u/LewisDeinarcho

I think I dreamt this up after watching both RWBY for the first time and David Attenborough stuff about deep sea animals or something.

In fact, almost everyone in this comic has visors except for Shockwave and the animal-shaped robots.

Is this the end of the joke? Or should we keep going?

Model Info:

• 605 parts (might be slightly different for a Shiny)
• Height: 17 studs (default pose, excluding crests), 24.5 studs (maximum, excluding crests)
• Length: 51.8 studs
• Width: 6 studs @ torso, 79.3 studs wingspan
• Articulation:
  • 5 ball joints in the neck
  • 1 click rotation and 3 friction pivots in tail
  • 2 Technic ball and 1 friction hinge joints in each wing
  • 2 click rotation and 1 ball joint in each leg
  • 2-3 bar hinge joints in each finger + base stud rotation for some
  • Folding dorsal plates
  • Hinged jaw

Finally pulled another big one out of the old LDD files. Had to make the handwings a lot bigger than they were before.

Model Info:

• 1605 parts total (including minifigs and couplers)
  • 157 in the engine
  • 103 in the tender
  • 449 in first class carriage
  • 265 in third class carriage
  • 424 in mail carriage
• Lengths:
  • Engine = 13.7 studs (excluding drawbar)
  • Tender = 10.5 studs
  • Carriages = 21.8 studs (over coupling hooks)
  • Total = 91.9 studs
• Widths:
  • Mostly 6 studs
  • 8.4 studs @ rods
  • 9 studs @ steps
• Heights:
  • 14.4 studs rail to chimney
  • 13 studs rail to carriage roof bars
  • 14.1 studs rail to mail carriage chest
  • 15.2 studs overall
• Wheels:
  • 2x 17.6mm/Size S/#5
  • 16x 24.0mm/Size M/#7 (thin)
    • These are real.
  • 2x 36.8mm/Size XL/#11
• Power: 1 Cubit Motor, 1 Bluetooth Cube

True to my usual StudFoot scale, the ~6-foot-wide Liverpool and Manchester equipment is around 6 studs wide across most sections, just like most official LEGO trains.

I finally figured out how to stuff a Circuit Cube system into this spindly little engine. It won't pull a lot, but neither does the real Rocket.

Made in the store with the minifig stuff.

I bought nothing.

I don’t know why I’m necromancing a year-old joke, but I felt like it.

These are the results of the 2020 Pokémon of the Year. This was an official fan vote for the top 30 most popular Pokémon of each region. This was only done twice, first in 2020 and second in 2021, which had vastly different results.

Interestingly, all but one of the LEGO sets that have been released or rumored so far feature at least one Pokémon that made it in the 2020 rankings. The only exception is the Jigglypuff solo set, which along with Geodude and Cubone were not in the rankings. Obviously, there’s a lot of bias towards Gen I, but the sets have also covered #1s from two other generations and the pre-evolution of the #1 of a third generation.

While public opinions on favorites have changed over time, I can’t help but wonder if we can guesstimate who might be next from the 2020 fan vote. Maybe all the #1s from each region will get sets. Maybe there will be complete evolutionary families, such as a Snorlax for the Munchlax. Also seems likely that they’ll complete certain group sets such as the Galar Starters (Scorbunny) and the Super Ancient Legendary Pokémon (Rayquaza).

Either Megatron is right and the spark must be destroyed to prevent the robot from slowly regenerating or the Decepticons have some respect for their dead and reassemble corpses as best as they can before throwing them in the corpse locker.

Model Info:

• 1093 parts (might be slightly different for a Shiny)
• Height: 46.5 studs (default pose, excluding horns), 23 studs (grounded, excluding horns), 4.4-132 studs (flying)
  • I usually build stuff in roughly 1:38 scale or 1stud≈1ft. The in-game (average?) height for Rayquaza is 23ft. Amazingly, this technically holds true for my model, but only if it's slithering on the ground and "periscoping" like a curious snake
• Length: 132 studs (straightened out)
  • Theoretically, this means my Rayquaza is around 132ft long when straightened out. Much longer than the in-game 23ft, but there was an interview where one of the devs said Rayquaza is probably "taller" than even Alolan Exeggutor if it were straightened out. So, fair enough.
  • This is also the length of a Union Pacific Big Boy. However, my LEGO rendition of the steam locomotive is longer because it the wheel spacing was slightly stretched out to get around the sharp curves of standard LEGO train tracks.
• Width: Mostly 4 studs, 5.2 @ rings, .2 @ tail fins, 10.8 @ body wings/fins, 10.6 @ shoulder wings/fins, 16.2 @ head.
• Articulation:
  • 16 click rotation joints along the body
  • 5 ball joints in the neck
  • 2 ball joints in each arm
  • Hinged and rotating wrists
  • Hinged fingers
  • Hinged jaw
  • Hinged horns and fins but those usually remain static

Compared to last time, it has a bigger mouth, bigger horns, better color patterns on the neck and body fins, and shorter, more numerous body segments for increased flexibility.

Again, feel free to use the exploded head as a reference if you decide to get that upcoming official set while thinking it needs a makeover.

It might just be me, but the spiders in the official sets seem kinda flat and the bigger normal Spider looks oddly hunchbacked. So, here's my attempt at them.

Spider has 31 parts, 8.1 x 7.4 x 3.3 studs. Cave Spider has 13 parts, 7.9 x 6.3 x 2.4 studs.

Very out-of-scale if you consider a 2x2x2 stud cube to represent a single block, but none of the mobs are ever in-scale with this guideline.

Run.

Now.

All he needs now are more clothes than the hat and goggles.

Part 4697a was made in 1987, part 6266 was made in 1995, and both are still in production today, so they could've been added to this set in 1999. There was even enough room in the podracer for a pair of legs. Unfortunately, it seems that he got chopped at the waist like Darth Maul in the final product.

My guess as to why the official minifig didn't have legs was because the set designers were unaware that a character with less than a minute of clearly visible screentime had another pair of limbs inside the pod.

The Rayquaza set leak informed me that certain wedge parts were now available in green, so I made a few changes to my own rendition, making the head more pointed and streamlined with more prominent brow ridges. However, if you want to buy that upcoming set and want to give it a bit of a makeover, feel free to use the third image as a starting point.

Zoom in.

Except on #8. There’s nothing there. It just has a nickname of “Duck Eight” because it’s 0-8-0 and zeroes are sometimes called (duck) eggs.