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Kiel - Vagabond - 2 points, mostly for the wonderful vig and photoshop job. Darth Yogi - The Rabbit - 1 point, because that armor is awesome.

Thanks everybody! I'm glad you enjoyed it. Huh. Tatooine is always in the foreground when I look at it... it's probably awesome in the background, I'm jealous!

Micro-scale version of the first scene of Star Wars: Darth Vader's Star Destroyer pursues Princess Leia's Tantive IV. I've been building small-scale Star Destroyers recently, and after building this one I had an epiphany: a way to make a to-scale Tantive IV with just four pieces -- it's so cute! Click on any of the pictures to see full-size. The top picture is my entry for the "mi-fi" micro-scale sci-fi contest on flickr, though entering it was a bit of an afterthought (contest ends today). I hope you enjoy, thanks for looking!

It's fake, guys. Original post on flickr says as much:

Thanks! It's the Series 3 space villain's torso.

Hey Batman! Chill... (sorry) I do a fair bit of semi-purist minifig customization, but never post anything in the MCW forum. Well, that changes today! I've been tinkering off and on with a custom Mr. Freeze, and I'd like to share some of my work here and maybe get some new ideas from you guys. We'll go in chronological order, starting with my first (vary minor) variation on the official figure. I think it's hands-down better than the official fig, but it's nothing too exciting. All pictures are links to flickr... I really hate that helmet, and would prefer to use a clear dome piece to replicate the look from Batman: The Animated Series. That piece doesn't make for a good helmet (trust me, I tried) so I decided to try my hand at a brick-built Mr. Freeze "hard suit" based on designs from the flickr Lego hardsuit group. Here's my first attempt: My goal was to make the smallest hardsuit possible, and this one was just too big (compare with Batman for scale). Take two, using very different construction techniques: Not bad, but I think it's still too bulk and it's too skinny in the middle—it's not really plausible that a minifig could be wearing this suit. And like all minifig-scale hardsuits, it's rather flimsy and unstable. So I went back to minifigs wearing armor! I've considered using the Atlantis armor, but there are no good visor options. A guy who goes by bogey175 on flickr was able to strip the chrome off an astronaut visor to make a clear-visored version of the Atlantis armor. It looks great but that clear visor seems to be more trouble than it's worth. Mr. Freeze by bogey175 And so we come to my current favorite design, the one I featured at the top of the post: Freeze in the space marine armor from Minifig Series 7. I Brasso'd off the silver space logos, and gave him the black ADU gun (from the space marine) and added a brickarms monopod and technic pin to give it some bulk. This is my favorite version, despite the lack of any visor or helmet (the clear dome piece I used for the hardsuits doesn't fit). Color scheme looks good, armor gives him reasonable bulk compared to other minifigs. What do y'all think? Do you have your own semi-purist take on Mr. Freeze? I really like The Penguin's custom figures, but painting the Buzz Lightyear armor or Series 4 Hazmat Suit is more than I can handle. Oh, and come summer I'm interested to try Darth Malgus's armor for Freeze as well!

Nice designs! Have you tried making the cape yet, cut out of paper or cloth? I'd love to see how well your cape works on the new Grievous figure.

She's double-sided though, and the other side has the first smirk from Otherworld's gallery of smirks: Those pics are, in order: Harley, Ivy, Catwoman, and Wonder Woman. Personally, I'd chalk-up the similarities to Lego's love of smirks (see the collectable minifigs!) rather than a laziness.

My Prize D showed up today! Piett, yay! Thanks Eurobricks! You guys are awesome.

I had a similar experience, the machine gave me an aisle location (none in the stockroom) but it was a clearance aisle with no pegs or price labels. Don't know if they sold out or what. Thanks for posting the DCPI number, I'll keep checking! PS: Huh, now I have a badge that's the same as my avatar... wonder what it means?

I'm a winner! Awesome, thanks CopMike and Eurobricks! Prize D, mystery figure... ooh. Please be Piett, please be Piett, pleasebepiett, pleasebepiett!

The Dark Knight! - 2 Enter: The Joker - 1

Croc's sewer - 2 Cat Burglar - 1

Here's my entry! This is the only Batman contest I'll have time to enter, sadly. When the going gets tough... the tough go shopping! Based on the classic April Fool's Day episode of Batman: The Animated Series: The Joker goes on a crime spree after flooding downtown Gotham with laughing gas.

I don't have time to enter all the Batman contests, but I can at least enter this one! Here's the ghost of Anakin, at the only Christmas party he gets invited to...

Great entries! I'm sad I didn't have time to enter the contest... I still hope to do a POTC MOC or two later this year. Anyway, points: hammelgeier - Attack of the Kraken - 4 pts Wonderful entry! Love the scale, love the action... and both the ship and the kraken are full of great details. A few tweaks would make it even better: I think the water could use a little work (maybe transparent blues?) and the masts would look better if you used actual LEGO masts (they'd give you a mast that was thicker than a 1x1 without being a bulky 2x2). Minor complaints aside, this my favorite entry. Fat Tony - Where's the rest of the crew? - 1 pt Stunning photos, and an excellent, clever build. I especially love the first photo, with the forced perspective of the tank-tread rope bridge and cliff face. Great work, as always.

There are four real mounts and two fake mounts per side. The front and rear "flaps" overlap the hull pieces, making it impossible to put gun mounts there.

I saw this at the nearby TRU tonight and took the plunge... love it, great set! The ship needs some work before it'll stand up against the Imperial Flagship, but it's a stylish design with a lot of unique pieces. Fun build, too. I took a couple of photos for the folks interested in Blackbeard's beard: one of the face underneath, and one illustrating its compatibility with other headgear.

That looks awesome! I'll wait for more pictures before I decide to buy, but it looks like Lego will be burning quite the hole in my wallet this year...

It's just a new-style headlight at the right spot... 2 bricks wide = 5 plates tall, so use the headlight + 2 plates. The wedge plates are the old-school version without stud notches, btw.

Sorry, that one is a lot of work to disassemble. It's a much easier build though, and I took a few pictures of the more complex assemblies, which you can see in my photostream starting with this one.

Maybe we can work out a trade, once I receive everything from Tim13? If you're willing to pay $12 with shipping, you can get the torso for that price on bricklink (or $20-25 for the whole minifig).

Awesome, I love it! Too bad the claw piece doesn't come in gold... I'll have to dig out a megaphone and see how it looks with the metallic silver claw.

Excellent work! I'm glad you're enjoying it, and that taking all those "instruction" photos wasn't a waste of my time. BTW, I've made one change since then, which is to add one of these to the rear engine: [ Black Technic Hub / Handle 1 x 1 ]. It looks a bit better, I think. I'll try to snap a pic when I get home.

I'll take 'em! Just the figures though. PM coming your way...