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So, uh, you know how Funcom worked with LEGO to make LMO? Before this, they pitched two apps to LEGO; Brickizen and Fish Adventure (technically Fishtank) http://i.imgur.com/Ay1uq3m.png And, you know, the logical thing to do when you're pitching apps to a company is to put them on a public github. https://github.com/epsilone/LEGO-Funcom https://github.com/epsilone/FishAdventure https://github.com/GordieRoss/BrickizensDemo Brickizens is essentially that LEGO Fusion Town Manager app in a really really early state. (also oh lord the animations are bad) I'll try to take some pictures of them soon, haven't had much time to mess with it yet. (quick edit: thanks to someone on Skype for telling me about these!)

http://store.steampowered.com/app/552100 Hollis linked me to this yesterday. Seems to be a WIP sandbox game where you can build, drive, and destroy LEGO* vehicles with what looks to be a decent physics/destruction system. Looks like the building system allows for SNOT and stuff, too. I dunno if I'm interested enough to buy it, but maybe it'd tickle the interest of somebody here. Going by the first video uploaded of the game, it runs on Unreal 4. *Not technically LEGO but totally LEGO

While looking through the game files, I came to realize that the intros of the circuits use their own model set as a background, not the full track. I wanted to check them all and I found this. Now, you can see that it's not the retail track, but one that is actually the same as this old screenshot down left. -> beta -> retail (Beta track files are in here \LEGO\MENUDATA\CIRCUIT5\AATRACK) It would be incredible if someone could figure out a way how to replace it and make it align with the rest of the geometry, but that's probably too hard for now. Thank you for reading

NEAL YOU BLOODY HERO, THIS IS FANTASTIC.

I can't stop laughing EDIT: Ok most discussion of this is taking place on Discord, will probably make some more posts once this has all been looked through. But it should be noted that the videos in LEGO-Funcom show what appears to be a prototype of LEGO Worlds, with LEGO Fusion style scanning mechanics mixed in. It seems the whole Fusion and Worlds thing might have started/been prototyped at Funcom then brought over to TT? There's over 46 minutes of video footage here not to mention the builds/project folders of Brickizens and the fish thingy, so yeah, this is gonna take some time to dissect and make sense of completely... ALSO, just to be safe, I'm gonna ask that we not upload screenshots or whatever of this stuff to the RRU gallery or anything. Hell, I'm not sure it's a good idea to even embed screenshots and stuff in posts, just in case LEGO finds this and doesn't want it public - we aren't hosting this stuff, we're just fans discussing it, and let's keep it that way.

I first started designing Base Terranova over 2 years ago, but then I kinda abandoned the project as it wasn't turning out how I wanted it to be. After that, a few months ago I picked it up again and did a complete overhaul on the original design. Now, I am proud to finally present what is probably my biggest LEGO project to date: "Base Terranova - A RR HQ" Warning! Lots of pictures in the spoilers! Overview: Details of the ground floor: Details of the first floor: Details of the second floor: Details of the Top Floor: I hope you guys enjoyed looking through my newest RR model! Comments and feedback are welcomed to help improve on its design! ~A creation by RRChief~

Furst isn't specific, but considering Web of Shadows ends with Vakama telling Takanuva, Jaller, and Hahli "Now it's time for you to make new legends," I'm pretty sure 6 matoran becoming Toa for that arc was always the plan, not to trot out the Toa Nuva again. See also how Jaller gets Lhikan's Hau and even as far back as 01 was singled out for being in the clan of Lhii, whatever that was supposed to mean. I personally feel like Metru Nui as a concept has a fair amount of merit, but I don't understand why people think staying on Mata Nui would have been bad. Was Lego Island 2 enriched by bringing in Castle and Adventurers Island? Sure, Mata Nui could have gotten boring if they kept showing us the same places and situations over and over, but they wouldn't have had to do that. Mata Nui's a big place and it's not like after 3 years we had seen literally everything on it. And I'm taking for granted here that you aren't saying we needed new characters or something, because there are endless examples of long-running stories out there that keep to a core cast of characters - that's just kind of how stories tend to work in general. All that said, though, I'm not even that opposed to the idea of leaving Mata Nui - what bothered me more was the concurrent rapidly decreasing investment they put into keeping the story accessible and, more importantly, interesting. All the characters became flat and there was no reason to care because it was all so impersonal. But that's neither here nor there. I'm pretty sure that's inconsistent just because Greg writes by the seat of his pants and doesn't try too hard to make sure all the details line up. I was re-reading Mystery of Metru Nui recently and Greg has Ehyre tell Nuju more or less "the Great Disk is in such a dangerous place, you're probably going to die." Come to reveal the location in the next book, and its... on the side of a Knowledge Tower. And Nuju had already climbed up a Knowledge Tower to save Ehyre, before Ehyre said the whole "ohoho its so deadly" thing. Even better, it is implied Ehyre didn't even know it was on the side of the Tower, he just though it was on the top somewhere. Greg establishes that Knowledge Towers have convenient chutes leading up to their roofs earlier on.

