Svelte

Bricklink! Actually now that pearl gold cheese is available via the Kingdoms set, I may have to revisit this in future and change some of the tiles to slopes

Shave well, my friends. Shave well Happy birthday all!

To celebrate Collective Madness Collectable Minifig May, EB Fellow Peppermint_M has been treating us to a series of bigs featuring the lovable plastic scamps. She's now half-way through and treats us to a scene of spectacular metal ultraviolence with her Crash Test Dummies Click on the pic to discuss this big and check Peppermint_M's signature for links to her other bigs, or browse our Town forum!

I can't believe we're halfway through already! With this amazing pile-up, this big really has sense of dynamism and ultra-violence. I love how the dummy on the bike has thrown up his arms in futile defence against the unstoppable machine rage

No, it's too late I'm afraid.

It's all true And you can vote now! Thanks Zorbas! You are always very kind. And the Ishtar Gate is indeed stunning - one of my favourite ancient pieces of architecture - and it would be amazing to see in LEGO form Don't tempt me All these gates... I feel like some kind of deranged Gatekeeper

VOTING - Category 1 - Expand the Theme Please post your votes in this thread. Voting ends 5 days from the time stamp on this post and it will be announced in the thread when time is up. Voting is open to all members who joined prior to contest opening date of April 16 You vote by allocating three points to the entries, giving the name of the person you are voting for. You can allocate these points any way you wish. Eg, valid point allocations would be: 3 points Shadows; OR, 2 points Shadows, 1 point Svelte; OR 1 point Shadows, 1 point Svelte, 1 point Siegfried Entrants are NOT allowed to vote for themselves In the event of a tie, the winning entry will be adjudicated by a specially convened panel of Staff! (Not including moi.) Any questions about these rules go in the Discussion Thread! Category 1 - Expand the Theme Prince of Persia has one of the smallest lines ever produced - only 5 sets. Expand the official universe by creating your own version of a LEGO Prince of Persia set. It could be a building, battle-scene, vehicle, or whatever you can imagine, and range in size from a chariot to a full UCS-style temple. It could reflect scenes from the movie or video game series, but doesn’t necessarily need to. It should look like a set that LEGO might actually produce. No minimum or maximum part or minifig limit Entry should include the name of your creation, and a 1-paragraph description written in the style of a Shop @ Home blurb You do not need to use any official Prince of Persia parts or figs to enter. See the full list of rules below Post your entries in the Category 1 entry topic located here First Prize: 7573 Battle of Alamut, kindly donated by The LEGO Group and shipped courtesy of the Eurobricks staff. Second Prize: DUPLO Prince of Persia promo brick & Nizam Key Chain 1. halfpenguinhalflego's The Gateway to Alkapput! 2. Johnno's The Skeleton Merchant 3. Skalldyr's The Oasis of Little Birds 4. I Scream Clone's Sands of Time 5. brickzone's Waterfront Abduction! 6. samuraiturtle's The Ice Crystal Temple 7. sologuy369 - disqualified for oversize images 8. Yonkou's The Tree of Life 9. lego-maniac's The Nizam's Palace 10. YG-49's Sheik Amar's Desert Hut 11. L-DI-EGO's Guardian Battle 12. lisgr's The Ostrich Race Game 13. Inconspicuous' Skull Palace Escape 14. JopieK's The Palace of the Flying Fakir 15. greenskull139's Temple Battle 16. krystalKING's PERSIAN DOWN UNDER ATTACK! 17. jammiedodger714's Battle Chariot Pursuit 18. Mr palmtree's Sultan's Palace 19. willy poodle's Draxes' Palace 20. jansued's The Desert Fort 21. pedro's Dhurban Chariot Race 22. Masked Builder's Desert Ambush 23. Oky Wan Kenobi's Nizam's Warship

It hardly seems possible but Eurobricks' Prince of Persia Month is almost at an end The movie opens this week across the globe, so make sure you stop in to the LEGO Licensed Forum and cast your vote from amongst the amazing entries in our PoP Contest! Three categories! Second place prizes revealed! PoP till you drop - while you still can! (With thanks to TLG for donating our major prizes.)

