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Hey, folks. As many of you probably know already, the LEGO Movie was released on DVD & Blu-Ray today. And naturally I thought a day like this deserve something special. As such, I am hosting a little giveaway here to celebrate the occasion. So without further ado, here is what I am giving away today: - Four copies of the LEGO Movie DVD Note: The DVD copy of the LEGO Movie does not contain Vitruvius minifigure. That's only available with Blu-Ray copy of the movie. ***GENERAL RULES*** 1) To enter, all you have do is leave a comment here stating "that you want in on the giveaway" and you will have an entry in it. 2) Please follow all BZPower Rules and Guidelines in your conduct for this. 3) The giveaway winners will be determine by random number generators or pulling a name out of a hat. 4) The entry deadline is June 24th, 2014 at 11:00 PM EST. 5) Post all questions & comments here. ***QUESTIONS*** 1) Is there a restriction on what BZPower members can enter? Like do they have to be from U.S. or Canada? Unfortunately this time around I think I will have to put in a restriction since I believe DVDs are region locked, so people from other countries, beside the U.S. or Canada, wouldn't be able to play these DVDs. So unless I am mistaken, this giveaway will be U.S. & Canada affair only. Apologizes to the members in other countries. UPDATE 06/21: It has come my attention that it is possible for people from other countries to play US region locked DVDs (See JrMasterModelBuilder's comment below). As such, I am updating my ruling here to say that if you have the means to play US region locked DVDs, then feel free enter in this. 2) Why are you giving away DVDs? Blu-Rays would of been better choice, especially since it has that Vitruvius minifigure. My reasoning for choosing to giveaway DVDs instead Blu-Rays mostly has to do with the fact that I was worried that someone might not be able to play a Blu-Ray disc, so I thought a DVD giveaway would be safer choice as it wouldn't exclude anyone. **ENTRY LIST** 1) dotcom 2) The Xinlo 3) fishers64 4) Bambi 5) Voltex Oblige 6) Ehks 7) Vorahk1Panrahk2 8) Kohrak Kal17 9) The Malicious Phantom 10) Ahktu 11) NuparuTheArchvisit 12) Bluest-of-Jayys 13) Lord Oblivion 14) kopaka's kool kompanion 15) Kohila 16) The 10th Rider 17) Indigogeek 18) ~ The 1st Shadow ~ 19) Click Removed from entry list as requested. 19) Regicidal Kaiser Manducus 20) CrunchbiteNuva 21) Kayru 22) Kapak Toa of Space 23) bluefish 24) SkullKid 25) powerjala 26) Eredar 27) Observance 28) Toa Smoke Monster 29) Renzari 30) TNTOS 31) PyroLizard Prime 32) Agent Fusion 33) CeeCee 34) Meso Zehvor 35) ~Shockwave~ 36) Liopleurodon 37) Toa of Dancing 38) Sniver 39) Kughii 40) TwistedLego 41) Sumiki 42) V-N 43) Meiko 44) Infamous Ironic Iguana 45) *** - JMJ 2014

GOOD NEWS WE ARE NOT DYING WE ARE GOING TO LIVE FOREVER -

I've been teleporting the bread blogs non-stop for three days, sir.

So, I did try to take a picture of Christina in the Exo-Toa, but...well, that didn't go as planned. She looks good on some of the other vehicle sets, though. There are a lot of pictures, so I'm just going to link you to the Tumblr post.

I'm planning on tackling this and some other archival things fairly soon. Remind me in July during the BBC contest intermission.

They must be filled with TUMORS

Silly ET, Tahu Mistika is not a transformer. =P

This is Micah's fault? Picture links to topic.

I ship headcrab and breadcrab now. On that note, I am now convinced that Pyro is not a man or a woman. Pyro is a six-foot tall loaf of mutated bread.

So I was just thinking about past BBCCs on BZP, and I ended up digging up an old version of the topic on the Wayback Machine. That nostalgia, man. Too bad the list isn't complete, and a lot of MOCs aren't archived, leaving many dead links. Still, good to look back on. That got me thinking about how currently BZP doesn't have a history topic for the new forums and the contests we've had here. Someone should compile the list of results for those contests. Given that I have some free time, I was thinking that I might try. If I get all of this put together, hopefully a staff member would be willing to post it as a new pinned topic. I suppose Tufi would be the person to contact about that? Anyway, food for thought. It would be nice to have a history topic in the BBC forum again. ~B~

So, links are broken again, at least here in the blogs. That is unfortunate.

Click here for full review I know this shouldn't be the most interesting part of the review, but I'm proudest of throwing in the word "spelunking" in the intro. Also, I tried using gray baseplates as a background, to give it a more Lego-y feel. I think it works, but I could potentially see it as being too busy. Thoughts? Or lack thereof. I also expect to get a lot of flak about my hatred of the hand design, but I stand by my opinion that they're terrible. Okay, I might not have worded my reasoning perfectly, but they're still bad. Bad bad bad!

