BrickChat: Pad Printing

This week we’re joined by Ethan, world traveler and the founder and designer behind Ktown Bricks. Top of the line pad printing, injection molding, and accessory design for minifigures, all while traveling all over the Earth. This week is a special episode too if you want to dive deep for a moment into the technical side of injection molding and pad printing!

This week we’re honored to be joined by Joe, the founder and driving force behind Citizen Brick. For over a decade, Citizen Brick has stood at the forefront of the custom LEGO movement revolutionizing pad printing, injection molding, and accessory design for minifigures. This week we discuss all things custom lego with Joe!

ThrawnBuilds & TheBrickEngineer, Blake & Elijah catch up over what has happened in the custom lego community over the last year, and what's to come! New companies, new pre-orders, new minifigures, what's not to love about Customs in 2025!?

Ep 33: Thrawnbuilds & TheBrickEngineer - join Blake & Elijah as we catch up and discuss all things classic and modern Lego Star Wars and more in the customs community.

Ep 32: Casual Stu Collects! Or Casual Lego Star Wars! Or Stuart! Quin Gon Drinks Gin! Collecting, Building, Working at a Bricks & Minifigs, this episode has it all! We discuss classic and modern, customs and official - with a great member of the lego Star Wars community!    Our guest: https://www.instagram.com/casual_stu_collects/   Your Hosts:  https://www.instagram.com/thrawnbuilds/  https://www.instagram.com/the_brick_engineer/

Ep 31: Maydayfigs! This episode’s guest is Brian or Mayday - producer/project manager of custom figures, a collector, YouTuber, and more! Brian talks today about the current state of custom Star Wars figures, producing and partnering with other designers and companies to create his brands custom figures, and much more!  Our guest: https://www.instagram.com/maydayfigs/?hl=en https://www.youtube.com/@maydayfigs Your Hosts:  https://www.instagram.com/thrawnbuilds/  https://www.instagram.com/the_brick_engineer/

Ep 30: b_m_4! Billy! Modding, Collecting, Citizen Brick Hall of Fame - you name it, this episode we discuss it. This week Blake & Elijah are joined by Billy to discuss all things early lego custom community, and all about collecting Brickarms, Brickwarriors, Brickforge, Eclipsegrafx, Citizen Brick, and much more! 

Pad Printing - what is Pad Printing, what is the process for Pad Printing, and what does Pad & UV printing mean for the Custom LEGO community? Join us this week as ThrawnBuilds (Blake) interviews BrickEngineer (Elijah) about all things Pad printing and custom Lego. Also discussed in today's episode is Pad Printing from brands like Citizen Brick, Minibigs, Enigma Bricks, Light Customs, and Orbital Minifigures - as well as discussing other manufacturing means from brands like Brickwarp, Brickarms, and more! 

Ep 28: Spacecowboy820! Lars! Chad! Whatever you call him, he hosts Minifigure Monday and he knows all sorts of things custom & official Lego! This week Blake & Elijah are joined by Lars, thespacecowboy820, and discuss all things early lego custom community, Citizen Brick Days and the brand, his early Lego Batman Mocs, the Brickarms modding community, new drops from Studstockshop, Brickarms, and talk about Elijah (TheBrickEngineer) and Grif (hoodie_studios) new pad printed torsos and heads!   Our Guest: https://www.instagram.com/thespacecowboy820/   Your Hosts: https://www.instagram.com/thrawnbuilds/ https://www.instagram.com/the_brick_engineer/

Phoenix Custom Bricks! Join Blake (ThrawnBuilds) and Elijah (TheBrickEngineer), as we discuss all things custom lego with Adam, the creator of Phoenix Custom Bricks, or PCB. In this episode we discuss Adam's vast catalog of Custom Minifigures, his history with official and custom Lego, and we discuss all sorts of Custom Lego Star Wars brands!   Our Guest: https://www.instagram.com/phoenixcustomsllc/   Your Hosts: https://www.instagram.com/thrawnbuilds/ https://www.instagram.com/the_brick_engineer/