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Though I probably can't top Sadie's words of her previous blog, I have my own story to tell. I was outside in the cold preparing to hang up Christmas lights, (we were like the only ones who hadn't yet.) and decided to change the bulb on the far end of the porch (we have 2 porch lights, this one had been out for a while). So I climb the ladder and pull down the light cover and a cloud of dust and dead bugs welcomes me (bleh, I hate cleaning these things). I unscrewed the old fluorescent light from the fixture and went inside to get a new one. I checked our box to see one last bulb, and as I pulled it out, I noticed that it had an imperfection on it. There was a bubble in the glass. I didn't think anything of it and headed back outside. I climbed the ladder once more and began screwing in the bulb. I gave it 3 quick turns and let go to reposition my hand to finish it, when to my supprise, the bulb fell out of the socket, hit the porch, and shattered into a bunch of tiny little pieces... It took me a second to realize what happened. I grabbed the flashlight I had (it was night when this happened) and shined it down where the light had fell. Sure enough, there was what was left of the base surrounded by little bits of glass. So, for the sake of my dog's paws, I spent around a half hour sweeping and picking up every piece I could see. I had almost finished when a slightly larger piece caught my eye. I reached down to pick it up, and there was the part of the bulb with the imperfection on it. It was completely undamaged, and nor was the glass around it. And then it made me think. (Yes you probably know where I'm going with this). That imperfection, a bubble that was never meant to be, survived when the rest of the bulb did not. I thought a lot about this well after the accident. We all have our imperfections. Me, I'm far from even knowing what perfect is. I'm all the time dropping things due to my clumsiness. And thanks to that, I was able to realize something. Just because you have faults, doesn't mean that they aren't always bad. Your imperfections are what make you stronger, because you learn from them. Don't see them as a weight that will drag you down, but as an opportunity to build yourself up as a human. This was just a little thing that happened that I felt like sharing.

Phantom Terror complete. I had originally intended to post him at the same time as Pereki but I got stuck on some details and took longer than expected, so i went ahead and posted Pereki first. And now, together!

I love how Drillmaster was trying to be deep and everyone's arguing grammar Many imperfections have both a good side and a bad side. For example, one of mine allows me to intuitively understand concepts in maths or science or programming really really easily... but I also have trouble dealing with large groups of people, and sometimes abstract concepts. The imperfection in the bulb both protected that part upon dropping, and could have lead to the bulb bursting if it got too warm with air too cold.

No new drawing at this time, though I have several I'm currently working on. Rather, I'd like to share some of the initial sketches for recent drawings, because I think they look cool.

This is a message to anyone who might feel a lack of self-worth or feel that their personal best isn't sufficient. Though you might feel there's nothing you can do to contribute in any way, this couldn't be further from the truth. The reality of it is we're all each unique having been born into this world with unique psychological mapping, which thereafter over the course of our lives is further expanded on/reformed on the basis of our individual experiences and general exposures, in combination with how we process these experiences and exposures, collectively contributing to the immediate form of our neural network. As such, we each possess unique mental strengths and aptitudes that can only ever be further sharpened and improved on with continued practice, otherwise there is a stunting in growth. In other words, we each possess different forms of intelligence. For this reason it's never fair to ourselves nor to the other person for us to base our standards on their ability, or for they to base theirs on ours, as we're all each unique as individuals and develop and progress at our own unique pace as the unique person we are. But it doesn't matter how intelligent you are either, as a person with "lesser" intelligence can be vastly more knowledgeable and skillful than a person of "greater" intelligence simply through hard work and perseverance. You might feel there isn't anything you're good at, but sometimes it takes longer for some people to find what fields of work they're psychologically geared towards. Morever, whatever your contribution, regardless of its magnitude, has the potential to generate a ripple-effect whereby it influences and affects a great many things. For a long time I felt as though I didn't fit into this community, I didn't feel I had anything significant to contribute. This all changed dramatically though around a year ago when I first began my research on the development of the mid-80s Classic Space LEGO Publishing comic book series, Jim Spaceborn. I was amazed at the things I'd uncovered regarding the series, and found research and archival work of this type was something I was fairly good at, so I continued to build on that skill and now I'm quite dead-set on researching and documenting every known instance of retro LEGO comics, storybooks, and animated cartoons in existence as thoroughly as I possibly can, and I won't stop until that dream has seen fruition. So perhaps in time even if you're not sure now, you'll eventually find something you're proficient with and pursue that to the maximum of your potential. I hope this has been helpful. ~Sadie

Some more information on the third installment in LEGO Publishing's The Pirates series of comics as well as some other story ideas Per Sanderhage had but never implemented: "I'm not certain... I think I wrote three, but I cannot remember if the third was ever drawn. I haven't got if it exist... cannot even remember what it was about. I had several ideas... one about our heroes ending up in South America and a nasty individual who could control a tame alligator with a flute... another (which would have been a lot fun) with a female pair of scoundrels as immoral as the pirates."-Per Sanderhage Also, I learned recently of the existence of 3 unpublished Pirates books from the 1990 Ladybird series. Their titles are Captain Roger smells gold, Trouble on Pirate Island, and Dark Shark to the Rescue. My source for this information is this: https://archive.today/aJPvL And in case you can't access that page, here's a screenshot of the information in question: http://prntscr.com/5jrh49 Counting the 4 published books in the series plus the 1 or 2 activity books, that makes for a total of 8 or 9.

