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i think your title is waaaaaaaaaay too flattering for you, tt! i suggest admins change it to "EB's village idiot" :P

i don't think we can really help you with this... i'd suggest you visit the lego search engines and look for it there...

thanks! i try to create stories behind the things i build. i think it's fun! :oD

really people, haven't we discussed this only one million times before?

this topic more or less started in the pod review thread, but i guess it belongs to this part of the forum. this is my pod family. i created the first one almost immediately after getting the first blue pod 2 years back, but since then the family has grown to about 50 pods. the grey pod is mock-up of the real thing. it was created by the company to promote the pod project to all sorts of potential clients like the army. It was later on given to me, it was supposed to go on static display at the airport of Europbase 2005, but it ended up at my place after the cancellation of the Eurobase project... it never flew, obviously... the first production version was the blue type in the background. that one was originally designed as a maintenance ship for large space ships, buildings and structures. after all, every structure needs repairs during long missions. they can't just turn back to the shipping yard whenever they are damaged... Space Command almost immediately ordered a 1000 ships, and the private sector followed quickly. Construction companies saw the ship as an easy way to transport heavy materials like bars and bricks to higher construction platforms, governments bought the pod to replace old fire trucks with large ladders... Soon the tourist industry asked for a "light-version" of the pod. people would simply use the pod for sightseeing the city, business men would be able to rent one at the airport, instead of calling a taxi... the result is the blue pod in the middle. it doesn't have hardpoints for all sorts of equipement, nor does it have complicated avionics, it just brings one person from one place to another without the mess of traffic jams, noise,... Then the company decided to expand the family to even more specialised pods. The millitairy finally got the aggressive red "stinger" pods: they're small space ships with lasers and rockets. they're very easy to use, you don't have to have large base facilities, the parts are compatible with the other versions,... the large blue one is a small transport ship. they're responsable for local logistics, they supply small, isolated groups of people, especially when rough terrain prohibits other ways of transport... you also don't have to be a well trained and experienced pilot, the pods aren't difficult to control and the engines aren't particularly powerful. it's easier than driving a car... pods in other colors just refer to different assignments, different jobs... the green pods are normally used for environmental/geological tasks; white refers to science; yellow is general purpose; orange pods are experimental craft,...

Actually it would be quite easy to seige. Being surrounded by water an army would only have to surround it a varied points and prevent supply shipments from entering the castle. Thus starving the men inside which is actually the easiest and most effective seige tactics. As an added bonus while the men are bottled in the castle a small force could be sent into the countryside to burn, rape and pilage the peasantry. It is much harded to seige a castle built high on a hill. Which is why so many castles were built on them. i'm not so sure about this. Castles like these usually had a huge stock of food. it's far more difficult to occupy the land around it, because that army wouldn't have anything to eat. you wouldn't have any peasant either, because in war time it's their right to stay in the castle for protection. you'd also have no protection against any attack, weather conditions,... in fact, your strategy doesn't really make much sense. there are far too many strategic points in medieval france or belgium, close to any castle, to occupy. and if your groups are too small or too isolated, they will simply be crushed by the soldiers of the keep, usually even supported by knights... the only thing you can do is to take a huge army and try to keep the opponent inside his castle, but that means you're gonna have to keep your position around the castle for at least a year, and don't forget, western europe doesn't have sunny weather of california. you're gonna loose lots of people because of lack of food, deseases,... and then there's the question of you being isolated in a strange country. you'll probably get other armies in your back as well... to be honest, it wouldn't be smart to follow this strategy because your opponent is simply in a superior position... the water obviously keeps you away from the walls. why else do you think so many castles are surrounded by water?

i've got millions of pics and dozens of word pages about these pods. i just haven't uploaded them into brickshelf galleries... yes they all (we're talking about 50 pods) have an interior... these reds are millitairy pods, blues started out as maintenance pods, but they're performing all sorts of tasks these days. Green pods are environmental pods, doing all sorts of jobs associated with the environment... the white will be produced for scientific tasks,... some fly around others drive around, depending on the specific job they're supposed to do... they also use lots of different sensors, weapons, cameras,... this one is the civilian version, they don't have the avionics of the ones in millitairy service:

i had exactly the same traumatic experience! :'( it started somewhere last night all thru this morning! :'( thank god it's ok now... :D

Yeah, someone posted the list with prices, it says that the Batcave will be $99.99 :/ . so that probably means 120-140

hm... i'm mostly surprised to see uzis and stun guns... if lego keeps on following this road, next year world war I sets! the sets look interesting for parts, but i don't really see any brilliant set the batmobile looks good and he even seems to have a good cockpit :oD so i may be buying that one the helicopter stinks the boat... nothing really special... we've seen it before, an old town set, i believe the batcave looks big, pricetag is probably of the same magnitude they seem to have spent lots and lots of time on the minifigs and they look great

what time frame are you talking about? what colors do you remember?

sure it needs a some work, but i've seen much worse... i also don't know how old this guy is, perhaps he's just not as experienced as you people

sure the parts are interesting, but i'm mainly interested in the pod containers (the two colored discs and the trans-clear container). i turn them into small space ships like the one on the pic; sadly, the company decided to produce colored containers, so now i'm gonna have to buy the trans-clear containers on BL *sing*

i also find it a bit weird that parents forbid their kids to have a creative, usefull and exciting hobby |-/ however, all the best and hope to see you again one day, like many others who've claimed to go forever and never to come back...

Let me test that theory... *throws off roof* CRASH! Nope sure as hell isn't! :-D in reality, i can't see why it wouldn't... you've obviously never seen this legend: http://www.karenparker.net/Planes/NEAM/Gee...e%20Bee%202.jpg

isn't that lufthansa on the tail?

i have the catalog for the 2006 sets, it's basically the same as apo's, a million posts ago, but lego mentions the official price for all the sets in mine: isd: 139.99

great find! the set looks ok i was kind of hoping for the batmobile of "batman begins", not the classic batmobile tho

happy birthday! you're in good company! tintin celebrates his 77th today...

i usually lurk at belug.be, the belgian "lug-site", once a week or so, but that's it.

Bart Smit finally has the new sets in Belgium: yellow truck: 8.95

ok... well i hope you removed the stretcher as well :P so if you've removed the landing gear, how is your airwolf going to land? *wacko*

of course! we'll start the event at the airport, i guess... just saw that a plane retour ticket is 133

i agree, not bad, not really special either. i guess it's interesting for modifying the airplanes where the engines are concerned...

I think you might be confusing 'talent' with 'skill'. Skills are abilities developed through practice. Most anybody can improve their abilities in this manner. Talent is a special aptitude or natural ability. Simply put, talent is not something you can learn. A person with a particular talent will generally be able to further his or her skills at a faster rate than a person who lacks that talent. He or she will also be able to achieve feats above a person of no extrodinary aptitude. That is not to say that all talent is properly developed. The point is, you can improve your skill level, but the degree of improvement will be marked by your talent. Take this analogy into consideration: A Honda Civic can be tuned, and rebuilt into something faster, and more agile than the stock original, but underneath it will always be a Civic. It will never handle as well as a thuroughbread sports car. Much in the same way, many people will pursue a sport, or take up an insturment, however few will master such an undertaking. Now, if you don't take my word for it, I suggest taking a look at your Oxford Dictionary (or rough equivilant). Unfortunately, talent is something that cannot be learned. Later. i agree, however, i'm not really sure what lego has got to do with talent, tho... building lego models basically comes down to: 1) using your imagination, or trying to copy/modify work of others 2) solving the problems you encounter 3) knowing what kind of bricks you have, to do what you want to do... i think, in the end, it comes down to work, work, work.