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Click “Next” in the gallery above for the cinematic experience.
It’s a sequence of 74 pictures, so grab a bucket of popcorn. :-)
(Maybe standardized moonbase docking ports aren’t a good idea after all...)
K
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You are one twisted genius. That is absolutely awesome, amazing, cool, and
creepy. The concept is supremely unique of course, and the presentation and
building is really impressive.
One minor, quite forgivable nit: some of the photos seem repetitive, and drag on
the story sequence. If you’re trying to show off the construction (which
deserves the showing), a seperate gallery might work better.
Supremely awesome stuff!!!
-Stefan--shaking in my space boots-G.
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In lugnet.space, Stefan Garcia wrote:
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You are one twisted genius. That is absolutely awesome, amazing, cool, and
creepy. The concept is supremely unique of course, and the presentation and
building is really impressive.
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Thanks.
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One minor, quite forgivable nit: some of the photos seem repetitive, and drag
on the story sequence. If you’re trying to show off the construction (which
deserves the showing), a seperate gallery might work better.
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It’s the “Director’s Cut”. ;-)
K
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Quite an entertaining read, with an open ending to allow a sequel. Tell me, when
can we expect the merchandise? And can I have a cinnamon bun?
The Explorovores and their offspring are getting closer to earth...
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In lugnet.space, Sebastian Dyson wrote:
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Quite an entertaining read, with an open ending to allow a sequel. Tell me,
when can we expect the merchandise? And can I have a cinnamon bun?
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Moon Muffins are clearly more healthy.
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The Explorovores and their offspring are getting closer to earth...
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Spacefarers have essentially provided a trail of breadcrumbs to follow back to
the tasty source.
K
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In lugnet.space, Brian Cooper wrote:
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Click “Next” in the gallery above for the cinematic experience.
It’s a sequence of 74 pictures, so grab a bucket of popcorn. :-)
(Maybe standardized moonbase docking ports aren’t a good idea after all...)
K
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Awsome! You have a great talent at taking the right pictures at the right time.
Oh, and your imagination is weird! In a good kind of way, that is ;-)
Spotlighted!
/\/\ark “no more standard docking ports for me” de Kock
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In lugnet.space, Mark de Kock wrote:
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Awsome! You have a great talent at taking the right pictures at the right
time. Oh, and your imagination is weird! In a good kind of way, that is ;-)
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Thanks. I did take plenty of wrong pictures too. They were left on the cutting
room floor. ;-)
K
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Well Played
I believe the Weyland-Yutani Corperation may looking for one of those for their
Bio Weapons division.
Once again a great creation (although I would like to see more picture os just
the monster) and a great storyline. I’m starting to imagine a space station
where unsuspecting spacemen dock their ships only to realize to late they have
just landed in the mouth of one of these creatures.
Keep up the great work!
Chappie
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In lugnet.space, Chappie Adams wrote:
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Well Played
I believe the Weyland-Yutani Corperation may looking for one of those for
their Bio Weapons division.
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That’s always a mistake, in retrospect. Playing with fire.
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Once again a great creation (although I would like to see more picture os
just the monster) and a great storyline. I’m starting to imagine a space
station where unsuspecting spacemen dock their ships only to realize to late
they have just landed in the mouth of one of these creatures.
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They’d probably walk down the throat and into the stomach, looking for the
arcade and health spa. “This red, slimy decor is a bit overdone...”
K
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In lugnet.space, Brian Cooper wrote:
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Click “Next” in the gallery above for the cinematic experience.
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I was laughing. I was shaking. 2 thumbs up, it’s the must see Minifig epic of
January 2005!
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It’s a sequence of 74 pictures, so grab a bucket of popcorn. :-)
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Indeed. SO glad you decided to follow up on the suggestion you got about this,
you executed it superbly. Spotlighted! Thanks for sharing.
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(Maybe standardized moonbase docking ports aren’t a good idea after all...)
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You realise this just gives me another excuse not to build a Moonbase Module? It
would just get eaten, so why bother? :)
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In lugnet.space, Larry Pieniazek wrote:
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SO glad you decided to follow up on the suggestion you got about
this, you executed it superbly. Spotlighted! Thanks for sharing.
