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6399 monorail. I like the 9V trains, but I wish they could elevate. Seeing the set makes me want to raid Bricklink. Wasn't an easy choice though... the castle sets were great, the restaurant was laid back and calm Towney stuff... These were some really nice sets. I think I see what people mean about "dlassic" Lego.

What a flashback. My older brother had the 924.

Dark clouds not scary enough. Needs a little more danger.

Despite my passionate criticism of them, they really come through as far as looking like the characters they're supposed to. Oftentimes Happy Meal toys based off action figure lines contain HORRENDOUS representations of the individuals. Here, it looks like they merely scanned the actual figures in a pose, then made the mold by only slightly altering them / downsizing them... which is kinda' cool. Still...

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I might join, but the last contest showed that the more "Exo-Force" it is, the better votes it gets. My stuff is too serious for the minimalistic (and non-poseable) ways Lego sets are. Not that the winning mocs weren't good and worthy, I just have to tone myself down too much to do something "Lego-looking" people will like. It's like trying to ride a bicycle at a mere 5 miles per hour... you fall off from boredom. :-D On top of that, I probably won't have the internet for a few weeks after October 1st. :-| LOVE the theme though, so maybe I can crap something out really fast before I'm disconnected.

I had it too. Couldn't get the screen to load up Eurobricks. Even tried sneaking past any front page / index anomalies by using internal links from Google.

But luckily it wasn't a live action moron. ... ...hmm. These ads really sucked, didn't they. Way too short to promote anything. All one walks away with after viewing those is that Lego minifigs talk and are REALLY uncool. Lord forbid they kill the announcer and just show the toys being built in the first quarter, followed by closeups of kids playing with them in the other 75% of it. : /

It seems like the past few months have had quite a few occurences where we'd be saying we wanted some sort of new set or line and BAM! ...news of it's release comes a few days / hours later. Which is kinda' cool, as we get info faster. ; ) Or maybe we just are in tune with Lego.

Next: Pulp

Hush, you. Despite the long hair, I haven't done any type of drugs ever in my entire life. Suprisingly, because life sure dishes out enough stress. I'm strictly a menthol tobacco in menthol-loaded tubes kinda' guy. *wub*

Finally got a dl of Jackass 2. Man... I didn't think they could top the first one. Those guys are such crazy bastards. The only "faked" scene in the entire movie is when Johnny Knoxville puts his arm into a bear trap. Becaus they had to do a few takes for it, they adjusted the tension on it so it could be done again and again. However, when the other guy did it, it was at normal tension. The only other "fake" things in the movie are sound effects... mainly, the sound they gave the bulls... which were trampling and colliding with the guys... painfully. X D Great stuff. I'd do anything to take part in their big red rocket or rocket bicycle scenes. Oh, who'm I kidding? I'd be doing at least half the stunts they do if I also had someone paying me for it / a full medical team on standby. All in the name of humor.

After seeing this, I want to make one that looks similar, but also transforms into a gestalt combiner robot. It's SO do-able.

Yeah, in the first episode of the show, the japanese dug UNDER the wreckage of the real battleship, and covertly built the space one inside it so the aliens wouldn't know that they... ... ... ... Oh god I completely hijacked this topic, didn't I? *sad*

True. And they're forgetting that kids aren't stupid. Kids can figure out that a square peg will NOT fit into the circular hole... and that's what the Dino sets were... complex, fun, infinitely reconfigurable Lego sets, but with a non-functional dinosaur that fell out of a rift in the fabric of reality and into their Lego bin. Yeah... what the hell lol. Japanese kids. I want Lego to do just three consecutive years testing new product ideas ONLY on Japanese kids. Look at Brickshelf... the "asian" named guys are the ones who kick megablocks the hardest. It's a fact of life... Japanese Lego builders kick megablocks. Even more, they're more in tune with Lego's concept of "use as few parts as possible". You can give a Japanese builder two 1x1 slops and they'll make it look like the next incarnation of Gundam. :-D

I only have one use for the Racer garages. Since I roll my own cigarettes, I like using those as packs. But that's it. There's a very low mocing potential (though not entirely NO mocing potential)... but that's it. Cigarette holder. And I only need one for that. 8-|

I know. There will certainly be some increase in sales due to more household name recognition, but I think Bionicle and Lego are 2 names that are already pretty well known to kids and therefore, their parents as well. I hear "Bionicle" referenced on every toy site I go to. Even non-toy sites too... like every time someone posts the (non-Transformers-like) images from the upcoming Transformers 2007 movie, someone always goes "They look like Bionicle". They could've gained more new paying customers by even doing something as simple as making one part click on. :-|

I think the keyword is "speed". And as long as it's used right, it doesn't matter if they took a crap and stuck googly eyes on it lol. It's like the argument between Disney stuff vs. anime. Disney could hire 20 animators to OVER-animate a character attempting to convey a single emotion (and no doubt taking 20 seconds to unrealistically complete the act), while anime guys just get to the point and have one line in a character's face change, which somehow manages to INSTANTLY and undeniably convey the same emotion... It's not how big and detailed it is, it's how you use it. ;-)

In North America it was "Star Blazers". A crappy name, but a great anime of it's time. I grew up with that show. *wub* Here's a pic of the space one alongside the marine one: Unfortunately, the real Yamato was a casualty of war. http://www.kilroywashere.org/003-Pages/Gle...ce/45-04-07.htm

Lol... why is it that whenever I see the word Yamato, I instantly think it's a reference to SPACE Battleship Yamato? :-D

i agree. it looks more like a undead thing then a mechanical thingy Yah, but I think I see the fix... and it's simple. Turn the teeth upside down. Nothing a clever brace behind them can't accomplish. X-D

EXAMPLES: or Did my best. Messed up on the guy's feet area though. Head down: Head up: Gallery : http://www.brickshelf.com/cgi-bin/gallery.cgi?f=103189 As for the smaller ones, ALOT of Technic builders utilize them. Or at least they used to.

No thanks to Ray Harryhausen, this is what I thought for 2 decades what a Kraken is supposed to look like:

*sing* You KNOW you want it!

Before this opens up in a new window, I already know I do things illegaly. Then again, I've tried so many different things in my time mocing that I KNOW where there's inexcusable stress and possible future breakage points. I use every hole possible and stick anything in them... X-D The more creative (especially with technic parts) that you are in using every ridge, opening or whatnot... the stronger you can make a moc. Illegal building is nearly a neccesity if you're doing action figures. Wacky weight distribution with poses and current weapon placement DEMANDS unorthodox reinforcement as the size increases.