kris kelvin

Just my last two cents. We have to remember that building a MOC is very different from building a set. When I`m building MOC I have no restrictions. When someone is designing a set there are many many restrictions. You have budget and when you have a budget you have limited number of pieces. So sometimes you can`t build as you wish but you have to build in one specific way. When you try to change one specific part (for example windows) you have to change many others things. Better or diffrent looking windows may require changes in whole building. It`s not easy to build better roof or interior when you to fit in 500 or 2000 pieces. You have to remember that sets are for children. Younger or older but for children. Set must be well build and "unbreakable". And when something is broken it must be easy to rebuild by kids. When a MOC is very often good looking from outside set with interior must be good looking from inside and outside. Ect, ect, ect... So designers are often limited to specific solutions. And in these days that is difficult. We have thousands and thousands MOCs every year. Many solutions have been used by AFOLs. Of course it`s always "thin red line". When designer is using popular or very specific techniques? It`s always hard to tell. For me when designer is using one technique is good and for someone other it`s stealing. And about the set. It`s brilliant and expensive. But I will probably buy this. For me it`s a classic and one of the best sets ever (Sorry for my English. It`s not Shakespeare but I hope you will understand my point )

This is message from the creator (Adam Grabowski/Misterzumbie): "I built the facade of the house few years ago, just for fun, not more than a front wall, and the tower, including a bit simpler porch, and put it aside, since I was assigned to build the first prototype of the castle. That facade was meant to be shown in the video (it still exists), but we decided that we won’t use it, as we thought that some of the AFOLs would then be disappointed that they could have had that instead of the one you got (get). From the very beginning it was sand green, whyever. I don’t know why. Later I tried dark red, dark sand, and other “dull colors”, but sand green was the best shot, so it stayed like it is. After the actual haunted house was built and 90% ready I looked up BS to find Legohaulic’s house, just because I was looking for inspiration for alternative colors, that is when someone showed me the other houses, particularly the sand green one, and I knew then that you will be talking about it, trying to find a hole in the whole thing, and spend your God given time on such uncertain things. What you see as similar, or the same, is the color, if the house was dark red, you would pass the sand green house up and wouldn’t even look closer to look for other similarities. The base of the house is the “close your eyes and think of a Victorian house” thing. Google haunted house and the first gazillion images will show this building. The one that is in the Disneyland could be that, the one from Munsters could be that, and many others could be it. The position of windows, doors, tower, porch, that annoys you so much is a pure necessity, in order of having it hinged it had to be split like it is split now, and since I always try to build symmetric shapes it came out like that. Windows, well, look similar, maybe almost the same, but for me it was just an obvious choice of bricks. Not more and not less. I don’t think about stuff like that when I build, I don’t consider and check Brickshelf every time I put together 10 bricks in order to find out if I was the first person ever to come up with this or that Idea. I think “can this be shown in a building instruction? Can I have 10 different windows built with the same bricks for simplicity? The porch was the same thing. It had to have pillars, so I built pillars out of pillars. Then I had to make the roof over that, it is three plates, and they needed a support. So I went with 1x3 plates, and two slopes, and had a 1x1 space. There are two solutions to fill in that gap, 1x1 round, or 1x1 lightbrick with something. Ready. No thinking there what so ever. No “OMG, am I the first to do that? What would people say?”… Same goes on the pillars in the corners. There was this space there which meant that either there is something there, or one of the walls will be an odd number. So there you go, a pillar, and walls are even. I built tons of stuff over the past years, literally hundreds if not thousands of different creations, I don’t remember ever looking up Brickshelf or Flickr for inspiration. I don’t even check fan sites regularly except of LugPol, and even there I go just to talk with friends. Firstly, I won’t check other creations to avoid accusations like this one now (Do you really think that if I have had seen that green house before I built this model, I wouldn’t redesign every bit that seem similar, just to avoid this discussions like this one here?), and second, because fans build so much different than LEGO designers, and translating even the simplest fan generated ideas into a product takes longer than developing it from ground up. Of course, being a former AFOL makes me a lovely target for “he copied XXXXX works and cashes a fat check for that”, but I assure you, my fan related actions are down to checking Brothers-Brick once in a while, and LugPol once a day. If you want to know what I was looking at when building that house, check Addams Family and all episodes of Munsters. Or listen to that: , I had it on repeat over few months. Yes months. You have no idea about our timelines, it is almost two years ago that I began to build the Mansion, and three or four years ago I build the first sketch. Maybe even longer. So yea… Think whatever you wish, and whatever makes you happy. I love the house, it was a chance to build something really unique, and most likely one off. I never thought LEGO would ever make a Haunted Mansion, never thought that I can get that close to my beloved Addams Family and this genre at work. It was one of the coolest experiences ever. I wouldn’t jeopardize that little dream of mine by copying someone’s stuff, and I’m too much into all that “Horror Business” to make “my dream” someone other’s… "

