JINZONINGEN73

GRANDIZER! GRANDIZER! GRANDIZER!!! I always called him Grandizer. ::searches:: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grendizer Ah, he was called both. :-P

Moving to Wargames section... :-|

Hahaha, yeah I know. Only I thought "The Boss" was a Throwbot for a long time lol. You have to admit, Roborider or Throwbot, they all pretty much looked similar (like pure crap). X D What's a monster doing being a serious weapons tester? It'd like... it'd have to be a whole different moc. Now goddamit, there is nothing wrong with having a shelf chest. Imagine if it were raining... there'd be SOME water collecting on top, but it all pretty much would be running off. 'Cause there was so much black n' dark gray everywhere. :-P

http://youtube.com/watch?v=-IERzx5Spic

Doubt it's real. Lego doesn't love us enough to bring back the Technic men. Lending to it's credibility though is the lime, which Lego seems to be doing alot of sets with lately. *wub* Still, not believing it.

:-D I'm bad like that. Then again, dusting off tiny pieces of plastic with deep grooves holding dust that's collected a few years would require... ...oh, looks like someone's got the answer lol: http://www.flickr.com/photos/7538034@N03/850140781/ 1.I've been thinking that since day one (lol) ...but it grew on me too... in fact, I shaped the moc (I thought, anyway) to somewhat jive with it. 2.Well, at least I put cones on'em. I usually hate that too. 3.Not sure which of DV's syndrome's you mean, and the back looks more flat in pics than it actually is. 4.Not a bad idea... though I'm guessing I didn't because there wasn't enough room to. 5.I did, but the doof sent me 2 black Rakshi feet instead... and I was offline, unable to contact him. >__< 6.Your mom. 7.Out of place. This is just a guy with a weapons fetish, not a monster. 8.Nah, I like them there for some reason. Raising that section up any higher would interfere with the swiveling (or perhaps just the look) of the torso. 9.Only trans disc is in front of his glow in the dark eye, though I think you mean the silver discs. 10.Your mom waitdidthatalready. 11.Well, the moc uses SIX Throwbot engines (Trobenjin, GET IT? Throwbot Engine! lol! So! Funny!) ...so the more one can put on makeup, the better. And I love me hard-point kneecaps on mecha for some reason... knees on robots are such a weak-feeling, Achilles heel thing to me. 12.Nah. He looks big, so I like the look of conduit ports. Backwards, they just be circles cut in half AND each pointing off in all different directions. 13.What's the matter with my little Dutch boy wooden shoe look? X-D Hahaha, you noticed. Initially, I was going to make a moc with a 9V light in it somewhere... instead, I wound up using the part as more of an Evangelion supply cable type dealie. It seems "powerful"... notice sometimes it's attached to the gun, if no gun, then on the sword arm's wrist, if no sword, presumable power to the boob cannons, etc. Nice thing too, at a later point in time I can show the same moc off again inside the gallery of a mindless "charge drone" type robot character with the supply cable on his back lol. I picture a Chigulo type dude running behind him, much like a runty soldier carrying a box of ammunition behind a more heroic, machine-gun toting soldier. :-D It was a most tricky thing, getting the cable's resistor thing to rest underneath his right shoulder without messing up arm movement.

EEEEEEEEEYAGH! WHAT WERE THEY THINKING?!? I'll tell you what... more sales on Exo-Force sets, who have them as they were.

Like, I understand that human minifigs have like 8 million smileys all over, but when it comes to specific "characters", they at least try draw different facial distinctions to them. So, this makes the thing going on here with Bionicle look like a DOUBLE cheap-out.

Isn't it " Clobberin' " ?

Same. Ugly design, high cost... and ALL I want out of the set is as many of those particular minifig arms as possible... and even there... there's hardly any in it!

http://www.brickshelf.com/cgi-bin/gallery.cgi?i=2665896 Very mobile... only now that you mention it, I never took pics of him in his scrunched down, squatting mode. Whoopsie! :-D Arms, totally. The shoulder is click joints. Sword, apparently. (That's why the stun sword is so lightly built... elbows are mere ball joints). But that gun... damn is it ever heavy. Click joints or not. The next guy I'm working on has click joints everywhere, even the elbows. X-O Now stop that! Any Lego shortcomings should be answered with better configuration!

Holy shit, there IS?!?

Truth be told, he's been sitting NEAR COMPLETION in my bins and around my house for 2 years. But after building him, I lost ALOT of motivation to moc. I guess I liked it so much, I subconsciously thought I couldn't do too much better. GALLERY: http://www.brickshelf.com/cgi-bin/gallery.cgi?f=147095 Suprisingly, that's held on by one stud! I guess everything just worked right there lol. VVV And as this early 2005 gif of the prototype shows, ...swing-out chest guns:

So... if it's through Universal... does this mean that Lego's finally gotten out of bed with (ugh) Disney (Buena Vista)? One can hope.

