Tereglith

Pretty cool entry. I particularly like the use of the red bush as a splash of lava. But I alsways thought Vader couldn't use force lightning because it would fry his hand... Oh well, I guess that's what makes it non-canon.

OT Battle Packs are about the only SW I still buy, so I'm hoping that the ones they do for ROTJ are good. Maybe they could mix it up a little, and have three - 1 with stormtroopers, 1 with Ewoks, and 1 with Rebel troops. That would be amazing.

What an excellent use of the zepellin part! It actually reminds me a bit of the Monitor from the American Civil War, what with the grey coloration and military design. I would assume that Lord Monty named it after the acclaimed National Aeronautical Sciences Academy airship of the same name?

1 point to Bricknave 1 point to MrTools 1 point to Fugazi Although I certainly wish I had more to spread around! Great entries, everyone.

A nice review of a nice set. Certainly makes the $10 sets nowadays seem pitiful in comparison... You need ten posts before you can use PM

After 219 years of erratic orbit, the Neptunian Robot comes to land on its intended target - Earth. However, although the Neptunians intended for the robot to land dramatically in a then-empty field, the LEGO City Boring Office Jobs Inc. building was constructed in the intervening years. So, after crashing through twelve stories of desks and bored workers, the robot comes to a stop in a burning crater on the ground floor, making for the most exciting casual Friday the company has ever seen. Allison Kirk, employee of twelve years, has the most exciting day she has had or will have in this job. Benjamin Studsley, employee of three years, is hanging out by the water cooler when he recieves the shock of his life when the Neptunian robot comes to a stop in a burning, smoking crater right in front of him after flying directly over his head. He is pleased to know later that a statue of steel is erected of him in the Neptunian capital's town square, as he was the first Earthling detected by the robot. He is less pleased when he later finds out that the statue is of him screaming, cowering behind the water cooler, and wetting his pants in exactly the same manner he did when he first saw the robot. With a larger number of pieces and city minifigures, this idea could be carried on higher and higher indefinitely. Unfortunately, I don't have hardly any city-suitable figures at all... I'm rather proud of the water cooler, though.

What an excellent way to commemorate the final missions of the illustrious US space shuttle program! I'm really looking forward to this set. The piece count seems to indicate a $120 or maybe even $100 price point, but I'm not getting my hopes up too far given recent pricing trends. However, I'm definitely going to try to get this. Living in Florida, I've always been interested in the shuttle. Maybe I'll MOC a scale tracked transportation vehicle for it!

The same we we harness all our heat energy - put a bunch of water on top, bring to a boil, and turbines attached to magnets surrounded by metal coils and voila! Electricity. It's pretty steampunk if you think about it. They should make the laser out of brass and copper and have it be run by automatons in tophats...

When it burns out it'll go "FZZT" and stop producing energy. There's a mass threshold which has to be reached before a star will go nova, and this'll be nowhere near that. Same reason LHC isn't going to produce planet eating black holes: it's too small to pose a threat (the Hawking radiation would destroy any LHC black holes before they could eat anything). I hope that the thing will work. It would be truly revolutionary to have, as Doc Ock would say, "the power of the sun in the palm of our hands". A few of these reactors (which larger things of dueterium fuel, of course) could produce as much clean energy as all the world's turbines put together. It's all a matter of getting the reaction to produce enough energy to power the laser, plus a bit more, and then we'll basically have unlimited electricity with little to no effect on the environment as long as we can built more reactors.

This was and still is the most adorable thing I've ever seen made out of BIONICLE parts. It's just so cute!

I've been re-reading all sorts of classic fantasy for the past few months (interspersed with quite a few new books as well) - I re-finished all five Prydain books recently and I'm right in the middle of The Two Towers now. I'm also reading Daniel Pink's Drive, a very interesting non-fiction book about what really motivates people, and Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter, which is exactly what it sounds like, but twice as amazing as you think it's going to be.

Come on down to Abu's Fantastic Puppet Spectacular! For the low, low price of ten Shahi, you can get inside the gates of Abu's Fantastic Puppet Spectacular, the best entertainment this side of the epic swordfight occuring on top of that building. Once inside you can get comfy in a luxurious chair and buy some delicious concessions! (Note: all persons trying to watch without paying the fee will be chased off by an incontinent camel). Enjoy the show! There may only be three seats, but at thirty Shahi a show and ten shows per afternoon, the money sure does add up fast! In fact, Abu is quickly become one of the richest stall owners in town! Unfortunately, it means putting up with the lovey-dovey couples in the front row. Geez, guys, get a room.\ You can see the apples that Abu sells for outrageously high prices up front. Everyone knows he buys them on the cheap and then makes fully one third of his profits from them. This practice was carried down through the years and is still used today in Cinemas across the world. It's about 91 pieces (it depends on whether or not you count all of the individual pieces in the puppets, if you count THEIR accessories, etc.). May the best puppet show win!

