Siegfried

You're pushing your luck. Don't argue with staff. Extended discussions about non-news makes the topic hard to read. This isn't your personal topic.

Thanks everyone for their comments! I do have plans for this ship so I can't say much, but yes, the cannons aren't useless. Possible, but it wouldn't change the look of the MOC much; I could just say the aft mast is one! There are till a few possible entries. We'll probably start the voting in a week. I agree... but I'm out of flags! I'll probably Bricklink some more reds later. Thanks for blogging her! Errr, I knew this was late, but is it that late? I'm glad to hear it as that was a main goal; I wanted it to look more sail ship than space ship. Thanks! I'm learning as I go! I have seen it, but it was years ago. I do agree that the design concepts are similar... and it's a shame I didn't think of it myself as I was struggling to find good inspiration photos! Not sure. The hull is 4 studs longer than Brick Beards Bounty as it has a plug for the directional engines and a bottom hatch (which is not shown). Thus it isn't shot as such, but the aft deck ended up looking higher that I wanted, even though I did some last minute re-profiling to lower it. I'll add a square looking side shot later... This was a plan from the start, but I wanted it to be more transparent. Bricklink? Actually I don't want it to look any more spacey! My wife had some similar suggestions which I ignored. (At my peril?) Besides, I've already modded the skull so it looks more evil on Sir Dillons advice!

Err.... sorta. The windows and a fair bit of the old grey is in The Luvly Laady. <-See! Wonderful windows! Like a lot of Harry Potter sets, this is a great one for parts. I'm not a Harry Potter fan, but I love(d) the line. Great colours, interesting figs... Thanks for the great review! Yeah, I agree but I missed that one.

So do I. This is a substantial grey area, but here's some tips to help; 1. Eurobricks is site about LEGO and as long as I am here, that will remain its focus. For that reason posting in an old LEGO topic is always better than posting in an old community topic. The entire community forum is just here so people can share off-topic interests and get to know each other better. For that reason Community topics date really fast so as a rough guideline anything older than a month is dubious. But as always, it does depend on the details. Topics like EB Members' titles archive are obviously different, as are ones like Car Talk if you've posted in them in the past. 2. LEGO reviews don't date. Thus if you have something relevant to say then feel free to post in a topic, but if it's more than a few months old please make sure it's good.... and if it's been a few years it better be really good! For example, if you liked the review or set and want to say so you probably shouldn't. If you've got an answer to a question (such as "Does anyone have pictures of the alternate model?) then by all means post! What you shouldn't do is ask questions. The original poster may not even visit EB any more. 3. LEGO MOCs do date, but once again if you have something important to add then it's OK. It may sound lame, but knowing the original poster or being a long term member really makes the difference here. 4. LEGO or site issue topics are almost always OK to post in. For example, the Brickshelf topic or the I'm in Outline view and don't know how to get out will always be relevant. 5. Who you are and how often you do it is a major factor as well. Do it three times in a day and you'll probably annoy someone, especially if you're a new member. Do it once a month and you'll probably get away with it, even if it's for a lame reason. In short, it's all common sense and it's hard to make clear rules about it. Feel free to consider these them if you want! One thing that I need to emphasise is why reviving old threads can be a bad thing. Here's a few; 1. People come and go and times and opinions change. Quoting someone, asking a question, or just assuming something based on past posts can annoy members and cause offence. 2. There's only room for so many recent topics and each bumped one bumps out another. This makes it hard to find the real new topics and can cause silly topic bumping wars and make a mess of everything. This is really annoying for people who don't have much time and find that the "new" topic they opened is really something they read last year that was bumped so someone could say "that's Kool!". 3. Some topics are just silly to post in. For example, Happy Birthday HappyOwl! won't be too relevant in a few months... Questions?

Yeah, this set is high on my list... and you've just made it higher! I like the integrated version. It'll look even better with a mirror version on the other side!

I'm still in re-build mode after my move. 200,000! Are you going to re-build it all? I still haven't decided with some sets. You'll get it back. So do the pneumatic parts seem the same as older ones?