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Thanks. Comic stories with MOCs are one of my favorite forms of lugnet
entertainment, an added dimension to MOC building. I’d like to see them appear
more often. They’re very time consuming to do though (props, set, script,
photography, post-production).
K
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That rocks! I’m going to burn them pics to a DVD so I can view them in my
living room in 48-inch goodness with a bucket of popcorn.
James Wilson
Dallas, TX
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In lugnet.space, James Wilson wrote:
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That rocks! I’m going to burn them pics to a DVD so I can view them in my
living room in 48-inch goodness with a bucket of popcorn.
James Wilson
Dallas, TX
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Hey, if you’re making bootleg DVDs that’s stealing my profits. How am I supposed
to pay Carrie Fisher’s salary now? Ewan McGregor played the trooper squad
leader. Do you think he comes cheap? ;-)
K
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Brilliant.
Great original story and some very nice photography. Creates a great mood.
Creepy space sci-fi like 2001. Very nice constructions. And some of the best
“interior” photos I’ve ever seen for a space MOC. Great sense of humor.
I *liked* the pacing--I think it works well, so long as the viewer is on a fast
connection and doesn’t have to wait for the images to load. I don’t think many
stories could work well at that pace, but it really works here.
I kind of like the open-ended ending--or is it obvious what’s going to happen
and I’m missing it? I assumed the thing coming through the viewport toward the
end was some sort of egg--that it was reproducing. Yikes, maybe it was going to
mate!
(shudder)
-Brendan
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In lugnet.space, Brendan Powell Smith wrote:
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I kind of like the open-ended ending--or is it obvious what’s going to happen
and I’m missing it? I assumed the thing coming through the viewport toward
the end was some sort of egg--that it was reproducing. Yikes, maybe it was
going to mate!
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Well if that’s it was, maybe “Jungle Lust (tm)” would work better as a scent
than Cinnamon?
Anyway, if that’s what’s going on there, the monster apparently has good taste,
as Princess Leia has been slumming again.
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In lugnet.space, Brendan Powell Smith wrote:
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Brilliant.
Great original story and some very nice photography. Creates a great mood.
Creepy space sci-fi like 2001. Very nice constructions. And some of the
best “interior” photos I’ve ever seen for a space MOC. Great sense of humor.
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Thanks. I’ve always admired your skill with minifig scenes. My interior shots
benefited from some experiments I did with shadows a while back. The shadows are
manipulated for mood and atmosphere.
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I *liked* the pacing--I think it works well, so long as the viewer is on a
fast connection and doesn’t have to wait for the images to load. I don’t
think many stories could work well at that pace, but it really works here.
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I didn’t want to reveal the creature too soon in the show. I was building up
plausibility for the scenario, making the audience food for the creature, just
like the moonbase crew. You want a cinnamon bun, don’t you. Stale moon muffin?
Blech. :-) And of course the exterior scenes are in “lunar slow motion”.
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I kind of like the open-ended ending--or is it obvious what’s going to happen
and I’m missing it? I assumed the thing coming through the viewport toward
the end was some sort of egg--that it was reproducing. Yikes, maybe it was
going to mate!
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Ah, the ovipositor. You missed the Explorovore thread that explains the
exobiology.
K
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In lugnet.space, Brian Cooper wrote:
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Click “Next” in the gallery above for the cinematic experience.
It’s a sequence of 74 pictures, so grab a bucket of popcorn. :-)
(Maybe standardized moonbase docking ports aren’t a good idea after all...)
K
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I love it!
Best artistic touch- the use of foreshadowing. The heroine has cinnamon bun
hair, and the monster uses cinnamon as a lure. Beautiful!
Tim (Smith)
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In lugnet.space, Timothy P. Smith wrote:
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Best artistic touch- the use of foreshadowing. The heroine has cinnamon bun
hair, and the monster uses cinnamon as a lure. Beautiful!
