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Hi, I just thought I'd share a little cake that we had yesterday, I believe it's value might be appreciated here, unlike those kids that massacrated it yesterday :) Have a good day everyone! Dj

Sweet thread, I had to jump in! I went with 2015 Captain Roger/Redbeard but then I might be a bit biased. :D Hope you're enjoying new Pirates just as much as I do, it has been more than 25 years since these lads sailed in the seas of bricks! Cheers, D

Hi, sorry to bring this up again, but is that the one with three designers at middle-earth-like studio describing design process of the characters and Bag-end? We did make the one for some exclusive DVD, just want to make sure that it's this one :-) Regards!

I really like your idea about having Gloin where he is, as it makes sense, we made a gag without even knowing it, let's call it the happy accident. ;-) Enjoy LEGO The Hobbit everyone, there's a lot to be discovered in the sets! ;-) Regards!

What an awesome thread! :-D I had to go for Mordor Orc, as it was quite challenging to design one, first of all cause the variety of Mordor Orcs in the movies is quite big, they don't have an official uniform and it was quite hard to pick one, base design on it and make it as a generic character. I made many versions of it and in the end I ended up merging few and keeping it simple! ;-) This character was also a "last minute" decision so I was quite happy that I managed to throw it in!:-) There's also a new video uploaded on the LEGO web telling a bit about design process when making minifigures, go and check it out ;-) http://thelordoftherings.lego.com/en-us/Videos/Default.aspx Regards!

Hi to everyone! I did some Illustrator minis last night which are part of one medieval faction that I'm developing for my own sake. These designs were also part of my application portfolio, in a sketch forms though, which I submitted in June this year in order to get a position of graphic designer within TLG, which I eventually got :-) I'm starting as of January 3rd next year, which basically means in one week removed However I just wanted to share these two, I'm leaving a great year behind myself and I hope you all do! Merry Christmas and greetings from Serbia!

As others said, it's a pretty tough one. As for myself, I was using system of elimination and it left me legendary merchant guy and good old Cap'n Redbeard versus fearsome forestman and notorious King Kahuka. There's a battle between beauty of design, rarity and nostalgia most of all, who wins? - probably no one will ever, I'll have to kill the spirit of this topic and go with these four! :-) Greetings!

I actually like this fact and I like it a lot, it is definitely a big step back (or forward) to our beloved "classic-smiley" (where most of the face was focused in the very center of the head) and I'm sure that designers did it that way in order to maintain (or bring back) LEGO's graphic identity which was certainly lost in the examples you've used for comparison. Therefore this Hermione (as well as the rest of the crew) works well and it's the best one yet. At least for myself ;-) Greetings from Serbia!

Hey Justin, I'm glad you made it! It was nice meeting you and surely it'll be nice working with you :-) Take care and see you soon again! Greetz!

Exactly. Avoid all that shining, use those as bases and pull 'em through vector graphic, make it more graphic and simple and you'll get it. Nice idea though.

Anyone has a clue when are these hitting Austria and mid Europe in general?

6077 Forestmen River Fortress, by any means and without further comments, the best castle set ever released! Weird thing though than no one mentioned MMV which is pretty second on my top.

Not really a mistake, it actually makes us guys to buy two or more of these! :-) Numerous topics like this are just a reason more for them to keep it up. On topic, the improvement looks more than great, as well as one that you've linked, but still I would like to see one that doesn't really have so strictly square back side.

Now that's the spirit!! :-)

Why don't you guys simply send another one? I'm sure it won't harm anyone ;-)

Don't forget the great 6057 Sea Serpent mentioned above, the biggest "classic-castle" ship and one of the best sets ever produced ;-)

Anyone has any idea of how many pages should portfolio consist? I mean, does the jury want to be flooded with papers by "the more-the merrier" concept, or it should be presented as a short but yet effective presentation? Any opinions on this? Cheers!

They won't make it cause they can't design minfig-friendly ring But I've got much fun reading these posts though, keep it up :-) Greetz from Serbia

Topics like this just can't get boring, can they? I'm pretty sure my first one was 1713, shipwrecked one! I was able to spend hours by playing with that thing, damn I wish my imagination's demands stayed decent like then Greetings from Serbia

Well this deserves a public praise, not much more than few days ago I've been bricklinked, seven classics + some extra minfigs, things went more than being awesome, parts and bricks are shining like new and Clipper's sails appeared like they knitted them yesterday 6274 Caribbean Clipper (1989); 6270 Forbidden Island (1989); 6267 Lagoon Lock-Up (1991); 6257 Castaway's Raft (1989); 6234 Renegade's Raft (1991); 6232 Brigand's Lair (1996); 6057 Sea Serpent (1992) Here they come all together Greetings from Serbia

Check "The Mission", although it's older it kinda continues where "Apocalypto" stops ;-) Nice MOC, conquistadors have been one of my favorite fractions also, a real pity we didn't get more of them! Admiral's breast plate was considered as the most precious piece in my collection, loooong time :-) Greetz from Serbia!

Those are WW brown bricks, without any doubt ;-) Sweet and little, I like it enough to step by and have one or two grogs with those guys Nice found! Greetz from Serbia!

One of the weirdest and the most creative sets TLC has ever released!

Not really a set to get in plenties, but I've always liked that minfig! I used to took those as a special order of knights in dark army, since we got plenty of them through the whole fk line, back there in 1997 it was pretty unexceptable for 11-years-old myself to have more than one lord I really did enjoy this line, and I still do http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-7csO7MEb1U Greetings from Serbia!

Wow, pretty good shapes achieved in MOC being sized so small! Just wondering how did you connect black plates creating that oval roof above southern gate? It tickles my eye a bit, although I like how you handled murals, simple but effective. Cemetery's just brilliant, dissimilarity and disorder of it's crosses is so graveyardish. I like the idea of melting snow, haven't see that before! As for the horse, I'm speechless, just keep up the good work! Greetings from Serbia!