Murdoch17
-
Posts
5,027 -
Joined
-
Last visited
Posts posted by Murdoch17
-
-
Looking at those figures, I feel like my eyeballs are screaming in pain.
But seriously, they do look something from the Town Jr. / City Centre era of mid-to-late 1990's.
Do we REALLY want Timmy (from Time Cruisers and Freestyle) back in our lives?
However, if it means a Lego Loco / Lego Island 2 (updated / I.E. not naked) Super Station Master, I'm all for it!
-
-
I just bought the Zurg Battle (set 76831) recently. I didn't like the legs, as the look from Toy Story 2 / Buzz Lightyear of Star Command design for Emperor Zurg was (in my honest opinion) much better and more iconic.
Here we see the finished model. Zurg has an orange 2 x 2 "boat stud" in trans-orange on the bottom for his rocket pod feet that you can't see in this shot.
"...and then a little mini-fig shouted 'He's got no pants on!' Emperor Zurg suddenly realized the tiny mini-fig was right, and than the he has been tricked by Buzz Lightyear. So, Zurg re-atomized the poor fig into a compressed cylindrical pile of ash with his finger laser and declared it "No Pants for Emperor's Day."
This is the ending scene from "Emperor Zurg's New Clothes", a popular bed time story for children on Planet Z. (As far as we know, no minifigs were actually re-atomized making this shot.)
In actuality, this is a behind-the-scenes look at how Zurg is assembled.
All the parts needed to remake the legged Zurg from Lightyear into Emperor Zurg with skirt as seen in Toy Story 2*. (NOTE: The old-style round 2x2 Light bluish gray tile should have the printed "Z" Zurg logo from 2010's Construct-A-Zurg.)
*TS2-film accurate Ion Blaster not included, as I couldn't figure out a design for the tri-barrel that was in scale.
The purple cheese slopes and printed tile go above the wheel arch used on the front of Zurg, while the extra 2x2 plate round goes where the Mixel ball-joint connectors went as the original hips.
You can download the free LDD file for the skirt model in completed form here from Bricksafe.
(Side note: If you thought I said "Zurg" a lot in this post, you're right: I said it twelve times including this last one!)
Enjoy the MOD, and comments, questions, and complaints welcome!
-
Awesome work, can't wait to see it 100% done.
Also, love the clip you added. That cartoon was my childhood... I remember when it first premiered in 1999. (when I was 5!)
-
Expand
Amazing train, It was really long time ago when I saw Lego train and say wow I need this for sure.
Sadly Im not fan of car carrier and I was kinda scared of this, It will not fit under my tunnel with car on top. Albeit really interesting wagon...
For that locomotove alone I buy 2 of these sets, It reminds me some modern diesel I sometimes see when I ride as passenger on train.
Just have the car carrier placed outside the other side of the tunnel with some cars minus the roof and windscreen parts on top. it would be very prototypical for a few real railroad accidents! You'd just need to rename the tunnel "Car-Opener Hill Tunnel - it does what it says!"
-
I have watched this thread since the beginning, I always liked you concepts @Robert8, and feel sad it's going to end. However, amongst all this sadness, there is a wise saying out there that fits. It goes like this:
"Don't cry because it's over, smile because it happened!"
Thank you Robert8 for all you have created. I sincerely hope your creations inspire TLG, or maybe get you a job with them.
-
Expand
The Lego Movie 2 played into this. There’s the 7 systems & a visit to Planet Duplo. Going back to the Ninjago City Gardens talked about briefly...the Ice Planet team is known about in Ninjago(perhaps the owner of the parlor is a former team member).
And we have M-Tron, Blacktron & Fabuland shirts in both Ninjago & Bricksburg.
Sure, it’s likely it’s a just fun nod to classic themes, but it’s way more fun to connect them in this way.
Sidebar, the double decker couch was spotted in the warehouse that houses the Ninja’s mechs...so even that is connected.
Don't forget the Galidor shirt Mother Doomsday is wearing in the original Ninjago City set from 2017!
-
This gothic-style building is inspired by 2011 Harry Potter set 10217 - Diagon Alley, specifically the Borgin and Burkes shop.
Before I get started, thanks for these rendered pictures of my model goes to my brother for converting them all into Stud.io for me. They look really awesome with the printed / missing parts from LDD added back in!
Anyway, this building will serve as my town's 1940's-set police station. It was heavily expanded from it's original form to have a second story and back wall. It also has hinges (like in the old Medieval Market Village - set 10193) to allow for it to open up to 90 degrees to access the inside. The building's design also features a tower, three fireplaces on one chimney flue, and staircase to the upper floor. Sadly, the attic has no room for any staircase leading to it.
