Talin Agasan

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It really depends of the degree of pedantry that the owner or his peers suffer from. I'm quite pedantic, and I think it would be fine - but there's a caution, I am not very familiar with the particularities of American soldiers' apparel or those of their contemporaries. I don't see that the shade of blue is an issue - but there is a mini-fig with a dark blue coat that looks just perfect.

Wonderful! Great idea, and very well carried through. I just noticed the wind-screen wipers on the van. I've never seen that ever before - but it seems logical. The climbing rose is beautiful, and befitting the florists. The architectural details are great too, especially the clam-shells under the arches. I never would have thought of it. I'm glad to see that you put some effort into the interior as well, it is perfect. The building will look really well on a street next to the others.

That's an amazing piece of work! The balconies (is the correct plural?) are superb, and the facade is too. A fountain and a large pool would really be necessary too I think. I can't wait to see some of the interiors decked out with furniture and its floors bustling with appropriately coloured mini-figs. The use of glass is clever because a lot of modern buildings today use glass to appear fancy. It's like saying to the world - to heck with the heating bills - we can afford it! More arches are good, and of course greenery. Some ivy crawling up the walls would be good, and maybe a garden somewhere too. I hope we'll see more soon!

Wow. Great work, Marko. I'd love to have so many road plates and start something like that. The airport is really good - especially that big helicopter airplane thingie in it. It could do with a bit more populating, I think. Some of it looks a bit sparse at the moment. Some houses, maybe a fire station or police station would all be good additions. I hope we'll see lots more of it soon. Have you any interiors planned for that hotel? Also, I'm quite taken aback by the people who keep a formula-one car in their driveway!

Soapbox speech was much appreciated. I have my two cents too. People are far too thin-skinned these days. It used to be question of honour to not get offended (or violent), despite the challenge - and all in good sport (it was even a game between two challengers to counter the insult of one with a better insult, the loser was the one who lost his temper!). It's a good exercise in patience and forbearance to let something wash over you rather than take offense. I actually would have only found the fool seeking his creator offensive if he'd actually been able to reach him... but if I were to point out everything I found offensive, I'd never be done. I like the Jester Rabbi, but I have say it is quite CRAZY. I have trouble imagining a jester being a rabbi... or a rabbi being a jester. It gives a good measure of absurdity. Not quite as much as the Jester dreams... hewkii9, that is truly bizarre. All the characters are very CRAZY! Where does a fool find such homies? I wish I had fool to enter into this competition.

Some people think calculating is fun... especially using bricks to count with. Which is more deranged I wonder? All the best in your trek beyond the frontiers of brickology. I hope your travels are well-documented. Maybe you should name each combination too?

Unbelievable! These Gorians are indoctrinating AFOLs too! Next our MOCs will regulated by the government, as to how many pieces we are allowed to use. You could get shot and arrested and tortured for going over 100 pieces. Little satellite-tracked RFID tags in the bricks will let them know in advance... I'm going to let off some steam by building the biggest MOC I've ever made... Seriously though, the future for Lego bricks will probably be plastic derived from biofine using second-gen biofuels (not just seeds - the whole plant by lignocellulosic digestion, therefore land usage is not an issue). So no fear there. Our children's children will have Lego too (as well as food!), it might even become less expensive. I should have said, I think the minifig is good too. Just like someone who would have a smart car. Did she dye her hair to match it before or after she got it though?

But you could just calculate it? Also, a few combinations have limited usage, since they may not be very sturdy or may be too imbalanced. Let's see. Each brick has 8 possible points of attachments on top and eight beneath (the eight beneath may be ignored if the colour is not considered - as the rotational possibilities are also ignored). However, each brick can be rotated by 180 degrees with no difference which reduces the possibilities by a factor of 2 for each brick. The next brick has two possible angles of attachment (if connected to two studs, and ignoring all the rotational possibilities of being connected by only one stud). On each of the eight possible studs of the first brick, there are then 16 possibilities for the second brick, though eight of these are the same (this is when it is connected to two studs - four in each direction): (4 x 4 x 2) - 8 = 24 combinations. I think this is right. Calculate the additional combinations of the third brick for homework everyone!

