JINZONINGEN73

What I think is he kicks serious butt. Honestly, I was NOT suprised to click on one folder and find he's asian. They just... I dunno'... they just "get it" when it comes to mecha / complex builds. I actually spent a lil' time today trying to find if he has a home messageboard. Unlike just about every other person on B-Shelf, EVERY moc of his is good. Big props to Darth Vader, but in comparison, there's too much repetition. He's good, but this kid is a shocker. Given enough parts, he'd probably be one of the best mocers I've seen. With no regrets, I say the complexity hiding inside his mocs puts my stuff to shame. It'll be interesting to see if the quality remains consistent. I'm thinkin' it will lol.

Just started on something blue. Revamping this guy from last year: http://www.brickshelf.com/cgi-bin/gallery.cgi?f=139563

Then have some more.

I buy Lego sets in 2's. When I got 2 canisters of the white Piraka (Thok?), each one was different. What was silver on one was undeniably darker on the other. So much so, that mocing while combining the 2 sets produce some visibly uneven, slap-in-the-face differences. http://www.brickshelf.com/cgi-bin/gallery.cgi?i=1951595 Then again, I remember around 1999 & 2000, I'd gotten the yellow Throwbot / Slizer called "Millenia" as well as the Roborider of the same color. One's yellow was "burnt" looking, with very messy looking mold swirls going through it. The other was brighter, more translucent. These brick anomalies are nothing new. I can personally attest that at least 1 Lego set I buy each year has a disfigured part, and even more have drastic color anomalies. From the 2006 sets I've bought so far (not many), I haven't had any... ... ...wait. I'm wrong. The lime domeheads present in the Toa Inika. Those too are all different. I have seven. Each is supposed to have a white area at the bottom where the mask meets the mouth, while above that is supposed to be green for the eyes. Unfortunately, each one is different, one so off that the eyes and mouth are both white! Some also have the white intruding as far on top of the piece that it goes straight to the center, further making it's usage in mocs awkward. http://www.brickshelf.com/cgi-bin/gallery.cgi?i=1951611

Yeti vs. the all powerful Teletubby sun baby. No match.

Well, there ARE alot of Lego sites out there to listen to. We are but one. Though I must admit, the heads of people here seem to be screwed on straighter.

That was a riot! They're dropping in front of it like acorns. lol Ooh... that's different. I have a Firefox browser extension that lets me snags video played online, but this time when I clicked the download box, Lego has a program that merely turns THAT box into a new copy of the movie playing. Weird. But, I got around it by right-clicking the download box instead. Hee... now I can make gifs of the dramatic disc-shooting scene. X D

I wouldn't go telling people (in posts anyway) of this. Last I checked, it was a severely moddable offense to mention any other Lego forums in post or PM. Then again, I see moderators using words like "screwed" and Bionicle Rex with the word "hell" in his sig, so maybe things have become more relaxed to compete with other sites in the months I was offline?

I kind of know what you're saying, but I think you're overshooting it. When I was a kid, if I had, say, 4 of any one figure, it was an army. At worst, I could see kids merely getting mom and dad to buy 3 of any large set. And depending on the set (like the one with 10 figures), they could potentially have a whopping 30-fig army. Maybe they'll bring the minifig packs back. More likely, they're just allocating their budget & manufacturing resources elsewhere this year, if the high quality of the current sets is any indication. Exciting times, these are.

I think responsibility is the thing where your wife asks you a question, and you have to respond immediately to avoid drama.

Lol... took my brain a few seconds to piece together the cleverness of the Clayface cell.

Everything was so fantastic, and clearly such a large budget was approved that I wonder if this was the LAST story! Hahaha haha ha ha ha... ha... ...ha... ...heh... ...hoo, boy. That's a hell of a thought. :-/ Nah. No way. Right?

I know, I know... it's a very rough diagram. And Lego would have to make the trans blue baseplate. :-P Oh well, at least the underground cavern idea is currently do-able.

::bites arm:: ::smears blood across cheeks, under each eye::

I call forth "SCARY COSPLAYER", who knocks down the coolness points of all monsters in your deck by 50,000 points!

I think getting away from reality is good. I never thought yellow = exploration... more like construction. Now lime neon green... NICE. If there were 2 subs, both identical, I'm sure the yellow one would make it to the clearance bin. Speaking of colors, it'd be nice to see some of the trans colors like in those fairy castle Bellevue girly sets migrate away and into boy's sets. What better way to revive a diver type line than to have watery looking pieces? You know... the idea of an underwater playset mirrors ideas I've had for an UNDERGROUND playset (lit with ultraviolet blacklights, no less, to illuminate clear, UV-reactive "gems"). I see them both like this:

LOL... what's that last pic of?

Moving to MOC forum...

I shoulda' mentioned it'd have a turning ability. :-P Yeah, maybe it's too ambitious an idea. I know I personally couldn't stand train sets growing up. There was nothing "going on'. Only after seeing Lego's 9V, high quality, metal rail, never-break-down sets did it become interesting.

