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I woke up at 6 again this morning. I showered, pulled out my Bionicle parts, and in two hours had a prototype bandersnatch. For those who don't know, a bandersnatch is a quick-moving reptile with and extendable neck. I built it for a contest that ends tomorrow (blog search for bandersnatch, there's only one blog with the word in the title). My problem this morning is how long the critter's neck should be when extended. Is an extendable neck really a feasible natural tool? Think about it. What's more efficient, extending your neck to bite prey, or leaping over to it and bringing your teeth and claws to bear? On one hand, the neck option could possibly increase your stealth, but the pounce option could be a faster kill due to increased weaponry. These are the questions that torture me in the night.
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I built this Tuffin MOC ages ago... more than two years, I think... for that BBC where you were supposed to make one of the staffies from that staff RPG. Anyway, I missed the deadline (it was the day before I moved, if memory serves) and when I moved I had to give a pivotal piece of the MOC back to my friend 'cause I was borrowing it. Now I have the piece again so if I can find the leftover puffin chunks I'll be in business. Of course, I'll have to revamp it a bit 'cause it's so old. I may have another MOC that will do, but I don't know. Honestly I don't have many ideas for this contest. =/ ~bunda
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Not much has happened since my last entry. The co. will be leaving on the twelfth of August, five days from now. I am spending today (Sunday) and tomorrow (Monday), as well as Wednesday, the day before they leave. In other news, I've finished Pahrak-Kal. At least, that's what I thought until I brought him over to my dad's house today to take pictures with my dad's camera (which is much, much better than the one at my mom's house), when I realized how much of him could be improved. I'm beginning to realize that the first final version of an MOC isn't necessarily the final version. Scimita was my first real exposure to this concept - she was one massive, year-long series of revisions ending in what I consider my greatest MOC yet. So toight, I will be taking Pahrak-Kal home to improve what I can and take pictures tomorrow. On the subject of the Bohrok-Kal, the next one I make will be either Lehvak- or Nuhvok-Kal. It will also be a transforMOC, the vehicle form being a helicopter. I have an interesting idea for the transformation that involves the arms and weapons folding and twisting into the blades of the helicopter. Anyway, I'm very ready to get started.
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Yes: I have pictures now! Ok, stats: Total Orders: 3 Total Lots: 80 Total Parts Count: 407 Total Cost (including shipping): $60.80 Now, pics! (Brickshelf) The White parts: The Dark Red parts: Sorry for the poor lighting in this last one... :S Oh, and don't forget that I have this guy to pull parts from too! Now, I'd love to know what you think! How did I do in what I chose, and the quantities thereof? How about the price (for those of you experienced in these matters)? Now to work on my first mecha/fusion attempt! Yay! GBG
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Yes, my final... parts order arrived today! Now to take pics... Hopefully I'll have photos uploaded in just a little bit. GBG
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So that's what Blogs are for. =D Blah. Also this blog isn't as popular this year. =[ Then again if I didn't neglect it so much maybe it'd be more popular.
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Ugh. Pahrak-Kal is proving to be an incredible pain to take pictures of. I'm trying to increase the quality of my photography, which for me involves creating a plain white background instead of going through the pains of editing one in. Pahrak-Kal's size is making this very difficult; if I try to shoot it from an angle other than head-on, I get a nice shot of it against my kitchen cabinets instead of the white sheet I set up. Anyway, my goal for today is to get pictures of Pahrak-Kal and start on the entry picture.
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This is the first time I've made a second entry in the same day while using the e-mail blogging system, but I thought that this merited another entry. I just got back to my mom's house and Pahrak-Kal. I just tried transforming him for the first time, and the results were...mixed. On one hand, he transforms! Woo. The first time he has transformed as a cohesive piece. On the other hand, he needs some serious improvements. The three major improvements that need to be made to the transforming process are: His head needs to be less obvious in vehicle mode. It just sits on top, looking headish and making it look less vehicle-y and more like Pahrak-Kal is strapped to a table.The cannon needs to be there. As is is, the cannon parts aren't attached and I haven't yet devised a way for them to move to the front and form a cannon. Several of the pieces, particularly the mobile armor that covers parts of his shoulders. The bipedal form also has a few issues, namely support. I may have mentioned this in today's previous entry, but he can't yet stand in bipedal mode (though I've had limited success with kneeling poses). That should be the last update until sometime tomorrow. Granted, tomorrow is in about an hour, but still.
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Time for another blog update. Yesterday, my grandmother picked me up to look at her computer, which wasn't connecting to the internet. After my brother and I couldn't find anything wrong with it, my grandmother took us to Lucky Buffet, an excellent local Chinese buffet. After a quick stop by a thrift shop, which yielded only a book for my brother, we were dropped off at the University of Tampa, where I was to find information concerning campus tours and explore the campus in an effort to discover more information about it - part my mom's plan for me to explore as many colleges as possible. After visiting the campus, the rest of the day was pretty laid-back, the only notable event being the construction of another prototype body for Pahrak-Kal. Today has been almost completely uneventful. My dad picked up myself and my siblings at around ten this morning to spend the day at his apartment witth he co. while he worked. The most interesting thing that's happened so far today is that I finally have a fully assembled prototype for Pahrak-Kal - a body with four attacked limbs and a head that can stand. Or kneel, anyway; Pharak-Kal's legs are in need of greater support. That's all for today, unless something else comes up.
