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putting minifigures in a blender tends to make them animated

Worlds has its own microsite now. Nothing really new on it as far as I can tell, but it's unusual for Lego games to get their own dedicated sites. That Worlds gets one says something about how seriously Lego is taking it.

For those few, if any, of you who were eagerly awaiting the continuation of Nexus Farce: IoI, I give you chapter 13. There's a couple reasons for the delay, school being one, and a structurally unsound Venture Koi interior another. The Venture Koi interior is, in many respects, one of my most impressive builds to date. Expect an IoI MOCs entry in the next few days, and regular chapter updates over the next few weeks.

So I have been thoroughly spoilt this year with a bucketload of Lego, some of which I haven’t even built/sorted yet…. Yeah, I’ve been totally spoilt. Absolutely and completely. No, this isn’t my Birthday + Christmas Lego. My birthday is in June – the stuff below has been obtained solely in the last two weeks. Nearly all of this Lego has been obtained by the tried-and-tested technique of me searching up Lego on TradeMe (= NZ Ebay) and buying it for cheap prices. This means that I get sets I like a lot very cheaply – the only disadvantage is that it is not much of a surprise, something I am happy to exchange for large quantities of Lego. It also occasionally is missing pieces. However, in all the Lego below I estimate I missed fewer than ten pieces – and I have enough to stock it up. You may know the game Greedy Santa or whatever you call it – it has many names as we have implements for destroying Lego knockoffs. (A rock and a concrete floor was my favourite). Instead of 1-2 presents per person (ppp) our family decides to go for a much more liberal about 5 ppp, making for a lot more fun. Furthermore, many of those are actually marginally valuable – including Lego. Not one, not two, but three sets of Lego. I’m well aware the links to images will break in a year’s time – I don’t hugely care, as if you really want ‘em search them up yourself. =P I also note the formatting from my Word document has broken - ah well. - 7305 Scarab Attack A very nice small little beetle complete with a large number accessories (missing two, though) - 2518 Nuckal’s ATV No instructions, so built something else with this. Very useful for spare part. - 71301 Ketar, Creature of Stone Wacko G2 Bonkle with an awful colour scheme. Trans Neon Green and TWO shades of brown? Bleugh. Will promptly be disassembled. And now onto the actual Christmas stuff. - 6110 Solo Sub Small petty, but quite nice, submarine. - 8151 Adrift Sport Small little racecar. *demolish and sort* - 8631 Jetpack Pursuit Interestingly this came with 2x snowspeeder because that’s just one of the perks of TradeMe – twice the bricks! Interesting attachment of Agent Chase to the jetpack – it’s the usual “torso-attachment,” but has a Technic pin at the back. ( - 8968 River Heist (not worth linking image =P ) Small petty boat only (<25 pieces) – more scrap! - 41560 Mixel Jamzy Another small little Mixel well worth getting for $8. Only useful thing of note is that its arms are such that it can eat its microphone. - 41572 Mixel Gobbol Green! That’s actually a surprisingly rare colour. Another nice Mixel . - 41568 Mixel Lewt We didn’t attach the crab claw / other arm, removed the eye stalks and simply called this the “Luggage,” from Discworld. After all, it’s a chest on legs with coins and a tongue inside… - 42044 Display Team Jet Amusingly, my sister got this for me and my dad got it for my brother, so collectively we now have two of them. A nice small plane, with a surprising amount of long beams which are currently in short supply here. It’s also got yellow 5-bars, which is unexpected. (New) Now onto the BIG LEGO STUFF - 4950 Loader Dozer – no picture needed =P This brings my Loader Dozer count to 4. - 4980 Tunnel Transport This brings my Tunnel Transport count to 3. Other LRR set counts: Hover Scout 1 Rapid Rider 2 Granite Grinder 2 Chrome Crusher 2 Rock Raider HQ 0 (yes, very sad)) - 8473 Nitro Race Team This is now our third lot of this set – BRICKS! (Well not really bricks, more Technic parts) And tyres too, but we’ve never found much of a use for them. - 7325 Cursed Cobra Statue I’ve always wanted Pharaoh’s Quest but have never had the chance to get any of the sets – well, now I’ve got three of them! A very nice snake – won’t demolish that! – and a nice two-seater car, which actually does fit two people providing neither of them has a long hairdo – which the girl does. (And as per stock “Lego’s-obligatory-defiance-of-gender-rights” she is holding a gun). (Quite cheap) - 7326 Rise of the Sphinx This set is very nice indeed. An antique car that unlike real antique cars, holds together quite nicely. Below the sphinx is the obligatory push-button-to-make-relic-come-flying-out, although it makes the obligatory hidden-loose-wall fall over and the relic merely moves outwards a bit. The sphinx is very nice – very decorative. (Cheap) - 60122 Volcano Crawler Lego Miners Mk III! The lime green is the same as Power Miners but there’s not nearly as much orange (and no Rock Monsters). Interesting usage of the Glatorian health-piece-or-something-it-had-six-prongs-whatever-it-was as a wheel for the track, which it works surprisingly well at. The pile-driver mechanism is awful – the elastic band pulls the weight up, which isn’t how these mechanisms work. A bit of fiddling and grabbing some other bricks and it works as it should. (New) - 70005 Laval’s Royal Fighter Chima! Huzzah? Obtained on the ground of “Bricks” and not much else, this is a really weird set. No, not the theme, the set. For starters, its frame/chassis/things to stuff tracks on is really well reinforced to even my excessive standards. This is offset by the fact that everything else isn’t. That head is attached by two feeble pins – and not even the special pins with []==, these pins are the -|- ones. The “pop-up-cannon” mechanism is… what you expect, but it’s actually really well designed. Its execution is awful and it’s more “pop-up-when-it-was-already-visible.” The head is also beautiful, really. That is, the upper part of the head. Ignoring the control panel, that nose is really nicely done. (Yes, I’m complimenting Chima! :0) …. but the lower jaw is absolutely awful. And in between the works of art of the chassis, head, and pop-up-cannon we have… uh… nothing. Just two other “space-fillers” and those aren’t even very large. On the plus side, that frame is FULL of long beams (six of them!) which will be very useful – this set has a lot of Technic, surprisingly. (Quite cheap) - 7020 Heavy Artillery Wagon The last Viking set I didn’t have! (Aside for the 1-warrior-vs-wolf that’s really small & it’s never popped up on TradeMe anyway). It’s another mechanical projectile launcher, like its brother set 7021 Double Catapult (which we also have, but not in this loot) . And like its brother, it needs a small bit of fiddling to get to work properly and can easily be improved. But it is nevertheless an extremely interesting design. Turn the crank to push the soccer seats down, then they’re released to shoot the projectile. For starters, following the instruction manual for the HAW meant that it wouldn’t fire at all – the “pusher” for the soccer seats was in the wrong spot. I had to do some fiddling to get it to work… but now that it does work, it works very nicely. Ten projectiles spat about 80cm in three seconds. Time passes and I spent the next week duplicating a 4x version of that design and am now halfway done rigging it up to a Manas motor (only RC motor we have ), as well as onto another Manas-controlled wheeled mount. Also, the battering ram at the front is very strange. It doesn’t slide out at all – it’s fixed. (Cheap) Other, less notable stuff: - Legoland - Second copy of Lego Racers 2 - Soccer Mania - About 600g (± 200g) of various chocolate, some posh (Lindor) and some less posh (Cadbury) - Four books (meh) - Toe-capped sandals that appear to be a magnet for grass seeds & burrs - Hiking whistle, for use when you’ve fallen down a ravine feeling dehydrated - Vuvuzela - 25 hours worth of Just a Minute, a BBC radio show And finally.... .... to replace my laptop with 2 GB RAM and a Vista OS that is ten years old, still functional, and the laptop I used for my final year of High School (that is, 2016) ... a new laptop of my own, for the purposes of advancing into University next year with a decent laptop. Although "decent" is an understatement. 16 GB RAM, and an i7-6700HQ at 2.6 GHz processor. That is faster than the desktop which I built a little while ago and can't be bothered digging up the thread link for on RRU. I am so grateful to my parents. EDIT3: Also got To the Moon from Ace, which I have yet to install or even read the description of the Store Page for

