General Magma

Small? You're kidding, right? Or else what planet are you from?

I'd argue there are less traditional themes, too, which bothers and greatly concerns me. We even don't have Castle anymore at the moment, just the weird Sci-Fi Fantasy Medieval blend that is Nexo Knights. But worst of all, some themes are simply very rare or unseen after their initial incarnations and their comebacks are not as inevitable as one may hope. Adventurers comes to mind here. Pharaoh's Quest was cool but.. that was 6 years ago. And none of those characters had any chance of becoming nearly as iconic as Johnny Thunder, who was basically the face of LEGO adventurer themes back in the day. He was everywhere if it concerned adventuring, he was THE adventurer. They either need a new icon for this or bring back Johnny Thunder in all his glory to represent adventurer sets, because LEGO City Jungle stuff does not justify any of this. It's just another City theme with some cool new pieces but boring characters without a real story. NinjaGO, Chima, Nexo Knights, they honestly all scream the same thing to me. It's becoming a cliche within LEGO story themes - mix genres in a wacky way, have a good versus evil conflict, make a cartoon that might as well be any other 3D cartoon because the only LEGO thing about it are the basic shapes of the figures. Gone seem the days of interesting historical themes with, at most, mild fantasy elements. Johnny Thunder made his comeback in 2014 with The LEGO Movie, and has also appeared in one of the sets, which means that he's clearly on people's minds, but we are left to wonder if we might ever see a comeback of the theme as a whole, with revamps of all the characters. 'The LEGO Adventurers Movie' would be a fantastic way to kick off a great sub-series within The LEGO Movie franchise starring Johnny Thunder and his comrades Pippin Reed and Dr. Kilroy. That is potentially one of the best things they could do with the movie franchise in the coming few years, as it would also pave way for them to bring back already-famous LEGO characters and cater to both classic fans and younger audiences, setting the stage for the continuation of the stories of the legendary Johnny Thunder. We don't want no Jake Raines, we want Johnny Thunder back!

Thanks! Process on other customs has been halted due to an allergic reaction to one of the materials. Presumably the primer, which I hadn't used before up until that point, so I hope that I can continue soon once I throw that out. If so, I would like to make some of the characters from the newest POTC movie that's coming out in May.

With one of my recent MOCs, people have been asking for instructions and since I generally don't have a lot of time, it's been a doubtful case. However, I've considered making them and then selling them for this MOC (and other MOCs with hundreds of pieces that involve complex techniques) to justify the time taken (which will also help me fund such creations in the future). Now that someone has mentioned being willing to pay for them, I decided to do some research. As this is something I haven't done before, I was wondering if there are any guidelines to take into mind to start doing this. What people are generally willing to pay, the best way to distribute the instructions and any other things to potentially take in mind, such as the unwanted spreading of copies and all other things that may be involved. Knowing that there might be some people here who also deal in such trades and some who may just know a thing or two about it, I figured I'd just ask to help get me started in the best way possible. ~ GM

Thank you! I might just do that someday, but I'm currently working on concepts for the next ones... Thank you - I'm glad! Sure, if you can see how I did it, that is!

Thank you, everyone! Glad y'all like it. There's more on the way. I have no plans for that, I figured I wanted to use my Johnny Thunder figure somewhere and decided this would be a great opportunity to sneak him into one of my MOC pictures. However, I don't plan on taking my dinosaur(s) apart anytime soon, either, so I can always include them in smaller Adventurers MOCs - that's something I might like to do sometime in the future. Yes, it still is, but it's more difficult than with, say, ball joint connections. The legs don't move as easily and the hind legs may need to be taken off in order to pose them without breaking things off, but I gladly made that sacrifice in order for the overall look to flourish in the way I wanted it to.

Triceratops INSTRUCTIONS are now available! Click here for more info

I'm looking for fantasy minififg parts (this includes mostly any loose LOTR and The Hobbit figure parts, as well as parts from certain Castle scenes and fantasy/mythological figures from the Collectible Minifigure series - also want full 'Frightening Knights'), and multiples of the brown bear from the 2012 City forest police sets. I have various things to offer, including but not limited to CMFs from most series, certain LOTR figures, older (and some newer) Star Wars including R3-A2 from Assault on Hoth, and a lot more, just ask and tell wat you need, I'll check for you. Preferably PM me about this.

It's still utterly ridiculous that The LEGO Batman Movie sets get tons of figures with dual molding, but Star Wars still gets none. The new Bossk could look amazing with dual molded arms and legs (yellow, olive green), but that's probably not something we should hold out hope for.

Bossk could look so awesome with dual molding on the arms and legs, one part yellow and the other olive green, but knowing LEGO's lazy and cheap treatment with Star Wars figures, we're probably not going to see that happen and get a rather lame Bossk figure for today's standards, instead.

Old stormtrooper? That one's not old, it's still current, they used it in the recent RO battlepack. So unless they finally give them printed hips...

Aragorn

What, molded heads? I thought those guys just wore helmets. Are they droids or something?

Orc Whipmaster Click the image to view a larger version of it, along with some extra pictures, on Flickr

Orc Inspector Click the image to view a larger version of it, along with some extra pictures, on Flickr

Thank you, Serenity! Now, as for my newest custom figure... Sméagol Click the image to view a larger version of it, along with some extra pictures, on Flickr

Those are all clearly minifigs, simple. No need to make a fuss over a set 'definition'.

Grishnákh Click the image to view a larger version of it, along with some extra pictures, on Flickr

Davy Jones Click the image to view a larger version, along with a description, on Flickr

They still have the shapes, however, like highly detailed LEGO figures - that's my overall goal with these, so I'm glad. I will also be redoing other existing LOTR figures in that style, so anyone who's interested, feel free to come follow my topic (or Flickr) there, there's much more to come in the coming weeks (months).

Mouth of Sauron Click the image to view a larger version of it, along with some extra pictures, on Flickr

No, I would honestly refrain from most of these (excluding ones we haven't had yet, such as Ponda Baba and Cornelius Evazan), and drop in some unique figures, mainly aliens. Give us the Twi'lek dancers from Jabba's Palace (other than Oola), Ponda Baba, Cornelius Evazan, Garindan, updated Greedo, Wuher, astromech and protocol droids we haven't had yet (or updated versions of older ones - R-3PO comes to mind), some different variants of Ugnaughts, some of Jabba's alien thugs, Lobot with a 3D cyborg headwrap, potentially with a bald headpiece attached to it, and then any outfit variants of named characters that we haven't had yet, such as a new Cloud City Leia.

King of the Dead Click the image to view a larger version of it, along with some extra pictures, on Flickr _____________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ Thank you kindly! Much appreciated. I painted the skull very lightly with mere streaks of tan citadel paint brushed upon the surface of it, painting around the eye sockets and mouth.

I have been, and am, working on new LOTR custom figures again. Anyone who's interested in seeing them can come take a look at my topic. Recently added Gothmog, and I'm currently working on the Dead Men of Dunharrow, including their King. Topic

Gothmog Click the image to view a larger version of it, along with some extra pictures, on Flickr