Over on LEGO Ideas, my Fossil Museum project has hit over 1000 supporters in a mere week! At this rate of support, I could hit 10,000 in nine more weeks! In celebration, I did something I'd been meaning to do for a while: draw up a rough design for the torso print for the Paleontologist. The eagle-eyed among you probably notice the similarity between this design and my earlier self-minifigure. I freely admit to living my dream through this minifigure. If LDD had the capabilities, I also wou
just went to see it today. it was a fun, entertaining movie with some nice emotion to it. I had my quibbles (as always) but I was able to put them aside to enjoy the movie. I definitely recommend it for those who haven't seen it.
A concerned commenter on LEGO Ideas said they couldn't help but question the scale of the dinosaurs. To help people better gauge the scale, I made this size chart. The sizes aren't perfect, but Deinonychus, Stegosaurus, and Apatosaurus all fall reasonably close to accurate scale to a minifigure. Spinosaurus, however, was small enough compared to what it should be that I felt the need to fix it. Along with fixing the scale to a minifigure, this build also fixes the wonky legs and sparse spine
In Mask of Light, there is one line spoken by Makuta that seems like it sets up a mystery. He says, "Sleep spares him [Mata Nui] pain. Awake, he suffers." That's interesting. Nobody ever thought there could be a reason for Makuta to put him to sleep besides a power grab. What pain does sleep spare him? What else happened to Mata Nui to cause this pain? But nothing happened. Nobody ever alluded to that line, no pain of the sort mentioned comes up. (I suppose Mata Nui's worsening condition cou
ok so my LEGO Ideas project for a dinosaur exhibit set was just approved! So I’m calling to you people for support! If you’d want to see my painstakingly-crafted dinosaur skeletons produced as an official LEGO set, head on over here and support it!
Okay, so Queen Beast has her little butt cocoon, right? The instructions tell you to attach it like this: That looks OK, but it can be better than OK. That's kinda gappy, and hangs low compared to the rest of her body. How do we fix this? Simple! We just turn the socket 180 degrees. Voila! The cocoon now presses snugly against the armor on the body and creates a nice bodily flow. The cocoon has sufficient force closing it that whatever you put in her butt won't fall out even with the s
After the T. rex skeleton thing, Izaak suggested I make a whole bunch of minifig-scale dino skeletons, so I started. I then put it on hold because it ended up being more difficult than I anticipated, and only just now got back to it, with the first almost-completed skeleton to show for it. The white probably won't stick around; it makes it recognizable as bones, but fossils aren't white. They're brown, or tan, or some rocky color. The final version will probably be Brick Yellow, Sand Yellow, o
I made a grave error in counting for the last question, meaning unless you made the same counting mistake as I did, none of the answers would be correct. Depending on what you count as an individual set, the actual answer can be anywhere from 19 to 22 (24 if you're also willing to add in the two foreign Piraka Kaita sets) so I apologize for not double-checking my numbers before publishing the quiz. Unfortunately, it appears once a quiz has been published it cannot be edited, at least not by me.
Front Back Finally rendered some rough images of my current design for a LEGO Octodad set. The minifigs lack most of their printing, since I don't have nearly the skill to attempt it. The only printing applied is the face for the titular character. It is, unfortunately, a pretty bland design based on the aquarium, the setting for most of Dadliest Catch. The included minifigs are Octodad, Scarlet, Stacy, Tommy, two Marine Biologists, Joe, and the Chef. It's a lot, so I'd imagine if this mad
tomorrow is my birthday. im turning 19 years old, which is to say, pretty darn old. im not ready to be even more adult than before. proving im not ready to be an adult, i'm about to splurge on a bricklink order as a birthday present to me. im probably going to look for pieces in colors like medium blue and orange in order to give myself pieces i can MOC with that aren't neutral colors with red highlights.
The total for my birthday Bricklink splurge came to $113.36, including shipping. That's..... actually less than I spent to build the Micro Manager. Guess I didn't actually splurge any more than I usually do. Got some good pieces, though, including a bunch of Technic beams and such in assorted colors, which will lower my dependence on black or grey versions of them, thus allowing me to be more colorful. I also got a bunch of tan, so maybe I can attempt my Gundam in true Buster Gundam color
if bionicle comes back will it have HF’s story team and if so can we look forward to new!bionicle where every year ends with a massacre and infanticide is a daily occurance
okay I promise you this isn't just more complaining about the T. rex skeleton from the lab set. Or, at least, not quite. see, Izaak told me he would only consider my complaints valid if I could build a more accurate skeleton with a similar number of pieces. I was intending to do so anyway because I wanted to prove to myself that my claims weren't empty, but he fueled that fire. And so that's why I created this: Now, it's not perfect, I'll admit that. I'm second-guessing the cheese slope o
Best Pursuit Theme: Ace Attorney 1: Cornered! Best Objection Theme: Dual Destinies' remastered Objection! from Trials and Tribulations Best Announce the Truth Theme: Either Ace Attorney 1 or Dual Destinies; it's a tough call for me. Best Questioning Theme: Dual Destinies Overall Ranking: AA1>>>>>>>>>AA3>AA5>AA4>>>AA2 There are exceptions to that ranking besides the above bests, though. Justice For All has a far better Announce The Truth than Tr
Today the package I ordered three days ago came. I ordered the LEGO Movie on DVD, ECTO-1, and the Delorean. I opened the box only to find that the Delorean was absent from the box. There was no indication that it was on back-order or anything; according to the site, it shipped with everything else. But it's not there. (I opened the box myself, so it's definitely not that it was stolen by a family member.) I should probably call customer service about it but I'm terrible at phone calls XP
Microsoft: Had, like, one game that interested me, Ori and the Blind Forest. The other games felt too repetitive and dull. I am sick of military FPSes. Not even Ori was enough to get me excited about the Xbone, though. EA: Started strong with the Star Wars and the cello, but then ALL THE FEELSUH and it all went downhill from there. If I wanted to play sports, I'd go outside. Ubisoft: Boring, dull, repetitive, just like the other two. Nothing really called out to me. Just Dance and the exerci
the reason my hand is in the picture is I found that the Micromanager is both top-heavy and front-heavy and thus falls flat on its face when you try to stand it up. I suspect that's why there are no movie-accurate micromanagers in the sets.
