Retro
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[MOC] Ski resort cafe. Alternative build from the LEGO set 60222
Retro replied to CoolerTD's topic in LEGO Town
I really like the idea of Alternative Builds. It's a nice, finite challenge. I think I must try one soon. Your ski resort is cool (pardon the pun). In the same way that having some impressive engines is 75% of building a good spaceship, having a swish roof is 75% of a successful house! -
Hi All, So this is a mash-up of Renegade Clone's B-Wing (70%), Xiei22's B-Wing and 75050, with a few bits of my own (the chunky 1980's-looking bits). **** After a short stay, Boba is regurgitated by the Sarlaac, his armour bleached by the digestive juices. He needs a new ship since Slave 1 has been stolen in the meantime by some Weequay Pirates. Thankfully, the Jawas owe him a debt and furnish him with a modified, heavy B-Wing. This version can land on its back instead of its side, for quick getaways. It comes with storage for your personal possessions (this scene is not real - it is Boba daydreaming about former glories)... ...as well as an astomech housing compartment. The astomech was thrown in for free. The space for all this is achieved by replacing the normal four engines with two high-powered Rodian power units. The cockpit has been altered to fit two people, but Boba tends to fly alone and slouch back. The casing has been removed from the high-powered lasers on the wing tips, to avoid over-heating. Taking a test-drive. Flying in the outer-rim. Manoueverability is good. Bit hard to spell. Customer satisfaction.
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Thanks! Again, credit to Renegade Clone for the structural principles and Xiei22 for the great weapon ideas. While we're here, these are a couple of earlier shapes and colours I rejected. This one was too red - it looked more like a rebel ship than a bounty hunter craft; This one was...too much like a Dutch football sock;
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REVIEW: 71024 LEGO Minifigures - The LEGO Disney Series 2
Retro replied to WhiteFang's topic in LEGO Licensed
These minifigure series reviews in general are very useful for people who want to have an in depth look at what's available each time. However, for these Disney series in particular, I don't feel any attraction. It depends on your own childhood memories I suppose. I have no nostalgia associated with these characters. -
Fantastic. My favourite detail is the encounter with the little green alien. Also, well done on spelling 'space' correctly. Very easy to lose track of the spelling on such a large scale, and end up writing SPAE or SPCE!
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Nice, crisp appearance. Looks like a free gift with a magazine, which is meant as a compliment! The only thing I might change would be the window pieces - they look a bit 1970s in a 2019 model...but maybe there's nothing more sophisticated that would fit there.
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Nice. The next step is Hothouse by Brian Aldiss.
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I saw this in a different, but no less touching way. I thought the (alien) spaceman was huge and the structures on the ground were a human-sized moon base. So he was sad because he was too big to interact with humans...
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Ok, this is slightly tongue in cheek, but... Jurassic Stuff - I don't see the attraction of this theme. Why the excitement about dinosaurs? They're just animals. Like cows or elephants. Maybe you had to see one of the films in your formative years to feel the nostalgia. Lego Technic - I know we need Technic parts to keep our spaceships together. But as a theme on its own it doesn't do anything for me. That bitty, mechanical look...
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Tough crowd this week! I think this is cool. Chibi and fun, but tough and menacing. I like the minifigure interaction with the set.
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LEGO Star Wars 2019 Set Discussion - READ FIRST POST!!!
Retro replied to Stash2Sixx's topic in LEGO Star Wars
It's a lovely Lego set, which I'd be happy to have. Notwithstanding that, the design and marketing seem quixotic. It says 12+ but has stud shooters and flickfires for which the target age would surely be under nine or so? And it costs about €200 Euro which is awfully expensive for a child. Yet the pictures stress the playability. Also, there's no UCS or MBS naming. But there is that black box. Strange. -
This is great. It reminds me of some industrial sites I have been on. It's really quite a surreal Lego creation, in a good way. To take a nice, pretty toy like Lego and build something neutral, no super heroes, no nice modular buildings. It's even 'ugly'. But of course, not 'ugly' to people who like the beauty in the geometry of pipe racks, roofs, tanks and so on...
