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Thanks :P. The faces will change a lot to the traditional style (can't really paint them in this crazy way anyways). The body, besides the top neck rank thingy will be basically the same though (4th row for everyone but Geordi at the 5th and Troi at the 3rd). Just trying to find the best way to do them. I'm thinking of making the neck part of the clothing (with the rank) tiny decals that wrap around the neck of the minifigure heads. That might work. I'm thinking if I can match the colors well enough with trial and error that for the chest part it might be the best to have a black body and colored arms. But I'm not sure I'll be able to match the colors well enough. Lego themselves has a tough time doing so.

I've still never done a minifigure custom yet. Though I'm wanting to now. I'm going to attack the 7 main characters in Star Trek The Next Generation first. Now, Photoshop/Illustrator wise, I'll make some designs and that's the easy part for me (since I'm a paid graphic artist :P). The designs will end up something like these (but actually sticking to the Lego style/rules lol I took some OBVIOUS liberties when I drew these years ago). But whatever I'll tackle that myself. This thread is more about the physical requirements. First off I'll be doing the later TNG uniforms. The Legs. Easy. Plain and black. The shirt. Not so easy. I want to include the strip on the shoulders. Okay... not sure how easy it would be to get a decal on there. Also I'm not sure whether to make the it the division color (red, gold, blue) or black. If I do black the CHEST is easier. I can just throw a colored decal on the front and back. But then the arms will be difficult because I'd somehow need to color the non-strip part a whole color! If it's decals it could scrape off and I'm not sure how I'd wrap them around the whole arm. If I make them yellow I'd be disturbed by the top's yellow color (I don't feel the print on the front and back sufficient) but the arms would be easier. It could be both (black torso, yellow arms) but then I'd have a heck of a time matching the colors (decal yellow on black vs decale black shoulder on yellow!). So I'm not sure what to do here. Airbrush? How smooth is an airbrush on minifigures? I want these to look professional! :P The Head and Arms... okay use that whatever to get the print off the heads so I can decal them up. Easy just have to buy the right stuff... Now the problem... Geordi and Worf. I can't find any minifigure hair that first Geordi. Any recommendations? None of them are close from what I can tell! I guess the visor will be printed on the decal (as much as I'd love a custom on :P). Worf is another story... how the crap do I do his klingon head? I'd need hair that's a decent style for him that gives enough room for his forehead (probably printed on a decal). Recommendations? As for Data I'll probably just use a whiteish head for him even though his skin is white/yellow. So basically the chest area I don't have figured out and how do do Geordi and Worf. Also if someone could point me to the right directions for a good printer that can print high quality decals :P. Or what's even required for that.

I was partially wrong due to exaggerations but looking at the numbers Australian Medium Income seems larger (not 2x as big :P) and provides 20%ish more "spending money". I'm not sure what other numbers you're looking at. This mixed with several other factors like distance, local economy, local minimum wage, etc are most of the reason why they're so expensive. If there's truly any "they're expensive because lol" it's not as much as you'd imagine.

It's not wrong. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Household_income_in_the_United_States http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Median_household_income_in_Australia_and_New_Zealand Median is more accurate because all the bajillionaires raise the plain average here in the USA (and there aren't many of them). In the past recent years Australia has gotten worse for whatever reason (used to be very near twice the median). Lately it's fallen.

These threads continually pop up and are filled with failure (and IMO should just be deleted). You guys are just ignorant of economics. Straight currency conversions are NOT enough to say anything. For instance... I'm too lazy to yet again explain the very basic mechanics but your straight conversion is basically false advertising. First off it's US$12.99 in the USA and AU$22.99 in Australia. I have no idea where you're buying your lego but you're getting ripped off. Second off there are so many factors here... Australians on average get almost TWICE the amount of money salary than Americans. In America stuff is cheaper and just one reason why is because we make about half as much as most of the rest of the 1st world. Then there's also the fact that Australia is in the middle of nowhere and has a tiny as crap consumer base. The US can charge less because they deal with significantly more costumers. It's basic business. And again, you guys are in the middle of nowhere. It's going to cost extra to ship stuff there. Those are probably some of the biggest influences on your prices. There's more too. A lot more. Like Australia's strong currency. The fact that the high minimum wage in Australia also leads to higher costs which make stuff costs more. To just being willing to pay more. Tons of influences. A straight up currency conversion is just wrong in every way.

Dragon statistically at least on the competitive scene is mathematically the best type (or was). Often because Dragons have such ridiculous stats but the type is just great too. Steel is great defensively. But offensively it was almost as useless as poison so that's why it's getting buffed (2x vs Fairy). Poison is getting buffed because it was ridiculously bad offensively. Considered the worst. I think Dragon will still be one of the best types. You'll just have to watch out for those Fairies. And to be fair so far it seems that most of the announced Fairy types have freakin' terrible stats (Igglybuff... seriously...). And Dragons are often good enough at other moves and have dual types. Poison will be very well balanced IMO (finally). I think this all doesn't solve some of the other problems with the type chart. Ice is laughable defensively. Rock is laughable defensively which has ALWAYS annoyed me since most of the Rock Pokemon look like big tough d00ds but they're in reality so filled with weaknesses that they suck. Grass still sucks defensively. Yeah there's some good Pokemon of those types but they're rarer and the types are still not very balanced :P. I think offensively there's a fair amount of balance. All types will be useful now more or less. Defensively we still have those things that are just too sucky to ever freakin' use. Golem! You'll never be able to do anything! If you're wondering what the Fairy type specifics are: These were leaked by the same guy who got 100% of things right (very specific names of new moves, new type, etc). So I'm assuming it's right.

