Oky

Hehe, good to see some new life in this thread. I especially like the last two. But if you truly want to max out the Maxes you need to add Max Shreck, Max Schnell, and Max Dennison. Maybe even LEGO Club Max and all their other original theme Maxes.

I really don’t get all the Mando hate. I admit the quality has been slowly declining with them shoehorning more and more backdoor pilots into it, but it’s still a very entertaining show. I’m a SW fan, so I don’t mind the fan service. As for the movie, it looks fine. Is it the most amazing trailer ever? No, but it doesn’t need to be. It’s just more of the Mando & Grogu we know and love, so it’ll be a good time as long as you let yourself enjoy it. For some people, “fine” isn’t good enough for a SW movie, but not every SW movie needs to be a big new event as long as it’s fun in my opinion. I have spoken.

Thanks for continuing to work on this. It seems that all of the posts you shared were just quietly added to the page’s photos instead of as actual posts, so I don’t see them in my news feed. The last post that shows up on the page is still the Apostle of Bones one from Sep 4. Again, I suspect this is because all the newly added content had a link in the description. Not sure why FB doesn’t seem to want to share posts with links in them, but I hope you can fix it. Maybe it is filtering them out as potential spam? I know The Brick Fan has been struggling lately with FB blocking some of their posts that link back to their own blog.

Congrats to the winners! I hope you enjoy… whatever it is you won (still waiting for the prize info to be added). Lots of great entries that would make fine factions if LEGO ever decides to bring back Space. And thanks to Bob for organizing this fun contest!

Thanks for providing some sources. However, as I suspected the statements in a lot of those articles are vague at best. For example, it says nothing about Disney wanting Jack Skellington’s house to be more tame and playable in this 18+ set, just that that they “insisted on a particular look” and also states that the designers also had issues with the stability of the original design which I think was probably just as big of a factor in the decision to change it. They also never officially said why exactly they renamed the Slave I and Black Pearl, only saying that it was a “creative decision”. Any reasoning for it is pure fan speculation. And as Brickbob pointed out, #11 is just wrong and it wouldn’t make any sense for them not to approve Zombie Strange for an 18+ set when they approved Zombie Cap for the CMFs. The link you provided doesn’t work and the review of the set I found on Brick Architect says nothing like this, so I have no idea what you’re talking about. Even if these were true, I agree with Brickbob that these are all fairly harmless changes/influences and actually resulted in better sets in some cases like Mos Eisley and the Magic of Disney.

Do you have any sources for these claims? A lot of them just seem like speculations that haven’t been confirmed.

A bit late, but hopefully they can still be considered:

Welcome to Jungle Planet 2025 a.k.a. Planet Zonama! It is a world entirely covered in a thick rain forest. The heat is tropical, the plants are deadly, and the wildlife even deadlier! Only the bravest of the brave would dare set foot on such a hostile planet. Introducing... BEASTRON This extraordinary space faction will go where no other faction dares to go! But you might be asking yourself why? Why would anyone want to visit such a dangerous planet? Well, it turns out that this world is home to a rare flower that is known to have miraculous healing properties, the pink Zonama flower. It can cure nearly any disease, so the Beastron can help a lot of people with it. Therefore, they gear up and enter the jungle for good of minifig kind! In order to achieve their goal, Beastron uses mechs and other vehicles that resemble jungle animals. This helps them traverse the treacherous environment easier and defend themselves against any hostile local wildlife. All of their gear follows the following color scheme: Main Colors: Green, Black Transparent Color: Trans. Red Accent Colors: Teal, Orange, Trans-neon Green Plus some occasional gray tones for joints. Like any good space faction, Beastron also has a cool modularity feature. In addition to being giant mechanical beasts, the Beastron mechs can also enter "Beast Mode" by splitting apart and combining with parts from other mechs. This allows Beastron to create new beasts on the fly to suit any situation! Need the fast legs and tail of a panther to turn the Gorilla into a more monkey-like beast? No problem. Want to add upright gorilla legs to the Panther to turn it into a bear-like beast? You got it! And that's just an example of what you can do with two of these mechs. Imagine the possibilities with a whole fleet of beast mechs! I hope you enjoyed my new faction. I encourage you to check out my other entries for more details on the figs and builds. What other beast-themed vehicles should the Beastron add to their fleet? Let me know in the comments! Beast, Oky

