Monday, November 17, 2014

Soft toys talking exclusive: Playing tetris

Elder sister penguin: *Goes to her computer to play her newly downloaded game, tetris.* Yay! I love tetris! *Opens the program and sees the starting page as 2 Lego Legends of chima minifigures fighting.* O_o Huh? *Clicks play and the loading screen is a picture of the back of the chima cards* Huh? What the? Wait, the controls are still the same, just a different background. Phew!
Video(Stop motion) of what was on Elder sister penguin's computer.





Doorbell: Ding-dong!
Elder sister penguin: Oh goodness gracious who could be at the door when I'm playing tetris?! *Walks to door without pausing the game*(This part is signified by her not moving the blocks when they come down, causing the game to be over.)
Harmony Bear: Hello Elder sister penguin!
Elder sister penguin: Hi Harmony Bear! What are you doing here for?
Harmony Bear: Oh, I just wanted to give you an early present for Christmas and it is 16 Lego minifigure series 12 packets, each individually felt by me to make sure there are no duplicates!!
Elder sister penguin: Wow, thank you Harmony Bear!
Harmony Bear: You're welcome! Have fun! *Goes back to her house*
Elder sister penguin: *Shuts the door and locks it, then she goes back to her computer and realises it is game over* NOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! COME ON! But at least I've gotten minifigures for free! :D *Opens all the 16 packets and enters all the codes into her game* Yay!!!!
Here are the pictures of the soft toys mentioned in this post.

Elder sister penguin

Harmony Bear

Written by Lynn
Video by Lynn

Thursday, November 6, 2014

Lego Angry Birds Transformers MOC: Bumblebee

Here's my Lego Angry Birds Transformers MOC, Bumblebee! Here are 5 pictures of it.


Robot mode(front view)

Robot mode(back view)

Robot mode, right hand transformed into a gun

Vehicle mode(back view)

Vehicle mode(front view)
Like I said in my review of the Angry Birds Transformers telepod Bumblebee, I made a Lego bumblebee for Angry Birds Transformers. Why did I do that? Simply because I felt like his telepod was really inaccurate compared to his actual game form, in which his hands/arms aren't doors and the doors are like a bee's 'wings', similar to most of the forms he had for the movies except for Age Of Extinction(AOE). In that sense, it was inaccurate since the telepod itself had doors as arms. Also, Bumblebee's body wasn't totally flat in game, but as a telepod he was, so basically my purpose of making this was to fix the inaccuracies made in robot mode for Bumblebee.

In Angry Birds transformers, Bumblebee mostly takes the form of the classic movie style Bumblebee appearance, except the head has Chuck on it. For your info, the whole MOC is made out of Lego pieces except for Chuck. I could have made a completely custom head for him, but I was too lazy to, so I just stuck a Chuck figurine from the knock on wood toy and placed it there as his head. However because I did this, his head is now inaccurate to the game version, but honestly I never cared much about his head. I cared more about getting him to look more like the in game 'Bumblebee' for his body rather than the head. This MOC took quite a few days to come to this form as I've been changing things all over the place before this was done and I was satisfied with it, not forgetting that I still wanted to make this figure able to transform because, well, it's a TRANSFORMER!!! It needs the ability to transform! And for that matter, I did not want Bumblebee to turn into almost like a thick jeep with tiny wheels which happened in the building process for Bumblebee. In the end, I decided to check out the designs of the actual Transformers Bumblebee toys for inspiration on how to make him look better and more... uh Bumblebee-like. This made a significant difference to his look, and now I am very satisfied with it. At first I actually wanted to make him totally made out of CCBS(AKA Hero Factory parts) except for the head but then, I did not have enough yellow CCBS armour/parts so I added in the system pieces(AKA normal Lego bricks) into the MOC and I think it worked out well!
Of course, all that is left is the gun! I just made that small gun which can flip into a hand because that's what happens in the game. When the character you're using is not shooting anything, it is a hand. However, once your character is shooting something, the hand will turn into a gun, which is a trait that I've decided to bring into this MOC. That's it for now and I hope you like this MOC as much as I do!

Written by Lynn