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I wasn't sure whether to post this in the minifig customization workshop or here, I figured you guys and gals would get a kick out of it more than them. I've wanted to do this for a while but finally got enough other people on board to make it cost effective. I ended up 20x of 6 main colours and I did about 7 extra one-offs for myself in various colours I had on hand. The result is a rainbow of classic space men! Header by Brent Waller, on Flickr The colours from left to right White (official lego, recent re-release) Light Bluish Grey (Old grey airtanks) Pearl Silver (Painted airtanks, hands and hips) Old Dark Grey (Painted Airtanks) Dark Pearl Silver (Painted Airtanks) Black (unaltered, official LEGO) Dark Tan (Painted Airtanks) Pearl Gold (Airtanks yet to be painted) Yellow (Painted Airtanks) Orange (Painted Airtanks) Red (unaltered, official LEGO) Dark Red (Painted Airtanks) Dark Purple (Painted Airtanks) Dark Blue (Painted Airtanks) Blue (unaltered, official LEGO) Medium Blue (Painted Airtanks, Hands) Lime (Painted Airtanks) Green (Unaltered Exosuit release) Dark Green (Painted Airtanks) Benny's cousin's are in town by Brent Waller, on Flickr Pad printed Torsos by Brent Waller, on Flickr Painted Aritanks by Brent Waller, on Flickr The airtanks had to be custom painted to match the LEGO colours as best as possible, as you can see some colours aren't perfect but these photos do exaggerate the difference quite a bit for some reason. For those who might be asking, I opted to go for the new style helmet as I couldn't bring myself to paint old ones and the colour difference in painting on airtanks isn't quite as noticeable as it would be if I'd done the helmet as well where it's more up front and in your face. In retrospect if I was to do it again (I've had requests from some people who'd love some) I'd get the classic colours reprinted, as the discrepancy in quality is noticeable, the older printers although in good condition are misaligned and not as crisp as the new ones (with the exception of the white and green which are from the recent re-releases)

Yeah I think I didn't do a great job of conveying the size and scope of it, as lots of people are saying it's expensive, which it's not a small amount of money but it's probably more that people aren't seeing the value in it. It's pretty big...

I wouldn't exactly call myself the most successful, as others have said there are other creators who've had 2 project approved. There's also creators with more projects to hit 10k than myself. But regardless, it's not a competition I do it all for the love of LEGO and wanting to see these projects turned into real sets myself.

Probably because the original shared the same "scene" but changed for some of the seasons and holidays. It made it look like there was less than there was.

Thanks, there's actually 1 less vignette than the original ideas project. I removed easter. Also the ideas project the plan was to reuse parts between the seasons, halloween and christmas, so you'd just take away and add parts to the same scene the the seasons changed, but when I asked the bricklink team how do "take away" parts in the instructions they said don't bother, just give them all the parts to build all the scenes at once. I did the math and figured I could make more varied and unique scenes instead for less parts than if I was to have the same scene, so I did that instead. It may look like there's more than in the ideas project but there's just more variety now.

Yeah the parts are being sourced from LEGO themselves. It's only existing parts currently in production which is why there's no parts in new colours or new prints, it's either stickers or existing prints. Source: Me, I'm the designer of the Seasons in Time one

Just noticed this thread, I used Hollywood Edition back when I did some designs for the LEGO Batman Movie, the differences are minor really compared to LDDs base feature set. The biggest things are being able to group pieces together, Freeze pieces in position (though this never worked for me) There's a Maya mode (which I never used, despite having a lot of experience using Maya), I assume this just changed the camera\movement controls to Mayas. Other things, Rudimentary SSAO AND SSDO along with a simple Cell shaded look. I remember it having an option to disable collision between bricks too, but I can't seem to find it now

I rarely visit Eurobricks these days, I was googling for something else and somehow stumbled across this. Absolutely amazing, thank you for your work in continuing to support LDD after LEGO has abandoned it. I'd love for this to become a more permanent fixture in the lego community, have you thought of setting up a website for it? exclusive of eurobricks with community driven support?

Thanks, I'm not convinced it will even reach 10k to be honest. I was so excited that they were accepting the X-files that I rushed it onto there, I don't think I did a good job of presenting it well, needs more minifigs, better presentation

Thanks Digger. It felt like a long time but it was just under 3 months from 0 to 10,000. That's less than half the time it took the Ectomobile and Stay Puft to reach 10k! Coincidentally my new project was approved the same day Seinfeld reached 10k - The Dark Crystal