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Yes, she was an unwitting agent of the creature, a walking billboard, as much a
part of the lure as the scent itself as she directed people to a red meaty
cinnamon scented oblivion.
K
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In lugnet.space, Brian Cooper wrote:
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Click “Next” in the gallery above for the cinematic experience.
It’s a sequence of 74 pictures, so grab a bucket of popcorn. :-)
(Maybe standardized moonbase docking ports aren’t a good idea after all...)
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You’re so crazy. I love it.
A small suggestion: Download some speech balloons and fonts from
Blambot
-Grand Admiral
.space Curator
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In lugnet.space, Mark Sandlin wrote:
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A small suggestion: Download some speech balloons and fonts from
Blambot
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Yes balloons are definitely part of the art of comic storytelling. The shape and
text style are used to convey tone and emotion. I’m still at the novice level
with balloons, just wanting them to look clean and consistent.
K
ps. I had a week of vacation. This project kept me from going crazy... or maybe
it didn’t. ;-)
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In lugnet.space, Brian Cooper wrote:
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Click “Next” in the gallery above for the cinematic experience.
It’s a sequence of 74 pictures, so grab a bucket of popcorn. :-)
(Maybe standardized moonbase docking ports aren’t a good idea after all...)
K
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very cool! you make things as scary as lego gets
Tim
PS, why am I the umpteenth person to comment when I was only the third person to
view the pics?
Tim
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In lugnet.space, Tim David wrote:
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very cool! you make things as scary as lego gets
Tim
PS, why am I the umpteenth person to comment when I was only the third person
to view the pics?
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Thanks.
Brickshelf doesn’t update its hit counters frequently.
K
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In lugnet.space, Brian Cooper wrote:
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Brickshelf doesn’t update its hit counters frequently.
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Actually, I believe that they are updated each day at midnight EST.
JOHN
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In lugnet.space, Brian Cooper wrote:
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Click “Next” in the gallery above for the cinematic experience.
It’s a sequence of 74 pictures, so grab a bucket of popcorn. :-)
(Maybe standardized moonbase docking ports aren’t a good idea after all...)
K
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So awesome. I love the noir-ish scifi feel. The Sixth-Sense-esque use of red, so
creepy! I think you just killed Brickshelf with it, guess I got to read it just
in time.
If I remember correctly, Soren Roberts knows a way to connect two of those 4x4
facety domes with a tire, which IMHO would make for a better egg.
Well played, as always!
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It’s pretty cool to see you do a comic-style project as well as you do your
giant Gundams. Not too many builders can do that kind of variety! I really
enjoyed the story, and this new take on your original concept. I particularly
enjoyed the cafeteria, which you made both realistic and decidedly less
appealing than a trip to Cinnabon! I agree, if you’re going to lure humans with
a particular scent, it would be tough to beat the Cinnabon aroma.
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In lugnet.space, Kyle Vrieze wrote:
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It’s pretty cool to see you do a comic-style project as well as you do your
giant Gundams. Not too many builders can do that kind of variety! I really
enjoyed the story, and this new take on your original concept. I
particularly enjoyed the cafeteria, which you made both realistic and
decidedly less appealing than a trip to Cinnabon! I agree, if you’re going
to lure humans with a particular scent, it would be tough to beat the
Cinnabon aroma.
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I think you’ll find that the ability to do variety exists in all builders.
Creativity is creativity. Building is building. It’s just a question of
motivation.
For example, I’ve never tried to make an interior like the cafeteria, but the
plot needed it, so I was motivated. I approached it logically. Me thinking:
Hmm... It needs a hygiene station first - little sinks for mandatory hand
washing, monitored by a camera. Then maybe a moon muffin buffet table, always
stale, even when fresh. How about a few pots of reheated moon gruel that you can
slop on radar dish plates that leak through a hole in the center. Something to
wash it all down? Yes, a drink dispenser. (Oh, and the ungainly goblets you must
use are RF tagged so you can’t leave the cafe with them and spill all over the
moonbase.) You can have either hot or cold. The spigot on the hot dispenser
needs to be fiddled with or you don’t get anything but a trickle. The cold
dispenser includes choices for orange and grape slushies. If you hit the button
for grape though you’ll still get orange, because I don’t like grape. In any
case all the orange syrup was used up months ago and you’ll just get plain slush
regardless. There are also only a few chairs in the cafe, austere stand up
tables being the primary place to eat. This isn’t a social meeting place, it’s a
grim, grey feeding trough. By the way, I hear a Cinnabon just opened off of
module 32. Hey, where are you going? :-)
K
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Muahahaha. You are insane and awesome.
