Oky

Well, I just bought the PAB order I was waiting to get, plus a clone BP (one can never have enough of those, and they are usually sold out in stores). I'm not very excited about the poster. I might not even put it up and may sell it some day. But, boy, would it be sweet to win a Falcon! I have entered every other chance to win one and I haven't been lucky yet. Still, I'm hopeful.

Back in the present, on Raxus Prime, the group was trying to find a way to escape, but it was hopeless. Soon, Grievous came out of the sewers, and as he saw them sitting in his trap, he started to laugh. He approached them and said: "Foolish Republic scum! Did you believe that I didn't notice how you placed a tracking device on my ship? Did you really think that you could outsmart General Grievous? If I wouldn't have wanted you to walk into my trap, I would have killed you the moment we met in the sewers!" "So, what is it that you want?" asked Jim grimly. "Oh, I believe you know exactly what I want" replied Grievous. "The Sith holocron! Hand it over!" "Alright, General," said Jim, "You win. Here it is." He pulled out the fake holocron. "Excellent! Push it through the ray shield. It only affects living tissue." Jim did as he was told. GG took the little cube and inspected it. Oky whispered to Jim: "Why did you just give it to him like that? Now he's gonna find out that it's a fake!" "Let him," Jim whispered back, "This is our only chance of finding out what Dooku is planning." "What is this?" said Grievous angrily. "There is nothing inside this holocron! You are trying to fool me! Where is the real one?" "I'm sorry General," said Jim, "but we can't tell you that. You can do what you will, but we will never talk!" "Arrgh!" shouted the droid general in frustration. "We will see about that!" He walked over to his starfighter and got out a holoprojector. Soon, the blue image of Count Dooku appeared above it. "I have captured the Republic pests as you requested, master. However, the holocron they had with them was a fake and they refuse to tell me the location of the original." "That's alright, general," said Dooku in his usual calmly manner, "You see, I am already in the possession of the real holocron." "WHAT?" yelled Grievous, along with everyone else. "But... Why did you send me to capture these slimos then! What game are you playing, Count?" Grievous demanded to know. Dooku said: "Thanks to my personal spies, I knew that this holocron was a fake all along. These agents of the Republic have been a thorn in this operation from the very beginning. I needed a distraction that would keep them busy in order to retrieve the real holocron without interference. I now have the information I was seeking, and I am already on the planet where the relic is supposed to be hidden." "You wasted my abilities and skills on a mere distraction?" said Grievous insulted. "This is unacceptable! I will have a word with you, Count!" And with that, he hung up. Filled with rage, he turned to the group and said: "Well, since you don't hold any valuable information after all, there is nothing that keeps me from killing you!" Suddenly, Super Battle Droids popped up from behind the piles of garbage around them and surrounded the group so that there was no way out. Then, Grievous deactivated the ray shields, split his arms, and ignited his lightsabers. "You wont escape me this time!"

Well, I hope my new post will make it clear, but in case it doesn't, here is our current situation in a nutshell: Jim is holding on to the fake holocron which the Seps believe to hold information about the location of the Sith relic (which is currently unknown) while the real holocron is still being analyzed back at the Jedi temple. Dooku has sent Grievous to retrieve the holocron from us, and we are keeping him busy while trying to find out what Dooku is up to. No. Just delete it please, and replace it with something like: "EDIT: Oops! I wasn't paying attention. Please ignore this post."

They continued to run through the sewers. "So, anyway, I think that Grievous might remember us because he was with us when we created the Paradox that reset everything" said Oky. "Or he could have had contact with someone who remembers. I don't know. I'm not an expert on space/time paradoxes after all, just an engineer. But it doesn't matter how he remembers; what's important is the mere fact that he does and that he will be even more determined to stop us." "Wait a minute guys" Wouwie interrupted him. "I'm confused! Wasn't the whole point of this expedition to find Grievous and find out what he is up to? If so, why are we running away from him?" "Because," Oky explained, "there are flammable chemicals running through these sewers! If we start a fight in here, we could cause an explosion. We have to lure Grievous out of here before we can confront him." "Oh" said Wouwie, feeling foolish. There was a short pause, then Wouwie said: "So, what do you guys think he is up to?" "Not sure" said Jim "The only reason for him to be after us is the holocron. But why would Dooku send him instead of taking matters into his own hands?" "Maybe he just doesn't want to get his hands dirty" suggested JD. "But I guess the only way to find out is to ask Grievous himself." They reached the end of the sewers. Jim cut through the grate with his lightsaber and force pushed it out. They all walked out and found themselves in a small opening. Up ahead, they could see Grievous' Soulless One parked between a few tall piles of garbage. Jim said: "It's Grievous' ship! Maybe there some clues inside of it!" The group ran towards it, but before they could reach it, ray shields suddenly activated around them so that they could go no further! They had run straight into Grievous' trap...

