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  1. Bobsy
    Damn. By sheer chance you've gone and spoiled the plot to Rogue One.
  2. Bobsy
    Heh, thanks. Of course, the main reason I used orange was that both the side engines and front panels both worked tht colour. I think if I Bricklinked the pieces now it would probably cost a lot as I'd be going back to the days of Exo Force for those pieces. Ho hum.
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    Here's the closed view along with another interior close-up. I don't really want to colour the plaster on the upper floor, but I'm thinking a splash of colour with flags and signage out front might make a difference. Those round plates on the frontage were envisaged as guild badges, so would be fine with added colour. In fact, they'd be even better as the new 'tooth' half-round plates, to look like miniature shields, but of course LDD doesn't have them and the withdrawal of updates means it probably won't ever.
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    Oh and I've just realised I've never done a render of the building closed up. Oh well. Sort of considering whether it's worth putting this up on Ideas as an individual model or including a second building in the vein of the old MMV. I've begun work on a companion building, a guildhall with a half-timbered front and a stone rear, but it's proving a somewhat tricky build at the moment. Oh, the bakery, yes. It's designed in LDD but uses only production-colour bricks (aside from the minifigs, natch). I shamelessly copied the idea of the front shop window from the Diagon Alley set, and of course the building proportions are all from the original MMV concept.
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    Well I don't know. I was digging through my old LDD files the other day and came across this model. I think at one point I was going to bricklink the pieces as they're all in production-ready colours. Anyway, gave it a quick render with my new graphics card and I guess it looks kinda okay. The idea was (I think) to make a sort of pickup truck speeder, so there's space for a crate at the back. But all speeders end up looking like sports cars anyway, so I guess it wasn't a total success.
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    I think this could be useful info. A run-down New York-style tenement would look out of place with the more glitzy buildings we've had so far, but 221B Baker Street means Victorian townhouse, and that sounds fantastic. I mean, I'd still rather have a museum, but this could be excellent anyway.
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    Words do not express how badly I'd like a museum. I got the Parisian restaurant and quickly followed it up with the colossal Town Hall. A museum would cap off my small but growing collection so well.
  8. Bobsy
    Yes, you can absolutely do that. Wolverine's powers are selected by giving a character the claws (I think this also grants the healing ability too, but I've not tested it - it's pretty weak anyway) and Cyclops's powers are selected by giving the character the Cyclops face - so you can't have Cyclops powers from under sunglasses. But so long as you've got the claws or the face, you can design the rest of the character to be whatever you want. Civilian clothes are there, but a little thin on the ground. This also means you can combine powers - Gambitclops, or Mister FanGambit for example.
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    As you unlock characters, you will often unlock their body parts and abilities in the character creator, but it's not particularly consistent. For instance, getting Electra unlocks her natty headband, but not her daggers, while getting Gambit unlocks his powers and outfit. Despite having unlocked several characters with pistols, I've still not unlocked their weapons in the character creator. It is, however, a step up from Batman 2's effort, which was crap.
  10. Bobsy
    Right, I definitely don't think it is a hint or a preview of a planned pirate theme, and we certainly shouldn't be getting our hopes up at all. However I do have a theory. ("I thought you might.") I think this is LEGO testing the waters to see if there is interest in Lego Pirates, and therefore to make an informed decision as to whether sales will be high enough to warrant to cost of designing and making the theme. Now as people have noted, there isn't an original element in the whole pack - everything has been reused, and therefore this set has been put together with minimal design cost (even the packaging is simple in its design). Essentially, if this pack sells well, it supports the business case of designing and releasing a new Pirates line. If it sells badly, they won't bother. Now, if this theory is true (and that is a big 'if'), that also suggests that a future PotC line is less likely, as LEGO are experimenting with their own brand again. Food for thought, at least.
  11. Bobsy
    That's a fantastic MOC, very detailed, very accurate. Certainly something to be proud of, and I hope you make more GOT locations But as a Cuusoo project, it'll never happen. Sorry to be blunt, but there's no way around it. Game of Thrones is an adult book/TV series, featuring entirely adult themes. You can't make a children's toy out of it. The first episode features beheading, dismemberment, child cruelty, sex, nudity, prostitution, incest and only a few occasional fluffy puppies. And that's just the surface details. GOT is a politically-charged drama with almost-exclusively morally-questionable characters. It's a fantastic show of course, and create inspiration for AFOL building, but as marketing and selling a children's toy? No. LEGO already refused the Shaun of the Dead project, and that was a slapstick comedy.
