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This is the usual boilerplate: walls, cops, a mech, a monorail, Black Seperatists, a canal, downtrodden masses and Snake Plissken (the Man sent him in). You have your customary options: Just the pretty pictures: (URL) Some tired smack: (URL) You (...) (20 years ago, 22-Dec-04, to lugnet.space, lugnet.build.mecha, FTX) !!
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(...) Rockin as always Keith. Look forward to some new skies in the Reich. -Dan (20 years ago, 22-Dec-04, to lugnet.space, lugnet.build.mecha, FTX)
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(...) I like those (URL) planters> looks just like a huge, soul-crushing housing project. And great (URL) pipes>! I hope you change your mind about ending the Iron Reich scenes. Marc Nelson Jr. (20 years ago, 22-Dec-04, to lugnet.space, lugnet.build.mecha, FTX)
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(...) Bust out that Sailor moon outfit and... well, you never know. Fun as always Keith. I've spent time already trying to find as much of the story out in the pics, and always find more. I particuarily like the green windows. Very cool touch. I (...) (20 years ago, 22-Dec-04, to lugnet.space, lugnet.build.mecha, FTX)
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(...) Apart from the fact that the crowd look like they're just standing around instead of rioting (what, have they been gassed already?), and the gate which looks so pissant as to be completely out of place in such a masterpiece of Reich (...) (20 years ago, 22-Dec-04, to lugnet.space, lugnet.build.mecha, FTX)
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(...) This is the usual praise: some very nice touches, lots of good grey, the plant walls are absolutely great, shiny water, witty commentary, etc etc etc. (...) Na, you're pretty much all sweetness and light already! I spotlighted it, of course, (...) (20 years ago, 22-Dec-04, to lugnet.space, lugnet.build.mecha, FTX)
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(...) WOW! I especially love the columns beneath the bridge. (URL) I've looked at the inverted sloped 6x6x2 for a long time but couldn't quite figure what to stick under them (other than stacking 2x4s in a square or using macaroni). The octagonal (...) (20 years ago, 22-Dec-04, to lugnet.space, lugnet.build.mecha, FTX)
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Snake Plissken? I thought he was dead. I've always wondered why you create these fantastic elaborate Reich scenes but don't really put them into motion. Building is just half the fun. The hippy rioters need to riot. The police need to beat them (...) (20 years ago, 22-Dec-04, to lugnet.space, FTX)
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(...) Many thanks Snow-Daddy. (...) Yes, the cop in question is probably getting set to examine the corpse of a stripper, with a black light. (...) Be careful what you wish for, imagine a planet ruled by David Lee Roth...I shudder to think... (...) (20 years ago, 22-Dec-04, to lugnet.space, lugnet.build.mecha, FTX)
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(...) I'd love to shell you with a fiery retort (or at least speak disparagingly of yor mother)...but sadly you are correct. The riot is weak..more of a queue, or breadline than a riot. In retrospect I should have spent more time on it, but the damn (...) (20 years ago, 22-Dec-04, to lugnet.space, lugnet.build.mecha, FTX)
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(...) I thought for sure you'd mention the yellow truck, which shows a sinister train influence. (...) Awww Larry, stop it, or people will talk. We're supposed to be bitter enemies after all. It must be that holiday feeling. Its a Festivus Miracle! (...) (20 years ago, 22-Dec-04, to lugnet.space, lugnet.build.mecha, FTX)
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(...) Maybe he should be, after Escape from L.A., but I like to pretend that film never happened. (...) Because I'm an idiot, with lingering a.d.d. If a MOC sits on that table for too long, I feel an overwhelming urge to tear it down and start (...) (20 years ago, 22-Dec-04, to lugnet.space, FTX)
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Word! Your Worshipness has pulled out, yet another scrumptaculous delicacy. What more can be said? My first born for the Reich! F 'Cause ya can't have the Asian without the Thunder P.S. Happy now? (20 years ago, 22-Dec-04, to lugnet.space, lugnet.build.mecha, FTX)
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(...) Incredible! I love all your creations ... so much detail - so much good stuff. Wow. -- Pawel (URL) (20 years ago, 22-Dec-04, to lugnet.space, lugnet.build.mecha, FTX)
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LEGOGASM . e (20 years ago, 23-Dec-04, to lugnet.space, lugnet.build.mecha, FTX)
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(...) I keep having visions of some Iron Reich Police Officers setting up a machine gun in front of the rioters. (...) I kind of imagine the Iron Reich housing units looking kind of like the appartment in The Fifth Element. On to the actual (...) (20 years ago, 23-Dec-04, to lugnet.space, FTX)
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All of my neighbors probably think I'm some kind of lunatic now. I looked at the pictures on MOC Pages and read all the tired smack. Each burst of laughter just got louder. ...of course, they probably all think I'm a lunatic anyway. David "Fuzzy" (...) (20 years ago, 23-Dec-04, to lugnet.space, lugnet.build.mecha, FTX)
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(...) Frankly my captian...you frighten me. Attack! Mike (20 years ago, 23-Dec-04, to lugnet.space, lugnet.build.mecha, FTX)
