Grand Admiral

Wow, lots of replies since yesterday... I'm not sure how much I can talk about at this point, so my replies will have to remain vague for now, at least until more things are officially released. We were allowed to request certain pieces to work with. Some pieces we received, others we did not. A lot of that had to do with which pieces were scheduled to be produced this year. LEGO has certain piece runs in certain colors each year. Some of the more complex and expensive to produce pieces simply aren't available to LDD. Some techniques were limited... and LDD won't do certain things. There were times we had to ask LEGO to check something in LDD that it should be able to do but wouldn't. Unfortunately we didn't go anywhere. Everything was designed from our own homes using LDD. ;)

I prefer to think of it as an "homage." I was not trying to "ripp off" captain Harlock. I watched it on TV when I was a kid, so it was a fun inspiration for a large ship. Anyway, hi everyone. I had a bit of registration problem this morning, so I've been unable to log in and comment until now. Chris has handled the comments fine thus far. There's a lot more to see, and honestly I think they could have chosen better photos for the Brickjournal article, but maybe that's what they gave Joe to work with. There are 2 more vehicles for the Skulls and 2 more for Justice that are not shown in the photos. We tried to give the vehicles some good play value, and honestly I think the ones you haven't seen yet will be the ones you like more. I know some have felt the Skullmecha isn't original enough, but it's a bigger, more deluxe version of my Deathskull that I created a few years ago, and LDD had the appropriate parts to make it possible. Anyway, there's more to come, and I think you'll enjoy it. *skull*