MKJoshA

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Absolutely amazing! Your building techniques continue to improve by leaps and bounds! It might be a little clean, but overall I think it looks great. I've found that adding clutter like boxes, bags, or trash makes it look more worn down. Adding rust drips to walls also helps. And great figs!

Great armorer! How did you get the hat to stand upside down? I like the details on your walls, but I think they could benefit from more depth. Adding a layer or 2 of bricks allows you to set the vents further into the wall or offset the door.

Lovely forced perspective!

Great work! I think one thing that could improve this would be more layers of plates for the base. But nice job with what you have!

Great little build!

Nice! Your ground work is great and you're well on your way to building good SNOT terrain. The speeder seems to suffer from having too many larger Lego pieces exposed. Either try fewer large pieces, or maybe add more greebling.

Simple, but nice. I wouldn't have the boat sliders as the front of your base, but that's just me.

Your crew is very colorful! Maybe too much color... The red, pink, and greens make it seem too cartoony for me. You've accurately portrayed each race with what's available in Lego. It just hurts my eyes a little. If you were to make only 1 change I would put your female Devaron in a different color suit of armor. Red just really clashes with the lime green.

Love your character fig-barfs! The tree trunk looks chunky, but the foliage is great!

Your walls are top notch!

Nice perspective angles on your pictures! Some of them look a little grainy, maybe use lower ISO and more light?

Your story writing is excellent! Your Techno Union rep is well done, instantly recognizable. I really like how you accomplished your angled dock. A couple suggestions, the red seems very harsh next to the earth tones. Maybe pick black, white or greys for the rest of the building and leave the earth tones for the ground if you're going with red. I'd also suggest looking for some tutorials on SNOT rock work. What you have is nice, but it's very basic. Even just looking at other examples online and trying to copying them can teach you a lot.

Great story! And your build is nice too. A good use of a limited number of parts. I would replace some of the leaf pieces on the ground with 1x1 rounds in earth tones, but I understand not everyone has the collection for that.

There have been some legitimate discussion going on here. But after 3 pages I'm going to call it off track now. Let's try to get back on target.

The leadership has decided that you can spend SoNE XP on planets connected with this Episode. Seeding planets is still not allowed, but spending some of your SoNE conversion XP is okay.

Very cool figure! And welcome to EB!

Winners have been announced!

Congratulations to the winners! @_ttharon_ @Ross Fisher @dvogon @Reaper There was a tie between 2nd and 3rd, so I did a coin flip to decide who got to choose first. In first place is: - 9. Best Deals to Be Found - _ttharon_ In second place we have: - 5. Meeting With a Muun - Ross Fisher And in third place we have: - 13. Trash Compactor Maintenance - dvogon Lastly we have the winner of the random drawing: - 4. Clone Pilots - Reaper Thanks for all your amazing entries! I'll be reaching out to each of the winners for shipping info.

Hey everyone, take a deep breathe and think twice before you post. We're getting heated over little things. Keep a cool head and stay on target.

I love your character design!

I think I understand your question correctly. You may build on these planets outside the main episode challenge. So you may enter freebuilds for Kril'Dor if you currently have access to it. I think we need to draw the line at spending SoNE XP though. That does start to become unfair since you probably wouldn't have spent the SoNE conversion points on Uyter unless this challenge had come up. So freebuilds are fine, SoNE XP conversion is not.

