Peppermint_M

You must be well organised too! I have three of the old one and three of the new one and my unsorted collection eats them for kicks and giggles. MOCing, building a set or just plain having an attempt at sorting parts for a project and when two plates stick I can't find even one!

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I wasn't best impressed with the official tower set for varied reasons. So, with a little bit of a look at the Art of Tangled and a lot of building and rebuilding, I created a playset/MOC that fitted with what I thought it should look like. I left plenty of play space inside on a dollhouse play principal. The steps, chair and stove from the original set still feature. The window is super important to the story, so I simply transferred it wholly into my new build. I left a nice wide space at the 'front' for further play. At the back is a bed and there are a few other little details placed, hobbies mentioned in the song When Will my Life Begin? I do wish there was an official LEGO produced acoustic guitar though! The Friends guitar had to make do. The back view isn't so exciting. The bed is inside this turret. It will be very easy to build a tower for this room to sit on, maybe that will be the next thing to try. Maybe a little landscaping at the base and such... Thoughts? Comments? Critque?

£3.50 for a rather large baseplate. I am getting some of those soon! I would think everyone knows my position on Clone brand and Bootleg, though with a few of them these days the proces are just as high.

Well, it doesn't look like LEGO or MegaBlocks. The plastic baggie does get in the way somewhat but I can see from the studs it is off-off brand. They are very rounded at the edges and both TLG and Mega products have sharper stud moulding. Not to mention the missing logos. So, this is probably one of the many many many 'fits LEGO' Chinese manufactured products. Hope this helps!

There is an icon in the right hand corner of the black band the image appears in. It looks like an arrow pointing to a line. Click that and select "View All Sizes" Then you can choose the appropriate size to post: I use firefox, so if I right click the image I can choose to copy image location. I am not sure of Chrome, but in IE right click will let you look at the properties which will have the full URL. Then you can past that into the forum image dialogue box. TaaDaa EDIT Or, you can use the share button. Really, this whole tutorial seems to work just fine... What browser are you using?

A little more information would be helpful. Do you have a link to the thread here where the image failed to show up? Do you have a link to the picture you were trying to post? How were you putting the image into Eurobricks and was there any sort of error message before the image didn't appear?

Harry Cane has a new plane to test and fly. The Goodbury group's newest offering: The Goshawk. The Goodbury Factors build all kinds of vehicles. I patterned this after the early fighter planes, both in style and colourscheme. It wasn't based on any specific old set this time, simply a new plane for my refreshed figure to pilot. The new Harry Cane has a cleaner cut than the old figure, mainly because I think he looks a lot smarter with a tidy beard than with a whole lot of stubble. My personal story for him was RAF officer, so he had to look a little neater! The Naboo Pilot torso has been a favourite of mine, both 'recent' designs look great. Though their source look was taken from the eras of history that had such style! There are only a few Adventurer of my refreshed characters who I have used a whole new face for. There are 'story' reasons, there are quality issues with the old heads or I didn't have the figure in the first place. Other times it is simply the fact I like the 'new' white pupils printed in. All of these factors meant Harry Cane got a new head!

Printed and stickered tiles are great, stckers are on bricklink too. PaB walls in the LEGO Brand stores are useful for plain tiles and bricks you need to build SF dioramas and scenes.

A request in my Island Raider thread for the original, I thought to post the Scorpion Tracker and the other car I used as a build off: The Scorpion Tracker The one from the Sphinx Secret Suprise.

Or the "Stone Red" Baron is we're going with TLG names! Is the original car. Very typical design of the era. Actually, comparison pics are great! I'll have to post some into the Scorpion Venturer too!

My update of the original Adventurers continues with the Island Raider, a souped up version of the Island Racer in more menacing colours and sleeker design. I love the new engine parts that arrived in the last few years, not to mention the curved elements and darker colours. I didn't have the orignal Island Racer, instead having to make my own to play with after spying it when my brother's friend loaned him LEGO Racers. I had a handful of parts to have a stab at a half decent replica. Of course I had to make a new one when I came to equip my updated Baron! I was influnced by the original set but also a number of era specific automobiles and stylings. The colour choice was a given, dark red is such a wonderful one to work with despite some of the batch issues and black/dark bley combines well. I used a Prince of Persia weapon as the ornament to fit in to the general brutal themeing of the car. My updated Baron Von Baron uses the gold hook (he's a man of wealth and taste after all) brown epaulettes (mostly because my white ones are discoloured!) and the grey pith helmet to upgrade the old look from his last appearance in Orient Expedition. Lucius Malfoy's torso is smart and fits the bill. Also seeing as he has a dueling scar then a fencing blade is the weapon for him. More builds and figures to come!

A great deal of experimental aircraft were developed by the ƧCǣ airfactors in attempts to break Trans-Atlantic and time airborn records. The Lightning Volt was on such jet. While it got to a certain point in deveolpment a more promising design prototype shelved the L-V project. Mothballed for a long time it was built to flight standard by an eccentric pilot. Sooo... I was building Adventurer planes but these sky-fi ones keep escaping instead. It is technically created for Adventurer's to use but it of course fits here better than Action and Adventure. I was trying for some bare-bones look in areas as if the jet is experimental and I love using the spinner crowns in planes and the cable/wires at the front are actually reigns from Friends and the Star Wars Bantha.

