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I'm a pretty big fan of the extremely short lived Lego space theme Unitron. The theme only got 4 sets total and 3 of them were only released in the States. They were the original counter-parts to Spyrius, but for whatever reason they didn't stay around anywhere near as long. Since the theme only got 4 sets, it ended up lacking a really big spaceship. Since I'm not really a fan of the Ice Planet theme, I decided to take the awesome big ship, the Deep Freeze Defender, and build it in Unitron colors. I also modified it to better fit in with Unitron's other sets. I've dubbed it the Deep Space Defender. I built most of it in LDD first so I would have an easier time ordering the bricks. I couldn't just swap colors because Ice Planet uses a different balance of white/blue/trans than Unitron uses blue/gray/trans. Heres the actual test build I did to finalize the design. The middle received the most change here. Finished product: I managed to not take a good picture of the middle section. So heres the LDD. Its got a maneuverable star-fighter vibe to it in person. Satellite dish in the middle section All three segments Rear engine compartment houses the same spiffy auto-launching little scout vehicle that the original set had Front pod attached to rear engine, kind of a gunboat feel to it Next to prototype

For years, one question has lingered in the minds of many LEGO fans, a seemingly simple question with an unresolved solution: "Where in the world is LEGO Island?" For those who are not aware, LEGO Island is the very first computer game published by The LEGO Group, predating LEGO Star Wars: The Video Game by 8 years. For many older LEGO fans, LEGO Island is considered the LEGO video game, surpassing even TT Game's latest offerings. Just as we know where we individually live on the earth, kids, TFOLs, and AFOLs have wanted to know where LEGO Island is located in the vast universe we call space. Although this is a simple question, it has no definitive answer. There are a few theories as to the whereabouts of our friends Nick and Laura Brick, Pepper Roni, The Infomaniac, and The Brickster. Some say it has no physical latitude and longitude coordinates, but instead represents a timeless location with a near-Utopian society. Unfortunately, philosophical answers portraying imaginary locations do not satisfy the inquiries for a physical location. One popular idea illustrates LEGO Island as a planet, while another says it is America. The only substantial evidence available regarding the official position of the Island is this one image displayed during the game's credits for a short time. Time and time again has this picture been subjected to strong scrutiny, and the conclusions drawn identify the geographical location of LEGO Island to the south of the Bering Strait or even Florida, the latter of which is suggested by internal Island Xtreme Stunts references. However, neither of these findings completely satisfy everybody. In June 2014, some really smart people from the Netherlands created a tool that allows limited (though more than previous tools) access to the game’s assets. Using this, access was gained to that very same image displayed in the credits. Upon close examination with assistance from rioforce, it was discovered that rotating the image 180 degrees clockwise/counterclockwise revealed the true location of LEGO Island: off the coast of India. Kinda spooky, huh?

Welcome to my new blog! If you haven't read the description of my blog, I will be posting stuff about mods I am working on as well as other things like reverse engineering, LEGO Worlds, etc. Currently, as already shown by my post on the forum, I am working on ripping minifigs from LEGO Star Wars: The Complete Saga. So far I only have two minifigs ripped and I have a long way to go. My hope for these rips is to eventually use them in LEGO Worlds as a mod (assuming that no Star Wars content is included in the game). As of 8:41 AM PDT on 8/10/15, the following minifigs have been ripped: Qui-Gon: Bartender: As usual, if you want one of these models, feel free to ask and I'll give you a link (unless everyone wants it, in that case I'll publicly post a link). Today, I hope to rip a few more models like Obi-Wan (Padawan). I'll post the results as soon as I have a couple minifigs ripped so that I'm not constantly posting. Later this week/month, I plan on analyzing the GHG model format in hopes of potentially reverse engineering it (I hope you like C code, I sure don't). To model ripping I go!

I was looking for a screenshot to post in reply to another thread and found this instead.

Remember that bit in LEGO Island 2 where you parachute down to Ogel Island from space? The model of the planet is "legoworld_lod1.msh" (and lod2 and lod3 of course), and here's the texture: Meanwhile in the intro... (0:14)

Why are we not talking about the fact that the island is INSANELY MASSIVE in that picture? The jetskis alone would create massive tsunamis for any neighboring countries. Earth is doomed, and its because lego men need to go fast, definitely fast e: also what the heck happened to africa

ERMAHGERD! It's a Nick Brick selfie! That face though... At least it's not this:

Makes a great fence removing tool too.

Thank you for sharing. I really like your model. And I was also a really big fan of the theme. And I hated that I could not buy them all because of the US thing . Your model reminded me on one of my very, very, very old projects. I wanted to create a short animation movie with unitron. I build a hangar and a computer terminal. In the first scene the monorail train should pass the bigger monorail station (I did not found an image) and drive into a mountain. In the next sceen the cockpit should be raised into the hangar and a minifig should get of. In the third scene the minifig enters a computer room where a few guys are waiting for him to show him what they found on the hologram. Here are two test renders: If the project would not be dead your Deep Space Defender would have been a really good addition .

Looks like it belongs in an alternate timeline where the eastern and southern portions of Africa came free to form Lego Island.

Nice work, and welcome to RRU by the by.

Gotta say, I actually like this a little more than the original! Nice work.

Display cases for the fun packs! I may actually grab a couple to use for displaying small MOCs, they don't look too bad...

Really sweet stuff. Deep Freeze Defender is one of my all time space favorites. And it's not a lazy recolor like something I'd make.

http://steamcommunity.com/app/332310/discussions/0/535152511376169751/ Update 2 details!

I skimmed the intro and saw the LDD model, at which point I thought "Ah it's just another LDD build". Then... KABLAMMO this-is-incredible-I-have-to-read-and-study-the-whole-thing-in-proper-detail. Awesome model you've built there, IncogM!

Either works, really. If you use a blog you won't have to worry about a long chain of posts being done just by you with no responses.

I've been installing all my old LEGO games on my new PC and, somewhat ironically given its age, LEGO Island is the first I've gotten to work. I haven't played this game since I was younger than whatever age Pepper is meant to be, so I was thrilled to indulge in nostalgia. I don't remember this happening though? I just clicked on the jukebox and played a song.

I'd post a picture of my rips from TLM game, but I can't be bothered to get everything set up right now. I know why the face 'textures' aren't ripped. It's because they aren't textures, but objects. I know from ripping a few characters from TLM. (I used NinjaRipper too).

A convention of parents.