Aidenpons, if you're going to be a pedant, be a correct pedant. There were no hairs to be split unless you know for a fact that Drill Master has multiple canine entities. Given that most households have a singular dog, I believe you're pedantry is not only illogical, but probably wrong.

So my parents trashed the scanner I had been using previously when I left for college. I went out to Office Max today to see about getting the comic scanned, but I'm sorry, but we can't scan 20-year-old mail order toy and cookie comics that have absolutely no bearing on their creators at this point in time because copyright law. On to plan B then, but it'll be at least another day to wait. My apologies!

Okay, since i am curios. I decided to check and see how many points in total everybody has. So I'm not clear on how point stealing works, whenever you steal half of the other players total points (the player has 4 points and loses 2 of them to the other played due to the steal) or the points they would have gained from the pass (the player loses 1 point while the stealing player gets 1 point) So i made two scored boards just in case. If the player steals half the players Total points, this is the score. Someswedish - 6 MaelstormIslander - 4 Ben24x7 - 4 (lost 3 points to noghiri) noghiri - 4 (Stole 3 points from Ben24x7) McJobless - 2 ProfessorBrickkeeper - 1 Fushigisaur - 1 Quistaros Pungnat - 1 Drill Master - 1 Pranciblad - 1 If the player steals half the points the player would have gained form the pass while the passed player loses 1 point, this is the score. Ben24x7 - 7 (lost 1 points to noghiri) Someswedish - 6 MaelstormIslander - 4 noghiri - 2 (Stole 1 points from Ben24x7) McJobless - 2 ProfessorBrickkeeper - 1 Fushigisaur - 1 Quistaros Pungnat - 1 Drill Master - 1 Pranciblad - 1

I doubt that's the box art. I feel that that is (computer generated) concept art for the Theme.

He'll be using mobile keyboats until after Christmas. That's why.

Original text: "it's been awhile since i've posted on RRU." ...43 translations later, Yandex gives us: "Now, says RBC." Original text: "what in the world is a Yandex?" ...43 translations later, Yandex gives us: "Google it, what's happening in the world?" um......that's a somewhat decent translation. Original text: "Yandex" ...43 translations later, Yandex gives us: "Google" I think i see something going on here.... Original text: "the translator is Yandex" ...43 translations later, Yandex gives us: "Google translation." So we aren't using yandex, we are using Google. Edit: i don't know why there is a white block. ?

Sadie never left. Sadie silent. Sadie lurk.

Here is the pig. Now you just have to make it fly. ;-) CRPELVIS hips and legs are sitting on the pig. Here is the .GDB file from the pig (no bones - no connected textures): http://oresome.rockraidersunited.com/download/183

Originally this topic was geared towards the discussion of the mid-80s LEGO Publishing Classic Space comic book series, Jim Spaceborn, but it's since expanded from its roots to encompass retro LEGO comics, storybooks, animated cartoons, and the like in general. I'm however retaining the original contents of the OP below to serve as this topic's initial subject of discussion and to maintain the flow of the topic. For the uninitiated, Jim Spaceborn was a Classic Space oriented LEGO comic book series authored and illustrated by Frank Madsen , and developed and produced in collaboration with LEGO's short-lived publishing division, LEGO Publishing from 1983-1987. The series was initiated after the production of an internal prototype Classic Space book titled Trapped in Space in 1983(from which Jim Spaceborn would later draw a good deal of its inspiration and story elements), written by Douglas Hill and illustrated with photographs. However, the book was never published as LEGO later scrapped the children's book concept, and thus gave birth to the Jim Spaceborn comic book series. The series comprised of three 48-page installments and a series of three 24-page mini-comics, the third installment and the series of mini-comics, however, were never published. Development began with a white 12-page test album "Mission Spyspids", after which a second test album with imagery on 31 pages, and the vast majority of the rest of the album's pages being blank merely to give it the feeling of a final album was produced, this one carrying the name "Jan Spaceborn: Galaxens Hemmelighed". Though the name Jan was later changed to Jim subject to being deemed politically explosive. Both the test albums, unlike the final releases, were hardcover books rather than paperback. Finally, Jim Spacborn 1: The Unknown Galaxy was produced, and published in 6 countries. After which development of the series' second installment Jim Spaceborn 2: The Kidnappers From Swamp Planet/Castle of the Darkmen commenced and was published in 5 of the aforementioned six countries excluding Denmark. The unpublished third installment was titled Panic On Board of which I've uploaded layouts provided by Frank Madsen, and the 3 mini-comics titled The Monorail Service, Cleaning Robot, and The Competition. According to Erik Dyhr Thomsen, LEGO Publishing Product/Development Manager 1982-1988 LEGO Publishing was created by Keld Kirk Kristiansen, current owner of LEGO. His idea of LEGO Publishing was that they should use LEGO bricks in various media, such as books and movies. I've been in contact for a good while now with Frank Madsen among a whole host of others on the series' development team and generally people who collaborated on the project. Frank has been instrumental in the discovery of a lot of the aforementioned, having generously provided the images of the entirety of the contents of the 1983 internal prototype book Trapped in Space, the layouts for Jim Spaceborn 3, the entirety of the initial 10-page test album of The Unknown Galaxy, 1984 and 1987 Jim Spaceborn character model sheets, the original pages of The Unknown Galaxy, some covers and layouts from some of the 3 unpublished mini-comics, and much more to come, some of which I've yet to upload and will edit into the original post when they become available. He's also informed me that sometime in 1986 a Jim Spaceborn animated film was planned and produced in a Danish studio led by Jeffrey James Varab (a former Disney animator) and Jakob Stegelmen. Though development only reached the extent of a storyboard of the initial 10 minutes of the film. Soon after I contacted Jeffrey, and he told me that not only was a feature film based on the comics planned, but as well a series and video game. And if you have anything more to share with regard to Jim Spaceborn or any other retro LEGO comic or the like that hasn't been outlined or shared already please do so. Retro LEGO Comics/Storybooks/Animated Cartoons List Animated Cartoons: Comics: Storybooks:

