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  1. Posted

    All I can add now is:

    This thread will really show peoples ages! If you take into account that many parents thought it safe to give their kids lego post 5 and the fact that you can grasp vague recollections to quite an early age then the year the sets you remember having first (or have photgraphic evidence of ownership) were released in is when you were between the ages of lets say 4-7.

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    Found some "Building Bricks" in Poundland today. £1 a bag of brightly coloured plastic bricks. They were neon pink, orange, blue and green. I was about to bu them when I noticed that a substantial amount were warped-ish and that the plastic looked more "soapy". Apart from that, the colours and shapes on offer were pretty cool.

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    Why thank you. I am planning on doing something in all grey for the mouse figure I have, however I am yet to print the a logo or find enough pictures of grey classic space ships I need to make one. I should have something by Tuesday.

  6. Posted · Edited by Peppermint_M

    They've been using them regularly in buckets for a while, so it isn't too surprising. I have some trans blue ones that I've never found a good use for.

    Trans-Blue flowers like that make good "spray" for fountains... I used them in lots of non-Fabuland MOCs (I had a bunch of flowers and stalks from 90s creator buckets and pick-a-bricks)

    Also here is my first ever Fabuland MOC. (until this day the two figures I had sat in my scary Lego parts box, with the odd racer bodies and the strange monstery things that also came with racers... Please don't be angry :cry_sad:)

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    I googled Classic Lego Space Logo, found one with a good blue background and resized it to 20/20 on MS paint, printed it off then carefully trimmed it out and used pritt-stick to glue it to the fig, i did try making sticker decals, they failed badly...

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    I saw this one on your MOCpages yesterday, and I must say I like it, both in concept and realization.

    What I find most intersting, from the bricks' usage point of view, is how you chose the Support 2 x 2 x 10 Girder Triangular Vertical (BrickLink terminology :wacko: ) to make the reinforced concrete. Great idea :thumbup:

    LuxorV

    Heh, thats from looking at far too many pictures to do with structures in my job.... They looked best suited for reinforcement purposes and I love to add little details. Thanks for looking at my MOC pages (sometimes I think I should make more Star Wars so people will follow and hopefully browse the MOCs in themes I like..).

  10. Posted

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    The brave Cpt Chimp N Zee takes his ship the FSE-01 to explore uncharted sections of space!

    A few years ago a very exciting sight greeted me when I woke up one morning, a family friend had dropped off a huge bucket of LEGO that their son had no room nor intrest for. My mum told me that yes it was to be shared between me and my brothers, however as the biggest fan of LEGO and the oldest I could get first pick if I helped her sort it... A wonderful afternoon was spent gleaning parts that are probably older than me.

    Among those parts were some Space and two odd looking figures, a mouse and a chimp/monkey. I kept them as a curiosity.

    Very recently I came upon their true name and was slightly impressed. Having browsed some of the Fabuland MOCs on this forum, and the obviouse high regard many members hold this theme I decided to try my hand at making a Fabuland MOC.

    Combining two 80s themes I made this MOC, a classic space style Fabuland Space Explorer (or FSE-01).

    Enjoy.

  11. Posted

    I have to agree with the Agents set. I bought it on holiday and when I got home spent a nice long afternoon building it and playing (the only minor problem was the dead batteries in the light brick) The features and its compact-but-bursting with-stuff-ness is brilliant and the high minifig count is excellent.

    I think the worst set was Speed Racer: Cruncher Block and Racer X

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    Although Racer X's car is very cool and a great design, plus five minifigs at a set price that worked out as £5 a figure it is a bit of a bad truck. The cab is too small really however cool it looks but the trailer is abysmal. I bought it for X and the no9, and the fact that I wanted all the Speed Racer lego. It has provided many cool parts however.

    I suppose buying after the Agents truck was a bad idea...

  12. Posted · Edited by Peppermint_M

    I got mine because once there was a time when I was wondering why always when I reply in (or start a) thread, the thread instantly becomes so uninteresting that nobody is willing to reply anymore.

    So I became the Topic Killer.

    I know how you feel, it happens to me on every forum I have ever used ever... I even quit one after absolutly every topic I posted failed to live and everyone i posted in died or I was utterley ignored. (To be fair I think it was a place that only a dedicated few used and I was an outsider)

    Oh, a forum I was a member of was taken down after a scripter attack, never to return (when I was the last person to post.... :pir-cry_sad: )

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    Thank you. I have it on display on by bookcase.

    It is supposed to be part of a larger MOC that is awaiting space and certain parts. I hope to make some more modules soon.

  14. Posted

    I was somewhat aiming for the contrast between the dictatorship and the free land beyond the wall. I purposefuly placed a policeman ignoring a graffiti artist to make a big contrast to the soldiers with dogs and guns.

    I'm glad that someone "got it".

    I have a few more scenes to maybe add when I can decide what would look best.

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    Does this mean you once lived on earth?

    Yup (zoids history.)

    No nunchucks eh? :tongue: And they dont make Sai but the Long Sword might be close enough...Also I think Brickforge might have something closer to a Sai but BF site is stuffing up for me so I cant look now...

    Ahh yes Osama Bin LEGO. It was actually good for the BA, They had so many orders after the newspaper was published that they had to temporarily close the shopping car for bout a week or so :thumbup::laugh:

    Yeah so I heard, most of the comments on the article were positive, or at least sceptical. I think it's funny too, all the publicity it got. But still, some really thick people (you know, the ones who tell their kids they don't want Lego because they have to build it...) think its official Lego...

  16. Posted

    When I built it I had both Laputa and Iron Giant in my head (two films I love). When I first built it I tried perching a small animal in his hand, however it looked a bit silly and a flower upped the sad abandoned vibe I was aiming for.

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    No, Its more not-quite-micro scale, the wheels are the same as those used in Indiana Jones' sidecar, so its the same size as the lego motorcycle wheels, but its slightly too small for a minifig. I am checking ways of creating a minifig scale one (I just need to find the perfect wheels)

  20. Posted

    No they probable wont, But I'd still rather get BrickArms then damn megablocks!

    Ah, there is the catch. Brickarms do not do numchucks or sai. Plus they cost 100% more than a small set bought on impulse from a shop full of low price reamaindered stock...

    I am planning on getting some Brickarms gear, once the weapons pack I want is in minifigsforlife. But I can't see how people make such a fuss over megabloks but still happily buy brickarms...

    (which recently caused all kinds of trouble for TLC when Mr Murdock got hold of an image of a custom figure... I'm still hearing people in the toy aisle tutting over Lego Terrorists)

    But that is nither here nor there, everyone has a choice. I will continue to buy really cheap off brand bricks to compare with LEGO Bricks (re-affirming that TLC is and always will be the best) and anyone who hates such off brand bricks with great loathing can repudiate them as they wish.

    I agree with all the budget constraint posts, LEGO can be expensive and when you want to continue your building but also need to eat and have a roof over your head then cheaper bricks are very helpful.