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I do the edit from Staudie's notes and his handwriting is horrible (I copied and pasted it out of there and this is what we got) :-$ It's just a shame that no admins have come along with the ability to fix it... 8-| X-D

Very nice indeed. Really am quite fond of that Marvin, so it's good to know that he lives on forever. *y*

You know, 5 minutes isn't very long when your collection is sorted and put away in little drawers and containers, so this was about all I could manage ... That said, UB is right, this isn't a particularly workable idea except in person. It is, however, very nice of you to want to get so involved on your second day here. I'd suggest starting a little slower though. If you look under this message, you'll see the Big Billboard o' Doom where I list a variety of contests that you can participate in. Start there and once you've gained some experience with that, you might be ready to try running you own. It isn't as easy as it looks, but it can be very rewarding, just don't rush it. Welcome to EB, keep up that enthusiasm, just pace yourself *y*

Might be cheaper to just buy the hairpiece, but yeah, I'd pick up the whole set as well. And I will! I'm absolutely sure on the visor thing, it's probably cheaper to make it out of two pieces than partially paint one, and it'll work a lot better. When what we want is in their best interest, we tend to get it *y*

THAT'S IT! :-| *hands both of them some wood, a woodchuck, and a tractor* 20 paces, turn and chuck! X-D

Cover that thing up! :-$ Think of the children! :-X

That's very cool! I really appreciate seeing the older elements like the doors, antennas and pigtails mixed in with what I assume are parts of the newer Creator houses to make one great looking result! It's also nice to hear that it was something that bridged the gap between generations, something we need more of these days. Family Building On! *y*

If there was a position for Contests Admin and anyone cared what I had to say, I'd nominate you! You do a great job encouraging people to try it for themselves by doing such a good job of it yourself and pitching in when they need help. *y* That sounds like such sucking up, but it's true. :-$ *whacks you with one of those old space metal detectors* There, that's better. ;-)

It's all in the presentation of the statistics ;-) We're all Douglas Adams fans, not a loser in the group! *y*

The colours this time are ... Oh, you'll figure it out. For an inside view of the crazy studio Staudie got us booked at, please visit the gallery. Welcome to another exciting episode of EB Community News! Tonight we're supposed to be joined by ... who are we ... WHAT? You don't have an interview ready??? One of these days ... Sorry sir, I'll try to do better sir, I didn't mean to upset you sir. FINE. Go hit the streets and find someone. NOW! YES SIR! *scurries off to fire up the Winter Questionmobile and find a victim* Well, looks like I get to stall now. Let's see. I know! We'll watch Staudie drive while the theme to Benny Hill plays in the background! Trust me, they go well together. *screen changes to a shot of the WQ going all over the road, the sidewalk, almost off a bridge, around a bend, over the river and through the woods, but this ain't grandma's house he's crashing into! On the post box we read the name ...* JINZONINGEN 73 *getting out* Er. Hopefully he won't notice. *goes up to the door and knocks* So, do you have time to answer a few questions for us today? Right now? It's late. I'm not even dressed! Wait... I never wear clothes anyway. What's that parked in my yard? Oh nothing. Really. Let's go inside and do these questions! Q. How come The Name Jinzonigen 73? A. That's not my name, christ, first question and you've gone and ducked it all up. :-D Kidding. Well, back in the early 90's when one STILL had to acquire anime in ugly ways, (as it hadn't caught on in the US too much yet), I'd purchased a grainy, bootlegged tape of Dragonball Z for $20. At one part, Goku was fan-subbed as saying "DAMN JINZONINGEN!" ...and it cracked me up. So, JINZO (artificial, fake, robot) NINGEN (human) and 73 (year of birth). I wrote to people with that name long before I ever even heard of an internet. Q. Any sigfig you have? A. Nope. Though I imagine I will, as System has become more interesting to me than the Bionicle and Technic lines have lately. They're just sucky piles of silver blades now. Q. Where you not a Mod over at BZP? Whache doin here? A. Yes, I was. Was. After getting knocked offline constantly due to not being able to pay phone bills, Rich (Bionicle Rex) removed my mod powers. How being offline equals the need to de-mod someone for "security matters"... I'm not sure lol. Hades knows I've been knocked offline a few months while modding here. Out of the past 5 years, about 2 of those have been dark periods of no internet. As for what I'm doing HERE... well, I had a falling out with BZ. I could recount it all, but my "Hello!" topic here from October 2005 pretty much covers it. Mainly, I was disgruntled over the way contests were conducted time after time... seemingly "normal" posts getting deleted for no damn reason with no damn notice (despite the explanations of "removing spam" or "censoring"). Posts and topics that literally had NO REASON to vanish, vanished. It's at that time that I let a messageboard go. People type shit for a reason, not to have some dork having a bad day deleting what took you a half hour of your time to contribute. It's not the first site I ditched for nonsensically inconsiderate mod activity and it won't be the last. Around that same time, I was on In_the_Bricks and someone had linked to this place. A few weeks (days?) later, Jipay sent me a PM and asked me to mod. Q. What is your favourite non-bionicle set? A. That's a hard one. The X-Pods were sweet though. You didn't have to buy an expensive set JUST to get one or two new pieces. It was a beautiful way to introduce the (long overdue!) 1x1 slopes. Sure, they cheaped out in the purple one, only giving you ONE purple 1x1 slope in each... but hell, it was $3.50 and had other good parts. Q. Fav Bionicle set? A. I liked the Muaka-KaneRa from 2001. LOTS of good parts, all at once. Of course the initial price on those original Rahi (beast) sets were disgustingly overpriced, but they looked DAMN fine in the clearance bins for $10. ... Although the Bohrok queens come close too. And like the other, it looked good discounted down to $15. But the winner is the original mask packs. You got 2 random masks, an axle, a head and a trans-clear eye element for mere pocket change. And then there was the thrill of getting "rare" masks. Then, before you knew it, you had TONS of excess masks laying around. But isn't that bad? NO! It made one WANT to moc. Not like today. Q. Why do you have the title? A. Buh? :-/ Oh, where it says "Bionicle Translator"? I guess I just hopped on board at a time that this place needed a mod to manage the influx of new kiddies, reeled into Lego by that line. Q. What is your best EB moment? A. Getting in here. It's not the FIRST Lego site that lets you curse a little and speak your mind without being squished when someone doesn't like what you say, but it also somehow has a ton of straight-shooters coexisting along side of the rebels. And this site's ability to grab early images of Lego stuff... PRICELESS. Damn straight, even that Imperial Crapship! Q. And your best IRL lego moment? A. Just as vague as the previous answer lol. Probably whenever I find a SICK bargain, like the ones that got me into Lego to begin with. (Multiple $150 - 200 sets showing up at Goodwill stores for anywhere from $15 - 35 lol!) CH-CHING! Why doesn't this stuff ever happen to me? >:-( Q. Square root of Zem The Mattress? A. I DON'T UNDERSTAND YOUR CRAZY MOON LANGUAGE! That's one of his more reasonable stray questions ... Q. Do you know any members IRL? Can you describe them? A. Noooope! Well actually, my cousin, Hypermecha (registered here as Xeokym). She rarely visits. For a time, she too was a mod on BZ... but left for similar reasons. Aside from being sick often, the ever-decreasing ability to post freely, the mod room witch-hunts on targeted "possibly naughty" members and the severely chronical erosion of the board's functionality (programming, server problems making simple site navigation IMPOSSIBLE for hours at a time)... she ditched as well. However, this is not suprising, for there's a good chance one half of our brains is duplicated in the other... which has lead to uh.. events which really can only be called supernatural. Why didn't he ask the followup to that one??? Q. Am I annoying? A. My foot's not in your a$$ yet. Give it time. Thanks for joining me, it's been something special! That it was, definitely our most colourful interview yet and full of drama and intrigue! Wow, and look at the set on that one... Uh, oh, sorry, I was watching something else. :-$ Thanks for joining us today, it's been a pleasure as always! *flips back to the other channel, hoping not to have missed any of the action!*