Adam from Brickin' It custom printed minifgures was generous enough to send me a copy of their first custom minifigure they're produced (Gozer) The Destructor! To start with I wanted to point out the packaging, I haven't really bought any custom figures before but I thought this little matchbox sized custom packaging was a nice touch. Gozer the Destructor Packaging by Brent Waller, on Flickr Inside was the destructor herself in parts along with 2x blue lighting bolt pieces. Gozer the Destructor by Brent Waller, on Flickr The quality of the printing is excellent, they apparently use the same technique as LEGO and it shows, very high quality printing that looks perfect, just like the real deal. Gozer the Destructor by Brent Waller, on Flickr With her lighting bolt attachments Gozer the Destructor by Brent Waller, on Flickr Gozer the Destructor by Brent Waller, on Flickr Overall I was very impressed with the print and design, apart from some shoddy chinese LEGO knockoffs I've never actually bought 3rd party minifgures before so this was a first for me. And having made this exact character myself with waterslide decals and been unhappy with the results makes their output even more impressive to me. If someone asks if you're a god, you say YES by Brent Waller, on Flickr

It's been a while since I've posted here, as you will see I've been busy. Now I think this is the largest LEGO Batcave in the world, someone correct me if I'm wrong. It took about a year and a half on and off and I can only guess somewhere between 50-100k pieces used. I honestly have no idea what the final number might be. It stands at a little over 2 meters tall. The pic with me in it for reference (I'm 6'4) 0 by Brent Waller, on Flickr It features a Wayne Manor on top, moving suit conveyor and rotating carousel for batmobiles down the bottom, integrated lighting and a bunch of little vignettes on the sides featuring villains and scenes from the history of Bat-lore 45 by Brent Waller, on Flickr 99 by Brent Waller, on Flickr 9 by Brent Waller, on Flickr 26 by Brent Waller, on Flickr 12 by Brent Waller, on Flickr I've just posted a couple of pics as there's so many, If you want to see more check out the Flickr album I'd recommend checking out the video walkthrough, I intend on doing a full commentary tour at some point soon too.

The Beyond the brick video is basically just a rip of my original in depth look of the cave, so watch mine if you can :) I keep meaning to do a video of my work on the lego batman movie but finding the time is another story, I keep making lego ideas projects :)

Was there any reasoning for why it was rejected? I heard from someone I know that just a week or so before I submitted my x-files project that someone had theirs rejected as well, they couldn't say why it was though

EDIT> I resubmitted this MOC to Ideas and this time it was approved!! https://ideas.lego.com/projects/2236f271-714c-4dea-a538-f3feb1293658 I've made various renditions of Mulder and Scully over the years but I decided to take the next big step, custom printing. Usually I used existing parts or waterslide decals but this time I forked out to get my designs printed on the LEGO parts. Mulder and Scully of course needed somewhere to work, So I recreated Mulder's office as well. LEGO X-Files by Brent Waller, on Flickr Mulder's Office by Brent Waller, on Flickr I Want To Believe by Brent Waller, on Flickr We don't need no stinking badges by Brent Waller, on Flickr The Truth Is Out There by Brent Waller, on Flickr X-Files by Brent Waller, on Flickr Nobody down here but the FBIs most unwanted by Brent Waller, on Flickr Mulder and Scully by Brent Waller, on Flickr Mulder and Scully by Brent Waller, on Flickr The parts I had printed were: Mulder's Torso Scully's Torso Both ID Badges 4x X-"Files" (different case files on each) Mulder's Desk name sign thing Samantha Mulder photo frame The I want to believe and spaceman posters were printed stickers as they went across multiple tiles

Yeah after I submitted mine I searched and another one that was posted about week before mine. I did a little video to help promote mine :D

Hey guys (Brent Waller, creator of LEGO Ghostbusters Ideas set) Some of you might remember I submitted my X-files moc 4 years ago (nearly to the day) and it was rejected for mature themes. After seeing Stranger Things come to Lego with similar themes I thought I'd submit X-files again and this time it was approved and is now up for voting! LEGO X-Files by Brent Waller, on Flickr

An update to this, after the Stranger Things lego set I thought I'd resubmit my X-files moc and this time it was approved and open for voting! https://ideas.lego.com/projects/2236f271-714c-4dea-a538-f3feb1293658

It's been a long time since I've done a new project on LEGO Ideas, Stay Puft being the last one. Even longer since I put an original project (not based on a license) on there. This is an idea I've had for a long time, started, stopped, abandoned, returned, started from scratch, etc etc etc for the past year and a half. But I finally finished it this weekend. The Modular Autumn Park. For some reason I can neither upload images nor link to existing ones on here so unfortunately you'll have to either watch the video or go to the link to see images (or just close the thread and ignore me :P)

It was blocking the bench too much, but I think it should be all plates instead of tiles for the board, then you can align it any way you please

It's one of these upside down Tile, Round 1 x 1 with Pin

I couldn't tell you to be honest, I know they have budgets for sets in how many new parts they can order. There's a lot that can be changed though, I think the main ones would be the chess board parts as they need to be all the same colours. The leaves etc can all be changed to other colours, Within reason. Yeah, I know I prefer physically built models myself but I felt I would be doing this project a disservice with that limitation, that's why I spent more time on the presentation to try and get it looking as real as I could.

It was made with LDD but then exported into Unity to create the video

No, that's why I did this build digitally rather than physically

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