I love the little details on the module, especially the train-window equipment
recesses. I'm going to steal that.
Soren
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In lugnet.space, Brian Cooper wrote:
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Click “Next” in the gallery above for the cinematic experience.
It’s a sequence of 74 pictures, so grab a bucket of popcorn. :-)
(Maybe standardized moonbase docking ports aren’t a good idea after all...)
K
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Okay, I got sucked in. It looked like just pics, then comic. Okay, funny up to
he cinnabon. Then kind if tiring.. then terrifying! I am going to have
nightmares... even before it planted it’s egg and created the ‘bait.’ I am so
creeped out.
One technical comment, I’m not a commic guy, but in several fromae I was reading
the left hand balloon first when the frit line is in the right hand one. Is
there some convention for that? Also, the lighting in the caffeteria seemed
like it should be more than just harsh moonlight. These are nits though. They
help me cope with my abject fear.
I may need counseling, thank you.
I mean more counseling
-Ken
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I paid for the entire seat, but I only needed the edge. Very nice work Brian.
I agree with some of the responses that a few of the shots are repetitive, but I
guess that builds the terror. The right-to-left captions confused me a little
too. My biggest gripe, however, is the lack of gratuitous nudity. For some
reason the final horrifying scene in the cafeteria reminds me of John
Carpenter’s remake of The Thing. Great comic, and I’ll be waiting for the
cheesy, shameless sequel.
-Keith
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In lugnet.space, Keith Goldman wrote:
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I paid for the entire seat, but I only needed the edge. Very nice work
Brian. I agree with some of the responses that a few of the shots are
repetitive, but I guess that builds the terror. The right-to-left captions
confused me a little too. My biggest gripe, however, is the lack of
gratuitous nudity. For some reason the final horrifying scene in the
cafeteria reminds me of John Carpenter’s remake of The Thing. Great comic,
and I’ll be waiting for the cheesy, shameless sequel.
-Keith
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Please sit back in your seat, hippie. Your big hair is blocking the view. ;-)
Yes, I confused even myself with the right to left text bubbles. I think the
proper technique is to give the first person speaking the highest bubble, when
you can’t place them left to right.
I want to see “Snake” in a comic adventure. There’s a button somewhere he can
press that will bring down the Reich. (They made the button to demonstrate their
perverse hubris.)
K
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As much as the ‘me too’ posts are only slightly better than noise, I gotta
say.....
Bravo, sir. Bravo.
-Gil
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In lugnet.space, Brian Cooper wrote:
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Click “Next” in the gallery above for the cinematic experience.
It’s a sequence of 74 pictures, so grab a bucket of popcorn. :-)
(Maybe standardized moonbase docking ports aren’t a good idea after all...)
K
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Heh, I knew something was gonna be funny when Tasty Treats were novel.
&
The end was really freaky.
Thank you!
e
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It’s a sequence of 74 pictures, so grab a bucket of popcorn. :-)
(Maybe standardized moonbase docking ports aren’t a good idea after all...)
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I’m a bit late to this one but I think you missed an opportunity here. We could
of had soldiers cutting loose down the hallway. (“Holy ---- man, they’re
everywhere!”) These megaphone guns are useless man! Holy Brick man! What do
we do?!? Aaaaaarrrrgghahha.......
Of course you did set this up for a sequel, so there may be hope yet. But I
swear now, on a stack of brick (and yes I have some at work to swear upon) if
you go the route of Alien ressurection I will come and personally shove clickits
up your nose until you see pink.
I doubt I got anything useful to add beyond that. Awesome Brian, just awesome.
Mark Neumann
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