Cyclonis

I use gamespot for checking out games, but I have too noticed that they've been getting less positive in their reviews and such. Aah well. Anyway, Yeah I'll definately be getting the Wii, but probably later more than sooner, because of prices. Does anybody know when It comes out in stores in Australia? I'm guessing soon, as they came out today (19th) everywhere else. But anyway I'll have to check them out in stores. Also...I know this is sorta off topic (and pretty old), but does anybody own Paper Mario 2: the Thousand year door (on gamecube, not Wii, of course)? Can they tell me if its good and worth getting? Anyway, back on topic, I don't quite fully understand the Wii channels (i think thats what theyre called). Do the Wii tennis and the other Wii sports come with the consol built-in or anything, or do you have to buy them seperately? When I first saw the Wii and the whole remote-thing I had my doubts, but after reading so much on how easy and smooth it is, I actually think it might be alright. But I still think the good ol' controller are better (i love the gamecube controller!) Thanks for the review and everything. Game on! -Cyclonis

Ooh, thats going to be a dilly of a pickle to find. Maybe I could fine recular hull peices - Are there any ones sized thike that, in the same colours? -Cyclonis.

Aaaa-HA! That's exactly what I want! something that is a grey/black ship hull, with the classic royal knights style to it with a dash of castle still on the boats (battlements) and I'll add a sail to it. That's the very thing that I'd like. I'll have to see what ship hull peices he used and try to make one similar for my story. Not a complete copy...but quite close ;-) My knowledge of Pirate ship peices is very small, could someone help me out and tell me what hull and mast peices were used, and if I can add a sail to that mast peice/s, etc. -Cyclonis

We're just forcing Lego to make more crap sets, by buying them! Even if a set is crap, we still buy them for parts or whatever. This makes Lego with that we like the sets, so they continue to make the crap ones, and over time even make them crappier to see if they can get away with it. Whats bad, is, that they are getting away with it! We should tell Lego what to do, WE should be the ones to give critisism. We should buy the sets that we think could help Lego when they realise that they could improve upon it. Its amazing how if one of us were a member of TLC, we could improve so much upon their products. -Cyclonis

Hahaha. This is a good set. I don't own it, but would certainly like to. It reminds me of that KK2 set that has a little wall of a fortress, but of course, this one is much better. This is the kind of set I'd like to buy plenty of so I can join them and make someting massive out of. The Ram/Seige towers pretty good looking too. (three pairs of O's there.) The minifig count is very good, and they are fully equipped aswell, with sheilds and weapons. This set is awesome! Good stuff, Lego. I'm generous = 10/10. Its a good set to buy plenty of for a big fortress and big armies!

This is a nice set. Im not too fond of all the blue on the cart and the actual peices used, but the minifigs are great and has alot of shields, with a king and soldiers, and a Royal Knights flag. Only a Royal Knight collector like me of the age of 15 would dream of having a set like this, no matter if it's even the worse of them all! Great set - great minifigs, great peices/accesories, great horses, shields and the flag etc. Good job lego, 9/10!! -Cyclonis

Not only is it my first boat MOC, it's my first boat. Full stop. Of course I own the Viking longboat as I said before, but I don't actually own a ship so I wouldn't have a clue as to parts or anything. Thanks for the help, but I need further discussion. I guess I'll have to go with Phes' first picture, but what about a boat like that, but with a flat, square-shaped kind of back? Here, I'll give a pic of what I mean: Like that...kind of. I'll have a play around on MLCAD/LDraw and I'll see what I can come up with. I'll shows you all once I'm done the main bit and I'll play around with the colours and see what you think, etc. Well thanks. -Cyclonis

Hey all, For my story on my site, It is a medieval story which is based both on land and sea. I know I am giving away alot, but I'm planning on building an old ship/galleon for my story for the Royal Knights. What parts do I need to build this? I only want a small little ship for a couple of knights. What peices and certain parts do I need for the ship to look more medieval Royal Knights, than just Pirates? Anyway Thanks for your help. Its greatly appreciated. -Cyclonis.

Yeah, I made that Shadow Knight one. The link to my smiley gallery is in the first post. Yeah there was a stage where all the smileys were on there but the Shadowie is the only one left.

