Summer Releases '12

Aw shoot! its official! these sets are coming out for the summer! even if i pick up the ghost train and the jabba's palace, i wont get to build them till later.

summer...is for being outdoors this year, and maybe do a lil traveling. i will however still fit some Lego related things in there. i dont like gungans. so that gungan sub isnt something that i would pick up. but the queen amidala figure makes it worth the buy. i may just very well pick it off from BL instead. save me the trouble of paying more then i actually want to for my minifig army.

This year... i will try to finish more films, i have a few in the works, but i keep running into snags in the production. one of them i should have finished last year...but didnt, because coordinating with other people for sound and voice recordings....wasnt easy to say the least. everyone is busy with their lives, and i can't blame them. aside from finishing up that video, i have 2-3 in the works. whether i finish them at all, or get them off the ground to make interesting will it then be brought to youtube. (one of them actually needs to be shot done in a specific place...and being rather busy with other things... and again coordination... has made it rough.)

i'm also actually going to put a production team logo in front of my newer films. which would feel more fresh. (but not so much the one that i should have finished last year.)

(pics from Grogall)

Star Wars Summer Sets

There's been such a HUGE amount of infomation going on with new sets to come and i haven't had the time to go and just write about the new stuff i'm anticipating... i wonder if there's an app for blogging...

so finally, there's going to be another twilek besides aayla. its the slave dancer in jabba's palace this time. i've had two of the twileks in my jabba's barge set as it is. a green one and a white one. now this scared one here is scared, mostly because she's not comfortable with so many younger kids playing with her. (well, the fanboys will have something to play with as well...)

JAbba, and salicious crumb from the palace set.

an actual queen amidala figure. crazy head dress and a bell shaped new piece just for her dress. i'm expanding my minfig collection quite broadly here...

the new sae sae tin characters.
oh my, the new vadar with breathing apparatus. kinda like the space marine in series 7, or if you're old school.... an aquashark.


i should update more often...even weekly...but swamped with adventures. maybe i'll add another blog. (its actually more work to run more then one theme at a time. i'm very much behind on zach and squad526. lots of pictures....but not yet on the blog.)

SO! What does Santa Look Like?

Its finally done. My fifth Lego film!

it ended up longer then i anticipated... and the flow of the story seemed to be ok. on the other hand, as the creator, flow always seems ok. i have found out that for stories that i felt that had a good flow, only 1 out of 5 viewers understood it. 1 would be "brilliant! wow!" and the other 4 would be "what...just happened here?" The last film seemed to do well even tho myself didnt feel it was that good. It was short and to the point. a longer film may just be a little longer then what a normal person's attention span can keep up to these days...

This film took alot of incoherent-ness to make. i was just tired from work and other priorities, and i was supposed to rest up and go to bed for the next day. but i came home. was pooped. and HAD to make something. Had to finish.

Filming took about 39 hours. sound took maybe 6. and editing took only 2. if i take away the preparation of the film...meaning all the tiny drawings i had to do besides the sets, it would come down to maybe half of the hours. i drew just a lil more then 400 of those lil hand cut bubbles.

Story goes as follows~ (SPOILER- So watch film first!)
Boy at home gets call from friend.
The talk about Santa.
Boy gets intrigued/curious
Boy goes to ask father who tells him one thing.
He goes out in search of Santa
He gets told another thing about Santa. (this repeats)
He gives up and goes home.
Where he actually gets to see Santa.

BTW. anyone know what the boy's dad's occupation is? =]

2012 SW preview

I'm stoked. TLG is making more Lego Star Wars battle packs. I hope they will continue to sell them for $11.99 each and not more. i feel sorry for the ppl that paid more then it was worth just to get the Bariss Offee fig in the Swamp Speeder set (8091). Unless of course, they liked the design of the speeder, in which case, great for you guys. =) **wink wink**

They are remaking the X-wing, as they have discontinued it time and again. a friend of a friend, Will, said they he would pick up an X-wing if they started to produce them again. guess he has to pick one up then! There is also a new TIE fighter. Its a maybe purchase for me, but only because it comes with 4 minifigs, and one of them is a droid.

Anticipating this set.

picture from grogall of germany. many thanks!


Comes with specific stormtroopers.....you know what that means.... =]

Things You Can Build with 8014

I was getting my shampoo at my usual place, when I unwittingly glanced at the "on sale/clearance" section. There, sitting next to Bakugan (which was 35% off), was a stack of Clone Trooper Battle Packs (8014). The sale price stickers on them read, "$7.39." This item is usually $11.99, altho in Toys "R" Us, they got for $14.99 (or $17.99 during the holidays).

I apologize for oinking out on these sets, but like those crazy shop-a-holics on tv sitcoms, i swept my arm over the shelf and pushed the boxes into my cart. There were a few droid sets, and as i placed them back on the shelf, a Lego hungry mom swooped into my cart for my goods. When i informed her that those were mine, she merely gave me a dirty look and insisted that she thought i was an employee putting boxes onto a shelf, despite my non uniform/colored attire.

I took them to the cashier, and for some reason, rang out to be $6.28 per set. I made it home, with no problems, unless i count the mom i saw in the parking lot later who purposely pushed her cart at my car...

Hey.. I got away with less then ten boxes in the end...thats fair game, the way i see it. Its not like i walked off with 2 dozen boxes... thats a lil obsessive, even for me.

Those sets are your basic walker sets, but most people that buy them are after the clone trooper minifigs. While we can always follow the instructions to build the walker, i find that there are other things that can be built using the same pieces from the set.

For instance, we can build...

...a speeder. Fit for one clone trooper or two. Or just for one trooper and his radio intercepter unit. If SW isn't the thing, why not a ....

..derringer anybody? Those sets seem like a great bang for the buck, not just for the minifigs, but also for the pieces that come in the box. Altho... me paying $14.99 for one at Toys "R" Us, is highly unlikely.


Combine two sets, and see what kind of other walkers you can build. Its not in the picture... but turns out with 5 boxes, a person can build a 10 legged beast of some sort complete with turrets and holders for drop troops.

The M. Falcon (7965)

I recently picked up the SW, M. Falcon. I was lucky enough to get one for under $100USD at Toys "R" Us. They had a promo that day. Plus it came with a free Harry Potter minifigure set (30110). Right away, when I got home, I noticed that the box was around the same size of the Queen Ann's Revenge. Yes, the Queen Anne's revenge came out awhile ago, but I got sidetracked and didn't get to work on it yet.

But the M. Falcon had more pieces, but less minifigures. The beginning of the build was a little bit bumpy, as the early pieces' connections didn't stay in one place. They swiveled around on their own.

I was rathered enchanted when I had to put there pieces for the turbine hyperdrive engine. These are the pieces normally found for hubcaps.

Then came an annoying part. I had to build a large quantity of these guys...

after building about 4 of these, I had a pretty good idea of how to build them on my own. That is, until i ran out of pieces to make more of them. Here's what i have so far...

I do like the control panels.

The fact that there's a mass of them instead of just one radar screen makes me like it that much more. That's all imma build tonight tho. I have to work on assembling some of the series 5's that i picked up the other day. OK, "some" is an understatement. =]