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That furniture is great. I especially like that rum bottle made from crystal glass! But wouldn't this single feather suit better as writing tool than that plume you used?

… or a modernized Friends-ish Gail Storm … 😁

I could imagine set 40595 "Tribute to Galileo Galilei" being used as Doc Lightning's study:

Now that's a cool part - we will get the classic pith helmet in yellowish green. It's in set 10329 "Tiny Pants". I need some of them ...

Nice build!

Yes, it is. I did so when I needed reddish brown hands recently. 😀

Mulan is the only other minifig I bought from the Disney CMF S2. I changed her head and hands to yellow and now she fits into my Orient Expedition's Dragon Fortress.

I love this minifig, but I changed the top hat to the classic LEGO one. Sorry pirates ... no more Jolly Roger ...

That's a great little build!

Moon Knight froms CMF Marvel S2 is obviously an useful figure. Classic parts: The binoculars are available in tan: Also the pith helmet in tan and DBG and the aviator cap in tan are avaialble on PAB (all three from the Indiana Jones sets). And there is a very useful "top secret"-letter in Gringott's Bank (76417):

Great builds, I really like them. I escpecially like the 10x20 brick bases. Any chance to see the back sides/interiors?

Thanks! My votes have been counted correctly.

Awesome!

Have a look at @TrikBrix 's video (just in case you didn't know it yet). He makes a suggestion for a rear build (starts at 4:42):

Almost the opposite here. In all my orders over the past two or three yeras I never had missing pieces. When pieces weren't delivered they had been deleted by TLG from my orderlist . So I only had "officially missing" pieces but never "accidentally missing" ones. So no complaints about PAB from my side.

As stated here: The only fair approach is that in future contests only accounts which have been created before the contest is announced are allowed to vote.

Seconded. That's the only fair solution IMHO.

Congrats to the winners and thanks to all other participiants. You all did a great job! And special thanks to @Peppermint_M for organizing this superb contest!

Yoted for your entry!

Yes, in my "universe" Johnny and the gang come from England.

Dear @Alexandrina , You did a great job with your MOC! I like and appreciate your logical, almost scientific approach. I fully agree with your findings. I myself call the years from the mid 1990s on the "Years of the Battle of the (base)plates". We saw - even in the same (sub)theme - sets coming with baseplates, with raised baseplates, with plates or with big bricks (8x8, 8x16, 12x24 etc.). Just take the four Adventurers' subthemes or the Ninja sets mentioned by you. So I have the same starting point as you, but I think TLG would have come to an other outcome for your MOC: Fort Legoredo covers more space than volume -> baseplates are used Flying Ninja's Fortress (set 6093) is more a modular wall than space or volume -> big bricks are used Pharaoh's Forbidden Ruins (set 5988) covers space (32x64) -> baseplates are used Your MOC covers space (32x48) AND volume. In this case (at least for my understanding) TLG used to take raised baseplates, see sets 5986 (Amazon Ancient Ruins), 7419 (Dragon Fortress) or 4990 (Rock Raiders HQ). So my guess is that TLG would have used the raised baseplate "Baseplate, Raised 32 x 48 x 6 with 4 Corner Pits" for your MOC. The one from set 7419 would perfectly match to your MOC: You could easliy build the brown main gate, the red framed back porch, the towers, the main building and the crane on it. The only feature it would lack is the possibility to fold it open. It would be fun to try it and build your MOC with real bricks on this raised baseplate. I have this raised baseplate but unfortunately I lack the „piratish“ bricks and panels …

So many phantastic entries. It's realy hard to pick only five in each category ... Special thanks to @Mister Phes and team for organizing this superb contest! Here are my votes: Main Building Category Sailor's Hideout by Slegengr Fort Broadside by Alexandrina Armada Fortress by Elephant Knight 6269 Islander Palace by BrynnOfCastlegate 6267 Lagoon Lock-Up/Soldiers’ Tavern by Aanchir Mini Set Building Category Fortune Idol by Oky Treasure Island by Oky Rum Rock by Fraunces 1872 Imperial Guard Camp by Thewatchman 6232 Skeleton Crew Remake by Jack Sassy

@MarcoLego I can‘t see any photos. Am I the only one with this problem?