We left the New Jersey hotel before noon and almost immediately got turned around due to the fact that there were two possible routes out of New Jersey towards Valley Forge. We ended up paying a toll and crossing over into Pennsylvania - and, like New Jersey, Pennsylvania has no welcome sign. The roads to Valley Forge were long and tedious. Somewhere along the line we ran into a section that was just plain awful - the four lanes of the road literally slanted into each other, so much so that, if there had been two eighteen-wheelers in the middle two lanes, the inwards slant of the road would have made the tops of their trailers collide. We did not see very many trucks on this particular stretch, which was practically the only good thing one could say about it, as it featured every highway atrocity from lane-wide potholes to lanes that were cut off for road construction completely without warning. Yet we were as determined as ever to get to Valley Forge, and get to Valley Forge we did, but not after seeing two of the most bizarre road signs on the continent within a half-hour of each other: "Beware of Aggressive Drivers" and "No Shoulder Next 1540 Feet." The visitor center (and film) at Valley Forge didn't include any historical information we didn't already know, but it felt good to walk around and stretch our legs for a bit. But with the temperature outside at over 90 degrees, most of our walking was confined to air-conditioned establishments. We took the driving tour around Valley Forge, which, again, wasn't much - nothing original of the encampment remains and attempts at determining the precise location of various huts and bases is nearly impossible. Nevertheless, the driving tour took us through some gorgeous countryside, passing ornate monuments to the generals who wintered there and faithful reconstructions of the log cabins the various regiments built for winter quarters. After Valley Forge, we got onto US 202, which was atrocious. The stop-and-go traffic in the right lane - awful on brakes even in the best of conditions - was augmented by traffic going well over the speed limit in the left - and in a work zone, no less! The good news was that we didn't have to spend but two miles on this road before reaching our exit onto US 30, upon which we made good time. We rolled through small town after small town, looking for something to eat ... and literally everything was on the other side of the road - an impossibility, even when a middle lane was available, due to the veritable horde of drivers coming in the opposite direction. Eventually - finally - we see a Chick-Fil-A on that side of the road. With rumbling stomachs and no guarantee that there'd be any palatable food options for miles ahead, we got three chicken sandwiches and soon were continuing on our merry way - but not before we got a report from my mom, who said that the women's restroom contained, in addition to its hand-sensing squirt-contraptions that produce soap and hand sanitizer upon appropriate requests, a third hand-sensing squirt-contraption that produced mouthwash. I see this as one of those things that would likely work only in theory. We crossed over the wide Susquehanna River, saw a number of diners, and crossed through a number of traffic circles, which have been the bane of our existence on this particular trip. We took US 30 to the outskirts of Gettysburg, where we took US 15 down to Maryland. We spent less than an hour in Maryland before we crossed into Virginia, which is where things really got hilarious, for my dad spun a tale of Colonel Nit-Wit, played by himself, and Major Half-Wit, played by myself, as well as a cavalcade of stars, including: • Corporal Gilbert, whose lips were attached to his earlobe • Miss Left Foot, who didn't have a right foot • Sergeant Stumpy, who didn't have a left foot (although his right foot was later removed and put onto Miss Left Foot, and Stumpy ended up attached to the back of Corporal Gilbert) • Sergeant Hamster, who looks like a hamster • Lieutenant Claude, a possum in disguise The interactions and voices of these characters had us in stitches from the state line all the way through to our eventual stop, to the point that my dad had a little bit of trouble snapping out of the aristocratic southern accent that he used to portray Colonel Nit-Wit. We stopped in Leesburg at a hotel that didn't have any rooms, but, as according to one of the patrons, who came from a room while we were walking out, also didn't have hot water. With enough light to get farther down the road, we did so, and ended up pulling into Warrenton a short while later, procuring one of the last rooms at the hotel we're in now. After we checked in, we needed something to eat, so we went down the road a little ways and pulled into the first thing that looked decent - an Applebee's. Like earlier, not our first choice for a road-trip meal, but it had to do. It would have been quite pleasant had the not had the worse karaoke in world history been going on in one corner, including a Conway Twitty song. I would have preferred listening to the original Conway Twitty. I would have preferred listening to rap. I would have preferring listening to the complete works of Anton von Webern. I was under the impression that my dad was one of the worst singers until I experienced the horror of that karaoke. Compared to them, he sounds like an American Idol winner. My mom wolfed down her salad, my dad consumed his steak, and I inhaled my interesting quesadilla burger, all in an attempt to get out of the pure and unavoidable torture that was being inflicted on both us and all of the other patrons, coming from other side of the building. Thankfully, we escaped, unpacking and settling down in our room, my dad talking in his Colonel Nit-Wit voice to himself even while in the shower. (I know the folks in the other rooms can hear him when he does this, but after 26 days on the road, I've stopped caring.) Tomorrow: we get back home.

