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Zouave - Yes, interest in the project has definitely died down. But I don't think that a random plot change would help it any. You could consult Algernon about it, though, if he gets back on any time soon. Jack-O-latern - get a cord, then!

I'm not so certain about the shiny triangle things. They may work as MacGuffins for the theme, but will they work as lego pieces? I mean, crystals and gold pieces are nice and generic, you can use them in any theme and lots of MOCs. But I'm not sure about these.

*eh-hem* I seem to remember something in the guidelines about not discussing politics or religion (or the Great Pumpkin, for that matter) Of course, if we all followed the guidelines, Computerbug and I would be kicked off until 2014 So I guess I can throw my two cents in. Leviathan and Behemoth, both terms which originated in the Book of Job (and I think were re-used in the book of revelation, but that's a different matter entirely, so ignore it) have since been co-opted for the public use to mean, respectively, a huge monstrous sea creature and a huge monstrous land creature. Leviathan is used in such popular works as Candlewick Press's Monsterology and Quirk Classics' Sense and Sensibility and Sea Monsters, as well as used as an summonable creature in the game War of Conquest, and that's just the incidences off the top of my head. In each case, the creature depicted is entirely different. It's a bit like my rant on Atlantis above - if someone says it's a Leviathan, it's a Leviathan. Even if that person is Batbrick, and not a corporate entity like TLG.

I agree with Big Cam. Twisting is the way to go with 3PO's head. Or you could try replicating the circumstances that led to its removal in Ep. 2

Backstory and all Algernon-approved MOCs are in the first post.

I myself of often wondered at the environmental impact of the boxes. I think that a box three times the size it needs to be, made out of high-density cardboard and printed with quality ink, used in every set, is much more of a concern than tiny bits of plastic used infrequently to hold rare pieces together. (and if we were worrying more about tiny bits of plastic used to hold rare pieces together, I would be ranting about the rubber-band-holder pieces, which is simply huge compared to the job it has to do.)

Well, for one thing, if you're looking for Steampunk, you're in the wrong forum. Go the Lego Sci-fi, you should find lots of stuff. I've got a couple of creations there myself, there's Algernon's Steam Empire project, and a member named Capt'n Spaulding has a particularly fine collection of mechs and airships. If you haven't been on the site for a year, you missed the reorg of Space & Mecha to be general sci-fi, which includes steampunk.

You can go ahead and make whatever you feel like making, as long as it might be made by lego under some circumstances. Welcome to Eurobricks btw, as this is only your second post.

Um... I've got three Lego board games (Creationary, Creator, and Racers) about twelve feet away from me right now... in Florida.. Maybe you're not looking the right places? Or perhaps you're talking about the board games that were released in Europe this year (like Race 3000, Minotaurus, and Luna Command) whic will come out in the US sometime next year.

