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Amazing, I am loving the skull's teeth in the water... very scary looking! And the water... and the foliage... all so good! One day I will have enough grey bricks to attempt this. My thoughts exactly, something must be lurking in one of those caves... More pics please!!!

Yes Well only if you count wanting a tonne more bricks and pieces... (so far) Oooo I have been thinking about making a tiny part of my next MOC for a while... which I'll make post here later :-) That could be a new use for all those blurry shots I manage to take, now I can pretend they are totally intentional! Nice one, great idea for a thread! And once I get started on my next project I will get some definitely get WIP shots up :-) and look forward to everyone else's pics. I am interested, I find the internet very difficult to sift through for historical information relating to the pirates theme and that period of history in general... so if its all illustrated in lego or something fun I would definitely be able to get on board!! EDITED: So my next project will take some time as I amass the bricks I need and try and get a handle on the dimensions, scale and overall look I want to achieve... It will be a redcoat fort and trading place (or something) and I want it to have the feel of the classic pirate forts, so something like the Imperial trading post or Eldorado Fortress but with a more sophisticated design, I don't know like the city modulars... I am scouring this site for ideas and will probably pilfer many ideas from previous members' MOCs... thanks in advance for that! But seeing as I am a bit brick-light these days and have yet to master LDD (I must be the only person who given a full set of all the bricks in every colour manages to make the designs worse not better than with a limited collection) I have not made a start yet.. instead I came up with a couple of characters that will populate my fort. I thought i would have some children in this fort as well as other civilians wandering around... these two particular children are budding redcoats, playing dress up, they have come across a soldier taking a kip, they've stolen parts of his arsenal and are happily recreating their own fort in sand... CheekyRedcoatKids, on Flickr PS this was in part inspired by MiloNelsiano's PtV entry Bartholemew Robbins

What if Lego have deconstructed the traditional lego horse into different pieces that can then be built into a crazy, insane robo-horse for all the Nexo knights.... and more importantly, maybe the horse pieces could be used to make centaurs...? That would definitely make up for what ever else comes out of this theme... just a pipe dream though, I guess. But there is bound to be something that will redeem the theme...

So here is a brief introduction to my PtV entry... Basically the scene is as follows some poor, lowly pirate has been caught and hanged by the Bluecoats. In revenge his shipmates are ransacking the harbour, burning and killing all in their path and making off the Governor's daughter, for some despicable end. It's blood 'n' carnage! BrickOnPillageTheVillage on Flickr BrickOnPillageCloseUp on Flickr BurningChef on Flickr And incase you missed him... there's on pirate still in the cells awaiting rescue or hanging? CaptiveCloseUp on Flickr Hope it's suitably evil, I can always try add some more evil acts if not :-) NB: I have edited it to add some better photos taken in actual daylight, I'll leave the old ones on Flickr and also my amazing, Ikea-based photography set-up for taking the photos in the dark...

Very nice, I especially like the fish preparation going on, wish I had a few of those ornamental fish myself :-) Good build and welcome to EB :-)

Thanks, it makes a change to only build with the crazy brightly coloured pieces... I need to do more with my Fabuland otherwise they will just gather dust! :-) Also I may have accidently gone on a small fabuland spending spree so I will have a couple extra characters to play with :-)

Horse is awesome, but I really like how you've built the details in walls! Awesome :-)

Haha, nice one :-) shame its not included in any lego sets (yet! maybe they'll be inspired and make one) I would have bought a few!

Woah this made me recoil in shock and horror from all the pink, in a good way, I think, I was able to smile afterwards. I've just built the BBT set - I like you what you've done with the place :-p At least you have a soft kitty in there, that might appease Sheldon...

yes, my bad, I missed typed.. I am much more used to thinking of Doctors in terms of Matt Smith, David Tennant etc

Nice build with some good plundering :-) I particularly the burning of the the 4-poster, very evil... I wanted to ask where the blue parrot come from? I want one! I tried to google it but just ended up back on a very old EB post which may or may not have answered my question... there were no pics...

No, maybe in the beginning, but not so much now, I like the 11th a lot, especially since Amy is my favourite companion... but I like the Dr and Donna pairing a lot too! I like all the Doctors equally :-) nah not really, but it does just take me a bit of time to warm up to them... Capaldi is a great Doctor IMO and after watching the recent trailer I even forgot my previous dislike of Clara (she flirted too much with the Doctor when I was still in mourning for the end of River Song saga, or not the end?) And now I just feel like yay they're back :-) I would be really happy to see a CMF Doctor Who series... otherwise I just can't see Lego ever satisfying my DW cravings once they have started...

