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Agent Kallus

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  1. They had some known ones in my local lego shop but had already sold out of of the known knights and dragons....
  2. It does look glorious and 520 was less than I'd expected, however (as I think I've already said on the recent purchases thread) I've decid to get the system scale one instead, as though I'd like a razor crest and this is the better version by far, I'd rather spread my lego budget out a bit and now with rumours of a Lotr D2C I'm thinking I've made the right choice.
  3. Sorry not sorry for plugging my own MOCs but I imagine the brickheadz will look something like this (except with different pairings and a balrog instead of shelob)
  4. I love this, it's a very nostalgic set for me. and you've captured it wonderfully.
  5. I still think Barad Dur makes more sense than a redone Orthanc (Though I don't have the original so I'd definitely still be happy about it), the Eye of sauron and by extension it's tower are much more iconic, they could even make it into a 'Mordor' set boosting it from a £250 set to a £400 set with a scaled down black gate, cliffs with a shelob cave and a mount doom. Also that way we could get all of the fellowship (except boromir) in the one set, throw in plenty of orcs (say 15 it would be a big set after all), the mouth of sauron, a couple eagles, gollum and we could have 3 more figs for a prologue scene with Elrond, Islidur and a Sauron using the Avatar torso and legs. and boom a set for the ages. Maybe add a horse or 2 as well.
  6. I like it ( though I do prefer Paladins). The spaceship with compartments for each legionnaire is a great. I do get Halo vibes but I must admit I did expect something more out there from your preface the poor finality are quite outgunned if a legionnaire can take down a swarm and there is only one finality being ( and his bug friend) versus six of them and their spaceship!
  7. The Sunwantek is definitely the most impressive one here but I do like all of them. Still talking about the Sunwantek, I like how much usable interior space you've managed to include without compromising the look of the exterior. I do not think that it is one I would buy however, because as much as it is a great depiction of the ship, it's not a ship I care about. The duchess is definitely the one I'd be out to buy first if these were real sets made by lego. At first the curved front looked off to me, because I hadn't noticed that that was another place where the duchess differs from the standard AT-DP. Comparing your model to the images on wookiepedia and you've done an excellent job of capturing the shaping on this one Though I'm curious as to how posable the legs are? Also Ezra having clothes the same colour as his skin is an odd look but that's down to TLG's limited pallet not your design. Looking at the V-19, I think of the scene from the 2D Clone wars where there are just swarming out. Though despite being based on the 2003 clone wars it does look more like the more like the 'live action' design but that's no bad thing as the background ship designs in the 2003 clone wars were relatively basic. How does the hinge for the central wing work? I think you got away with taking those extra parts off of the geonosian starfighter as it still looks pretty much perfect to me. Though I can't help but laugh at all the underwear only winged plo-koon geonosians, (and it's interesting to see the difference between the parts not in Stud.io compared to those not in LDD which is more outdated but still my lego CAD program of choice). Not sure if the blue snow on Hoth works for me, but I'm sure it's what lego would do so that's a fair choice. It's a well designed set in terms of both play and display but to be honest it doesn't really interest me. With the interrogation room, I must say I love what you've done with spare jumper plates and action pose parts to create option 'tearing up the floor effect. It's quite a simple model really but it does everything it needs to do and it does it well, it's another one I'd have to look out for in the shops if lego made this wave rather than you. I like all sand blue in the exegol set and the rockwork and throne are well shaped. It would be nice if lego made some quote sets this small for 'smaller scenes' but I think maybe you could've gotten away with making it even smaller. The Microfighters all feel a slight bit on the big side but they are excellent likenesses, and Zam Wessel is long overdue! The battlepacks both work okay for me. Nice to get a non-human in the resistance one, and you've managed to get some nice organic shaping or the orbaks, though it's a shame you've used the same image twice for that set as I'd have liked another angle on the Orbaks. The geonosis duel is a great, I'd love to get a set like that at that size, and I appreciate how it's really packed with play features though it is weird to have the pillar to drop on Kenobi and Skywalker, when neither of them are included, then again I'm pretty sure the last official geonosis duel set did the same thing. The Scarif Tower is great too. At first glance it did look a little bit flat and plain to be honest but that doesn't remain so on a closer look, and I think it's mostly a consequence of digital moccing and rendering, the uniform lighting does nothing for the look of monochrome sections, and can obscure finer details. The outside has good shaping and patternwork (though it is a shame about the jagged edge give by the light grey slopes at the trim of the lower section. I love how all the important scenes from the tower are included inside it. Another set that I really want to go out and buy. Though I must ask, what is the purpose of the hinge plates on the sand with the trees on each side? Well I hope that wasn't too wordy, and I also hope that you'll do another wave at some point, each one has been an improvement over the last so I'm excited to see anymore if you make any.
