Grover

Nice build! This has a very Ninjago City vibe to me. I love the height on the build, and your rooftops, particularly with the use of the gold accents, is great. I like how you used the ornate gold fencing on different levels to tie the structure together. The interiors are great, with very nice floor tiling and small furniture. That's a tricky thing to make look good on the building scale, and you make it look easy. I love the minis, and the Captain Hook lady is amazing! She looks like she came as a CMF. You have some nice detailing on the water with the lily pads and it's evident you spent some time here to make it look good. It's subtle, but helps I think. For suggestions, I have a couple. Most importantly, I would change to a white background, or at least a solid one. Before I got a light box, I used to use the back of those huge poster calendars you can get at banks and such. It really helps. @LordDan mentioned breaking up the tan a bit. You have a few SNOT bricks there, but you could also add a few spots of white plate, or dark tan to add a bit as well. I would also suggest a slight recess on the white walls in the Tudor styling on the third level to add a bit of texture. Overall, it's a really nice build and a great addition to Cedrica! Keep up the good work!

Wow, what a spectacular build! I think you made some improvements over your idol! The stained glass wagon wheel window is brilliant, and your combination of the curved tiles and the plate shading/patterns is great. I love the lush vegetation, and the brick built sheep are adorable. You do a nice job using that lime green as grass. I think that's hard to pull off well, and your choice of colors works. I particularly like the nougat to brown base under the grass. It has a very realistic feel to it. The trees are nice, and the explosion of bluebirds in them is hilarious! I also appreciate that you have a continuing story. I'm enjoying the exploits of Simon!

You're welcome! I joined to try and get feedback on my builds, so I try and leave it for others, not just what I like and have suggestions on, but why I like or dislike something, since I like that kind of comment to help me improve. I look forward to more of your builds!

Nice work! I really enjoy the brick built scenes. Great use of the HP nurse's hat too. I particularly like Alrune's outfit, black with lavender accents. Look forward to more!

Wow, what a great build! I love the detail packed onto one base plate! The exterior cornerstones look great, and the overall feel reminds me of the netherlands, with the tall, narrow houses on the canals. Great job working in the angled canal! The purple vine and green tree look very organic, and I'm glad to see a seagull in there (they are everywhere)! I like the chances you took with the various roof designs, it lends to variety. The minis are posed well, and the child dancing on the bed is hilarious! My favorite part is the slightly rounded stone wall. Fantastic!

Very nice! I like the story that ties the build in with the main story, and it works well with the build. The irregular base is great, and I particularly like the dual brown tones, something uncommon but adding to the realism. The waterfall looks great, and your tile placement makes the river look like it's flowing. Love the dilapidated foot bridge! The hanging fish is a nice touch and is well done with so few pieces. The stonework on the cottage is perfect: it looks like a rural dwelling that used the stones found around the dwelling rather than precision hand cut stones like you'd find in an urban area or castle. I also like that you used a lot of basic plates and didn't use a ton of specialty pieces. I think it is a great example of what you can do with more general parts as well as adding a more rural touch. Great job, and it's fantastic to have some new members here on GoH!

My order from 18 October is still in warehouse.

It was a lot of fun to be a part of this collab. As you mention, it's amazing it holds together. You don't really get an appreciation for how strong and flexible wood is until you try to replicate the organic shape of a tree out of plastic!

Lots of fun here! You have a very tight, clean building technique that looks great. Love all the downed foliage, and the very natural angles that you have with the leaves on the curving tree trunk. The first photograph with the blurred background is great, too. I like the rounded tiles on the roof, it has a nice flavor. The snotted tile walls are great, and the whole build really comes together well!

Wow, this build is outstanding! There are so many great details here that I love to go back and look at repeatedly. There are some marked topographical changes as well as structural changes (the castle is the most pronounced), but the idea still feels the same, which is great in my opinion. The change in color palette (I'm assuming due to the greater abundance of specific colors now) adds some nice texture and mood to the new build. I love how you have made the 'weep' effect from water running down under the windows in the castle to make it appear older. The larger mountain I think is a good change as well, in part due to making the spring and waterfall more believable in an otherwise flat landscape, but it also helps break things up without dominating the build. The old fantasy era mini torsos look great, and I like the cheese slope timber in the Tudor frame construction. The full interiors are fantastic, and you have some NPU (the goggles as smoke) as well as some nice techniques that add to a realistic look (the leaf woven pine tree with bar trunk), and some nice architectural features like the barrels as ornately carved corner timbers. The brewing contraption cracks me up, and I like the mermaid tail stuffed into a crate to make it look like part of a larger fish. The waterfall looks a little unusual in that the final fall appears to rise up just before the spill over, which doesn't quite look natural to me. The water would likely either fill up the dip before it or pour out the lower sides if there are some, but this is a pretty small point in a large build and not easily seen. I love the brick built sheep, and the wheat field is spectacular. I may have to borrow that technique for one of my builds! You do a nice job with the brown foliage by the waterside as well, and I really like the brick built tapestry hanging down. Although the 'not fully pressed down' and 'staggered' roof tile techniques aren't new, you do them well, and it's great to see them combined for variation. And on top of this we get to read a fun story too! Love it!