Mindstorm robots. I could see people having to design, build and programme robots to undertake Ninja Warrior tasks...

Linky (Cheeky I know, but it fits!)

I have been working on an update for the theme for quite some time now, though I was waiting for some parts to become (I just knew the perfect hat would be made one day!) There are plenty more figures and builds to post in the next few days/weeks. I am glad others enjoy Adventurers as much as I do. This is one of the themes I wish could be cornerstone to Action & Adventure, something to get people building MOCs for this section. I know I'll never gather the same sort of userbase of Star Wars or even Town, but regular creative activity in Action is something I'm trying to get going!

Well, I am glad people like my little article! Johnny Thunder was always the best in my opinion so of course I wanted to shout about him. I was allowed to watch The Last Crusade and have had a lifelong love of history (A 5 year old who wanted to be an archeologist!) and Adventurers was of course the theme for me. The Indiana Jones sets provided me some excellent parts to play with. As for the refreshed hat, I would love to see it used in other sets but any sort of Adventurer revival set in the subtheme would be really cool. Though it will need to slot in with all the Chima and Ninjas and Agents that TLG are doing. Hmm, a series on all of the minifigs might be cool! I'll give it a think.

It possibly would come as no surprise that my childhood favourite LEGO theme was Adventurers. Some of my fondest playtime memories are of sprawling bedroom wide Adventurer Expeditions that ranged from the archeologically accurate dig site to a cartoon caper of chasing down the baddies while being chased by the Mummy or jungle tribesmen. The focal figures (literally!) were always Johnny Thunder and Pippin Reed. Johnny Thunder was part of the Theme Logo, he has appeared in eight LEGO video games. This chap was cornerstone enough to feature in The LEGO Movie and have a re-issue in the Super Secret Dropship set. So why don’t we get to know about our be-hatted hero. A Man of Many Names Back in the long ago days of the 90s there were not quite so many linked multi-media goodies for LEGO themes as there are these days. There were some small features in the LEGO Club magazine, the advert-comics that featured in kids magazines and sometimes the odd TV advertisement were all we really had. These might give you a few titbits to broaden the world presented on any bonus pages in the instruction manual or the little sheet that presented the other avaliable sets. Of course, many times you only learned the character names by purchasing the set they came in. With each language and market location there could be differences between the promotional material because no one had any communication or a single platform to access. This led to curiosities like multiple identities for the same character. Johnny also went by Sam Grant or Joe Freeman in other parts of the world. I was introduced to Sam Grant from the back of a cereal box promoting their giveaway (only six tokens and the p&p!) that included our intrepid hero and his desert car the Scorpion Tracker. Despite alll the names he still had his moustache, sideburns and the dimpled chin of a hero! Many Adventures Johnny Thunder and the Adventurers theme appeared in 1998 to 2000 with a revival in 2003. In this time the Adventurers, heroes and villains, travelled to many lands. The tomb filled deserts of Egypt where an undead Pharaoh lurched. Up the Amazon river with jewel thieves and lost tribes guarded gold. To a mystery island that time forgot with dinosaurs to protect from poachers and finally the Orient on the trail of Marco Polo's treasures. Johnny Thunder also gained his first acting credits in LEGO Studios, tumbling through a booby-trapped tomb and being chased by less friendly dinosaurs. Well Stocked Wardrobe As Johnny Thunder had plenty of adventures in a number of places quite sensibly he had a well stocked wardrobe to go with his trademark hat. While the well known tan shirt served well in the desert, the jungle and tracking dinosaurs there were varients for each of the locales of the Orient he ventured to. Classic, India and Tibet outfits. The tan shirt followed the same outfit archetype of the serial-film heroes Indiana Jones was drawn from and the later variations fitted in to the different locations visited in Orient Expidition. The reissue figure for The LEGO Movie follows the classic look with sharper printing, details on the back and the new colours LEGO brought in after Adventurers were no longer in production. This figure is a really nice inclusion on the part of both the Movie team and TLG, a little 'classic' nod to all of us AFOLs and something for my peer group to notice even if they aren't super LEGO fans. Media Man Just like any other superstar, Johnny Thunder appeared in many media ventures, from a simple 'easter egg' to a feature character in games and of course The LEGO Movie. A number of LEGO video games were released during the Adventurer's heyday and plenty of them featured the characters and theme locations to play through. The LEGOLAND game had Adventure Land attractions and features to unlock as you progressed with cutscenes too. http://youtu.be/diHcA6wtyC4 The next game to feature Johnny was LEGO Racers as an opponent to race with a number of circuits based on the Adventurers theme. In LEGO Island 2 Johnny and co help Pepper Roni in his mission to collect Constructopedia pages on Adventure Island. In Racers 2 Johnny was once again an opponent in races and also an NPC interaction for mini-games and returned again as an NPC racer in LEGO Stunt Rally. In LEGO Soccer you had to face off against an Adventurer Expidition team made up of characters from the theme and once defeated Johnny became an optional player for your own soccer team. This was a time in LEGO history where a lot of video games were made so of course Johnny would feature often. He was a major LEGO character at the time after all! Once Adventurers ended and slowly left recent and target market memory and game development moved out-of-house to developers like Travellers Tales, Johnny Thunder and co didn't feature. However with the launch of LEGO Universe he was back as a member of the Venture League. While the character was intended to be the same Johnny Thunder from the Adventurer theme, he underwent many design tweaks, even appearing in a rather different guise during Beta Testing. Fan feedback (of which I was most certainly a part!) managed to return him to a more classic look as seen above, the only minor changes in accessories and 'printing'. In LEGO Universe the player had to complete missions for Johnny in order to receive Venture League approval and open that faction as a choice to join. Master Builder Of course, now we come to his latest major role. A Master Builder in The LEGO Movie! First spotted early on in a call-back to Indiana Jones, he rescues his hat just before slipping through the perimeter walls to escape the forces of Lord Business. He is present for Emmet's, ah, stirring speech and is seen fleeing the golf ball once again reminscent of Indy. Later, as the citizens of Bricksburg fight the micromanagers Johnny is noticeable riding a horse that is riding a bigger horse. Thus we can conclude that I really am a bit weird and look out for a minor character when watching the movie! I'd love to post some clips but there aren't any to be found online that feature Johnny but if you missed him before we all know that no one needs an excuse to watch the film again! So, Johnny Thunder was and is a pretty cool character and while his moment in the sun might be over and Adventurers was continued in a new guise we can surely look forward to his next heir in whatever form he or she takes.

