Sirens-of-Titan

I know what you mean; Pratchett makes it a big deal as to exactly how polluted the water is, the only plausible way i could picture of doing it is getting a while bunch of dark brown plates and layering the river with them and then putting a layer of trans-clear plates on top of that. I'm a big fan of Discoworld L-Space, keep up the MOC's!

I kind of like to think that as long as you keep the more significant pieces from the old sets it's OK to supplement with new parts: case and point; I found a whole bunch of knights from the 90's about a year ago; (they were the Royal knights with the lion head type) and I decided to rebuild a force of them; I kept the armor which was the unique part, but added modern faces with whites in their eyes, because this: while it's a classic doesn't fit well in most MOC's today. I also supplemented with new horses and pearl swords, left their old shields in their hands and gave the king a new crown as the old one had gone from shiny gold to a dull silver in 20 years. This way you still indeed have your old set, and the crucial parts of it came from your childhood but it looks and feels like a model that could be currently in production

Are these going to be a second wave?? There are already so many sets, it seems crazy if these also come out with wave 1! I think the temple is going to win over most strict 'history" people who previously cursed the day this theme was conceived! I personally think it's one of the better buildings in that style, and architecturally much better than the 90's variant. I guess you just have to put up with having motorcycles tanks and dragons, but nonetheless those are optional and can be ignored. (Earth dragon is looking great, although I'm not crazy about the placement of those fins; they kind of overtake the head

Just to warn you; I started out with the same mindset, but after buying 4 staff guardian sets, and one duel in the air, and I have to say, the mummies don't look all that impressive as an army builder; there's something about the limited amount of variation you could do with them; I tried swapping out the headgear with the one from the pharaoh's from series 2, but alas, it still isn't all that impressive looking. I agree that I'm not spending 100$ just for the figures in the pyramid set, but even on bricklink the Anubis warriors were like 15$ a piece I think I'll keep my force at 10 mummies until some more varied characters come out. I did find the heads work great for other undead however, having a mix of zombie heads and mummy heads is quite a nice combo

I think the brick-built appearance of the wall behind the knight is actually quite unique, it gives realistic texture effects, and having a window there might spoil this. Cooler TD, I love the style of this, and all the intricate brickwork; I would love to see someone attempt a church with that technique!

No problem at all Now that I look at it there series 4 has a lot of promise for creative MOC'ing; village of gnomes anyone? I hope that flask the mad professor is holding is clear and not painted, I would love to do a lab with tons of trans-neon

Thank you for the comments guy, and thank you I Scream Clone for deep-linking the picture, I used conventional skeleton heads because the castle ones seem a bit cartoony and I wanted to portray these as actual long-dead skeleton warriors. I wonder whether or not I should build a whole diorama based around a similar concept, but it's not too festive so I probably should leave it for after the holidays

My first posted MOC; http://www.mocpages.com/moc.php/241322 For those of you who like a story; "Count Vlad of the Kingdom of Cis'Sylvania travels the countryside to recruit the recently deceased for his army of the undead, in this case a local cemetery is the perfect site for black magic, and soon the zombies emerge from the earth and join the ranks of his forces." The coach contains a casket (of course) and the zombies are armed with improvised weapons and shields for the most part. The style is a bit Warhammer-inspired, but the ideas are mostly mine. (This is supposed to resemble a war-game, so all figures, and scenery have a collectible mini-figures display base) I know it's mostly mini-figures, but the coach took a good 10 hours to build, let me know what you think.

Hello, Ingrimm, welcome to Eurobricks! That is very neat, and as a first MOC it's impressive. I can only make one suggestion and that is not on the building side of it but on the photography side; your lighting cast a very sharp shadow across the tree and obscures parts of the scene, I suggest using what's called 3-point lighting when you set this up: there's an excellent tutorial by Hinckley in the General discussion section under tutorials and "Photographing Lego" I like you choice of minifigs, is there a back-story? I'm a conformist!

Could be guys, but I don't think I'm the authority on what the Lego Group is going to do in future sets, if anyone stops buying or looking into Lego because of a comment I've made I'll be pretty darn surprised by it. By the way I did include the gorilla as part of the circus group of minifigures, just look back a few pages. But now we're splitting hairs and bickering over minutia, and that's not my intention, so let's leave it at my speculations are my own, and if you are offended by either reasonable or wild speculations, simply ignore speculative posts and go on with the discussion. Peace and Love

You truly are a pro at this! The roof-line is beyond words! I am very curious; you said you're going to be done with castles for a while; what direction are you planning to take your MOC's in??

Neat the ninja face is great bu the skeleton looks a bit ridiculous with those bobbling eyes Nonetheless pretty neat, I wonder when they're gonna hit shelves in the US

Hey that's not bad at all 20$ for the dragon? Yes please

He certainly could fit the role of leader, but I think it's more of a shout-out to older collectors who remember the Balcktron days. (he does seem more like Blacktron meets space police III) Lego does seem to have a blast with these mini-figures playing to the likes of adults and kids simultaneously. Just reading the descriptions online makes me giggle (The zombie is 'harmless" and the vampire supposedly drinks "fruit smoothies" but a the same time you could use them in MOC's as blood-thirsty monsters, so to a kid a "space villain" is just a neat figure, and to AFOL's it's anything you can think of making it. Could Blacktron come back? I doubt it, at least it won't as Blacktron, but I'm sure there will be a new space theme very soon (after all, Lego has not had a year without Space themes, (and yes Star Wars is counted) since the late 80's I rather like the blast from the past a lot of the collectibles bring

I'm not sure if it's been said, but the rapier we see in the collectible minifigures series 4 is probably intended for this theme, and introduced early in the musketeer figure. I don't think they'll be arming this new theme with sabers and cutlasses

I completely agree, I have quite a few heavily armed dragon knights riding horses equipped with the metal headpiece, with plain saddles which make the cavalry (at the moment) look rather out of proportion and funny (certainly not intimidating) It certainly is strange that out of all of the new themes we didn't get even a hint of a new kingdoms release for 2011.