This model will serve as my police station on my town, and as such has a jail cell, "wanted" board, two desks and a weapons storage area by the back door. There is also a breakaway exterior wall section in the cell to bust the bad guys out!
The patrol car model is heavily modified from this Rebrickable MOC's free instructions.
I will have two of these cars to go with the police precinct. I plan on buying three regular 1940's-style officers and one Chief from the Police Station modular building - set 10278 for these models as well.
The inside seats two figures: one officer as the driver, and one suspect in the back.
That's a bout all for this building for now. I've found about 680 of 1,092 parts for the project, (minus the vehicles and figs) so it could be built relatively soon.
Thoughts, anyone?
-
First off, I'm very jealous.
Second, I can't find my jaw on the floor... I dropped it somewhere around here!
Third: Somebody more experienced with selling can help with actual numbers, but here is what I see with links to Bricklink for everything discussed:
Metroliner reboot or the original (original has printed stripes on the big doors) is worth several hundred dollars or higher in just in one copy, and you have more than one. Santa Fe Super Chief with dining, observation, or sleeping cars and the mail or baggage are very hard to find sets and are at least worth $1,000 in US currency (even if you cut out the multiple diesel loco copies and custom cars, it's a lot) You have ta few of the My Own Train series, including 2x Passenger Wagon (more might be possible with the MOC's at the bottom is disassembled and rearranged into the set form) a caboose, and a hopper wagon. You also have quite a few MOC's / MOD's of actual sets, such as this 12v version of a TGV , which I recognize the color scheme of near the top of frame. You also seem to have two of this set's engine (and maybe cars too), along with another freight set, yet another freight set, and finally: a freight set from the end of 9v. The 9v track is also hard to find when it comes to straights, curves not so much.
That's just tip of the iceberg: there is so much more but I can't tell what it is. Good luck @Enigma1612 on getting this all straightened out and returned to it's original set-form!
@JopieK, what do you think about the value? (I'm tagging you because I don't know who else to ask... I don't sell, I accumulate!)
-
This is my modular take on the Beatles concert on January 30th, 1969 at No. 3 Savile Row, then known as the Apple Corps HQ and studio. (it's back to being a house and hasn't been a studio since the mid-70's) I used half of set 76108 - Sanctum Sanctorum Showdown for the front, with a back I designed myself as that set was close enough to look passable as the original London building. I also specifically made the building more grayscale, as if the Beatles are bringing light and color to the world.
You can view the photo of the original building as it is now in spoiler tags below. (WARNING: it's an very large photo from Wikipedia!) It's not my photo, either:
NOTE: The following LEGO modular building was constructed for my father and his modular building collection, as he bought the bricks and I built it for him according to my design. (per his request)
The figures used are from set - 21306 Yellow Submarine, and I would have included Billy Preston too as he played electric keyboard that day and for several weeks before in recording sessions, but my dad sadly misplaced the figure I created and he can't find it. (also, if you can't find George, don't worry - he is behind the chimney pipes. You can't quite see him, but he is there.) The Yellow Submarine film logo printed part will be replaced with a Beatles logo from the 2021 Art set when it arrives. The eight studs out front are for the figures (not yet built) to stop and listen to the concert.
I couldn't find a picture of the back, so it's improvised, same as the inside details are fictional too. Also, I didn't include stairs in the building, because I was trying to just flesh it out in basics and worry about furniture and stuff later.
The first floor (or ground, as some might call it) has a fireplace, couch, grandfather clock, a dining table with four chairs, and another table lamp.
On the second floor is a bedroom with bed, cabinet, writing desk, a upright piano and a floor lamp. (I was thinking about John Lennon and Yoko Ono's week-long "bed-in for peace in Vietnam" when I designed this level) However, as Yoko is reputed to have broken up the Beatles, this will suffice for her as a figure.
The items up here on the third floor include a table w/ two chairs, a record player and a lamp. There are also four bookcases of vinyl records (one for each Beatle) on this floor, along with one empty one.
"I'd like to say thank you on behalf of the group and ourselves, and I hope we've passed the audition." - John Lennon, 1969 (at the conclusion of the concert and as heard on the album "Let it Be")
My dad designed the Ringo fig's drum-set, and I have three of this stove-top part on order for amplifiers.
Any Thoughts, Comments or Questions? I'd be happy to answer them!
