billyneon

Hello - I was wondering the same thing. Every year I never finish an entry in time, but this year I've got the time and parts, and was hoping the competition would take place for end of 2017?

A very handsome creation! More than just 'pretty decent' :) I often find some modular MOCs are too extreme, so this is just to my tastes. It looks a lot like the buildings you see in European cities with its recurrent and repeating design flourishes.

Hi - can anyone who owns this set tell me the dimensions of the box? W, H & D? I am travelling to the US during double VIP and near a LEGO store so tempted to pick this up and take advantage of the slight cost/exchange rate saving, and some extra points. But I don't know if it will fit in my suitcase...

There's double points on Monday?

Are we allowed to include a wintery build inspired by a Christmas version of an official licensed LEGO character?

The big dome piece is one half of this: http://shop.lego.com/en-GB/LEGO-Santa-Holiday-Bauble-850850 The small dome is http://brickset.com/parts/design-50747

I've had a bunch of licence-related MOCs on the go for ages, but this time last week, inspiration struck - and I've quickly pulled together this MOC of 'The Homer'. This is the car from The Simpsons episode Oh Brother Where Art Thou? where Homer designs a terrible, terrible car for his long-lost brother's car company. In the show, the results are disastrous... But for me, this has been a lot of fun. I built it across three evenings, and used the recent Hot Wheels version of The Homer (only £1.75 in supermarkets here in the UK!) for reference on the proportions. I avoided looking at the one or two other MOCs of this out there. DSC_0263 by MOChael, on Flickr That's the main image and the gallery has more shots, including some comparisons for size with Wetwired's excellent LEGO Ideas ECTO-1 from this summer. Most pleasing part of the build has been using part #12708 - this is one half of the Christmas Baubles you can by from LEGO S@H and the retail stores. I've wanted to use one in a build for ages (and have a bunch of ideas in my head but not had any time to implement them until now). Here, I think the contours inside the dome (which usually hold a dish when actually used as a christmas bauble) suit the windscreen really well. It's obviously an unorthodox piece, but I do consider it a true LEGO piece - the whole on the tab at the top of the dome is stud-sized! That's how I was able to make something with a Technic peg/pin that created a structure to hold the horn and also helped hold the dome in place. I build it with a bunch of PAB wall pieces - that lime green colour is rife at the moment, and spot on here - plus four Mixels packs and some of my spares.

Congrats Brickmasta - very impressive. Not had a chance to finish mine yet - as you know (I shared pics with Brickmasta back in March) our approaches are a bit different, and I've been working on stabilising the wings, but that's lead me to diverge from the original. How did you get the turbines to fit in the end?

This is a staggering piece of work - beautiful, and technically impressive.

I've uploaded my pictures to Flickr - should I create a fresh thread (as this thread is about Brickmasta's build)? I don't want to derail his project - although I'm also wary of splitting the conversation! Or maybe I should stray over to the licensed section and start a thread there?

I'll sort out some pictures later of my build - not sure what the etiquette is when it comes to posting your comparable MOC in someone's thread though! I have had the cockpit sans nose ready for about a week, but like the wings it has needed a lot of fixing to make it more stable. Certainly, as Brickmasta has pointed out, the digital version is not designed with actual physics in mind - for a start, the very basic Technic joints and fixings get yanked straight out of their socket when you attach a wing.

Brilliant! As I said in the Movie Set Wishlist thread I am working on the exact same kind of project - have been copying the video game's footage and layouts and have built a rough version of it all in LDD. I've now ordered all the parts and am about 2/3rds through building. I'm finding the wings unstable too, but haven't myself quite cracked how I will make it stable yet. I also don't have the right kind of hinge yet to get the wings as flush as yours. Although my Bricklink order is due today, so who knows. It will be interesting to compare our MOCs and see how we've created the same thing, but different!

Ah, wonderful. As i thought, stability looks like a real issue! I'll have to drop him a line, or it seems his an EB poster too - maybe he'll crop up in this thread!

No, that's not me. Got a link to them? I've been searching to see if anyone else has attempted this to no avail so far!

See a lot of people mentioning The Batwing in this thread. I'm actually in the process of building a version of it, by referring to the video game's in-game model and the unlockable build of it. I've pretty much got the LDD file and part list sorted, and am waiting on just one Bricklink order left before I start building. A few things to note about it already... - Not sure if this is true of the model used in the film, but the game version actually features bricks that are one stud wide and... five studs long, which LEGO don't actually make. This is clearest on-screen in the game during the Old West hub world, where you can see the underside clearly. - Pretty much everything else, however, is a 'real' piece (obviously, that's the film's entire 'hook') and the connections/build appears sturdy. I'm concerned the wings will be a bit unwieldy, though - and am assuming the whole finished ship (which will measure over 50cm wide given the wingspan) will be more a display piece, not something my son could easily swoop around. - In total, it's over 1,000 pieces, which suggests that, if LEGO were to release an official version, it'll be $100+. The cockpit seats four, so it'd be four figures with it, right? A lot like Benny's ship. I doubt LEGO would release it, though - it's about 990 black bricks plus 20 or so grey ones. - Also, some of the pieces are rare or at least hard to find. No UK sellers on Bricklink or Brickowl had about ten of the pieces - and each of those are some of the important final touches for the wing shape, etc and are needed up to ten times each. Anyway, will share some pictures when I'm done - should be during the week.

