Yes, I am a Geek

So since Blacktron creations have been scarce as of late, I have decided to do a little profile on all of my Blacktron minifigs, of which I have 50 or so, as of this post. I shall (hopefully) doing one profile a week, so this should last me a year. Hmm, maybe I should do two a week... I will also be getting more Blacktron minifigs as time goes by (It's a given, with how much I like them!), so whenever I acquire a new fig, I shall give him a name and profile, then post him/her/it.

A little background information might be useful first, so here goes.

I keep a running tab on all of my Minifigs. (As of this post, I have 1317 minifigs) And most of them have been named! (Even if it is something silly like the last name being their occupation (i.e. Ronette Reporter)) Not all are named. Castle footmen, Stormies, and all around and kind of soldier generally don't have names. Now, my Space minifigs are probably the theme that has the largest  percentage of figs with names. 150 Space Minifigs, with only 9 not having a proper- Wait, only 9!?! That's a freaking 94% with names! I didn't realize it was THAT high! Town probably doesn't even have that high... Anyways, Since ALL of my Blacktron minifigs (Should that be capitalized or not?) had proper(ish) names, and since I had plenty of the, and since I was in the right mood, I took pictures of them, with the intention of posting profiles.

A not that should be considered is that all my Blacktrons are in a military of sorts, and therefore have ranks. And these ranks are pretty much taken straight form Star Trek, which was a VERY heavy influence in my early days of Space Lego MOCing. So all the figs will have any of the ranks of Admiral, Captain, Commander, Lieutenant-Commander, Lieutenant, and Ensign. I am pretty sure Star Trek (And the real life navy which Star Trek gets the ranks from) has a couple different Kinds of Lieutenants and/or ensigns, but my mind back in the day was too simple to understand that, and it has since stuck. I like simple.

Okay, enough talking, I should have the first profile up within a couple days or so (Baring a disaster of any kind)

Micro'ed again!

Another excellent version of the Invader, that classic Blacktron 1 set. This is even fully functional as the real one, as explained by the builder here.

Aerial Bomber

This is quite possibly the fastest I have posted a MOC of mine here after building it...

Well, the Aerial Bomber, my first MOC of 2012, is a ship built by me, but is based of that classic of a set, 6981 Aerial Intruder.

Backstory of the build is I was in the mood to build some Blacktron, and I had only enough parts to build one cockpit, and I had that large panel extra, so I decided to take another stab at building an Aerial Intruder style ship. (My other attempts being okay at best) The idea of making it a bomber came from games I plyaed with my original 6981, where the ship would use the two little vehicles int he main section as, you guessed it, bombs. Also using that big ol missle as the other cockpit also helped in deciding to make in a bomber. Interesting to note that the pilot in this here ship is one of the two figs from my 6981.

And to top it all off, it is really swooshable!

Rest of the pics here when public

Happy holidays!

This wonderful hoverbike by _zenn doesn't really bring much holiday spirit, but hey, what sort of Blacktron creation does? As it is, it is an awesome little Blacktron III creation.

Link to Flickr

The well is empty

With a lack of new material lately, I have dug into my Brickshelf folder to see what Blacktron stuff I had forgotten (Or was in the midst of a computer problem) to blog. 

So as the picture above appears, it isn't a spaceship, but a mech(a?) This is my third (I think) attempt at making a mech of any kind, and I feel it turned out fairly well. It is actually a revamped 6878 Sub Orbital Guardian.

Those dark bley pieces on the feet have been replaced with black since the picture, but I am too lazy to take new pictures

More pictures can be seen here in the archaic Brickshelf

Novvember is over

And it only brought 2 Blacktron II, and 1 Blacktron I. Hmmmm... how come there wasn't 3 Blacktron III?

Anyways, top one was built by Pasukaru, a regular contributer to this blog, and the bottom one was built by none other then me.

I must say, Pasukaru's photo editing skills far exceed mine. Not hard when I have none at all.

Pasukaru's
Mine

Novvember is here

And Pasukaru is the first to make one in Blacktron colours. Exellent job of making it classic and new at the same time.

On Flickr

I have  Blacktron II Viv-Viper built, but who knows if I'll actually get pictures of it before Novvember ends, let alone posting it. We'll see.