Ech... I ktow the creator of this set pretty good. We are from the same LUG. Trust me or not he is very decent and honest person. He would never copy someones MOC without permission. He is very talented and very skilled to build his own creations. He loves vampires, monsters, zombies and all that stuff (it was his idea to put Zombie in first wave of Collectibles Minifigures, he is one of the creators of Monsters Fighters theme). How many designers Lego have? How many sets we have every year? And how many talented AFOL-s we have? How many beautiful creations from them we have every year? There are thousands and thousands beautiful MOC-s every year and we have one hundred or one hundred and fifty sets every year? It`s inevitable that there will be similarities between MOC-s and sets. Do you really want world when someone builds green victorian house and another person will have to pay to build similar house? Well good luck with that

This is one fantastic entry. Clean, japanese look :) Far much better than most of official architecture sets.

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Is there something wrong with this topic or something wrong with me? I can only see first eigth entries.

Now that is superb creation. Not too big not too small, fantastic colours, trams. Just perfect

Thanks all for nice feedback. It`s always nice Capt. Kirk - has some good point here. I understand this. I wanted to use Nazi flag in this MOC but decided not doing this. It looks much better, but it would be too far in my opinion. So only minifigures, and no German flags, or signs.

Well... What can I say? I wanted to build something completely different, but I did not work out. Then I wanted to build something even more different, but it did not work out. And quite accidentally adding diffrent things I`ve made this. Let`s say that is fictional Wehrmacht base somewhere in ocuppied Poland. Two buildings, crane, railway siding and some small things. It has no sense. I was building, and building and that is the effect Flickr Bricklink (when public) Some details: Enjoy

Take care KimT Good luck in new job (I think we need new Jabba Sail Barge )

It`s old but if someone want to support it on Cuusoo feel free :D Link

This is pure beauty Very smooth and clean architecture. Sometimes people adds too much ornaments and it doesn`t look good. Your building is very simple but sometimes simplicity is the best. And colours are great. White with grey and a little touch of dark green looks superb. Fantastic work overall

Oh c`mon Of course that we will have Flying Dutchman. I`ll give you my word if you want.

It would be great that we have something like this. Western modular town I voted already, but I have only one voice. We will have "Minecraft" sets and will not something like this? Oh c`mon VOTE VOTE VOTE!!!

But you are a charming, handsome rich troll Well I couldn`t resist Back to the topic. From my point of view this sets are looking fantastic but I`m big LOTR fan. Especially Helm`s Deep looks very, very good. Minifigures are simply breathteaking but today it`s a standard. I hope Lego will use new mold for Gandalf`s staff. Just a bar? Oh come on A big, exclusive Rivendell set or harbour of the Grey Havens set would be fantastic.

And how many pieces will be in Jabba`s Palace? Anybody knows? 120 pounds is very high price

Yes. That is so true

More photos Shield looks very nice :) Of course pictures are not mine. I just resized them.

I`m huge fan of this buildings, and this Town Hall is the best of them (with the exception of Cafe Corner which always will be numero uno). Colours, architecture, details. All perfect. Maybe roof made from slopes would be better than flat roof? Maybe. Yes of course it should be free-standing building, on 48x48 baseplate, made from 5000 elements and it should cost 400 dollars. It should also have another baseplate 48x48 in front of it with fountain, benches, lamp posts and of course with old man feeding pigeons. Pigeons made from bricks of course.

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It`s wonderful but it`s not mine Maciej is here so my work is over.

It`s not mine but built by my friend Maciej. It`s not member of Eurobricks but it`s so good that is worth to share this fantastic creations with you And here is full set - LINK Some fantastic details: Just love it. Enjoy Edit: one more added by moderator:

I`ve always been fan of your creations tiberium, and it`s keep going, and going, and going... Magnificent building in all respects, especially the walls

I want to see box art. It`s not request. It`s an order!!!