this is "FishAnim2" I am very, very confused

TTV just posted an interview with Nathan Furst, the composer of the original film trilogy. It's all cool stuff, but the most interesting stuff for me was towards the end, where Furst recalls some intimations of future film ideas, from before they pulled the cord on the series. I suspect that Bob Thompson leaving Bionicle was contingent on the cancellation of the movies - Thompson's other work is mostly in animation and I guess if Bionicle wasn't going to be communicated primarily through animation anymore there wasn't much treason for him to stick around. If such a grand supposition might turn out to be true, the early concepts Furst talked about may indicate the direction Bionicle could have followed if Thompson hadn't left. He mentions two movies specifically: - Makuta origin movie - Movie succeeding Mask of Light, with Takanuva leading the Toa In the midst of it all, there is some suggestion that the overall grand concept was to jump liberally from point to point on the Bionicle timeline with each film, rather than jumping back to a linear chronology after all the Metru Nui business. The idea of a Makuta origin film is especially interesting imo, especially since it would seem to address the hanging bit in LoMN where Lhikan mentions Makuta was "sworn to protect the Matoran." The Bionicle canon does kind of address this, but not really in a way that ever seemed to satisfy the implication of what Lhikan was saying. That this movie was on the table indicates that there was a bigger idea in mind when that line was written. Takanuva as a fixture of the ignition trilogy would've been interesting, though really if things had gone that way it's quite probable that the entire trilogy would have been rendered unrecognizable to us (for the better, I'd like to think). Furst also mentions catching a sense of a conflict of interest within lego about which way Bionicle should go: more to the techno/robotic/scifi or more to the tribal/mythological, at least so far as the music went. I wonder if that argument extended to other aspects of the line. If it did, I guess we know who won. So yeah. Just putting thoughts down. Cool bionicle stuff

And its done... 4 Weeks of dragon picture each day A total of 28 pictures (with exceptions to the occasional bonuses) But now I'm going to call it done, i probably will redo this sometime again i the future though. Hope ya enjoyed and remember... Say no to dragon slaying! Day 22 Day 23 Day 24 Day 25 Day 26 Day 27 Day 28 (Finale)

Probably just some generic minifigure. There's also these ads from LEGO Mania Magazine: http://www.miniland.nl/LEGOclub/lego mania magazine mar apr 1997.htm http://www.miniland.nl/LEGOclub/lego mania magazine sep oct 1997.htm

They're cutaways. Likely just removed the top of the temple to get rid of a bunch of polygons you'd never see. Edit - oh, also, the top of the temple has some textures not used elsewhere in the scene, so removing it would allow them to not duplicate those textures and save some space (the cutscenes don't share assets with the rest of the game for some reason).

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Very interesting. I'm ultimately glad we didn't get a Makuta origin-story. It would probably have been a hackneyed "Upstanding hero turns psychotic after losing a friend/getting his feelings hurt"-sort of affair, not to mention a rip-off of the near contemporaneous Star Wars prequel trilogy. Ditto Takanuva leading the Toa Nuva. I quite appreciate that BIONICLE gave us a side-step with the Inika/Mahri. If that hadn't happened, I fear we'd have seen an absurd raising of the stakes, in order to prevent the Toa from looking invincible. I think there's a blindly nostalgic tendency among Bonkle fans to wish that the Mata Nui years had remained the status quo, as if that wouldn't have gotten stale rather quickly. Still, the prospect of ongoing BIONICLE films, not to mention a broader look at the Matoran Univere's history (the glimpses of which I found quite enjoyable,) is an enticing one. This probably isn't the case, but I can't help but wonder if the Takanuva plan was what Krakua was supposed to be referring to in Time Trap. Certainly, the whole thing doesn't line up with what actually happened, with Dume sending the Nuva, and Nokama sending the Inika-to-be.

Makuta Origin Movie... that's hard to imagine. If they took it seriously and made a wave(s) of sets around it, it could have been pretty darn cool. But if they didn't put their all into it, it's better that Makuta's backstory is left more to the imagination (not that Greg leaves much to the imagination, but it's a less solid impression than a movie would be). I guess it's because I only got into BIONICLE in 2004, but I'm kind of happy with how it all went. Having the "chosen one" lead the Ignition trilogy could have opened up the door to a million cliches and horrible prophecy-driven plots. And to be honest, I don't think BIONICLE ever got too techno; if the alternative was sticking too close to 01-03, that would have gotten old after 10 years, cool as it was for the first 3. It's sort of nice we got some diversity. </controversial opinion> Except I think these were all planned for after Metru Nui anyway.

Something that was always kind of weird about Pepper's two designs (after LEGO Island), they gave him designs that a normal LEGO minifigure can't have without off-branded items. Sooo, I've been working on a model in Blender. (yes, I also changed his face)

i'm so, so sorry

Oh lord, this is gonna be a fun ride. My sister had that game - and I would always wonder what does it even have to do with Lego.

It's a LEGO game that contains exactly zero LEGO bricks and has YTP potential. That's... I don't really have anything to say. Wow.

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ok review but more focus on the pastry would have been nice. what was that lego thing? also how do you build a pastry in a minute

@Ayliffe: Well, you also have to remember the process of opening the package (which happens in the first 30 seconds of the video). This would mean, that the model was built in LESS than a minute. So yeah: Still a scam* . *but what will happen, if we acknowledge the cuts in the video? Oh no, it only gets worse... !

This video is 1 minute and 22 seconds long WHAT A SCAM

GEE THANKS FOR PUTTING THIS LOVELY IMAGERY IN MY HEAD JUST BEFORE I GO TO SLEEP