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Cheers, loves! This was built for the Overwatch contest on Lego Ideas last year, but unfortunately I couldn't get it done in time. However, I am still quite proud of it, so I wanted to share it anyway. When Overwatch hero Ashe heard about the Queen of Junkertown's treasure and how difficult it is to steal, she saw it as a great challenge and a way to make a name for herself, so she devised a plan to infiltrate Junkertown and steal it. She fashioned Junker disguises for herself and her trusty sidekick B.O.B. out of junk with which she planned to enter Junkertown under the pretense of wanting to enter Bob in the Scrapyard fights. Ashe plans to use this fight as a distraction while her Deadlock Gang would sneak into the Queen's vault and empty it. Basically, this is a Junkertown-inspired re-imagining of these characters from the game. In case you're not familiar with them, this is how they normally look like in the game: Ashe wears a hogdrogen canister on her back that connects to her mask in order to protect her from the poisonous environment of Junkertown. Ashe's mask can be taken off and replaced with a cheese slope nose. Ashe wears spiky armor and razor claws on one of her wrists for close combat. Her saw-blade hat can be used as a throw-weapon and her belt carries various tools for scavenging and surviving the harsh outback. Ashe has her "eyes on the bad guys". Bob doesn't look too different, although he does wear a bit more armor and spikes, and a belt buckle with a gear instead of the Deadlock Gang logo to hide his affiliation. The Deadlock Gang logo is also absent from the back of his vest. "B.O.B! Do somethin'!" Just like in the game, Bob has three cannons that can pop out of each arm for his ultimate ability. Bob traded his bowler for a more outback-appropriate fedora. Here is a close up of the loot box. You feel the urge to open it, don't you? Thanks for looking, and remember: Play well, play Pharah!

Hi everyone. I don't come around this forum very much anymore since the lack of imagination in the last few Star Wars movies and waves of sets has made me lose interest in the theme a bit. However, when it was announced that one of the categories at Bricks LA 2020 was going to be vignettes based on Return of the Jedi, the first SW movie I ever saw (and the true end of the Skywalker saga as far as I'm concerned), I knew I had to build a few of them. I challenged myself to take a unique approach to each one. So without further ado, here is the first one: It is a microscale recreation of the scene where Jabba in his Sail Barge is planning to feed Luke Skywalker and his friends to the mighty Sarlacc in the Dune Sea on Tatooine as a Bantha passes by. The challenge here was to get as much detail of such a large scene into a 16x16 space. I'm quite happy with how it turned out. Before we continue, I must tell you something about the next vignette: It's a trap! Well, that's the title of it anyway. It's everyone's favorite space admiral during the moment in Return of the Jedi that made him internet-famous. Meanwhile, the Battle of Endor rages behind him. I used forced perspective to get this whole epic scene within a 16x16 vig. I really had to use my head(s) for this one as everything on Ackbar from his eyes and mouth to his hands is made out of minifigure heads. It is this part usage that earned this MOC the first place in the RotJ Vignettes category. The third vignette I built represents the final scene of the movie and Includes real ghosts... sort of As the rebels celebrate their victory over the Empire on the forest moon of Endor, Obi-Wan Kenobi, Yoda, and Anakin appear to Luke as force ghosts. It uses the classic Pepper's Ghost effect to make the force ghosts appear. This is achieved by using Brickstuff lighting and a large trans-clear Lego panel that is at a 45 degree angle to the viewer to reflect the hidden ghost figures. You can see a video of this effect in action here. Here is a peak behind the tree that is hiding the ghost figures to show you how it works. It's a fairly simple trick which I hadn't seen anyone use in a MOC before. Well, that's it. I hope you enjoyed these builds and may the force be with you!

Wow, what a snoozefest. I usually don't jump on the Lego Marvel hate bandwagon, but there really isn't anything good to say about this wave. Spider-Girl and Spider Noir are the only new characters, but they're not nearly enough to make me buy such ugly looking sets. The updates to the Avengers figs don't even look that good imo. I love mechs as much as the next guy, but this is just too much, and these are so lazily designed with those Nexo suit pieces. The last venom mech is still on the shelves and looks way better than this one. That truck, that AIM tricycle, that spider-cycle-mech-thingy... What were they thinking? I guess with no big MCU movie to base sets on, TLG is completely out of ideas.

No, they appeared in Major Vonreg's TIE Fighter, the Stranger Things set, and an Overwatch set before.

