Luke Styer
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You're right, but the problem with not doing that is that it excludes Mark Hamill's Joker. And the minifigure could kinda pass for this B:TAS rendition of the Joker. But, I really don't think voice-only performances should probably count since minifigures are a physical representation.
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I know I just said simply voicing a character shouldn't count. But I wasn't thinking of Mark Hamill's brilliant Joker performance, so I might have to amend my position. Mark Hamill's Joker is the Joker as far as I'm concerned.
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Converting CARS theme cars to minifigure use . . .
Luke Styer replied to Luke Styer's topic in LEGO Licensed
I got the Escape at Sea set on clearance the other day at WalMart thinking I could make a nice little minifig scale boat out of the ship and maybe use the wheels and tires included to give a little variety to my CITY cars which seem to all use the truck tires lately. But I'm curious whether the other car parts are salvageable. I saw the V8 diner and I think the building itself would be good fodder for a conversion, but only at a discount, and it would be more attractive still if all those cars weren't useless to me. -
I think that the number of distinct characters is a worthwhile title to give out as well as number of themes, but I'm not sure characters an actor simply voiced should count.
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As were my responses. It looks like we agree about as much as we disagree on these sets. I'm not sure I understand what you mean. Are you saying the Batwing itself should have had more variety to its build or that the set should have had a different variety of vehicles? Regarding Mr. Freeze, I kind of like his new body and the Atlantis style helmet, but the old version's head looks so much better to me. I don't have the Funhouse yet, so I don't have a Riddler and haven't paid too much attention to his overall look, but I dig the bowler hat.
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That's freaking awesome. I was already pretty interested in that City Museum set, but it hadn't even occurred to me to mix Catwoman in. What you've done here really tops the official museum, too, but I think I'll probably use that as a starting point to adapt.
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I'm not really sure what you mean there. I think I would have appreciated the bike having bit more of a cat theme, but I guess I appreciate that the piece as it exists isn't limited to Cat-Woman's use. I have to disagree that the jetpack is a lame excuse for a vehicle. I think it's neat in and of itself, but I also like that Bat-Man, for once, doesn't come with a big old vehicle. I feel the opposite. I like the Batmobile, but i think the color scheme on the tow truck is a bit silly. I love the bank. I ended up disassembling it because I already have a bank for my city and i had need of some of the parts, but I'm seriously considering "rebuilding" it as the facade for a shop or something. I don't see that as a bad thing. I was in my dark ages when the first Batman theme was running, so I appreciate a chance at this kind of a set. That goes double, I'm sure, for actual kids who might want these sets. I agree that the drill didn't necessarily seem to "belong," though I guess it's maybe necessary to justify a bad guy getting into the Batcave for Batman to fight. I'd have rather seen that "piece budget" allocated to bulking up the cave itself. I would subtract points for the bike. I, too, hate this style.
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I prefer the double-angled roof, but it was an awesome buliding in either configuration. Great build!
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The panoramic glass roof makes a lot of sense and hadn't really occurred to me. It also answers one of my main objections to sunroofs in real life, which is that they are a hole in a perfectly good roof.
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I thought that might be what you were using, actually, which is why I asked. I might prefer black cheese slopes around the sunroof because I don't necessarily think of sunroofs "curving down" like that, but that might be a difference in car styling between our countries. Absolutely awesome car! Again, absolutely awesome. I love that your cars don't just look generically like a car, they each look like an intentional design.
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I love the brick-built Appa.
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Has anyone made any sort of serious effort at converting the car models from the CARS theme to minifigure use? I realize at least one or two of the parts that came out of that theme have stated to show up elsewhere, but I was curious whether anyone had taken a larger approach. I haven't had much luck with searching since the theme name is so generic.
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I don't have my "main" copies yet, but I went ahead and picked up a copy of the Rancor Pit without figs anyway. I have, for the most part, moved out of Star Wars sets, but all these new Jabba sets are definitely the exception, and I want to mimic your modification from the start.
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If you take Dooku's head from the Duel on Geonosis set, add it to the CMF Lumberjack's body and find a suitable gray hair piece, you've got a pretty good George Lucas minifigure.
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MOC 6857 Funhouse Escape alternate model - Joke in the box
Luke Styer replied to gonzilla's topic in LEGO Licensed
I really like this. I think it both "looks like LEGO" and looks like something the Joker might build in a Batman comic or cartoon. I liked just the pic you showed here in the thread, but after clicking through to the image gallery I like it even more! -
The police markings bother me more than the robber torso. I don't necessarily see any reason why all the robbers should wear the same outfit. In fact, I wish they weren't all in their prison uniforms in the first place. As to the police markings on the motorcycle, maybe LEGO City is like my hometown and only buys one or tow vehicles at a time, so the "fleet" never matches, being a hodgepodge of makes, models, color schemes and logos.
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I wonder how difficult it would be to "narrow" the car to six or seven wide so it would more easily fit a minifigure.
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Very cool little fire house. I totally want a taxi garage, though, now that you talk about that sign.
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The tubes in the "upside down" part of the wall sort of look like sticks of rebar in the concrete.
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With the bird people from the Chima line, DC's Hawkman, Hawkwoman and Hawkgirl seem like such a natural release.
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With all this cool SHIELD stuff you're posting, niteangel, you may need to replace that Star Wars blaster your avatar figure is carrying with that funky double barreled pistol that Nick Fury carries!
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Expand the Winter Village Contest III Voting Topic
Luke Styer replied to Hinckley's topic in LEGO Town
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I'm almost certain that the only parts I used that didn't come from 6867 were the two little dark blue "wings" that go on the back half of the jeep and a black modified plate with bar that connects the spoiler. I found that modified plate just floating around in my collection. I got the wings off of the 30250 promotional polybag that I picked up last month. I mentioned before that I was a 1x6 tile short, but I found it in my desk drawer an hour or so after i posted. So I just swapped it out for the spoiler. It was also in my spare 6867. I don't know how much it would cost of buy the extra blue pieces on their own, but 6867 is only $20, and if you have much green in your collection, you could probably end up building a green truck out of the leftovers from a 6867 and a 76004. I'm seriously considering trying it.
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I picked up that extra 6867 today and just completed my conversion. I came up with one 1x6 dark blue tile too few, so I have a black spoiler instead of the dark blue. I also exchanged the black grills below the windshield for dark gray and used the light grey plates with the SHIELD decals from the extra 6867 in place of the black tiles there. I thought that would tie it together a little better with my "regular" 6867 when I get around to building it. Again, awesome conversion idea!
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I don't really care for Character Building's human figures. The kind of cartoony proportions turn me off, though it bothers me much less in the not-human figures. I love that the weapons and accessories are interchangable, though. Anything that provides guns and such that my LEGO minifigs can hold is all right is my book. It's my understanding that minifigure heads and minidoll heads aren't interchangable, which, I guess means that Character Building heads and minidoll heads aren't interchangable, which is too bad because it looks like those two kinds of heads are more in proportion with one another, and both have noses. It wouldn't help the lack of male bodies among minidolls, but even the same body with two different heads can look like two different characters. Semi-related, I have only one Character Building brick-based set, which is the little TARDIS with the Eleventh Doctor and Amy, and I am very satisfied with the bricks. If that TARDIS model is representative of the general quality of their bricks, I'd be willing to try out bigger sets if I see them for a reasonable price.