I cancel your problems with this:

Wait a minute... I don't know much about R/C trains, but here's what I'd ike to see. 9V motors still in production. 9V metal tracks still in production. And sitting next to those on a shelf, a new 9V engine, remote controlled, with wheels that can ride on the metal track OR OFF the metal track. Possible, yes? Some kind of hard, durable rubber wheels with a ridge in the center? The metal one could come in the large set. The R/C one could be in a medium set. Small sets (box cars) could be packaged with 2 straights. Wouldn't this make a hell of alot of sense? Just try and show me a kid who never wished their train could taper off the track and run along the floor. And if you don't NEED track to use it, then you need less track. Room problem solved.

I can't agree more. Although things have already been said in here, I'll summarize how I see it: 2 VERY big problems: 1. Kids aren't into trains anymore because, seriously, they're BORING. They are a track... with boxes going around in a circle. No dynamic posing. Nothing launching off of it. No attitude. Just a BOX going around a CIRCLE. 2. Room. Just like how it's hard to find those japanese Jumbo Machinders robots from the 70's, same here with train setups. Parents in Japan would buy their kids these 3-foot tall robots, only to get rid of them in the trash due to their already-squished living arrangements. So what's the solution to these 2 big problems? 1. Cross-marketing. Yes, MAKE a Bionicle train. It doesn't even have to be off-the-wall fancy. 4 curves, 1 straights and 1 straight regulator section. The engine? A 9v box with like 50 or so bricks / technic parts and a neat, mildly oversized Bionicle mask on the front. Even better if it's exclusive to THAT set. Of course kids don't buy Lego 9v trains, they only know they exist if they get the catalogs. And when they do, their engines have nothing really going on. 2. Well, this is a bit tricky, I've tried years to think of a way around this problem. All I could think of, is maybe (somehow?) elevate a track above a point where it's in the way of daily life. Short of being suspended from your ceiling with fishing line (lol), it doesn't look too good. As far as I know, the 9V has no tracks that let you go up a ramp. That would at least give an illusion of not taking up space, if you could have it go up a slope. Another neat idea is selling expansion packs that aren't just a car, but a car and 2 straights. If there's going to be an issue with room, then you bring the customer to a point where they don't care they're losing room. It's called advertising. It's called promotion. It's called common-sense business practices. If you have a product someone doesn't want, you make them want it. If there's a detrimental aspect to your product, you make the appetizing points outweigh the bad ones. Unfortunately, I'm too new to Lego to know what the non-9V tracks were like. Monorail? 12V? No idea. But I do know 9V, and I like it. Metal tracks are always nicer than cheesy plastic ones. This whole "we'll see how they sell in the later part of 2006"... nutty. Seriously. How can sales on something be gauged when there's a maximum of like only 2 major outlets selling it?!? And guess what? You're STILL going to pay alot, and the customer is STILL going to be out of room for tracks. So really, the only problem that can be addressed is... ...MAKE THEM DESIRABLE. Make them COOL. Cool is not a box going around in a circle. Not these days, grandpa. Silly, silly, silly stuff. (NOTE: Hope I didn't offend anyone with the box going around a circle description... but from a kid's perspective, that's what it is).

I agree and I don't. At first, I despised them, but I came to realize they serve a financial purpose. If you put an Inika together, it's pretty much a head, arms and legs... and a big, goofy-megablocks torso. It's good in that littler kids get an action figure without getting confused, but it's practically color-coded for mocers, saying "Replace torso with custom body". I dig these new heads, in comparison to the last few waves. With the 2001 masks, people were always trying to think of what they could poke through the eye holes for mocs. These being rubber, it allows a bit more play. And the holes are large enough for quite a few options. As for the green domeheads they all have... they're kinda' cool. They may only come in 1 color, but they have many a moc use. The swords have a very cool effect... the only bad thing to say being there's really no connection points for adding clear parts (as light piping around a moc). I dunno. They had better building parts, definitely. But they looked a bit on the fugly side. Though I know what you mean, the new ones being a lot of <insert that tiresome argument> parts. I still think there's alot of good mocing parts though. And they have a large, dynamic look to them. Quite a far cry from the lame as hell spinner arms of 2005 and the bare-bones garbage of the first movie.

BIGTIME. Like what I was saying about compromising symmetry for function... you take a Visorak shell... it has this giant CIRCLE imprinted on it's back and you're like "No prob, I'll just hide it with more parts"... but then you look at it head-on, and there's this freaking NOTCH cut out of one side of it's face for those zip-strip things. Unforgivable. lol And yeah, the 2-toned Inika, Hahlii and Kongu... I pop them out of the can, but immediately put all the swirly parts right back into the can and close it. THAT'S the last I see of them... unless I need to cross a distance later that's hidden inside an enclosed moc. But still, best year ever. Wow, man. I remember arguing about the loss of that. I wonder if Greg passed on that info to Lego himself. If he did, much love. Collecting those $2 mask packs were an exciting time. Maybe you'd get a second mask in a certain color that'd get you thinking "Cool! Now I have 2 to make shoulder pads!". Or you'd get a trans and feel all special, since only like 1 in 12 masks had that. And unlike later "collectibles" (pffffft), they had actual building parts inside... a most important thing indeed. It was a good time.

Hmm... ... ... ... ... ...nope. No, I think that'd be as disastrously freakish as those Star Wars Transformers. :-X