Do you mean to tell me that after so many remakes they finally made the perfect piece to improve the nose of the Landspeeder and they didn't use it and used it on the engines of an X-Wing instead?!? What was even the point in remaking the Landspeeder again then? The Mustafar Duel set is disappointing as well. I was hoping it would be a superior remake of 7257, not a worse one. As others have said, it looks like a 4+ set. The rest look decent, but not impressive enough to rekindle my interest in the theme.

I can't speak for other jaded fans, but I for one have no problem recognizing when Disney has done something right with the franchise, and The Mandalorian is certainly such a case. However, it is this type of cruddy passive aggressive behavior from TLJ fanboys that is making it so damn hard to have a civilized conversation these days. But yes, the fact that it is exclusive to a new streaming service that not everyone has yet is probably one of the reasons it is not talked about as much. It is also difficult to talk about it without spoilers, and there have only been 2 episodes so far which is only about an hour of content, so we can't really judge the series fairly yet. However, what has been seen so far is pretty good. I'm very impressed by the quality of the cinematography and effects which are as good as, if not even better than, in the movies. I'm digging the Western/Samurai movie feel of it. The main character is just the right amount of cool, mysterious, and relatable. I like how they make him look like a capable fighter, but also vulnerable and human (unlike a certain MaRey Sue). His ship also looks cool and iconic which makes me wonder why TLG didn't choose that as the first set to be based on the series. I also have no problem with the shortness of the episodes like some people seem to have. I rather have short quality content like this than have it be stretched out and/or lower quality. There is not much else to say without spoilers, so the following will be in spoiler tags: I have also been enjoying Resistance even though its aimed at a much younger audience and takes place during the same time as TFA and TLJ because unlike those movies it knows how to write engaging and original stories and characters without ruining fan favorite characters. One other thing that I don't see anyone talking about here is Jedi: Fallen Order. Many people seem to be skeptical of the game (and coming from EA, that's understandable), but I for one am looking forward to it. It looks like a Uncharted-type game set in a galaxy far, far away which I am totally down for. Hopefully it's good or at least decent. Any thoughts?

That looks great for your first non-Technic MOC! But I don’t understand what you’re asking. If you have no problem using LDD, why not just use that to generate the instructions by clicking the button in the upper right corner and printing them out? There are other options which you can find in the LDD forum, but this would be the easiest.

You’re right! The two sets have a similar shape too, so I bet you can combine them back-to-back. You can even see some of the blue ghost world branches sticking out from behind the subway. That almost makes up for how lackluster that set looks. Almost.

I don’t think so. If you look closely at his face, he definitely has a happy expression as opposed to the neutral face of a dummy or regular skeleton. And yeah, I agree with the criticisms about the box art. While they’re neat artworks, they make it hard to tell what’s actually in the set and to tell them apart on the shelf. I think the portal set is meant to represent the ghost realm On the other side of the portal and the green/bluish atmosphere there is making jack look so ghostly, which is ingenious in my opinion. [spooler]Or if the hidden side is as cold as its inspiration, the Upside Down, maybe Jack really is suffering from Hypothermia. [\spoiler] Really? Which ones? I know Cole got turned into a ghost for a while, but he didn’t really die. I guess Garmadon and Zane did, but they got revived, so does that count? There was also that dead Aqua Raiders diver in Atlantis, although that was more an Easter egg than them killing off a named character. Can’t really think of anyone else...

Nice sets. But wait... Is El Fuego dead?! Is this the first time Lego has killed off one of their characters? He seems to be undead, but still, that would be Quite bold of them to do. And why is he a skeleton and not a ghost like the rest? So many questions! I'm also loving the radical 90’s redesigns of Jack and Parker! Fanny Packs and backwards caps FTW!

Interesting ideas, but I don't think it's very fitting for the HS theme. First of all, HS is all about hunting ghosts, not witches or creatures. Secondly, what makes HS sets so cool is that they always have a neat transformation feature that turns objects into monsters and your two example sets have none of that. Besides, popular myths such as these have been overdone and would make the sets kind of unoriginal. HS might be limited in its variety of baddies and locations, but that's part of the charm of it and what makes it unique. While I would love to have a more varied spooky theme like Monster Fighters, I don't think HS is meant to be a theme like that. The way I see it, HS is basically a haunted version of City, so if anything, I think an HS subtheme should be similar to City subthemes such as Construction (haunted construction vehicles/site), Airport (monster planes!), mining (monster drill!), Farm (haunted harvester!), Deep Sea (J.B.'s ghost hunting sub vs. sunken pirate ghost ship?), firefighters (a firetruck modified into a ghostbusting vehicle like the school bus vs. a burning tree/house monster), Snow (monster snowmobile or snowplow), etc. I think there's still a lot of cool stuff they can do in and around Newbury.