  12. Bobsy
    They've been available via Amazon for a while now. I picked up the Stagecoach and Cavalry sets. They are cracking good.
  13. Bobsy
    That was a non-canon comic, even when it was written.
  14. Bobsy
    Oh, I'm sure that's not the set number, so we can ignore it. And to have the name on the shipping crate very much implies that it's a special order, almost certainly a display model for a Legoland park or a large store. There won't be a new UCS in production while we're still waiting on the release of the new UCS X-Wing.
  15. Bobsy
    A small amount of information on the Phase 2 movies - mostly focussing on Iron Man 3, but also touching on the Thor and Captain America movies... and showing some of the Ant-Man test footage. So that's a thing now.
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    Not exactly sure what was preventing LEGO from doing Grand Admiral Thrawn as a May 4th exclusive fig as even light blue heads are being produced at the moment thanks to Chima and all it would have needed was a face print with creepy red eyes. Well apart from the fact that LEGO clearly weren't brain-probing my soft delicious lobes for ideas recently. They should do that.
  17. Bobsy
    Good lord. Am I the only one thinking boy scout uniform seeing that?
  18. Bobsy
    No, not a sausage. It's a little odd, to say the least. I have a strong feeling (but only that - a feeling) that it's going to a be an exclusive of some kind, as they weren't touting it at any of the trade shows. That or it's still not finished.
  19. Bobsy
    My buying guide. This is going to be a very expensive year, what with Lone Ranger, Castle, LOTR and Galaxy Force as well. And this isn't counting the TOR Jedi ship which is almost certainly a day one purchase for me.
  20. Bobsy
    There isn't, but if you take the Black Widow minifig from the Quinjet set and stick Mace Windu's lightsaber in her hand, you've basically got her.
  21. Bobsy
    Did we know this already? It's sometimes hard to tell if certain things are common knowledge in the community or not, but nonetheless, it's worth a mention in case we don't. Source: guardian.co.uk The article, which is well worth a read, is about the experiences of Lucy-Anne Holmes running the No More Page 3 campaign, which seeks to remove the soft porn content from page 3 of the Sun newspaper. I spotted the Lego reference (I swear I wasn't reading it just for the Lego!) and thought it worth posting. It makes sense that the upcoming promotion is the last one. The running theory over at Brickset has been that they're getting rid of the leftover polybags from recent years, since the images all show old Ninjago, Alien Conquest and City polybags we've seen before. If this is the last one they're doing you can understand the Sun wanting to clear out the inventory. Anyway, good news I think. Hopefully LEGO will be looking for another (less objectionable) paper to run the promotion - possibly the Mirror again?
  22. Bobsy
    Licences cost money - a lot of money. While they're active LEGO will be trying to squeeze every last drop of profit from it in order to make the expense worthwhile. If the PotC licence was still active we'd have sets on the shelves right now.
  23. Bobsy
    They're just hedging their bets, as with everyone under the thumb of a mighty PR machine. New story arcs does not guarantee new episodes - it could be something as small as a comic finale, or an online text story (shudder). Or something as large as a whole new season 6. There being finished footage of a handful of scenes does not absolutely mean they yet have the funding for everything they want to do, and it's very likely that that video is there to help drum up support for a new season. The fact that he mentions people writing in helps back this up. I imagine the money-people at Disney are still making their minds up how much to give to the studio at this point.
  24. Bobsy
    Because the sets are cross-promotion with the series. While the series is on the telly, it helps sales of TCW sets. Without the series, they won't sell as well. I think that the 2014 waves are going to be heavily skewed towards the original trilogy, perhaps with a little Episode III thrown in.
  25. Bobsy
    Quick update to mention Wednesday and Sunday's reviews, Dooku Captured and The Gungan General. The former is a potentially bad episode that turned out to be quite good. The latter is just bad.
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