Ha ha ha! That's genius! It has exactly the "just a little too small" smart car feel. Can you show pics of the doors opened? Looks like the front opens. Maybe you should make a refueling station too. Or is it more authentic not to have many refueling stations - just like real life! I really like this design. I used to use those car bases totally differently - much lower - and as such had problems making the roof high enough. I may try making something similar to this now! I wonder is there a way you could incorporate wing mirrors in some way?

Erdbeereis - 1 point oo7 - 1 point Infomaniac - 2 points Guss - 3 points It was so difficult to vote! The others are all great too. I love seeing genius new ways of using bricks. Guss won 3 points for an amazing design. Amazing way to do the black keys on the piano. Lovely four-poster bed. Superb overall style. The others were all very close though. Blue soldiers are always better than red too. Infomaniac had some incredible stuff too. The use of lego string for the hangings. The rubber band and screwdriver for the wall map. Lots of cool little details. I love the fight ensuing beneath. Erdbeeris has a great design too. I'm uncomfortable with the use of so many brown legs though. The little windows are good. The big chair is very well done. Craziness going on down below. oo7 wins a point for expert simplicity. It is not big or complicated, but very effective. I'm uncomfortable with the use of arms for the chair though - even if it looks amazing. The wine rack is great. I learnt a lot of new techniques in reviewing these scenes. Thanks!

This is going to sound incredibly sad. Myself and my brother (not brickzone - the other one...) both had a special most favourite legendary character each that formed the subject and centre of most of our amazing Lego super-imaginative playing and building. This developed swiftly into full-blown stories and sagas spanning centuries and across millions of light-years. Ahem. Eventually, to complete English creative-writing essays, assigned as homework from school, we decided to write about these characters. The only problem was that they had been christened when we were very young indeed. As such, all we knew were twee, inane and childish names. The characters had sadly been named "Tommy" and "Timmy". It doesn't get much worse than that. Our reaction was almost as sad. We started going through all our famed Lego characters, updating their names into new funky, peculiar, pseudo-sci-fi, unrealistic, non-twee, double-barreled names. "Tommy" became "Talin Agasan". An improvement? Well, it fitted the stories a lot better... That is all.

Thanks for the comments and the good advice everyone. Sadly, my camera has serious limitations (and my competency at using it, clearly!!). At least pictures in the day time are better. I probably won't have new pics for a while. When I do, I'll try to show the drawbridge up. The mechanism is really sweet. Need to borrow my brother's camera or something. Thankfully, I used a better backdrop on my more recent work (Gelian Flagship).

80b (From creative-writing wiki) This ship will transport Prince Gelius's troops across the Royndaren Channel to aid the elves in their battles, while protecting them well from the infamous pirates that haunt these trading waters. See picasaweb for a few more images: http://picasaweb.google.com/sam.wiseguy/Ge...feat=directlink Sadly, my camera has serious restraints, so I won't be able to provide much better pictures for a while, nor can I show you pics of the amazing interior yet, with all its cannons and cargo. Any comments?

That's fantastic. It really looks just like the Japanese trains. And they look great! Are you aware that JR East are one of the few train companies that have experimented with using fuel cell technology (Polymer Electrolyte Membrane running on hydrogen, I think), in conjunction with secondary batteries charged by the brakes, of course. That would probably be a bit too difficult to emulate with Lego, though.

I beg to differ: Admittedly, only 2D is still legitimate for small hieroglyphics (though not usual, I think on large sections...). But you're probably right. It might have just been attempting too much and achieving little, it's effective. It'd be great as a quirky part of a giant Egyptian tomb for the adventurers to get trapped in. That smile would really give them the heebie jeebies.