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Hey. I'm just blogging to say that I would've given you another sneak-preview (this time an image, which actually looks like a Teaser-type picture, all dark and mysterious) right now, had my camera not been acting strange, and not registering on the computer. This prevents me from getting any of the photos off it, so I can't show you anything. Dumb camera. -Nuju Metru
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(Picture is link) -Nuju Metru
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I've been taking photos and videos of my series of medieval/fantasy MOCs... In fact, here's a little sneak-peak for y'all: Teaser! And it only gets better from there. (No, seriously, this little set is the smallest/possibly lamest of the lot.) -Nuju Metru
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Now I'm finished. It needed a tail.
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...building the Jabberwock. I may add some minor bells and whistles after hearing commentary from my family, but it's basically done. Pictures after I return from the beach house; for some reason, nobody brought a good camera.
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Here. I've made a lot of progress (I just started today). I mostly just need wings and a head. The big feature will be an extending head - one of the few attributes actually described in the poem (which is further down in the comments). WIP pictures are a maybe. Oh, and because everyone's talking about it, I'm seeing a 3:40 p.m. showing of Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince on Thursday. No midnight showing for me.
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I make MOCs. -Nuju Metru
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Set #4993: Cool Convertible Pieces: 648 Yep, that's right; it's not technic! Heh, I haven't purchased a system set in years. The reason for my purchase of this set was due to an upcoming project that I'm wanting to work on which involves the colors of purple and white. Obviously, this set was for the latter color requirement. It was really interesting; I found myself walking around the ubber-cool LEGO store looking for sets based on content and pieces as opposed to theme for the first time. I considered getting a Star Wars set or perhaps Racers or even one of the new Power Miners sets. I decided against these due to either price or (especially for the Power Miners) the colors weren't what I was looking for. My eye settled on the Convertible mainly for its larger quantity of white curvey pieces and small connection parts; it should prove helpful in MoCing. The LEGO store was pretty sweet overall, and the LEGO sculptures were nifty too. I found the sale section Neaku, but they pretty much only had the Star Wars "Twilight" ship available; which, granted, was on sale for $50 (normally $100). I wasn't the least bit interested in it though. Oh, and they had the main Indiana Jones set on sale too (I'm not sure how much though). The store was all you guys hyped it up to be! My plan is to build the set as soon as I get home but then I put it up on display until I get enough money to put in a good-sized you-know-which-site order (which will probably have to wait until my birthday, which in turn is at the very beginning of August). I'm rather glad that it's gonna have to wait until August though; I'm busy at the moment with other things. Personally, I'm pumped about just building the thing as I haven't actually built a large LEGO set in quite some time. Oh, and Blue Fire, my family had deep dish pizza this evening for supper, and it was superb! In addition, the weather was beautiful! It was perfect for walking around the city indeed. Just thought I'd mention what I got (did I choose well?), and I may be able to post more about the trip sometime this week... GBG
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Just wow. BtB
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Sorry, Arps. I forgot the little bug thing. =[ -Laka
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Grr, but for three of these in black, one of these in black, and two of these in bley, he would be pretty much done. Problem is, while I have all those black pieces somewhere, I only have two of those bley pieces. Four more in white would work... but I don't have that either. One of these in white would be good too, I'll have to see if I have one. Sadface. In addition, here's something mainly aimed at Laka: Would two bley Inika upper leg armors be kk in place of the midsection fairings? It looks alright to me, but a second opinion would be nice. Yes I am using bley. No silver, though. And there may be a splash of pink, but that won't be part of the 'bot. BtB -
I don't know if any readers of my blog (if there are any) have seen my MoC Scimita, but I disassembled her today. It was a somewhat emotional experience, since Scimita came into being in her very first form almost a full year ago at last year's beach week. At least I know that she was sacrificed for a good cause - I am undertaking the large project of sorting all of my Bionicle parts. My goal is to have them all sorted and ready for beach week on July 11. On a completely unrelated topic, I'm thinking of intentionally leaving a grammatical error or two in each of my entries to give the Grammar Points system a shove into activity. Comment here if you're pro-hidden error or against.
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Because I have something way better half built. But I don't know if it would be allowed on the Bionicle table... its got a Bionicle skeleton, but I think there's more System on it. =/ BtB Edit: The tips of my fingers are sore...
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All I'll say is that she's now quadrupedal and bears a hefty resemblance to Dialga. BtB
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And also because the topic has the fewest posts and votes of any semifinal at the moment. I. AM. DOWN. WITH. VOTE. FOR. ME. So do it.
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Vipera is not very stable. I've modified it a bit so it's better than it was, but too much of the weight is on the back end. So... I could either give it a trans support, or I could try to make it a quadruped or something. Thoughts? Yes, this is for Brickfair. WAIT I just thought of something that could be awesome but ideas are still welcome. BtB