:O My first review... scary 6879 Blizzard Baron Found in my sister's closet among the baby clothes, manual typewriter, ancient Egyptian pottery, and ecosystem untouched by evolution for 300 million years, was this: In it, I found the instructions to this set. And, after much strenuous sorting and dismantling of half-megablocksed MOCs, I also found all the pieces (and a wizard with a shrub on his head). I saw that there wasn't a review for this set, so I decided to go for it. Blizzard Baron Year: 1993 Set #:6879 MSRP: $8.00 in 1993. Equivalent to $11.85 USD in 2009. Pieces: 82 bricklink, unknown box, 81 peeron Box So far as I can tell, the box that went with this particular set went to a landfill sixteen years ago. However, there is a picture on Peeron that shows the box. It's kind of weird shaped, very short and thick. Instructions They're about the size of normal small set instructions nowadays (almost precisely half the size of my small laptop keyboard!) However, these have a twist to them.... That's right! They UNFOLD! And the back... They have a very nice little picture of the set all spread out on what appears to be a clay background. Instructions: Thoughts - I was very surprised to find folding instructions in a set this relatively large. The last time I had a set with folding instructions was during the Metru plotline of Bionicle, when I bought a matoran. However, it was really kind of nice not having to flip through pages and try to flatten out a folded instruction book. The color differentiation was very clear, and all the steps were easy to follow. The Pieces Somewhere in the low eighties, apparently. Here's what it would look like if you could dump them out of a box instead of painstakingly sorting for them through 650 basic bricks. (Conrad is quoting Shakespeare.) A goodly amount for $8.00. However, I'm not sure how I'd feel about paying $12.00 for this, which is what the contemporary cost would be . Organized, they look like this: Black seems dominant, but it's mainly on the bottom in the finished set. White is second, with goodly amounts of blue and trans-orange, and that's about it except for the extraordinarily occasional splash of light grey (or maybe it's bley, I can't tell the difference with the light ones without a comparison) There are some interesting and printed parts in the set. A 2x3x1 slope printed with the Ice Planet logo, 2 2x1 plates printed with the Ice Planet control panel, a trans-neon-orange chainsaw blade, a pair of things called 3x3x2 w/ facet top, and no less than 8 trans-neon-orange skis, as well as some of the old smooth connectors in blue. Parts: Thoughts - A good balance of colors. There's a surprising number of plates for a set with such dimension. The printed parts are good, and 81 pieces (or maybe 82) is good enough for the equivalent of $12.00, given how many are very large. The Build It don't take long, that's for certain. Ten minutes, tops. There's a grand total of 18 steps, but most of them are simple. STEP 4 We can already see the basic shape of the vessel. Note how dominant over the black the white is. STEP 8 Upside-down for a while now. The skis get added (in case of emergency landing) at this step. STEP 12 A flurry of activity makes the vehicle three-dimensional all of a sudden. In-cockpit controls ! STEP 16 The largely trans-neon-orange details are added, as well as the articulated cockpit. The main body of the ship is complete. STEP 17 The penultimate step is this submodel: Which can be attached to the back of the ship or left as a remote research station. Thoughts: The Build - It's quick and simple, no really innovative techniques. On the other hand, nothing confusing, either. The Finished Model The finished model, includes, of course, the figure. Apparently the unique head that he had could be put to better use elsewhere by the former owners of this set, so the fig that I have now has a generic smilie. The torso printing and visor are really good though. Too bad I forgot to take a picture of them ... Front view Side view Top view Model: Thoughts -Well, it looks pretty darn cool. The shape is great and the colors work really well together. There are lots of little holes that would have been filled in if this were an MOC, but hey, they were working on a budget. The feature is really cool too - the research station connects to the back of the ship with a technic pin sort of connection, and it's held in place by two protrusions that go out on either side and touch the 1x1 tiles on it. It looks great with or without the station on the back. Sigfig Killing Tomfoolery Conrad wanted to try out the ship, but the molten-chainsaw-wielding Ice Planet explorer had other ideas.... "GET OUT OF MY SHIP!!" Later that day... "HALT! You're under arrest!" "What for?" "Aggravated assault with a molten chainsaw and premeditated sigfigicide!" "But.. but what makes you think it was me?" Sigfig Killing Tomfoolery: Thoughts - luckily, Conrad is a sorceror, so that was probably just a copy from another universe. TOTALS! Design - If the holes in the back weren't there, this would be a nine design. But the holes are there. 8/10. Price - The value back then was equivalent to $11.85. This isn't exactly a stunning price per piece ratio, but compared to some of todays sets it's still okay. Plus, many of the pieces are large. Another 8/10. Figure - Unique face, good torso, good visor.. however, there's only one of him. 8/10. Swooshability - Very high. 10/10. Playability - with the detachable ice station, skis, and, of course, molten chainsaw, very high. 10/10. Total - 44/50 or 8.8 out of 10. Not quite outstanding, but this set is pretty good. Plus, it's available on Peeron for the same value it was 16 years ago - someone's selling it for $12.50! If you need those strange slopes, anything trans-neon-orange, or just something fun and swooshable, go and buy it! (or try cleaning out an ancient closet )

Yes, that's the announcement for the launch of the subsite on LEGO.com. The sets will probably still come out mid-december.