  8. Surprised no-one has done this in this thread. (excuse the potato quality)
  9. Oh it's magnificent , really captures the scale and scope of this project of yours. Do I hear a goomba saying the word 'Executor'? But another suggestion based on recent images would be the scarif shield gate, not a ship per se but I think it would work well as part of this project.
  10. Looking at the second image I immediately see the Bespin level form the old lego star wars game. It is spot for Bespin and I must concur with you that Bespin is sorely neglected by TLG.
  11. Love this, the whole scene is really great but my favourite part is easily the Eopie.
  12. These are fun, my favourites are the pumpkin car and the Mummy's car. The traffic cones bones are clever.
  13. So if I've got my conversions correct, then (with the cheeky extension included) submissions stopped at 7.59 BST? Meaning that neither Oky or Cyborg_Samurai got thier submissions in on time. Though I would not be against showing leniency and still counting thier submissions.( As long as Cyborg_Samurai gets it submitted soon, they did suggest that they might miss the deadline by a couple minutes or so)
  14. Holy moly So far is brick heads and a D2C, what do we expect? Bag-End or the Barad Dur ( eye of sauron tower) are 2 most likely possiblitys to my guess.
  15. I am now building the Millennium falcon from last weekend. And I've decided to not get the UCS Razor Crest, I was considering it but i think for the price I'd rather get several smaller sets so today I bought the system scale Razor Crest.
  16. It's here in the action and adventure themes if you want to see. Good luck with the contest ( I mean there will be 3 winners so I can wish others good luck whilst still hoping to win myself )
  17. I love the greenwood house! Hiding clues in the set is a fun idea. Though maybe you should've mixed the minifigures up a bit, (hypothetically)Lego probably wouldn't want Hasbro breathing down their neck. Though considering Optimus Prime and lego's currently love of large licensed sets, they might just make an £100+ Cluedo set. Obviously that doesn't really matter because this won't be real theme but I think it might've done with more differentiation from the source material as it were. But regardless of that this an excellent theme proposal
  18. And on that topic, how will the voting work? Is it ranked choice? Or tournament style or just standard single vote between everything. Also thanks for running the contest, regardless of who wins it's produced a lot of excellent MOCs and it's certainly got my creative juices flowing.
  19. I have 5 words for you : Villainous Time Traveling Hypnotist Gnomes. So what is this theme? Well the story behind it is that Professor Bronwyn Saturnis has been working on a scientific breakthrough but has run out of funds for the project so she has to turn to a mysterious backer to support her project. But this mysterious backer turns out to the heir to evil, the cruel lord Olpud, son of Ogel! He uses Saturnis's project ,a form of temporal energy, to power an array of time travelling devices! Recruiting the Hyp-gnomes he gathers an army of hypnotised warriors from across history to help he take over the world! Feeling at least slightly responsible for this turn of events Saturnis find herself a team of champions from across time to help her defeat Olpud and hyp-gnomes, Namely: Leo The Spartan prince, Beo the Geatish folkhero, Neo the intergalactic explorer, Cleo the Egyptian Icon, and Theo the American progressive. They must find the pendulum tower, to seek out Hyp-Gnomes not loyal to Olpud's cause who may teach them how the free the hypnotised army from across history so that they might turn them against their kidnapper and commander. SET 1: Hyp-Gnome Time Machine £8.99 - 91 parts ( 80 if we exclude the minifig parts ) Hyp-Gnome time machine 3 by Bismuth83, on Flickr A time machine for a gnome Hypnotist, Leo the spartan is there to stop the Hyp-Gnome from travelling back in time to hypnotise and kidnap warriors from across time to enlist them into Olpud's service. Inspired by the H.G.Wells time machine, it has a spinning time rotor and includes 2 minifigs Leo and a Hyp-Gnome. Set 2: Olpud's HQ - Anachronos Rock £129.99 - 1161 parts (1096 if we don't include the figures ) Olpud's HQ - Anachronos Rock In a foolish attempt to demoralise the champions, Olpud is holding hostage something precious to each of them in his headquarters. Find them hidden in the fortress: Theo's Horse, Cleo's Snake, Leo's Shield, Beo's Monster head, Neo's space helmet and Saturnis's energy hourglasses! These headquarters have plenty of