Fed

Fabuland brings back memories man. I love this one!

Sorry if this sounds stupid (I've only seen the early 2006 line up close) Is that a Bionicle ball joint adapter I see for the shoulder? Is this new for the mech or common in the 2007 series? Any other kits that use it? If so, then that's great news for me. Gives me more of an excuse to experiment with Bionicle mecha hybrids. :-P

Never had any sets after the starbase (6971), someone gave my brother 2 small technic sets later on, that's about all I got after. As for liking them? Hmm... Space Monorail made my jaw drop. But generally didn't float my boat then. I may have different opinion, especially when I look for parts for projects. You may never know what piece fits. :-/ I liked Pirates, and wanted to buy the sets before, especially since I was playing Sid Meier's Pirates and got immersed in the history side of Piracy (basically I know who Edmund Teach and Henry Morgan is... :-D ) But I think this was before college and I had no money to pay for the prices they were asking then. (especially when you see the cost difference of Lego sold in the Philippines...) But my heart's in Space. The ideas I'm coming up with are for Mecha and Space. We owned a yellow classic castle set and still have pieces of it (a ton of yellow bricks...) of which I'm scratching my head as to how to use them.

OT: Lol. I made a mistake, mixed up two different posts.... :-D

To add: I like the way the Feet are structured, they add weight there - something I didn't like with Exo-Force stock mechs. The back detail of the cockpit is really good. Love the swayback cockpit design.

Storm Ogre (Japanese Name: Arashi-No-Oni = "Oni/Ogre of the Storms) (I'm playing it straight... bear with me... :-P ) Hayato's aerial assault mech and early prototype for his future unit. The Storm Ogre features a vast array of verniers and thrusters to push this large unit around. The mech sports a staggering amount of beam weaponry due to vents that allow it to dissipate heat quickly. For brickshelf gallery, click here. Despite being huge, the Storm Ogre is nimble and able to react quickly to incoming threats. It can use the extended forearms for shields, and the mech is fully melee capable - dominating other mechs through sheer strength. The Particle Cannon is a weapon unto itself and can be mounted on either mech hand. (Based on a Brionne Wokurka Ldraw Gun design at Mechahub.com - I gotta give credit to the original inspiration for it, but it's modified based on my current available pieces.) The Left shoulder of the mech is a chain gun, while the right has 2 particle beams. The head has a mounted deadly Omega Beam that fires with deadly accuracy. (I couldn't photograph the LED light effect properly...) (Back view of the mecha. I stressed front detail like the other Exo-Force mechs. Note the connection of the Led Light to the back of the head. (The secret to the long lower leg.) The Storm Ogre was made out of 5 sets with around 380 pieces: 7700 Stealth Hunter 7701 Grand Titan 7702 Thunder Fury 7703 Fire Vulture 7705 Gate Assault No pieces were used outside of the sets (they're basically the only new Lego sets I have so far...)

Storm Ogre (Japanese Name: Arashi-No-Oni = "Oni/Ogre of the Storms") (I'm playing it straight... bear with me... :-P ) Hayato's aerial assault mech and early prototype for his future unit. The Storm Ogre features a vast array of verniers and thrusters to push this large unit around. The mech sports a staggering amount of beam weaponry due to vents that allow it to dissipate heat quickly. For brickshelf gallery, click here. Despite being huge, the Storm Ogre is nimble and able to react quickly to incoming threats. It can use the extended forearms for shields, and the mech is fully melee capable - dominating other mechs through sheer strength. The Particle Cannon is a weapon unto itself and can be mounted on either mech hand. (Based on a Brionne Wokurka Ldraw Gun design at Mechahub.com - I gotta give credit to the original inspiration for it, but it's modified based on my current available pieces.) The Left shoulder of the mech is a chain gun, while the right has 2 particle beams. The head has a mounted deadly Omega Beam that fires with deadly accuracy. (I couldn't photograph the LED light effect properly...) (Back view of the mecha. I stressed front detail like the other Exo-Force mechs. Note the connection of the Led Light to the back of the head. (The secret to the long lower leg.) The Storm Ogre was made out of 5 sets with around 380 pieces: 7700 Stealth Hunter 7701 Grand Titan 7702 Thunder Fury 7703 Fire Vulture 7705 Gate Assault No pieces were used outside of the sets (they're basically the only new Lego sets I have so far...)

:-X Talk about bad, I'm in the Philippines. Lego Exo-force Stealth Hunter (and others) is 1500 PHP (23.5 Euros) I got the Gate Defender for a whopping 3000 PHP (47 Euros) I checked out the price of the Technic Tow truck - a whopping 14000 PHP (222 Euros) The bigger the set the exponential the rise of the cost for us here.

