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Precisely! And thanks to you - always fun to help out with a Captain Braunsfeld story! Thanks Kai! The banana bunch technique was borrowed from one of the other banana plantations in BoBS (Elostirion's, I think). Haha, yeah, banana/palm trees are kinda capricious in my experience - the leaves either put themselves all right almost all by themselves or they don't, and there's not a whole lot you can do about it! That Gloogloo farm? Looking forward to it! Thanks Professor Thanks Ayrlego! I really like those blue flowers - gotta get some more of them sometime! (Well, some, actually, since these are Kai's ) As far as I know that'll be perfectly fine! @Captain Braunsfeld is the one running the story, so he can let you know for sure, but I don't think there should be any problem with that Sounds like an interesting investigation anyhow, looking forward to seeing it

The Strange Stuff is continuing on Gunpowder Island! This time it's the monkeys and the ETWC setting up shop with the newly created cocorite bananas on the island... (Picture linked to topic)

Something strange is going on... So far: Explosion on Gunpowder Island A Message Is Sent A Message Is Recieved At The Headquarters Encounter in the Jungle Don't Shoot Examination Subjects Meanwhile... In the Laboratory Never Alone A Scientific Breakthrough Air Strike A Surprise Reward ... Soon word of the delicious cocorite-enriched bananas of gunpowder island had spread like wildfire throughout the Brick Seas. Everybody wanted to get their hands on the exquisite bananas. The Queen of Corrington had even sent her special ambassador to bring a cargo of gunpowder island bananas back to the capital. Naturally, during the initial rush the bananas were going for quite a decent price... and so the General and Marquis set up shop. Merchants from all over the colonies, and even from the Old World, lined up for miles to purchase a cargo load of bananas. And while the General and Marquis run the operations, the always business-savvy ETWC has partnered with them to get in on the profits as well... I mean, well, somebody was going to have to climb those trees... One more pic: And there you've got my contribution to Captain B's Mystery Island story-line! Hope y'all have enjoyed this installment and the whole story - I know I have! Thanks for viewing, C&C are welcome!

Ooh, looks like it wasn't exactly a wonderful month for pirates this times around (well, except for Montroy, [though we did sink one of his, I'll take it ] ...And for LeColeon... and a few Sea Rats. Alright, maybe not so very bad for anybody but Captain Nordau ). And we're back to the rowboat, it looks like! Well, this definitely deserves a MRCA result build anyhow - I'll definitely try to get one built for it!

What Faladrin said! - I had to double check to see which one of you this really was Very nice installment in your story, and I like that Gloogloo in the background there...

Very nice little puppet show there, mate! - love the way it's all so compact and can even be closed for travel! The color-scheme and those gold tooth pieces give the carriage an appropriately fancy look too

Really nice job on this windmill, Spud! Those sails are great, and the olive green does an amazing job spicing the tower part up!

Amazing job with all those angles here, Ecc! The star points on the main keep and all the angled towers give this a special, unique feel among LEGO castles! The Mitgardian colors and the brown are just spot on here as well, and your trees are great as always! Wish I had been there this year to see it in person!

As Exetrius said, thanks a lot for running this contest, @Peppermint_M, and congrats to the other winners and runner-ups! It's always great to see Ninjago MOCs, and there were a lot of very nice ones built for this!

Thanks guys! I was quite happy with how the photography turned out, and I really like using these colors! Thanks mate! Glad to hear it - that was the goal! Thanks Captain! Another tree was originally planned to form the right border of the scene, but Kai suggested that they were looking a little too un-tropical, so I stuck to this one, which didn't stand out too much by itself. Yes, I believe it does - probably a SR national park or something (that's what those are for, right? ) And yep, I was thinking of the monkey (I am in the ETWC, you know... ), but as Rm points out, there is also another Sea Rat parrot... and a few Olean frogs... and a Corrie crab... No other minifigs though, that I know of, anyways! Thanks Rm! We certainly need more pirates! And yes, there are a lot of animals around, actually (though they're not all visible in the pics). Thanks Bart - and no worries, it took me about another three months to get around to building this! That was referring to the monkey, in point of fact, but as I mentioned to Captain Dee, there are actually a large number of ears around (do crabs have ears? ) Hope you guys can get it figured out! Maybe a few raids are in order? ...

Very nicely done, Ayrlego, the unusual tree colors look great, and I'm loving that arch at the entryway! Those stickered (printed?) parts look perfect here as well!

