Shadows

I would never trust anything in a picture, that point has been pounded home many times. Pictures are meant to simply relate a vague summary of the events of a night so that everyone knows who died, not the identity or alignment of the killer. Killers change disguises, weapons and methods all the time, it's silly to assume that isn't possible here. Look at Zed, he was a normal sized man in a giant costume with a Darth Vader costume under it. None of that mattered. All the picture was meant to tell us was that someone killed Rolly. That's all. To assume that any other picture was meant to tell more than the identity of the victim is a mistake. The killer, in a situation like this, has no control over what is shown or even said. I even recall someone trying to find a clue in the words that were written along with one of the pictures. Same mistake.

I think we meant to do it last year. Somewhere I have a few interviews we never got around to and now the people we interviewed are gone. Good thing we didn't waste our time on those, huh?

Oh, please, don't make me summarize our private conversations, especially the less flattering parts about your town associates. Trying to claim that you had even a vague clue before today is just dishonest. Metagaming suspicions, perhaps, but that's all. Still, we have all day, so I will take a moment to mention a few highlights of this game ... of life. You stole my Peach Cobbler and told me you were doing so. Since I had no worries about being killed, I was more than happy to cooperate with your self-protecting ambitions. We couldn't have you dying too soon, could we, but it would have been fine if I had. You specifically asked me to target Ali and then to cover up the fact that we had done it. Had you not done that and actually chosen to be honest with them, the town may have figured things out. I expected a fight there, but didn't even have to bother. You planned to target Rickety today. I agreed with your decision, naturally, which is why he ended up getting our votes. Add the fact that you chose the last 2 failed lynches and all I can say is thank you for being such an incredible ally. You were dead today either way, they picked you as the planned target. We just happened to be the ones to get the job done. Indeed you do.

I really thought I'd been clear. I'll try again.

Well, why don't you just come over here and climb my ladder, baby.

I've been dying to get out of here. Well, actually you have been. Dying, that is. Vote: Rickety Cannon (Roncanator) Thank you all, so much, for your cooperation. I wouldn't bother fighting it at this point, we have 4 votes, you have 4 votes and as we all know, "The player with the most votes will be lynched. In the case of a tie, the first to achieve their vote will be lynched." Now, who's up for a final game of Chutes and Ladders?

Surprise!

