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Now that was a very risky move, but I definitely think it was worth it! This entry is tons better than your first one both in action and in detail. The man flying off the building looks excellent and I love the cannon fire. Your little prison cells that you made are very nice also, I really like all of the details in the wall such as the lion head and cutlasses. Good work on the waves as well, plus you included the lovely new pirate torsos. Improvement ideas: 1) I'm not so sure about the surfboard with the cannon on it... Perhaps a little boat would fit? 2) Maybe add a dead body in the water with some blood? 3) It might look nice to have one more plant on the right side. 4) That black plate under the water stands out a bit too much. I would advise changing it to blue or white. ============================================================================= I think that your bold move really paid off, and you made a great entry. Good luck in the contest!

I've been bamboozled! Well, the box looks nice at least!

Beautiful work SlyOwl! I love the "snitch" but how does it stay on the epaulette and what color is that? Your tents are so nice and colorful, plus they have nice shape. Great MOC!

I agree, we had lots of time, and while I still need to put the finishing touches on my small and medium entries, I'm sure I can get it done in time. Sorry to hear that you might be too busy to finish, but there are more important things than LEGO anyway.

Congratulations to you both!

That's much better. The new pictures are sharper, except for the one of the statue that's a bit blurry. I love the new torso on the man whose hand will be chopped, the bare arm is great. I don't like the white tiles on the right side of the water that don't match up to the shore too much, perhaps it would be better if they were up to the shore like on the front. Very good job making your entry look even nicer!

The pictures only have to be under 800 x 600 so you are fine there. Very nice improvements Dreamweb! The plants on the outside add a lot of detail and contrast, and Your updated torch looks much better now that it's a bit bigger. The only thing I'm not a big fan of is that troll sword, as it looks a bit out of place. I think a cutlass would perhaps be a wiser choice, but it's not a big deal. Great work!

You just have to wait for the Brickshelf mods to approve it. It normally doesn't take more than a few hours.

Ah, but have you braced for mine? The Kracken seems to be a popular idea for this contest, and I must say, yours looks excellent! Your SNOT water is lovely and I think you did a nice job with the monster's mouth. Very good head choice of heads for the minifigs, as they are full of expression. Some ideas for improvements: 1) I think that it would be good to integrate some white plates in the water near the boat to look like waves. That might look good near the tentacles as well. 2) The first picture cuts off the water a bit. Maybe you could take one where the camera is a bit further from the entry. You could also just replace the first picture with the second, as the second one shows everything well. 3) Personally I think that the plank would look better in brown instead of black, but that's not important. ==================================================================== You did an excellent job with this I think! The tentacles look great wiggling out of the water and the whole entry is very exciting. Good luck in the contest!

Ah, O.K. thanks for enlightening me. To edit, click on the edit button in the lower right corner of your post. Hope that helps!

That is just a stunning, beautiful, amazing, fantastic, lovely, adjective spewing entry! So much action going on here, Kahuka's smoke spiral is beautiful and his"pet" is wonderfully gruesome. I just love seeing all of the excitement on the ship, it feels as though I'm actually on it. This entry is so large and great, I have to divide it into sections. The ship: I think that the spreading flames are perfect and really give a sense of battle and action. It's amazing how you put those extremely detailed skeleton parts on, they are so menacing and detailed. You did a great job with the sails and rigging as well. The ship gets an A+! Water Great work on the SNOT water. Often SNOT water lacks detail, but yours certainly doesn't. Like I said before, Kahuka's pet is perfect. I also think you did well with the waves. The land Beautiful rocks with all of the detailed little caves and plants. The beach also seems to be great, although I can't see it too well. ===================================================================== The only flaw I can find is the lack of an external folder with close-up pictures! With such a great entry like this, I want to see all of the nooks and crannies. Overall, absolutely amazing work with this Lord King of Everything. Certainly one of my favorites.