...he intends to make a movie after he's done with 2012 about the disappearance of LEGO! And he wants to make it a documentary! He'll destroy LEGO by... Yes, it probably would be too confusing. But where would the new thread go? This is barely trains and town related, and a Bulwar-Lytton competition thread would be even less so. It' would probably have to go into culture and multimedia

The heads are both from Indiana Jones - the one of the guy in green is from the Cairo Swordsman, and the one for the Spanish musketeer is one of the grail guardians from Venice canal chase. Great MOC btw, I like the shape of the ground especially.

...Roland Emerich. In the afterlife, I found out a terrible secret about him, one that could end all... Shadows, I've heard of the Bulwar-Lytton contest before, and I think that it would be great fun. Perhaps a different thread? Or maybe we could do a dual contest in here, writing the story on top on black and our B-L entries down here in another color. Just a suggestion...

...replied, "No, I never was any good at that game. But more importantly, didn't you die a year ago?"...

Darn, I wish we could have real pumpkins in Florida. It's so hot here that they rot within 24 hours, which, admittedly, is pretty creepy, but smells reaaally bad. We've been using fake pumpkins at my house for three years now, and it's worked pretty well. Your pumpkin face is pretty creepy, but I'm not certain it tops the two-face one that I made this year :pir-skull: . Mine doesn't involve legos, though, so yours ends up beating it by a little bit. I should consider that for next year...

I showed my sister this thread, and she didn't see the part where I told you it was her birthday... she thought you were just psychic and/or stalkers Thanks for the compliments, I really enjoyed making this MOC, even though it only took the scrawny side of 20 minutes. I'd like to do more seasonal MOCs from now on.

The foundations on this city must have been layed a long time ago... it looks like there's Egyptian Heiroglyphs in the subway tunnel! Astounding work on this, the train is just icing on the cake.

Wow, this is a GREAT entry. I love the slope of the ground, and the sheer number of minifigs is amazing. They density of figs makes it feel like a real sporting event, and the hill is astounding, it makes it seem so much bigger (which, in fact, it is, by a factor of one to the square root of two, compared to a flat 16x16 entry). Actually, my first response when I opened up the thread was, "that is NOT sixteen by sixteen", and then I looked closer, and it was. Bravo, excellent job.

I would suggest messing around with a bunch of curved bricks and windshields until you get something you like. Or you could just wait the two months until the 2010 sets come out, it's not that long from now.

Sure they're mining! The giant heat-seeking explosives are for eviscera- I mean, excavation, right? Great job on this mech, it looks like an AFOL-targeted MM set. The legs are particularly good, as well as remniscent of the theme.

That's awesome! Although it looks a bit like they're walking through yummy Chernobyl Jell-o...

but a lazy nerd is no better than a dork! You need to get something done to renew your nerd cred! *goes and looks at the Jabba's sail barge review* nvm...

He was walking home from Trick-or-Treating. Going through the woods was creepy, but it was much, much faster, beating the long route around the nuclear power plant by at least twenty minutes. He never believed the stories about the people that had disappeared there - it couldn't be coincidence that they were only told around Halloween. Then the rustling started. A bush twitched. The spiderwebs started to get denser aroudnd the trees. Suddenly, something smashed out of the bushes into his shoulder, spinning him around. hairs so thick that they were practically spikes slashed at his face, blood dripping into his eyes, so that he could barely see the spidery forms that swarmed over his body. He was concious of a horrible, excruciating pain. And then he was concious of nothing. This is how it would look if you came across the scene in the forest. Creepy, huh? I wanted to do a Halloween MOC, but I don't have enough pieces to make a big creepy castle, and didn't have much time either (it is the 30th, after all. btw, say happy birthday to my little sister), so I settled for a creepy death scene. Enjoy, and happy Halloween!

This is a great train, I like all of the little features that you've put in. However, my favorite part has to be the name. Testing to see who the true HP fans are, eh? Well, you found one.