Hello and welcome to another exciting episode of EB News Presents! I'm your host, Shadows, this is my own personal Wheatley, Stauder, and our special guest tonight is none other than Rick! Tonight's episode comes to you from inside our lovely yellow whatever the hell this is. It's a sub, you can tell by the portals. Port holes. It was a Wheatley joke. Indeed it was. Moron. Oh shut up, fatty fat fat, adopted fatty. Don't push your luck or I'll shoot you out the torpedo launchers. Right! Interview time! Q. Rick. Very... Original name, do I even have to ask why you chose it? A. No. You may be overestimating his intelligence. Q. I see you're a Fellow, and a Fabuland builder, from what I can tell, tell us a bit about what you do round here? A. Well, I do lots around here. ... Actually, I don't do that much at all. I'm not a big MOCer. In fact I rarely do MOCs at all. I've been meaning to build something in Fabuland for quite a while though, however my main interest has always been Town. Coming back from my dark ages in the late 1990s/early 2000s was a big disappointment with 'Town Jr.' on the shelves. So when LEGO introduced the Modular Buildings a few years ago, I knew it was a good time to be an AFOL. They really seem to be taking the AFOL community seriously as a market now with all the brilliant Exclusives that are being released. Next to just browsing the forums and commenting here and there, I'm a big EB mafia game addict ever since playing my first game in early 2010. We have some excellent mafia hosts around here and it's a great way to get to know the EB community better and from a totally different angle. If you're lucky you even get to kill some people. Mafia? Never heard of it. Q. What's the fun in such an odd theme such as Fabuland? Is it the abstract nature of it all? A. It's all fun. It's cute and innocent. Well mostly innocent. What is there not to love about a bunch of animals walking on two feet? OK, I understand that may sound a little creepy to some, but still... they're cute! Cuuuuuuuuuuute! Q. How were you introduced to the theme anyway, can you tell us anything about it's history? A. I owned a few small sets as a child, but was never really interested again until I started lurking on Eurobricks and finally joined in early 2009. Only then did I figure out that the raccoon I owned as a child was actually called Ricky Raccoon. It was an easy choice to adopt him as my Fabuland sigfig. I also found a small (but influential) group of people keeping Fabuland alive right here on EB. A large part of Hinckley's website is devoted to Fabuland MOCs and stories, for example. Hinckley and Sir Nadroj were the real pioneers in creating Fabuland MOCs and I'm glad to see some increased activity in the Fabuland Builders Guild recently. Q. What are your 3 favorite sets of all time? A. I have to agree with the previous interviewee (Erdy) and mention 10185 Green Grocer as one of my all time favourites. All of Jamie Berard's Modular Buildings are brilliant, but this still is the best in my opinion. The other two spaces in my top 3 would also probably be filled with Modular Buildings, but let's keep some variation. For nostalgia's sake I have to say 6382 Fire Station. It was one of the few 'big sets' I owned as a child and I simply loved the roller doors. Right before entering my dark ages, I picked up a few first wave Pirates sets. Whereas the 6285 Black Seas Barracuda is a magnificent ship, the very first wave also included the wonderful 6276 Eldorado Fortress, which is still one of my favorite Pirates sets and one of the few sets to actually make good use of that raised baseplate. Q. Tell us about the amazingly-fantastic-moment of time that ever occurred. (in relation to LEGO) A. That must have been around the first of July 1890. I'm sure Ole Kirk's parents enjoyed conceiving him. It was a long road however until, in 1978, the first minifigure as we still know it today was produced (and I was born just in time to witness it ). I really think that has been a turning point for TLG. Another big step was the introduction of AFOL-oriented exclusives. I remember my jaw dropping when I saw the first pictures of the Cafe Corner. Q. Does such a moment exist here on EB? A. I experienced plenty of great moments on Eurobricks. Becoming a member of the Fellowship was a great honour. Despite the ever-growing number of members, I'm always amazed that EB manages to maintain a really friendly community spirit. And - in addition to the members themselves of course - the excellent staff team is to thank for that. Q. This is a frequently discussed question, and I'd like the viewers to comment on this aswell; How do you store your lego? Small sorted boxes? Shelves? Huge box? A. As I said, I'm not really a MOCer, I mainly collect sets and tend to store them separately in bags or boxes. My not so big, but continuously growing supply of 'MOC bricks' is in small plastic containers and some zip-lock bags, sorted by type and colour. That's how we store Staudie between interviews, which can sometimes be a very, very long time. Q. I've been gone a while, as you probably know... My chauffeur took a wrong turn somewhere. You mean the guy driving the baggage truck at the airport took a wrong turn. It's cheaper to ship him in a crate. You said we'd cover that up! Not in the budget. ... So what'd I miss? A. I joined EB, became extremely popular, and they had to make me a Fellow. That's it in a nutshell. You didn't miss much. Oh, and Svelte is no longer around. And I'm sure there are others that left and probably some new members joined as well. It's true, we had to make him a fellow because previously he was a lady. With lady parts. So much Paradisa Pink... Q. Am I annoying? A. Yes Shadows, you are annoying. What!? You're not Shadows? ... Stauder? Am I supposed to know you? Sounds like German for toaster or something. Actually, he is composed of 42% toaster parts and was Frankensteined together, so that's fairly accurate. Q. Why do you think EB News won't stay dead? A. Because I will suggest someone you have to interview next. Oh, you didn't ask that question yet, I'm sorry. Good thing these interviews haven't gotten predictable, yet. Q. Who should we put in the hot seat next time? A. You might want to interview Pandora. She's even crazier about Fabuland than I am. And I personally think she's one of the best set reviewers on the site. And then there's a guy named Rufus, he's somehow related. He also does amazing reviews (although he does do a lot of Star Wars ) and is moderator of the recently completely revamped 'Special Themes' forum. Q. Final question; It's underwater month at EB, this episode was filmed in our underwater lair, are you going to do anything to add to the theme? Maybe a submarine MOC? A. I'm surprised you didn't make the long, hard, and full of seamen joke... You have to fix a few leaks though, my feet are soaking wet. To be honest, underwater themes don't really appeal to me. I'll see what I can do though. That isn't water. So there you have it, folks, the fascinating story of Rick! Whoever that is. Can we go now, it's getting stuffy in here? Wait! We forgot something! What's that? I forgot. You're just lucky I don't hit you with a paradox. Why would we need two, isn't one dock enough? Right, and people ask, "Shadows, why has it been so long since we've seen one of those amazing episodes of EB News?" This is why. I remember now! Amazing. What is it? Rick was kind enough to provide us with a video of him in action! Really? Well, let's see it! I'm sure nobody saw that coming.

