Littleworlds
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In Memoriam: Remembering Nexo Knights
Littleworlds replied to Robert8's topic in LEGO Action and Adventure Themes
Oh yes. Especially the Lava Monsters have quite a look and work so well in a classical fantasy-context too! Apart from that I wasn't that impressed with the theme really. The colour scheme for the good guys was always a bit too in-your-face, as well as most of the set designs in general. If it would been just a little bit more medieval... -
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Really lovely!
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Nice how you break up the standard rectangular Lego orientation. The whole vignette benefits from that. Its very dynamic: how the characters move, the vegetation - simple, yet well arranged and visually very interesting!
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This looks truly lovely! Happy, cheerful atmosphere and some lovely detailing. The rendering is also pretty good. Excellent work!
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This looks really neat! It has this classical ice-planet feel to it - and yes: tubing makes a space MOC so much better! The photo looks already really good. Nice neutral background, decent lighting and angle and very little noise. Very good work!
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DC Batman timeless sparta lego??
Littleworlds replied to Derek See's topic in General LEGO Discussion
It looks like there is a Minifigure somewhere under a ton of custom made, painted pieces. -
This is amazing! a fun and weird idea, very well executed: the carriage looks suitingly menacing, fast and gloomy. Great stuff!
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I get your point of course. Rey is quite developed in the force right away in The Force Awakens. I think thats partly JJ Abrams clumsy storytelling (and things like that you can't take back in The Last Jedi. She can't "unlearn") and partly that the SW universe is much more developed now than it was when it first came into the cinemas. The audience is more accepting of flashy force powers from a nobody on a desert planet now than it would have been back in the days when SW wasn't a cultural phenomenon it is now. Luke probably needed the journey as much as the viewers did to learn about the force. Now its common knowledge. But I'm not going to defend the new trilogy here: They could have done it better, but I blame JJ Abrams really for setting things up that way. Very good points! It really comes down to (often) arbitrary writing decisions really.
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That's pretty implausible as it would take the agency from the main protagonist to a side-character. Luke was guided by Obi-Wan to use the force. He didn't tell him "C'mon boy, give me the stick and let an ol' Jedi do his stuff." He just told Luke to rely on himself. That was the scene was about.
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I'm sure Luke used the force. The whole sequence of his attack run made this clear. He was crystal clear set up to be the one who does the slam-dunk And that's my whole point: in the movies the protagonists have an uncanny ability in picking up how to use the force. I think it can be interpreted as a raw, unrefined way and that a lot of the Jedi training is about keeping the mental balance and not get carried away by the instant power at someone's fingertips - plus its a film and therefore things get abbreviated, things get simplified, things get dramatised. All in all, btw I think that people should not get too upset with The Last Jedi. Its the middle part of its trilogy and like in the original trilogy the middle part is the one with - crisis. It pans out differently this time, but it ends with a glimpse of hope.
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He shot at the rats. That usually doesn't includes letting a projectile going straight downwards, 90° from their firing angle - or does it? Hitting the port isn't hard. At least one other pilot did it too on his run, but sending them down is. And no-one else did that.
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The Force Awakens left me quite cold. Too much a formulaic fan-service/best-of the original trilogy, but at least it looked pretty. Now fast forward to The Last Jedi: Now this is a completely different animal. The film deliberately disappoints all the expectations and disrupts the by-the-numbers-storytelling of its predecessor. I'm not surprised that a lot of viewers don't like that. They didn't expect that sort of film, but I find it quite refreshing actually. Commercially maybe not the best decision, but from a storytelling point of view very interesting. It showed us things from a different angle and left them very much open through most of its run-time. I think if you went into the cinema without any spoilers, you were certainly in for a couple of WTF-moments. The Last Jedi is not the best film in the world. The Force Awakens certainly wasn't either, but where JJ Abrams was just lazy and playing it safe, Rian Johnson set the stakes high. Not everything worked, but its by far not as outrageous as many see it. Luke Skywalker, for example. Why don't people get the idea, that when you reach already everything a little farmer boy from Tattooine coule possibly dream of before he went 30 yrs, he might develop some hubris and do some poor judgement later in life? That is simply human, isn't it? And that he runs away from the consequences of his mistake - that's simply human as well. There is nothing wrong with this characterization, apart from people don't quite getting that a realistic personality is a bit more complex than just being the "hero". Especially in later years. I also don't really have big issues with Rey's force powers. After all, Luke did, with just a couple of hours Jedi training, fire two proton torpedos down that Death Star exhaust port - down in a right angle! I'm sure these things don't usually do such tight turns... So a short learning curve seems to be not unlikely to the main protagonists in Star Wars - just saying... Same for other issues, like: Why didn't Holdo reveal her plans? Perhaps because spies? Perhaps because an Admiral should not need to justify her orders to her subordinates? I think a lot of the "plot holes" are actually rather minor, or can be explained with some reasoning. I'm not going to say its a perfect film, but so far every Star Wars film had its issues and plotholes. The prequel, the more
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This is really impressive. The ship is beautifully designed and the amount of detailing is staggering. Superb work!
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This is really cool. Very funny (I had to laugh out loud when the dumbbell hit the weightlifter!) and with an astonishing render-quality. It looked very convincing. Some of the animations were a bit stiff, but nothing dramatic. An excellent video and almost too good for a first!
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Yes, I see. In that respect, maybe try some elevation changes. Using plate pieces to create slight differences in height - little things that visually break things up a bit.
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Really brilliant. A perfect riff on Giger with some really cool background structuring!
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Nice and scenic build with a really lovely backstory. I think it could use some more irregularities though. It all looks very orderly, even the parts that should be definitely messy and chaotic, like the skidmarks and the patterns of the vegetation. I would also intermix things a bit and add more variation to avoid having too much of the same plant pieces next to each other.
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Who's Your Favorite Film Composer and/or Score?
Littleworlds replied to Digger of Bricks's topic in Culture & Multimedia
Thats two really neat pieces of music! Of course Black Sabbath fits perfect to Mad Max. Especially War Pigs is music made of the apocalypse As for myself, I really like the Soundtrack to Excalibur by Trevor Jones (with some Wagner and Orff thrown in for good measure): My other all-time favourite is the Soundtrack to Bram Stoker's Dracula: -
That looks quite extreme! You get that over here only when you left the pieces outside in the garden! No worries though. A bath in warm water with some dishwasher fluid in it should help getting rid of all this. Maybe use a soft brush (like a toothbrush) on the less cooperative dirt. The cleaning wont have any negative effect on the bricks. And the stickers likely will stay on as well, afaik. Ideally you have to disassembly the sets though for better cleaning and drying results.
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That look so cool! Such a minimalistic thing, but it has character and you can clearly tell who he is. Lovely!
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You are welcome!
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This looks pretty excellent. Like a natural evolution of a space shuttle with the same sleek and smooth utilitarian design. It looks like its made for "getting the job done". I can see this ship in a lot of space-port and station builds across the solar system. Very nice!
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Very cool. Looks like a mysterious alien device. The greebling is indeed remarkable - a real celebration of details! The photography is excellent as well: nice play with shadows and angles!
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This looks rather brilliant. Very nifty SNOT-detailing, combined with a proper, vintage-feel: the more I look at it, the more I discover. Really nice!