There is a big difference between "weird" and poorly built. I think the ninjago concept is the craziest Lego has done, after all it looks like a cartoon form the 90's, but the sets are beautifully built for what it's worth, and the color pallet, design and selection make logical sense even if the theme is wacky. Time cruisers wasn't that radical of a concept, it was quite neat, but in turn the sets were so poorly built that even back in the 90's when I was still a kid I felt like i could have built them better than what they built. Just look at them; absolutely atrocious, there was only one that i liked and that was the time machine: It always reminded me of "back to the future" So: craziest theme: NinjaGo most-poorly built theme: Time Cruisers

Haha, I didn't think my opinions were going to cause this many ripples Yes you are 100% correct that we don't know what next wave will be, and we can't predict it entirely based on what has come before. As far as the "no more circus figures" that is also just a guess, but it makes sense to my analytical mind, when given 4 series of variables to analyze them and to wonder about what is to come. When somebody says something to the effect of "we don't know, and have no way of knowing, and I am bothered that you are speculating, because it makes no sense" I say in return, "well, this is a discussion thread, and we aren't limited to saying how much we like the musketeer and the rocker five times each". Spirit of why not, you know

You are entitled to thinking in whatever terms you wish, however to say there are no correlations and relationships among figures from series to series is simply not true. I know there are no actual sub-themes, but do you really believe Lego just throws darts at a list of suggestions and picks what they will include next wave? Actually look at it through a marketing perspective and you'll see what I'm talking about, granted you can categorize it in quite a few groupings, you can't look at the now known 4 series of figures and believe these are randomly chosen; why then don't we have a wave of just realistic city-style mini-figures? Because these are sold as collectibles and as supplements to other sets. Think of it, if series 5 was 16 variations of a city dwellers, or 16 historical figures, or 16 athletes people might skip an entire series if they aren't into sports, city, castle etc. . To make each series feel fresh they intermix them and so yes, I believe there are apparent sub-categories in these for flavor and to keep us neat-minded folks talking

Ha, that's insane! I am yet to see any series 3, series 4 just got revealed and now they move onto 5! it's almost like they are just trying to keep this afloat with the novelty of it, and not actually with distributions and sales. I don't know what will be included, but if they are paying any attention to what sells from the previous series (I'm sure they are) then we can expect a lot of army-builder type figures. They already cut out the circus sub-theme, because it had some of the least-desired figures in it.

With the figures so far I agree 100% it would be impractical to have a calendar, but if PQ goes along the same lines as Atlantis did, (and so far it's looking like it will) we will see a lot more characters, not to mention environments and more distinctive mummies. I doubt the Anubis warrior is the only god-headed minifigure we are going to see in this theme, so by next year when waves 2 and 2.5 have been released, there might be crocodile headed warriors, Osiris warriors, and a few more protagonists, and who knows, even an "villain" to fill up the calendar!

I love the snow on the battlements and the roof! Great idea and excellent execution

Stunning! Simply stunning!

So I ran a few "statistics" on these figures and it seems Lego has stepped away from the circus "sub-theme". There are a total of 64 minifigures possible with series 4 included and: 13 belong to city/music (test dummy, nurse, skater punk, cheerleader, disco guy, pop singer, traffic cop, mime, rapper, artist, skater ,Hazmat suit, rocker) 8 are historic (excluding the wild west) (robin hood, caveman, explorer, spartan, pharaoh, pilot, viking, musketeer) 8 are sports-based with 7/8 coming from series 3 and 4 alone (skier, baseball, tennis, car driver, snowboarder, skater, hockey, soccer) 8 are classic movie monsters (pretty evenly spread with 4 from series 1 + 2 and 4 from series 3 + 4 (zombie, robot, witch, vampire, mummy, wolf-man, mad scientist, Frankenstein) 7 are beach/ ocean based ( diver, lifeguard, surfer, fisherman, hula girl, surfer girl, sailor) 5 are Japanese culture based (ninja, martial arts master, samurai, sumo wrestler, geisha) 5 are circus, (clown, magician, weight lifter, ring master, gorilla) 4 come from the wild west (cowboy, Indian, Native chief, Mexican) 3 are from Space ( I'm not counting the robot from series 1 as it is a "classic movie monster") (space man, alien, cyborg) 2 are fantasy-based (gnome + elf) This makes me think we will be seeing a lot more in the future! and of course the Mexican wrestler whom I can't place anywhere reasonable

Yes!!!!!! Finally a Lego guitar! So many army builders in this series! The musketeer is perfect and finally a Lego rapier! Also: Army of vikings anyone? (Or perhaps a village of gnomes to add to the fantasy elements of the castle line!) Note: New molds! 1) gnome hat 2) werewolf bone (same as Ninjago bone but still technically new) 3) sailor hat 4) Viking shield is same as spartan shield but printed 5) glass Erlenmeyer flask the professor is holding 6) paint brush and pallet 7) new Frankenstein monster head 8) Guitar!! punked hairdue 9) rapier and musketeer hat!!! 10) Hazmat suit and spray nozzle 11) hockey helmet and stick (not sure if stick is a new mold) Overall: Thuroughly fantastic! best series yet! :wub: Add: Kimono girl fan and hair