Also, side note: if you are a Beatles fan and have several hours to kill, watch the Get Back documentary by Peter Jackson. It's split in three parts and has nine hour overall runtime, but it's awesome.
-
Expand
The house and the car both look even better in real life! It definitely looks like the time spent on sourcing bricks paid off.
Thanks @noahtheb! It certainly took a long time to get all my ducks in a row with this project.
ExpandWay to stick with it and finish, looks great, congratulations on actually finishing too.
One thing I would probably change though, the 1x tiles on the outside walls, used to represent siding. I would discontinue them once I got to the roof line, I think because the ends of the pieces are squared off they don't look right on the gables. Just a thought, still looks great but is any moc ever truly finished?
Thank you @Johnny1360! If I could change it, I would. Unfortunately, taking it apart in any capacity will shatter countless more brown bricks and I don't want to have to go through that again. If i could go back in time and change the entire design so there would be less brown that would be nice too...
Expand@Murdoch17 can you share it on bricksafe
Since, I purchased the instructions for the original front half from Rebrickable user JL.Bricks, (as you can see here, or as a picture below in the spoiler section. It's quite big, so that's why it's in there.) I feel that said purchase makes it impossible for me to share the file I modified from his model. Sorry @jaegerroughton!
-
-
FINALLY, it's done!
The house has been in-progress since mid-August of 2021 and was starting to drive me crazy.
ExpandI like the way this looks, and the color scheme change is nice. The car is also a nice touch, the curvature on the back is well-built.
I added back in the original car you liked @noahtheb, as seen also below.
More in-real-life pictures of the car (and a lot of the house!) have just been added to the first post as of today, April 6th 2022... nearly 9 months after I started finding parts.
-
-
Expand
Nice!
I really like the PUG-Z! Sadly we never got that big bubble windscreen in trans yellow. I would love to build the Classic Space edition from the game.
I wish the CS version was buildable too, and I think a lot of people feel the same @danth!
...We interrupt this comment to bring you a Press Release from PLANET Z to Galactic-Net News:
Emperor Zurg, (de-facto head of Planet Z, evil commander of the Zyclops, and legendary poker player) has announced today that he is endorsing the Lightyear LEGO sets with his double seal of approval. He has gone on record saying he is "glad the odds are are in his favor with the help of the easy army-building set Zyclops Chase" (76830) and that the Zurg Battle (76831) "really brings out his bad side". As for the XL-15 spaceship (set 76832) Zurg offered some sage advice: "Don't be too proud of this technological terror you've constructed: the power to make a new windscreen in trans-yellow is insignificant compared to the power of BrickLink scalpers." Notably, Zurg did not rule out the possibility of copying the ship's design in other colors for his own purposes. Finally, when questioned about Lightyear's chances at the box office and in toy aisle, he stated that "Lightyear will be my greatest triumph yet... and even if it isn't, there is always hope for a sequel or maybe even a animated series on TV!"
We now return you to your regularly scheduled programing...
These new, bigger brick-built hands are going on Zurg when I get him on April 24th. I can't wait for these Lightyear sets!
-
Expand
I noticed Lego have made a theme based off of the video game Lego Star Wars.
I'm not sure what you're saying, since star wars is a film series since 1977, the theme started in 1999, and the original game came out in 2005. Could you please explain what you mean by your comment? I'm terribly confused.
-
I was looking forward to the possibility of a Muppet's CMF / Lightyear sets review from you guys, but that dream has died now.
And so, much like The Lone Ranger riding off into the sunset forever, or the Titanic leaving dry land for the last time, it's the end of an era, and it will be missed. R.I.P. Eurobricks embargoed set's reviews.
(Also, good luck on the life-size Mindstorms's robot @Jim!)
-
Expand
Not April Fools! Lego Friends Olivia’s Space Academy set pics! https://heartlaketimes.blogspot.com/2022/04/olivias-space-academy-41713.html
I’m quite impressed with this—it’s everything I’d hoped for from a Lego Friends space set. Zero G training equipment, adorably bubbly space shuttle, and a quite impressive little mission control facility.
That set actually looks like a good start to a science museum building. And, as a handful of the US science museum's have gotten a space shuttle since they were retired, you don't have to remove the space shuttle walkway or ship!
EDIT: and now there is a Duplo lightyear set, for those of you interested. It's set "10962: Buzz Lightyear's interplanetary mission" and it even comes with a triangular robot we don't have in mini-fig scale!
-
-
Expand
Why hello, Thomson and Thompson! You really are masters of disguise.