Big fan of 76001 - I even made up a black version, which looks pretty good. Wonder what it'd look like in other wilder colours?

Love it. Had always wanted to try my hand at making this. Would love to see a Minifig sized version

I went with this method in part when it came to building Cafe Corner. Here in the UK I had lucked out in finding a few big job lots via charity shops and classifieds ads. From that I had sifted through pulling out plates, things like 1x1, 1x2 and 1x4 (etc) in various colours, and smaller quirkier pieces for other projects. I resold the bulk parts (or sometimes, parted out sets) that I didn't want to cover the costs. I ordered a mix of parts direct from LEGO or via Bricklink for CC (specifically the roof bricks, tiles, pillars etc etc), but the rest were all second hand pieces from my batch buys (and most of them were in good condition, if not near perfect). It's a bit random, and your mileage varies, but the total outlay in the end for my (MOC-meets-MOD, given its mix of substitutions) version of CC is about £80. Yet the facade is near enough the same. Like the comments above say, used pieces have the potential to be marked or have some wear, but if those bricks (eg brown walls or larger plates for the floor) are unseen, it's not necessarily a big deal. I find it a good way to get through an other wise expensive hobby!

Yep - I have an idea that I think will fit the battery box - and the rest is lights (and their wires). That doesn't contravene the rules, then?

Ah... the first EB competition I might enter. I know some experienced builders are disgruntled by the scale limitation, but to someone like myself, with lots of overly ambitious but unfinished MOCs, it's actually useful. In fact it has given me an idea already! Question - can we add power function elements (specifically, lights) to our entries?

I think this is great! My three year old saw this on my laptop, pointed at it and said 'Iron Man - daddy can you build one!'

Oh, I love 6672 - I still have mine! (And my two year old found it recently and clearly loves it himself!) Not as disappointed in the City range for 2013 as most say. It is terribly dull to have even more cops/robbers stuff, true. And like many I think a lot of the supposed 'gender imbalance' in LEGO could be corrected with some more adventurous City themes (or the return of Legoland/Town sets, etc). But I'm also fascinated that there seems to be some connection to the content of the Wii U LEGO City Undercover game, and am glad that sets like the jewel heist have some inventive/uniqueness to them. My issue with the 2012 wave's 'story' of 'the robbers have fled to the hills' in order to create a connection with the mining sets was that it was tenuous and felt a bit cynical.

FYI: The two Batman polybags are free with The Sun in the UK in two weeks - http://www.hothbricks.com/2012/05/la-prochaine-vague-de-sets-distribues-par-le-journal-the-sun/ Two Star Wars sets are also included later during the promotion.

Reading through this thread last weekend - and specifically realising that the red roof pieces were available via LEGO direct - inspired me to start my own build using Bricklink/my collection/LEGO direct etc. I actually posted some of the below on NeoGAF, where a long LEGO thread is running, apologies if you saw this there too. But I wanted to share how (relatively) affordably I have managed this. It is actually coming together swiftly and cheaper than I thought. I have pretty much all the bricks, save for some bits I plan to mod, such as the previously mentioned strange windows on the middlefloor. I am instead using 1x2x3 windows (with glass, too!), and that also means less bricks needed inside for the support wall behind the windows. That *may* create structural weakness, I'm not sure yet. My bricks come from Bricklink orders, and a collection I've built in the last six months (always been a LEGO fan, only in the last year have I been snared deeper into it!). Here's a cost breakdown: £5 - A fraction of the bricks from a £40 haul from a UK charity shop (I was really lucky here - had lots of half-complete LEGO Batman 1 sets), plus a huge £10 lot I bought of tan bricks from bay. £4 - Some bricks from Prince of Persia - Sands of Time: Race for the Sands Kit I bought reduced from TRU UK £3 - Bricks from the LEGO City Train Station that I bought for £18 in the sales at Christmas £50 - Bricklink orders (4 separate orders - probably paid a bit of a premium sticking to UK only buyers) £20 - LEGO.com direct order (specifically the Red Roof Tiles and other Dark Red pieces plus the arches for the canopies - it was cheaper from here than through Bricklink) £10 - Bricks from a few PAB wall trips (but only bits and pieces, as the rest of the cups were for other projects) £7 - Baseplate Total: £99 (including postage for those that I shipped in) Importantly, there are a bunch of other substitutions I have made. I'm not foolish enough to pay for blue columns or arches, and will use the dark grey instead, and the back walls you rarely see will come from the big supply of substitute bricks I have also built up. But hopefully, when we start building this over the next week or two (with help from my wife, who is keen to actually furnish the insides and make it a real restaurant and hotel!), we a) will get a relatively accurate rebuild that b) has been relatively cheap to put together. Also, if you're in the UK - a few PAB wall visits (Stratford and Liverpool) have shown they currently have an number of bricks (grey and tan bricks one stud wide) that are key for substitution - oh, and nice light blue bricks too.

I'm having a very similar problem - but with 7781 (Batmobile/Two-Face Escape). I am building this from a collection I bought with no instructions, but all the instructions online - LEGO.com, and the Brickfactory, etc - all are just too dark to see where black pieces go. Anyone know where I can find lighter scans or alternate guides to building it?