Earlier this week, after I brought Fred Cop back I felt flooded with a bunch of ideas for a new story. I began work, and am still working on it, however I wrote it in the format of a script instead. So this story may end up with one of five results; - A short film - A game - A story (which means I'll have to convert everything in the script into Past Participle) - A script I'd be too lazy to continue - And a script I wouldn't know what to do with As for the script itself, you can read what I've written so far (which isn't too much) here; Pages (Mac) version; http://oresome.rockraidersunited.com/download/180 Microsoft Word version; http://oresome.rockraidersunited.com/download/181 PDF version; http://oresome.rockraidersunited.com/download/182 Do keep in mind that the script is in it's W.I.P state, so things might get changed around (e.g. I might change "Thunder corp" to "Fund-our-corp" sometime). If anyone wants to give feedback, I'd be willing to hear.

I've just read through the script so far, and it's looking pretty good. A couple of improvements you could make: Anyway, keep up the good work and I look forward to seeing more! Also, have you considered doing this script as a comic? Just a thought.

(Note: It says clone, that's a typo, ignore it. Was meant to say "Pawn") I didn't like how this one turned out, so let me explain. After their orbital assassination of a certain dragon, recon scouts landed and spied on Joe, until they got a fix on his location. They send up a message, and the fleet mobilises. The Pants Enforcer lands and almost immediately throws Joe in a stasis (shown running in Panel #2). The Pants Enforcer finds him suspicious, and so he tells him to carry a message back to his "masters", assuming somebody else was responsible for the explosion of RRU tower. Either way, it is confirmed. The REPAs have landed on Earth, and are bringing an entire invasion fleet with them. Lord help anybody not wearing pants.

"No, no one is perfect. That's hardwired into humanity. As beautiful as our biology is, so too is it flawed. Though that's not to say that's not a beauty in itself."~Ramius Antillies

I got my prototype part from BZPower for sending stuff to BrickFair this year. Not as cool as a mask, but still pretty rad. (I've owned the milky white part since last year) I wonder what I'll do with it...

Xiron test subject. Test fail miserably. Xiron lose many finger.

I potentially have found someone that might be able to translate a couple of the dramas - it'd be a load off of Runamuck's back, in any case. Nothing certain, but I'll keep everyone posted.

NOTE; THIS POST DOES NOT ADVANCE THE STORY/PLOT IN ANY WAY, ITS JUST A POINTER Right, I thought about it and I've come up with a name for my Third Party; "Fund-our-corp" is just an idea I had where if you pronounce it, you get "Thunder corp". "Fund-our-corp" is Thunder corp's back-up in the event Thunder corp has either been defeated or that they are in danger of being found out. When Thunder corp is not in danger or gone, Fund-our-corp spends it's time attempting to conquer Technology and Computer markets, failing every time.

The "Blow up Mecyr" button should be decommissioned at once!

I really appreciate Ben throwing up an image that's not drawn. I suck at drawing, I don't find it fun, yet I want to be a part of this for the fun of it (not for marking or winning or anything, just to run my own little story on the side). If it's an art battle, people should be able to create that art in whatever way they're most comfortable with. Anyway, before I show my first entry, we need to flash back to two posts. That has woken up a monster, and he will not stop until pants justice is enacted.

Nothing to say but what I've said already.

Good news: the collection of old Klick issues is still available and I already have someone in France willing to forward them to me. I'm arranging their purchase now. Edit: The order's been placed, but we're not quite out of the woods yet. Let's just hope it first arrives locally in France, then manages to safely make its way internationally to the states.

That was all going SO WELL until you embedded THAT.