..and here I thought it was Kazim and his friends from Last Crusade in new outfits.
"for over five hundred years man has been searching for the cup of Christ, and in all that time, the Brotherhood of the Cruciform Sword has kept it safe"
Now @The Reader has got me wondering if Johnny is searching for the Holy Grail!
-
Not only that, @JopieK, but nearly the exact amount needed is included! (you get a dozen with the new set from my count on the box, but oddly need 13 for the employee gift set)
Granted, I don't know that for a fact, but the box features twelve, so...
-
In honor of the new "Lightyear" sets that were revealed yesterday, I decided to reveal my Space Ranger version of the spaceship in the style of PUG-Z from the old LEGO Worlds video game. I named the ship "42" in honor of the "Buzz Lightyear of Star Command" TV show's ship from twenty-two years ago (Was 2000 really THAT long ago?!?), which I watched a lot when I was younger and sadly is not streaming anywhere since Disney / Pixar have virtually disowned it.
NOTES:
The origin of the original ship itself is from the totally awesome (and sadly defunct) online free-roam video game LEGO Worlds, then recreated by user TOB1 and made into PDF instructions over on Rebrickable.
The rear of the ship, featuring a main engine and two boosters. The landing legs can fold up for flight, as shown above.
(yes, I dusted the ship after these shots... the model has been sitting on a table since December, and needed a storage bin until yesterday. I didn't think about dusting them until after taking photos. Sorry!)
Buzz sits in the front to pilot, and the alien Bunny lady from Vydio will sit behind him when she gets here... I haven't figured out what she does. Scanning? navigation? weapons? Ideas would be nice, if anyone has any.
Space Rangers from Left to Right:
- Nic (short for Nicodemus) is a highly evolved rat with cybernetic implants for eyes because he was born blind. From a world called Thorn V.\- Buzz Lightyear needs no introduction.
- E.R.I.C. is a utility robot programed to help maintain starships. This one takes care of Buzz's rocket, 42.
- Izzy Hawthorne (info redacted)
- Clover comes from a world called Watership. She is an empath and can sense emotions / feelings in others.
(I borrowed some characters from famous literature for the aliens: Nic is slightly based off the rat leader Nicodemus from 'Mrs. Frisby and Rats of NIMH' novel, while Clover is based (in name only) off of a character from the book 'Watership Down')
Comments, suggestions, and complaints welcome. Would love to hear all you guy's thoughts on all of this!
-
Very nice job @legominiguy! I love the contrasting style to the official '60's styled Daily Bugle set: It's 1930's Art Deco VS 1960's Brutalism and this art deco masterpiece wins every time in my book. (especially in such a cool paint scheme!) As a side note: I wonder if the comics used the Chrysler (and maybe the Empire State as well) buildings as inspiration... the pointed spire up top, and the stepped format seem to be a bit of both.
Keep up the good work!
-
Expand
These look great! I'm interested in how you put the chassis and cylinders/rods together here. Can't quite see how they're attached. Looks like it would have to be pins or axles, but then I can't see how there would be enough room for the leading wheels to tuck underneath and be able to pivot as is required on this wheel arrangement,
Looking forward to your next post on these two!
Here's a closer look at what I think you're asking about:
The pistons are attached to the gray (they are actually the black friction ones but were recolored here so you can see them) pins, which doesn't impact the height much if it is assembled the way shown.... any other way with the pistons causes issues. I also placed the cowcatcher on the frame instead of the bogie. The leading wheels are attached the same as before, but with curved slopes on top to prevent catching on the underside of the frame. Hope this help, @Toxic43!
Buzz Lightyear's classic space ranger rocket and ranger figs - real world MOC - updated 4/26/22
in LEGO Licensed
Posted · Edited by Murdoch17
Fig update time! (I also updated the pictures of the rocket)
Space Rangers from Left to Right:
- Nic (short for Nicodemus) is a highly evolved rat with cybernetic implants for eyes because he was born blind. From a world called Thorn V.\
- Buzz Lightyear needs no introduction.
- E.R.I.C. is a utility robot programed to help maintain starships. This one takes care of Buzz's rocket, 42.
- Izzy Hawthorne (info redacted)
- Clover comes from a world called Watership. She is an empath and can sense emotions / feelings in others.
(I borrowed some characters from famous literature for the aliens: Nic is slightly based off the rat leader Nicodemus from 'Mrs. Frisby and Rats of NIMH' novel, while Clover is based (in name only) off of a character from the book 'Watership Down')