Retro

Thanks. Give me a chance! A re-coloured shuttle and a modified Millennium Falcon...depending on how presentable the photos look...

The Doctor Who Ideas set is great. Lovely, intricate details, colours and printing. The only thing an AFOL might quibble with would be that the TARDIS is a bit too large, and the doors don't open. But both these aspects are maybe necessary to get the unusual connection to the interior to work. I have no idea how many they made or how many they sold. But interest in Doctor Who worldwide (oitside Ireland and UK) would have to be classified as a niche market compared to films like Ghostbusters or Back to The Future.

The colours here are just insanely gorgeous. It could be in the Tate Modern. I don't know how cosy it looks, though...I find it a bit threatening looking! Except for the dog. He reassures me. Love the tree trunk.

I presume he's hatched a plan for world domination.

Ha! No...Ireland. the NFL was big in Ireland and the UK in the 80s and I somehow became a Broncos fan. I think all the uniforms and logos were better in the 80s..

Nope, I agree with you entirely about those sets being boring, even though I love space/sci fi. The Saturn V was also boring to me. The Exo -Suit was genius though. I also don't get the attraction of Jurassic World, Pirates...and lots of other stuff!

That looks very, very evil and very, very green. It feels like an important project. It should probably qualify for funding from Hydra or Aim or something.

That's great. I'm sure yours will be slicker than mine! Looking forward to seeing pictures. It's very important to make swooshing noises and hum the Kamino music while you're building it.

Ninjago City is not just 'a Ninjago set'. Ordinary Ninjago is fairly run of the mill stuff, mostly popular with children, some AFOLs too. Ninjago City, however, is possibly the greatest Lego set ever made. It is huge, insanely detailed and will appeal to fans of Blade Runner, William Gibson, roofs, canals, pink trees, families and Uruk-Hai swords...

I have no interest in the Flintstones, but at least the original 'Idea' was colourful and fun. This looks flat and boring. I make that still nothing I like since the Doctor Who set...

The fantastic greebling is very Giger-esque.

Ticking away the moments that make up a dull day...

This is one of my favourite scenes from my favourite Star Wars film. Well done on the shape! Would love to see it expanded to include more of the room and the corridors. Gorgeous collection of figures too...

Thanks Reaper, what a nice thing to say! I usually just build with the parts that I have. But I found buying one or two Brickheadz is a great way of stocking up on snot bricks. The problem is my son is always dismayed at me taking apart perfectly cool Brickheadz just to use the bits! Thanks Drongo, you're right. There are also some great other colour schemes for Firespray Class ships available on the internet, aren't there? As a child I used to do lots of sketches of Formula 1 cars with different colour schemes and sponsors. Same fun idea.

Ha. Correct. And in fairness to the gentleman you named, the real life bridge is a bit more slender and elegant!

Hi, so your task here is to guess the city in my little MOC. I've probably done something silly, like embedded the answer in the photo titles. But anyway, it's just for fun! Some bits I invented myself, some bits I copied techniques from elsewhere. Happy to give credit or apologise where necessary.

Yes, it was the strangest thing. My parents are in their 70s. In amongst my early 80s childhood Lego in their house, which I hadn't touched for 30 years, I discovered the skirt pieces for Jango's ship, some of the white pieces, young Boba minifigure and the torso of Jango himself - chewed by some human or animal! Also a few pieces from 7113 Tusken Raider Attack. None of them mine...

Yes. I really had more fun doing my own Jango Fett Slave 1 modification (photos in the other thread) than I would have had buying any of these new sets I think! That's got to be bad news for Lego when their current sets are so bland I don't want to buy them? And my son, who is Lego mad like me, has nearly zero interest in Star Wars sets, be they Juniors, target games or whatever. So I wonder if they are struggling to reach children with Star Wars?

Nice and sleek. Glad to see you're building it with real bricks too! I don't think I'd fancy flying a b-wing in real life though. I'd say it would be easy to get airsick with all that gyroscoping around...

I do love Star Wars Lego, of course, and will probably continue to collect some of it. But I do think the standard of the sets has been getting weaker and weaker in aesthetic terms. I really enjoyed the Sequel films buy in my opinion they made for dull sets because of the film makers design choices. And now we get scrappy small scenes or shooter games or very blocky looking Tie Fighter thingys. Looking back to when I started collecting...I don't have all these, but where are sets as interesting and creative as Palpatine's Arrest, Drop Ship + AT-OT, Jabba's Palace, Bounty Hunter Gunship, even a nice B-wing? Sorry for the rant, just my few cents worth.

I notice that the original NASA rover is not festooned with laser cannons! But maybe yours are actually exhaust pipes of some kind...

Nifty little model. The blue-ish lighting works well too. I just commented somewhere else that I like this Outrider ship. There's something appealing about asymmetrical, ugly spacecraft!

I don't think Chort would like to be called cute! (Even though he is.) He's bad! He's scary!

This is a sweet, little project. Well done. Once you start tinkering with a Falcon at any scale you can go on indefinitely! I also really like the other ship in your old post (the Outsider?).

Nice, cool, smooth German lines. I also like the effect of the photographic background. It makes it look like he's driving through a dusty quarry or even a frozen landscape.