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She looked best at 21 seconds in. The last pic is just a painting to my senses.

I wasn't very impressed by any of the sets in the first year... I'm likin' these newer ones for the parts though. They definitely are better designed than the current ones. More diverse and more logically constructed. ...if you're in to the official models. And really... a robot mech carrying a dead human around on it's butt... I'm loving the darker themes. Especially since the idea that the Exo-Force guys have ANY chance against 20 million robots to begin with. X D

Lol. I think you're right. I dunno', I just never see any creations that use them which look good. :-P Specifically those minifig arms (mecha fingers) in different colors. Too bad you have to buy so many sets just to get them in any decent quantity. Luckily, the AquaRaiders sets coming up have them just as ExoForce did. But again, not in quite so vibrant colors unfortunately.

*cough*AlanYap*cough* Dammit. lol

These 4 Matoran... great parts, except for the damn Bohrok limbs again. Yellow and green Kanohi? I'll buy a dozen each. Kanohi masks For The Win.

The pieces make "stairs" all over it... like they start going smooth, but then things get rough. Still, worth the money.

So... many... 1x1 slopes... Who cares how hideous the official model is. That thing is yellow mocing GOLD.

Exactly. Religions have SO much gobbledygook tossed in with the more "sane" passages that any leader or figurehead can just alter the meaning to how they see fit. You can live with the poor and give them the shirt off your back... but you DON'T need a god or symbolic artifact to do so. And when you do, as said... what means "live with the poor and give them the shirt off your back" THIS decade, could be "the poor are lesser than us, and get in the way of enlightenment" the next decade. I think the real trick is setting up a set of courteous, common-sense directions for what one should do in a situation, but without it being "law" or falling under a religion or other malleable idol. The Ten Commandments ALMOST go there, but not quite. And with tons of baggage that gets in the way. But even if it can be accomplished, then you'd still have a section of people saying they're "right", and another saying, "they're wrong". I think the last South Park that aired had it humorously described. Cartman freezes himself because he can't stand waiting for the Nintendo Wii to be released, but accidentally wakes up like 500 years from now. Ms. Garrison's anti-religion ramblings in current times led to humanity being atheist in that future. Everything is hyper-technologfical and at peace, but then the Atheist Alliance gets raided by the Alliance of Atheists group. X D We all just love fighting, we do.

It's not often a Lego creation inspires me to the point I save it in Favorites... but this is one of those times. Nice job. Not just the size, but the skill and sight in what it's supposed to be versus actually looking like it.

I don't know about making it "illegal", but it certainly does suck somewhat. Like, they make boxes sometimes REALLY large to make it look worth your money, but then when you open it up and see a few toss-away sheets of stickers & promo papers and 3 baggies of bricks... then your emotion changes to "burned". I do wonder if it's an issue in the job of packaging though. Like, I'm unsure how much box area is needed for their machines to toss the right bags and the right amount of bags before wide-scale errors begin to appear. It could just be a matter of making things easier for the machines so that things go faster & more accurate... and that too = profit.

::pictures alternate color pilot with blue, circuitry-laden insectoid head::

Granted, on alot of sites, adding the knowledge of "female" to members equals stalking, PM spamming annoyance. But I think this site can handle any such boogers easily. And the people who'd have a female title are already known to be female anyway. If they've got issues, they could opt out. More importantly, we can't forget the hermaphrodites. As for males who are bad, switching them to a female standing is putting that gender down. Now EUNUCHS... now that's on-theme, accurate to their posting status and funny. Plus, kids falling into that have to go out and search what it means on their own. X D Unsure of what a female equivalent to that would be.

I can honestly say I despise marketing surveys lol. Some of the worst ideas in toy history has come from them. Don't tell a Lego rep that though, they'll argue with you for hours with the statement, "But surveys show what people really want!" No... no, they don't. You as a company have to be SMART and get people in your employ who KNOW what makes things cool. Then you advertise it on the basis of it's coolness, not spinoff tangents like non-Lego McDonald's figures, rock band affiliations and other unrelated garbage.

Hardly. And I'm sure if anyone took offense to their listing, then it'd be changed to keep the peace. There are "levels" for ladies though, right?

Whee! I was going to go out and watch the Halloween Parade, but it seems that instead of the 31st, the town held it last Thursday on the 26th. The HELL? :-| And oh yeah... not one trick or treater. lol I doubt I'll get any either, as it's past 8, and the town also decided trick or treating "runs" from 6:30pm to 8pm. Man, I used to be out HOURS when I was a kid.

A great theme. This will no doubt produce good results, especially with such a long build time. WIll a ship 99 studs long be ineligible for prizes if it has thinner greeblies which swing out? (such as solar collection devices, etc)