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(...) Wow. This could be the real headquarters of the Lego World City Police ;-) - I really think that the Lego World City Police State is a precursor to the Iron Reich... Just in tone with the fake LWCP sets I thought up for April (but never built, (...) (20 years ago, 23-Dec-04, to lugnet.space, lugnet.build.mecha)
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Wow, 15 spotlight reviews! And while everyone is busy with holiday shopping and traveling, no less. But I must say, rarely has a MOC been so deserving. Astounding, I think, sums it up. I mean, I was not truly in the Christmas spirit until I viewed (...) (20 years ago, 23-Dec-04, to lugnet.space, lugnet.build.mecha, FTX)
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(...) I like this idea: PCS : Classic Space :: World City Police : Iron Reich -brendan (20 years ago, 23-Dec-04, to lugnet.space, lugnet.build.mecha)
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(...) What an awesome contribution! What it reminds me of, more than anything, is the video game Future Cop: LAPD. This is just the kind of thing that would be a scenario for that game, where you pilot a Mech to put down riots, etc. I can just (...) (20 years ago, 23-Dec-04, to lugnet.space, lugnet.build.mecha, FTX)
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(...) I could probably spend a week just looking at all the details. (If I had the time) (...) That is, as always, just mind bogglingly impresive. -Mike Petrucelli (20 years ago, 23-Dec-04, to lugnet.space, lugnet.build.mecha, FTX)
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(...) Keith, Really nice work, I like how "city of the future" it is while not looking like some wierd casino planet from Battlestar Galactica. This would be an awesome place to visit. Thanks for sharing it. Jon (20 years ago, 23-Dec-04, to lugnet.space, lugnet.build.mecha, FTX)
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(...) While the offer of your first born child is enticing, the likelyhood of you successfully coupling to produce said offspring is dubious at best. Still, The State appreciates your sacrifice. (...) Not until you post your space fighters and those (...) (20 years ago, 24-Dec-04, to lugnet.space, lugnet.build.mecha, FTX)
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(...) You could be right Christian, both themes do share a love of encarceration, uniforms and in-your-face justice. Lego has had a grand tradition of encareration, almost every theme has a kit featuring a cell of some kind. Lagoon lockup for the (...) (20 years ago, 24-Dec-04, to lugnet.space, lugnet.build.mecha)
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(...) Thanks Rev., but it has been a slow news-day on Lugnet for a few weeks now, and I think people are just happy to see a MOC, rather than more bitching and moaning about the good old days and how Lego has somehow screwed them. (...) I should (...) (20 years ago, 24-Dec-04, to lugnet.space, lugnet.build.mecha, FTX)
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(...) WOW!!! What can be said that has not been said already. The attention to detail can clearly be seen.....and the green windows...too cool. Then you throw in Snake Plisskin ...what more could you ask for. Excellent Moc! Marcus. (20 years ago, 24-Dec-04, to lugnet.space, lugnet.build.mecha, FTX)
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(...) I laughed. I cried. I kicked Fradel in the jimmy and had his car towed. I envied your collection of 6575 Polar Base walls. I really just dig how you can create a scene (as opposed to cause a scene, but that's why they keep us on different (...) (20 years ago, 30-Dec-04, to lugnet.space, lugnet.build.mecha)
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(...) Really cool. I really like the terraced building w/ the trans-green windows. Is it the Iron Reich Grand Plaza Hotel? And, like otherz said, the Iron Reich Garden really rocks! The whole MOC would make a great movie set, no doubt. Concerning (...) (20 years ago, 15-Jan-05, to lugnet.space, lugnet.build.mecha, FTX)
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(...) Keith, So yesterday morning i was finally able to go thru the pics at fullsize. Granted it took a good 45 minutes on our slow computer that uses dialup but it was worth it. ;-) Anyway, I hadn't replied before now cause I didn't think it (...) (20 years ago, 18-Jan-05, to lugnet.space, lugnet.build.mecha, FTX)
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(...) Andrew, thanks for the kind words and for taking the time to post them. I don't think I'm quite there yet with the futuristic architecture...the reich was always supposed to be much more near-future than PCS and the rest of the themes. (...) (20 years ago, 18-Jan-05, to lugnet.space, lugnet.build.mecha, FTX)
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(...) No, the trans-green glass building is a douche-hostel for traveling douchebags. (...) Garden? Garden!? Now you're just provoking me. (...) This is perhaps your one and only valid point...I thought about posting it to .Town because as you (...) (20 years ago, 19-Jan-05, to lugnet.space, lugnet.build.mecha, FTX)
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(...) Tourette's I think it is. But I have to wonder how it is you know these things? (...) That would rock, but.... he's already got dibs on the Bible (GOD told me so, so it must be true!) so you'd need another "holy book" to do... hmm... I know, (...) (20 years ago, 19-Jan-05, to lugnet.space, lugnet.build.mecha, FTX)
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(...) Keith, you crazy bastard! (That's what I call the "straight forward smack") Your stuff is freaking insanely unbelievable. It's really two fold... on one hand you have these amazing large-scale, very detailed MOCs which people spend literally (...) (20 years ago, 19-Jan-05, to lugnet.space, lugnet.build.mecha, FTX)
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