Nice entry Matn! It has plenty of action and excitement, and you built it well. I really love the inside of the fort with the well, stands, the nice building and lots of action. Your dock is nice and smooth, I have to get some more brown tiles sometime... The cave where the women and children are hiding is a great and well-executed idea. A few improvement ideas: 1) The interior of the cave looks a bit bare. One thing that would be a great addition is a fire. Perhaps also stalagmites and stalactites. 2) I think that the well would look even better if the base was either all-grey or all-black. 3) Your entry could use even a few more dead, bloody bodies laying around in some of the empty spaces. 4) I like how you have a wave layer where the water meets the sand, and I think the same thing should be used where the water hits the rocky section. 5) The right middle portion of the water looks slightly empty, maybe you could add one more boat with more pirates sailing to the dock. 6) This isn't very important, but if you have enough, it would be good to put grey tiles on the turrets of the fort. Are those called turrets? ========================================================================== I think you did a really nice job with your entry Matn, and I wish you good luck!

Great work as usual Thrash! Now that I'm back from vacation, I'll be able to start my courtyard. That is, after I finish my PtV entries and reviews. This is a busy LEGO month for me!

You did an excellent job with this Lt. De Martinet! The water is beautiful and it's great to see that lovely dark blue boat in action. Your barrel is really nice and the treasure provides a good color contrast to the deep blue. I love the sneaky pirate moving in for the attack.... The wave created by the paddle is a great detail that you included. A few improvement ideas: 1) It seems that the italics are a bit messed up, since you used <> instead of []. 2) I think it would be good like LegoKing said, to add a shark fin or two sticking out of the water. It would fill up the water a bit more, and add some more excitement. 3) Taking a close-up of the pirate would be a wise move I think. ======================================================================= Fantastic job with your entry! I love entries that have what I like to call "Anticipation cruelty", where you know something bad is about to happen but it hasn't yet. To me, that about as cruel as it gets. Great work!

Your entry looks really nice Black Rabbit. The story is quite nice in my opinion. I like the "island outpost" feel to it with all of the trees, dock and platforms. Good idea behind the entry as well. However, there are quite a few things you should fix up a bit. Some improvements in the pictures area: 1) Make sure to re-size some of your pictures, or they will be disqualified. The maximum size for pictures is 800 x 600 and your last 3 are 1600 x 1200. 2) Your 5th picture is only a link, so I would deep-link it if I were you. 3) The first picture is the one that will be judged, so you should try to make it look as nice as possible. I would take one that is a bit more elevated than the current 1st picture, as right now, it's a bit hard to see some parts of the entry when it's near ground level. 4) The 2nd and 3rd pictures aren't focused on their subject very well, so you might want to re-take them. 5) Your pictures would look much better if the subject (your entry) was placed on a large piece of white paper or other smooth surface, with another on the back for a clean backdrop. =================================================================== Build-related improvements: 1) Where the water nears the sand, it would be nice to scatter some white plates to look like waves hitting the shore. 2) Maybe a crab on the beach? 3) The man with the scared head might look even better with both hands in the air. Currently it looks more like he's waving. 4) This isn't too important, but perhaps instead of the bow-tie torso you could make the man a soldier if you have the right torso. The bow-tie just looks slightly odd. ==================================================================== Your entry is very good! In fact, mainly the pictures need a bit of improving, the actual entry is excellent. Good work and good luck!

Welcome to Eurobricks AndersI! Nice program that you made there. I look forward to seeing you around!

Count me in as well. I do hope it's not a "bad surprise...." I love these raffles, they are very fun!

That looks much better already! The added blood next to the soldier adds a lot more cruelty. I like the updated minifig faces, but I think it would be good to make them all a bit meaner-looking like the pirate on the left of the balcony. Your guardhouse is great and fills up that spot nicely without crowding the entry. To put in your new pictures, just edit your first post and replace the old pictures with the new ones. The edit button is in the lower right corner of your post. I look forward to seeing some more of your improvements!

Beautiful work ISC! After seeing that little teaser picture, I had high hopes for this, and you didn't disappoint! I'm glad to see you really fixed the transition between the waters well. Your entry has lots of exciting action, a lovely giant squid and nice buildings. I love the "sheep attack". The buildings have great colors and detail. Combining white and tan for the colors was a wise decision and that building on the left has a great roof. The way you mounded the plates gives the entry and much more 3D feel, which is often lacking in MOCs. Some improvement ideas: 1) The right middle section of the water looks quite bare. I love LegoKing's idea of a boat with a cannon shooting at the squid. You could also have a little sailboat with a scared head minifig in it. 2) Maybe a few more bloody bodies? I also feel that there could be a bit more blood where it's used. 3) Perhaps you could put something on the top of the tower, as it looks slightly empty at the moment. Some ideas would be a cannon or another guard. =========================================================================== It's good to see how this entry came from an ISC mind-block ( ), to something as nice-looking as this. Great job and good luck!