As I mentioned in the unofficial topic on this, I'm looking for a set, just one of each, if anyone manages to score a few extras. Both of the TRUs that were nearby/near areas I travel through have closed in the past few months and there is no chance I'm getting to the next nearest ones, which are a good distance off. If you can help and take Paypal (and are reasonable in your expectations ), please let me know. Thanks! On topic, shame they're glued. Seems so pointless. At least they look good.

Day Six: 1. The Big Fat Pill 2. Red Devils 3. Sponk 4. Peach Cobbler 5. Downers Shadows 6. Bug Dust 7. DMT

And we lose two again. We can't keep doing this. I know it's going to be difficult bordering on impossible to stop the night kill, but we need to vote better or it's going to be over soon. Kevin? Well, whatever you were, Kelly, I'm sorry we couldn't save you. Does anyone have anything today? Something that has just bugged you a little, creeping up on you in the night and poking you mercilessly until you screamed out in terror? Some nagging thought that could somehow help at this moment? Anything?

Hey Pelly! What's that you say? Oh, yes, I see what you mean. Do you really think so? Well, ok, I'll take your word on it. So yeah, I'm off to bed. If you have anything else to say, Pelly, be sure to just speak right up.

You don't get out much, do you? Honestly, she shouldn't have even apologized as it is, her comment wasn't out of line and if you can't see some truth in it, I don't think you're being exposed to many of your neighbors and their offspring. As for this being a LEGO forum, yes, it's a LEGO forum. For adults. Adults should be able to see this comment for it's reality. If your child is browsing this site without supervision, they might be offended by some of the things they see, though I doubt they would even notice this particular comment. And your expectation that Eurobricks might be a little Eurocentric is just as far off. The 5 top members of the staff are French, Belgian, Australian and 2 bloodthirsty Americans, of which I am one. We aren't offended. Toughen up, buttercup or go back to the imaginary world of non-violent vegetarian tea-party throwing dinosaurs that you must be living in if you can imagine this theme not requiring violence to work. End of discussion. If you'd like to continue this, please feel free to contact me privately, this is not the place for it. Oh, and if you've been storing all of those nasty weapons somewhere, I'd be happy to take them off your hands so that they can be disposed of properly. tl;dr: Lighten up, please.

The case seems to be made, I don't see where we have anything better to go with. I'd have preferred something a little more solid, but we don't have that luxury at this point. Vote: Dr. Bethany Bovary (Brickdoctor)

Last call for code assistance and a reminder to those of you who play TF2 and have a code, use it! And to those who don't play and have a code, pass it on to me, please!

1. The Big Fat Pill 2. Red Devils 3. Sponk 4. Peach Cobbler Pandoo 5. Downers Kelly 6. Bug Dust 7. Uppers 8. DMT 9. Nasal Inhaler Shadows Mmm, meds.

But admit it, you would have taken the fish, just the same.

We get one right and still lose two. At this rate... You know, despite the lipstick, I never was sure that Ali was a girl's name. Kind of like Shalonda being a boy's name. So where do we go now? I'm stumped.

You really are running out of men to hit on, aren't you?

And another easy vote. Vote: Imes da Booey (iamded)

I think I already see where my vote shall go today, it seems as easy as the last one.

I think it's less the size and more the sides being flipped that people are noticing. The vital information on the page is still presented just as well as ever and I don't see this as a big deal. Oh, and I'm staff but didn't pay attention to the discussion prior to the test, so I wasn't expecting it either, and initially I thought, "huh?" and then I thought "cool, everything is still there and almost more readable now (not sure why)", so it doesn't bother me and will not effect my healthy EB salary either way.

Every time I drift a little away from Castle, they pull me back in. MMV last time, now this. Oh, the agony.

Day Six: 1. The Big Fat Pill 2. Black Beauties 3. Red Devils 4. Horse Tranquilizers 5. Saline Infusion 6. Sponk 7. Peach Cobbler Shadows 8. Downers 9. Bug Dust 10. Uppers 11. DMT 12. Nasal Inhaler Here we go again.

It's ok, you're one of those crazy people, they expect it from you.