Mr Stompie

Mr Stompie is another one of my MOC's based on Batman Lego, I dont have a particular preference for Batman Lego but it just turns out that way sometimes. 

 

Mr Stompie adds a bit of heavy muscle to the Joker's aresnal. He's a remotley controlled robot of epic proportions, a prototype, built for destruction and to keep bats at bay while he's up to general villanry. Normally controlled by one of the Joker's more trusted henchmen (so the Joker can sneek away while "Bats" is busy). 

 

As is often the case, this whole thing began with one interesting piece, the printed face piece which started out as the front of  a missile on the Joker helicopter. Not exceptionally creative to use a piece with a face on it as a face I guess, but there are some parts of Mr Stompie that I love.

The face print itself is pretty darn cool but with the addition of the white "horn" piece as a crooked nose, he looks kinda creepy. Two ice cream pieces make perfect candy floss style hair tufts and the collar and tie are one of my favorite parts of ol Stompie.

 

 

His right arm is a flame thrower, I added the pilot light for a bit of extra detail. Flame pieces can be added to the nozzle for effect if required (as seen in the field test below).

 

 

His left arm features a heavy metal ball and chain, you dont have to be the worlds greatest detective to know getting hit by that is bad idea!.

 

 

I love the mechanics on the back also, used quite a few fiddly pieces to add pnumatic looking piston detail. The arms can be adjusted up and down by removing studs from the pnumatic section at the bottom of the arms.

 

 

The addition of a few 1x1 silver round plates gives Mr Stompie a metalic look IMO.

 

 

Poor old Batman never stood a chance! Im sure he'll be back though.

 

And finally....Mr Stompie in action during testing.

 

 

Crime Alley MOC

 

Finally managed to find a few mins to upload some pictures of my Crime Alley MOC. Any fan of Batman comics will know that the dark knight seldom misses an opportunity to flashback to his parents death and turn all dark and moody, well with my lil Crime Alley MOC, he can finally pay his respects for ever.  

 

 

The MOC features a Mosaic floor section which depicts the outline of his parents body's from the crime scene. Didnt want to add too much detail as is only a 12 X 12 stud creation so, we have a dustbin to give it that alley feel, and a working lampost as well as the man himself complete with bunch of flowers.

 

The lampost has small LED running through its centre, recently found some cheap LED's which fit perfectly into any piece with a hollow stud. They were from those cheap battery operated sets of christmas lights you can get, you get 10 LED's and a battery pack for £1.....result!!

 

Poor Bruce, you can almost see the pain in his face :'(

 

Next!

Lego Movie Review (Spoilers)

Was lucky enought to check out the Lego Movie at the weekend in a super early preview. It is an awesome movie, animation is very cool and the look of it is fantastic, plenty of Lego references for young and old, !!SPOILER ALERT!! President Business is trying to make sure everything stays perfect using the Kra..Gl.e or Krazy Glue as we know it. Only the piece of resistance (which we discover is actually the lid of the Krazy Glue) can stop him. Much later in the movie we discover that the whole thing is being played out by the son of Will Ferrell (in the movie not actual son) in a very large basement filled with lego diaramas, City, Wild West, Space Etc. Will Ferrel (Dad) does not want his lego models played with as in his mind Lego is not a toy, so, he intends to glue everything in place to stop his son mucking around with it. Very clever and enjoyable movie. We see Lego being used in very creative ways by the master builders and the message being pushed here is very much that Lego is whatever you want it to be, throw away the instructions and build whatever you can imagine. This is where all the 2 in 1 sets come into play with the citizens of the city building all kinds of flying contraptions from standard vehicles in order to fight Lord Business. The movie is fantastic and for me promotes the real meaning and message of Lego.....that is is whatever you can think of.

The Lego Movie - Cloud Cukoo Palace Review

I have to admit I wasnt really expecitng great things from the movie sets but they've grown on me quite a bit. Cloud Cukoo Palace is one price tag away from the cheapest set at £18.00 and whilst from a playability point of view it is pretty much just a wall, it is the most fun looking set Ive seen for a while.

 

 

The front of the box is a wash of candy coloured curves and shows Emmet running as fast as his little legs will carry him to get away from Executron while top right, Unikitty almost looks like she's/he's laughing at poor Emmets predicament.....hmm not as nice as she/he looks that Unikitty.

 

 

The back of the box shows off the action features of the set, which arent that exciting to be honest, the swirly disc turns around and theres a seperate little catapault as demonstrated in the main pic. Poor od Executron has taken quite a blow to the head there, knocking his hair clean off his head, again Unikitty seems pleased by this.....

 

 

Okay lets get down to the cloud cukoo palace itself, like I mentioned before, the play features of this set are pretty limited, but for me that doesnt matter. It looks fantastic, it is what fun looks like when you define it with lego. Almost every piece of this set is curved and theres plenty of rare and new pieces to boot, although not that many of any specific piece, so if you have a MOC in mind youll prob need a few sets.

 

 

One thing that did annoy me slightly is the lack of studs left on the base of the finished build as you can see above, you can only attach the minifigures with one foot in most places, this is made worse by the red 1x1 round plate stuck to the back of Emmets leg, though this is more of an issue if you were playing with it, if your just displaying the set then you can live with it. On to the Minifigures....

 

 

Cloud Cukoo Palace is the cheapest set to feature a standard Wildstyle fig with hair and legs (she has her hood up in the cheaper set and the minifigure series has a skirt) as well as that very nice all new hood piece which sits over her shoulders, what I also like about this hood piece is that it sits around the head so that the head is flush on the body and not raised.

The Emmet in this set features unique facial expressions (all other sets having the "freaking out" face) which for me are better, he has a smile rather than a smirk on one side and his frightened face is a little more suttle.

The final minifigure is Executron who is also unique to this set, he's another robot character who from the look of him is some kind of agent. I saw an Executron figure on Ebay earlier today for £10?? Really!!??.anyway he is wearing a pretty standard suit which may prove usefull to some.

 

 

This set also includes the very cute Unikitty and a snail who is also pretty darn cute, while not strictly a minifigure, Unikitty is shown in the character corner pic on the front of the box while poor snail is not, snail only has a crawl on part in the movie I guess.

Unikitty is made almost entirely from new or rare pieces making her/him/it even more adorable. Even more cool, the spare pieces include pretty much all the little parts youll need to make an additional custom Unikitty including both pastel coloured feet, 1x1 round stud with hole and unicorn horn (and one snail eye).

Overall this set is pretty awesome, I wonder about the playability, there isnt really much to do once its built, but, the palace features plenty of rare and new parts which make it well worth the £18 price tag and the build, while its not rocket science, is good fun. The set also includes what I consider to be the best Emmet and Wildstyle figures

Hello and Welcome

Hey hey, good evening blog reading types and welcome to my new blog. Been a while since I updated the last blog so figured Id start a fresh, Ive been blogging for a good few years on and off mostly with my photography, but thought Id try something a lil different this time. Figured it was time to embrace my love of lego and share my lego shaped thoughts and pics, hope you like, Emmet sure seems pretty happy about it :).