[SARCASM] [/SARCASM] Sincere apologies to anyone possibly offended by this "Joke"

This implies that said minifigures won't be furious

It has been prophesied that one day a LEGO game will be created. This forum is a shrine created in preparation. Sometimes we pretend LEGO games have already come to our world, and that we mod them. Seriously though, to answer your question, you can play around with engines like Unity or Unreal if you wanna. Plenty of tutorials online for both.

the ideal body

Still waiting for "LEGO Universe but every-time I log in the game's servers shut down". [OFFTOPIC] [/OFFTOPIC]

it's not hard to find them

What an incredibly useless piece of software.

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So I have a new method to be test by all you AMD peeps. This method has worked for me with my AMD card + Windows 10. (Tested with vanilla and Cafeteria enabled) 1. Download WineD3D 4Win 2 2. Dump ddraw.dll, libwine.dll, wined3d.dll into LRR's directory from the downloaded zip. 3. Set to 16 bit colour mode (Or set it in the compatibility tab of the game) 4. Start LRR, but select "windowed" on the Mode Selection window, making sure the wine3d display driver is also selected. Let me know your results.

8:44 PM - PeabodySam: Gilbert the Bad is in this. 8:45 PM - PeabodySam: Wha-? 8:45 PM - Terrev: what 8:45 PM - PeabodySam: ... 8:45 PM - Terrev: ?! 8:45 PM - Terrev: he is?! 8:45 PM - PeabodySam: I repeat my earlier statement. 8:45 PM - PeabodySam: This looks like (even if it doesn't play like) what Dimensions should have been. 8:45 PM - PeabodySam: 10:56 of that "Part 1" gameplay video. 8:45 PM - PeabodySam: Vladek at 10:59. 8:45 PM - Terrev: dang 8:46 PM - PeabodySam: Kahuka at 11:08. 8:46 PM - PeabodySam: That pirate in the thumnbail is "Nobeard". 8:46 PM - PeabodySam: Redbeard sports his 2016 look. 8:46 PM - PeabodySam: 2009 Broadside is just called "Royal Feather", meh. 9:05 PM - PeabodySam: Y'know, what I'm honestly surprised (and, admittedly, pleased) about is the apparent lack of Chima. Some quick and dirty screencaps... I'm suddenly kinda interested in this...

This? I've re-uploaded it (in 720p though) for those that can't view the original.

Set name: Emma Number: 3132 Theme: SCALA Year: 1999 RRP: I don't know Lots of pictures under the cut!

So yeah, for some reason I had the idea to make that photo into a cheesy 70's movie-poster. It didn't quite come out that way, but what the heck. I've already spent an inordinate amount of time on the thing. Outtakes.

Join rock raider as he zones out and and remembers his Christmases back at home! Edit: Fixed the gamma! Eeeh, so I'm ever so slightly late. I was getting ready for bed last night. when I got this idea at 4:30 AM in the morning.

I still have yet to go to bed, so no gifts for me yet. (I was gonna wait till 6:30 AM to post, but I want to go to bed early on this night) I have no idea what I'm getting this year, pony t-shirts maybe? Edit: Well after getting only 2 hours of sleep tonight [got interrupted for gifts] I got a pony tee, a winter coat, and a cordless clipper for cutting my own hair, and that's it. My list feels small next to you guy's. ._. (but I'm okay with it)

You... you okay there buddy? ಠ_à²