The question is: Just how many frogs are hiding? That is excellent and I hope to one day see it in person Hinck! The design of the central keep is so rich in detail. As for expansion, is that a bigger castle or a more populous layout?

They are certainly seperate themes. Just like Pharoah's Quest is not Adventurers and Atlantis isn't Aquaraiders. As Agents was not Alpha Team.

Kitted out for a full expedition in any environment the Scorpion Venturer is an upgraded version of the Scorpion Tracker. With a more powerful engine and a longer wheelbase you can adventure with ease! So, the Scorpion Tracker was one of the first Adventurer sets I ever came across though I was only able to get the car that came in the Sphinx set. When I came to building a new version I decided to combine the two to create this much expanded car. The re-visioned Adventurer theme came about after I was messing about with minifigs and decided to use my newer fig parts to update old characters. Between the wealth of new parts, designs, sharper printing and great new colours I had all my favourite characters rebuilt. So: Figure details time! Johnny Thunder was the best character of the late 90s early 2000s. I have a lot more to say about him later . So he was fun to update indeed! I wanted to use a new brown hat and sadly the actual signature chapeau only comes in that colour in the rather expensive Super Secret Dropship set. So I had to substitute in a new design. I think it suits him and we'll just say that he lost his old one in an incident involving alligators... The torso is my favourite from Pharaoh's Quest. I thought Jake Raines looked better in his tan shirt and bandolier so I co-opted this one for Johnny. The Indiana Jones legs are a given, they look just right on a character who pays more than a little homage to the great man! The angle makes this awkward but he is equipped with one of the pistols from Lone Ranger. I like the gunmetal grey and the slightly more accurate design. Pippin Reed is kitted out in an outfit similar to her first appearance in the Egyptian subtheme. I wanted to stay true to the figure I loved to play with but with newer parts. I thought the adventurer/explorer torso looked perfect, the red bandanna a match for the scarf and the canteen a great replacement for the printed camera now that she has one to hold. The dark tan pith helmet looked nice and a change from white and I love dark red and my original figure had regular red legs so that was a switch I wanted to make.

If it is a similar format to something like The Great British Bake-Off or indeed a Television friendly version of the Master Builder selection process it could work out. For those not in the know: TGBB is an amatuer baking contest in which two judges, professional bakers with books and TV series behind them, set increasingly challenging bakes to the 'contestants' (it doesn't really sound right to say contestant as the programme is very fluffy and nice) and judge them on technique, skill, taste and presentation. Every episode has three challenges and a theme. The theme could be Bread, Pastry or Cakes and the challenges are: The Signature Challenge - In which the bakers make a favourite bake of theirs that fits the theme. Tried and tested etc. The Technical Challenge - A very sparsely detailed recipe is given to the bakers by the Judges and they have to work from this, with its missing or basic instructions to test their skill and knowledge. The Showstopper - This is what it says on the tin really. Something impressive, often big. Flavour, appearance and presentation are judged. I think something like that adapted for LEGO building would be pretty cool. A format like X-Factor, (Country)'s Got Talent or other contests with public vote-offs could get just as much a farce as those shows are and maybe even reflect poorly on the image LEGO tries to present.

I just get on with it when the set has a part I want. I'll check the part list at the back of the instructions and then dig right in! Though I do buy most sets for parts, it is very rare that I want to build the set itself.

I'll lock this before it devolves further.

I love the game cartridge. The little details like that are what make a MOC shine