Siegfried

You can PM me if you feel this way.

Please explain.

Voting is live!

"The time has come," the Walrus said, "To vote of many things: Of rigs--and ships--and sea-planes-- Of sharks --and many-a-boat-- And why the sea is made of pins-- And whether LEGO can float." Vote. Now. Go. Stop. Reading. Do. Now.

"The time has come," the Walrus said, "To vote of many things: Of rigs--and ships--and sea-planes-- Of sharks --and many-a-boat-- And why the sea is made of pins-- And whether LEGO can float." It's voting time for TSTTS! First off, here are the ones picked by the voting panel; 1. Falkirk Wheel jojoguy10 2. The Harbour Tug efferman 3. Water Jeep Rodeown 4. Semi-submersible Zaiocrit 5. Speedboat dfs473 6. Motor Boat & water skiing Tomik 7. 6x6 Amphibious watercraft Zblj 8. Steampunk shark submersible legobodgers 9. Lifeguard's Personal Watercraft Lipko 10. Leviathan Omikron 11. Oil Rig Crtlego 12. SEA PLANE rumpletump 13. Water Strider Splat 14. Piper Super Cub Float Plane dhc6twinotter 15. Micro Port Luc2000 Congrats to all who survived the Technic sea and made it past the playful Orca... and sorry to those that did not. To be honest I liked all the entries, even Blue Pin Tuna. But the 15 above were deemed by the panel (which did include me) as the more appropriate ones. (Find all the entries in the Contest Index.) Voting Rules: You have a total of 7 points to allocate to your favourite entries. You can give a maximum of 4 points to any one entry. Clearly mention the entry number and the amount of points per entry that you vote on. (NB: We'll use the entry number to count the votes so make sure to mention it!) You may NOT vote if you joined Eurobricks on or after the 10th of April 2012. This is to prevent people registering just to vote, and applies even if you entered the contest. You may NOT vote for your own entry. This voting thread will remain open for approximately one week. In the event of a tie for any place the Eurobricks staff and/or the Technic Meisters will decide which entry wins. Their decision is final. Please use this thread only for voting. You may explain why you made your choice, but any general discussion should take place in the To sail the Technic sea main topic.. Example of how to vote: So what's up for grabs? Well assuming we can keep the Orca at bay... The Prizes 1st prize: Unimog purchased by EB from LEGO Shop@Home. 2nd prize: Backhoe purchased by EB from LEGO Shop@Home. 3rd, 4th, 5th and 6th prize: Misc Unimog parts, provided by CopMike. Hub piece (4610378) = x4 Portal Axle housing (4610377) = x4 94.3 x 38R tires (4610381) = x4 C-shaped pivot frame (4610379) = x2 Cup to fit on above pivot (4610380) = x2 x2 x2 Picture for reference only. So there you go... stop lying around and get voting!

This year is the 50th anniversary of LEGO in Australia and TLG has made a site to celebrate! So far there's a few stories and a video, but it seems TLG has events planned for the rest of the year! Hurrah! Thanks TLG! Supposedly there'll be a reveal on Wednesday with more details... Discuss it here!

This year is the 50th anniversary of LEGO in Australia (we're a bit slow ) and TLG has made a site to celebrate! So far there's a few stories and a video, but it seems TLG has events planned for the rest of the year! Hurrah! Thanks TLG! Supposedly there'll be a reveal on Wednesday with more details...

So, in about 2-3 days... probably. Possibly earlier.

Darn. I went looking for that without success. I'll look again tomorrow.

<blunt mode>I was thinking it was a sign of rubbish lens</blunt mode> ... why would someone want to blur the edge of a photo like that. It actually hurts my eyes looking at it. However looking at it again (ouch!) I think you're right. It does seem that the edge of all the photos has been de-focused... Art. I just don't get it sometimes.

To be honest I think you've overdosed on reducing depth of field. I realise that it's fun to do when you get a better camera (I recently got a new macro lens for mine), but I think the blur on the tips is ruining the photos. (...and the images are a tad too big.)

Nice review! Interestingly I got this set recently too... and on sale! I bought most of the sets of this line, but this one was too much of a middle set for me so I had other priorities. I was actually considering doing a review of it, but since you've done a quite nice one I'll probably do another set instead. (BTW, you've got two interesting issues with your review; firstly you label the set "7066" in the image, and secondly the tails are on backwards in a few shots... )

Very classy! Actually no; I added that months back to deter spammers. I've got others, for try "Vinnies" or "stupid dead sheep shoes"... (I've removed it.)

Don't forget that this topic is about the sets, not the show. I've moved a few of the show related posts to the relevant topic...

New topic.

You can't edit it? Yeah, I'll allow it. I'll add it to the index tomorrow. You need to remove two images though. You didn't remove the images so I removed these; Making me do it gives you +5 grumpy points.

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Thank you and... ...yes they do. The vote is now live! In about 5 days there should be a public vote for the remaining entries....

That's a shame. Yep! Updated! Well I'm just waiting on one entry before starting the prevote...

It's turned out wonderful.

OK. But be aware that the vote is starting today. BTW, this is a perfect example of why I don't want digital entries. Negating factors like weight, strength and CG just wouldn't be fair...

Then you really shouldn't be posting one at all. The point of that rule is to reduce the need to trust unknown people as we have had a few people create double accounts for the purpose of selling sets they didn't have... Anyway, I'll be nice and move this since you're close to a Citizen, but please keep this in mind.

New topic.

Because I don't want to? Actually no. The simple fact is if you give a firm deadline people always complain about missing the date because of timezones/sickness/bricklink orders/the universe/cats. Thus I tend to have a more fluid public deadline and a less public real time. In reality a firm deadline is often useless as it often takes a few days for the vote to be organised, weeks for prizes to arrive... thus what's a few days here and there? Firm rules break, relaxed rules bend as needed... like trees in a breeze. Groovy man. But I just added something.