Still kickin' + series 6 guide

kind of, but didnt drop off the map. i've been busy... but still doing the Lego thing. now old news...but aside from the LOTR sets to come, TLG has also decided to come out with avengers and such sets. here is the link for good pics of the marvel minifigs. i'm glad to say that they do have a black widow minifig...but she comes with the blackbird. yet another aircraft i dont need in my collection. hope it has some cool stuff that makes it worthwhile as my favorite spacecrafts so far ( slave 1, M. falcon, agents copter (8971) ).

series 6 minifigs.. too many have i picked up already. and yet i still need more! hee hee hee! =D
here's my way of "feeling the packages" to know whats what.

ALIEN- his head is pear shaped, there is a rod as well
HIGHLANDER- has a round shield, but usually i feel the tobogan shaped hairpiece
SLEEPY- the bear doesnt seem like a bear, but more like a chest piece. his hair is prickly
LIBERTY STATUE- blocky feet, telescope, and hairpiece is bendy
BANDIT- fedora, his bandana is unique in this series
FLAMENCO DANCER- block feet as well, hair piece similar to ice skater in series 4
ROBOT- box for head
MINOTAUR- largest one piece for the torso/head combo. easy as finding radioactive guy in series 4
POT OF GOLD SHORTY- short feet. top hat. the pot of gold feels like an acorn
ROMAN- square ish shield, bendy spear, gap in helmet
SURGEON- shower cap feels like a ridged bowl, square 2x2 smooth piece
PUNK SKATER- large board with curved edges
PINK RANGER- helmet with sinkable gap, hair piece just like aerobic dancer in series 5
BUTCHER- has cap like the guys at in n out. hard to miss steak with bone nubs on one end
MECHANIC- tool box, wrench has a gap where it can click onto other poles
GENIE- unique legs piece. turban is a bubble with a notch in it.

Happy Love Day! (2012)

Yep, some guys are just THAT clueless. At least she got some big diamonds...

mid to late 2012 sets

they're making a jabba's palace! but not out until christmas this year. =[ it will come with ten minifigs, a more detailed multi-colored jabba, and have a new twilek (aside from ayla).



new monster fighters minifigs! i like the swamp monster. the rest are very normal as Lego minifigs go. crossbows on hunters, and the monsters are mummies, ghosts (new blanket), vampires (and vampresses), werewolf, and frankensteins. no zombies to be seen tho, i could use some more of those. there will be a ghost train...i wonder if that can be modified and made space to run on tracks? the count's castle will have spiral staircase and even a trapdoor that opens onto a pit of spikes.



new ninjago sets... i see an airship, a samurai mech, and even a 4 headed dragon. i didnt like the early ninjago sets...but they seem to have gotten better over time. i will pick up a mecha samurai suit to battle lex luther in his power suit. =]

Jack Sparrow in Wonderland

Where is Alice today?
Its time for a tea party!
SHE is going to be late!
...and what's this? NOT tea, but rum?

"rum not gone? NOW THAT'S MY wonderland."

Even More lil Pea-ple

ooooo. caught sight of the whole LOTR minifigs. i wasn't expecting it, but besides frodo and sam, the two brothers will be made in minifig form. funny how the dwarf is pretty much the same size as the halflings. and there's aragon, gandalf, lego-las, and the other kind guy. still hoping for ring wraiths. c'mon Lego, you had dementors in Harry Potter, how about some ring wraiths for Lord of The Rings, hmmmm?



I'm also starting to understand why TLG has made minifig series. i am seeing the trend here for some time, and this confirms it. they are merely testing the waters, to see what people like. they are coming out with a "monster hunter" series of some sort. they will feature a werewolf (similar to the early movie set years ago), a vampire (also from the movie set...but with the minifig CMF torso), and a frankenstein. i have noticed the lego on the fig on the right side. beats the cyborg's leg from earlier sets.


on a side note, does Lego have their eyes on me or what? i also have a team of paranormal chasers/demon hunters group. here clearly in my team, i have a person that lost an arm, but in its place not only a mechanical arm, but with armaments as well on that arm. i hate how groups always have some new girl that gets added to the group because the last girl was eaten by some monster or had an "incident." my girl is a survivor, and a mechanic. strangely enough, note the clothing selection, a vest over a normal apparel. then i got my basic old fashioned slayer, and ....i'm not showing what my third and forth guys look like. because anybody that reads and/or loves this stuff knows...one member of the team isnt always what he appears to be. he isn't human.

Gilbert Almost Gets Shot

So a amusing thing happened to a guy i talk to every now and then. we'll refer him to Gilbert.

First off, he's Chinese. and it just happened that the Chinese New Year was this weekend, altho from what i understand, this holiday lasts for about ten days.

So Gilbert decides to surprise his parents this weekend, he's trying to be independent, and rarely comes back home. so that day when he got back to his parents house, he was surprised that nobody was home. so he was like ok... and decided to go inside the house. Only once Gil was inside, he found out that security system won't accept his password, so of course the security company calls and asks for the secret code. he doesnt know it that neither, so the dispatcher said that they were going to send a cop to his house, and he was like "ok.... i'll wait in front of the house." "yeah, you do that," said the dispatcher.

So when the cop pulled up in front of his house ten minutes later, Gilbert was standing out front, and was playing with the dog to pass the time. he was making light of the situation because he was thinking he wasnt guilty of any crime, which he wasnt. then he sees the officer get out. it was a small young and pretty officer. he wasnt fazed. he was like, "oh, thats cute."

And then she started to ask him questions about why he was there. he casually explained that it was his parents house and he didnt know that they had changed the password. the officer wasn't moved. "how do i know if you aren't lying, and your 4 buddies are cleaning out the house right now?," she said.

At this point, he had to think what to say to the officer, so he was being thoughtful and put his hands in his pockets, and the COP PULLED HER GUN ON HIM. "HANDS WHERE I CAN SEE THEM!!" she said nervously, "and put away YOUR DOG!" it was about this time he realized that his tone of voice was too casual and he had to slowly pull out his wallet to show her that his address matched the house. She told him that he was an idiot for not knowing the password.

the image that formed in my head was something like this... but a lil more...animated.

Dangers to Customizing

I wasn't all that stoked about customizing figures in general to begin with. mostly because it veered off into a different kind of Lego hobby, and the fact a customized minifig parts can never really be recycled to make something new again. So today i went off again in an attempt to make my own minifigs. i soon found out that not all paints were safe for painting or coloring minifigs.

i thought at first that i had an inferior or old lego piece, but as it turned out after my second try on a newer piece and some examination....that some of the paints out there, hobby paints at that.. combust and eat their way through the Lego plastics...yuck.