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BIONICLE NIGHTCRAWLER GO

 

Also, still jealous about those exclusive Phoenix minifigures from SDCC12.

Definitely jealous.

I was tempted to make some constraction Marvel heroes (aside from the 3 already done). Still tempting...

-CF

This model also makes good use of blue pins. They add a perfectly welcome splash of color without dominating the color scheme. Was this a deliberate design decision, or were these just what you had available at the time?

The blue pins were what I had, because I only have a handful of black fiction pins (and less grey frictionless pins), so save those for my more serious models where it really matters. (I also snagged some white pins for eventual use!)

Glad you like it.

-CF

I need to watch that! It looks hilarious! Plus, Aubrey Plaza. :3

-CF

I don't understand the point of these games.

-CF

Not Geek Orthodox.

 

Also, are tiddles your preferred name for tildes or what?

lol

And I guess I've never been corrected before. I shall start using tildes in their correct form from now on!

~CF

Community? Once Upon a Time? Or is there an episode titled "Leslie and Ben" and i'm just confused?

D:

-CF

Wow! Look at all of those!

I need to do some building...I think I'll display Bionicle at the LEGO store's community window...

-CF

Wow, graduation! Good job! Congratulations!

You're probably pretty well-kept up with my shenanigans. I hope you're doing well and have some exciting things in store. You should totally go to that Brick-thing in March near you and come to the Brick-thing in August near me.

-CF

Go you!

-CF

I, personally, would rather have a permanent font color implemented than a font. But maybe there's room for both down the road.

-CF

I should be!

-CF

Don't worry, I'm still halfway through LotR, and I haven't read anything by Stephen King (though there is plenty I want to read by him).

If you're looking for sci-fi, I hear Ready Player One is marvelous, Redshirts is hilarious, and Robopaclypse is like the book form of an amazing blockbuster movie. All three are on my "to read" list.

I need to read more Sherlock Holmes too.

That's very ambitious and admirable that you're aiming for 52 books this year. Best of luck! I bet having some books that only take a few days to finish will help balance out the bigger books that might take more than a week.

-CF

Good luck with everything!

-CF

I probably just sent it to whatever the return address was on the box. Maybe send me like 5 emails next time with which of your two addresses want?

Glad you got it back.

-CF

If you read American Gods I'd recommend following it up with Anansi Boys.

 

Also, if you're a fan of L. Frank Baum's Oz books you could try "The Wicked Years" by Gregory Maguire. I still need to read the last book in the series, but it's been good up to then.

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Reading the Oz books, at least Wicked but maybe the others too, is definitely something I want to do eventually.

-CF

I had no idea there was a fourth 'Giver' book until I stumbled upon it at my school's bookstore a few weeks ago. Needless to say, I was very surprised and excited to read it. I haven't yet, of course. How did it compare to others in the series?

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It kind of snuck up on everyone in October.

It draws all three other books together to complete the narrative. It has more action and plot than Gathering Blue and Messenger, but those two books are both lovely in their own right. And it's quite different compared to the good ol' Giver.

-CF

Wow, I didn't know I'd still be so high on the blog post list. I kind of stopped blogging after we had all that time with the Board offline last year, and I've only made what feels like a few blog entries since.

-CF

I can forgive them for the size because IT'S A RANCOR FINALLYYYYYY and also it's Lego and all the ships are out of scale anyway so it's all just a kind of cute scale so it's fine that it's smaller.

 

- Tilius

I guess from a "cute LEGO minifig" perspective, the size is fine. Just not what I was expecting.

-CF

Skimming most of it since I haven't seen it yet (but I read it 9 years ago), and I must just intrude and say that, if you didn't know, Radagast the Brown is played by the Seventh Doctor!

Anyway, I can't wait to see the movie.

-CF

Farscape injected the main character with microorganisms that immediately translate what he hears. I assume everyone in that galaxy has these, as I'm pretty sure it doesn't affect speech.

It's the TARDIS that translates things, but it does seem to need some connection to the Doctor.

In Star Trek (or at least everything from Next Gen and on) their communicator badges automatically translate things.

It seems that almost everyone in the Star Wars galaxy speaks a language called "Basic." It only sounds like English to us because we are the audience. In fact, xkcd makes reference to this, and for all we know "falcon" (as in Millennium) is the closest thing we have for whatever creature the ship is named after.

I'm still only midway through season two of the current series.

Yay!

-CF

That picture is breathtaking.

-CF

*High five and hugs!*

Glad you're on here. Hope it helps.

-CF

Looks like a well-read year. Nice list and insights.

BTW I'm totally going to read A Monster Calls eventually/soon because of your original post about it. Didn't know it was full of pictures (and thus very short).

-CF

Sweet! And it sounds like you have some solid, short-term post-graduation plans!

-CF

I'm shooting for BrickWorld with a handful of other people, as we discussed at BrickFair VA '12. We can all split the gas!

-CF