BrickArms is a business specializing in custom designed and produced building-toy compatible products, such as accessories and figures. BrickArms is not affiliated with LEGO

Lego

Lego is a line of construction toys manufactured by the Lego Group, a privately held company based in Billund, Denmark. The company's flagship product, Lego, consists of colorful interlocking plastic bricks and an accompanying array of gears, minifigures and various other parts...

 and is run by Will Chapman, the owner of the company and designer of its products, from his home in Redmond, WA.

Products

BrickArms makes a variety of minifigure

Minifigure

A Lego minifigure is a small plastic articulated figurine available as part of the construction toy Lego, produced by Danish toy manufacturer the Lego Group. They were first produced in 1978, and have become hugely successful, with over 3.7 billion produced, and the figure appearing in a variety...

 compatible accessories including an M4 carbine

M4 carbine

The M4 carbine is a family of firearms tracing its lineage back to earlier carbine versions of the M16, all based on the original AR-15 designed by Eugene Stoner and made by ArmaLite. It is a shorter and lighter variant of the M16A2 assault rifle, with 80% parts commonality.It is a gas-operated,...

, M21 Sniper Rifle, M1 Garand

M1 Garand

The M1 Garand , was the first semi-automatic rifle to be generally issued to the infantry of any nation. Called "the greatest battle implement ever devised" by General George S...

, M84 grenades

M84 stun grenade

The M84 is the currently issued stun grenade of the United States Army. Upon detonation, it emits an intensely loud "bang" and blinding flash of more than one million candela and 170–180 dB within five feet of initiation, sufficient to cause immediate flash blindness, deafness, tinnitus,...

, M1 Helmet

M1 Helmet

The M1 helmet is a combat helmet that was used by the American military from World War II until it was succeeded by the PASGT helmet beginning in 1985. For over forty years, the M1 was standard issue for the U.S...

, Stahlhelm

Stahlhelm

Stahlhelm is German for "steel helmet". The Imperial German Army began to replace the traditional boiled-leather Pickelhaube with the Stahlhelm during World War I in 1916...

, Minigun

Minigun

The Minigun is a 7.62 mm, multi-barrel heavy machine gun with a high rate of fire , employing Gatling-style rotating barrels with an external power source...

, AK-47

AK-47

The AK-47 is a selective-fire, gas-operated 7.62×39mm assault rifle, first developed in the Soviet Union by Mikhail Kalashnikov. It is officially known as Avtomat Kalashnikova . It is also known as a Kalashnikov, an "AK", or in Russian slang, Kalash.Design work on the AK-47 began in the last year...

, Grease Gun, HAC Rifle, and a Combat Shotgun

Combat shotgun

A combat shotgun is a shotgun that is intended for use in an offensive role, typically by a military force. The earliest shotguns specifically designed for combat were the trench guns or trench shotguns issued in World War I...

, along with many other items related to warfare. The company also produces custom minifigs as well as other items.

To produce these accessories, they are first designed by Chapman using a CAD program. The designs are next prototyped using a small mold cut by Chapman using a CNC. The proportions, aesthetics, and playability of the resulting prototypes are then tested by Will, his family, and select members of the BrickArms community. Once the design of an accessory is finalized, it is mass produced via injection molding of Acrylonitrile Butadiene Styrene

Acrylonitrile butadiene styrene

Acrylonitrile butadiene styrene is a common thermoplastic. Its melting point is approximately 105 °C ....

 (ABS) plastic into professionally tooled production molds.

Bandit controversy

On December 4, 2008, controversy was sparked over a BrickArms custom minifig called the "White Bandit." The report claimed the figure was based on a follower of Osama Bin Laden

Osama bin Laden

Osama bin Mohammed bin Awad bin Laden was the founder of the militant Islamist organization Al-Qaeda, the jihadist organization responsible for the September 11 attacks on the United States and numerous other mass-casualty attacks against civilian and military targets...

. Chapman has denied this, saying it "is merely a bad guy for the good guys to battle." A spokesman for BrickArms also commented extensively on the article and the nature of the "White Bandit" custom figure

Resellers

In April 2011, Chapman announced that all direct purchases from BrickArms.com would end, and all orders for BrickArms products would need to be made via authorized resellers including:

United States (West Coast): G.I. Brick

United States (Midwest): Brickmania

United States (East Coast): ToyWiz

United Kingdom: Minifigforlife

Scandinavia: Warehouse 19

Australia: Minifigworld

Canada: Brick Republic

France: Bricks for Kids

Netherlands: Brickizimo
Mr. Chapman stated the reason for this transition was to allow him to focus on designing new products.