VOTING - Category 2 - The Persian Version Please post your votes in this thread. Voting ends 5 days from the time stamp on this post and it will be announced in the thread when time is up. Voting is open to all members who joined prior to contest opening date of April 16 You vote by allocating three points to the entries, giving the name of the person you are voting for. You can allocate these points any way you wish. Eg, valid point allocations would be: 3 points Shadows; OR, 2 points Shadows, 1 point Svelte; OR 1 point Shadows, 1 point Svelte, 1 point Siegfried Entrants are NOT allowed to vote for themselves In the event of a tie, the winning entry will be adjudicated by a specially convened panel of Staff! (Not including moi.) Any questions about these rules go in the Discussion Thread! Category 2 – The Persian Version aka The Persian-ify Could you make a desert oasis from a Belville set? Or a sacred temple from a modular building? How about a mechanical chariot from a Technic bulldozer, or caravanserai from an Emerald Night? Put your skills to the test by Persian-ifying a set from an existing LEGO theme. You don’t even have to use parts from the original set, but you can if you wish. The aim is to produce a Persian-spirited version of an existing set, populated with minifigs and details which might occupy the POP-verse. No minimum or maximum part or minifig limit Entry should include the name of your creation, a 1 paragraph description of your set’s Persian-specific features, and a link to the Brickset reference page of the original You do not need to use any official Prince of Persia parts or figs to enter. See the full list of rules below. Post your entries in the Category 2 entry topic located here First Prize: 7571 Fight for the Dagger, kindly donated by The LEGO Group and shipped courtesy of the Eurobricks staff. Second Prize: DUPLO Prince of Persia promo brick & Princess Tamina Key Chain 1. Tereglith's Dastan's Battle Chariot 2. Peppermint_M's Police Motorbike 3. greg3's Persian Post Station 4. Dunjohn's Cameltraz 5. metalslime's Shah's pimped chariot 6. Fatyankee's Single-Drum Roller 7. pedro's Karaban ~ The Sand-cloud City 8. samuraiturtle's Imperial Cavalry 9. bricknave's Scorpion Sweeper 10. MrTools' Modular Market Square 11. JaseTJ - Disqualified for not resizing images 12. JimButcher's Hassassin's Arsenal 13. brickzone's Camouflaged Den 14. Rook's PoP Vs SWU 15. Sandy's Hippogrif Palace 16. Fugazi's Persian Grocer 17. lisgr's Fight for the Golden Tower 18. Swiss Army Droid's Persian Armoured Chariot[/url] 19. -GZ-'s Persian Traveller 20. Mr Palmtree's Princess' Litter 21. Jammiedodger714's Dastan's Message

Voting has commenced! You have 5 days! Go and make the Nizam Dastan proud!

VOTING - Category 3 - BAM - Build A Market stall Please post your votes in this thread. Voting ends 5 days from the time stamp on this post and it will be announced in the thread when time is up. Voting is open to all members who joined prior to contest opening date of April 16 You vote by allocating three points to the entries, giving the name of the person you are voting for. You can allocate these points any way you wish. Eg, valid point allocations would be: 3 points Shadows; OR, 2 points Shadows, 1 point Svelte; OR 1 point Shadows, 1 point Svelte, 1 point Siegfried Entrants are NOT allowed to vote for themselves In the event of a tie, the winning entry will be adjudicated by a specially convened panel of Staff! (Not including moi.) Any questions about these rules go in the Discussion Thread! Category 3 Description - BAM (Build a Market Stall) The Alamut bazaar is a bustling hub of commerce – but that merchant seems lonely with just an apple cart and a camel for a customer! Create an add-on to the official 7571 Fight for the Dagger set by designing your own unique small-sized Market Stall! It can be in any style you wish and sell any product! 250 pieces maximum, not including minifigs Any minifig accessory held in a fig’s hands or worn on its body does not add to the part count; any fig accessory or part not used on a fig does count (eg if a merchant was holding an apple, it wouldn’t count, but it would if it was sitting in a bowl as part of the stall display) Entry should include the name of your creation You do not need to use any official Prince of Persia parts or figs to enter. See the full list of rules below Post your entries in the Category 3 entry topic located here First Prize: 7570 Ostrich Race, kindly donated by The LEGO Group and shipped courtesy of the Eurobricks staff. Second Prize: DUPLO Prince of Persia promo brick & Dastan Key Chain 1. Peppermint_M's Anwer's Strange things from Exotic Lands. 2. Inconspicuous' Al's One-Stop Convenience Stall 3. cralegoboy's Behrooz's Weapons and Exotic Apparel 4. sologuy369's Rafeefa's Pet Stand 5. SuperBagel's Abdullah's Shop 6. Fugazi's Persian Carpets! 7. Tereglith's Abu's Fantastic Puppet Spectacular! 8. Masked Builder's Jise's Get Every Thing You Need Shop. 9. I Scream Clone's Shadows Slippery Sales: New and used flying carpets. 10. awesomebrick's Mohomads food hall stall! 11. NewRight's Persian Delicacy 12. Fatyankee's Abdullah and Ackbars bizarre fast food 13. Johnno's Trouble 14. lisgr's Bottled Genie Inc. 15. metalslime's Persian rugs by the corner 16. LegoLyon's Dr. Acbar's Travelling Medicine Stall 17. Dunjohn's Krazy Achmar and Krazy Achmed's Minifigs Shack 18. BobaFett2's Market Stall 19. Dannylonglegs' Behold, Abudabi's Used Steeds 20. Jammiedodger714's Quality Ostrich Supplies 21. Captain Blackmoor's Fresh, cold water for sale! 22. Emperor Claudius Rome's Sanje's Exotic slave booth 23. samuraiturtle's Aheeb's Exotic Fish Stand 24. JaseTJ - Disqualified for not resizing images 25. greg3's Kaseem's Camel Dairy 26. Ponury's Food, dishes or gambling? 27. greenskull139's Ali-karim and kosos' market shop 28. Capt. Stabbin's Akbar's Hand Crafted Boats 29. gussguss' Ardavan's Super Market (stall) 30. pedro's Dhurban Indoor Bazaar 31. Oky Wan's Belly Dance & Hookah Bar 32. badboytje88's Alamut Market 33. Infomaniac's Murderous Market Madness 34. Skalldyr's Morgenland 35. Plissken's Lady Miranda - Fortune Teller and Voodoo Supply 36. -GZ-'s ALL FOR PRINCES! 37. L-DI-EGO's Weapons and other equipment stall 38. lego-maniac's Nizam's Palace Door Market 39. ThatGuyWithTheBricks' Satipo-Al-Babar's Weapons Stall! 40. krystalKING's OMAR'S GOLD AND GEM'S 41. Gamer's Sam Sinisters goods from far away lands. 42. Mr palmtree's Persian snow vendor