Well, how about reading up on what you missed when you post next time before you make non-sensical posts! But you know what's going on now, right? No, I wasn't talking about that. I meant the reason why we are on RP. And if you would've paid attention, you would know that the reason why it's OK for Jaina to be with us is because she is the Jaina from the future, not the one from the present. (Yeah, I know what you're thinking: Time traveling! Right? ) There is nothing wrong with Grievous remembering Season 1.

? ? Woah! Woah! Back it up! Where the hell did that come from? How am I supposed to know where the relic is?? And why is it in pieces all of a sudden? I'm sorry, but this makes so little sense that I have to ask you to remove that post. Btw, your other recent posts didn't make much sense either. What is the "objective" you are referring to? The objective was it to find out what Grievous is up to, but now we are running away from him? WTF? So, if you guys don't mind, I will make a post now, ignoring Simonjedi's last post and trying to make sense of what he posted before. If that's supposed to be a question, then yes, I suppose we could. But seeing how bad the game is doing at the moment, I'm afraid it wouldn't be a good idea to revive it, even if the votes are in favor of doing so.

Sadly yes. The game is almost over and it would take too much time introducing a new character for the last few posts. Sorry. Come on, guys! Why is nobody posting? Now that we are all reunited, there shouldn't be any reason not to post! @Jifel: Erm... Are the pics that you promised gonna be there soon? Because if not, I have to ask you not to make such promises if you can't keep 'em.

Combine this with Tinn Man's Mythbusters figs and you've got yourself an awesome Mythbusters MOC!

Sweet! You just gotta love NERF! I wont be getting it, but boy, would I have loved to have toys like that as a kid! But you know what's even cooler? This! About what?

Oh well. Looking at the reference images, a spinax head would have been way too flat anyway. So, it's actually pretty good how he did it, but its eyes could've stood out more IMO. Also, the spikes are way too long and the body is too skinny. Time to make an accurate version of it!

If your are willing to "shell out anything for it", try bricklink or ebay. Besides, why would they sell such an old set again?

Awesome! Thanks, DDS! It's not as accurate as I thought it would be, but it still looks pretty cool! I think it's time to outdo him. Let the MOCing begin!

Yeah, I guess you're right. Oh well, he's a shapeshifter. That's all we need to know. Isn't it gorgeous? It's one of my most anticipated sets of the year! I always wanted some of those tachometer tile pieces, and this set is loaded with them! That's what I want to know too! If Robo Attack is below $50, I'll get it as soon as it comes out!

Lol. I see. Well, let's just call them ragdolls, because apparently they are not robots, but living beings, since they have souls and all. Actually, there are a lot more, I think. Just look at the trailer. There is that snake-like thing with the many eyes at 0:46, there is that thing with only one eye at 0:51, and there is whatever that is in the fog. And who knows what else is in the movie. Btw, I don't think you can call the monsters RDRs. Just call'em machines.

Isn't it obvious? So that Agent Chase (who seems to be the leader of the Agents) is distracted and Inferno can terrorize Lego City with his Mech without interference in the meantime! Good thing that Trace Fuse have the situation under control without the guidance from Chase. Some good points. But like Natman8000, I like to think that SlimeFace's power is it to shapeshift, so he can form his head into the shape of that of Dr. I. The white part on his hair could be just foam or something that resulted from the shapeshifting. The cloning theory is interesting. But why would Inferno clone himself? Another interesting question would be: What is in those tanks on the helicopter? @lego hand: Those are some excellent set suggestions! I had the exact same thoughts! (kinda creepy ) In fact, I was thinking of MOCing such a Skycaptain-ish base some day. PS: Don't mean to be annoying, but... Any prices yet?

I was just going to post this too! To be honest, I'm disappointed. based on this post, I thought it was going to be an actual Lego item, meaning a set or minifig or at least a keychain or something. Sure, it'll be neat to have a poster with all the SW figs, but I could whip up a poster like that with pics from bricklink in Photoshop any day myself! Oh well, if I don't have to spend too much money to get it, I will probably get it anyway.

