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Some of you may remember when I posted some WIP shots of my various Pinchbot creations a while back. Now I've polished them up for my upcoming animation and the "Put your Brick Where your Mouth Is" contest. Enough backstory, on with the creations! For the $5 category: Pinchbot Battle Pack 48 pieces Includes: 1 Grabbor - Pinchbot Leader 1 Pinchbot 1 Mini-Pinchbot In the $50 category: Pinchbot Landingbot Someone here suggested that I turn the head into a cockpit, so I wanted to show that off: 436 pieces Includes 2 Pinchbot Pilots and 4 Pinchbots for maximum invasion! The eyes open up to reveal the dual cockpit. The front panel hinges down to unleash 4 stored Pinchbots. And finally, in the $20 category: Microscale Pinchbot Mothership 199 pieces Includes 4 Microscale Pinchbot Landingbots that fit snugly inside the central column. It has pinching arms that can fold back for sleek hi-speed travel. Check out the full gallery for more pictures

Hey everybody! I'm frantically trying to make an animation for this contest. My idea is to show all the different things that lego bricks can become. So it's going to be a series of objects morphing into each other. It's all sculptures made of basic bricks, which I haven't done a lot of. I built all of these in the past week and was hoping to get some feedback from all of you. An apple and a person: A droopy flower: A lighthouse, a car (not so great), and a butterfly: And last, but certainly not least,the LEGO logo! Let me know what you think! Thanks so much!

Started animating this weekend. Here's what I've got so far. And here is a shot that shows the next transition I will be doing. I am running out of red and black bricks!

I'm not suggesting we torture him or water-board him or anything. I just think we should restrain him so we can actually question him when he wakes up. Last time he woke up when the rest of us were on the other side of that gate and we all got distracted by the monsters and traps. Let's not lose focus this time? No violence, perfectly civil, just want to tie him up is all.

If I remember correctly, this tranquiler gun has a "loudener" on it that makes it sound like a gun. This is useful for scaring away jaguars, which, when we started the tour, seemed like the biggest threat. *Perhaps a voice from above will confirm that those gunshots we heard we in fact from the tranquilizer gun* I have a rifle, but I have not fired it, you can count the ammunition if you wish. As we should for the revolver Sheldon has. We should definitely restrain William. He has a lot to answer for. Perhaps his wife will not be so hysterical this time and realize for the good of the group we need to figure out what he knows and what he was up to back here (or those other times he snuck off).

I just finished this up today. Now that this is complete I am ready to send the Chapter 1 DVDs off for production, they should be on sale by the beginning of June. Woohoo! On Friday Connor Hicks (CaptainZuloo) and Izzy Kilmartin (Cutlass Iz) did an interview with me. Check it out here!

Thanks for doing this interview. I had a lot of fun. Also, thanks for using the crazy picture of me possible for the website.

So... now we've been to all the rooms and solved all the puzzles? What should we do next? Sandy here, is still injured and quite possibly hallucinating, Chris didn't seem to be in good shape either. Maybe some of us should stay here and tend to the wounded while another group goes to retrieve the first aid kit from the bus? Safety in numbers and all that.

I hope this doesn't mean I'm next to die. I'm not ready to die!

*Shouts at Penny and William* Push down that different colored slope! It makes something move behind the panels on the left wall to the right of the alcove. The last thing we did in that room as a group was unlock the panel, but then we forgot to push that stone again to reveal the secret panel. ( I think) *Looks at the tentacles* Ahhh! *Aims for the base of the tentacles in his corner* *Fire rifle*

Using my photographic memory, this is what I remember about the East library. It looked like this: At the very end, 3 bright gems appeared and I think Sylvia grabbed them. The other thing I don't think we investigated fuly is the statue on the left (the center on doesn't move and the right one is what started petrifying Diesel)

I finished up two animations yesterday. The first is this short deleted scene from "New Beginnings" which I completed for the DVD I'm making (should be on sale in a few weeks!) The other does not feature LEGO bricks very prominently, but they do make up much of the cityscape so I think I can get away with posting it here. It is for the Aniboom Sesame Street competition and I worked on it with a couple friends. Check it out here.

Thanks for all the replies! I'm going to try and keep the DVD as inexpensive as possible, probably around $8 (plus shipping). I still have one more animation I need to finish for it, but then I'll get it ready for distribution. This scene took maybe 10 hours of time. Probably about 5 for animating and 5 for recording voices, editing, building a couple little things etc.

*Pulls out rifle and aims at one of the bony joints* Everybody get out of the way! *Fires rifle*

Yes please. I've got those pieces sitting by my computer and I fiddle with them every night, but I haven't come up with anything yet. I'm also too afraid of death traps to touch the tiles or wheel.

*Grabs the other ends of Zach's corpse and helps Sheldon heave it at the demon*

*Assists Donna in building the stones in the "internal square" pattern and fitting the square around the four spears*

Maybe the bricks form a structure that fits in that recess with the spears? I can't seem to figure out how they'd all fit in there though. Here are some ways that the 3 types of stones can be combined. Hopefully that will spur some ideas in someone else.

Do you mean your evil father? Maybe you want to explain why we found this on your body while you were passed out? *Pulls out dark gem* If you are still groggy, maybe I can help you explain - you killed Stanton. I don't know why we're wasting time looking for clues when we already have evidence of the killer. *Go and sifts through the rubble in the corner of the room looking for anything interesting and stays the hell away from the spikes*

Outpowered by a middle aged woman again. Just don't don't running to me when William kills us all. *Touches the dark gem briefly to the light gem*

Right now he's our clear suspect. He had the gem that Stanton was carrying around before he was killed! Unless you're one of the people who thinks Stanton is alive and working in cahoots with the cultists. Even if that were true, William here would still have some explaining to do. As Security Guard, my clear priority is to watch him until he wakes up so we can properly tort--err--interrogate him. I know we're all enjoying the puzzles and letters, but figuring out who is killing us all off seems a bit more pressing to me.

*Finishes tying William up so he doesn't use this distraction to wake up and kill again.*

I got my registration paid and sorted out this weekend. I will be a registered attendee, vendor and sponsor this year. Very excited!

My sigfig visited briefly last year, but I think did not end up in the photographs. This year I expect prominent placement

*Shows Sheldon the gem so he can satisfy his curiosity* I think I will keep a hold on this gem. Seems the best way to keep it secure from the cultists. I'm trained in hand to hand combat so it will be hard for anyone to take me down. William was one of the people who separated from hte group back before Jack was killed. But I think Penny has been here the whole time. I'm less suspicious of her. But clearly they are both hiding something. *Goes to the bike to remove the chain so we have something to tie William up with*