Cute! Thanks to these pics, I am loving the figs more and more - it's a shame the sets are a little lacklustre. What a great idea to update classic designs with today's beautiful figs The Crowny livery does look out of place (I assume that's what Hornbricker means). Red and blue are both such strong colours - I can see why the designers chose dark green as a contrast. Thanks for sharing TB!

The tiling seems to receive a mixed reaction, but I wanted the tan section to be smooth to contrast with the bley studded ground and the stud-o-mania of the fortress towers. It is supposed to look like smooth, polished rock to deter minifigs from scaling it from below! The hard part was getting to the height of the rocky base from the end of the arched bridge without making the gradation too wide and thus blocking out the bridge. So it was a compromise in the end, which is why the base has more detail but it leaps up very quickly.

Thanks Erds! This is my favourite theme for parts in a long, long time - possibly ever! - so I am stockpiling these babies Most of the nougat came from BL. I was lucky with the corner wedges - a seller listed over 100 for 9c each and I snapped them up - the price is a lot higher now, which is probably right for a part that only comes in 1 set and only 6 pieces in that. Thanks tiger! I didn't forget the duckie, I did consider it but realised I had just been brainwashed by PrEtzel A lot of people dislike these kind of pieces on principle, but the Alpha Team ice rock has always been one of my favourites Thanks TB! That is high praise indeed. This is something of a departure for me - my largest MOC ever! Normally for space reasons I work to a 32x32 baseplate so I enjoyed having a bit more room to play with. Since the arched, sloping bridge was the feature that really caught my eye from Aleppo, I designed that first and everything flowed from there. I always loved Castle as a kid but the sheer number of amazing MOCs by master builders can be intiimidating - so I wanted to do something quite different. Because LEGO is amazing! Thanks Zorroman!

Thanks for the review TB! I have mixed feelings about this set (and the line is generally unimpressive, apart from the figs). While I do appreciate the different shape, and the logical detailing with stairs and internal ladders etc, there is something just lacking overall about the whole experience. Maybe it's the mix of parts? Lack of interior? I can't quite put my finger on it... Still, if I was going to get a Kingdoms set this would probably be it I do wonder if we had seen an Elflands theme in Fantasy that it would have ended up something like this...

Thanks Iz! The shape looks simple but arranging the limited palette and getting the proportions right was the challenge in this one, rather than fancy techniques. Still, I knocked it out in about 4 days so I was pretty happy The bathroom is the most popular part I wanted to contrast the dry, dusty, rocky rough lives of the Alamut Guards with the pristine decadence of the Nizam in his palace, luxuriating in water. Plus I love medium blue, and trans-medium blue is one of my favourite colours - I like to throw some in when I can (like the 8x8 plate in the Department Store roof pool, or even some of my earliest MOCs on EB like the Elflands contest). It's kind of a running theme, like using the pot plants. Interesting point. I wanted to make a contrast with the rough & studdy dark bley ground with the more slippery and unclimbable mountain part. I was probably thinking more of the original Aleppo gate where the incline is much steeper and unfriendlier than this MOC. Thanks Ras! I pride myself on colour work and I think the contrast between the icy blue bathroom and the red desert fort is a really lovely one. I may try your suggestion with de-tiling too Thanks Superkalle! The dinosaur flipper parts have a Technic pin end which just clips neatly into the holes in the wheel pieces. It seriously is the easiest technique in the world! Thanks iamded! I am glad you picked it up. The stream isn't as prominent in the photos as it is in the MOC (it needs to be thin to fit under the arch). I always like to have a little bit of story in my creations.

