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  1. MAB
    Nice. It is interesting that two mocs posted about an hour apart use that same / similar technique for the crenellations.
  2. MAB
    I don't mind rehashes for licensed themes. There will be key vehicles, characters or places that people will want to buy no matter when they get into lego. However, it is different for unlicensed themes. There is no reason to bring back say, galaxy squad or alien conquest, when they could do a new space theme in its place if they want a space theme. Similar therebis no reason to redo an old modular when they can do a new one instead.
  3. MAB
    Mars Rover.
  4. MAB
    I can understand things being ignored on general LEGO forums. Whereas where things are sorted by subject, then there is much less of a problem. Go to historical, and everything there is historical and there wouldn't be posts of people holding a UCS MF. Of course, there might be posts of people with the latest historical set (if ever they do one! maybe once the Blacksmith is released) but even then they do not dominate. If a MOC is posted in the right place, and that place has users, it won't be ignored unless it is somewhat niche. Posting a niche MOC in a general LEGO discussion area is likely to lead to little interest though. That is just as much on the poster as anyone else.
  5. MAB
    Plus an ALL NEW colour minifigure (to match your hair).
  6. MAB
    At least we got three out of four.
  7. MAB
    Any LOTR CMF series would probably have to contain The Fellowship, so that is nine places already gone. It is getting on for almost a decade since the first sets were released, and so a CMF series is unlikely to sell well if The Fellowship are not included as new customers will not be interested if they cannot get the key characters. The LOTR Witch King is another character that would be very popular for older collectors but places may well be taken up by orcs and uruks, as they will be popular for army builders. That said, it is unlikely to happen, so barely worth thinking about!
  8. MAB
    You probably use the wrong sites then. Decent MOCs posted here are rarely ignored.
  9. MAB
    There are the 14K gold Boba Fett and C-3PO, the figs that went to space, and so on. A Google search for rare lego minifigures will give you loads of information.
  10. MAB
    Buying the set is nearly always cheaper than buying by parts. You can often build 95% of sets like that for about half the value of the set. Then the rest of parts that are unique to the set or are only in hard to find sets will cost you the other half. There is a reason for it. If it was cheap to bricklink it, people would do it and sell as the set.
  11. MAB
    No. If you cant decide for yourself then you don't want it enough.
  12. MAB
    I can imagine it being used in other future sets, it has so many uses to get a small part at an angle.
  13. MAB
    The sharks would eat the llamas.
  14. MAB
    Yeah, I'm an arduino user too. By circuit, I meant the path taken by the "foot" of the leg and not the electronic circuit. Putting the pen there is a good idea, and really shows how repeatable the motion is. The biped looks very difficult to walk. Do you have a plan? Is the idea that the two systems per leg are out of phase, to make it shuffle rather than lift the legs to avoid the balance problem when standing on one leg. Maybe a dog like quadruped would also be simpler. But another interesting project!
  15. MAB
    It is not necessarily unique. This guy has worked on doing the Bible in LEGO for about 20 years now, and has even published a book on it. http://www.thebrickbible.com However those builds are significantly smaller and more focused on character interaction (understandable given the number of pictures) whereas this one is more like a huge painting of one scene.
  16. MAB
    They do free shipping if you are over the threshold and order one paid for non-B+P item. If I order more than £50 of B+P then postage is £2. But add a 5p pick a brick part and the shipping is free, so I get one extra part and save almost the full shipping costs. Every order I have placed in the last five years has been like that. I reckon I have saved the equivalent of buying Saturn V by doing it.
  17. MAB
    The armour looks great. I've never seen it used around a waist instead of the neck, but it is really effective. Poor scalped Thranduil.
  18. MAB
    They already did a official minifigure scale version when the licence was active, so this has very little chance. Also the number of decorated parts necessary to make it look good is out of the question. What is the count. It looks like at least 150-200 decorated parts? The entire thing would be one big sticker sheet. The original set got criticisms that it was more sticker sheet than substance, and having to line up that many stickers would make for an awful experience.
  19. MAB
    They hinted that they may well have the licence to do Jaws by including it in a poll for a new Brickheadz set.
  20. MAB
    I doubt it will be real artists, probably just more of the same in smaller packs. I imagine you'll scan something and it will take you to a music video where the character dances about. Maybe something a bit like the elf yourself webpage/app where a face is added to a prerecorded video. Or you create and share a dance/music video based on the zany characters.
  21. MAB
    This wouldn't work. If they have 20 in a round and accept 1 or 2, then 18 or 19 still fail. So cloners get their pick from 18 or 19 instead of 20. Making 1 does little to combat it. :-) good one! Lego has produced the horned viking helmet both in the original viking theme and in the CMF. Only recently did they do the spanenhelm.
  22. MAB
    The functionality is clever, but surely it falls down on how many people want to display a small City-looking garbage truck in their living room. When the vast majority of IDEAS sets are display (or display+play) rather than play, I don't see how that one fits in. I can see it fitting in with a City display, but that is not what IDEAS is for. In that sense, it is a bit like submitting a better version of a Star Wars ship that LEGO did five years ago. Or a LOTR Hobbit Hole that LEGO already did.
  23. MAB
    I haven't a clue what will pass. I could imagine any one of Venice, Castle, Addams Family or Viking village being done, but on a much smaller scale (like the first house instead of three for Venice, or a similar size for Addams Family). Or Wallace and Gromit.
  24. MAB
    I don't really see the link here. The ship in a bottle is a tiny ship whereas the Roman ship is minifigure scale. That's like comparing the typewriter to the piano.
  25. MAB
    I agree that Bag End is not going to pass, but because they already did one at roughly the same scale. Plus LEGO's version didn't have the brick-build book base thing that adds to the part count while adding not much else.
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