X-wing MOC

[XimenaPaulina]

Classic Mr Man! Your new much-deserved title says it all.

Thanks for putting this 'light-hearted' moment amidst all the heated discussions about accuracy.

[Fallenangel]

And here I was, thinking you were actually going along with it. Actually, I admit I still think you played that rather well...

I was admittedly a little pissed but willing to tolerate the joke (I even offered some constructive criticism pretending this was a serious attempt at an MOC) until Mr Man decided to act pretentious about it:

I thought about it but I couldn't find them in the correct colours, and as the title says, it needs to be as accurate as possible.

Does anyone know what colour the flick fires on the real Incom T-65 X-wing are? If you can help thanks a lot.

I think he's just jealous that he can't get this any more perfect , and is lost for words

Choosing to take a crack at my opinions regarding the potential of LEGO Star Wars MOCs and my affinity for the X-wing studio miniatures by making some kind of sick joke about pretending this blocky red thing is the best LEGO X-wing ever less than a day after half the entire community got through telling the resident X-wing fan of Eurobricks that he shouldn't be such an megablocks about accuracy is grossly inappropriate and poorly timed. I'm aware that we should all learn to laugh at ourselves but this is hardly the best time. Sure, it's April Fools' Day and I should be able to take a joke or two but this is harassment. I'm still trying to pick up the pieces after def finished telling me off; do you honestly think that after another member already started a thread on the premise of denouncing my opinions and ridiculing what he evidently perceived as the absurdity of my position regarding the accuracy of an MOC I'm going to just laugh if off when a bunch of people say that this piece of crap is going to make me proud? After having thoroughly demonstrated to me the importance of respecting others' opinions it strikes me as hypocritical and sophomoric that people here would go along with something like this.

I suppose that at this point you want to tell me to calm down and take it easy, that it’s all in good fun. Well, give me a chance! This kind of thing has been happening way too many times lately and the last thing I had expected was for someone else other than me to perpetuate it.

Classic Mr Man! Your new much-deserved title says it all.

Hardly well-deserved.

Troll and trueness ON:

I take back my previous statement; were it not for the four wings I don't think I would have even been able to tell this was an X-wing. Your average non-Star Wars fan probably would have thought that it was just some big red spaceship thing without the X-wing concept ever occurring to them. (X-wings aren't the only science-fiction ships with four wings, after all.)

With a forward oblique view of an X-wing two of the first things that should catch your eye are the angular canopy and the large air intakes. On Mr Man's model the former isn't very prominent and the latter is nowhere to be seen and all that's left to look at are those blocky and obtrusive wedge pieces in the front that destroy any attempt by the viewer to identify the X-wing's thin nose (which marshal_banana did a fantastic job of representing - probably the sleekest nose I've ever seen on a LEGO X-wing). The fact that the ship is actually wider in the front than in the back just kills whatever attempt at association with the X-wing is left, leaving the viewer confused and disappointed.

If the purpose of a Star Wars MOC is to capture the "essence" of a ship I fail to see any "essence" in this big red blocky mess. I've never had much admiration for LEGO's X-wings but I'd take 30051 or even 4502 over this MOC any day; they might be ugly, but hey, at least you can tell at first sight that they're X-wings.

Troll and trueness OFF.

[Blackknight112]

I was admittedly a little pissed but willing to tolerate the joke (I even offered some constructive criticism pretending this was a serious attempt at an MOC) until Mr Man decided to act pretentious about it:

Choosing to take a crack at my opinions regarding the potential of LEGO Star Wars MOCs and my affinity for the X-wing studio miniatures by making some kind of sick joke about pretending this blocky red thing is the best LEGO X-wing ever less than a day after half the entire community got through telling the resident X-wing fan of Eurobricks that he shouldn't be such an megablocks about accuracy is grossly inappropriate and poorly timed. I'm aware that we should all learn to laugh at ourselves but this is hardly the best time. Sure, it's April Fools' Day and I should be able to take a joke or two but this is harassment. I'm still trying to pick up the pieces after def finished telling me off; do you honestly think that after another member already started a thread on the premise of denouncing my opinions and ridiculing what he evidently perceived as the absurdity of my position regarding the accuracy of an MOC I'm going to just laugh if off when a bunch of people say that this piece of crap is going to make me proud? After having thoroughly demonstrated to me the importance of respecting others' opinions it strikes me as hypocritical and sophomoric that people here would go along with something like this.

I suppose that at this point you want to tell me to calm down and take it easy, that it’s all in good fun. Well, give me a chance! This kind of thing has been happening way too many times lately and the last thing I had expected was for someone else other than me to perpetuate it.

Hardly well-deserved.

You need to relax, it was just a joke.

(I agree this sort of accurecy things are happening alot lately. You are known for the fact you really want all the accurecy you can get, and you write pages full about it. Because everybody knows your "extreme" thoughts, they will make a lot of jokes and comments about you. But they never intend to harm you with it. I agree sometimes the comments are going to far lately, but I am sure kimT is watching every move we make!)

I dont want to start a discussion about this here. So lets stay on topic. And talk about this awsome x-wing

Edited April 2, 2011 by Blackknight112

[Mr Man]

Right before this topic gets locked.

For the most part I am happy with how this April fools day joke turned out. But first.

Sorry fallenangel309.

This MOC was not a bash at you. I, and I'm certain many others greatly respect your lengthy, well researched, and expert advice on different MOCS, but especially the X-wing.

This thread was, what I thought, a bit of harmless fun. When deciding what rubbish MOC to do for this thread My mind went to the recent ho-ha over KielDaMan's BARC (which spawned the accuracy thread that I also refer to in this thread), I was originally going to do a BARC, but in the end I decided to do a X-wing, being the most famous craft in SW. If I had have gone with the BARC I would have thanked KielDaMan and DobbyClone, but because it was a X-wing I decided to pretend that EB's resident X-wing expert fallenangel309 Had given me lots of help with this via PM, this was to enhance the joke and possibly fool people into thinking it might actually be a real X-wing MOC. I purposely didn't reply to you suggestions, as you pointed out in another thread it is hard to tell if someone is been sarcastic online, and I didn't want to start anything untoward.

For the record you have done nothing to me, its just as this was a X-wing MOC (in a manner of speaking) I thought of you. I will also PM this to fallenangel309, just in case He doesn't read this thread again.

As for everyone else thank you for your kind and mock-serious suggestions, that continued this joke all the way through to half 10 the following day.

Once again

Sorry fallenangel309.

[KimT]

Ok this is it.

April 1st is over, so I'll close this.

Now is the time to stop bashing Fallenangel.

I'm sure the past days of heated discussion has made it very clear that not everyone aims at 100% accuracy when MOCing, but this is getting out of hand and it has to stop.

NOW!