Tereglith

This. Is. GENIUS!

I'm starting to draw up some of these ideas into a more airship-like body, using *gasp* pencil and paper instead of MS Paint. I'll scan it tomorrow and see what you guys think. It's basically a large hull with Oky's original layout, but with a couple of added sails and Computerbug's epic skull launch ramp/cannon bank.

A day of joy, that we can celebrate joyously!"-The Star Wars Holiday Special Every Life Day, Han and Chewie decorate the outside of the Falcon, adding antennae and a red nose, to imitate Rudulcca the red-nosed Can-cell, a figure from Life Day legend. The real Life Day spirit, however, was inside. Every part of the ship had Life Day decorations of some kind. This year, C-3PO volunteered to make the traditional Life Day Feast. Luckily, it's not too difficult, as traditional Wookie dishes are usually raw. Han has a cargo of wreaths and strange little toys that he's bringing to spread Life Day cheer at the rebel base when they arrive. Even the normally drab engineering corridor is spruced up by a spruce! But the real action is in the main hold. Luke, who's just flown up from Dagobah, and Leia are warming their hands by the fireplace (remember the chimney from the first picture?). Han, still in his groovy purple jammies, is playing Yoda at a board game, while Chewie gets his presents for the rest of the group out from where he hid them - the smuggling compartment. Underneath the Life Day tree, you can see Han and Chewie's presents to each other, different sized Gauss wrenches (the huge one is for Chewie) And that's my entry! Larger pictures, as well as the un-xmasified but still modified Falcon can be seen in my flickr photostream. Note to KimT and any associated contest-running minions: If the modifications that I did to the set before xmasifying it break the rules, then I don't mind being booted from the contest. Just inform me whether it can stay of if it goes.

Unfortunately, that requires (1) an understanding of its extraordinarily complex rules and (2) someone else willing to play it with me.

I have this board game from wa-a-ay back when Bionicle started, the "Quest for Makuta Adventure Game" in a collector's tin. I think it still has all the pieces. I never actually played it. So I'm wondering, is it still worth anything today, and if so, how much, or should I just throw it out? Space is tight in my room, and it's a fairly big tin that's taking up shelf space better used for books. If anybody knows how much it's worth, please tell me. Thanks.

Thanks for the pictures, the summer lineup looks amazing! We're getting bases galore! The Space Police Station , the diver's base, Atlantis itself! And a replacement for Bionicle confirmed, as well as the first pictures of Kingdoms! I'm not sure I can take all of this at once!

You could just try sticking with small stuff, if it's what you're good at. Someone who paints portraits shouldn't necesarily try for a mural. With my 21,000 some-odd bricks, I hardly ever make something more than three or four hundred pieces, because it's what I'm good at. I can't do a huge project that needs to sit on a table, because I don't have a table to sit it on, nor the talent to make it good all over, so I stick with things that I can hold in one hand and take maybe four hours. As long as the thing that I make in the end is good, I'm just as satisfied with it as I would be with a huge diorama. So if you can make good fireplaces and good chimneys, or a good sofa and a good chair, and a few figures and make it a vignette. Don't strive to incorporate it into a huge house that you aren't going to complete, because in the end, you'll have achieved some good furniture and a good chimney as finished creations, instead of a half-finished pile of bricks that you can never post.

I just noticed that I have my first title, My toothbrush plays the Star Wars theme. This is undoubtedly because of my post in Batbrick's Random things about me and about you thread, in which I reveal that my toothbrush does indeed play the Star Wars theme. It punctuates it every fifteen seconds with random sound effects and quotes from the movie as well, such as "Do...fsxv do not. Thefxvsfx is no try" and the non-sensically juxtaposed 'TIE fighter scream' and "Chewbaca sounding like someone's consitpated grandpa" sound bites. It used to look like this:

So far, I know that I'm getting several mystery books, this highly amusing t-shirt, Guardian of the Deep and the Imperial Hoth BP (darn TRU was out of Wreck Raider and rebel BP, so I'll have to buy them myself next month *grumble*). According to my mom, I'm getting "a pretty good Christmas", but I have no idea how good, since she hasn't wrapped anything to shake and prod at yet.

Wonderful job with this! It's very close to how I pictured it from the books. An interior would be nice, but then again, it would be very difficult to reproduce with Lego infinite rows of magically charged shelves from every period of time. Astounding job.