Hello fellow Eurobrickians, A while back I made a huge amount of lego smileys for this forum. At one stage, they were all added to the smileys lot, so that people could use them in posts. Now, when I go to post something, they are all gone, even when I click "Show All", they're not there, except for the shadow knight I made. I do believe that I have made a huge amount of KKII figs, and various other smileys including starwars faces and such, some classic 'grill' knights, and even some Hary potter faces. I also made a huge lot of Cowboy smileys. Where have they all gone? In my own opinion, I think that they were all accurate and very close-looking to the real lego minifigs. One person on this forum has the title of something along the lines of 'smiley maker'. my memory isn't accurate though, because I cant quite remember. Now... I'm not asking for a title or anything, and I'm certainly not asking for the other person's title to be removed (because that would just be rude and stupid of me), but I put alot of effort into making all these smileys, and I don't want my hard effort to go in vain. I'd like to see fellow Eurobrickers using them and sharing them. :-) Well, thats all I have to say. Oh, and here's my gallery of smileys: http://www.brickshelf.com/cgi-bin/gallery.cgi?f=147736 Well, thanks, -Cyclonis

You sure about that?: The little child wants attention and fame, but can't be bothered to work towards it, and is thus lying. I reccomend a topic closure until he has solid proof to prevent flaming and arguments, don't you? -Tilius- Aaah understood. I missed that post. Somehow i read them all but missed one. Anyway yeah now that he said "count me as highly i have these sets and you dont" clearly indicates that he is trying to gain attention and he wants other people to think well of him. Even if someone gets famous among this community, going and saying those lines make others think less of you. I can almost guarantee you're just here to annoy us, legofan459. -Cycl :-/ nis

For baseplates, I turn them upside-down and I rub the studded side into some scrap carpet or even the normal carpet in your house. Doing this to the baseplate immediately illiminates all the dust on the baseplate, even between the studs. Then you can get a shoe with a good, and of course, clean soul to it and then drag that in lines along the carpet. It pushes all the dust and hair and fluff in the carpet to one big pile. Then you can get rid of that. It may sound a little stupid, but it's ALOT easier than trying to get a paper towel and rubbing in all around those little studs.

Why would he be lying? It's not as though he's saying that he's better than us, he's just announcing that he got them. Sure, he may be (what i like to call) "fibbing", but don't disbelieve him because he wont take pics. Well, do you have a scanner? maybe you could scan an open-page of the instruction booklet, or shove one of the new torsos under there and scan. He may be lying, but then again, he may not be. I don't have much knowlege of release dates for these sets, so I'm not taking sides or anything. Maybe TRU got in some sets earlier than bricklink and ebay to make some even extra dollars. Who knows? -Cyclonis

Yeah, Castle is definately my favourite theme, and i build mocs regularly. Lately, my hardrive had been running out of space, but when I get more space, I will post my mocs very often, as I make them very often. We should also start a minifig review topic every week. This would be good, because I'd post more in that than a set review. With the minifig reviews, we can talk about how we use the faces and/or torsos, if we think it fits with the theme, the colour scheme, etc. And set discussions are great aswell, I love review topics. As nathan said before, - It would be more eficiant and overall a smarter-looking community if people post more than "cool" and "Wow" etc. We could also have a MOC review. And a Custom minifig review. Maybe even a peice review, like review the usuability of a certain peice, like the castle wal peices or swords or helmets or whatever. I also have a story on my site which is castle-based and have illustrated the story with edited and tidy looking photos. Maybe some other people might want to get into writing, and then we can make topics, showing previews of our stories and links to our stories and show people our edited photos and such. Im not sure, it sounds quite stupid now when i'm typing, because I can't find the right words...aah well its just a thought. Well, thats it for now. Sorry if people have already suggested it, but I have to leave shortly so I dont have time to read the other comments first. My typing may be a bit sloppy aswell, so apologies for that aswell. And like nathan says, God Bless you all!! -Cyclonis

That's painted, isn't it though. Anyway, yeah thats the best peice, alongside the grilled helmet, and neck-protector helmets and bullet helms. I'd like the shadow knight one more if it was in more colours, and I'd really like the rascus and danju visors if they were in dark grey.

