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Very cool. I have more of these than I realized at first. I've got 7, and I'll have 8 in the near future ( once I finally pick up MMV). I would like to get Trelawney, McGonagall and Leonora at some point, (can never have two many female figs) the Orc dress I'm less excited about. Now you could make an adaptation of "The Twelve Dancing Princesses"

What a great way to start off the weekend! I was sad to hear that Pirates was going on hiatus when they hadn't yet given us an Imperial ship, but this is beyond anything I expected. This is truly a great time to be an adult fan of lego (if I were a kid I'd be going crazy because I wouldn't have the money to buy even half the sets I would want). I'm very excited about the return of the sawfish as well (yes, I know it's in the advent calendar, but us in the states can't easily get our hands on that)

Yes, in fact it's not a new piece, it was in the Agents Mobile Command Center according to Bricklink. I wouldn't be surprised. I am in love with this light already and I just got it last night. The red PF lights are okay, but they're not good for doing lights inside houses (though Dave and Stacey Sterling put them to great use in their World of Lights display at Brickworld this year). I want to make a whole winter village that lights up with these yellow lights. Simply delicious Thanks for the review. I was reading it on the bus last night on my way to the LEGO store and it certainly got me excited for it. I put it together last night and think it was a great build. Unlike some other sets, every part of the build was unique and interesting. great set (and decently priced in the states at least)

Thanks! The music is called "Western Precinct" it's one of the royalty-free tracks that come with Soundtrack Pro.

Great animation as usual. I loved the truck driver rocking out to Ethan's song.

The octopi would spin around and around and then New Block City would come crashing down. Oh you want a more detailed explanation? Well let's say that the city would be crushed by the sheer inanity of the machine. He clearly just needed another octopus (he only had 7)

Nice little clip. There were a couple technical issues (camera bumps and light flickers), but otherwise good.

This video has been re-released in it's proper context as part of my Nightly News at Nine series. Yes it's identical, but hopefully now it serves as a world-building vignette than just a stand alone video. And if a forum moderator sees this and moves it over to the Brick Flick forum I'd be much obliged.

I'm not familiar with that song, so I can't say that it influenced the name. Unless it seeped in from the collective unconscious...

For my latest animation I needed to build a bunch of microscale building so I could knock them down like dominoes. In doing so I built in several different "micro" scales. Notice that the building on the far right of one picture gets repeated in a smaller scale on the far left in the next picture. And then I put them all together because it's pretty. Hope you like them. You can read more about them on MOCpages.

I recently spent $7 on a single lego piece (the red fedora) so I recreate my favorite villainess, Carmen Sandiego. I also recently recreated one of my favorite heroes as a child, Where's Waldo? And then I was thinking what a great couple they would make. I was not the first to think of it, ( this is the internet after all) but I still think they are happy together.

I just woke up from a dream that started out wonderful and quickly turned terrible. I was in a toy store and (of course) looking at the lego selection when I spotted a set that was over a dozen years old. I was excited to find such an old set for regular retail price. Then I started noticing more old sets. Then I noticed sets that haven't even had pictures leak yet (2010 Pirate sets, all of Atlantis, etc.). I was so excited I started taking pictures of all the sets on the shelf because I thought "no one is going to believe this find!" But then I started pulling some of the old sets off the shelf. The boxes were oddly light. I turned then and noticed they'd already been opened! Some were just empty boxes and other had been filled with basic bricks as some kind of cruel joke. Then I realized my camera was missing so I couldn't even document what was happening. Soon after that I woke up. The first part of the dream is relatively common, I can think of at least 3 other times I've had a similar dream where I find unexpected / non-existent sets in a toy store. I have dreams about MOCs as well, but I'm usually not as sad when I wake up from those dreams because I can always build the dream MOC if I want. Does anyone else here dream about lego sets in this way or am I just crazy?

Yes, ROBOphelia's reporting style is purposefully a bit off-putting. She's a little out of touch with reality.