I have 4504, and I'm not that big a fan of it. It's far too fragile to play with, even too fragile to sit on my shelf safely without routine maintenance. I realize that some fragility is essential to get a round shape out of lego, but the thing falls apart whenever I try to open the roof. It's also, as Zzz said, fairly un-detailed. It doesn't have the polished feel that some more recent SW sets have had. I would love a new $100 falcon, made with the new parts and techniques that have been developed over the past six years. I would be able to harvest my 4504 for parts, and maybe actually be able to play with a falcon instead of just putting its landing gear back on now and then.

I just turned 14 a month ago. However, I have been known to use the phrase "kids these days...", so mentally I'm much older

Hey, I was satisfied with it. That makes it satisfactory so far as I care.

I concur with Computerbug on the sails, and I think that a ship-like hull might be good too. That might give the oppurtunity for multiple decks, something Lego always likes to do, and it also seems realistic for a large, air-ship like set that it would have boat hull pieces. I think you might do well to have a large propeller angled downwards on each side, perhaps made out of bionicle blades and articulated so that it can be pointed in different directions, in addition to whatever other drives you have, but that's just me.

Dadgum, it does exist! Oh well, the paper turned out fine, and the Mon Cal Cruiser set is a bit expensive anyway. Maybe I'll get one in a PoP set. I would love to have enough room to have a photo studio, but my house is rather small (one story, no basement, no attic), so there isn't really anywhere that I can set one up except for putting paper on the couch. This has turned out some perfectly satisfactory pictures before. But with my dad's camera, it's hit-and-miss. It's fairly old and often doesn't want to cooperate. Hopefully I can get my own, with a tripod and such, sometime in the near future, but for now this is the best I can do (especially when my sister is taking up the whole couch).

This made me laugh! It's even better because the dollar amounts of the coins add up to $100!

WARNING: This thread contains graphic depictions of twelve extraordinarily illegal piece connections. These pieces are doing things that God never intended them to do. Viewer disgression is advised. Now that we've got that over with, here's my revision of the Jack Skellington I did for CopMike's Christmas Raffle. It's basically a total remake, the only thing I kept the same was the torso and head. Once I finished it, I just had to add Zero and some thirty-second scenery. See if you can spot all twelve illegal connections! Any suggestions for the head? I'm not satisfied with this one. I'n't he cute? Funny story about how I spent twenty minutes looking for a white cape that doesn't exist. I ended up using paper, so this MOC is both impure and illegal. Uh-oh. I've broken the number-one rule of photographing lego - That's my cat in the background! Jack's about seven inches tall, and the entire thing is only about seventy pieces. Sorry about the crappy photos, my dad's camera was being a jerk and I couldn't set up my usual paper studio on the couch. Do try to enjoy it though! This and the original Jack are my first work in this scale of character building, so constructive criticism is welcome.

I'm sorry. I'm not crazy enough to have anything like creating supervillians out of condiment packets and/or bottles full of raisins under my belt, so I guess I was going for the next best thing. I am chastised. Here's some randomer stuff : -My toothbrush plays the star wars theme when it's turned on. -I've exclusively used shiny Ticonderoga pencils for three years. -I own an immortal binder. The thing NEVER DIES. I think it made some Faustian pact with the binder devil. It's survived constant use all throughout middle school and through my freshman year so far. -I've never owned any gaming system. -My favorite minor holiday is Talk With A Fake British Accent day, which is TOMORROW! (or today, for some of you in different time zones). My second favorite minor holiday is Pi day, which is March 14 (3/14 as in 3.14159... this also happens to be Einstein's birthday) -I'm in an Engineering program that sounds like it might be similar to JimButcher's - we have Amatrol training modules and do design projects. The Pringles got in today! :D -I have a sister who is 11.5 months my junior. She's not an FOL. She is baking cookies as I type though, so she's not all bad. -I subscribe to DISCOVER magazine. It's quite interesting. -Religious views - I'm a Christian, Presbyterian by birth, and I don't know enough about the denomination to decide whether I'll want to change or not. As for evolution and creation, I subscribe to the BioLogos theory proposed by Francis Collins (head of the human genome project) in his book "The Language of God". It's the most logical explanation I've yet encountered. -Jedi Council, when translated into Mandarin and back into English, comes out as "Presbyterian Church". This is a major pro for staying with the denomination

Oh, I get your point now. Perhaps you could find some way to use treads, as LEGO has no qualms about exceeding the price per piece ratio when they're involved.