Great to see you back @soccerkid6! Love the build. The colors work well together, I really like the detailed roof techniques that are varied, and as usual, your interiors are awesome. I particularly like the small steps in the roof on the bridge, and the use of the minifig crossed sword holder as decorative elements hanging off the balcony. You do a lot of amazing work packing tons of details into a tiny space, something that is difficult to do on the 'minifig' scale (as opposed to an actual linear scale model). The beds and stool are standouts here. Great work, and thanks for sharing!

You are welcome! I joined Eurobricks because I wanted to grow as a builder, and there are a lot of really awesome builders on here who provide feedback, so I try to give as detailed feedback as I can. Trees and other organics are the hardest thing to make, anyone here can tell you. We all struggle with it. Trying to make a full leaf, branching tree that has the strength to hold the leaf pieces and still looks good is really hard. Full Plate has some tutorials out there on some smaller trees that look good, so it may be worth a look if you have some time.

Welcome! Great to see a new guild member! I like your sigfig and look forward to your first build!

This is a brilliant build! You are new to us, but it is obvious you are an experienced builder. There are a lot of great techniques in here, and some subtle aspects to the build that are really nice. First, I really like your water. You did an amazing job with the wake of the boat, and the staggering of the tiles helps break up a repetitive scheme. A bit of color layering under the trans pieces helps with depth. The snot tree trunks look good, and the regular square shape to the ruins help them look like ruins and not just rocks. You also did well to limit your greens, which makes the scene more believable. I like your color choice for the boat, not too bright, and as others have said, the detail on the hull is very impressive. I particularly like the all Lego picture through the trees (pic 3). If I would have any suggestions it would be to add a bit of light for the photographs to show a bit more contrast, and perhaps add some foliage to the trees. That last bit is something someone told me years ago, and I found to be true: you can't have too many leaf pieces on the trees. Overall, this is a fantastic build, and I enjoyed the story as well. I look forward to seeing your next builds!

Seems like you take a lot of pride in your work, to roaring a-paws... I'm not lion! These puns are really mane-stream, but we are at the tail-end now.

Very nice! As others have mentioned, the angles are really great. They are subtle, so they don't dominate the build, but they are just enough to make the build feel more organic. I get a "Ninjago City" with a Nocturnus feel to it, which is great. Your choice of colors here, particularly the yellow, gives the build an old school vibe, which is fun. I like the complicated roof on the right, and love that you have some nice interior detail. Really well done. I also like that you are building Nocturnus with 'normal' colors, since it reminds us that Nocturnus is not all crazy things. I remember looking at a lot of the old Nocty builds and they were more 'normal' colors than outlandish most of the time. Thanks for sharing!

Welcome! It's great to have a new Avalonian! I'm excited to see your sig fig. As @Henjin_Quilones said, there is quite a bit of flexibility, so you can be as creative as you want!

This is a superb build. It is sleek, compact, and has a ton of detail. Love the modern, detailed build with the feel of the old Black Falcons. The windows are great, the use of the pentagonal tiles for banners is well done, and I love their use on the roof tiles in the back. The huge bonus is the interior, which is very cleverly done and full of detail. All the working parts like the drawbridge and chandelier really add to it. Fantastic. And congrats again!

Beautiful! Great use of the tooth pieces for the roof, and very creative with the spilled flour on the floor. Also very nice use of the unusual old blue eyed heads. I find that they are hard to integrate and you have done a great job. The lime is also a very bold color choice and yet it works well here. I'm really enjoying reading the story as it progresses. I like that you have an interior to your piece so it can be played with as well. Great job!

Should look like this.

I took a few of my favorite sets and bagged theme for rebuilds. The ones I didn't care much about went into the MOC bucket.

When it gets to this, I plan on buying a case, then painstakingly weighing each box with fig, and reporting weights and standard deviations here so everyone else who is nerdy can benefit.

I did it not for the Vidiyo characters but in the case the regular line went to cardboard boxes, which it looks like it will be soon. I agree with you that I think they should include a code or simply non-blind boxes. Some employees at a Lego store were discussing that people will be trading a lot, or opening a full box worth and selling open figures so people could get what they wanted. Fortunately, a scale that accurate is only $10-15. Unfortunately, the variation in weights does not allow for discrimination of figures. I saw a lot of ripped open boxes at Walmart for Vidiyo, which will probably be worse for a regular CMF line. It may get so big box retailers quit carrying them due to loss.

I did this and posted weights in the Vidiyo thread, but no one seemed to care. There's a lot of overlap between characters, so it's going to be challenging.

Finally got the mountain windmill. No damage to the box, but there was no padding for error in the overbox.