Hmmm that makes sense. I think I really like the crow best... okay now I will go look for him :-)

I have all my childhood Fabuland made up in a corner of my Lego cave and every now and again I think about buying another set, just for fun... But part of me thinks it might ruin the specialness,that I feel towards my current sets, I don't have too many: 3622 Rowboat 3623 Beauty Salon 3645 Classroom 3646 kitchen 3659 Playground 3662 Bus 3674 Bonnie Bunny's New House 3797 Fire Chief Barty Bulldog 3798 Hanna's Garden I only have one set of instructions left and on the back has all the other sets available at the time and I can remember pouring over the picture when I was little... So my question is, if I were to allow myself another set or minifigure... Which one or who should I go for... I am tempted by the crow, police dog or maybe a pig or bear... Since I am missing these... Any suggestions?

I definitely want Rory the Roman, I kinda want Amy dressed as the pirate captain (because she looked cool and I like pirates and we could get the crazy mermaid doctor with two faces, one beautiful, one scary) but maybe strippergram policewomen Amy from her first appearance would also work! Others on my list are: the master (and missy) Donna (maybe dressed as a roman from Pompeii, with one of those rock priestesses-both Amy pond and current doctor were in that episode :-)). And then we should have little Amelia Pond, the younger Amy. Donna's dad, We need the Ood... Ood!!! I have said before I would like Madam Vastra and Jenny (in all their Victorian Garb, jenny with her sword) and strax. I would also like to see jenny (the doctors daughter- ooooo I wonder if that Jenny is the other Jenny, since we know she regenerated, kinda, anyway! Martha would be good, maybe dressed as a doctor. Obviously Cpt. Jack, Rose and Micky... I wonder if we would ever get the "where's my mummy boy"? -not sure Lego would want to make a gas mask... Shame!

I know and this chain has to be a good customer, they got exclusive Simpsons rights on Norway... However they may turn up but they said they were worried :-(

I asked about the series today (in Outland, Norway) and I was told that Lego are not taking anymore orders from them until after Christmas due to supply issues and they don't know if the will get the stuff they have already ordered... What was once a plump till display of CMFs across the series has now been reduced to a couple of Simpsons 2 racks and one of 13 with a lot of sad empty space :-( (luckily the other half appears to have caught the big and is buying then for me). He's rubbish at feeling packets though, so I got another cheerleader today instead of the banshee... (He did get me another gargoyle though so 1 out of 2 isn't bad!)

Cool review, I am sold, now I just need to find a good one!!

RiverCottageFab on Flickr CloseUpOfRiverCottageFab on Flickr So I have been meaning to make something with my Fabuland for a while (its kinda sad not seeing any Fabuland activity on the boards) and I wanted to mess around with my new foliage pieces ... so ta da, I made River Cottage... hope you like :-)

yep, that one. To me that's an upside-down, slopey yellow brick :-)

The large was £11.99 (with 75p off if you reuse) and I think the small was either £5.99 or 6.99... Can't remember. There were lots of regular bricks in colours I was not interested in and white doors and some windows. The one thing I wish I had got was the upside-down, slopey yellow bricks, 1x2 on bottom, 2x2 on top (no idea what they are really called so I like to use the same words I used as a kid!) The build a minifig had some nice accessories too, if you you like that sort if thing, I was tempted to walk off with all the CMF captain's seagulls, but decided I had enough. Might be worth a look.

Really eerie, I like the display in the chemist's window!

I was just tidying up after some guests left my place (they'd being staying for almost a week) and I found a post-it note left on a small MOC on the coffee table... apparently written by one of the minifigures in the scene, asking to be put down... I thought it was quite cute. Most of my lego was not out for the guests to see when the visited but on the occasions I was building some things they wanted to touch everything and play with the cannons etc (understandably), I think they were quite taken with the Lego in general. And I was just wondering what do visitors to your homes say when they see your lego collection? Do they ask to play? Do they think you are slightly mad? Or is the Lego strictly off limits to guests (or just the children)?

Surely Seasonal is referring to the fact these are related to halloween (just not in name)... pretty sure Lego will be supplying these for a few months yet, why would they voluntarily lose all the sales related to Halloween that these CMFs seem to be targeted at? That said maybe I will check the stores on my way home to see if they are even out here yet and snap up a few of the Banshees, Spectres and Gargoyles... just to be safe :-)

I knew there was a good reason why she is now standing next to my Spider Lady! So Vampires and werewolves are also mythological creatures (unless they are real), but then defined as Lego monsters... I think it would be better to place the Roman/greek gods etc into a historical themed series.... which could be cool... and you could have a mix of ancient and recent in it history too, to give a good variety and hit a number of the traditional Lego themes..