit basis, or so they say.
So, I propose a group buy. I will probably get the model made as a one off regardless, but to the extent any of you would like to go down this rabbit hole with me, I think we could get the price down from the insane, “he’s clearly in finance,” to something merely crazy, “well, they really love their trucks!” I don’t want to give hard numbers because they didn’t provide me with them, but my guess is it will be more than $500 and less than $1000 per kit if we can get a group together. As a reference point, the authentic LEGO Land Rover kit I linked to above ranges in price from ~$300-400 depending on which retailer you look at. My guess is a custom, higher quality MOC kit is 2-4x that. Hopefully trending towards 2x with volume, but again I’m just speculating on that. I will get specifics from Build A MOC once I know what the group’s interest level is. Pics of the Land Rover kit attached in case you’re too lazy to click the link above.
Let’s do this,
-Toot
About a year ago a buddy of mine built this actual LEGO kit of a Land Rover Defender for his desk. Admittedly, the kit looks awesome. It’s very detailed and a substantial, but not too substantial size. It’s high quality and unique, and doesn’t look at all out of whack in the office of a C level exec.
So, naturally I’ve been fantasizing and hoping (against hope) that LEGO would roll out a Grenadier kit. And, while this particular fantasy of mine is pretty much at the very end of my fantasy list, it is nevertheless something I would very much like.
During my interweb journey this past week, I chanced upon a company in Spain called Build A MOC. As the name implies they specialize in MOCs, and you can, if so inclined, buy some really neat LEGO kits from them. I searched for the Grenadier on the off chance one of their designers has made a kit for one yet. They have not. I am devastated.
Downtrodden, I moped my way over to the “contact us” section and fired off an email asking if they could produce a Grenadier kit for me. I should note, that some of the MOCs they have on their site are next level detailed/accurate looking. At any rate, they reply and say that they do not do one off MOCs for individuals, but they do do corporate/ bulk MOC creations. They were kind enough to share the names and contact of some of their MOC designers for me to reach out to as an individual.
However, not wanting to dick around, I inquired about the bulk buying minimum. To which they informed me that it was $1500 to do a design study, generate a parts list for the necessary LEGO blocks and pieces needed, make a plan to source those pieces as they are frequently from discontinued LEGO sets, and craft assembly instructions. At that point, it’s another $1500 to build the model. Pricing drops relatively quickly from there on per unit basis, or so they say.
So, I propose a group buy. I will probably get the model made as a one off regardless, but to the extent any of you would like to go down this rabbit hole with me, I think we could get the price down from the insane, “he’s clearly in finance,” to something merely crazy, “well, they really love their trucks!” I don’t want to give hard numbers because they didn’t provide me with them, but my guess is it will be more than $500 and less than $1000 per kit if we can get a group together. As a reference point, the authentic LEGO Land Rover kit I linked to above ranges in price from ~$300-400 depending on which retailer you look at. My guess is a custom, higher quality MOC kit is 2-4x that. Hopefully trending towards 2x with volume, but again I’m just speculating on that. I will get specifics from Build A MOC once I know what the group’s interest level is. Pics of the Land Rover kit attached in case you’re too lazy to click the link above.
Let’s do this,
-Toot
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. Everyone’s opportunity to design their dream Grenadier 
I love it!
I had to stir the pot!