Hey Phes thanks for the comments. As for the photograph being in medieval times - thats been pointed out to me before, I'll change it though in the next update. Its pretty stupid when i think about it...a photo being in the middle ages haha. I'll have to change that in my next update. See in the menu bar, how it has 'the tale' then 'characters' and 'landmarks' and such...and then it has a seperator bar? well after the seperator bar is the 'customs' bit...and the seperator was meant to indicate that the customs have no part in the story. Im not sure if this is very noticable. The 'Venolia' text is actually quite hard to read. I've just been experimenting with different types of texts and such for the site. As for the text in the yellow/brown background...I didnt even notice it. On my HTML editor, i set it as dark brown, but it automatically changes the links to white, unless i switch it to brown AFTER i activate the link. I know it sounds complicated, but ill have that one changed aswell. And lastly, I'll have to add some more pics to the end of chapter 1. That was originally meant to be chapter 2, but it was all too short so in a quick decsision i decided to shove it all in one chapter. I'll have the photos up soon however. I just had some more problems with actually building a lego shore for the story and everything. That part of the chapter will include more images though :) ANyway, thanks for the comments. Ill be changing some more things in the next update. -Cyclonis.

A Moc I made of The hatch from LOST. Includes Boone, Locke and Soyaer. Now, before we all start discussing stuff about the show...don't do it. I havent seen the full series, so dont go talking about what happens and such. Anyway, here's the pics: There a bit blurry and dark, but you get the main idea of the MOC, and of what peices i've used etc: Likeys?

Well, its been a long time sinse chapter 1 was released. It was released in December last year, and I just had to wait till christmas had gone by, and then I had problems with my photography. The story is set in a forest, and i didnt have enough trees and such so i had to decide if i was going to set it in nature, with real grass and such as backgrounds. Aaaanyway, I decided to just try and make the photo sets out of lego and try to dig up whatever sutiable lego possible for the chapter. It was hard, but I got it done and Im quite happy with it! It took alot of effort to build MOCs for it, I had to build a number of new trees and rocks, minifigs etc with such limited green/grey/brown peices. Also with school and all, I just couldn't find the time to do it all. But I managed. ;) Without further ado, let me present the Newest chapter of the tale of Venolia - THE FOREST: http://jollybrick.cjb.net/ Click on 'The Tale' and then click on 'Chapter-2' and there you go! Its two pages long, by the way. It was originally going to go for longer, but I had to cut the story up into several chapters. Please leave comments, and if you wouldn't mind, then please sign my guestbook and leave a comment there aswell. So...do you likeys? ;) -Cyclonis.

Well, I was wondering this. I'm sure many other people wonder it aswell, and maybe this has been posted before, if so, sorry. If not, then i need to clear the answer up for me (and maybe for others). So...Is it okay to have Pirates (meaning 'Ahoy!') intersect with Castle (meaning 'Let us ride to Camelot!') ?? -Cyclonis.

May I jump in and say that, if you already have some kind of Pirate helm, hat, bandanna or even just a hairpeice, some gray pants and a smiley (or better yet, an eyepatch smiley), and if you have a torso of anykind, you can just chuck them together, and use one of Anthony Sava's or LEGOFREAK's special Torso stickers and decals to put over the body for awesome Piratey-fun, without having to ask your mum about purchasing over the internet!

Well...that went by rather uncomfortably. :/

...this is great, but would all three ships be in the same place at the same time bunched up like that? ;) And what about that man in the canoe in front of the yellow ship. Poor little guy, his weak rowing is no mach for the three massive ships heading his way! :o I'm up for that, let's RAID!!! *viki* *knight* *shadowknight*

Hahaha, yep, did he look like this when he was singing: :-D If not, then I have NO idea! :-D

Umm, I didn't understand one bit of that post. Anyway, I think the KK sets have improved, seeing as they have now included more bricks rather than those massive walls (even though they are still in the set) but i still don't like it. My army consists of Royal Knights, so how can I possibly find this set useful? Still, it is alright. I'm not sure wether I will buy it or not. Maybe if we stop purchasing KK2 sets, then they'll realise how much worse KK2 is than the classic castle sets.

I dont wanna sound annoying, but can we please have a pic of some of the sets. Not just for me, but for other people too who don't know some of the sets. EDIT: oh sorry I didn't realise that big pic with all the sets on them there. *sigh* it refuses to load the image until right now, when i've already asked for the pics. Nice topic by the way. ;)