I write creatively for release sometimes. It also helps pay the bills. >:-) Check this out. It's a link to my Lakers vs. Celtics Association story for NBA 2K7 game. Since I do mecha... for building inspiration I check out some great Japanese mecha artists and designers for some inspiration. One of my all-time faves is Katoki Hajime, a renowned Gundam/Virtual On modeler/artist/designer. Some of his designs are just... wow. (Btw, I'm wondering if Lego has some renowned Toy designers/artists) Wing Gundam Endless Waltz Version Gundam Wing Version Katoki (redesign) Crossbone Gundam He's also one of the pioneers for FIX art, a Japanese art style where you put a Gundam toy in a realistic background (he was doing in the late 80s!!): click here

SPOILER: NEON GENESIS EVANGELION If LEGO actually did an Evangelion-like ending for Exo-Force, that would be totally cool with me. Man's last stand and they all die... :-D

*y* *wub* dang. It looks gooooood.

:-D After building a MOC with them, they're starting to look that way to me too. I love the minifigs and some of the crossover parts from Technic and Bionicle in the series to really give you an idea of the potential of Lego to make something new. As of right now, I'm in awe of SNOT building, Greeble and other building concepts. I feel like I should load up on System parts/bricks. I feel like I may have a lot of unnecessaries if I go and buy Technic and Bionicle. From where I'm looking/observing from, bricks are still king. I'm just curious to see if I can rebuild it. >:-) I have a picture of my old Starbase somewhere in our photo albums. I'll try posting it up once I find it. I once made a minifig scale USS Enterprise out of all my bricks that I never got a photo of. The top of the Circular base opened up, and the side of the core opened up like a dollhouse. I had three floors/bays: Command Central, Sickbay & Engineering. I even had a crude turbolift using the winch from the Castle set to move it to different floors. It wasn't pretty, but it was definitely fun to play with. :-D In building my MOC, I found out how nitpicky I was with details. I guess age does that to you. :-P As for dusting/cleaning my bricks, I'll try to wash the old stuff when I have the time.

Thanks to all. *sweet* I recently found a site where all the old instructions are scanned and posted. Too bad since I'm missing crucial parts to rebuild my Galaxy Commander... But I looked at the instructions for the Galaxy Explorer and have been scrummaging through my pieces. I think I may have enough to rebuild it. :-$ Here's crossing my fingers and hoping that there's enough of those old pieces lying around to see if I can remake the thing. The Online Lego community support is amazing. I've never seen this kind of fandom online have this much passion and support from the people. I've been head of an online support crew for an MMOG and have seen online fan support of all kinds, but the LEGO online community is something else. Well, I'll be posting my first MOC soon (for the Exo-Force contest). Again, thanks.

:-P Thanks for the replies. To be honest, I've seen that photo somewhere before - and I'm in SE Asia. Dunno where, but it has a degree of familiarity to it. Here's a related question, to do that MOC nowadays, how much would you have to spend to get the parts to copy that thing?

Although this has been reported elsewhere (in Malaysia): http://www.bzcommunity.com/story.php?ID=3128 I can now officially say that Bionicle has done the same promo in the Philippines... sans CD, but with the same toys. made in china and they come preassembled with screws showing in the back. Dunno if this has been reported anywhere, should I get pics up of the toys as soon as my camera gets back to me?

Hiya, My name is Fed, I'm from the Philippines. I practically grew up on Lego Space sets in the earlier part of my life. I recently got back into Lego because of Exo-Squad as Lego managed to pique my interest by going into Mecha (finally). Nice to hear Lego's relaunching Space. Although, my first introduction to Lego was the 371 Sea Plane, it was followed by my first Space set - the 487 Space Cruiser, followed shortly after by the 497 Explorer. Lego was Space for me. :-D Availability became an issue in the Philippines as my last Lego sets bought here were the 6980 Galaxy Explorer, and supply of new sets became scarce. The last Space set I had was the 6971 Command Base, bought for me (or my brother, can't really remember) in the US. Though Space reemerged again here sometime in the late 80s, alas they were too expensive (the monorail definitely caught my eye). Then the Spacemen had a war and I was totally lost and disinterested in getting back into Space because the models had something lacking in what I liked. Even Star Wars didn't get me off my chair to buy a Lego set for some reason. Recently, I was going around the malls looking around stuff and saw that the Exo-Force sets were being sold at the malls here in Manila. I got hooked and bought 7700 to 7705 and have only 7706 (Winged Phantom) left to buy. It was good timing since I quit several hobbies and was looking for something new to get into. It fit perfectly into what I wanted and I rediscovered my love for Lego. Anyway, I still have some of my old pieces from Space (sans instructions), but I'm not really interested in rebuilding them. They're dusty and some of the old markings have rubbed off (from constant play). What I was really hoping for is for Lego to surprise me with the upcoming Space set, just as they did with Exo-force. I saw some of the Mission to Mars stuff, and they weren't really impressive, apart from the drill machine.

Hiya, Noob here from the Philippines. ^^ Would like to have a space tag.