Mike S

Fantastic robot! Don't worry about the hat... it is actually quite fashionable. Even one of the Kawashita family wears a hat like that, but in purple.

Nice builds! I like the landing gear on the spacecraft!

Great story and builds! Really like the final pic!

Love pic #3 with the minifig leg about to step on some scorpions! Funny stuff! Also neat that you included bits from other people's builds!

I really like your series of stories especially the fact that things don't always go as your character plans. I was thinking yeah, yeah, now he decides to escape and then he gets shocked. Excellent plot twist. And the build and minifig placement are great as well. Really like how you show your character sitting in his cell and the Octan logo with minifig arms is brilliant!

Neat vehicle! Perfect design for how I visualize MANTIS technology!

Great hanger and ship! The ship looks deceptively small in the first pic. Took me a couple of glance to realize its actual size....

That is one wacky machine! Reminds me of something from Pinky and the Brain....

Awesome build but I think it would look even better in Mantis colors.... Perhaps Octan stole this design from Mantis?

Funny story and hilarious illustrations, especially the "snake neck lady"!

Nice build! Great technique for making the asteroids and ships "float". The ships themselves actually make me think of robuko's build where the ships are carved from asteroids even though they are a different design.

Nice build! Really nice pic of the Zero mk II next to the tree! Nice color combos! I really need to build myself one of those to put in my garage...

Nice harvester! Also nice use of color for the landscape!

Nice shot of the camera! Nice build!

Nice landscape! Very alien!

Nice to see some wooden structures as a change! Nice build!

Haha, if only learning new information was so fast... nice build!

Nice build!

The cavern and stream below are really well done! Nice build!

That ship is genius! Great build!

I really like the direction you are going with for your AG builds. Definitely fresh and unique! And that is some awesome piece usage on the buggy....

Haha! Great story and build! Kraig's mail ship made me laugh!

Location: B05 - Marphacia Tags: Vehicle Voice Log of Mister S: "Kara Scel's special forces expertise actually helped me more than I expected. While I have extensive knowledge of tech capabilities and structural limitations, Kara has first hand knowledge of combat scenarios and strategies I had never thought of. Honestly, in hindsight, I don't know why I hadn't thought to request the input of a special forces expert myself. I suppose my overconfidence in my own abilities got the best of me. Well the short of it is, without Kara, I would have had a hard time coming up with this fantastic new design, and most definitely not within the deadline. Gotta say Kara is amazing! I have once again been summoned to a holographic meeting with one of Kawashita's top executives, most likely Akito again. I am confident in a better outcome this time around." A few hours later- Akito Kawashita: I have taken a look at your new design and am impressed. Mister S: I knew you would be sir. I must inform you that Kara is to be credited for a good portion of the design. Akito Kawashita: Yes, of course. It is now time to test the Tarantula HAM in the field. We have a few operations going on the planet of Marphacia. We want M.A.N.T.I.S to think that we are trying to sabotage their efforts there but in reality we have no interest in the planet at all. A few days ago we got intel of the location of the leaders of a M.A.N.T.I.S guerrilla unit that is a high level threat, not only to Kawashita, but to the entire Galactic Council. The unit is led by Thomas Terabyte, a top level M.A.N.T.I.S. programmer, and Anna Toxita, a Council bio-scientist whom Thomas recruited into the M.A.N.T.I.S corporation. Our agents have recovered data that indicates the two are in the process of staging a massive attack but the target has not been identified. Two hours ago, one of our probes identified both Thomas and Anna on Marphacia. We are sending the best retrieval team we have and you will be their heavy munitions support. Kara will be commanding the squad from the Kameko. Mister S: Oh wow! I finally will get to meet Koro! Akito Kawashita: No. Koro is not on attached to this mission. Mister S: But I thought you said the best retrieval team we had??? Akito Kawashita: Koro indeed may be our best agent, but he prefers to go solo. Besides, we need both Thomas and Anna alive and sending Koro in would only raise our chances of them ending up dead. Koro has another directive more suited to his specialty. I understand that the Tarantula HAM has advanced identification software. I am sending you a copy of the latest photograph we have Thomas and Anna taken about two years ago before they went off the grid. Seems that Thomas had programmed a drone to take their picture at one of the great falls on Hunstun. However great a programmer he is, he evidently is no photographic expert as the picture is very grainy. But you can easily identify them from it. If you come across them, do not kill them. Go get packed and be ready to board the Kameko. It leaves in an hour. This meeting is now over. [Transmission Incoming] And a few more hours later- Voice Log of Mister S: "The mission was not a success. While we managed to save a few local species who M.A.N.T.I.S were collecting to send back to their labs, we did not manage to locate Thomas and Anna. However it is likely that all M.A.N.T.I.S. personnel have now withdrawn from Marphacia as they all ran like Godzilla was chasing them when they saw me coming in the Tarantula."

Awesome job! I too like the "rocks" behind the braces! Nice location too!

I got pretty much got so burned out just trying to read all the posts that my inspiration dried up. I got to the point where, I was so uninspired I just stopped looking. I have concluded that less is more. While I won't deny that there were a great many interesting builds, I think the sheer number of builds reduced their appeal. You get a hundred "awesome" castles, they just don't seem so awesome any more. The bar has been raised so high in the "Historical" build category, that it has just about come to the point where you must have access to either a LUG or Pick a Brick wall as well as being completely organized to build something that even is partially inspiring. While I still have some uncompleted builds for GoH, I will probably be taking a break for a while as I build for AG.