Tereglith

Hmm... true. Plus, a quarter-second video would provide the six pictures for PTVII! But I've found a different camera around the house that I can use for pictures.

Just so you know, I'm totally with you on the erosion concept. Something like this, but at sea, right? http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/comm...ar_de_Uyuni.jpg (I'd deeplink, but the picture is HUGE)

I agree, I think it's fine the way it is with the ladder. I do think, though, that the HMS Wasted would be even more hysterical if it was tilted to one side with a wave underneath it, and perhaps had a pistol clipped to the side somehow (so that they can boast about having a "one gun ship")

Better than my first ship, that's for certain. Using the Halberds for the cross-beam thingies (I'm sure there's a technical name for them...) seems a little odd though. "You! Tie down the mainsail!" "Yessir! Tying it down n- AAAAARGH!" *sounds of gushing blood and bluecoat falling overboard* I like the frog. I always like frogs.

This is a good idea, and, as usual, most of the good advice to be given has already been given by the others. Listen to them, especially about the flame coming out the top of the chimney. It looks like a blast furnace currently, with twenty-foot flames . Using small white plates and side-linked white clips can create a good wind-blown smoke look. Also, the inside of the structure isn't really saying "pub" to me. I would throw in a small round table with a chair, and maybe a tipped-over wine glass on it, to fill the empty space between Limbo Lizzie and the fireplace. Also, if I were the underage kid, I would simply be looking in through the open doorway. I'm willing to accept that the kid is just extremely dumb, and that's why he's using the window, but it would make more sense if you used a wooden door with a 1x6x1 arch over it. Other than that, though, this entry is great! I like how you broke up the floor with different-colored boards, and the expression on the soldier's face is totally fitting to the situation. Good job!

The prices are always inflated on Amazon. It won't be that way in the real stores or at LEGOshop.com.

on the idea. on the execution. I would definitely add a back wall to the underground, perhaps with 1x6 or 1x8 brown tiles put up diagonally to look like braces. This would make it seem much more "underground-ish", I guess. Also, the micro castle itself is a little bland - four cones is all I see right now. I would have fun with it, make it 3x3 and add a seashell on top! Also, I would find a proper tricorn (as Darth demonstrates > ) for the pirate captain, and give the sabotuer a proper shovel.

I see myself spending at least $30 on this theme (tight budget, y'see.) The $10 diver set is one of the epicest wins for the price point ever, and if that shark is only $16.99, it will also be an epic win. If I can get one of my relatives to give me the Cthulhu's Front Porch set or the Neptune Sub for Christmas, I will. This is the first underwater theme that has really attracted me. It ALMOST makes up for the atrocities being commited elsewhere in the 2010 lineup. almost.

I missed it the first time around, and would love to have another chance at it. I'll sign.

Tim Burton's Beetlejuice (a part of my family's annual Halloween Film Festival, composed mainly of Burton things)

The others have offered some pretty sound advice. I would definitely try to make the rock face more regular. Also, you may notice that lots of the MOCs that won last year have more than one layer of action. Perhaps making the mine appear more underground, and the top of the MOC is sea level, would make it work better. You could have two levels of action, and it would look less like the soldiers just found a random giant rock full of coal sticking up out of the ground. As for the jackhammer, I love it! The idea that there's this crazy scientist imperial who sits up at night tinkering with a rock-pounder device is hysterical. However, instead of using the standard jackhammer piece, I'd use some sort of steampunkified brick-built one. EDIT: You CAN enter in more than one category - the rule is one entry per member per category.

Wow, those are both awesome representations of the Jedi temple. I've always wanted to do micro building like this, but I don't have the right skill set (or piece set, for that matter) to do them. Using the giant TIE-wing connector piece is very clever!

Well, they're going to have to try harder than that to make room in my heart. I never like the Matoran anyway, and these sets are just Matoran with a pituitary gland malfunction. A good rule of thumb for LEGO as far as action figures goes would be to never make one that uses less than thirty pieces. I've built MOCs the size of these that use ninety parts, and I think thirty is the bare minimum if the pieces aren't going to become POOPs, which is about all I see when I look at these. (yes, I know Kanohi are POOP too. But they're awesome POOP) But yeah, I understand what you're saying. And I think that they definitely should have gone about it better. These could take the place of Bionicle in an eight year old's heart, but the whole point of Bionicle is that it sucked you in with the storyline and made you stay, collecting sets, well past the time when most people would realize that Ben 10 is just a hokey, poorly animated show. How long do you think that eight year old would like the Ben 10 line? Whereas I've been buying a steady supply of Bionicle every year since that eight year old was about the size of a Shi-Tzu.

Hah, no, it doesn't take ANY pictures because I can't figure out how to get it off video mode. I'm not too much of a tech-minded person. Couldn't get my NXT to work either, but I think that was Vista's fault.

Hrrm. Better make that "Fans of Ben 10, Galidor, or Crash Test Dummies..." Saying that fans of Bionicle will like this is a bit like saying that Fans of CITY will like Cars DUPLO - A licensed, <insert that tiresome argument>, ugly version does not equate to an original, complex, for lack of a better word, pretty (Bionicle is pretty. If you squint.) theme.

I'm fairly proud of a couple of them. I'm less proud of my camera skills. If anyone can tell me how to make a Sony MHS-CM1 take still pictures, please do.

The soundtrack to Pirates of the Caribbean: Curse of the Black Pearl I'm usually listening to some sort of soundtrack, either Zimmer or Williams.

Please, tell me that was sarcasm! Better than Galidor, yes, but better than Bionicle? *gasp* The way I see it, these sets are what you would get if DUPLO and Bionicle had a freak-of-nature licensed child. The only way that these will sell is if, by Brownian motion, some eight year olds bounce the aisles of Wal-mart and end up in the LEGO aisle, where the neon boxes catch their eyes and they cling onto their mothers legs until all of them are bought. And if you weren't actually being sarcastic, Black Rabbit.

I like this entry, you've inspired me to do something similar. A few suggestions, though. Firstly, you could give it a blue base - islands always look better with water around them, and it would mean that you could take advantage of the full medium size of the entry. Another, smaller rock, connected to this one with a rope bridge would be very cool, and I think that it would add to the MOC greatly. As for the propeller... I wouldn't necessarily mind the anachronism of it (heck, both my entries for this are full of anachronisms) if I could see what it was actually for. As it is, it's just a random propeller that's going to ignore users that are more temporally intolerant than I.

Hello all! I've been reading the EB forums for a few months now, and all of these wonderful contests that you are putting up have driven me to creating an account (although I'm not sure that driven is the right word. Encouraged, perhaps). You'll probably see me in most any theme forum, as my interests are rather scattered (but my first order of business is going to be PTVII, for certain). I've got a sizeable number of MOC's that I've been building, and as soon as I get my danged camera to work, you'll be able to see them. I'll cut it to that for now, since you probably want to get back to reading interesting things. Cheerio!