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Re: More Illustrated Laws at The Brick Testament
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Mon, 25 Aug 2003 14:37:22 GMT
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   The beds looks great, but it appear a little strange to have two king sized beds in the same room? The lamps look odd.

Perhaps this is only an American thing, but showing that the room had two queen sized beds and the strange double-lamp fixture was supposed to imply that this is a motel room. They don’t have Motel 6 in Sweden, do they?

Not that I know, no.

  
   Dt 22:25. What is the fence made of? Technic fig skis? The micro fig farm is great! The pitchfork is somewhat confusing, is there another witch-hunt coming up? (j/k)

The fence is made of skis, yes, but I think they are minifig skis. Actually, I don’t know what set they’re from, so I can’t say for sure. I think this is the first time I’ve found a use for them.

Here’s Technic fig skis: http://peeron.com/inv/parts/2713

  
   Nice bowl for the pig! (And I literally mean the pig and not the rapist). The brown structure in the back looks very good, it’s immediately recognizable as a stable. The stapled hey is also great!

I’m glad the stable setting is recognizeable -- I’d been a little worried while putting it together. The pig is, of course, a Duplo animal. It’s actually the baby pig, which is why it looks OK compared to minifigs. They very annoying thing about the baby Duplo animals is that they come attached to a block of green plastic on which they stand. It was very hard work to liberate the pig from his little piece of pasture. Duplo is weird.

I’m glad you did not use Ior from the Duplo line when you did the animal thing with the bear in the last set of stories BTW: http://guide.lugnet.com/set/2977

Personally I’d laugh even harder but I suspect the outrage would have been tremendous...

  
   Dt 22:28. In the alley, the victims face is a tad disturbing. Still, it’s an interesting detail.

Disturbing howso, out of curiosity? I had considered doing a Photoshop touch-up to change her expression here, but I don’t like to do that unless I feel it’s very necessary. I certainly didn’t want for it to look like the victim was smiling or smirking in this photo, if that’s what you’re finding disturbing. I ended up feeling that her raised eyebrow and half-covered face expressed enough of a frightened and panicked expression to be appropriate.

To me, it looks like she’s having a good time. The corners of the mouth are raised a little to a small smile.

  
   In the last picture, is that foot massage or pant pulling? I “read” the black 1x1 round plates as cookies of some sort. Not to be confused with a previous use of 1x1 round’s. The plant is great! So is the comfy seat!

That’s supposed to be the newlywed husband pampering the newlywed wife, so he is giving her a foot massage while she reclines with a glass of wine and a heart-shaped box of dark chocolates. @8^)

A moment she’ll always look back to and wish it was not a one timer :)

  
   Dt 22:13-14. Now I don’t watch a lot of TV, only have three channels and there are not a lot of programs like that on them, still, the kind of show that is displayed here is instantly recognizable and totally hilarious! It shows the stereotypes just perfect!

I’m sure that Sweden is better off without the types of shows that this photo is spoofing.

We have Ricky Lake on another channel and I’ve seen some of Dr. Phil. Yuck.

   I did draw some inspiration from lugnet.build.military. But actually, I couldn’t seem to find anyone who had done a detailed model of a modern warfare tank. It seemed that most of what I saw was stuff from WWII and WWI. But you’re right, the SNOT work on a lot of those creations is amazing.

True, they tend to do a lot of WW-models.

  
   Dt 20:13. Now that’s a nice execution! 1 x 1 round tiles, is there anything they *can’t* do?

That photo is pretty disturbing. But equally diturbing to me is that no parent is ever going to write me an angry e-mail because their child saw my LEGO depiction of a mass execution. But if their kid sees one minifig lying atop another, that’s a moral outrage!

Not the same ball field I suspect. LEGO are innocent, they believe. It’s all in the eye of the observer.

  
   And can you explain to me why the price for brown minifig arms has tripled lately? :-)

It hasn’t really, has it? That’s gross!

Dunno but it would not surprise me :)

   Thanks again for all the comments!

You’re welcome! Thanks for bricking the best bits of the book :)

/Tobbe



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