Peppermint_M

I googled Classic Lego Space Logo, found one with a good blue background and resized it to 20/20 on MS paint, printed it off then carefully trimmed it out and used pritt-stick to glue it to the fig, i did try making sticker decals, they failed badly...

Is it? I have never seen it, it's on my track down list... Laputa and Iron Giant was the inspiration.

Heh, thats from looking at far too many pictures to do with structures in my job.... They looked best suited for reinforcement purposes and I love to add little details. Thanks for looking at my MOC pages (sometimes I think I should make more Star Wars so people will follow and hopefully browse the MOCs in themes I like..).

Please click the thumbnail for bigger picture and extra views. The brave Cpt Chimp N Zee takes his ship the FSE-01 to explore uncharted sections of space! A few years ago a very exciting sight greeted me when I woke up one morning, a family friend had dropped off a huge bucket of LEGO that their son had no room nor intrest for. My mum told me that yes it was to be shared between me and my brothers, however as the biggest fan of LEGO and the oldest I could get first pick if I helped her sort it... A wonderful afternoon was spent gleaning parts that are probably older than me. Among those parts were some Space and two odd looking figures, a mouse and a chimp/monkey. I kept them as a curiosity. Very recently I came upon their true name and was slightly impressed. Having browsed some of the Fabuland MOCs on this forum, and the obviouse high regard many members hold this theme I decided to try my hand at making a Fabuland MOC. Combining two 80s themes I made this MOC, a classic space style Fabuland Space Explorer (or FSE-01). Enjoy.

I have to agree with the Agents set. I bought it on holiday and when I got home spent a nice long afternoon building it and playing (the only minor problem was the dead batteries in the light brick) The features and its compact-but-bursting with-stuff-ness is brilliant and the high minifig count is excellent. I think the worst set was Speed Racer: Cruncher Block and Racer X Although Racer X's car is very cool and a great design, plus five minifigs at a set price that worked out as £5 a figure it is a bit of a bad truck. The cab is too small really however cool it looks but the trailer is abysmal. I bought it for X and the no9, and the fact that I wanted all the Speed Racer lego. It has provided many cool parts however. I suppose buying after the Agents truck was a bad idea...

I know how you feel, it happens to me on every forum I have ever used ever... I even quit one after absolutly every topic I posted failed to live and everyone i posted in died or I was utterley ignored. (To be fair I think it was a place that only a dedicated few used and I was an outsider) Oh, a forum I was a member of was taken down after a scripter attack, never to return (when I was the last person to post.... )

Thank you. I have it on display on by bookcase. It is supposed to be part of a larger MOC that is awaiting space and certain parts. I hope to make some more modules soon.

I was somewhat aiming for the contrast between the dictatorship and the free land beyond the wall. I purposefuly placed a policeman ignoring a graffiti artist to make a big contrast to the soldiers with dogs and guns. I'm glad that someone "got it". I have a few more scenes to maybe add when I can decide what would look best.

Yup (zoids history.) Yeah so I heard, most of the comments on the article were positive, or at least sceptical. I think it's funny too, all the publicity it got. But still, some really thick people (you know, the ones who tell their kids they don't want Lego because they have to build it...) think its official Lego...

When I built it I had both Laputa and Iron Giant in my head (two films I love). When I first built it I tried perching a small animal in his hand, however it looked a bit silly and a flower upped the sad abandoned vibe I was aiming for.

LEGO will probably be exempt, I can't see TLC letting it be said that their products contain Lead, as a very well known brand most people know that it's safe (apart from the whole chocking hazard and foot injuring thing...)

Maybe you could buy from the UK? I'm not sure how it would affect buying from elsewhere.

No, Its more not-quite-micro scale, the wheels are the same as those used in Indiana Jones' sidecar, so its the same size as the lego motorcycle wheels, but its slightly too small for a minifig. I am checking ways of creating a minifig scale one (I just need to find the perfect wheels)

Ah, there is the catch. Brickarms do not do numchucks or sai. Plus they cost 100% more than a small set bought on impulse from a shop full of low price reamaindered stock... I am planning on getting some Brickarms gear, once the weapons pack I want is in minifigsforlife. But I can't see how people make such a fuss over megabloks but still happily buy brickarms... (which recently caused all kinds of trouble for TLC when Mr Murdock got hold of an image of a custom figure... I'm still hearing people in the toy aisle tutting over Lego Terrorists) But that is nither here nor there, everyone has a choice. I will continue to buy really cheap off brand bricks to compare with LEGO Bricks (re-affirming that TLC is and always will be the best) and anyone who hates such off brand bricks with great loathing can repudiate them as they wish. I agree with all the budget constraint posts, LEGO can be expensive and when you want to continue your building but also need to eat and have a roof over your head then cheaper bricks are very helpful.

The two Speed Racer car sets, to go with the truck and the Grand Prix sets I already have and an EXO Force set for my little brother who was most aggrieved by the cancelling of that particular theme.

Thanks, that's what I was aiming for when I was struck with the idea.

Apparently I am Sulfurix and Duke. However, both of those links lead to the same quiz... (just a heads up)

Thank you, how very helpful. Now I don't have to download a posh programme while I save up for photoshop.

I'm planning to add grafitti, but I am loath to put stickers across bricks, especialy when they are all shiny and new... Experimenting with staticly charged paper thin-acetate...

I agree. Here is an intelligent webcomics view of things: I am a grownup now, I have decided LEGO is fine for "grownups" thus LEGO is a grownup thing I don't think I am immature and I know I am "uncool" I certainly do not want to be "cool" by the rest of the worlds standards, thank you very much

Click through for more views and a bigger picture, plus a small story to go with the MOC. I had the idea and decided that I had to make it. Two days later I finally finish it (merely an hour ago, to be exact).

(click for larger image) A light cycle from TRON with a grid and the begining of a line.

The House of Many Ways, by Diana Wynn Jones. The second sequel to Howl's Moving Castle. They are wonderfuly amusing.

Oh yes, dreadfully, I suffer for my art Are you using spray or a paint brush? Nothing can be done with spray (in my experience anyway) but if you use a paintbrush, gently brush the bubbles away.

The Body Miner baddies could be called The Pathogens... They look cool too. I love simple fig customisation using TLC parts and nothing else.