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Hmm.... The cheese slope is pretty useful, but I think I'm gonna have to go with the 4-long minifigure-hand-fitting rod (lightsaber rod). It's compatible with SO many pieces and useful in so many ways (even more than the cheese slope), that I think it deserves the title. Think about it - lightsaber blade, magic wand, staff, greeble, connector, extender, and on and on and on. According to bricklink, it appears in a whopping 364 sets, from almost all themes of the past decade!

Okay! I've got Dave's comic up! Go have a read! http://www.eurobricks.com/forum/index.php?showtopic=38010

(The subtitle is supposed to say "Cyberpunk's most despicable geezer". Instead, it says !Q. I have no idea how this happened.) This is my first attempt at a comic. I'm pretty pleased with it. All of the editing was done in paint. I apologize for the quality of some of the close-up pictures, I really need to get a camera that's suited to this kind of stuff. Dave Charon's Office, the Solar-Com building, New Terrel Some of you are probably thinking that I have a sick mind right about now. And the truth is, I do!

Ooh! I have this set, and I loved it when I first got it (I was pretty young then). The push-the-nose unfolding is still the most clever thing I've ever seen in a lego set.

I wouldn't say that. Shouldn't everyone be able to drive with their N.E.R.V. chips? You can take out the steering wheel and put in a windsheild, and then the driver can telepatically control the vehicle.

Working on an office for Dave. This is already fun, and the game hasn't even started!

No need to worry about it being true, it's completely confirmed and backed up by both Merlin and the Government.

Very interesting idea, doing a comic to introduce your character. I might have to do one for mine, too. Good job!

Ha, that's cute, good use of that large balloon piece. The quality of the picture actually makes it look like an old-timey photograph, which I think works well with this MOC.

This is really nice! I like the play feature you included, and the spare gold piece as the medallion is very clever.

This has been all over the local papers down here. Perhaps I can shed some light on it. The new Legoland will be built in Winter Haven on the property of Cypress Gardens, an extremely old and well-established, yet outdated theme park that was having financial difficulties due to the larger pull of Disney World and Universal. It was sold to Merlin Entertainment on Jan. 15. Merlin has said that they chose the site because of the value of the existing infrastructure. Because they are able to utilize many of Cypress Gardens old attractions, including a wooden roller coaster and the historic gardens, the park is expected to be completed in two years, whereas it takes five to build one from the ground up. The park is expected to do very well, as a survey says that Legoland has a high brand recognition and almost a 90% intention to visit from families in the target market (those with boys aged 2-12). The park should also get business from "Theme Park Hopper Tourists" who come down here for a week long vacation or more and visit all of the major theme parks, Disney World, Universal, Seaworld, Busch Gardens, and, now Legoland.

Name: Dave Charon Age: 112 years Affiliation: Ching, web of other connections for harvesting profit Occupation: Business manager of Solar-com, investigator, hit-man, collection agent, assistant to Borgiss Due to the constant inter-faction wars and standard dangerous conditions on the island of Terrel, life expectancies tend to be fairly short compared to the rest of the world, where the average age, due to advanced medicine, has reached two hundred years old. On Terrel, it's rare to see anyone even over the age of seventy. Dave Charon, therefore, is an oddity, a spry 112. Raised by his parents, a lawyer and a museum curator, in Illinois before the raising of Terrel, Dave grew up as a staunch traditionalist, becoming intimately familiar with many ancient time periods, including his favorite, the twentieth century, in his dad's museum. In college, he found that he had a natural grasp of economics and business, as well as mathematics, physics, and computer programming. However, the psychologist programs monitoring the school computers determined that he had an underlying psycho-sadism disorder. He was given drugs for his psychosadism, but they reacted poorly with his system, causing temporary insanity. On the first night of the perscription, he broke out of his computer-locked room and ran downstairs into the museum. Taking an ancient but fully restored Thompson Sub-machine gun from its case, he shot his way out of the building and ran off, before being stopped by the town's computer system, which shot at him with lasers, taking off his hand. He was stuck in jail for ten years, until he and his fellow inmates broke out and went to the People's Republic of Canada. Since the PRC had not actually been communist for almost a century, Dave was able to start up a highly successful business, where he learned how to be completely economically ruthless, and, as they say 'every trick in the book'. Without the medication, his psychosadism and sociopathy got worse. After the rise of Terrel, Borgiss was looking for business managers to keep the company working properly while he worked on the science of his evil plot. Dave's work with his company impressed the cyborg, who bought the company and made Dave an offer he couldn't refuse to work with him. Dave agreed, and became Borgiss's Vice President in charge of Executive Defferment - in other words, everything. After Borgiss was done with the science of his evil plot and it was set in motion, Dave was doing such a good job with the economics of the company that he was allowed to stay on, and even given several rewards: better cybernetic implants (to fix the laser damage) than the ones that the U.S. Government had given him in jail, a high-tech hook to fill in for his missing hand, and, for old times' sake, the Thompson sub-machine gun that he had used the first night. Soon after this, he was given expanded duties as a hitman and 'debt collector' Despite his age, Dave is now Borgiss' most successful field agent. His mechanical endoskeleton gives him the spryness and agility of a teenager, and his hook, made of high-density titanium/gold alloy, can extend telescopically into all sorts of sharp/electrified/rapidly vibrating/otherwise dangerous weapons. And the gun that he carries is not a cybergun, which can be rendered useless by a few simple hacks to the N.E.R.V. chip, nor is it an out-dated but still used laser gun, which can be stopped easily enough by a powerful magnet, but it is in fact an ancient artifact called a Tommy Gun, which he finds much more reliable, because while people set up all sorts of defenses against a stream of floating ones and zeros, as well as light encased in an EM bubble, nobody seems to do anything these days for a tiny piece of lead travelling a thousand miles an hour. He is an utter expert with both the Tommy gun and all of the weapons that unfold from his hook, mostly due to the fact that he's had more time to practice than anybody else that he meets. (Yes, I know the bio is uber long. I have a writer's soul, what can I say?)