New Fairy-type should be interesting. I'm really glad they added a new type. It's a good type too. I just hope they don't change Snorlax to Normal/Fairy. I like how Dragons finally are getting a proper nerf after being the best forever (besides Psychic in Gen I). I'm glad Poison offense is getting a buff since Fairy is weak against it. I'm still wary of the Type Chart as a whole, since it's still pretty unbalanced but this does improve it. As for favorite Pokemanz... Cubone... Gen I starters... Snorlax... Braviary... Druddigon... I'm sure I'm forgetting several... I've been with Pokemon since middle school and Pokemon Red version (and later Blue, Yellow and the Japanese Green). I've gotten most of the games. I'll be a Pokemon player forever it seems.

I like Lego a lot. I buy Lego. But honestly it's TV series and movies have so far just plain sucked. I have some hope for the upcoming one with all the Parks and Rec people but that's because it's made by different people. Outside of Lego fans and kids this series has zero appeal to most of us (but it doesn't have to, it'll make $$$ on the kids alone), and I'm a freakin' Lego fan.

I'd be more excited if I didn't feel like the minifigure representation of them kind of sucks.

Bought it for the Rancor and the Rancor alone. No regrets. Probably should have just paid like $20 for a Rancor alone instead but whatever :P. Guess it's nice having another pig guard. At first I was concerned with the scale. Seemed small. But upon inspection of Google Image it's actually pretty darned accurate.

And by unexpected you mean "totally expected" right? Because those were totally expected. :P There's no way they're going to compete with themselves and a new license. I'd wager that the Lone Ranger contract originally had a "no cowboy/western Lego stuff" in the very contract. I saw it coming and so did others but we were ignored.

NEW Polybag? Pointing to them not canned the franchise? New sets on the horizon? I can hope!

Yeah the next review sucks. Purdue Pete will not pass. They already have stuff that's similar to Space Troopers and I doubt it would pass (I'd seriously doubt it's consumer reach too being so incredibly generic). Having Portal as a "sorry nothing passed but here's this!" would save them face.

Doomsday in the JLU cartoon was wrong on so many levels. 1) He talked... he was smart... 2) Superman COULDN'T lobotomized him. How you screw up essentially a super strong dumb idiot so bad I don't know.

Lego should make a Lego Back To The Future movie where they accidentally stop Lego from existing. They go back to the future to a dystopian society where MegaBloks is the main brick on the streets. Of course this leads to horrible crime and corruption because everyone's pissed off at the quality. So they have to go back to the past again and stop old Biff from giving young Biff the Bricks Almanack which lead Biff to being able to stop Lego's rise. etc etc etc...

While it's not very good I'd like to see someone do more than just better with the hood at minifigure scale. All the "good" sets are much larger. Not sure it's possible to get a model we'd all love at this size with existing lego pieces. EDIT: I swear that brown hair mold Marty has is in every set Lego has released this year :P.

Minifigures change everything. I'll be buying this. I wonder why the skateboard isn't the classic pink one :P. I'll mod the Delorean more to my liking and love all over the minifigures.

The minifigure if it's the same one (and if it even has one) has seems to have yellow skin. Won't fit with basically all other franchise figures that aren't real old. :P

I don't think we're jumping the gun. Why the crap wouldn't they show minfigures? I've never seen them not do that in sets like this if they had them.

I'd tell you but I like to keep it private outside of business. You guys would be able to find the real me with that kind of information :P.

As a graphic designer it's common to not give a crap about your education and go almost purely by portfolio. ATM I'm a pretty darned successful graphic designer working in the gaming industry (lets see if I stay successful). I didn't complete college or anything. :P

Well I'll still buy it despite it being pretty ugly IF the thing comes with minifigures. It looks like it won't. That means it's junk. Ugly build without minfigures? Seriously? IF I was going to buy a minifigureless set it would have to be impressive. This is not.

Anyways... I support science fully. But as I said in the now mixed with other Cuusoo thread... this isn't much to look at. You're using the bad picture and there's an update. But even the update isn't much to look at. I love the Large Hadron Collider but... making it in Lego form... just isn't much to look at :P. No way would I buy it. I don't think many would honestly. This got a Reddit boost and I honestly don't think most of the people who voted for it would even buy it. Especially if it's as big as on that page it'll be like $400. $400 for a mess of bricks that doesn't look like much? Nah...

http://lego.cuusoo.com/ideas/view/21619 Large Hadron Collider stuff. I'm all for science. Completely pro-NASA and stuff. Think we need more eduction. But this model isn't much to look at :P. No official Lego comments yet. (couldn't find a thread about this buy maybe I'm blind.)

Honestly for recommending an obvious thing like the Sandcrawler, a set that's already been out, I don't think the original person DESERVES the 1%. Bring a new franchise to Lego? Bring a new idea? Sure. Bring something we've had? Batman's vehicle? Sandcrawler? Something done? Nope. As awesome as the Lego Sandcrawler model was Lego was probably like "what's the point? we were going to do one again eventually anyways?"...