Your entry is quite good, I like the little hut, with the nice palm fronds covering it and the entry has a nice large amount of plant life which I always like. The monkey climbing up the tree is a good little detail. Some improvements you could make are: 1) First of all, like I said in your small entry post, that bright green-yellow backdrop really distracts from the entry. I would highly recommend using a white background (or some other neutral color) instead. 2) I think it would be better if all of the attacked soldiers were imperials like the one on the cutting board. But if you don't have any more, that's fine. Another idea here would be to use only Islanders, like Zorro said. 3) The red arm doesn't look so great as blood in my opinion. Some red plumes or trans-red plates or tile would look much better. 4) Perhaps you could re-take the picture of the inside of the hut, as it's almost impossible to see anything. ==================================================================== So far, I think you've done a good job, and I think that with a few touch-ups here and there, it will turn out to be even better. Good luck!

Now that's what I call a very creative entry! You did a great job with tiling the entry to make it really smooth, and I love how you did the little "thought bubbles". The furniture next to the bed is also beautiful and so is the platform on which the dream takes place. I think that your bed is stunning, especially with the effect of someone in it. Some improvement ideas: 1) I agree with everyone that you probably should make that tan piece in the thought bubble white. I think it would be fine without a tile if you don't have an appropriate white one. 2) Zorro's idea with having even more piratey things on the floor is brilliant I think. A few ideas for things that you could put there are a hook, pegleg, gold coins, a headwrap and a pistol. 3) This is just an idea that I thought I would throw out there. Maybe you could have his mother looking down at all of his pirate things with a scared or concerned facial expression? ================================================================ Your entry is magnificent and certainly one of my favorite small ones up to this point. Fantastic work and the best of luck to you!

Nice small entry Davy Blocks! It has a nice story behind it, it's very smooth and has good action. The sloped sand looks very nice and makes the entry much more interesting. That a good choice of torso for the pirate, one that I've never seen used that way before. Some possible improvements: 1) I agree with Guss that it might be wise to include one larger plant, such as a palm tree to sort of enlarge the entry a bit. You could even just stack 3 of the types of plants you have now on top of each other.. 2) Perhaps you could take the pictures on a white or other more neutral color, as the green-yellow you have now distracts from your entry a little. 3) If you put a larger plant in, I think it always looks nice to put a parrot perched on top. ============================================================== Very good work on this. You captured the contest's theme, while not being extremely violent. Good luck in the contest!

Thanks LegoKing! There actually are sharks, only their dorsal fins are showing though, as I thought it would look strange to have a huge shark above water level.

I thought of a few more things that you might want to consider doing with your entry Paul Cantu. Some more ideas: 1) When and if you re-take your first picture, I would recommend turning the printed shields, so that the viewer can see them in the photo, as they add quite a bit of detail and it would be bad not to see them. 2) Do you perhaps have a parrot that you could put on top of the tree for some more wildlife? 3) You only have one flower part with actual flowers on it. I think that you might want to take the flowers off of that one, or put flowers on all of them. 4) Maybe some brown hair pieces under the tree to simulate coconuts? ================================================================ Your entry is looking nice so far, keep up the good work!

Lovely looking WIP Capt. Kirk! I really like the yellow and white together, they give a very nice warm look. The balcony is stunning with the details and nicely tiled railing and the plants climbing up the wall give a great color contrast. Your idea behind the entry also is creative, which is a big plus. To answer your yes or no questions: My 'I'm not so sure what to do with it' points: I think it would be a good idea to fill it with some clear plates to simulate water, but leaving it empty would also be fine. It's your call. One more pirate on the left of the barrel would look good I think. Frankly I'm not sure where you would find space for a soldier guardhouse, but if you did, it would be a welcome addition. I think that doing that isn't necessary and might crowd the entry a bit too much. That would be a great decision. A parrot would look good perched on the tree, and perhaps a monky next to the barrel with a sword in his hand to match your storyline. The only spot where I would put blood would be by the dead soldier near the front door. ============================================================= One thing that also would be good would be to add a lantern on the right side of the door to match the one on the left if possible. I must say that so far I'm loving the way your entry is looking, and I greatly anticipate seeing some more pictures when it's done. Nice work so far!