The Story The story behind The Luvly Laady is an odd one. Clive Robertson was a successful business man living on Talemi, who had made his fortune selling bread. He was much loved too, mostly because he was the lead-by-example type. At least once a week he helped out at one of the factories, taking over any one of the workers jobs, and offering them the day off. (It was an informal tradition to stay anyway.) Since the bread industry was highly automated, this was a quite big deal; most factories had at most 20 workers. It was one of these days that he was driving a transporter, and it all went wrong. One of the engines cut out, leaving the transporter with insufficient power to maintain altitude. Clive could have ejected, but (as he said later) he didn't want to loose the cargo. That he was able to save... but he lost his right leg and left hand. (The bread was OK.) Here's where the story gets odd. Ordinarily losing a limb is a minor concern; clone repair or a cyborg replacements are commonplace and relatively cheap. But Clive refused these and instead got by with... a hook and peg-leg. He then sold everything, and put all his money in commissioning this ship. It became the talk of the galaxy; nice guy looks like a cliché pirate due to accident and then builds ship to match. It all seemed so funny... until it was finished and he actually started acting like one as well! He'd set up an ambush in a busy transit corridor, fire a warning blast, and radio "Prepare to be boarded!". However since his only crew was a robot it was never taken very seriously. Eventually though something had to be done, and thus he was arrested when he berthed next on charges of piracy. The trial didn't last long however. Considering his past (and his rather expensive lawyer) it was mostly dropped and he was given the punishment of community service. For this he did some free transporting using The Luvly Laady and once it was over he just kept working in shipping. He even occasionally does tourist trips... The Ship The Luvly Laady is not as impractical a ship as a casual glance would imply. She's capable of deep Dimensioning, of almost fighter like acceleration, and is very manoeuvrable considering her bulk. While she's more designed as a pure space craft, planetary operations are possible. The forward mast is in realty a crane arm, and the main one is used to generate a ram-scoop field. Even the rudder is useful; it's capable of directing the auxiliary drive! Inside she can carry two standard containers. In terms of armaments she is powerful, but inflexible. 48 military surplus plasma cannons give her the same fire-power as 8 Jury-Class fighters, but since Clive chose to ignore thousands of years of warship building experience, they are all fixed on the side. Thus while The Luvly Laady has an absolutely killer broadside, she is vulnerable to the top, bottom, side and rear. This also means she isn't a very good pirate ship as she can't accelerate with the main or directional drive and fire at the same time. (This was one of the main arguments given during the piracy trial.) Like most ships of this size, she's highly automated so aside from Clive only an android is needed for normal operations. The MOC This was all rather rushed due to my recent move so I don't consider this complete (are MOCs ever?); hopefully I'll get around to finishing it in a few months. Thus I'm open to suggestions!

Beautiful! I especially love how you've done the roof!

Indeed it does, but one expects more from Blakbird! I assume you have it?

Sorry to say, I have no further ideas. Mac support really isn't my best subject...

Pointless points are always pointless, but asking questions and offering support to active topic is more acceptable than with inactive ones. But with everything in life the mantra of "Everything in moderation" is relevant. If 10% of your posts are stuff like "Great MOC", this is cool. Sometimes you don't have the time to post more or you simply have nothing else to say. But on the other hand if 90% of the time your posts are stuff like "You're the greatest!" then there is a problem... Please don't pick on chambered people. More often than not they are released afterall...

Happy Birthday Sly Happy one! He's still SlyOwl. It's just a joke that would take too long to explain...

Hardly surprising! I'll check it out in a few days then!

Handjobs don't do it for me. Anything else on offer?

I recall only Monkey... but I'll ask the wife tomorrow...

Keep a few but throw the rest out. I used to keep all of mine but eventually it came a choice of room to build or the boxes. Prior to this I used to flat-pack the small into the big, but unless you have oodles of space it's just a short term solution.

Congrats to the winners! I picked all three and in the correct order too!

Well in your case it doesn't refer to you then. Was there any recent updates to your Mac then? Apple has a bad habit of changing settings and telling no one and this could be yet another case of it, for example. (Never head of Power Macs? Shame on you ; they were stunning machines and Apple should have stuck with them. PowerPCs are much better chips... it's just that x86 chips can be made cheaper and Apple stopped caring. The fact that the PS3, XBOX 360 and the Wii all use PowerPC derivatives is proof enough.) Don't encourage me...

Errr.... thanks? I could swear I've always felt this way. I even looked though discussions that went on around the time while you were staff and I honestly think I'm unchanged. Also, I've been a lazy dad for 10 years now... and I never buy LEGO without the wife's permission. The day someone believes they are the best at anything is the day they stop learning.

I found this here. Do you have an x86 or PPC Mac?

That's a good deal. Not as good as the $400 mine cost, but still good....

Indeed! $50 for the Freeco Speeder is rather insane as well. The City stuff seems better (but not good) priced this year though.

I got a second one of those after Christmas. There were no good sales before Christmas, but I got that at 33% off.

It's OK. We aren't trying to be the one-and-only LEGO site. There are loads of other great LEGO sites out there and I think it'd be a shame if there were no reason to ever go to any others. Just make sure you spend most of your time here.

Some of the deals are too good.