6933 Review

Well, after typing this review, I can say that I have added Spectral Starguider's set number to my very short list of set numbers that I have memorized.

Anyways, I have done a review of 6933 Spectral Starguider over on Classic Space, and I am way to lazy to bother typing it all up agian here, and figuring out exactly how all the coding works here, so I'll just redirect you to there. I'll give the stats, but if you want a more comprehensive review, I suggest you go to here:

6933 Review

Parts: 8/10 Selection isn't great, with it being mostly 6 large wheels that take up a lot of space, but even so, almost all of it is useful to some extent
Playability 9.5/10 This is easily the make-or-break part of my review. I just LOVE driving this set on the table, on the floor, or even in the dirt (More on that later)
Design: 8.5/10 I feel it is a little weak here, seeing as it is mostly a ship on a chassis with 6 wheels and a little platform on the back.
Figs: 9/10 How can you say two Blacktrons are not awesome? would have gotten a full ten if there had been a third, but even back then TLC had some limits.
Nostalgia: 9.5/10 When I first got this set back in 06 or 07, I wasn't particularly fond of it, but over the years, I have found this set to be amazing.

Overall score is 44.5/50, or 8.9. That rates as very good in my books.

Wait, duplo?

One last post before I head off to Brickcon (Wooooooot!!!)
In fact, this particular ship was built by Josh, someone who I know pretty well, and is also going to Brickcon, And he is taking this lovely ship with him, So I shall have the chance to check it out, and perhaps swoosh it around...

Also, it utilizes some rather odd pieces, like that duplo piece (The landing gear thingy) and some new Hero Factory armour. I say Josh is the best person at using useless pieces in awesome ways.

More pictures:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/38446022@N00/6129243158/in/pool-blacktron

NBT Base at BrickExpo

Not that I have any idea where BrickExpo was, but I discovered this base on Flickr, and I thought it pure awesome. Especially that dome.

http://www.flickr.com/photos/49825284@N02/6072316375/in/pool-neoblacktron


Apologies for the lack of blogging, computer is not being cooperative

1479 revamped

Twice! And both by Yours Truly!

The first large shuttle was built mainly because I had a bunch of extra Blacktron figs floating around, I had that extra canopy, and I wanted to make a shuttle (Which is what I theorize 1479 Twin Pilot Craft as) The resemblance to 1479 was not planned on at first, but I went with it as the build progressed and as successive modifications came along
The second one was actually built first, and was built intentionally to be a revamped form of 1479 (I think I might have that number memorized now)

Both shuttles include many features of 1479. Cockpit up front. Forward facing wings with those dishes on the ends. Triple engines. Antennas on the sides. Single fin on the rear.

More pictures on Brickshelf when moderation has commenced:

Small Shuttle

http://www.brickshelf.com/cgi-bin/gallery.cgi?f=478440

Big Shuttle

http://www.brickshelf.com/cgi-bin/gallery.cgi?f=478439

Oh, and sorry for the mediocre pictures. New camera, plus a recently upgraded computer that has absolutely no editing programs on it will do that.

The results are in!

Well, after a short time judging, and a week or so of procastinating, I have the results for the CIBt 2!

First place goes to Optimal Control's Alien abduction remake:


Second place goes to Ninja Bait's Valkyrie

Congradualtions to the winners! Your prizes will be sent out as soon after I recieve your address as I can.

I shall (hopefull) get a post for each entry soemtime in the near Future, but no promises.

One more day

Just a quick little post to say there is only one more day left in the Colour it Blacktron 2 Contest.

Also, Life has been very hectic for me as of late, so sorry for the lack of updates (Not that I was doing it too much anyways)

Now that is micro!

When I first saw this ship on Flickr, I thought it was the real thing, but on closer inspection, I discovered it was a micro version I have never seen a micro version of a set done so exellent! Full marks to P3-K4.

More pictures here:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/pkmovies92/5677482684/in/pool-blacktron

It's like a spider

This Mech by Peter de Yeule has a spider-esq feel to it, but missing a few legs, it isn't quite there. It's still awesome, so whatever.

More pictures here:

http://www.mocpages.com/moc.php/267203