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Great pictures, but I must admit that what I really want to see is the actual Ikea TV unit after transformation Eurobricks isn't a hosting site, so attachments are very limited (usually only for avatars). So I can only advise you to host your picture elsewhere and link them in your posts (but it seems like I'm a little late).

Good to have you back in AG, Orange Leader. Welcome back

It's perfect for an Haloween speeder

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People stay on target! This post is to discuss rumors of Lego Star Wars sets for 2016, and that's all.

Not just for that, don't worry...

"If you find yourself wandering in the Wasteland, be sure to stop by the Red Rocket Refueling Station. There you may find scraps, Nuka Cola bottles and maybe some RadAway..." Watch this great Fallout 4 MOC by Eurobricks' Fellow Rolli!

Introduction In 2014, Lego released the Ultra Agents theme, with a bunch of hugjly trained agents, using lots of techological gadget to fight super vilains. That sounded promising, and it was! Today I'll review one of the entry sets of 2015 wave: Invizable Gold Getaway. One agent, one bad guy, a cool looking and transformable motorcycle, that sound great! But is it really? Set information Set Name: Invizable Gold Getaway Set Number: 70167 Number of Pieces: 236 Theme: Ultra Agents Year Release: 2015 Prices: £17.99 / $19.99 / €19.99 #70167 on Brickset #70167 on Rebrickable Packaging The front of the box shows the artwork for this wave: The Ultra Agents logo and Jack Fury looking straight into Antimatter's eyes. I'm almost sure they're doing a thumb battle, but we'll probably never knows. Of course, Invizable's ride and Steve Zeal's motorcycle are shown in action, with Invizable dragging a safe. It will be your mission to prevent him from stealing the gold! In the bottom left corner of the box is an indication that this set contains Appbricks. We'll see what these are later in this review. The rear of the box reveal all the play features. Agent Zeal's motorcycle transforms and can now fly, while Invizable's craft is shown sailing on water. Not sure if that's the best way to escape a flying motorcycle! The vault door can be opened to get the gold ingot it contains. And of course the stud shooters shoot studs... There is also an illustration of how to use Appbricks to build an Appbrick gadget and how to use to unlock content in the Ultra Agents 2 app. A side of the box presents the minifigs included, Steve Zeal and Invizable. There is also a stud shooter as size reference, and lots of translations in various languages. Content of the box The box contains 3 unnumbered bags of parts, an instructions booklet and a stickers sheet. There is a bag of large parts, a bag of medium parts and a bag of small parts. But the large parts bag also contains a small bag of small parts... Instruction The instructions booklet cover's art is exactly the same as the front of the box. And the back cover shows the usual "win boy" disguised as a CMF robot. Instructions pages are pretty clear and I got no problem identifying parts and colors. Their background is light blue with a grey fading and some technical printings near the edges. Two pages inform you that you should get the Ultra Agents 2 app, to use your newly acquired Appbricks. Those two pages don't give much details on the app itself, but that's something I'll explain at the end of this review. Just after the app advertisement, there is a page showing the whole range of this Ultra Agents wave. Minifigures The set contains two glasses-wearing minifigures: Steve Zeal and Invizable. Agent Zeal wears a nice enhanced suit with printed legs, and despite his grim face, he seems like a cool guy with his sunglasses and messy hair. Invizable attire seems to come straight from a 70's gangster movie or a Beach Boys video clip, with a nice dark red suit, a round collar shirt with what seems like a bills pattern, a large round pendant, a tan cowboy hat and golden glasses. Note that Invizable was featured in the Ninjago animated serie and seemed to be on the "good side". The torso's back of each minifig is printed, even if Invizable back printing is pretty simple. Steve's head is doublesided and shows him with a big smile. Invizable's head is also doublesided, picturing his face without the sunglasses. Interesting parts The set contains some rare parts. The 2x2 brick with rotation joint socket in trans-light blue only appears in 3 sets. The 6x2x2 windscreen with handle and the Light Cover with Internal Bar / Bionicle Barraki Eye in trans-light blue are only available in the Ultra Agents Mission HQ. The 6x6 dish with solid studs in black is new this year and is only available in UltraCopter vs AntiMatter(but is available with hollow studs). The 2x2 curved brick with lip is only found in the Gorilla Grodd Goes Banana set, on Wonder Woman invisible jet. Coincidence? Maybe... The trans-black 4x4 dish is exclusive to this set, even if it was produced before but printed in Star Wars sets. The most interesting parts of the set are the dishes. You got one exclusive 4x4 dish, four new 6x6 dishes in black, four 6x6 webbed dishes in light bluish grey and four 6x6 webbed dishes in trans-light blue. Build The first thing we'll build is Invizable's little jet. It's a very easy build, with only around 20 bricks, but with three stickers! Note that you'll have to fold down the wings for the jet to stand. The safe is then built. It has a nice look with the trans-black parts, a few trans-yellow parts and the two stickers with technical patterns. Surprisingly the base has both dimensions uneven. The door mechanism is well done and could easily used in MOCs. There is also a chain that can be fixed on the rear of Invizable's jet. With the first steps of agent Zeal's motorcycle we'll build a strong base on which everything will be connected. This picture illustrate something that bothers me in this set. We got 14 trans-light blue 1x2 plates, but most of them aren't visible in the final model. I don't know why the designer hid so many of these inside the model, while they could be shown and enhance the futuristic look of the motorcycle. The rear wheels assembly feels really bulky, and although the trans-blue rotation ball socket gives it a nice touch, it's not very nice looking. I really think the designer could have done it in a different and better looking way. As you can see on the final build, the front wheel construction is much less bulky than the rear wheel, and I think more fitting for a motorcycle. On each side of Agent Zeal are parts that simulate lights and what seems to be thrusters. There are also supports for two white studs shooters. These parts are very sleeks thanks to black curved part, but add to the bulky feeling of the build. The last build of the set is the Appbrick gadget. AppBricks are 1x1 black bricks with a stud on one side, and a special stud on the opposite side. To make them detectable by touchscreens, they are made of a different material. The build is extremely simple, but note that you can build the AppBrick gadget like you want, as long as the AppBricks stay at the same position. The spare parts notably include a 16L Dark bluish grey chain and a black lever with white base. Play features The main play feature is the transformation of Agent Zeal motorcycle. I was surprised that the wheels rotate toward the top, my sci-fi instinct would have made them rotate toward the bottom. The model looks pretty cool when transformed and obviously feels less bulky. I'm sure most will play with it in this form, as I found the "normal" mode not that easy to play with. First there is no steering mechanism, and with wheels that large and the blue bionicle eyes preventing you to tilt the model, you're up for only straight chases... The rear wheels don't turn well, but that's probably due to the parts being new. Agent Zeal is pursuing Invizable, trying to escape with the gold filled safe! Let's bet he is a formidable shooter, since the studs shooter guns are angled and so can't fire in front of the motorcycle. Some new sets (like the upcoming minecraft sets) includes stud shooters on plates. these would have been a better choice, but maybe they weren't available when this set was designed. Ultra Agents 2 App Lego create mobile applications to go with its latest themes. There is a Ninjago app, a Bionicle app, and of course an Ultra Agents app. There are in fact two Ultra Agents applications, the first feature last year's sets while the second features sets from this wave, including Invizable Gold Getaway. The application give access to interactive graphics comics, games and alt-builds instructions. The AppBrick gadgets can be used to play games or discover secrets in the comics. I'm not very familliar with that sort of applications, but it seems well done and rather easy to use for children. Even I was able to use it, and get access to the alt-build for this set. It doesn't use much bricks, but I'm pretty there is another alt-build that could be unlocked by winning games and discovering secrets in the comics. Conclusion Design: 9/10 - A bit too bulky, but still a great motorcycle! An the other smaller builds are quite nice. Parts: 10/10 - The parts selection is really nice with brackets, hinges and of course the dishes, and a nice amount of rare and unusual parts. Build: 8/10 - Clever and sturdy builds, but nothing exceptionnal. Playability: 8/10 - If you like vilain chases, this set is made for you. And who never dreamt of riding a transformable motorcycle? Minifigs: 8/10 - Agent Zeal suit is quite common (appears 8 times), but Invizable clothes are great, if you like their 70's vibe. Price: 10/10 - A very good price given the parts selection, even more when on sale. Overall: 53/60 (88%) - A great set, fun and affordable, with nice minifigures. Not much play features, but sufficient for a set of that size. In my opinion perfect for the targeted 7-12 years old children market.

