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Why that ? Only the pneumatic connectors seem to prevent you from moving them closer to the ankle. Have you tried using a #5 CCBS shell ?

Some G2-related documents recently surfaced on BMP. It's mostly hi-res product images and visuals (including box templates, if anyone would like to create their own Bionicle box), but the most interesting, to me, is the story bible : it confirms that the G1 and the G2 are linked through the Vahi, and states that the Great Beings themselves created Okoto. It also confirms that the Mask of Ultimate Power was supposed to be released in 2017, had Lego followed through their initial plan.

Something like this ? Printing parts would come up as very expensive, especially if you need many of them. it would be a more efficient solution to buy standard pins and sand down the stop rings. If you're not against damaging your parts.

Thanks for your comments ,@Nick Wolfe and @JoeyB. There were some great entries, but I made it through the first round, and even ended up second in my category in the second round, which means I won Darth Maul : And, of course, thanks to @Dorek and the BS01 team for organizing this contest. (:

The Old Fishing Store is a fantastic set, but there's one thing it lacks : a fishing boat. So I've built one, using the parts from the set : And, since I had a few leftover parts after building it, I thought "Well, why wouldn't I build a little house ?" It had to be little, because building bigger means I would have to use too many big plates, which doesn't look as good as I'd like to, as you can see on the WIP pictures in this album. So I took this first version apart, kept the main ideas, and made this : Inside there's a small kitchen, a couch, a table, a desk with a chair, and a bed : And, finally, a pic of the boat next to the house : More pictures (additional views of the house and the boat) can be found in the flickr album.

Looking at the sets in which it appears could help, maybe ?

Ah, true. Shanghai has temples too, so maybe Notre-Dame is possible after all...

Same here, but perhaps it's another licensed model designed after a bike that hasn't been revealed yet, and therefore it's going to be a summer set. 42092 will probably similar to the 8068 from 2011. I'm surprised to see there's two cards in the list, but I'm looking forward to see the GT Race Car, it's going to be smaller than the Porsche and the Bugatti, but still big enough to have real functions and a decent design.

(I think you meant Grande Arche ?) Notre-Dame and the Sacré-Cœur are religious buildings, which makes them unlikely, unfortunately. The colourful Centre Pompidou could work well in Lego, but could be hard to get right at such a small scale. The Place de la Concorde, with its obelisk, would be easier to build.

Thanks for the review, Jim. I like the style of the set, and I like the idea behind it. It's cool to see some futuristic Technic sets, like this one or the B-Model of the 42063. Looking at the crazy prototypes seen in the booklet, they could easily do plenty of futuristic vehicles in the future. Speaking of which, the tracked... thing in the bottom right hand corner reminds me of the set 8996. But from a technical and mechanical standpoint, it's a tad disappointing. It would have been nice to have suspensions, and some more complex features (like a gearbox, or a system to extend the counterweight and raise the chassis at the same time, either with liftarms or by linking the two features with gears); something to make the set more interesting for this price. I think it should be relatively easy to make a smaller version of the set, with, perhaps, more features. Smaller wheels, a smaller bucket, MLAs, that could work. Not saying that I would or could do it, though.

It's very possible that they've been delayed. After all, googling their respectives EAN codes give links to an increasing number of online stores, where the Super Battle Droid is listed with a price of about 30€, and the AT-RT is 70€. But for now, we're in August, and these sets are nowhere to be seen, so it's more reasonable to assume they've actually been canceled, unfortunately.

Well, I guess this topic now belongs in the Licensed subforum... This is James Bond's car in The Living Daylights. Actually, this MOC has nothing to do with the announcement of a partnership between Lego and Aston Martin and the James Bond Franchise. This is a mere coincidence. In fact, I've built this MOC for a contest (or rather a challonj') on a french forum back in May. First, here's a few reference pics (and a video demonstrating the car's spy features) : And now, my recreation of the car : The MOC was initially a virtual build, and you can see the complete model, along with some renderings, on Mecabricks. Unlike the physical build, the "original" MOC features James Bond himself. It was the best I could do, but he's not good enough to my taste, so I chose not to include him in the physical build. If you have ideas for a better Timothy Dalton Bond, feel free to tell me what you have in mind. For those who want to build it, you can open the MOC in the editor. While there are not real instructions, the model is divided in numbered groups, which should make the build easier.

For BS01's Art Book Contest, I've built an alternate version of Umarak, set in a universe where Ekimu is the bad guy and Makuta is the good guy. Therefore, in this version of the 2016 storyline, the Elemental Creatures were chased by the evil Toa, and Umarak was the only one who could protect them with his powers of Light. His appearance is roughly inspired by Cernunnos, a Celtic God associated with Nature and often depicted with antlers. The gold gives him a noble and regal appearance, and the plant / green parts show his deep connection with Okoto's environment. You can see more pictures of him in the Flickr album. Cheers !

That big ? I would have expected it to use the same wheels as the London Bus. At least that gives an idea of the scale of the model.

Nice ! I was actually planning on building one too after my ankylosaurus, but now that I've seen it, it's going to be hard to avoid looking at your MOC for inspiration. As @Littleworlds said, the head is perfectly shaped, and the tiny arms are an excellent detail that help making your MOC a recognizable carnotaurus.

There has been a mini Beetle, but it wasn't a polybag, it was a boxed set. It was still a GWP, though. It's been released in 2017, one year after the Expert Beetle (while there has also been a mini London Bus, which was offered... in 2016, on year before the release of the Expert Bus). In this case, it could be a mini-version of the car, but also a minifig of Bond, James Bond, depending on whether or not one is included in the set. And even if he is in the set, the GWP could be a different version of him, a different actor.

Here's the link to his flickr gallery : https://www.flickr.com/photos/148691465@N05/ There are some very special Technic parts : I don't know if all of these parts are on sale on his BL store, though.

And that's because the initial Cuusoo project included the three versions, IIRC. They "had" to include this feature, since it was part of the project people voted for. Now, given the (presumed) scale of the (presumed) car, wouldn't they be able to easily hide the spy gadgets they want to include ?

You can also add this Technic connector, on which the cam is attached. Currently it's only available in black and DBG.

Since the James Bond Twitter account replied to Lego's initial tweet shortly after Aston Martin, I seriously doubt that.

I highly doubt that. It just wouldn't work. It would be like building the DeLorean in sand blue. All things considered, grey is not so bad.

Oh, I think I know ! Does it have something to do with a certain 3m tall yellow and grey build at the Lego House ?

Link of the said tweet : A DB5 would explain Samuel Johnson's comment about the Jaguar. But it would certainly be grey (I don't see it being metallic silver or pearl light grey). That's... not really exciting. Looking forward to see what they'll do anyway.

The set 10262 is listed on Amazon, I guess it's the next Expert car, but something's off with the details they give : the weight and box size don't match the rumoured price, so they're most certainly provisional.

Neat ! I've always wanted to build an evil version of Good guy, so that's a perfect opportunity.