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So for Halloween this year my son asked me to build a MOC of something 'Halloween/Spooky/Creepy to display in our home'. I was more than happy to oblige him with this MOC of a Cemetary Gate and Headless Horseman and a roving bone collector. Of course after not building of doing anything with Legos for almost 9 months, the MOC bug has reared its ugly head and bitten me again, so now this creation is slated to become part of a much larger display that my kids are giving me input on including tombstones, masuleums, trees, and a bunch of other creepy/spooky things. Plus with the whole line of Monster Fighters being released and it being Halloween and all this is just to good of a time not to get back into building.

So far my father for a Christmas present this past year (2011) I designed and built a Cub Scout Pinewood Derby Car and piece of track to display it on. The origin for this project was that my father after 22 years retired this year from running pinewood derbies as a fundraiser for our former Troop 207 based out of Gaithersburg, Maryland. He ran the Cub Scout Pinewood Derbies for almost all of the Cub Scout Packs based in the National Capital Area Council (NCAC) encompassing parts of Maryland, Virginia, and Washington D.C.). In the the preceeding 22 years he figures he ran nearly 12,000 derbies totalling almost 45,000 pinewood derby cars. So this was built for him to display in his new office. The track without car, there are four black cheese slopes to prevent the car from rolling off. Underneath view depicting the weights added to the car to make it go down the track faster.

Nice log building effect especially the end caps. Good luck in the contest.

Love the greebling effect and the fast that it is not an entirely smooth surface - ton of detail!

Definitly has that old feel to it - good job

Nice job, the chalet reminds me of a gingerbread house for some reason and I like your design on the sleigh.

Cool design, has that dumpy squat heavy weight feeling to it. Like the cylinders on the back but agree with other posters that something is missing from the middle yellow section. Maybe another design element/modified brick or plate or something trans-black in nature to thrown in. Good Job!

B-OV-24A This is the Blue Snow Store, a specialized snowboarding store and lounge located on mainstreet in downtown Brickenridge (my fictional mountain town based on Breckenridge, CO [which is a whole other creation that is currently taking shape and hope to finish before Christmas]). The exterior of the building is decked out with holiday decorations - a large wreath over the door and a stocking on one side of the buidling. The first floor of the building is the sales floor containing display stands for hanging snowboards and helmets. In the two front windows are a male and female full body snowboader outfits. Above the main front door is 50" flat screen LCD television to show snowboarding videos and live feeds from the runs on the mountain slopes. The second floor is a lounge area for snowboarders to relax and chill out on a couch and chair. A small christmas tree is in one corner and an i-home speaker system is on the small table cranking out tunes from an ipod. Along side the building are two other winter time creations. One is a bench in front of a fire pit where a kid is roasting marshmellows. The other scene depicts a sculptor carving out a train engine out of snow and ice for the local community ice/snow carving competition. In his hand is a water spray bottle to refreeze surfaces as he carves. This "set" contains 7 minifigures and clocks in at roughly 717 pieces. More pictures can be found at http://mocpages.com/moc.php/298837 Thanks for viewing and good luck to all the contestants this year.

Great build, I remember picking up this particular toy while I was in college. Nice to see it captured in LEGO.

Grew up playing with G.I. JOE in the mid 80s and so remember this vehicle because I loved the small simple design of it. You have captured the simplicity of it. Would love to see more pics of the rear elements.

Your interior building and detail are fantastic (would like to see more pics) and I love the black wrought iron fence around wrapping around the building.

Simplistic but nice I like the incorporation of the modular elements especially the water fountain.

This is truly an epic creation from the roofing on the small barn to the sand green cheese slopes around the window on the main house. Awesome!!!

I have been waiting for this contest again, already have some ideas pre-buidling already done for winter scenes plus the fact that its going to snow tonight in Colorado gets me in the mood even more - right on!

The lighting totally makes this MOC. Great Job!

Love the hoverbike though I don't know about the harpoon pieces sticking up from the back, seems a little odd in the choice of piece. The base is really well done with the crosshatch effect of the vent tiles and the bat logo is the best piece/design I have seen in something so small.

Great review of this big set. I love the dino colors and the torso designs. Not big on the yellow color scheme though for the fortifications.

As a fan of U2 and seeing them in concert on this particular tour all I can is that is just awesome!!!

Great job on the hull plating/tiling design and build. Small but tons of detail built into your vessel.

