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Building the interior is really hard in this style of building (Dollhouse hinges) The rooms were too tiny for my big hands so placing furniture became very tedious. (Mayby Lego IS for small children.... ;-) Time to take the building apart carefully and building it up again in modular configuration. (Modular as in seperated floors and detachable roofs) Now I can acces the separate rooms very easily. ^ All the seperate modules, except from the roof on the attic which I forgot to take off while shooting the pics... ^ First floor. Clockwise from upper left corner: Livingroom, dining area, sidedoor and sideporch/secondfloor balcony+ roof, firstfloor kitchen, staircase, front entrance hallway, readingcorner. ^ Second floor. Clockwise uppperleft: Bathroom, master bedroom, door to balcony, hallway, staircase, hallway front facade, writing area. ^ Third floor. The attic. ^ The roof. ^ I thought the original chimney-top was a bit bland so I styled it after the rest of the roof, making shure it was still able to open up like it used to. ^ And last, but not least, I put a lightbrick in the front facade to lighten up the lady of the house creating a very spooky effect... Hope you'll like it... Cheers!
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Now for some Second floor details... ^ Removable walls.1. The master Bedroom. ^ Scary girl fixing her makeup. 2. Bathroom. ^ A bathtub full of blood and a dead person staring right back at you...While building, it reminded me of the most frightfull scenes I saw when I was just a kid. The bathtub scene in room number 237. Man, I get chills down my spine thinking about it... I know, it wasn't bloody at all. Just shocking. Imagine... You think our embrazing a beautifull naked woman while looking in the mirror to see it is really a decaying but living corpse... That kind of subtlty can't be reproduced in Lego. So I got blood instead... ^ A bathtub full of blood.The golden fountain really isn't my thing. I considder it too much of a toy-piece but it fits the building this scenery is just part of really well... ^ The lighting was sort of a lucky shot. I made these pics while it was getting darker, so I wanted to lighten up the scene with a bicyclelight and it came out this way... ^ I really love the collapsing laddersteps from the original set. It was just placed on the wrong spot. In the opened-up dollhouse mode, the colapsing-feature was very difficult to reach. So I moved the ladder to the other end of the hallway, away from the chimney and hinges where we allso find... ^ The Spoiled Milk Massacre scene featuring the eerie Grady Twins... Inspired again by The Shining, wherein these peculiar identical twins appear out of nowere at the end of the hotel hallway and ask Danny to 'come and play with us'... Short flashes of a bloody massacre surrounding them make shure you'll never ever forget...But in my scenery I added a little humor. Instead of blood, the creepy twins created a milk-massacre... ^ In the middle is the lady of the house staring out of the windowfront. Waiting for her lover? ...for her next victims..? Who knows...Inspired by Psycho. (and lots of other movies that have used this horror-cliche...) I've added a few mocs to complete this scene. We have drapes, a chest-o-drawers, and a bust(?) wearing a knights helmet. ^ Further on the right there is a desk in the hallway seperated by a wall. It just creates a writingspace in the same hallway, not another room... And ofcourse the First floor details... ^ The Kitchen.Originally placed in the back, I moved it to the front under the staircase. I used parts of the original kitchen design and added some cabinets and an oven huge enough to hide a person... ^ on the rightside of the entrance is the readingspace next to the fireplace. ^ On the otherside of the fireplace in the back you'll find the livingroom. Again, lot's of small mocs like the fish trophy, the clock, the painting, the couch, the table, the chandelier... ^ right next to it is a large dinnertable with two victorian chairs to match the rest of the interior. ^It took me a long time to come up with a just-right design... ^ against the wall are two vitrinecabinets. In between you see a glimpse of the 'backdoor' in the side of the house.
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^ Frontside attic. (left) The music room. I added moc piano, a sharpdressed skelleton, and lots of extra attic-stuff. I love the record player and think the collapsable atticladders are genius... Just placed in the wrong spot so I moved them over to the left. (so it'll come down at the end of the hallway on the first floor as you will see next. ^ Second floor hallway. Another scenery: 'Spoiled Milk Massacre'. Inspired by the Grady-twins from the horrormovie The shining. In the middle there is this woman staring out of the window. Another horrormovie-cliche... And on the right you see a small 'office'. The floor has red carpet. ^ First floor frontside (left) The Kitchen. I thought Lego made a big design mistake by placing the stairs halfway blocking several windows so I corrected that. Made my own round staircase wich left some room to install a kitchenscene. In the middle you'll find the entrance of the frontdoor. I thought it would be more realistic to come into the hallway instead of directly into the livingroom (which must be something American according to popular tv-shows... On the right you see zombie (grand)dad trying to read his newspaper in the readingcorner next to the fireplace. ^ Backside attic on the right. I added some more attic stuff including a sled, two coffins and a haunted bathtubbarrel. ^ Backside second floor on the right. Because I had made the house deeper I was able to create separate rooms and the other half of the hallway. Some small furniture mocs and paintings that are still waiting for some sickers for me to create. I'm planning on printing the 4 julie svendsen paintings that hang in the real Phantom Manor. These walls are removable and behind them (there are two) are a bathroom and the master bedroom. wich I'll show later. ^ Firstfloor in the back (rightside) I created a wooden floor and made it rustic by using different browns and blacks. Under the coffeetable and the diningtable there lies red carpet. This floor has lots of mocs. To make the furniture more detaild and intricate I had to use some of my 80's lego parts. That was fun! To be continued...