I AM NOT ONE OF YOUR FRIED-CHICKEN TRAMPS But I'm wedging my head through a door to tell you I'm sorry D: Final question: You have a dinner date for seven. What time do you arrive? - Seven. AM. Case the restaurant, run background checks on the staff. Can the cook be trusted? If not, I gotta kill him. Dispose of the body, replace him with my own guy, no later than 4:30.

I AM NOT ONE OF YOUR FRIED-CHICKEN TRAMPS But I'm wedging my head through a door to tell you I'm sorry D: Final question: You have a dinner date for seven. What time do you arrive? -

I AM NOT ONE OF YOUR FRIED-CHICKEN TRAMPS

I've been to other states. I agree. Especially in winter where it actually gets cold. Very strange indeed.

WHO TELEPORTED THE BREAD BLOGS

Not quite. Figmas always come with some exchangeable parts, including a couple of different faces. (I hear the Avengers figmas CAN move their eyes, though I doubt they can close them.) Even without that, though, I believe figmas tend to have almost 40 points of articulation, so...very posable As for the entry itself: I'm gonna have to try something like that myself. Looks pretty rad. My one objection is that The Zombie's not a mad scientist! (yet? I'm on episode 12...) If I get Okarin he's definitely going in the Skopio though. That is a ride fit for a mad scientist. (which makes sense, since Telluris was one also)

http://media.tumblr.com/186d7f0d6f8ac17fb566b7fa70b18851/tumblr_inline_n7cb3gUwEe1qbl2we.gif Edit: Image-only comment nooooooooo + >500 kB image nooooooooo -Wind-

The LEGO Movie DVD was released yesterday on Taco Tuesday. This makes me so happy that I went to the LEGO store and picked it up. ^^ I rewatched it with KK and oh my gosh, the feels, the comedic timing, THE BATMAN! Such a good movie. GET OFF MY LAWN! ~Tekulo <3

brb going to watch for the third time now Takuma Nuva

Media always gets released on Tuesdays, so it's hardly surprising. Takuma Nuva

Taco Tuesday. Wow. How did I not see that!? XD

Wait what? Less money for less processing?

(it shouldn't need to be said that building gundam with constraction is way easier)

Love those Digimon figures. I've always really really liked, well, all four of the ones you have pictured. Huge fan of the Royal Knights designs, and I'll always love MetalGarurumon and WarGreymon. One of these days I'm going to have the talent to MOC them.

@dotcom: Thanks. I thought so too. *adds to entry list* @The Xinlo, fishers64, Bambi, Voltex Oblige, Ehks: *adds to entry list* May the odds be ever in your favor! @Vorahk1Panrahk2: Ah, thanks for the tip. *checks* Yup, it definitely region locked to US, Canada, and territories. Oh, and are you entering in this? I couldn't exactly tell in your comment here, if you want in or not. XD Hm...I might want to adjust the how to enter statement slightly. Either that or create seperate entry for questions or comments. @Kohrak Kal17: XD I guess you could say that. Although technically that first one didn't start as giveaway really (It ended up that way due to lack of entries in it. That and well, September and October got erase from server. XD). But anyway...*adds to the list* May the odds be ever in your favor! *** Thanks to all of you for entering. I am glad to see that first day of this has gotten well so far. - JMJ 2014

For what it's worth, you can look on the back of the DVD near the bottom and there will be several symbols, amongst them a globe symbol of some sort with a number in it. Chances are since this is a WB DVD then it will be locked to region 1 (US, Canada, and territories). Region free Blu-Ray discs exist but I've never of a region free DVD. They may exist, though. EDIT: And, sure, let me state "that want in on the giveaway." Thanks for hosting this. It's always wonderful to see such generosity.

I work at my community college in the Graphic Design department. I'm currently keeping things under control while my teacher has been gone for 3 days. So while everyone is not asking me questions, I decided to make a drawing of a Kanohi! And it has been excaclty 4 years since I've done so. This one is heavily influenced by Tanma and Lewa Mistika's Kanohi.

Post the topic already, you nerd.

Technically, it's libel. -Tyler

Speaking of out of the loop, I'm sorry for your loss and for Eric Cantor's. I understand it must be difficult for you to accept that we're living in the 21st century and people are globalizing now, but hang tough. I think you'll be just fine. This entire post is ridiculous. -Tyler

ATHMOS I suggest you move on from this conversation, and I would advise you edit your post and consider your words more carefully in the future.

AW THOSE DASTARDLY CHINESE ALWAYS SINKING OUR BOATS DAG NABBIT GEE WILLIKERS Are you serious? Educate yourself. Please. -Tyler

Gun culture and racism. If this keeps up I might have a bingo. -Tyler

NO. This joke is NOT okay.

Yeah. Because that's something rational people say and think when they hear about toy theft. -Tyler