Ok, I think I've figured out a way that I can make it work that I'm a villian, however, I'll have to see if it works when the posting in the story starts. I'll be using my modded N.E.R.V. chip to meld with the N.E.R.V. chip of somebody in the group, so that I can keep tabs on it, and when I see that you're going to do something dangerous I'll show up in person. I'll post my bio anyways, I can always change it and make him work for a different faction with a different set of characteristics and a different name a little later in the game if my idea doesn't work out.

LEGO Spaceship Earth/ Tree of Life/ Cinderella's Castle anyone?

Ah, that's another question (I know, I'm just full of them! ). Will the story be written from third person, and, if this is the case, will it be third person omniscient? Or will it just be dialogue? I tried to find the precedents that you mentioned in the first post, but I couldn't in this forum, so I think they must be buried in others. Perhaps I can just bend the plot so that I'm following y'all on assignment.

I've got a character ready, but would like to ask a few question first to make sure he's okay. -Can I be a villian? I think the story might become kind of one-sided, seeing as everyone is being a protag or an antihero so far. -Can he diverge from the color scheme of the Chings? He's a sort of advisor/agent for Borgiss, and he's really eccentric and old-fashioned in many ways. I have him wearing simple black clothes, and it looks pretty cool, but I could put him in white with greebles if you want. Also, I would change the "gigabytes" mentioned in the description to terabytes, since we can already store four GB on a flashdrive with a disc the size of my fingernail.

I'm up for having technic missiles installed in my wrists!

Now now, Disney is superduperly fantastic. In fact, if I had to choose, I would much rather have just Disney World (just Magic Kingdom, even) than just Legoland. However, it'll be nice to have both. Maybe the lines at the DT Disney LEGO store will become reasonable, finally.

You filed down a stick to be clip-compatible? That's awesome!

Ha, yes, I heard about this on the local news. Very exciting. It will make living in Florida slightly more bearable.

That Davy Jones is simply genius. You even got the tentacle hand. Most people don't even notice the tentacle hand when they're watching the movie, yet you made it out of LEGO. Amazing.

Wow! That figure seals the deal for me on the big Atlantis set - I've gotta buy it when it comes out! Also - I loled at the one video on the website when the diver said "If this is Atlantis, then I want a refund" - I seem to recall that that was the reaction of many upon seeing the Gateway of the Squid set.

This is (going to be) a great addition to the build! I love how it looks like the house has been painted several times in different colors, and the paint is peeling off to reveal different layers. My dad's classroom used to be like that.... And, of course, the sculpture in the back is great, although it seems a little meta to have a WIP in a WIP

Bleah. I WANT KNEES AND ELBOWS. If you aren't gonna give me knees and elbows, then give me a gearbox. Don't give me neither, LEGO! And the ones with knees and elbows are gonna cost like 20 bucks. Looks like I'll just have to keep playing with my old Bionicle.

OOH! Like an apocalyptic police state? Cooool.... In any case, I'm pretty sure there's been a topic like this before, because I distinctly remember saying that the nine year olds wouldn't be able to figure out what the 'L' in AFOL stands for and therefore wouldn't be able to create acounts, and people thought I was being serious