JINZONINGEN73

InDEED. ::cracks knuckles:: I see the overall distaste on this site aimed at Bionicle, and I TOTALLY can't megablocking blame that impression on you. The majority of mecha mocs on Brickshelf with Bionicle / Technic as their base are POOR. There's no doubt that in time, through mocs of mine (as well as Darth Vader's), that a good lot of you will be converted partially, and in some cases totally, to understanding just what's possible with them. I must admit, joining this site also added fuel to my current system mindset of adding even more bricks to my Technic guys. I honestly see fusion as becoming the future of Lego sets as well. Hell, just look at the Exo-Force sets... both brick AND Technic joints.

I was thinking that too. Except I see LOTS of white, LOTS of support beams, LOTS of trans domes and LOTS of smooth surfaces. There could be clear "shoop tubes" as I call them... the things you see people being transported through in the opening credits of Futurama. There could be, inside these futuristic Lego towns, parks... giving some color to the sets as well as tree elements. A theme of "futuristic town" has NO limits. If Lego wants to cross-breed it into another theme... BAM! Make a museum. ::pictures pirate ship with white crowd control ropes encircling it:: Yah... also brilliant. :D

Yeesh... looking at the online cost of aquiring them, I now feel validated in my HOARDING them from off the toy shelves so many months ago.

::wonders what kind of arm Batman is using::

He can only help himself. Tell him to ask her out then bring him and her on a date with you two.

It's popular because it graduated Lego robots from out of the dark ages of non-playable, hardly-posable, fall-apart statues and into the land of action figurey goodness. The downside is the age of the target audience = less skilled moc'ers = mocs that look like hollow dogshit = AFOLs not taking it seriously nor seeing it's true potential. That's where people like me and DV would like to come in. :oD

That moc leaves me with peaceful, happy thoughts. The kind of moc you see and want to emulate / add on to.

X D That's what happens when noone's building mocs. All that creative critiquing energy goes flying around the room, smashing windows, splitting chairs in two, frying electrical items, making people's heads spontaneously explode...

Yeah, I'm getting sick of staring at it's sexiness. I might just enter it in this BZ contest. Not because of possibly getting prizes or anything... there's something I wish to observe first-hand regarding "things". It'll be easier to see if it's my moc I'm observing. I might be speaking too abstract, but you'll just have to trust me on this one.

Bley can have it's uses... but it should NOT ever be a replacement for the original grays. Everything in moderation. So Narnia is DISNEY? Ugh. Disney gets their greasy, ugly hands in everything. Batman the Animated series? Make GARGOYLES! Kimba? SIMBA! http://www.kimbawlion.com/rant2.htm Agh... my hate goes deep for Disney. Bionicle movies were helped in part by Disney (Buena Vista division). And Disney has Megabloks doing a license. So really, they're all up in everyone's busine$$ anyway. Lego needs to quit creaming over everything their "focus groups" tell them and start reading some freaking messageboards.

You'd think the 4413 would've been 4336. Beats me... maybe Lego has weird conditions whereby they reuse set numbers. Set 4336 was last used for a Scala set in 1980.

AAAAH! AAAAH! BUG! Kill it! Kill it! Kill it!

Oh dear. This kind of stuff gets my photoshopping blood pumping. Good thing I don't know any of you personally enough yet to extricate your flesh over into skin masks for embarrassing images.

I peck at coffee. I have a big, giant can of generic, crappy coffee from Walmart that I've been drinking oooooh for about 4 years now. It's down to the bottom of the can, so maybe I'll get a better brand / something flavored when it runs out. Sometimes, every few months, I just WANT it. So, I drink it a week or so then that's that for another few months. I've taken to dropping marshmellows in it and even adding a green tea paclet to the pot while it fills. I even had 2 free coupons for a big container of breast milk alternative for babies (an $11.49 value each!) and a few scoops made one YUMMY cup of coffee. (We don't even HAVE kids... but you know, it was free... not to mention the humor that you're drinking breast milk coffee.). :-D

I thought X-Pods WERE system? Far from it! http://brickshelf.com/cgi-bin/gallery.cgi?f=131800 http://brickshelf.com/cgi-bin/gallery.cgi?f=151959 http://brickshelf.com/cgi-bin/gallery.cgi?f=118235 http://brickshelf.com/cgi-bin/gallery.cgi?f=102063 They're pretty damn awesome. At first glance, they looked like crap, thanks to the minimalistic silliness of the models you're actually shown built from ONE pod's contents, but as spare parts sources, they're priceless. It's a good way for Lego to introduce the fact they have new and weird parts / colors to people who otherwise wouldn't have bought a more expensive set... and thereby never saw any of the exciting new stuff. If not for X-Pods, I wouldn't have known they had 1 x 1 slopes, and wouldn't have bought any more expensive sets just to get more. Aside from that, I'm SO glad they made trans neon green shells. Too bad the orange was dark orange instead of the neon orange that glows like a devil under blacklight. The second wave of X-Pods put the first ones to shame... so much goodness to be had for just $3.50 a pod.

And if only sounds could be added to the buttons. It'd be most fun to click on "add reply" and hear a 10-second long fart.

Not to feel left out, I must impart upon this discussion my very own STICKERS SUCK! I am very happy that they don't F*** up the bricks much by printing patterns on them, but especially in licensed sets, such as the expensive gunship... it MIGHT be a good idea to go ahead and make the images timeless by imprinting them. I'm a Lego builder who NEVER buys Lego sets to actually build the (ugly, poorly designed) intended models. All those old Alpha Team sets I bought would've sucked hard if the geeky AT logo was painted on all the pieces instead of optional with stickers. I will never put stickers on top of Lego bricks. It's unfathomable. But if I paid over $60 for a licensed character-specific type deal, sure, why not? Just paint it straight on.

Out of the measly 8 or so transactions I've done on Bricklink, 3 of them were missing parts. But a quick email later and they sent them out ASAP. That place is a hive of good people. Probably some of the highest positive feedback scores overall on any selling site on the internet.

Well personally I'd LIKE to see a disembodied turkey drumstick, oh YEAH!

Topic title. Got linked from http://invisionfree.com/forums/In_the_Bric...dex.php?act=idx to the Batman minifig prototype pic someone posted here... and NEVER LEFT!

Well personally I LIKE the disembodied hand, so NYAH!

Ah, you just changed it. ;) Make sure when it comes to personal checks that they 100% clear before shipping. Even if people aren't trying to screw ya', banks these days have a tendency to add charges that people don't expect, leading to unwitting over-extending their available funds.

This one by a cleverly humorous japanese guy on Brickshelf made me laugh: http://brickshelf.com/cgi-bin/gallery.cgi?f=149092

You're onto something there. Every illustrated characterization of him is that HE is purple, but as you can see from the lyrics, he does indeed eat purple people! He might be purple as well though. Purple people... corpses? Further proof in the last 2 words.