Rocketbilly

The way the figure is just left to hang off the vehicle as it powers forwards is brilliant, I love building things like this, it's always so much fun. Who really needs seats really? they just add weight and make things look cluttered! nice use of those huge wheel pieces and the engine blocks for intakes!

While I like your designs and think that such sets would be very cool, I very much doubt LEGO would produce sets based around what essentially boils down to "soldiers in space". I think it's too close to having an actual military theme (albeit with a great sci-fi twist) and would violate LEGO's policies of producing such sets. It's a shame...but a great idea. Best of luck with the Cuusoo group!

The new Joker's carnival set looks really good, it's definitely my favourite of the wave I think, the aesthetic is just superb. All it's missing is a few henchmen but really they'd just drive the price up. As it is, it seems very decently priced, which is of course another attractive part of the set - that and the great design, minfigs selection, colour scheme and general atmosphere the set creates.

I really like the cartoony aesthetic here, very bulbous and round and that brick-built balloon is very cool too. I prefer your method of building smoke, I think it's better than using the "scoops of ice cream" piece that so many steampunk MOCs use to represent plumes of smoke. Overall nice job!

Superb design. I think you've done a great job here with the detailing,all the little rooms and the opening sides but I think the best part of this is the angling of the hull and the way you've made the sails out of bricks. You've captured the shape very well. I also really like the two little skiffs, they're equally as detailed and really quite scree accurate, too.

Very nice speeder. I'm also a big fan of asymmetry and speeder bikes, so this is really appealing to me. Kind of gives off a Blacktron vibe too, which I appreciate.

I've been having issues with the site this week too. I'll try and load a topic in the forum, my browsers says it's loading and then after about a minute or so (far longer than usual) it says that the webpage cannot be displayed. This isn't all the time, but has been happening quite frequently. At worst, the front page wouldn't load either.

As others have said, it's a little chunky compared to the on-screen version of the ship but I think this is quite nice as it is, the chunkiness gives it a certain charm that I quite like. I also really like the large scaled R2 unit, too, it's an obvious use for the big UCS droid head printed dome piece, but I've not seen it done before and it looks really great. Nice work!

Very nice, I've always admired the smaller GI Joe vehicles, and this one is one of my favourites. I like the details in the engines and the nice, vibrant colour. The little rockets on the side (i assume they're some kind of rockets/missiles) are also some of the nicest I've seen with such a small number of parts - detailed yet simple at the same time. Nice work!

My Tesco had the Alien Conquest mothership set for £29.97. Nearly missed it since it didn't have a yellow "reduced" sticker but I scanned it myself and yes, it was £29.97. Far better than the RRP. Bought a copy for myself.

Hm interesting to see a face under the sandtrooper helmet. Pretty cool too, but I hope that this change goes out to all of the Stormtrooper minifigs too, it would be nice to get a head like this in the upcoming Battle Pack, especially if the Scout Trooper got a similar head with a printed visor, like the original ones from 1999 or 2000.

Official Minecraft LEGO? I've been reading about this on the internet and the articles sound legitimate enough, but who knows? If this is real and LEGO do release sets based on Minecraft...that would just be awesome. Anyhow, here's the link to anyone who's interested: http://uk.pc.ign.com/articles/121/1213958p1.html EDIT: Hmm reading the articles again, it looks like maybe whoever wrote the articles misunderstands the concept of LEGO Cuusoo and took one of the comments on the Minecraft Cuusoo page out of context...hopefully not but that seems likely

Nice idea, and great use of the Han in carbonite piece. Nice to see you've made the effort to build up some of the detail on the landscape with tan plates as opposed to just leaving it all one level.

