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"Now that sounds troublesome." Tesni was glad she had a nice selection of weapons to face these potential threats, better to keep her tone down.

"I would like some Goggles please." Tesni handed over the gold. "We are not merchant's ma'am, bodyguarding is our job and nice shiny stuff like that always helps in those sticky situations we face."

My collection turned from Duplo to System with a 1993 set, I was five. I do not know if it was still in shops a few years later or if I chose it and Mum hung onto it a while as I have clear memories of playing with it alongside two later sets, some Aquazone ones. 6536: Aero Hawk, 6115: Shark Scout and 1749: Paravane. I also had a cool gift from my Nan, it had a motorcycle and two minifigures in one set! 6625: Speed Trackers 1858: Droid Scout and 6815: Hovertron were a nice foray into space. 6555: Sea Hunter gave me a boat and a shark. That was cool. 2847: Flyer and 3012: Space Hover (later as it was a 1998 release) added to my space collection. 2846: Indian Kayak turned up at some point. 1998 was a good year, I was ten and LEGO was my toy of choice for any pocket money or gift. (Though, we hadn't lots and lots of money). Adventurers came out, I was already a little Egyptology nut and it was a wonderful theme for me. 2996: Adventurers Tomb, 5918: Scorpion Tracker, 5928: Bi-Wing Baron and the biggest set I ever had until I was earning my own money; 5978: Sphinx Secret Surprise. I also had Insectoids with the 6817: Beta Buzzer and 6903: Bug Blaster. 6415: Res-Q Jet-Ski, 6567: Speed Splash and 6572: Wind Runners made my LEGO town more exciting. 1999 had 2884: Microlight free with a box of biscuits. A baddie for Sam Grant to match wits with in 5901: River Raft and 5906: Ruler of the Jungle to contend with in a new place. 4910: The Hover Scout provided me with one of my favourite minfigures ever.Mum was awesome and I wasn't jaded yet, 7111: Droid Fighter, 7131: Anakin's Podracer and 7121: Naboo Swamp meant I could play Phantom Menace. (My uncle also had a computer game of it, but I kept losing on the level where you have to escort Padme and got fed up...). 6458: Satellite with Astronaut, I had two. Mum got one and then Grandma got me one also, not knowing I had it already. It was awesome to have two of the same LEGO set, especially one with the cool solar panels. 6453: Com-Link Cruiser provided a mainstay character in my childhood games: Huston Texas, mission commander and scientist guy (my sister and I were weird kids okay?). 6437: Beach Buggy was neat, I know people hate <insert that tiresome argument> sets but I just was grateful for LEGO. 8506: Granite became my first Constraction figure (it was fun to fling discs at my brothers). My collection of adventurers was added to with 5914: Sam Sanister and Baby T. 7104: Desert Skiff was and is still a great set. I also loved my 7134: A-wing Fighter. I got a 1293: Swamp Craft, it was cheap somewhere. In 2000 it was limited LEGO stuff, I had started secondary school and really wanted a CD player, so my money went on a Walkman and some CDs. I still have both, so y'know, a sound investment. (Get it? Sound investment? Gosh I am funny). If we are stopping at 14, we have some more years to go! I have never stopped with LEGO. 1239: Subzero was free with a brand of frozen food. With four kids, my mum got lots of it anyway, so we had plenty of these guys to share around. Alpha Team hit the scene and I got a 6771: Ogel Command Striker and wished I could have more. For Bionicle, with two brothers I made my claim for Rock and they said it was fine because "Rock is lame" and had all the others. 8531: Pohatu and 8542: Onewa joined Granite for rock-ing adventures and I tried to play the Bionicle webgame on a dial-up connection, most impressed that my grandparents cable meant they had internet and two phone-lines. 7310: Mono Jet gave me another spaceman for my growing interest in spaceship MOCs. I bought 1381: Vampire's Crypt in a TKMaxx at some point, so it may not have been in 2002. 8560: Pahrak battled 8568: Pohatu Nuva. We got Freeview and for a brief while Dad got well into BidTV. This resulted in a big ol' box of Star Wars LEGO arriving at our door when my brother's were all about the Playstation so I had the lot! 7103: Jedi Duel, 7113: Tusken Raider Encounter, 7119: Twin-Pod Cloud Car and 7200: Final Duel I. 'Twas an epic day. Ah, 2003 is our final year. Adventurer's came back. 7413: Passage of Jun-Chi, 7423: Mountain Sleigh and 7424: Black Cruiser provided some nice new figures. I also had 4850: Spider-Man's first chase and 4851: Spider-Man and Green Goblin -- The origins. I still bought LEGO, at least one or two sets a year and always building with what I had. Heck, the one moment it was possible I would stop for a new interest in manga and anime was just when Exo Force came out (LEGO Mecha? Sorted!) Sorry if this was a boring read, but eh, it is more fun than a contextless list right?