Lego has a long history of making sets based on Superhero movies. Some of the movies, like Avengers, Justice League, and Spiderman: Far From Home got multiple Lego sets. But there is an even longer list of movies that have received only one set based on them. Movies like Aquaman, Captain Marvel, Ant-man, Doctor Strange, and even the first Wonder Woman movie have a singular set to represent the film. Wonder Woman: 1984 seems to follows this trend and delivers one set to satisfy our Lego Wonder Woman cravings. Set Information Name: 76157 - Wonder Woman vs Cheetah Theme: Wonder Woman 1984 Year: 2020 Pieces: 371 Minifigures: 3 Price: £34.99 / $39.99 / 39.99€ Resources: Brickset and Bricklink The front of the box is a bold move on Lego's part, but I think it works. Traditionally the front of a Lego box displays the set and minifigures against some backdrop that is supposed to highlight the Lego bricks. This box, as you can see, has more of a movie poster feel. It looked very stunning on the Target Lego shelf and automatically stood out. I wonder if Lego is trying to create one more collectors item. I usually throw my Lego boxes away. But if they created a box like this for some of my favorite themes I'd be hard pressed to part with it. The "back" of the box is more what we would expect a Lego set box to look like. The bright light at the top of the mountain really messed with my camera. But the surreal lighting on the box is actually present in real life. The designers did a very good job capturing an atmospheric feel. Inside you'll find just two numbered bags, a small sticker sheet, a loose 8x16 baseplate, and the instructions. I'll be honest, the main reason I wanted this set were all those solar panels. When I dumped the contents out on my floor and saw how small the sticker sheet was I let out an audible "Yes!" I thought the solar panels would be stickered and I wasn't looking forward to applying all of those 2x2 stickers perfectly. Instead, they are all printed pieces! The instructions show what to expect at the end of building each bag. Part of the first bag is adding foliage to the building. The stalk on the right came in the set. The stalk on the right is from an older set. You can see that the older piece is shinier while the newer piece has a more matte look. My guess is this is due to Lego making some plant pieces out of plant based material now. Apart from the slight difference in shine, I couldn't see anything else to differentiate the two. I know there are instances of this in other sets, but this was the first time I could remember putting stickers on both sides of a Lego element. It's a nice attention to detail on the part of the designers. There are a few cool building techniques in this set. The bunker window (or whatever it is) is created by using the 1x1 stud with hold attached to the 1x1 modified tile with nipple. I've used this technique a few times myself in MOCs. But this is the first time I've seen it used in a set. The end of the first bag leaves us with 5 spare parts and an imposing looking door. On to bag 2! The contents of the second bag really got the builder in me excited. There are mass quantities of key elements and I can't wait to incorporate them into other builds! Most of the second bag is used to build the radar dish on top of the building. The radar is turned using the 4 tooth technic element as you can see here. Step 87 tells you to use 12 of the 6L bars. But if you think that's a lot of 1 piece in a building step, just wait till... Step 88 where you need 32 of the pearl gold 1x1 studs with holes! These are combined with the modified bars to create the shaping of the radar dish. The set designers did a great job of making it easy to apply all the panels at just the right angles to make the shape of the dish work. The "extra" 6L bars provide guides for the panels to make sure they rest at the correct angles. The center of the radar is created using 4 tranquilizer guns and is a great use of the piece! Finishing bag 2 leaves us with a small assortment of extras. The last page of instructions shows the moving radar play feature. The previous page shows a suggested posing for the characters, but everything else is left to the imagination of the builder. I really expected there to be more suggested play. So much so that I had to check the online version of the instructions to make sure I hadn't been given a faulty instruction book! It's not a bad thing, Lego is about using your imagination anyway. It just seemed surprising. Here's the complete set! And an action shot I feel they should have included in the instructions. The 3 minifigures have detailed printing. The gentleman is named Maxwell Lord if Bricklink is correct. I've gotten the impression that he is a known DC character. So that just shows my ignorance when it comes to DC! And he is the only figure to lack leg printing. But his detailed suit coat more than makes up for it in my opinion. They all have back-printing as well. And all 3 have double sided expressions. Wonder Woman's helmet/hair combo sticks really far out from her back. This is to accommodate the wings, but seems to greatly limit its use. The wings have been used before for Falcon from the Marvel Comic sets and for Vulture from the Spiderman sets. But this is the first time it's been produced in pearl-gold. Final Thoughts: So is this set for you? Playability: 8/10 - There are some built in play features with the moving radar and the trans-clear bar for posing figures in mid flight or jump. There are also plenty of spots to attach the minifigures both inside and outside the bunker allowing for re-creation of the movie scenes. Assuming of course Lego had enough source material to make the scene accurate We'll have to wait and see if that was the case until after the movie comes out. Building Experience: 10/10 - I really enjoyed this build. It was not repetitive except for parts of the radar. And even those didn't feel boring. It had creative parts usage and cool techniques. Probably my favorite building process since The Upside Down. Design: 9/10 - Having not seen the movie, I can't compare this to the scene it was designed on. But as an overall design it's pretty good. It looks like a WW2 bunker with a fancy radar built on top. I'll assume that was the look they were going for. And if so, they captured it really well. Aesthetic: 8/10 - The color scheme works pretty well. It's a little bland with all the tans and golds. But the colors work to create the right atmosphere. The bunker is designed well and there is just enough foliage that it doesn't feel like a plain old rock face. Minifigures: 9/10 - All 3 minifgures are exclusive to this set and will probably be highly sought after. The printing is excellent. I'm giving it 9 instead of 10 since there is no leg printing for Lord and no arm printing for any of them. Price: 8/10 - For a licensed set I think this is priced pretty fairly. It's almost at the $.10/piece mark, and it has a bunch of printed parts with all the solar panels. I bought it at full price and don't regret it! Verdict: 9/10 - This is a solid set and definitely one you should pick up! Even if you're not a DC Comics fan there's plenty in this set to draw you to it. You may be one of those who waits for sets to go on sale. But even without a promo I would suggest getting it.

Pictures of the physical prizes have been updated!

5 elements in lacquered gold from the 80012 set have been selling for $0.02. The shield tiles, bananas, wheel bases, 1x2 slope and 1x4 curved slope. They've been going in and out of stock for a month now. So Lego has either not realized there is a mistake, decided to leave the price even though it's wrong, or they have some other reason for allowing the piece to sell so cheaply. You're not cheating the system if you buy 200. Myself and a bunch of others on this site have done just that.