Week 23 is over. Octan's fleet stays on I06. Kawashita's stays on D10. M.A.N.T.I.S.'s fleet moves from C02 to E01. First Aliens' fleet moves from E10 to E11. Second Alien's moves from H06 to G05. Third Alien's fleet moves from G08 to F09. (Map will be updated once the scores are posted)

Here is a description of my old photography setup. Light sources I had a light source on each sides, and one optionnal directionnal light source for top or front lighting. I bought very cheap lamp, but used cold white light bulbs that are more expensives but give better "daylight" light. Background I used (and still use!) A3 sized cardboard as background. The nice thing with the cardboard is that they are cheap, and they can bend easily. I bought different colored cardboard, but I mostly use the white and light grey ones. Camera I own a Samsung WB202F camera. It's a rather cheap camera with not so great settings, but it still gives me good pictures with the right settings (which are hard to find, so I don't change them often!). I use a small tripod to stabilize the camera, and I always shot 2 or 3 time the same picture, to later select the best.

I've started a new thread to help players with their pictures. If you feel you need help, or if you have usefull photography tips to give, don't hesitate to post in that topic!

To help players get the maximum out of their builds, they need to learn how to properly picture them. In this thread you will be able to do 3 things: Present how you take pictures of your model, how you edit the pictures, and give general advices Request help or tips for your pictures Give advices or tips to players As the threads grows, an index of photography settings and usefull tips will be updated. Thanks for your participation.

I'm very sorry, I was sure I've updated the map after posting the scores...

Please don't bump old topic, even more if you have nothing to add to the conversation, thanks.

I was just asking, I know how we can get very busy at times... Indeed the "update model" function is quite buggy

Could you check again please.

Any chance to get an update of Blueprint? I'd really like to have a bill of materials generated at the end.

That's a generic avatar that didn't make it to the final stage. I'll have to check if there aren't any compromising pictures in the AG directories.... Like nude pictures of Dr Long...

For Leia's instructions please go to Brick Fanatics or Luc's Facebook page. For Han's instructions you'll have to wait that Luc finishes it.

Hmm... I've already seen that!

No problem, I assumed the location on our super secret spreadsheet was the right one... I shouldn't have assumed anything...

Week 22 is over. Octan's fleet stays on I06. Kawashita's fleet moves from C10 to D10. M.A.N.T.I.S.'s fleet moves from A04 to C02. First Aliens' fleet stays on E10. Second Alien's moves from G05 to H06. Third Alien's fleet moves from on G07 to G08. (Map will be updated once the scores are posted)

Great crane, very true to the original! Good luck for the contest Can we get instructions please?

Great to see some Andromeda's Gates at conventions! I'm currently preparing an Octan exploration mission to Bordeaux, only 3 weeks left and I have so much to finish