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So remember how Bricklink got bought out by a huge company? And how, instead of opting to rescue the site's interface from the 90s, they made LEGO Cuusoo again? Well now they've finally turned their attention to the core site by launching a beta for its upcoming facelift. Right now it's mostly just a reskin of the site to bring it slightly more up to date, but there are some important new features as well. Like, they actually addressed what were easily Bricklink's greatest problems. That's right. You can now pay on-site, as opposed to throwing the seller a payment over PayPal manually as we have done since the dawn of time. And you can run a search without having to specify the category (sets, parts, instructions) you want first. You get a nice set of tabs that let you select any category you wish to view, all on one search results page. You can see the announcement here, and try out the preview here.

[12:54:01 AM] The Ace Railgun: So I just got an FB post about Doctor Who underwear…why… [12:54:23 AM] le717: Is it better or worse than Chima underwear? [12:54:25 AM] jamesster: I got a twitter ad about adult diapers, and I don't mean the practical kind [12:54:28 AM] jamesster: I nope'd out very quickly On 11/5/15, at 22:54, Le Vee wrote: > Is it better or worse than Chima underwear? Worse [12:54:51 AM] le717: [12:55:03 AM] The Ace Railgun: Much worse [12:55:16 AM] Bug Catcher: Is it at least bigger on the inside [12:55:22 AM] jamesster: PFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFF [12:55:48 AM] The Ace Railgun: Lol [12:55:55 AM] le717: That was so bad

Download Links: 1:1 L.M.S. Explorer (LDraw file that also works in studio 2.0): https://www.rockraidersunited.com/files/dl-r195/ 1:1 L.M.S. Explorer bridge (LEGO Digital Designer file): https://www.rockraidersunited.com/files/dl-r358/ 1:8 L.M.S. Explorer (LEGO Digital Designer file): https://www.rockraidersunited.com/files/dl-r194/ 1:16 L.M.S. Explorer (LEGO Digital Designer file): https://www.rockraidersunited.com/files/dl-r193/ 1:32 L.M.S. Explorer (LEGO Digital Designer file): https://www.rockraidersunited.com/files/dl-r192/ [NEWS]: (2021-10-21): With a delay of about three weeks I noticed that this thread is 10 years old XD. Let's see, if I can come up with something insightful on the spot to distract from my "perfect" timing^^: I still think that this is a cool project and I would probably do it again . With today's software and hardware that's easier to do than 10 years ago and makes you appreciate the effort that the people at DDI & LEGO put into designing the ship over 20 years ago. In regards to what I expected from making this thread/model and what actually happened the results are a bit all over the place: on one side I hoped that it would get featured on blogs and websites besides RRU and maybe even getting the attention from the LEGO Company itself, but that didn't really work out (I only remember two times, where the model was featured in a blog or video). Maybe I am too introverted and not annoying enough on social media to make the existence of this ship known to everyone XD. On the other side this thread has gotten a ton of views and replies over the last decade and people started to integrate the ship model into a game (like Manic Miners from baraklava) or game engine or make MOCs based on the digital models. Also a big thanks to Cyrem and Cirevam, because otherwise RRU wouldn't exist as a central hub for Rock Raiders related content. Archive of older Announcements, News, Errata and Updates Development Story (original Text from 2011 + 2013 Update) Separate Bridge Model In LDD Links

This is my latest creation. It has some flaws (e.g. the engines), but it was sometimes very hard to find the right pieces etc. Otherwise I chose this scale, because it was a challenge to build a smaller version which contains lot of details too. pieces: ~5000 to ~5300 bricks (depending on the version) building time: hmm, maybe 30 to 50 hours scale: not exactly 1:8 but very close to it (~1:8,25) (compared to my 1:1 scale version of the LMS Explorer, which is 975 studs long) construction program: LDD (but I have converted the model into ldr (MLCAD) and lcd (LeoCAD) files, too) dimensions: Length: 116 studs/ 91,36 cm/ 35,97 in. Width: 17 studs/ 13,49 cm/ 5,31 in. Height: 16 studs/ 12,70 cm/ 5,00 in. Picture (made in bluerender): Rotation Video (made with the bluerender rotation mode): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jI5mtplVLlk Older Render Pictures:

[17:52:09] Noghiri: i vote #cloudoctopus [17:52:52] Will Kirkby: CloudOctopus 2016 [17:53:25] Noghiri: better than the current frontrunners [17:57:13] Bug Catcher: Because politics is what I want to see when I'm in a chat room about lego games

Thanks for the ideas! Also, A new humid biome is coming.. A jungle like biome with these neutral unknown aliens! note to self: debug weird alien model.

[21/10/2015 22:31:08] Jim Brickkeeper: Everyone here is unique. Most just happen to be unique in exactly the same way.

[9/9/15, 13:48:21] Noghiri: so, are bandwankers like a circlejerk, but with instruments? Later: Talking about Le [9/9/15, 19:08:25] Hugh Wotmeigh: On 9/9/15, at 19:07, Caleb Ely wrote: > if you knew me IRL, you'd find my voice fits. So you live in a pineapple under the sea?

[9:17:58 PM] Hugh Wotmeigh: Things are getting interesting [9:18:00 PM] Hugh Wotmeigh: For my internship [9:18:05 PM] Alcom Isst: [9:18:11 PM] Hugh Wotmeigh: Next term they're going to set me up with some Digital Media students [9:18:16 PM] Alcom Isst: [9:18:20 PM] Hugh Wotmeigh: They're going to produce assets, story, gameplay ideas etc [9:18:23 PM] Alcom Isst: [9:18:27 PM] Hugh Wotmeigh: And I'm going to build an AR game. [9:18:28 PM] Alcom Isst: [9:18:43 PM] Hugh Wotmeigh: I have to do 12 hours a week in order to fufil the requirements [9:18:46 PM] Alcom Isst: [9:19:37 PM] Hugh Wotmeigh: Maybe it's Outlook breaking under the stress of displaying text messages, but did you seriously just post 5 ": O"s? [9:20:10 PM] Hugh Wotmeigh: Good news. [9:20:18 PM] Hugh Wotmeigh: My teacher likes the game so far. [9:20:22 PM] Alcom Isst: [9:20:30 PM] Hugh Wotmeigh: Now we have to playtest two forks relating to win/lose conditions. [9:20:38 PM] Jamesster: [9:20:43 PM] Hugh Wotmeigh: And then from there it's all about shoveling content and adding polish in. [9:20:54 PM] Hugh Wotmeigh: You two f****ers... [9:20:58 PM] Jamesster: [9:21:34 PM] Hugh Wotmeigh: I really dunno if I should be angry, laughing, surprised, annoyed or just hungry for blood. [9:22:46 PM] Fish: [9:23:07 PM] Jamesster: [9:23:09 PM] Alcom Isst: [9:24:06 PM] Hugh Wotmeigh: The Howler Monkies have checked in.