Meet the brave crew members of Beastron! These beasty boys and girls specialize in surviving the harsh environment of a jungle planet. Commander Anna Konda The leader of the Beastron. She is a brilliant strategist and can keep a cool head when things get heated. VultureWing Pilot He is the pilot of the Beastron's starship, the Star Vulture. He is excellent at navigation and with his VultureWIng jetpack, he can easily patrol the skies of the jungle planet. Radio Scientist She is a specialist in communication and sensor technology. The Radio Scientist has all kinds of equipment that will help the Beastron find the rare Zonama flower they're after. Harvest Specialist Once the flower has been found, the Beastron call upon the Harvester to retrieve it. He is equipped with a Claw & Cutter robot arm pack that lets him cut through the foliage and recover the flower with precision and care. Gorilla Gauntlet Specialist Once the flower has been retrieved, Gorilla Gauntlet Guy can carry it back to their vehicle or even all the way back to base if necessary. His powered gauntlets give him extra strength to lift heavy loads or remove obstacles. Monkeybot Mechanic You can find a number of these cheeky little guys scrambling around the Beastron base and starship. They're usually busy fulfilling their main function which is to assist with menial tasks such maintenance, but they can also be a bit mischievous sometimes. I hope you like my beastly bunch. Let me know who you like best in the comments. Beast, Oky

Welcome to Beast Base Beta, one of Beastron's outposts on the jungle planet Zonama. Here they can dock and fix up their mechs as well as prepare any recovered Zonama flowers for transport off world. The mechs can gather the flowers on the lower platform, then with the pull of a pin, the can be dropped into a container below for shipping. Later, the Beastron crew can exit the mechs over a ramp, run diagnostics on them in the control center, and make any necessary repairs with the tools from the nearby tool rack. One of the mechs at this base is the Gorilla mech. It is one of Beastron's strongest mechs and could definitely defeat 100 spacemen! The Gorilla mech carries extra large power cells on its back to optimize its strength output. Another vehicle that can be found at Beast Base is the FROG-Rover. It's not very big and not part of the Beast Mode system, but it's perfect for transporting cargo and crew around the base. On the back it has an energy hook so that it can pull the container once it has been filled up with flowers. Let me know what you think in the comments! Thanks

The Prowling Panther is one of the vehicles that the Beastron uses to traverse the jungle planet Zonama in search of rare flowers. As the name suggests, it's a mech that resembles an Earth panther. Its speed is unmatched and its plasma-powered claws can cut through virtually anything! On the back, it has space to store some equipment. Not only that, but the back half of the mech serves as a cargo hold for any Zonama flowers the crew finds. The cockpit can open for the pilot to enter. Let me know what you think in the comments! Thanks

Just saw the leaked DS pics. So… that’s it? That’s the big $1000 set? 10 dioramas stacked to look like a slice of the DS? And sure, it has a crap ton of figs, but at 9000 parts it just doesn’t feel worth it. The last one also had a lot of figs, but it was way cheaper and had a lot more scenes, plus it actually felt like you were buying the whole Death Star due to the spherical shape. I think if the backside of this one was a detailed model of one half of the DS, it would be intriguing, but as it is it feels like a less interesting version of what we’ve had before, so I’ll be saving my money.

I also just watched the new special. Indeed an oddly timed ad for the market set, although the last special also dropped long after the castle that it was promoting was released. @OttoRiver already spoiled it, but I’ll put it in a spoiler tag anyway:

This is what I see. I just noticed that the other recent posts did get shared, but only appear under photos and not as posts on the page. It seems that only posts that don't have a link show up as posts. Very odd.

