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IMPRISON HIM KIDS!!

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Nice!

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Yes they can fit figs in them

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I present: the High Geologist, based off this post

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some amazing loot!

I'm not sure which one I'm more excited about

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Wall of History is happy to announce we’ve reached an agreement to acquire @brickshelf. Following transfer of ownership in April, the site will remain online with all functionality restored. We’re working out the details of a smooth transition now, so stay tuned!

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Rating Yoda Minifigs Because I have Nothing Better To Do

There have been a number of Lego Yoda minifigs over the years, and I’m going to rate them. My criteria is more or less “does this minifig represent the Yoda puppet from the original trilogy well”

Basically I think a good Yoda minifig should look like this:

Let’s get into it.

- Original Yoda

Item number: sw0051

Released: 2002-2005

Appears in 4 sets

Rating: 6/10

This is the only Yoda that gets the stoned eyes right.

Points off for lack of face printing but. It was early in the Lego-Lucasfilm partnership.

The CORRECT shade of green, thank you

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- Clone Wars Yoda

Item number: sw0219

Released: 2009-2011

Appears in 2 sets

Rating: 3/10

as with most Clone Wars figures, yikes.

It can see my soul

There are a couple different variations of this fig, but they all have the all-seeing eyes and weird proportions

This one gets points for giving him hair but that's about the only good thing I can say about it

- Olive Yoda

Item number: sw707

Released: 2016-2019

Appears in 2 sets

Rating: 8/10

friend

just a guy

looks like a muppet

Eyes are weird again, and I feel like they switched to the wrong shade of green personally.

- Olive Yoda w/ Belt

Item number: sw0906

Released: 2018-2022

Appears in 2 sets

Rating: 9/10

That's him! That's Yoda!

Panpipes printing absolutely essential

I can't even complain about the shade of green or eyes that's YODA BABEY!!!!

and lastly.

- Whatever the hell this is my bionicle buddies told me about when I mentioned I was rating Yoda minifigs that just got released

Item number: who cares

Released: Literally today

Appears in that one new set about that star wars cocomelon ripoff for babies

Rating: -47/10

Literally what is that

Why is he MORE green (okay I know they use brighter colors on +4 sets to make them more appealing to kids but STILL they could've used the olive colors it would've been fine???)

He looks like the little green aliens from Toy Story help

Is that literally master wu's gi torso or am I tweaking

That's it for now, I may do more of these because they're fun.

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90 Years of Play

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Hey, so I kinda want to talk about Brickshelf.

For context, Brickshelf is an old website, I'm talking 1998, that early fans of Lego (including Bionicle) used to host images, specifically for their creations. A ton of fanart is on this website, too.

In late June, it was reported by a journalist that the founder of this website, Kevin Loch, passed away last year (additional Facebook source). I am not clear who is running the website at this point.

According to LUGNET, Kevin's estate is currently paying to keep Brickshelf online. I don't know how much time we have, but my estimate is two months, because one of his websites (https://bsrender.io/) has a public notice that it will be disabled this March.

Brickshelf is host to 4,942,783 image files organized into 431,130 folders. That's a lot of early Internet history potentially being lost.

If you individually want to preserve your files, there is a python script for downloading a user's files here.

Is anyone here interested in helping archive this website? I'd like to make an archive, I just have no prior experience. Thank you.

Edit: The Bio-Media team sent me a reply that they're one of the groups who are willing to volunteer to help with archiving. More info in reblogs.

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LET'S FUCKING GO LEGO GONK DROID

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