features! with a removable Twin bucket hover catapult with room to store it in the cave, a booby trapped floor in the grey castle tower to drop trespassers into the pit below. There's 5 working cannons and 2 working catapults ( the ammo is include in the build, 4 blue cannisters on the hover catapult and 2 yellow spikeballs on the large catapult. you can separate the fortress into 3 separate sections for better access. you can see across the set the stolen pets and items from the champions. the time energy can be placed into skull totem to power up Olpud's time crown! There's a launcher on top the tower to knock the watchman out of their post. Includes minifigures of : Professor Saturnis (hiking outfit), Theo, Cleo, Neo, Olpud with time crown, Hyp-Gnome (medal piece repurposed as hypnotist's pendulum), Hypnotised Aztec warrior (baseball bat used as a stand it for themacuahuitl part from series 21) , Hypnotised Roman Solider, Hypnotised Persian warrior and a hypnotised Conquistador. Here I've used red eye's to show the 'hypnotised effect' If it were real they would all have unique faces with hypnotised swirly eyes on one side and normal faces on the other, so that you can free the warriors from the hypnosis. All of the names here have meaning, Saturnis is named for Saturn, roman equivalent to Kronos Greek god of time, Olpud is Duplo backwards (like how Ogel is lego backwards) ,hyp-gnome is an obvious portmanteau of hypnotist and Gnome and Champions themselves all share the eo ending and are mostly named for historical figures. Leo is named after king Leonidas of Sparta, Theo is named after Theodore Roosevelt, and Cleo is obviously named for Cleopatra, Beo and Neo are the odd ones out here as they aren't named for historical figure, with Beo being named after Beowulf and Neo meaning new as the future is new? will be new? whatever... Beo doesn't actually appear in either of the sets I've made (maybe I should have sneaked him into the time machine set) But I was trying develop an idea for a whole theme not just the sets I've built. I have not made a minifigure line up for the rest of the hypothetical sets so I'm only entering this theme into the first category. But for fun and to help flesh out the theme concept here is a brief outline of the full wave ( which I have not limited to 5 (as is required for category 2) as it's just for fun) Hypnotised warriors battlepack £14.99 - Hypnotised Pict, Hypnotised Joseon royal guard, Hypnotised roman soldier, Hypnotised Dahomey warrior - build is Camel drawn super-laser £24.99 - Cleo, Theo, Hypnotised Persian warrior, Hyp-gnome - the build is a camel drawn wagon with a huge futuristic cannon on it, it includes 2 camels (to pull the wagon) and a horse (for Theo to ride) War Elephant escape £34.99 - Carthaginian warrior x2, Theo (mountaineering outfit), Hypnotised Nubian archer, Hypnotised Aztec - moulded elephant from the city line with a brick built saddle and a rowboat with a hot air balloon modification. Time Lab £39.99 - Saturnis (hazmat suit), Neo (hazmat suit), Olpud (spacesuit), Hypnotised Incan warrior, Hypnotised Ninja - build is an interior of a lab with lots of play features. Champion's basecamp £59.99 - Leo, Neo (Casual outfit), Theo (Pyjamas), Saturnis (Pyjamas), Hypnotised Mongolian warrior, Hypnotised Saxon. - build is a ruined museum with a camp build into it with tents and bed etc. Pendulum tower £89.99 - Hyp-gnome (good)x3, Hyp-gnome (evil) x2, Leo (unarmoured), Beo (unarmoured), Saturnis (casual clothes) - build is a tall toadstool-esque tower with a large hanging pendulum and open back with interior rooms Raid on the Roman arena £139.99 - Roman soldiers x2, Gladiator x2, roman citizens x2, Roman senator, Hyp-Gnome, Hypnotised Redcoat, Hypnotised Samurai, Hypnotised Spaceman, Beo, Neo - the build is a roman coliseum under attack by a wild west style train that has been modified with spaceship parts to make it fly and equipped with weapons from several eras. edit: Accidently corrupted my renders so this took a little longer than it should have.... has going to post this about 8 hours ago.... (not that it took eight hours to render but I had other priorities)
  20. I really like this. the photo editing is a great and the whole concept is fun will also being about a good cause. The tree is also really clever.
  21. Wait really? I thought throwing Sloane in an OT set was unrealistic, but that dream felt so real!
  22. I like it, Awesome to see ancient Greek mythology inspired sets, ( I do have in an ancient Greek in my second entry to the contest) and it's cool that you've made box mock ups.
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