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^ The Haunted House set, right..? Well Check again! It's highly modified. It's wider, deeper, and higher. (Go count the extra studs !) I think the original lego-set is one of the alltime best lego has offered till now. It does have room for improvement though... First of all, it's big, but not quite big enough. If you want to make a complete interior it has to become a bit bigger. And to make the exterior complete, I added a big tree. While rebuilding the original I got inspired by Disneyland's Phantom Manor (paris). It kinda looks like it already. Just some details were not quite right. I added the round, doubled, and trippeled windows in the front as wel as another balcony on the right. The real Phantom Manor has the porch run around the left corner for visitors, but I left that out. I still wanted the Dollhouse-opening feature. So, this one really is much bigger, wider, and higher, but to really appreciate that you'll have to compare it next to a photo of the origninal set. As you'll see I left a lot of the original details intact, cause I think Lego did a terrific job. ^ Rightside porch and balcony (the steps have been corrected one stud to the right...) ^ I tried to make it interesting from a lot of angles by creating different scenes. Here a couple is sneaking about, not knowing they are being watched from behind by... ^ The Creature From The Black Lagoon! ^ The Creature from the Black Lagoon has a diorama of it's own. ^ I love the hinged dollhouse style way of opening so I kept that. As you can see I modified every square inch of the interior. But let's look at the one level at a time... To be continued...
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^ This is the other scenery in my modified haunted house that was inspired by the fantastic Kubric movie The Shining, the bloody bathroomscene being the first. Let me introduce to you the Grady Twins... These peculiar identical twins appear out of nowere at the end of the hotel hallway and ask Danny to 'come and play with us'... Short flashes of a bloody massacre surrounding them make shure you'll never ever forget... But in my scenery I added a little humor. Instead of blood, the creepy twins created a milk-massacre... Hope you'll like my moc.
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moehahah, I think I would pee in my plastic pants if I entered this bathroom...
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^ A little horrorscene I created for my modified Haunted House. A bathtub full of blood and a dead person staring right back at you... While building, it reminded me of the most frightfull scenes I saw when I was just a kid. The bathtub scene in room number 237. Man, I get chills down my spine thinking about it... I know, it wasn't bloody at all. Just shocking. Imagine... You think our embrazing a beautifull naked woman while looking in the mirror to see it is really a decaying but living corpse... That kind of subtlty can't be reproduced in Lego. So I got blood instead... ^ A bathtub full of blood. The golden fountain really isn't my thing. I considder it too much of a toy-piece but it fits the building this scenery is just part of really well... Enjoy! Feel free to comment (I will post pics of the whole building very soon! Just felt that this scenery deserved a thread of it's own. )
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That is awesome!! It reminds me of one of the showrods of crazy 70's or maybe 80's... Way cool that it's sort-of lifesize as a real rollerskate. I don't recognize the parts you used to make up the sides of the engine. Looks great.
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Nice! When these movies came out I didn't like this 'new' Batmobile... But it has grown on me and now it's right up there with my fav, the 1966 Barris-built model. You did a great job recreating the menacing attitude. It makes me wanna see the movie again...
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Thanks Brickadiergerard! That's exactly what I was after... Why wait for the new minifigs. I built the Batmobile way before I purchased Batman and Catwoman. I say Go for it!
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Thanks for checking out, Eurotrash! Indeed LegoPanda, seems there are more than a few 'cheeseheads' here on Eurobricks. Good to know for specific Dutch questions. Hey, maybe there is a thread on here for dutch people discussing Dutch lego-related subjects like stores carrying Lego, Brickworld Utrecht, were to get single legobricks etc. Maybe we should start one... ;) The whole afternoon I've been wondering wheather EB is Holland-based...
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Thanks for the nice words guys. I think I have the latter... Gotta try that sometime
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That is cool! Very creative use of parts I never would have thought of using... The flippers really made me grin By the way, this London hotel looks way better than the London hotel I stayed in a few years ago...