Oh, I'm sure there were shenanigans in relation to the Halliburton contracts, but seeing as how Clinton also acted on the same alleged reasons Bush did, it was not the largest reason. Like I think you said, I'm guessing there's other reasons that helped in the creation of this war... hidden dealings and agends that are nothing short of a worldwide chess game that's been planned out way too far ahead to be visible to anyone not in on it all. And that's not kooky conspiracy theory... that's slap-in-the-face common sense. :-D From my gut instinct, I'm thinking that alot of the more insane political stories that are becoming commonplace recently are directly rooted in someone's foresight of trying to get control NOW, right before the really powerful technologies just around the corner make even the smallest man a king. The other day I was saying to my wife, "It looks like the world's going crazy, so it can sort out what "man" is... before we go out into space and start having entire colonies and countries possibly stumbling onto unlimited resources to do with what they want... in ways that don't jive with the US or UN way of thinking. Watch Bush or someone soon later BAN space occupation". Well, BAM! Here it is, like clockwork: "The US has adopted a tough new policy aimed at protecting its interests in space and denying "adversaries" access there for hostile purposes." http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/6063926.stm In a way I agree. I don't want religious nutjobs (from ANY religion) finally getting into space, just to be TOTALLY insulated from being spied on, while covertly constructing REAL weapons of mass destruction on a planetary scale. (Lol... reminds me of Gundam, and crashing colonies & meteors onto unfavorable Earth continents). :-D ... ...man... has this ever gone off topic. :-|

Well, there's the openly-stated acceptance that he doesn't believe, but it's combined with the word "garbage". Lol... but it was a quick enough blow that it was more humorous than insulting. :-D

I like water themes because we used to vacation at my granparents house on an island in Maine. The ocean (especially at low tide) is just teeming with strange life. You walk in the woods... there's a bug... there's a tree... a bird... a deer... BORING. The ocean and any inanimate object sticking out of it is just coated with interesting junk. I also like the 9V train system... because: A. It runs on an outlet and not crappy batteries. B. It makes Lego creations move... VERY fast. I used to like Bionicle for the ability to build mecha, but I've come to realize that system is where mecha is at. ...with a few Technic pieces tossed in of course for mobility.

Yeah, but they also said that the very next day, they gave it away. I'm not suprised. The Walmart near me never got in Harry Potter (which had good parts I wanted in this last wave) and the other lines they did get, only got 1 or 2 models from them (like Spongebob... my wife wanted the set with the Patrick minifig lol). Bionicle was the only "full" line they carried. ...and even then, some stuff vanished and never got restocked. Bleh...

I think Japan has these... I got some studio sets with weird parts off Bricklink from a person in Japan a few years ago. They loooove vending machines... you can get really damn near anything out of them there. Hard to say if the one in this picture is though... neither machine has any Japanese on it.

I imagine they'd be pretty screwed lol. You're right though... would say, a lever be small enough to fit down drainage holes? 8-|

I believe that in both this document (and even made crystal-clear in verbatim in other documents) that they could see ahead into a morally disgusting future. You have to understand that to have good, "bad" has to be understood. A person from any time who has lived long enough KNOWS that man does weird things, that what man considers acceptable one year can be considered an unpopular act the next with someone ambitious adding the right spin, etc etc. Anyone alive a few decades knows that there are some bare-bones, black and white absolutes that need to be at the core to bind the ever-changing changing mass atop it together. Where guns were taken away, crime rose. Guns were brought back. An armed citizenry is safer than an unarmed one, both from evil people and evil governments. They knew this fact quite well, and all you have to do is watch the news to realize even in this modern world of electronics, we're still cavemen. "stupid dead sheep shoes" next door still wants "Ogg"'s woman. "Krunk" from a day's walk away still wants "Krank"'s land for it's water source. And let's not get started on what happens if the neighboring tribe is praying to the sun when you think they should be praying to your invisible moon spirit. Is that accurate though? If we supposedly invaded Iraq for oil... how? I mean, gas prices have skyrocketed. Clinton went after Saddam with the same reasons as Bush... but everyone says Bush did it for his friend's connections to the Halliburton company. If anything, I'd say the fuel companies devised this as an excuse to make billions (trillions?) of dollars, in preparation for their financial decline looming on the horizon due to new technologies. Dude, scientists have begun making strange polymers... new plastics that hold an electrical charge AND recharge themself... so an iPod (or a car?) will be able to run merely on the outer shell, no batteries. Hydrogen is finally getting a bit out more into the light as a decent fuel source, even if only used in part with a hybrid gas engine. But hey, I'm just speculating. Here's another possibility: http://www.energybulletin.net/12125.html As the dollar falls, other countries start dumping their trading dollars and going Euro... so big daddy America shows the world how crazy it can be. My point is, even if science has slowed down light, even to the point of sending it backwards on itself: http://news.zdnet.com/IBM+slows+light,+rea...=feed&subj=zdnn Even if we can create diamonds more perfect than nature to make data transfer easier and laserguns: http://www.usatoday.com/tech/news/techinno...-diamonds_x.htm Even if we can now remote-control human bodies with a videogame controller against their will: http://www.technologyreview.com/read_artic...7272&ch=biotech Even with us on the eve of downloading / uploading memories like in The Matrix: http://www.physorg.com/news7746.html Even with invisibility cloaks being created: http://www.newscientisttech.com/article/dn...ed-at-last.html Even with cancer's days being numbered: http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/health/4734507.stm Even with "lightbulbs" ready to be replaced with nanite light paint: http://www.livescience.com/technology/051021_nano_light.html We've got China building an artificial sun: http://www.china.org.cn/english/scitech/155689.htm Japan building a ship to drill to the Earth's core: http://www.sciam.com/article.cfm?chanID=sa...B7F0000&ref=rss Etc etc etc... we're still primal enough that we need to occasionally defend ourselves from each other. I think they knew that, regardless of their foresight into modern science. We are NOT peaceful creatures of light floating around in space, We're still made of animal matter. And even when nanite technology gets to the point we can have inorganic bodies if we choose... there'll still be human purists messing things up, bringing others to situations where self defense is required. And on a face to face basis.