The punk complained to the Office of Occupational Safety Board or his mommy or someone and they took it out... :-| Good thing they didn't notice the rest of the studio, huh? ;-) By the way, good viewers ... An interview will be posted in the next 20 minutes! 20 minutes to airtime On! *y*

That's not craptastic, it's whacktastic! The flickering light level and slightly jerky nature of the movement give it a historic feel. If it was in black and white, it could have a ragtime piano background, occasional captions, and at the end a train could come through the building and drag you both off. In other words, it's very early 1920's and that's a good thing! *sweet* *y*

Now that's what I call fast service! Thanks Starwars4J! *sweet*

Mine too! (and thanks for posting ;-)) On that note, I hereby declare this first annual and never to be repeated again :-| Hitchhiker's Guide to the Vignette contest to be OVER! In 2rd place, with 4 votes is LuxorV! *y* Tied for 1st with 7 votes each, ZeekyBoogeyDoog *y* and what's-his-name! :-$ And our Grand Prize winner, with an impressive 12 votes is ... Doctor Sinister Congratulations Doc *y* , and to all who participated, it's been a blast! :-D I will be sending notification to Starwars4J, who will be responsible for supplying the prize you so richly deserve (and I don't even know what it'll be yet, which around here means you might want to duck!) ;-)

Racist! Nationalist! Cheapskate! >:-( :-P

Hey Pudge, welcome to the happiest forum on Earth ... and beyond! Well, something like that. So, tell us about you and your own personal LEGO obsession. Open up, share! While you're at it, if you'd like to tell us your age or how you chose your name, or what you're listening to, or what you bought today, if you'd like to post a picture of yourself, or maybe one of your pet, we have threads for those too. We're a nosy lot, aren't we? :-/ We're like a big happy family here, though we do keep a few of our crazier members locked up in the attic. My turn is coming *wacko*

Nice pics, always neat to see some snow. I don't really expect any here, not so much because of global warming but because it's only snowed here once in my entire lifetime ... |-/

ONE HOUR LEFT TO VOTE! You know, if someone would come along and post something in here, it'd be great too. See, as it stands, I'm 3 posts in a row with updates, and in an hour, I'm coming back to declare the winner and that would mean 4 in a row if I don't just edit this post (which I might do). Either way... post something! ;-)

If I act up, can I have a keychain too? X-D

Aw for cripes sake, if I'd known they would quote me, I would have said something nicer! :-$ Though honestly, at the time it did look like a Crapship. :-| That's EXACTLY why they need to leak the high quality pics from the start. I like the thing now that we can really see it (assuming it isn't a stickerfest). X-D Now the question is ... being mistaken for *yoda* ... good or bad? :-P

Not so far ... *goes off to check his instructions* Nope. How many castle sets have you experienced this with?

Some nice work there. I'm always happy to see some Pirates love shown. In this case, it's an ecclectic mix, clearly these guys have seen some battles and wear the captured clothes and armour of the enemies they defeated. The fates haven't been kind to them though and now they're just trying to get by as well as they can. Any plans to rescue them or send them on adventures? Probably how they ended up in this predicament in the first place :-D

This is pretty bad. *n* I do, however, sort of like the LEGO

Well, if it is still in the testing stage, I'd like to make a small suggestion. The very white page cancels out the ability to see what page you're viewing in a thread, so if that colour can be changed as well, it's a winner. Personally, I did like the orange while it lasted. *y*