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I thought that may be the case. In a less-regulated than real life Lego world, we can go with a bit of a trade-off between what looks perfect and what is most user-friendly for customers. Or ignore user-friendly and tell the customers to just deal with it, find your own doors, I'll put a line where I want!

Mostly from Star Wars, particularly from the pirates.

I think he meant it the other way, that the Simpsons inclusion is an exception to his idea that recent CMFs (unicorn girl) wouldn't be included.

Really nice. Shame about the uneven height. I wonder if it looks a little bit better if you use dark blue tiles under the doors? I don't like when the line is completely interrupted! I do like the doors other than that.

Good luck, the motors have become really scarce all of a sudden, I was going to buy 2 more but someone(s) all but cleaned out Bricklink in recent months.

Surely it's Krusty. That's a pretty good effort, a lot of those are probably right.

23 looks a bit like Wyldstyle to me, with Emmet between Bart & her.

Glad about your approvals! A laser blast!

It's happened once or twice to me, but never near enough value to bother sending it back or compensating. Like a few cents worth. And how do I know it wasn't just a baker's dozen... or a deliberate test of honesty... But if it was me at the other end I would just say "whoops, oh well, keep it". No the one I often get is slightly-not-quite-the-right-colour/item. Does a seller value the feedback of "you sent the wrong one" to help be more careful in future when it might matter more or would it be more of a nuisance? Is the seller going to offer to send the right one (specifically for unnecessary fear of bad feedback), and as a result cost them much extra when I could just keep the wrong one? Is the seller going to request that I send the wrong one back when I can't be bothered and don't want the unnecessary cost? I don't say anything anymore, unless it's a big muckup. Which doesn't really happen. Fortunately I've never had anything missing (except when the seller made a mistake, but let me know before I received the first parcel that the rest was coming separately), because that's something I would be more inclined to tell them about, but raises the same issues. One time someone asked me "so what do you want me to do?" ummm, send me all of your inventory as compensation? "don't worry about it"

I have made an entry on my own but not posted it to EB yet. A couple of weeks to go so I'm sure there'll be plenty of entries by then. The last Sci-Fi contest had a record number of entries, and a huge number on the last day.

Like sand through the hourglass

Old saying: "if you have nothing good to say, don't say anything at all" Just because there's nothing to talk about doesn't mean you have to talk about nothing. You could just not talk. Lives won't end due to it, and the thread is pinned so it won't disappear.

Lucky for some!

I think if you can get the water to look real you'd really be onto something. I loved the old catalogue scenes for pirates, castle & even space themes. As has been said already, it really made the Lego come alive.

Don't use the attachment function, it's useless. Upload your photos to an image hosting site, most of us use Mocpages, Brickshelf or Flickr accounts. Then deeplink your pics in your post. Check out the tutorials if you get stuck.

Who doesn't love to see great tits from every angle? The cute little feet and the wings look good

Haha thank you my friends, glad you enjoy. It has been fun so far!

Well I, for one, am never finished when it comes to stuff I started years ago. And every new release & idea delays it all further.

More & bigger pics here. Allow me to introduce these Pirates: Band of Mechfists (yes, very bad pun). Solar-sailing the seven galacseas in search of booty (of the treasure variety), bounty (of the financial variety), booty (of the female anatomical variety), bounty (of the chocolate variety), booty (of the woollen footwear variety) & bounty (of the ocean-going variety). Your typical pirate band consists of much variagation (unlike the uniformed appearance of navies, policing-types & organised smuggler syndicates), so let's meet these scurvy galacsea-dogs. Sweet Kissy Rupert Lethal. His left arm is a freaking laser, what do you expect? Also his right arm is longer than that of the law, so that's handy. Sweet Kissy Rupert has been programmed to serve his enemies. To the space sharks. Unfortunately for the sharks, their fodder often arrives as a burnt offering. It's that laser, you see. Sweet Kissy Rupert was originally found on the doorstep of a mechospital still in his box. By a ruthless space pirate. Who knows what a lovely bot he may have built up to be had the staff been paying attention at the time, instead of watching Desperate Hosewires on the foyer TV. Siliconbeard the Pirate Every band of pirates needs a typical captain. Well, these guys have a head in a captain's bicorne + some mechanical bits. Siliconbeard does sport a jolly roger & parrot at least. Whilst fake eye, fake hand & fake leg are usually the deal, this guy doesn't have much of his original self left. Makes him even more cranky, especially when they try to board a ship without access ramps installed. Just look at those dark patches around his eyes, steer well clear before he's had his morning rum latte. Gurinder Pablo DeChangsen-Jones Well in every alien group there's got to be a token human. Usually for comedic effect, or because someone has to die at some point of the movie. Gurinder is a typical male Earthling as pure a breed as you can get here in the 33rd century, his name being proof of his pure-blood noble ancestry for centuries. But the main thing is that his gun shoots blue lasers, and that is cool. Collect all sets and action figures. Once hired by mercenaries to steal a comic, he actually took one from a shop, and delivered it by hand a few minutes later. It was a slippery slope, within a decade he had broken at least 2 laws and had thought about bending another. Then at the age of 20, he was to be incarcerated for shooting 9 billion fellow Antarcticans with a nuclear missile from a remote space station, but the fallout wiped out the entire population of Earth so he chose a life of travel. With space pirates. Will Turncoat The only thing cooler than robot skeletons is ghost robot skeletons. This guy Will defected from the Universal Navy after a few territorial disputes leading to computer massacres left him disillusioned. More cybernetic parts replaced his dying organic parts and after a few hundred years only his ghost remains. Sworn to never rest until the navy has been completely erradicated, it looks like he's going to be around for a while, because this lot are up against a few million fleets. That, and he fights with a cutlass. No problem vs organic beings, but against space ships, a sword isn't hugely effective. (Unless perhaps you throw it down a fortuitous air vent that causes a chain reaction to blow up the entire structure, win the battle and get a medal from a hot chick, who is your sister but you don't know that yet.) Kon-Sol Worz Someone has to have a hook for a hand, and how much better than a glowing red left hook can you get? A few jabs and a good uppercut would round things out nicely, but Kon-Sol has his other hand full with a semi-demi-automatic shock pulse laser. By semi-demi, it sorta means that you have to actually press a trigger before everyone starts dying. It's not like Scott from X-Men, whose eyes are destroying everything (except his magic glasses) automatically. He is ripped though, so if it came down to it he could tear off your head in hand-to-hand combat. He's also been known to not let the wookiee win. Rebootstrap Bill He flies. He has laser guns on his cyber-crutches. His body contains 2% organic tissue. I think it's just that space-chicken he swallowed the other night by accident though. Bill loves nothing more than to put his foes in Davey Jones' locker. And steal their lunch money. And a quick wedgie for good measure, but being legless (and nerveless) himself, he doesn't see what the fuss is about.

More money in our wallets for Bricklink projects.

At Target, some of last year's SW is on clearance. Stacks with the 20% off. Vulture Droid $20, Droid Gunship $35 (!!!), maybe some others, but not all sets from that wave.

They look brick-built to me. (Besides the minifig C3PO)

But aren't those 2 words copyrighted by the new owners of this site anyway?

An American comedian said he's not afraid that the world might end today, because it's already tomorrow in Australia. Annual Pr@nk Day starts earlier here, so when USA finally gets started on it it's already old news. Thankfully this site keeps it fresh. Of course we all know that there is no pr@nk and it's all true.

No flowers down here at the end of March... why must we continue to have season-based forum banners?