Peppermint_M

I guess I don't like spongebob because it is an insistant and constant irritation in my life (really now, even a fan wouldn't watch one episode four times a day...) my small siblings seem to spend all weekend watching it. When something wasn't of an intrest to me when I was the target audiance it isnt going to intrest me today. Plus like all liscenced lego it costs a lot (I love batman, but i only ever bought one small set...) so I rate it low on my scale. Sorry. Lot's of people seem to dislike what was my top theme for the past few years, its all a matter of opinion, as long as you don't let them stop you enjoying what you like it doesn't matter.

I have been collecting since i was seven. although money being tight it was about four or five sets a year and small ones at that. I'm thinking 1993 was my first system set I remember (and have ) I had this one and Are the other two I had at some point. I was playing with Duplo before that too.

The Brick Testemant uses a plain minifig head as the body and a printed Head for, well, the head. The Racers body can make a good baby in a high chair/pram/car seat. I have also seen people use the cylinders as a body. I agree that the new game pieces would make great toddler/baby minifigs.

I will have to get a few better photos of my older steampunk MOCs that will fit. I will give it a go, making some more (seeing as a steampunk story was yet another I was working on )

I have to to get most of the stuff I want. Woolworths is gone, ASDA has very little choice, same with Tesco, unless it is christmas. Argos is a nightmare and my nearest TRU and Entertainer are too far away.

It's from the Adventurers Orient Expedition. I got three Passage of Jun Chi sets going cheap and they have two of those flags (so I have six to play with =D) They are 3 cents on Bricklink, item no. 2335pb05. I just love the style of them.

Would make a good flag for one of the factions. I love using it in my steampunk MOCs.

Can The Carbide count as an impulse sized? And a second MOC The Merry Missile but it may be too Dieselpunk.

The Cardigans My Favourite Game. I do like a few songs by them.

Thanks. Well, while surfing the 'net I found this 9 Questions You May Have About Watchmen One section has spoilers and the page also has an intresting link to a post about 9-11's affect on the ending. Thought I'd post for anyone intrested.

Yup, I am planning on one colour scheme once I have the parts, I have two more round craft to make. One similar to this and a second that is on a vertical instead of horizontal. The backstory does explain its colouring but a major repair job and overhaul is on the books (part list is growing...) so I will post the updated version once the parts are gathered

Oh, here we go again... I have had to explain my view on entertainment so many times that I have got it down to an art... I don't like dark as in violent; I like dark as in Sandman and Death and in manga xxxHolic. I liked Watchmen, it was an interesting and twisty story full of little details and tiny interwoven threads that make fantastic stories seminal works but I am more than likely never going to buy it, Alan Moore has written three of my favourites of all time (Top 10, Smax and his Time Twisters for 2000AD are pure genius) so it's not the writer I dislike. It's the tone, the miason-scene of the book. Now for some explanation on why I prefer to watch/read things that are fun. I was in a very dark place when I first started reading comic books for escapism; I watched cartoons and films that sucked me out of the miserable hole my peers constantly pushed me into. The long lasting psychological effects of my early teens have meant that I can't cope with certain things that are overly violent, stressful or "thrilling” no horror no "psychological" anything. Batman Begins made me stressed out and I couldn't cope with it at all, it is testament to my "recovery" that I coped ok with Dark Knight in the cinema. I have on good authority that Watchmen has scenes I skimmed in the comic (Rorshach and the Dogs, The Comedian at the end of the war and when he's in the Trophy room...) in the film. So for me, when I want a comic book film, especially using a superhero I like I don't want groundbreaking cinema I want an enjoyable film I can escape in, that, in the case of characters I am familiar with, stick to their source or re-invent it in a good way . I don't want all films to be like this, I don't want all films to be like this, I don't think all films should be like this but I have to say that the films I will watch are escapism, fun and enjoyable to me. (Time Bandits, The Adventures of Baron Von Munchhausen. Hellboy I and II, lots of Mecha anime and children's films) so I can safely say that watching Watchmen will make me physically and mentally sick, something I don't want. The next film I will go and watch is Monsters Vs Aliens. 9 and Coraline are films I am looking forward to and Terry Gilliam's next film is eagerly awaited. I will continue to read JSA, a comic series I have adored since the day I joined a cartoon and comic book drawing class in the local Library one summer (a lifesaver in more ways than one) and has continually been fun (in my sense of the word) with great story telling and characterisation. So please, enjoy Watchmen when you go to see it, critique it, fanboy flame it, do whatever you want and disregard my opinion please, but I am not going to see it. My opinion has nothing to do with anyone and should not affect their outlook or actions in life. Facts are facts and are constant, opinions are opinions and are fluid and above all personal. Everything I have said about films, comics and books are my personal opinions and may be stupid in your opinion but make sense to me. Now I don't want to argue, so please if you have any issue PM me and I can elucidate further.