To be clear, I’m not talking about posts from before this change (although I agree those would be nice to have too), I mean what has been posted since then. If you compare the first page of the frontpage with the last few posts on the Facebook page, only about 4 of the 15 frontpage posts were shared on FB. Is the FB functionality really that limited?

I did notice that the FB page has been more active lately which is great, but it's not nearly as active as it could be. A majority of the frontpage posts still don't get posted on FB. Would be good to see all of the MOCs and announcements shared on there.

My guess is that the pin connects to a plate 18677. It can be any frictionless pin, but for sturdiness it can be the tan kind with the axle on one side. And yes, the lift arm is likely hidden in the fireplace.

I don’t have this set, but I’m pretty sure the sliding is achieved using a Technic lift arm connected to the underside of the lid in the back left corner via a frictionless pin, hence the oddly shaped cutout on the back of the coffin to fit the mechanism. Not sure how the minifigure raising is done, but there are several ways to do that. Hope this helps.

Thank you! Thanks! Very interesting suggestion, although it would be hard to pull off. For one thing, they would have to be pretty small scenes that fit within a 6x6 space to fit in front of each “lens”. The other challenge is that for the stereoscopy to work, there would have to be some offset in the scenes to give the 3D effect. But it’s worth a try, so I might experiment with this!

Thank you!

Hi everyone. This is my entry for the Build Your Hobby contest on LEGO Ideas. If you like this, you can help it become a future GWP set by giving it your vote here. Anyway, let's talk about it! My non-Lego hobby is VR gaming. I love virtual reality because it allows me to be anyone, go anywhere and do anything! I can literally step into the shoes of a daring space hero, explore strange new worlds, fight alien monsters, and find epic treasures, all from the comfort of my own home! All you need is a VR headset which is what I have recreated here. But this is no ordinary life-size headset. If you open up the front, there is a whole vibrant virtual world inside, just one example of the kind of imaginative places that one of these devices can take you! It includes an astronaut minifig so that you can play out an exciting VR space adventure. You can find the extra life behind the waterfall. Discover the Easter egg hidden in the cave. Fight the monster and retrieve the red ruby! Best of all, this VR headset actually kind of works! It's hard to convey in pictures, but if you look through the lenses on the back of the headset, you can see through the eyes of the hero just like you would in a real VR game! This entry has been selected as one of the finalists, so again, if you like it, I would appreciate it if you'd click here and give it your vote to help it become a GWP set! And let me know what you think in the comments! Thanks, Oky

My Rebellion entry:

One of my favorite scenes from Andor, a show about the formation of the rebellion, is the introduction of Luthen Rael's gallery when Mon Mothma comes to discuss the difficulty of funding the rebellion due to heightened Imperial surveillance and her decision to add a new member to their circle to help with that under the pretenses of buying a gift for her husband. While Luthen's assistant Kleya distracts Mon's driver Kloris who was hired to spy on her, Rael leads Mothma from the bright and clean showroom to the dark and messy backroom. Just as he is talking about a two-faced divinity, he suddenly reveals his own true face as a spymaster as the camera cleverly pans around the two and they start discussing rebel business. It's an excellent scene filled with brilliant writing, acting, symbolism, and Easter eggs which I tried to recapture in this MOC. It's a great example of how some of the rebellion's most important members had to carefully meet in secret while hiding in plain sight to make the rebellion possible! Luthen: "Senator! What a pleasure to see you!" Mon: "You as well, Luthen. Sorry to be so late. It's as though right as you're leaving everyone remembers all the things they meant to bother you with." Luthen: "Free your mind, senator. This is a place where time stands still. It's hard being surrounded by this much history and not be humbled by the insignificance of our daily anxieties." Luthen greets Mon Mothma in his friendly Antique dealer persona. The door to his gallery can turn to open just like in the show. Kleya: "Can I show you something?" Kloris: "Oh, don't bother. I couldn't afford anything here." Kleya: "Please. There's no harm in looking. We just got in some terribly interesting coins!" Kleya distracting Kloris by showing him some ancient chrome LEGO coins. Mon: "Don't lecture me on vulnerability. No one is more at risk than I am. You think I haven't thought this through? I'd be the first one to fall!" The backroom has show-accurate Easter eggs such as the Indiana Jones' whip in carbonite, the Sankara Stones, a Jedi holocron, and a Sith holocron. Other items include restoration supplies, Count Dooku's chrome lightsaber, and some statuettes. Luthen's desk in the backroom includes a secret listening device that can be pulled out. Here is Kleya operating it as seen in Season 2. Instead of trying to make it 100% accurate, I decided to fill the gallery mostly with antiquities from LEGO Star Wars history. There are parts and entire outfits from various old and rare minifigs. There is also an old blaster and a minikit. However, there are also some objects from the show such as the Utapaun monk cudgel that Luthen showed to Mon, a Kalikori, a Gungan shield, a Kashyyyk clarion, and... whatever those 3 white pillars are. And no, I didn't build this just to show off my collection (although that was part of it). A closer look at the minifigs that I created for this scene. From left to right: Exmar Kloris, Mon Mothma, Luthen Rael, Kleya Marki. I hope you enjoyed this scene as much as I did making it. It was more challenging to build than you might think. I had to use various techniques to recreate the angled front and back walls and have it all connect to the floor at a 45 degree angle to recreate the diagonal floor pattern. May the force be with you!