The infamous Captain Nordau and a representative of the Sea Rat port authorities take a walk on a Garveyan boardwalk in Freeport, and in the process a large bag of DBs and some papers change hands respectively... only time will tell where it all will go from here! But, little do they know, they are not alone - other ears are hearing every word that is said... And a shot of the infamous pirate Captain on the beach: Hello y'all! A little scene to officially inaugurate my Black Flag Captain's agreement with the Sea Rat authorities - the details of which, for the curious, are that which Captain Nordau has bribed bought the future silence of all Sea Rat port authorities (i.e., the location of the Captain's ship(s) won't be published in the KPA when he's in a SR settlement) in exchange for 5000 DBs and a Class 4 ship which he has given to the Sea Rat faction. And yep, we did get the court's approval and all, so all's fair and above board - figuratively speaking, you know Oh, and no, this is not the start of another ETWC monkey story, I just couldn't resist the urge to get at least one monkey in the scene! Was really happy with how the sea background worked out; and it was awesome getting to crack out that light yellow for the beach! Thanks for viewing, C&C are welcome as always!

Great to see so many familiar faces back in the guilds for the challenge! That little boat design and the wood-work are quite nice here, and the landscaping is well done too, especially those trees! If I've got one critique it'd be about the black, though - I think that kind of border is usually just a hit or miss kind of thing, and just a little bit of trans-clear or trans-clear over blues (or some trans-green, maybe!) would have given a little more color to the build overall. But this is certainly a nice entry, and it's great to see something from you again! Here's hoping for more before long!

And that's the kind of build that makes me wish I was still in Mitgardia! I love the number of rooms and scenes (and story-plots) you've got into this build, and the amount of detail you've managed to fit into each - a couple of my favorite bits being the dark green in the stonework underneath and the tapestries on the hall-room walls. That roof and the log framing of the walls definitely deserve mention as well - top-notch stuff all around!

That floor! That's definitely what stands out in this build to me, but the chandelier, pillars, and balcony are all very well done too! The story is intriguing as well - and somewhat troubling, as a peaceful (well, semi-peaceful ) member of the guilds, if you know what I mean! All in all a very nice entry!

Now this is one massive castle! Nice work, Drawd; even with all the gray you've managed to keep it from being too overpowering, and that roof adds some great color to the build

Not to sound like an echo, but those hieroglyphics and the lighting are fantastic here, and I'm quite a fan of the burnt orange as well! Photography is stunning as always too. Glad you were able to find time to enter!

Lovely landscape and hilarious story as always, Captain! That seagull catapult is quite ingenious!

Erm - so what exactly happened to Monday this week?? Sorry about that, guys, yesterday totally slipped by me Anyways, for that update I promised: Leading Family (Rego): Amancio, Rego of Varlyrio, shipmasters (@Rogue Angel)Secondary Families: De Fiori, sword-makers (@Garmadon)Third rank: Lords of Baiamonte, soldiery (unclaimed family), Chiaro, merchants (unclaimed family), Khaor, cloth and leather merchants, tailors (@narbilu)Fourth rank: Cioto (unclaimed family), Conzaga, wine-makers (@Basiliscus), di Carlo, merchants (@ZlatanXVIGustaf)Fifth rank: D'Gatto, artists and antiquarians (@mccoyed), Di Cioto, profession unknown (@W Navarre)Sixth rank: Waythe, judge and mercenary (@Judge of the Wastelands) The first post will be updated accordingly. Be warned, though - a lot of you are holding on to your rank (or your new rank) by a thread - you may have to get going if you want to hold on to it!

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Excellent build here, great job with the pirate hideout feel, and all those lanterns are wonderful. My favorite little detail has got to be that window frame at an angle, though! And 10,000 votes? Congrats, mate!! It's been way too long since we've got official LEGO Pirate sets, and getting this as one would be amazing!

Thanks! Hahaha, thanks Ex! I almost questioned myself with the change from white to tan with the exterior (it would have been a lot easier in white, for one thing! ), but the main thing I was after was getting the inside as show-accurate as possible (as I always do with my Ninjago builds), so tan it was! For the exterior I did follow the set instead of the show though, for once, since the outside originally (and it was only shown for a split second) was quite lacking, and the set was really nice. Glad you like those windows! Those were one detail I was not ready to do without, but I assure you, figuring the right thing out was not easy! ...And it took an awful lot of brown neck brackets! Thanks again! Yeah, those stalks, hahaha - and those were a last minute addition when I had been incredibly careful all along to make sure nothing would stop the sides from opening completely...

Thanks mate, glad you like it! Yeah, nice to do something different in the castle genre, for once! Haha, thanks! I've mostly just recently tried replicating specific pictures or scenes in LEGO instead of coming up with the whole idea myself, and it's quite an interesting challenge to get just right! Ha, ha, that is true! - it'd be awfully hard to capture the dark white marble feel in LEGO without some really impressive photo and lighting set-up! Thanks mate!

Nicely done - this is a scene I would not have expected to see in brick form, but you've done a very nice job with it! Both your reference picture and the build have a video game sort of feel to them, and the background with the brown slopes looks quite neat! You've gone for a very bold color-scheme as well, but the water and stone army vault in particular turned out great!