Then, something in between must be designed. http://www.brickshelf.com/cgi-bin/gallery.cgi?f=39674 Now do a search on "Riotflea" and see how many (dozens?) of kids did duplication mocs. Some blew, some were phenomenal. And it's hardly any parts! (That was 2003... it'd probably be even less with the parts available today). I really don't agree that: A. Lego CAN'T do a good-looking mech due to set cost. B. Lego CAN'T do something good that 7-year olds can replicate. If something's designed cool enough and desirable, kids WILL find a way. I agree that a giant mecha like you showed is unstable, and that Sugegasa and Moko's stuff looks great, but is fall-aparty in the play area... but YES there's ways to make stuff similar in size and not junky. The MAIN reason I got into Lego was the discovery of Technic ball joints. I'd tried sculpting action figures out of modeling clay... somewhat disastrous. So... Lego it was. I saw the beautiful but unfortunately STATUE-like mecha on Brickshelf. I saw the tiny, clever, but only-looks-good-as-thumbnail works of art. Screw that, I said lol. From there, it was primarily SOLID constructions. If a part was able to fall off, I'd redesign the whole darn thing to avoid it. I wanted stable action figures I could play with... and accessories that could be shared (much like having a bunch of GI Joe figures and a pile of guns). My junk was basic, but it could be varied into hundreds of unique yet recognizable designs. The failure I have with Exo-Force is that: A: Their "Japanese" style looks about as convincing as the 900 million american kids who try their hand at drawing anime. A nightmare of giant-eyed, wannabe scribble. B: Their mechs do NOT need to be that lame to still have stability and meet a price point. They just need better set designers, period. And it's obvious from this and other lines, Lego does NOT have such people as that... at least not in any great number. I agree that the design is simplistic, but that's okay. As long as the rotation joints allow it to be playable once the weight of a weapon is added, it's all good. I agree about the heads, but there's not much to do about that. Think of all the GREAT Optimus Primes people have made... killed by the lack of tiny parts to allow for a proper head. Sad, but it doesn't condemn the rest of the Gundam set. What one of these companies need to do is make thin, stackable modular sections... like faceplate, eyes, forehead. Then add a bunch of color and shape variety to each section, leaving mocers MANY different possible character configurations. (And the parts are so small, it's not like production cost for many styles would kill their wallet). I DON'T agree about the hands though. Are you not sick of seeing people plopping crinkly fingers on their mecha, made of bent minifig limbs? How long till those "fingers" (robot minifig arms) get too boring on mocs as well? I understand your gripe, but a block hand isn't such a bad thing. It looks ok to most. Lego ALMOST had it with Knights Kingdom forearms, but then they went and made them for only one side, so for a moc to have two forearms, it must be ASYMMETRICAL! Wow, did that ever piss me off lol. http://www.brickshelf.com/cgi-bin/gallery.cgi?i=2064041 Lego... for christ's sake... make a mirror image version of the Knights Kingdom forearm, WILL YOU?!?

Quality control is MUCH better now than in 2001, especially for the trans-elements. Ah, that's good to hear... ... ...no no, wait, that's BAD! lol Nah, it's good for consumers I hate to say. And MAN was their trans in need of revamping. It had the shape of Lego, but was dull and... well, really dull in comparison. I look at it this way... Lego's had a decent run of being on top. But bad decision after bad decision is hurting them. So, if parents get duped into buying their kid Megablocks, they certainly can't be looked down upon for it. I mean hell, where's LEGO's line of giant robots? Where's LEGO's line of transforming car robots? Where's LEGO's large trans purple canopies? They just keep dropping the ball, giving us (I'm sorry, but LOL) stuff like Exo-Force.

Beats me lol... I know they were around in at LEAST 1983 space sets.

Looking at all the Ghost Town mocs you've done on here... I think you're my favorite mocer on this site. Set design quality, (imaginary, realistic) set cost/part count, presentation... ...I mean, I never liked Wild West stuff... but the ghost element you added to it was appropriate and made it interesting. Great stuff that should be real sets, more than most other fan-made concepts. *wub*

Indeed... Technic's ULTIMATE FAILURE... noone around to drive the vehicles you build. :-|

::googles up "fabuland":: http://members.tripod.com/~Sybrand_Bonsma/...y/partspic.html Ah... yeah, while some are WAY too specific junker parts, there's still tons o' good ones for clever usage. Sign me up, Officer Dog.

Hmm... the driver looks custom. I wonder what it's scale is to Technic figures.

Bleh... much respect if they drive down the highway of time and pass the exit for Nuva, going down the offramp for Mata instead...

You sure you're not confusing that with my posting etiquette? :-D