That is great! Really fun. I think that his gleeful-ever-so-slightly-eerie smiling is very appropriate. Without it, he just wouldn't capture the part of the integral essence of the immutability of the minifig face. Remember the days when minifigs only smiled? One small criticism: while the smile is good, it does not portray the rotundity of a minifig. It is too flat, hieroglyphs are, as far as I'm aware, more 3D-shapely-representative.

One of my first MOC's after my Dark Ages, was a simple idea of how neat it would be to build a castle on a rocky bank on a river base (like that from "Rocky River Retreat" (6552-1). I was provided with various interesting architectural black and gray pieces, so the castle was going to be semi-gothic too. I also had many large rocky pieces at my disposal, which is good, because if a castle is not built on good foundations, it'll fall. This all meant that it would fit perfectly as part of Lord Aaron's famous castle in the land of Lomard, though I only realised that afterwards! Here's some pics; sadly they are very poor quality (excuse = dim lighting, weird flash, cheap camera, shaky hands): From the left (note the ugly purple barbarian about to be run through by the weight of a warhorse and rider, and the cold hard steel of a Lomardic sword): From the right (note the shields and the greenery decoration): From the top-ish (note the crenelations and flowing capes): From the front-ish (note the scary wizard w/o hat and the gargoyles and pillars): From the ??? (note the blurring, off-colours, and stupid angle): From the back (note the bleached drawbridge crank next the treasure chest, and the big castle doors, dungeon with well hidden, complementary trapdoor, and the guard protecting the lady very well hidden in the alcove): Do not note the general dustiness, or the lack of substantial interior decoration (there is a fireplace - well hidden - and besides, I compensated for this lack in the appropriately extravagant interior of my Alchemist's Lab)... Forgot to mention, the drawbridge works beautifully. Also, Lord Aaron is the blurry black blob near the gates. Any comments or questions on this? I'm thinking about dusting it off and giving it a major overhaul soon, perhaps with expansion.

Thanks for all the encouraging comments! Just to note again, this isn't brickzone's MOC, but mine (*trying not to sound megalomaniacal*). Also, the minifig making potions is not a witch. Hence the title: Alchemist's House (or more correctly "Lab", not house). Although, I grant that she might have a hard time convincing the other villagers of that... ("Burn her! She turned me into a newt! ... I got better...") She probably does drop the potions frequently (I know I did) - see the luminous green goo on the floor. That's probably why the man upstairs looks like he has a permanent scowl. My next project will probably be to finish redesigning a white imperial-looking ship that's been half built for months. I hope to also put up some pictures of a semi-gothic castle facade (built shortly after my dark ages ) which fits this theme, though probably not part of the village itself. - edit: That semi-gothic facade can now be found with some beautiful blurry pictures at this topic.

Thanks! You can now see my most recent creation, the Alchemist's House. This makes a suitable addition to brickzone's Medieval Village. More soon, including: Flagship of the Gelian Empire. Black Castle of Lomard. and probably some snippets of the aforementioned stories too.

Hi all, I'm brickzone's younger brother. As such I have less early experience of classical sets, and I have a great appreciation for Space Lego (especially M-trons!), and Fantasy/Medieval Lego (especially Dragon Knights!). The other types of Lego struggle to hold my interest with a few exceptions (such as Town Lego), due to simple fact that the potential to build imaginatively is so much greater in those aforementioned areas. Talin Agasan is the name of a character which originated from the mind-blowing adventures and worlds that myself and my other siblings (not brickzone so much) would craft using Lego as a medium. Of course, his initial name was very twee and childish and dull, but at one point we updated all the names etc, when we decided to write down some of the stories and develop them into fairly involved sagas. Might be published as a book, one day. Just another example of how great Lego is to fuel creativity.

That looks really good, brickzone. The scales are a nice touch, and the way the windows poke out is really good. The roof turned out well. Sometimes I think that the best designs result from brick shortages.

I found Eurobricks through someone I know who is quite active on this forum.