Funnily enough, a nice understated salmon shade like that would be just fine for a lot of places in the UK. This looks like one of the lovely old hotel/boarding house/ B&Bs out in Torquay or Paignton. Lovely

Tesni blinked a few times and noticed the wares. "Oooh, goggles. Those look useful."

"Uh, m'lady, this seems a little odd..."

I have a lot of Alien Conquest LEGO and loved how the uniform looked, the general and the Queen torso made it impossible to resist to use in my mercenary pirate hunting group. Writing a story is what builds these characters, not one of my custom created figures is without a backstory. Yeah, the photos look a bit pants, between the poor weather making it difficult for daylight and my lack of photo-editing software (only MS Paint to crop it sadly)

The East Andromedan Spice company hires crews to keep the shipping lanes free from pirates. They have few stipulations; look tidy and wear some form of uniform, don't steal spice and stop the pirates. The Grand Corsair's crew under Captain Blight are one such group who operate for gold and adventure in space! Shipman B'sant Kätinen - Walk slowly and have a big fist.That is how B'sant solves problems. A Nox, he left his home planet to experience the blackness of space, an decompression accident cost him his arm and eye but the ever philosophical being was happy to upgrade and has no angst over being part machine. Rocketeer Öse Ten - A man from Moon Colony Ten of Old Terra. Öse is a long way from home and loving every minute of it. Rocketeer is a dangerous position, being one small person who blasts from their ship to board the enemy first or tie down the grapple line, but it is a lot better than making sure the air filters are moon-dust free. Midshipman Charon - A human, who happened to contract lycanthropy, Charon changed his name and moved to space. In space the (a) moon is always full. So he's always a wolfman. Sailor Ziggy - The youngest of the crew, Ziggy is from a planet where the residents just so happen to look like Terran ideas of a vampire. He signed on for a bit of a star cruise as his grandmother knew Captain Blight from long ago. Special Operative Echo Two-Niner - Every crew in the EASC has a special operative. Plasma blades are rare and dangerous, many years of special training is needed to handle them safely. However they are also vital in space battle and during boarding of enemy ships. Echo is happy with her assignment and gets to visit and cut through many interesting things. Captain Theophrastus Blight - Terror to all who call themselves pirate, Theophrastus Blight is rumoured to be the son of a shipping magnate who was killed by pirates, or a shipman who gained his scar from pirates, or pirates raided his home, or he just really really doesn't like pirates. Blight is a mystery bar the fact that his crew is family and he really Does. Not. Like. Pirates. Here are individual shots that are a little larger (when moderated). Many and varied things have made this so last minute. From losing my photo editing software to the camera memory card saying "NO!" and many other minor things. I hope you like my crew and the story. I wish my massive sorting efforts didn't mean I can't MOC.

Deep in the briny depths sits a treasure only those of the aquazone can find. Eurobrick's member Sebus I has shared his excellent MOC. Take a look, peer into the deep waters of the Action and Adventure Themes forum.

"Wait wait! Potions and things right? An elixir and remedy each. Who would make best use of the two spare remedies? Once we have sorted this out I would love some retail therapy m'lady." Tesni looked around the amazing place, on top of the mountains was her true place but this was fascinating and beautiful in its own way. (I can keep the surplus until the end for fair divvies or pass them out now on consensus. Then Shopping!)

"Blargh." Tesni slumped back. "M'lady, again I apologise for the need to row. Shall I pass around these gleanings now or save them for trip's end?" For now battle was over the story was back in play, it would not do to make orders over their employer's head.