Lol! They crossed out the CIS insignia on the tank and painted a Rancor mouth on it! I love these animated Comics! They are so nicely done!

Good point. But since it's part of a promotion, I'm guessing that that's just another one of those loopholes that TLC found in that contract. And they can't sell it here because we already have the other promotion going on. And who knows, maybe it's the Chrome DV that they are selling on May3 & 4! Btw, I didn't mean to be mean to our fellows in Europe in my post above. I just find it funny how people always complain even though there isn't much of a reason to do so.

Hehe, nice. That's exactly how I pictured it too. RDRs? Yeah, me too. From what I can see from the trailer, this is how I think the movie is gonna go: First, they show the humans loosing the fight against the machines. Then, they will go a little into the future where 9 wakes up in the post-apoc world in the house of his creator. He finds the box and watches the message from his creator which tells him what happened and why he was created. Then, 9 finds the other rag dolls (or they find him). Soon they get attacked by the machines and start going into hiding. At some point, 9 will speak up and tell the others that running away is not the best solution and that they have to find out why the machines are after them in order to defeat them. In the end, they find the Mother Machine and blow it up. That's what I think anyway.

As long as we have the randomly-inserted-into-sets promotion going, I highly doubt that we'll be able to just buy them in a store. And the Europeans always complain that they are worse off than us!

Huh? What kind of a question is this? Are we talking about minifigs or about which faction is better in general? Or is this just about the themes? And does this include Classic Pirates? I'm confused. EDIT: Reading the first post again carefully, I can see that this is simply a Battle of the Themes. However, the Classic Pirates-Yes-or-No question still remains. EDIT 2: After giving it a lot of thought, I have to say that no matter if Classic Pirates is included in this or not, Star Wars is the way to go! There is a much larger variety in sets, vehicles, minifigs, and exclusive parts. Also, the models of SW are much more accurate to the things they are based on than the ships, forts, and minifgs in Pirates. What kind of "other imperials" exists in the city theme? McDonalds?

Dunno. I know it from my Nightmare DVD. But Burton is making it into a full-length movie, so it will be on TV eventually. What does this have to do with anything anyway? Of course not! I am already making plans in my head of how to make a nice cat-spider thing. And according to Da Death Star, a MOC has apparently already been done (anybody have a link?). The challenge in making mocs of them is how to make the parts of them that are cloth. I'm sure the cloth from the upcoming Endor Battle set will be very useful for making a MOC of the bat-like machine. Btw, you guys are right: The cat-spider thing is shown in the trailer thrice, so it's definitely in the movie. The question is what its role is. It could be the Mother Machine (so to say) or it's just another agent of the Mother Machine like the cobra and the bat. The theory that they are just catching and bringing their victims to the Mother Machine makes sense. But why are they doing it? I can't wait to find out!

Good point. But seriously, as beautiful Nightmare and Corpse Bride were, having these robo-dolls sing would be taking it too far. Not true. I don't think that there was any clay in Sweeny Todd, Scissorhands, or Frankenweenie. But I see your point: This is definitely something new for Burton. Btw, does anyone else think that the fact that this movie is directed by the same guy as "Wanted" is not necessarily a good thing? I think that a lot of things in Wanted were extremely overdone which made it stupid, and in result, I didn't like the movie. However, with Burton producing "9", I'm not too worried.

Way to repeat what I already posted two posts above yours! Except that I didn't know about the "hosting" thing when I wrote that. I wonder what that is about. The voice-over people in costumes perhaps? An interesting choice having Artoo and Threepio host "Ambush". They weren't even in that episode. It should have been yoda. On a side note, from what I've seen so far, most of those Decoded facts seem to be somewhat obvious things. But it will be good if there is some EU information in there too, like there was when they did the same thing for Ben 10 Alien Force. Either way, I'm looking forward to these.

Sorry to force everyone together like that but I thought that this was the only way to get everyone posting again. @ Wouwie: If you want to finish your Folitas story, you can do so in flashback-type post. But let's please start to focus on the main plot now, OK? @ Bob: I said that you are with me, JD, and Garviel now since you said that you already landed on Raxus Prime and regrouped with us. Hope that's OK. @ Simonjedi: Sorry, but no space battle for you. We already said that you were on the Fortitude, and we really need to stick together now. And yes, I was kidding about not caring about you.