Went to all LEGO-selling stores in Sydney CBD and Bondi Junction today - nothing! (No Endors either.)

PRINCE OF PERSIA - SCORPION FORT ** Click on all pics for high-res versions ** Under an angry sky, the Nizam's guards watch over the entrance to the Scorpion Fort - a solid, spiky stronghold built into desert rock. An easily-defensible bridge traverses the two Towers, under which a thin, sickly stream sluggishly idles. Dastan's poor camel gets no respite from the poisonous looking waters; near the front Tower, a travelling native lights a small campfire in preparation for the icy desert night. On the other side of the entrance to the fort, we see a couple of bloated pigs sniffing for sweetmeats amongst the desert rock - let's hope they don't run into that black scorpion! The pigs are probably the only creatures that find the poisonous-looking waters running under the arched bridge in any way enticing. The main gate to the Fort itself. The thin corridor adds an extra level of defence - no opponents can easily rush the entrance. On either side, the distinctive gold scorpion motif identifies this as a stronghold of the Nizam. The front section doesn't look too intimidating - unless you are a humble petitioner standing at the very base of the stairs, looking up. A travelling PoP-Svelte lights a fire to keep warm - temperatures in the desert can drop to below freezing at night! The bridge is solidly buttressed with arches for maximum structural integrity. From above, the Scorpion Fort entrance is just as intimidating - if not moreso! A rear view of the main gate to the Scorpion Fort. A cutaway shows the Nizam's private bathroom hidden beneath the solid rock. So that's where the fresh streamwater has diverted! The Nizam does some of his most vile scheming and plotting whilst taking a leisurely bubble-bath. Fresh water pipes in from the waterfall to fill the tub. The Nizam daydreams as he goes through his daily beauty routine - notice the soap and gold vial of bath salts. 'Yes, Tamina... you shall soon be mine... Or maybe Dastan, whose abs are the very colour of the Scorpion Fort itself... or maybe both of you shall kneel before me... mwahahahah!... Ahem... can someone get me some tissues?' The Scorpion Fort can be attached to other bits of Arabic architecture one may have lying around. Here, the more modern style of the Alamut Gate acts as an entrance where merchants gather, with the military walled mountain fort behind it. Bonus pic of the intimidating view from the very front of the Scorpion Fort, looking up. A Dastan-less closeup view of the bridge and towers. A more detailed view of the sickly green stream! Design Notes: This design is based on the entrance to the ancient city of Aleppo, Syria, with its distinctive double gate and bridge. Ever since I did the poster art for PoP month I wanted to do a much larger MOC using a colour scheme of dark bley, pearl gold and medium nougat. With a very limited palette of bricks in nougat - no plates or tiles! - it was quite difficult to do areas like flat steps and the roof of the towers - so I am very happy with the result. Whilst I was initially unsure of using it for detail, the 1x4 brick adds great textural detail and is in keeping with the Arabic theme. I'd love to keep going and do a proper Fort - instead of just a walled gate - but that would require a serious investment of $$$ and space One day... Anyone interested in Arabic architecture or MOCing should consult 'Architecture of the Islamic World' edited by George Michell (Thams & Hudson, 1978, reprinted 1999) - it's an amazing visual reference.

I did mean to post today but work has been busy Oky Wan is wise... Soon

Yay! I love a good loot post Go Pi! Happy birthday everyone!

I am locking this thread. I mean, come on. Surely the fact you couldn't post in the appropriate forum should have been a clue that maybe you should have contacted someone before posting this in a clearly inappropriate place? I have removed the address and will leave this thread here for the time being as an example of how NOT to post

DaleDVM brings us an EB Exclusive in the first-ever review of 7946 King's Castle: Click on the pic to discuss this set in our LEGO Historic Themes forum.

Not until after the winners are announced towards the end of the month.

grogall the non-stop newshound brings us brilliant images of the 8684 Collectible Minifigs Series 2 Click on the pic for lots more pictures and to join the discussion!

Yay! Amazing news, grogall! Thanks for these brilliant official pics!