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Not that it's really important, but since we're having the debate... This set has no 'minifgures' in it, in my opinion. It has four nice characters, fine. But if, for example, you told my son he was getting a set with four mystery 'minifigures' in it, he would assume that at least he could use the parts (heads, torsos etc) to mix and match with his Gotham or Hogwarts figures, to make new home-made minifigures. You couldnt do that that with these four characters. Sometimes words matter!
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Hi, thanks. I made the Slave 1 mods after the 75234 picture leaks came out but before the official pictures were released (I think!). Link to Slave 1 post is here, if it works...
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Nice review, but this is a perfect storm of what doesn't work in a Lego set (leaving aside the fact that a child might like this). 1. Lego aren't free to reveal anything of actual interest that happens in the film ahead of its release. It's all secret. So you get a generically boring build and figures. 2. Superheroes don't naturally lend themselves to Lego sets! Superhero stories are about people and characters and costumes. The buildings and vehicles are incidental. Occasionally they come up with something nice like that Spiderman bridge thingy. But mostly....It's Lego trying to find ways to add bland motorbikes, mechs etc to increase the selling price of the sets...
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Thanks, all. Yes, an unfortunate U-Wing was sacrificed for this project! The official U-Wing set is a nice, sturdy toy to play with, but I had found it increasingly dull and boxy as a display piece. As an aside, here is a comparison to Boba's original ship...
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[MOC] The Fireball and the Aces from Star Wars: Resistance
Retro replied to Lamborghini Waffle Sauce's topic in LEGO Star Wars
These are superhuman! The blue one is my favourite. Are they built in real bricks? Sturdy enough to swoosh? If they were real sets I would be tempted to buy them all... -
Millennium Falcon 7965 modified to within an inch of its life
Retro posted a topic in LEGO Star Wars
Hi All, Last post of post of what I have built for a while. Then I will leave you alone. As a wise man once said, when you have spare time you tinker with the Falcon. In my case that means 7965. This time I wanted to try and recreate Flynn2000's fantastic interpretation of the famous Flail modifications to 4504. Then I went on and messed around endlessly. The main changes to 7965 are totally re-building the mandibles, and moving the cockpit back which was fun but very difficult! Two of the roof plates have swapped places in the last photo but the light was so amazing I decided to leave the photo in. It is a hunk of junk, anyway... -
Well done! Very creative and quite different. A bit chibi, in a nice way. Looking forward to seeing the interior...
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Absolutely love this. Some of the most evocative memories of my childhood are the colour schemes of F1 cars. Perhaps you could do the 1980s next! A Benetton, a Brabham...
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[MOD] Jedi Starfighter 75191: now centered in the hyperspace ring and with an improved docking area
Retro replied to mcphatty's topic in LEGO Star Wars
I don't know this set 75191 well enough to judge the MOD, but the photos look great. Recently, while I was building my Jango's Slave 1, I was thinking wistfully it would be nice to own 75191 to battle against it. It's interesting to me that the prequels continue to provide inspiration for many Lego fans and Star Wars fans, despite the wisdom of the crowd telling us they were terrible films. Sure, there are problems with them, and some silly things, but they are packed with cool designs and action... -
Millennium Falcon 7965 modified to within an inch of its life
Retro replied to Retro's topic in LEGO Star Wars
Thanks! I really wanted to find a way to make the circular vent things as actual holes, but without having those circular 'rings' on the surface as in 75105. Thanks! The Porgs did the cleaning before settling down to relax with a game of Holochess. Nice video and stand. Catchy music! Oh, I wouldn't fancy having to completely re-build it! Did it work out well? Moving the cockpit back was enough to drive me demented... Ta! I do think the basic design of 7965 and its cousins is clever, in the way that it has a sturdy, circular frame, and the roof opens out without having to take off a lid. It has stood the test of time through several models anyway. -
Hi All, I was inspired by the beautiful black and red UCS size Imperial Shuttle that you can find using Google (created by someone called callitguaranteed?). Here is my attempt to make a sort of system scale version of it. Bits of it are a straight re-colour of 75094.
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Cute design of a rather silly looking ship! I suppose 'radar dishes' were considered futuristic then. Like on the Falcon. Working on a small scale is fun.
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[MOC] Brick Separator Dragonfly
Retro replied to 1980SomethingSpaceGuy's topic in Special LEGO Themes
Perfect.