Barbed wire, extra guns, additional jets, steering propellers - it's not so much the specifics as the overall effect. If you have two of the large flecked castle wheels, you could put them together end to end to get a thicker wheel. I got four of them in this set, as well as a large number of useful dark brown and dark red pieces. If you only have one of the big wheels, I would suggest getting it, it's still available and has helped me immeasurably in creating steampunk MOCs. The parts alone are worth the 30.00, without even considering the castle minifigures..

-My real name is Christopher. -I (unfortunately) live in Florida. The weather here is AWFUL, don't listen to the commercials the government puts out trying to get you to move here. Eleven months out of the year it's too warm for me to be comfortable. -That's probably because of my undiagnosed brain condition, something like low-level Aspberger's Syndrome. Basically it causes me to dislike heat above eighty-five degrees (I wash my hands in cold water, even), to dislike sweating, to dislike being tickled, and to have some extent of difficulty with most social interaction, except with a few close friends. -Psychologists would define me as "profoundly gifted". I'm pretty sure that my IQ is somewhere around 147 or 148, and this means that, coupled with my brain condition, I approach social interaction as an experiment within a set of rules that I am constantly redefining. I'm still learning. I communicate much better through type than through speaking face-to-face. -I read. A lot. Last summer I re-read the entire Harry Potter series in 13 days. That's 315 pages a day on average. -My dad got me started on legos when I was three (just when Star Wars lego came out... hmmm...) because he wanted to play with the Star Wars legos when I got old enough to have them. -I write. A lot. I've written a novel together with my dad, called Portents, and we're working on the second one. I'm working on a number of other projects as well. -I'm good at math. I was the MathCounts (an international program, so some of you might be involved in it) champion for my county last year, and 52nd in the state of Florida. -I'm good at drawing, compared to the other people in my art class. This isn't really high praise. -I own neither a functioning cell phone nor an MP3 player. I can play music in my head if I've heard it a few times. And I communicate using mental telepathy (nah, not really. It'd be cool, though). -My knowledge of trivial Harry Potter facts may be the best in the world. (What house was Orla Quirke sorted into? I know.) -I share Lord Vetinari's opinion on sports (for those of you who have read Unseen Academicals) -As my signature says, I'm interested in cryptids, UFOs, and giant squids. -I can solve a Rubik's cube in 48 seconds. -I was once locked in the bathroom during pre-school for all of recess. It was the day the petting zoo came. I think that this was one of the experiences that defined me as a person. -I love theater. Attending, participating, helping backstage, it's all wonderful. -I have three cats. I like one of them. And she's bipolar. -I'm nerdy in almost every possible way. My shirts have jokes about quantum physics, I have large knowledge bases in ST, SW, HP, LOTR, and even POTC. I constantly correct people's spelling and grammar, I know how to win almost every time at rock-paper-scissors, and I observe Speak Like a Pirate Day and Speak With A Fake British Accent Day faithfully. In short, to a certain type of ignorant demographic, I'm as wholly unsavoury as you can get. To another, enlightened demographic, I'm awesome. My feelings towards both are mutual. Thank you for this great topic, Batbrick! I feel like I've gotten to know the members who have posted better, and I hope that this post helps you all to understand where I'm coming from.

If you hang an 8-rung ladder over the side in the middle there's lots of things that you can connect to it to make it look real greebly, real fast. It won't be the sturdiest in the world, but it'll look cool. Exo-force feet sounds awesome. I've been using the arms a lot lately myself.

This is marvelous! I love it! That Gatling gun is amazing, too. Did you just put those peices in there, or are they held in somehow?

I collect odd bits of knowledge, books, unusual rocks (I even have a meteorite fragment!) versions of monopoly, chess sets, T-shirts with sayings that only I understand, and mess. These collections are ordered by size, except for mess, which ought to be first. If lego were in there it would be between odd bits of knowledge and books.

The second piece looks sweet, especially in that color. I'd use it if I were you and I could get it in quantity. With the right holder you can make cannons look pretty cool and high-tech. If you have enough flexible tubes you could make them look pnuematic, drawing power from the steam engine that powers the fortress.