This is releasing slightly behind schedule, but I think the extra time paid off. Let me know what you think!

The top is nice and lush. That knight is in for a surprise though! It would be nice to see the goblins head on. Can't really see their faces in these shots. You say the mushrooms are from BrickForge, but I don't see them on their website.... Did they have these at BrickFair?

Very interesting thread. For me personally, I am in the hobby for the play. (That's not to say that my style of play hasn't changed since I was a kid.) I collect only in order so that I can have more pieces to play with. I'm am sad for everyone who feels they had lost the urge/ability to play. It's not too late! Today can be the day you take those sets of the shelves and make something happen! For me a lot of my play is very meticulous. I animate, so that's my way of telling stories with my creations these days, I bring them to life. I don't do as much of the battling type play, but even that was a small part of my lego experience as a kid. Building new MOCs is totally play and for me there's no better way to relax after a long day/week at work than to dive into the lego bins and start seeing what pieces/ideas I pull out. I also enjoy posing minifigs and consider that a form of play. My star destroyer is covered with dozens of minifigs in a variety of poses and situations. The one thing that bums me out is that my friends are not into lego like I am, so I don't have the same sort of communal play that I enjoyed so much as a kid. I occasionally will get them to help me out putting together a new set or in creating minifigs for crowd scenes etc. I had a lego party a little over a year ago that went pretty well. I had a bunch of new sets for people to help put together and I gave everyone who came a tiny set that they could take home. They could also use the pieces to build an alternate model and I gave a prize ( a bigger set) to the model I thought was coolest. It was a great time. I've been thinking about doing another one, but my current apartment does not have as much room for that kind of thing. But yeah, that was a bunch of 20 and 30 somethings and there was some definite play happening there.

I have my doubts as to whether the black and white parts where they are playing with the various consoles, and the very end where the different sprites are rotating and growing are actually done with lego, since those parts could easily be computer animation done with pixels that retain the lego proportions. Michel Gondry did that for parts of "Fell in Love with a Girl" too, it's hard to make everything 100% LEGO, but I don't think that takes away from the awesomeness of the rest of the movie. But I have no doubts that the rest of the video was made with real LEGO. If you look at the part when the rainbow arc is coming out of the ground and crashing down at the numbers if you watch the arc closely you can notice it shake slightly. This is because it's very hard to keep a structure like that perfectly still especially once you get past the half way point and the center of gravity is no longer above the place where the legos connect to the baseplate. If it was computer animated there'd be no reason to put those tiny shakes in. As for the two creators not looking like lego enthusiasts, well that's just a silly thing to say. It's not you can tell if someone is a lego fan just by looking at them (unless of course they are carrying a bag from the LEGO store or building a MOC or something). Also one of their older videos is also very heavily lego based, so I think it's safe to say these guys are lego fans.

Yeah, a friend just sent this to me. I've never seen anything like it before.

I was very (pleasantly) surprised to see a Fabuland figure piloting the mech. Great use of stickers! My favorite bit is the ribbed chest.

Yeah, I'll have to start hoarding turquoise pieces. I guess I could use light blue instead (like Proudlove did) since it is an easier color to work in for a couple reasons (variety of parts, as well as overall brick quality), but I do have some turquoise already and I'm certainly not using it for much else. Glad to hear it, she was the one I was least pleased with, but I'm glad someone is giving her some love.

Clearly that was the work of some mischievous pixie. I would never accidentally move things that aren't supposed to move

Yeah, I don't think $2.50 is cheap for a single hairpiece. $4-5 for the whole fig isn't bad, so maybe I'll add one in to my next BL order.

Yup, that's the one I'd use if I had it. They're pretty expensive on Bricklink though...

I finished this at the last minute for the Now I need to go to sleep

Yeah he stole Velma's freckles. Darn you! I was perfectly content just making these figs. Now I'm going to have to go and try and make that too! And I'm really bad at making things with wheels...