Hopefully! I remember the first things we saw of the Savage Planet sets were some sort of caricatures of the characters for use in some sort of online game. Only really gave us an idea of the helmets though. I'm hoping for a continuation of the Breakout theme, too. Here's what I'm expecting (hoping for more like): Stringer, Bulk, Stormer and Nex, with some villains for the "canister" sets , a "titan" set (possibly a larger hero like Rocka XL) and some sort of vehicle based set, more than likely being piloted by Furno or Rocka just to keep the "main characters" present in each wave as LEGO seems to do. The Summer wave is always larger than the Winter wave,so maybe some larger villain sets, too - or maybe even a vehicle for the villains... that's something we've not had yet. It would be nice if a new Hero was introduced - using purple or "Mata green" as a primary colour, but something tells me we're sticking with the already established set of heroes.

Very nice, the Slave One is by far my favourite so far! I think that's a perfect representation. You've also done a great job with the mechno-chair, that must have been difficult to get right.

Me too! I've certainly been there before. If you place a piece of cloth between the pliers and the minifig head, it usually helps to minimise the risk of scratching. Be careful though - if the cloth makes it too slippery to pull the head off, it's very tempting to apply more pressure with the pliers...then the head might crack and you have no minifig head at all! you have to find a decent piece of cloth with decent friction.

This is really cool, I like the magma/lava effect and think the design of the cannon itself is very nice too. I like the angle of this, and howit looks ot be embedded or emerging from the ground. Wouldn't like to be on the wrong side of it, that's for sure!

Welcome to Eurobricks! Glad to see another classic space fan. I know what you mean about the prices of Licensed sets, but at least sometimes you can get some really nice pieces from them. Enjoy using the site!

Very cool. I like how you did the weapons, I wish LEGO would produce a piece like this. I also like the HUD. I wish LEGO would produce a visor like this too, but when the official collectible fig comes out, It seems likely that this detail will be printed on the face. Nice rendering!

Nice review! This set looks decent, though I'm getting fed up with white and blue being used for almost every City set. I know it makes sense, but it's just so common now what with the glut of police sets. Ah well. I would rather the forest police sets use a white and green colour scheme, but this will do. I might buy this and modify it to be a space ship.

Well the snake-mech looks decent as a set but where it really shines for me are the parts. These will be great for action figure MOCS. It appears to have the new socket pieces used in the upcoming Hero Factory and Super Hero "constraction" figures in lime, and also the 2X2 brick with a socket piece appears to have been reinforced to be stronger and more like the 2010 Hero Factory Joints. Glad to see this. The other set seems to be good for parts and adds something more to the wave what with it not having any vehicles in it, but sadly I expect this is a limited edition, too.

I could see the using a piece like Cad Banes for the Bane figure. Could work, I suppose though I think printing would be the best option here.

I've gotten this too. I think temperature certainly has something to do with it, though also the thickness of plastic. Over the years, LEGO has used slightly different thicknesses of plastic, or at least types of plastic I believe and that can sometimes lead to different clutch powers and different stiffnesses of minifigure parts. Since your collection of sets spans such a large time period, you've more than likely got a lot of different plastics. I've experienced stiffness in a lot of mid eighties to early nineties parts myself, mainly minifigure arms and plates.

Has it even been confirmed that the green ninja is a character that we know of already? it could just be that the green ninja turns up out of nowhere, but from whatI've read it's supposed to be the "destiny" of an established character. Hmmm. Do you think we'll find out soon?

Green Ninja has "adult" sized legs. Lloyd has "child" sized legs. Unless he either grows up suddenly or is wearing some sort of stilts.... You could all be right. It's not like the world of Ninjago is particularly logical at times anyhow. He could easily use some sort of spell or something - or even just stick some 1x1 plates to the bottom of his legs, since it's established that their world is made out of LEGO pieces, or at least the vehicles and whatnot. If Lloyd is the green ninja then I'm sure the height difference can be explained away. Also, is it just me or do the "metallic" parts of the green ninja's costume (pauldron shoulder pad type things and headband/tiara type thingy appear to be a gunmetal colour, as opposed to silver or gold like the normal ninja?