Awesome creation, love the raptors in the tall grass!

Thanks for the comments - my original idea when I set out on this build was to make it look like something from the LEGO universe especially the Atlantis theme and not something more realistic (which is how I like to work most of the time when I MOC). Just got done taking pictures of the 'What If...' story of what if the Atlantis creatures did a surprise attack on the Timaeus. You know sometimes you just shouldn't mess with things in the deep, deep ocean. Run for your life! Trying to go over the side Happier Times before heading out to sea - The Crew of The Timaeus

So here is the final version of The Timeaus for use by the Atlantis Research Divers. Here is recap of what I posted before about this MOC: So I started this WIP this summer after spending some time playing with my son and his Atlantis sets and wondering how did the Atlantis research scientist and divers get out to sea with there equipment. So I decided to build an ocean going research/tender ship. The initial design was based on the Kilo Moana, an oceangraphic research ship based out of Hawaii. My biggest concern in building this ship was in being able to transport some of the actual Atlantis submersible vehicles, so the entire design is built around the hangar bay to house these vehicles. Curretly the hangar can house the Seabed Strider (7977) and Wreck Raider (8057) plus some much smaller personal submersible vehicles. The idea for the double hull design was based on two factors, the Kilo Moana and the fact that I wanted cranes to be mounted on the ship to be able to retrieve and deploy the Atlantis submersibles in a semi sheltered area. The overall color scheme stays faithful to the Altantis sets using red, lime, dark bluish gray, black and yellow. On each forward section of the bows are weapons to protect the ship against the Atlantis warriors. The starboard weapon system is a missile launcher based on the flick fire missiles on the Seabed Scavenger (the different color missile heads represent two different types of armaments: red being an electrical charge for stunning and the yellow are high explosive sabot rounds. The port weapon system is a combination harpoon guns and small caliber cannon. The bow mounted search lights are based on the ones found on the Atlantis Exploration HQ. The stern includes two different size cranes. One is a heavy lift crane and the opposite crane is a smaller model designed to deploy the smaller Atantis submersibles. Also on the smaller crane assembly is a tilt deck that can deploy the towed sonar array for sea floor mapping. In the hangar in the back area is a work space that includes a large work bench with clamps and lights, a drill press and a larger c-clamp for holding items along with numerous tools. The top of the superstructure houses the pilot house and small research rooms. The top is fully removable to allow for access to this area. The pilot/control area has two captain chairs and several computers and a steering wheel to pilot the ship along with HUD (head up displays) to allow precise movements in and out of harbors and for targeting the point defense weapons. To the rear of the pilot house is a coffee maker and large flat screen television/radar panel. The two small research rooms include a computer and electron microscope and a water bath for de-crusting recovered Atlantis artifacts, this one happens to be a golden Atlantis helmet. On the deck of The Timaeus is an inflatable fast boat for recovery of divers that can be deployed directly into the water on a small arm crane. There is one deck worker who is painting stripes onto the superstructure at the bow of the boat. Also one of the ships engineers is performing maintenance duties on one of the removalbe engines. Other deck hands are using remote control hand held devices to move the cranes allowing them freedom to move around the deck as they move the heavy equipment into and out of the ocean. There is also a small SCUBA utility cart that contains two Atlantis dive helmets, flippers, harpoon gun and two tanks of compressed air to allow the quick refilling of the SCUBA tanks. Across the superstructure are several positionalbe lights to allow night time operations plus two spot lights on the edge of the upper railings. The very top of the superstructure includes the radar domes, antennaes, communication arrays, satelite tv dish, and other communication/radar devices. Current Size: 73 studs long by 46 studs wide by 37 studs tall. Oh and the name Timaeus comes from one of Plato's dialogues from 360 B.C. containing the earliest referrece to Atlantis. Note: Sorry for the poor lightning in some of the photos. I usually shoot my creations in natural light in a bay window in my kitchen but this MOC was just a wee bit to big to fit in the area so I had to come up with something else, mainly a white cloth on the kitchen floor. And I couldn't shoot outside as the weather conditions just don't allow it right now. Note2: Stay tuned to see what happens when the Atlantis Warriors take the fight to The Timaeus.

Brilliant interpertation on the Joker origin story - great build.

Great overall design of the buildings and detail. Love the phone booth (seems very british), and love the delivery van. Would love to see more photos of that MOC.

Very funny.