Tereglith

Beware, if you don't get the tag you run a risk of getting a title (small black text under your avatar) that says "I'm a girl!". I've seen it before. Welcome to EB, by the way.

I mainly listen from the tracks I've got loaded onto my computer, or from the radio (especially around this time of year, what with the 24-hour Christmas music). However, when it comes to some old groups like the Beatles, and some musical (Sweeney Todd, Into the Woods, etc.) soundtracks, you just can't beat the snap-crackle-poppiness of my dad's old LP's. They're retro-tastic! I also have the extremely off-beat option of playing things directly from my head. I've got the soundtracks for Pirates of the Caribbean 1 and 3, the soundtrack to Raiders of the Lost Ark, most of the original trilogy Star Wars soundtracks, and all of The Tragic Treasury by the Gothic Archies on total, note-for-note recall in my head. Phonographic memory, I guess.

It's... it's a swordfight all right. I'd like to see a bit more than three seconds before I pass judgement. Your sound effects are spot-on though. Did you have to buy a special stop-motion camera to do these, or do you have some other method? Because I'm sort of interested in animation, and I'd like to do some with legos. A swordfight is my traditional start in a new medium, so I'd like any tips that you have.

General Grievous body + Jar-Jar head = RUN AWAY!!!! The way I see it, you might as well put in your LSWII game and go over to the minifig customizer there. Much more variety.

Judging from my experience with the lego community (admittedly mainly through this site), LEGO requires a certain amount of intelligence to keep as a hobby, and this is doubly so for the under-18 set, when lego can often be considered childish, and torment, as The Rancor said, is likely from one's unenelightened peers. I think that adulthood is more a state and acuity of mind than an actual physical age, and that it can be reached at different stages by different people - some people never reach mental adulthood at all, and others become mental adults as low as age 12 or 13 (I like to think that I'm part of this group. Would any of you have known that I wasn't a 'grown-up' if I had never posted my birthday?). In this respect, I think that the policy is just. You can be banned for being underaged, but you won't be banned unless you act it.

Wow, I have one of the old ones, and I'm still a youngin' by you all's standards. I must've gotten it when I was five, or something. Anyway, they're really nice pieces. I set up my Loot Island on mine, it looked really good. I should try an MOC on it sometime soon.

Very creative use of the skull twin helmets there. The broken column is artfully placed as well. Only thing I would suggest would be to replace the white spiderwebs with light or dark gray ones. The white is a little too vibrant.

I know, right? He's even in my school colors. I think we should adopt him as a mascot for that reason. I also like the Toa Likhan set, even though it was a Metru build. The Kikanilo was cool, sort of a throwback to the rahi sets.

It's very nice for me that you all are in a different time zone: I can check up on tomorrow's winners at 7pm! Thanks for organizing the raffle, CopMike (and you too, Siegfried, since you are obviously the puppet master)

I did that the first time I ever got a cape, around the age of six Most of my capes are somewhat distressed, even the fairly recent batman ones are starting to show their age. a bit. My only experience with new capes is the caroller on Winter Toy Shop, but I did think that those capes seemed kind of stiff and un-cape-like. I once purposefully distressed a cape so that it would look better on one of my characters, a wizard from my dystopian castle fanon (basically the necromancer and trolls had taken over). I pulled one of the loose threads out and cut a tiny bit off of the end to get it to fray, and crumpled it up a bunch of times. It actually looks really good now.

Christmas avatar ON! (Credit to Oky Wan Kenobi for the sword into a candy cane idea. I couldn't resist.)

:D yes they were! you could roll them up into a little ball, make them lunge out with their freakishly large heads, switch out their uber-creepy Kraana, hang them from the top of their canisters... good times, good times. I miss villians as original as them and the Rahi. The Rahkshi were good, and the visorak were okay, but the rest were just too similar to the Toa characters to be much fun. As for the original Bionicles, I loved them. Then the Metru came out, and I thought that the Nuva and Mata were kind of limiting because they didn't have knees and elbows. And then the Inika came out, and I thought that the Metru were limiting because they didn't look as cool as the Nuva and Mata and their knees and elbows weren't very good and they still had the obnoxious gear system. So yeah, I ended up liking the Inika build (in any of its incarnations) the best as far as playability, and the Nuva the best as far as looks. However, one of my two favorite bionicles is a Metru build, Toa Iruini. (and if you're wondering, my favorite bionicle is the ORIGINAL Takanuva, because he's just so epic)

It looks pretty good from what I can see, but the pictures (especially the close-up ones) are rather poor. Put it on a white background and turn on some lamps, it'll improve the photos immeasurably. Looking forward to getting better views of this great creation!

Yep, Atlantis is now up with three sets in the US shop. AWESOME! :D (that was a link, by the way...)

TomBricks - 2 JKool - 3 Pellaeon - 2 TomBricks - the house looks brilliant from all angles. I just really like it! JKool - The top or bottom of this MOC would each be amazing vignettes if seperated. Put 'em together and you've got yourself a winner! Pellaeon - I (obviously) thought that mini-golf was a good idea, and you pulled it off beautifully in the space allotted. Yay! I got at least one vote! I'm happy now.

It's ba-a-a-ack! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PBYGGZCYfxw...feature=related War Machine looks like solid pwnage.

Amazing work! I would say it looks like a real set, if it weren't for the fact that LEGO would never make a police cruiser that solid, nor a baddie speeder that greeblicious.

hSSS - we do not speak that name here! just kidding, we do sometimes, but only to bash it. Jack Stone was, I believe, part of the 4Juniors line, which was a highly <insert that tiresome argument> theme of over-simplified sets with larger, single-purpose pieces. Jack Stone was basically City but for the 5-10 age group.

Hmm, perhaps I ought clarify so that you don't get caught up in the "unobtrusiveness" point - we're in a Florida high school. You can wear any hat you want, no questions asked. Until you get inside a classroom, of course.

Wow, you people finding the HP sets are lucky. Oldest set that I've seen still in a store is some of the canister sets from the horrible 2007 Barraki Bionicle lineup, which my local Target got when they came out and is STILL trying to sell to this day.

This is amazing! It looks almost like concept art that NASA would do for a space habitat! I love how everything is smooth and tile, and your use of minifig-sized furniture and accessories is phenomenal!

This is a very nice MOC! The building is very sleek, and you did a good job on the exloding seagull and cannon blast. I like the idea as well- seagulls ARE annoying as heck! The only thing that I would suggest changing is the heads of the gulls, if you can. White clips with a yellow tooth piece or hand underneath would look better and more birdlike.

She.... she has a monkey foot.... eeeeurgh... I really wouldn't have used an arm for that. It's really creepy. Other than that, I like your method for making a bath, I'd like to see it in white. And the towel is a nice touch.

I don't mind. They are in different categories, after all. I just thought it was funny that we even had the treasure on the same side in relation to the "x-ray vision" hole.

This entire MOC is utterly amazing, but I think that my favorite detail must be how you can see all the barrels on the ballast deck. That was an inspired bit of detailery right there.