Time to bring this thread back from the dead... It's alive... IT'S ALIVE!! Happy Halloween everyone! Awkward Halloween by Okay Yaramanoglu, on Flickr

I don't think the budget really matters. The fact of the matter is that they had the budget to produce the new legs, wherever it came from, so it seems like they could have used that mold from the CMFs for the sets. However, if they were being produced at a different facility at the time, that would make sense I guess, thanks.

Yeah, but why? The CMFs came out around the same time as the sets, or even earlier, so it's not like they didn't have the medium legs available. It just seems like they didn't think this through.

Sorry to derail the 2020 discussion a bit, but I just noticed something in the recent sets. There is some inconsistency in the way TLG uses the new articulated medium-sized legs. They use them in all the Prisoner of Azkaban sets this year, but in last year's Hogwarts Express which is also based on Prisoner they use the younger, short legged versions of Harry and friends. You could argue that they grew up over the course of that school year, but the Knight Bus set which represents a scene prior to the train scene has Harry with the medium legs. So which set do you think has the wrong legs? Sorry if this has already been discussed.

Uhm, what kind of "SJW points" did TLM2 score exactly? The movie is about siblings learning to play together and, as the movie puts it, "the death of imagination in the subconscious of an adolescent," and it was plenty entertaining to me. There's nothing SJW about it except for a hint of feminism, but that only ever came up in 1 or 2 scenes. Hardly a detractor for the movie, let alone a reason for the Brick Race to be cancelled. Franchise fatigue and the sequel's late arrival are much more likely reasons.

That's a good point. Due to the inclusion of all kinds of monsters makes MF much more open to expansions, mods, and MOCs, especially when it comes to the antagonists. While there are dozens of minifigs in the CMFs alone that you can add to MF, there are so few options for more ghosts to add to HS that people had to create a thread to find them. Very true! Not only is the steampunk/monster realm setting more interesting, but it also makes it much less a product of its time like HS. And yes, that Haunted House is gonna be hard to beat. You say that as if it's a bad thing. Bring it back, I say!

While HS is cool in its own way, I much prefer MF. It has a much bigger variety in monsters, giving it a strong Halloween vibe, and I love the ragtag steam/dieselpunk aesthetic of the Fighters. Comparatively, HS is just City with ghosts, which has its own charm, but just doesn’t feel as halloweeny. I prefer the more fantastical approach of MF. I like that it has bigger stakes (the whole world versus just one town), and a larger, more experienced group of heroes to handle such a large threat. Or maybe I’m just a curmudgeon who doesn’t like seeing a theme catering towards the smartphone-obsessed kids these days where the heroes are a couple of teens who save the day by playing on their phones, idk.

Cool theory, but who the heck is Phil? Phil Lord? That thought had crossed my mind too actually as soon as I saw the first movie. Yes, Emmett is obviously Finn's avatar since the whole first movie revolves around Finn working out his issues with his father in a Lego world, so it would seem like a logical conclusion that Business is Emmett's father, but Emmett and Business never give any signs of knowing each other, so it seems unlikely. Besides, it wouldn't have any effect on the story, so does it really matter if they're related? Also, by that logic, wouldn't Sweet Mayhem be Emmett's sister? That can't really be since they're two different species (a minifig and a pink skinned minidoll) from different planets, so the relationships of the people playing the Lego characters don't necessarily have to carry over into the Lego World. And I don't think President Business had any relationship to anyone from the Sistar System either. Finn's mom was represented as Ourmamageddon, an event rather than a character, and none of the Bricksburgians seemed to even be aware of aliens before the Duplos showed up. I'm pretty sure he was just too lazy to deal with an alien invasion, much like how Finn's dad was too lazy to parent his children and left it up to the mom to stop them from fighting.