It depends on which school of folktale you ascribe to, but Faeries or the Fae Folk can differ between the typically tiny Tinkerbelle pixie types to Oberon and Titania who are human sized or the Seeley and Unseely courts of fae who are man-or-more sized. (Think The Green Knight who was hale and tall, or the Lady of the Lake who appeared as a beautiful woman). Elves could glean more races from these sorts of tales. Really there are a lot of things that an Elf or Elves can be too. Icelandic elves are diminutive if you take into account that their churches are large rocks. The elves as popular culture sees them are the Help Santa flavour or Tolkien's earthbound angel super-entities. Original guts'n'all stories presented Elves as quite scary creatures who stole children away or worse (Read some Discworld, though it is rather the extreme end of the scale so as to be polar opposite to Middle Earth Elves)

Hmm. Acetone takes the glue away in most circumstances (nail polish remover) but I can't be sure it won't damage any printing if you drop the glued pair into a little cup of the stuff. I know it takes rubbing or scrubbing in normal print-removal methods, so it might be a risk to take and just soak them for a while and see what happens. Though, without an ID on the glue it might not work even...

Sentai Fortress and the Agents Mobile Command Centre. Two very big builds, one large in space and the other in stature. They were packed with fun features and great figures. The fortress was to large to keep together, but the command centre is still in one piece, though I did re-fit the interior.

Any EB member can drop in and meet-up on days they can. The exact schedule usually is posted closer to the dates.

"We all row together! Nearly there!" Tesni Atramor Nur Ellaria

Got pictures of the problem?

Hi guys. As you can tell from the title I need to repair a technic figure. I have this guy: And most unfortunately someone small used him a little like a doll and his left arm snapped off at the shoulder joint. Now, what happened is the pin/peg snapped clean at the point it met the arm, so the entirety of it is inside the torso with a tiny dimple left on the arm itself. I noticed the peg was hollow and the arm did have a dimple, so running a small risk of limited movement I attempted my own repair. Using a carefully trimmed piece of the sprue two minifig keys come on I dipped the one end of this little pin/rod into Revell Model Glue and popped it into the hole of the pin left in the shoulder. So far, so good. The glue cured and the new repair pin remained in place with normal handling. Then I trimmed it to the best length to attach the arm using the remains of the original peg. Dabbed glue into the dimple of the broken peg on the arm, placed it onto the pin and with a little masking tape to hold it in place, left the glue to cure. First try, the arm came away with the tape. Second try, the arm fell off once the tape was gone. It is leaving a nice mass of glue on the tip of the pin (formed to the shape of the dimple on the arm...) I am guessing it is either not the best adhesive to use in this situation, the plastics won't bond or that there just isn't enough of the original peg left on the arm to join it right. What would you suggest? I could get a different glue (I am on the hunt for some as a few action figures got mashed too. Poor Sam Flynn is now headless and my Big Duo is Last Appearance accurate!) or is it better to get the leftover peg out of the torso and put a new arm in?

I've not found any real issues mixing CMF and regular figure parts like that. I have switched printed arms with armour parts or tattoos onto torsos and after getting a lot of Crash Test Dummy series 1 figures I used some of their arms to turn certain torsos sleeveless. I've also not experienced issues with the hands, I switch them around without problems or even really noticing which parts were original to a figure and what were simple replacements once I was finished swapping or when I wanted to use the torso again. (I have a box of armless or arm/hand missing torsos and a partition of arms and hands from my parts switching custom figures. Looks a little Doctor Frankenstein, but not as bad as my sister and her doll customising space!) I know this is a late reply and all that, but I thought I would share in case you hadn't made a purchase yet, a blind bag figure in the supermarket/toystore would be cheaper right? I think with any arm or hand on minifigures it is a case of how carefully the part is removed/put on, how often the parts have had this done and how old the parts are too. Some of my oldest parts have little friction in an arm or both and I wouldn't dare alter some of the old figure parts I collected since.

"Well damn. (unt oops) Okay, are we in need of my hammer?"

"If we all row and let the summons handle things we should speed along well." Tesni took up an oar, she trusted the summons to make short work of their foes. Cloud Gigas Treant Pegasus Storm Elemental Carcinos Tesni Atramor Ellaria Nur

Looks like a little shop in Dartmouth (Devon, UK for you colonials) or up around the corner from me. Lovely, it is the look I want to aim for in a town layout.

(Berserker is locked onto Black Leech H. Sorry, I thought it just got boring for people if I kept on mentioning that I am against my enemy until it falls.)

"Well that is an impressive line-up!" Tesni nodded her thanks for the heal. Cloud Gigad Treant Phoenix Pegasus Storm Elemental Carcinos Tesni Atramor Ellaria Nur

(Sorry, I made a a quickpost before I went to work ..) Tesni Targeted Black Leech H with Mellt, the hammer was serving well this battle.