My The Crew entry:

Captain Jak Starraider and his crew are a band of space pirates who are entirely comprised of cyborgs a.k.a. mods. Whenever they lose a body part, they simply replace it with a robotic one, making themselves stronger in the process. Also known as the Red & Gold Pirates due to the colors they wear, each member of the crew has their own task aboard their ship. Loyal to no one but their fearless captain, they roam the galaxy in search of spice, credits, and adventure! Captain Jak Starraider is the fearless leader of the Red & Gold Pirates and the pilot of their ship. He has replaced his left arm and right leg with those of a protocol droid and enhanced part of his head with cybernetic implants to help him chart space routes and device cunning plans for their raids. He wears a jetpack and his weapons of choice are an old blaster and a custom lightsaber. It is his dream to one day discover the fabled treasure planet of At Attin. Doc is the ship's medic and the one who installs all of the crew's cybernetic mods. He is a highly intelligent Duros with doctorates in both medicine and robotics, but his methods were considered too controversial which led him to become an underground modifier and eventually join Starraider's crew. He has modified one of his own hands with various instruments to help him perform surgeries. While he prefers to stick to the confines of his lab and is not much of a fighter, the crew can always count on him to support them with a stim during battle and to patch them up afterwards. Astro is a grumpy old Dug who serves as the crew's mechanic. He lost both of his arms in battle and had them replaced with astromech droid legs, giving him his nickname. No matter how much damage their ship takes during their raids, Astro can always get it going again! Over time, he has made about as many modifications to their ship as Doc has made to the crew and the two get along fairly well due to their shared interest in machinery. Bertah is a big, strong Sullustan woman who serves as the ship's gunner and the crew's muscle. She lives to fight and has the mods to prove it. She always leaps into battle first and has lost over half of her body as a result. She wears heavy armor with a life support system and has replaced her lower half with Droideka legs. Bertah is the polar opposite of Doc - where Doc is calm and calculating, Bertah is loud and impulsive. This often puts the two at odds, but having saved each others lives many times, they still respect each other. Bertah can always be found carrying her heavy blaster rifle and many explosives. What would a pirate crew be without an exotic pet? Meet Polly the Cy-porg! Polly was a porg with broken wings that the crew found during their travels. Feeling sympathy for her, Cpt. Starraider adopted her and had Doc give her droid arms and legs as well as a small jetpack so that she could fly again and even help out in a fight. The whole crew is very fond of her (Jak likes to refer to her as the ship's morale officer), although Astro tends to get annoyed when she playfully steals his tools. I hope you like my mod-ley crew. May the force be with you!