While the sets are based on the first incarnation of the show, I decided to check out Lauren Faust's reboot of DC Super Hero Girls partly because of the existence of the sets, but mainly because I am a fan of Faust's work. While it is extremely silly and obviously aimed at young girls, it does have that same energy and humor that made MLP so enjoyable, so if you're a fan of that style of animation, I'd say give it a shot. I've only seen snippets of the previous version which the sets are based on and while it seems to have a more dramatic tone to it, it wasn't for me.

Well, that trailer is exactly what I would expect from Abrams: 50% nostalgia, 40% unoriginal content, and 10% teases that go nowhere. Yeah, JJ, I'm sure Rey is just gonna turn to the dark side at the end. It's not like they did the exact same thing with Luke in his third movie in a much more subtle way. Oh wait. A desert skiff scene, a forest, Lando piloting the Falcon, A, X, and Y-Wings, Star Destroyers, and now this. Yup, this movie is gonna be just as much of a ROTJ rip-off as I thought it would. The only thing missing now is a Porg army defeating the First Order. Over half the trailer is just a highlight reel of the previous movies to make you all nostalgic and make this feel like an epic conclusion to a saga which Disney has hardly contributed anything good to and which we all know is going to continue in a couple of years anyway, so not only is that conclusion unearned, but also just a lie. The only thing I'm curious about is how they're gonna explain where the Resistance got those A- and Y-Wings and why the hell they didn't just use those in TLJ instead of the useless bombers in that film. It would be hilarious how bad this trailer is if it wasn't so tragic what has become of this saga. At least the TV shows are still good.

I'm not saying everything should be gritty, only certain things. And a series about a bounty hunter in the outer rim, a Mandalorian no less, is just one of those things. In regards to the main films, I absolutely agree that they do need to be more lighthearted to cater to a wide audience (I will defend Ewoks and Jar Jar 'til I die), but when it comes to things like TV shows and one-off movies like Rogue One, I think they should be allowed to experiment with different tones and go a bit darker. It gives us a new perspective on the galaxy and differentiates it from the main saga. That way those of us who want a more gritty SW show can watch it, and if that's not your cup of blue milk, then you can just stick to shows like Resistance and the main movies.

While it's no secret that I am very much against all these pointless live action (and not-so-live-action) remakes, I'd have to be a heartless monster to hate on this one since much like with 101 Dalmatians, seeing real doggos on screen does kinda make for a good new experience, especially knowing that they are rescues. It's ironic though that the one remake that I'm willing to give a pass is the one they decided to dump straight onto their streaming service for some reason.

Oh my.... With this and the Obi-Wan announcement, I may just have to get a Disney+ subscription now. From the music and the quality effects to the gritty tone, I'm loving everything about this! Much more excited for this than The Rise of Disappointments.

Interesting concept. I was a huge fan of the Disney Afternoon as a kid, so I'd love to get more minifigs from those shows! One possibility of course would be a Gadget's Go Coaster set with RR versions of Chip & Dale and ideally Gadget herself and Monterey Jack too! I also really want Darkwing Duck, but even though I like to think that I know quite a bit about the parks, I can't think of any attraction that could feature him. Any ideas? Like the Rescue Rangers, there are other characters which have rides based on them and would therefore be no-brainers such as Pinocchio, Snow White, Beauty & the Beast, Winnie the Pooh, Mr. Toad, Roger Rabbit, Monsters Inc., Inside Out, Bugs Life, etc. Here are some other suggestions for which characters could come with which attraction set: Pluto - Mickey's House Sleeping Beauty, Gummi Bears, Gargoyles - Sleeping Beauty Castle Jungle Book characters - Jungle Cruise Tiana, Prince Naveen, Dr. Facilier - Mark Twain Riverboat Pocahontas and John Smith - Sailing Ship Columbia Oogie Boogie, Santa Jack Skellington - Haunted Mansion (with extra parts to convert it into the holiday version) Lilo, Moana, Mulan, Miguel, Kuzco, Yzma, Kronk, the 3 Caballeros - It's A Small World Merlin, Arthur, Madame Mim - King Arthur Carrousel Mary Poppins - Main Street Streetcar Wreck-it-Ralph - Starcade Judy Hopps and Nick Wilde - Autopia Treasure Planet characters - Astro Orbitor or Space Mountain Atlantis: The Lost Empire characters - Submarine Voyage We also need Cruella De Vil, Quasimodo and Esmeralda, Carl Fredrickson and Russel, and minifig versions of the Tangled characters. Any idea where they could be included?