Littleworlds

I'm using icecream boxes too! They are simply a great solution, especially the ones with clear lid, where you can see the contents: large enough for grouping parts of the same kind, but various sizes together, stackable - and they are filled with icecream when you buy them! We also use them as food boxes for our Degus here (the ones without lego parts!) Edit: my storage-system is grouping bricks of similar shape for common variants. Exotic variants go into separate tubs and small specialized parts come into little resealable plastic-bags, I got from minifig-buying at bricklink. Minifig accessories live in several of these plastic boxes with compartments you get in DIY stores. Works for me

I don't know why I haven't seen this MOC before! I really have missed something. Its insanely spectacular. A wonderful achievement of taste and skill. Amazing!

A genuinely nice and happy park scene. I like the little details like the garbage can and the toys for the dog to play with. things like that really add atmosphere. I would however have another go at the tree. Maybe attaching the foliage-pieces horizontally, as overlapping layers instead. Also the tree could use some more asymmetry. I recommend using slope pieces and not being shy if appears to lean towards one direction a little. Thats what trees often do The Council of Elrond, for example, has a pretty good, if a bit simple one:

Now where is the number of that emergency hotline...

I'm delving into some classical music lately. Currently some Brahms. Very contemplating. Shostakowitsh before was... quite the opposite. It was like he tried to tease his audience by how strong dissonances he can do without tearing the whole piece apart. So, a quite intense experience

I think that was the right decision. It was last year on sale GOTY-edition for under 10 €, which is quite fair for a game half a decade old I certainly wouldn't recommend spending more on it. Graphically it did age pretty well, but from the storytelling/plot aspect, games like Witcher 3 just do it so much better today. For myself, I am waiting for GTA V to be reduced to a reasonable price, but this might take till part VI comes out And I haven't even finished IV due to annoying loading-freezes. I rarely buy a game full price anymore. I did this long enough and I can't really be bothered anymore. Ironically, one of the last games I played is "Game Developer Tycoon". Fun little game! And Civ-games are... seriously addictive!

Awesome! This is just spot-on and packed with silly, iconic fun!

I'm not going to use quotes here, to not interrupt the text-flow (and because I'm too lazy honestly^^): Regarding the hate campaign: Things like this happened before. Just think about the massive misogynist shitstorms in the gaming community. So its not unreasonable to suspect something like this happening to the Ghostbusters-reboot. Whilst, on the other hand, a film studio trying to promote their product with such a negative campaign looks like quite a stretch to me. It might make the film get talked about, but also divides the fandom and hence the potential audience group drastically. I think what that newspaper is suggesting is that studios would in future rather look into producing a "conventional" reboot instead one where the gender roles are swapped, which isn't quite unreasonable to suspect. On the other hand, as long we don't have any data on how the film performs at the box office, its pointless to speculate. I think the 1984 car today is about as weird and unusual as the one in the original film was back then, so in my opinion it really fits. And both have quite a charisma - when one can say this about a car And yes, lets agree there has been no Ghostbusters 2, or any Matrix sequel I think it was Michael Moore, who said that all that misogynism is just the roar of dying dinosaurs. I hope he is right, regardless if that particular film is a hit or a bomb @Ecto racing: Vroooom! Edit: @Sony putting pressure on cast members: As far I can tell is that they considered things, but didn't do anything. And it would been of course foolhardy to go against one of them and have that dragged out in public. Possibly it was more aimed towards securing the rights and have it all legally watertight? Its not nice wording, but its a multi-million-$ business after all.

Interesting hypothesis about the controversy being actually marketing campaign. However, that's a bit too paranoid to be taken seriously. You also have to admit, that at least in one point the Southern China Morning Post you are quoting is right: Hollywood is indeed very male dominated. Take alone the pay-gap between male and female main characters. I also see a number of accusations I'd like to see the source from. Who of the original cast exactly did Sony force to participate in the film - and how? Personally I find the designs not ugly, rather quite inspired by the 1984 film. Even the car is (at the time of filming) 30ish year old I also don't think we can give any opinion on the "confused writing" yet, with only knowing a couple of trailers. Confused scripts is more the department of marvel-movies anyway Also humour is something where people will never completely agree on. Maybe a lot of people find the film hilarious? It can't be much worse than Ghostbusters 2, at least not from my point of view Anyway, however the film will be, Its just a film after all. And who can't deal with women taking the roles as lead characters, doesn't have to watch it. And even if its a terrible film, that wont stop me from racing with the little Lego Ecto-1 over the carpet of Littleworlds HQ. Maybe they will even have a race with the male Ghostbusters

Personally, I would not want to take the risk. Then again, I avoid apple in general...

They look very good and appropriatly classical-spacey!

Lovely church, which makes me want to experiment with stained glass windows too and bonus points for its priest being a blues brother

Actually nobody "craps" on anything. Its only a film after all. As the 1984 film is and its pretty weak sequel from 1990ish. Which are? If you mean the people who spread hate towards members of the cast, I'd gladly join in these so-called "insults". I think you indeed made your point clear.

I was pretty impressed by the boat, but when I scrolled down to the temple, I was simply amazed. Its always fascinating which ideas people develop to create interesting surfaces. Very impressive!

I think the approach by TLG is simply: what works, works. Bikes (and not only speeder bikes) are usually clearly too oversized to be true to a fixed "scale", as are many cars and trucks today. When it comes to larger builds, the tendency is rather than the "scale" gets smaller. Houses often don't really offer much space, as do the ships and bases of the explorer-type themes. The buildings especially not when folded up, and things like a star destroyer are so clearly undersized, that I wonder if I should have mentioned it at all So I would simply give it some good leeway and not care about scale as long it looks convincing and not grossly off the mark. Most minifigs I met don't suffer from claustrophobia

Very nice to see some variety from the usual European-style castles. Even better since it is also very well built (amazing wall-textures!) and photographed

These are adorable and hilarious at the same time! Hats off for that idea! Also the patch of landscape is very well made and contributes a lot of flavour. Excellent and superfunny!

The Martian. As a project the film was certainly ambitious and a risk, but the outcome is very convincing. I am familiar with the story of book and the biggest concern was that it wont find the right balance between hard sci-fi and emotional relevance. The film actually got it pretty right. There are some "shortcuts" it took and some minor inconsistencies, but nothing fatal. Makes for an entertaining evening!

Never joke with addicts Yes, that includes me too

I'm not a fan of buying sets away from the market and resell the minifigs on the 2nd market. Instead I simply buy it used - at carbooth sales/flea markets or at the occasional ebay auction, if you don't mind the grab bag/lucky bag spirit I actually like this a lot, since its a good randomizer that can point you into directions you haven't thought of before - and its cheap! For specialized parts, one can still add up pieces from bricklink.

The link to Screencrush in this article is very interesting. It points out that, the amount of dislikes in relation to likes is suspiciously high compared with every other "most hated" video, which indicates less a genuine dislike by the viewers, but rather towards a campaign against the movie, otherwise it would have a more common like/dislike relation. It is appalling how much hate something like a movie release can cause, while there are far more important issues in our world. But alas, they are complex, hating is always easy. And it saves the haters from bringing up any constructive contribution.

Looks absolutley amazing! I'd say its not far from movie quality

The sheer scope and amount of detailing of this build is simply overwhelming it is not only a very large build, it also achieves to be in no way repetetive or boring. So much to discover and everything looks just great. Fantastic work!

The toilet at the end of the universe? fun little bui!d and very skilfully executed. Seems some things are the same, no matter where you go

Excellent!