[RSS]: Designer insight: Woon Tze Chee

Май 15, 2023

Many LEGO set designers use our BrickLists feature to maintain a list of the sets they've worked on and often provide interesting insights about their involvement.

Once a week we publish an entry from one of their lists on the home page to increase awareness of this information and to encourage more designers to create them.

Woon Tze Chee wrote this about their work on 75976 Wrecking Ball:

1st Oct 2019 Release.

This set actually started as a little challenge from me to Luis Castaneda, we had just done D.Va and Reinhardt and we were thinking about what other character we can build. Luis took up the challenge and build a sketch model that got the transformation working and set the basis for the model. After that, Mark Stafford and Niek Van Slagmaat both build a version of it. In the end the final model is an amalgamation of many clever ideas from everyone. We had to emulate the spherical shape, make it convert, keep it simple to build and maintain the structural stability. I had the honor to finish the model, but I wouldn’t have done it without them paving the groundwork.

It is interesting that we all actually build it in grey at the beginning as we thought that's Wrecking Ball's color, we corrected the color after we got the reference from Blizzard.

The adorable Hammond is sculpted by Esa Nousiainen. Graphics provided by Casper Glahder.

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