It was a publicity stunt... Taking it in a truck would have been a most mundane method. Mirroring a similar stunt in the middle of London is a great way to get attention and visitors to the park.

Will i get a whack if I say it looks a lot like Res-Q.... It's very a good design and I love the yellow and black colour scheme but the ATV looks like a simple case of taking away the gun, adding emergency lights and a stretcher for instant Res-Q, which is a good thing honest.

Well, I have never seen it but every new scrap of info makes me want to see it more (Is it sad that I will know most of the characters history before they are introduced? See, I was able to name every hero that turned up in JLU...) It looks rather cool and fun. I liked B:TAS but the way they screwed with the comics continuity and cannon got on my nerves. JL and JLU were good, 'specialy their coverage of classic story arcs. The Batman had a great Joker and Harley Quinn, Catwoman was cool in that series too. I have to say that the last series was my favourite (Yay, Oracle!). Brave and the Bold looks like a fun one, but it's not on in the UK yet...

Yeah. Watchmen was what started the whole Darker and Edgier craze of the 80s, aka the Dork Age. (After Golden, Silver and Bronze ages). So, from reading the comics I know I don't want to see the film. It is violent and angsty and adult. I don't own a copy, I borrow it when I wish to read it. Dark Knight isn't anything like the Batman comics (Joker is WRONG!!! Not good ) Ok, so maybe the Spirit was very different from it's source, but it was certainly fun. I go and see films for enjoyment. That is why the last film I watched was Bolt in 3D. I liked the Speed Racer film, The Spirit was very good and certainly comic. for the record, I read two comic books, Justice Society of America and Tiny Titans. So as you can see nothing like Watchmen. Now if they made Kingdom Come into a film.... But yeah, not going to see Watchmen.

No squid, no Peppermint's cash. Thank you very much. I like some of the updated costumes (however much like Owlman Nite Owl looks...) and the trailers did finally get my friend to listen to Muse but it's going to be too violent. Needlessly inserted scenes to up the action, changed ending, and all the things that give it a BBFC 18 rating mean I am probably never going to see it. I didn't like Dark Knight and Watchmen is being sold to Dark Knight fans, so no thank you. Super Hero films are supposed to be fun, The Phantom, The Spirit and Steel are examples of super hero films I like, not Watchmen. Ho hum.

I like the legs but they do look a bit odd under such a bulky body/torso. Going for the Iron Giant style? And I agree, on a site this big no one ever seems to comment, I'm lucky to get more than two or three comments. *sigh* such is the way of the 'net.

Glad to be of help . I think I read somewhere that alcohol based things kill each other and when I messed up a custom head I was trying to draw the first thing I found was some body spray. I was most pleased when it worked. When my brothers and their friends grew out of stealing all my best Lego parts I used it to get rid of all the initials I wrote on them to prevent said stealing. Plus body spray is cheaper than brasso or rubbing alcohol because I can buy it for like 50p (about a dollar for those across the pond) a can in the supermarket.

Hello and welcome. As a Discworld fan myself here is a project on these forums you may be intrested in.

I'm glad to have pointed it out I will get to work as soon as I can make my mind up on what to try first...

Well it was the only mundane but highly functional thing I could think of... And the cyborg arm did require great amounts of lawyer, TLG's lawyers. It said so in an interview the designer had with Brothers Brick. Very informative

Like everyone above said, the functionality of the brick cannot be copyrighted, patented or trademarked. The Minifig on the other hand is and therefore cannot be copied. The new arms on the cyborged Inferno henchmen needed lots of lawyer approval so as not to risk the minifig. This is why MB and all the others cannot have an identical type of figure. Kiddicraft invented the bricks (my grandma has some kiddicraft stcking cups ) The pirates don't care and sell through very cheap shops and markets so there can be a major crackdown by trading standards every now and then, I think the toys that test safe get sent to people in underprivileged countries, just like the knock-off clothes. But yeah, functional design of brick is the same as the functional design of a ringbinder, Minifig is a lego patent.

Alcohol based products work wonders. I think I even managed to use some sort of common household alcohol based spray (scented bodyspray, not deoderant.) one squirt and all the ink came of leaving a shiny minifig

Can we go by the pictures in The Art of the Discworld? It's a very good book.