KotZ

"That's a good idea!" Kleeck pulled out his translator and attempts to communicate with it. "Hello? Does this thing work? Was my translator scrambled in the scuffle?"

“In addiction, it may be possible to clone the egg. If enough clones with slight genetic modifications are made, the species can have a stable repopulation rate.” Klerk shook his feathers to keep warm. “Besides, do you really want to be known as the one who doomed an entire species? The singular being who essentially murdered an entire race?”

I've always been a fan of terrain and objects to be used as cover, etc. Really great work on that map, LD.

"I was thinking we use your long hair as rope, of course." "... or we could do that."

I'm still hyped about that monorail. God I wish we could get monorails again. So episode two aired last night. The AFOL inside of me hated the destruction, but the kid in me loved the idea of making something that could be smashed. that purple nipple monster though gave us all nightmares... and made us lose a bunch of purple bricks. When it came to shooting the destruction, everyone stopped to watch the explosions. Seeing the slo-mo was awesome. Anyway, that detonator that was used was one of my builds. The challenge for me was to make it compact enough to not look unwieldy, but still have enough room to fit all of the components to make the button work, like batteries, wires, etc. Art department was adamant they would need to glue everything, something I was against just because I hate seeing LEGO glued. Basically I just built the box as a shell, and then reinforced it with 2x bricks throughout, especially to help support the removable lid. It was a fun build for me because I had the added challenge of wanting to make the box look like the 1x4 tiles that have the caution printing. All I did was use slopes to get that diagonal look, something I hadn't done recently because I didn't have the parts in my personal collection for my own MOCs. 1x2 profile grille bricks were thrown in there as well to give some added texture just because.

Kleeck spends the 2 EXP on the Proficiency to cast spells. He looks down at his pistol. He offers it to Igaz. "Enson is right, you could use this." He then eyes Jek. "Well we can't just leave him in this state, out in the open. I think we should tie him up and hide him. A little crude, perhaps, then we don't have to worry about someone discovering him until we are safely away."

My wallet is going to kill me... and I have no space in my apartment.

I'm in!

Kleeck moves to B3

Did the Ambassadors sub forum go away permanently?

I bought 10270 Bookshop, 75267 Mandalorian Battlepack, and a 48x48 baseplate yesterday.

"I can help you, Tester-Three." Kleeck turns his sites on Drone A and attacks from C2.

I'm not sure how teams managed it, honestly. It's a crazy build time. I think it really comes down to each individual team's style.

OOC: Copy that. Kleeck attacks from C2.

OOC: I'll have Kleeck invest up to 3. Kleeck donned his weapon/helm Gazerbeam. "Hopefully this thing works." Kleeck moves to D3 and attacks Samba. (Is this possible?)

Technically the show is about 42 minutes, I think, but I agree personally.

Nothing weird behind the scenes not apparent to viewers, really. We couldn't help them at all, aside from if a piece in the Brick Pit had run low/out and they were needing more, so we would need to refill them on set from our backstage area. All the teams had some experience with motorization/Powered Up at some point as well. Everything they built was theirs and nobody (from the crew) could touch anything for sake of fairness.

So, just a discussion on the LEGO Masters (US) show, in case anyone is watching. As a full disclaimer, I did work on the show in the challenge department, so I will be slightly biased, but I also want to provide an insight into this show as best I can, and if anyone has any questions, I will answer to the best of my ability. For each episode, I'll state/show what I was able to do/build, and my own thoughts. First, I was really lucky to be brought on to the show in any capacity. I was working on another show that the production company for LM was doing, and the executives saw the LEGO tattoo on my arm and mentioned the show. I basically handed them my resume right then and there. I was brought into the challenge department (where one of our Challenge Producers is also an AFOL), and for around three weeks before we got on set, I was tasked with organizing the layout of every single element we would have on set. Yup. Over three million bricks total for the show, into the thousands of individual element types. This job is a dream come true for me; I got to design my dream LEGO storage room. So for three weeks, I worked with our Art department and my computer to figure out how exactly every brick would go on set, organizing down to what color and type would go into each drawer. Came up with why things were the way they were, etc. No small feat, I think. In addition to this, the first episode was our Dream Park Theme Park, and I learned what the challenge was about: A theme park, yes, but one with a monorail. My head exploded. I wasn't old enough for the monorail sets, so I'd get to see one in action here. But then I learned I was tasked with desiging the layout of the monorail and make sure it works. And we didn't have any monorail parts in stock yet. Luckily I found a website (I can't find it ATM but will update when I can) that had all of the monorail pieces, essentially a top-down version of LDD, and designed a rough draft of the layout. In my opinion, it was really cool, but it was way too complex. One of our Associate Producers (essentially my boss) took a stab at it and made his own design. We then married the two concepts together to what you see on screen. As for discussion of the episode, I'm really happy with what I saw. Jamie and Amy are both incredibly nice (more on talking to them will come), and I'm excited I got to talk with them at different points throught the show. I remember when we were doing this first episode, we were pillaging parts from some sets (namely the Jamie Coaster) just to grab a few extras, and he walked past and joked how sad he was to see this happen. I complimented him saying it was an awesome set. Seeing the builds in person was like nothing else. Like being at a LEGO convention but it's a job that everyone can see.

If I think we should add more creatures, mainly that are more sci-fi/sci-fantasy type if they're not too similar to established H1 creatures. Even if they rarely show up, I think it helps flesh out the world we're building. I would think demons could work in this setting, be they seen as full on spirits or another "form" of alien.

"Ah, quite sound defenses then. I would prefer not to mess with those that hold that laser. I quite like having my feather attached to my body, thank you." Kleeck looked to the others. "I certainly will be joining the auction. I can not speak for my companions, but I hope they do. This is quite an event."

"Oh, I'm quite sorry to bother you," Kleeck said as he shook his feathers. "But there are some small concerns I have, namely security. This is a fairly important and discreet event, no? What if the authorities have been tipped off? How do we stop them if they come? Is the place soundproofed, in case we get too rowdy? Are doors locked? Have you triple checked them? This is an important event, as I said, but it never hurts to be sure."

"Sneaking is quite the good idea. If we need to cause a distraction, I can do it."

"Glad I haggled," Kleeck murmured to himself.

Where do minifigures go after a hard day at work? Where do they go on the weekends? Where do the frat guys hang out when they're not at the house? Why they're all down at the bar on Brickth St, of course. Let's check it out! Here's the bouncer. Looks like he's gotten into a scuffle recently. He performs ocular patdowns to see if the person wanting to get into the bar is cool. The musician up onstage rocking out to his sole fan. There's some booze in the background; he plays for exposure and booze, you know. Every bar has the guy in the Hawaiian shirt. If you don't kno who he is, you are him. In this scenario, the bartender is clearly not happy about this guy's drunkeness. And of course there is the girl being hit on by the guy she absolutely does not want to be hit on. Nothing wrong with jamming out, right? To get to the second floor, you need to take the stairs out the back. Posters on the walls. You can see the performer from up here. Someone is very happy about seeing out the windows. Trying to pick up girls. Pull away the walls, and you can see the bathroom. Toilet taken from an ebay seller named onemorebrick, and the sink is from hessianizer on flickr, which was incredibly weird to do on LDD. The roof and exterior/finishing. Glad you made it this far. Enjoy and would love comments/criticism.

Kleeck turned to the party and whispered. "We should be cautious. Card games in dens can be high stakes; all the docu-holoshows tell you so. If we rudely interrupt their game, we could get into a debacle. I suggest we take it slow, ease our way in, and drink with them."