I made a puppet show before I saw Santhor was doing it. My apologies, good fellow. Our Punch and Judy shows shall just have to battle it out like my and Eskallon's medium mini-golf entries did in PTV (mine lost that battle. Hmm, could be a bad sign...). I'm posting the pictures in a wee bit.

I remember this set! I loved it when it was still intact. It's hard to put your finger on, but there's just something about it that feels right. Excellent review, by the way.

Dastan's Battle Chariot(Yes, I Persian-ified that. Meaning this) Yes, I've created a Persian Version of the much-maligned 7078 King's Battle Chariot. A wise choice for garnering votes? Perhaps not, but it kept my mind off of being sick. The king, the guard, and the trolls have been replaced with Dastan, Tamina, and the Hassansins, respectively. The color scheme has been made much more deserty and even includes a splash of sand dark orange and PoP arches. Then there's the insanely strong camel replacing the insanely strong horse, and the dagger of time replacing the treasure chest. And, of course, the finishing touch of a scattering of sideways studs to "encourage parkour play", as SAH so eloquently puts it, finishes off the Persianification.

Tereglith creates some interesting ones. There's "Ether Gilt", which is really pretty awesome. It sounds like what's on the handle of some mystical sword. And then, of course, there's the silly ones. The two that made me laugh were "Leg Hitter" and "Get Hitler" !

"Villian" is such a wide and varied field... It's very difficult to choose! There's quite a few of my favorites that I've been surprised to not see brought up in the discussion. Davy Jones from POTC comes to mind - his mythic history with Calypso and Bill Nighy's performance (and the tentacles) make him a pretty complex villian for the last two movies. Barbossa deserves a mention as well, despite turning good by At World's End (as good as a pirate can be anyway. I find the characters and their motivations in POTC very interesting.) Delores Umbridge is the quite possibly the most despicable character ever created with the written word. You just hate her, so SO much in Order of the Phoenix. Despite not being the main villian of the piece, she's the most loathsome character in all of Harry Potter. The White Witch from The Lion, The Witch, and the Wardrobe. Always winter and never Christmas? What kind of twisted mind does that? Professor Moriarty is an interesting character, a man of such intense intellect using it for evil, and with great effectiveness. And then he tries to kill our beloved Sherlock! Despite appearing in only one story, Moriarty is still the third most famous character in Holmesian canon, and with good reason. And, perhaps my most favorite, Dr. Horrible from the eponymous sing-along blog! He's undoubtedly villianous, not a hero, nor an anti-hero, yet he's the protagonist, and he's so lovable. It's quite enigmatic. But I do love it so. If you haven't watched it, you should. It's available for free on the interwebz. On the topic of villians, the Techland blog (former tagline "If it could get you killed in high school, we've got it") has recently run a rather wonderful Monster March Madness, pitting sixty-four fictional villians against each other. A summary page can be found on this post. They even did a bracket! (Spoiler: Darth Vader won. It's sort of a foregone conclusion, really.)

Lego has quite a few examples of good color schemes - the white, blue, and trans-orange of Ice Planet 2002 is nice and clean, and more recently the red, dark bley, and trans-green of Atlantis is my favorite. Power Miner's orange and lime seemed too bright and clashy, but its sheer audacity and the cohesivity of the first-wave sets makes it work. I think that most truly bad color schemes get knocked out before they leave the conceptual stage. However, the second wave of power miners, with its Lime/Orange/Blue/Chrome/Red was just too crazy and mismatched to ever work.

Someone needs to stop George before he completley destroys the last shred of legitimate moviemaking legacy that Star Wars is going to have in the general public conciousness.

Those sets are so diverse that I'm not sure you'll find a buyer who wants ALL of them. You might try splitting them up by general theme (All the castle, all the action themes, all the star wars, all the city) and selling the sets of each theme as lots on ebay.

Space Monster Truck, perhaps? Extremely nice job, CB. I bought and disliked the set for the same reasons, but I never did anything like this. on the other vehicles too!

I'm particularly impressed with the functional Babbage difference engine - the rest of the 'computers' on the list are just cases, but that one actually works.

I can see the pictures just fine! You've done a good job, considering the extremely limiting nature of LDD. I'm sure these would look tons better if you were able to build in real life, using all of the bricks and techniques that LDD doesn't allow for. Even so, I'm very familiar with the ride and that auction scene setup remains spot-on to the real thing. I look forward to seeing what else you might do with this project, and welcome to Eurobricks!

This is a really nice theme crossover ! I'm not sure whether it belongs better in sci-fi or town, actually . Probably sci-fi. In any case, really nice MOC/MOD. It looks great.

Very nice! This is one of the best Holmes short stories, in my opinion and in that of Conan Doyle (it was second on his top 10 list), and you've done a great job bringing its climactic scene in LEGO. I especially like the tunnel and the figures you've created.