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What a great review on what must be one of the nicest lego-set to come out. I've made myself a promise to not buy a Lego set for me anymore. I guess I'll have to start to not keeping my promisses... My next problem will be wanting to mod it, so I need two of these sets. At least...
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Moehahah... Thanks again Rick. I will. In the meantime, I've succesfully made my first official post, including pics of my Batmobile. Cheers!
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^ Here's my interpretation of the 1966 Batmobile. As you see the contrasting color is limegreen. That's because of my lack of new bricks in red. Maybe I'll change the green to a dark red in the future, but for now the green is cool enough for me. ;) ^ The car is based on the MonsterFighters Hearse. I used that headlight treatment, minifig placement, and overall build-up as a base and went from there. Made it longer, lower, and added some more Batmobile characteristics. I've tried to make it meaner and leaner, lower and slower. Kind of a hotrod rod/custom attitude. Hope you'll like it. So, there you have it. My first official MOC, in my first official Forum-post. (besides my introduction ;) Feel free to comment and critisise.
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I love it! Especially the clean style above contrasting the much going-on-style below. Big surprise! That sewer-scenery is awesome. Reminds me... I still have to build a cellarscenery for my haunted house... ;)
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Ah thanks Rick, That was what I meant... 'Licensed themes'. So... In this particular case my batmobile will be shown just to people with an interest in Batman. (why else would one click on this forum) Isn't there a specific car-section on it's own? Cause, What if I just build a car without a theme? Or better yet, a hotrod or a custom car section? Or does Eurobricks concentrate mainly on the official themes brought out by the Lego-company, and do we HAVE TO fit in there somehow...? Edit: I know I know, I'm a guy with a lot of questions... So thanks in advance for your time. Luckily for you guys I don't have so many time, or so many Lego's for that matter, so I won't be posting much in the future... ;) While I'm at it... Is there a reason why I'm still not permitted to visit my own profile?
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Those are extremely cool! Surprisingly creative. At least to me. :)
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Thanks guys, for the warm welcome and quick responses. Thanks Rick, I'm aware of these 'how to' posts ;) I was just wondering if somebody could tell me what to do socially. I want to show my stuff but do I have get people to 'know' me first? For example, cause I introduced myself here. The unwritten social rules. And where to post... I have this car I built. It's a Batmobile. Where do I post it? Can't seem to find a cars or vehicle section... Ofcourse I could search for Batman and post it in 'Action themed'-forum, but I'd really would like car-builders to see what I've made. I have visited a few Lego-forums and ofcourse they have there own navigation. Yesterday I became a member of the mocpages but somehow I could not post my pics that I've uploaded. And this morning mocpages seams to have serverproblems. Can't make a visit... So I became a member of Eurobricks. Where I have to get yet another account, at Brickshelf which I did. I've uploaded my pics to the shelf and I'm eager to show em to all of ou guys. Hope someone can tell me. But in the meantime I'll search for answers myself ;)
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Hello, Now that I reached 40 my childhood love for Lego has recently been rekindled. Impressed by the new Lego standards from builders and the Lego company I made the step and bought some new sets for my own for the very first time in my life :) I'm an illustrator/designer/fine artist so aesthetics play an important role regarding to everything, including Lego. I don't have many bricks or much spare time so don't expect a lot of updates from me. I have just a few mocs and some mods. But ofcourse, if the mod is big enough it'll feature some of my little mocs ;) Oh, and I live in The Netherlands... I will leave a link to this 'master'thread in my signature. Because as of today I will put up links in this post to all my builds that I have posted on Eurobricks so everyone (including myself) that wants to can find all my creations at the click of a button. First one will be at the bottom, the newest one will be at the top. My builds on Eurobricks: ^ ZOINKS! Hotrod Mystery Machine ^ Bluesmobile 1974 Dodge Monaco Ex-copcar ^ Hotrod 1929 Model A-V8 Ford ^ Deathproof 1969 Dodge Charger ^ 1966 Schrunken Batmobile (7 stud wide) ^ 12208 Ghostbusters Ecto 1 modifications ^ Ghostbusters Ecto-1 (7 stud wide) ^ Spoiled Milk Masacre (Haunted House scene) ^ Icecream truck (7 stud wide) ^ Bloodbath (a Haunted House scene) ^ Schrunken Hearse (7 stud wide) ^ Hotrod 1923 Ford Model T ^ Hotrod Hearse (Modified Vampyre Hearse) ^ 1966 Batmobile (8 stud wide) ^ Disneyland Paris' Phantom Manor (Extremely modified Haunted House)