Yo ✌️ I’m BaBa I love lego, especially any of their original themes! I mostly make lego mech builds but I love fleshing out a world with structures and creatures! Whenever I look at any lego theme I have a tendency to get sucked into the worlds they make and as such try to make builds that reflect that love!
If I’m not following you or liking your posts that is because this accounts an offshoot of @maxi-is-not-well don’t worry you and your mocs are plenty cool
I run a gimmick account @i-identify-lego-sets-in-posts as well!
Feel free to send any questions, criticisms or suggestions, I’ll gladly answer them!
I always have a few projects going and I try my best to work on them when I can! Some of these projects include:
-1x1 mechs (tag: #1x1 mechs) these are microscale mechs made entirely of 1 by 1 pieces and I try my best to implement pretty color palettes to them
-atlantis revival (tag: #lego atlantis) my favorite lego theme that I’ve been making all sorts of stuff for
-ninjago master of the mountain expansion (tag: #motm expansion) ninjago made a dnd like subtheme that I’ve been working on expanding
-bionicle glatorian rebuilds (tag: #glatorian rebuilds) remaking the 2009 bionicle sets with ccbs
-chainsawman poseable figures (tag: #baba’s figures) csm characters in my figure style
-city stuntz bike to mech conversion (tag: #lego city stuntz) mechs made based of some lego city bike sets
-one piece poseable figures (tag:#baba’s figures) this one’s a surprise I’m working on
-starwars ships (tag: #lego starwars) starwars ships I’m making in a more blocky style, a mix of the old and new starwars
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lego atlantis
holy shit. this is old to me. i remember fuck all about it, but i remember knowing it. this is from my childhood. recorded of nickelodeon. i'm so fucking hyped.
found a version online, though i watched the dutch dub. https://youtu.be/HeC-iSCDpUI
first scene. i don't remember any of this, but i remember every scene as it plays.
basic characters, what else would you expect from lego. it also really is, especially in Atlantis style, a lego version of the disney(?) well known version.
oh gods yea the squid people.
i remember this plan. i also vividly remember this lego brick.
oh yea this series really had a lot of neat mini heads.
i remember that visual, and yep, it's still funny.
why does this thing has such amazing music? like just listen to this end part: https://youtu.be/HeC-iSCDpUI?t=1260 . why is it so epic?
it's just a little promotional short, but lego often went very hard on those. and i really enjoy it
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Letterboxd doesn't have the cinematic masterpiece Knievel's Quest: Bigfoot (2020) so I'll put my running thoughts here.
Note: all the stuff in apostrophes are direct quotes, taken from the video transcript.
- saying that 'my friends all call me Squatchie' doesn't feel like a compliment by any stretch
- the 'biggest wood carving of Bigfoot' looks like a man covered in feathers or leaves, my closest cultural reference is either Rose Matafeo yelling Stella on Taskmaster, or the Cripple MOAB upgrade for Sniper Monkeys in btd6
- 'if you refer to Dr Ivan T Sanderson's book The Abominable Snowman: Legend Comes to Life and as well as John Green's work or any of the four horsemen' let me consult my textbook; The Abominable Snowman by Dr R.A. Montgomery, its on my shelf right next to Director H.I. Larry's guides on how to be spies.
- one of the people they idolise is a Mr Tom Slick, who allegedly went to the Himalayas and found some Yeti feces, their hero is someone who found some shit on a mountain and said, 'yeah, that's from a fucking yeti' At this point, I'm 7 minutes into this 92 minute doco.
- 'There is no registry of DNA for the Sasquatch creature, from an ignorant race of science and academics' Science is full of it and you can't trust it, listen to me, and Evel Knievel's son, and four randos who wrote books about big monkeys, and our hero who scooped up shit.
- 'The right habitat for Bigfoot? I have no clue. I've heard they've been cited [sic] in a lot of places but mostly the Northwest.' Down here in Australia we have our own bigfoot thing, called a Yowie. the first picture on Google, when I looked it up to see if I was making something up, has a big furry humanoid holding a kangaroo by the tail. You might know that down here we've got the best climate for thick-furred animals, big deserts, water, and rainforest. I don't really have a point here, it just what comes to mind.
- the guy I just quoted previously wants to find a Bigfoot, 'I hope it's a female 'cause it might only last for two minutes. And then I could have a half a bigfoot, a half - nevermind'
- I can't tell any of these people apart, but one of them is crediting the creation of Mountains and Valleys to bigfoot
- I've heard it from some video that the best thing to do with documentaries like this is to mute them and admire the scenery, might have been QuintonReviews, might have been Diamondbolt, I don't remember
- there's been like 10 minutes with not much to talk about or make fun of or anything, because they went to a bookshop and these two guys are talking about making maps, which is neat, and aging trees to try and find where the original footage was shot.
- ' A: "I wanna build a treehouse and live here and just be out here" B: "Well that tactic might work." ' of course it might, if you want to see birds without them seeing you, you might go behind a hide, can't really go above them because they might look up, they're birds, I don't know if there's many stories of bigfoot climbing trees.
- there's a guy who was apparently a park ranger who had an encounter with a sasquatch, and he had a camera, but he'd used all his film already taking pictures of illegal logging, oh what a shame, if only if only. He's full of it.
- so the guy, who I think is Evel Kinievels son, said 'oh, it could be aliens' and the guy at the museum said 'it's possible' don't bring aliens into your shitty bigfoot theories, I'm not doing it again this year (earlier in the year, I watched another bad documentary called 'The Bigfoot Alien Connection Revealed' which was much easier to find humor in because it was someone theorising, and then standing in a shed for 10 minutes. It was terrible, I recommend it)
- so in the museum they've got loads of footprint casts, and 'Now the guy that found all these originally was a hoaxer', so I've got to wonder, Why do you believe these?
- as is the norm, all the descriptions are different, with one guy telling about how he saw Bigfoot; a) at like 6 in the morning, and b) in 2005, walking along with arms perpendicular but turned in. I asked for a hand with a cultural reference so that you might know what I meant, and my brother suggested Pennywise, before he started to dance, and I thought of Lonely Island's The Creep.
- another "witness" said that he knew it was a bigfoot, not a bear, because it had an ass.
- consistency isn't their strong suit, said earlier about how the best place is the Northwest, up to Alaska, a guy now is saying the best place is Texas, if you want to hear the {Bigfoot Plural, Bigfoots, Bigfeet} call. Just a coincidence that Texas is probably warmer than Oregon, Montana, Washington, whatever, and so other Bigfoot hunters can go there at night and not feel as cold.
- I know you're a stuntman, but I don't care, I'm watching this for the stupid bigfoot explanations, not history of you jumping things
- so for you to catch a bigfoot, you'd probably want to put it in a cage like in Atlantis: The Lost Empire, and you couldn't take it out by truck, because other ones might try and help it escape, so you'd want to airlift it out.. oh wait, that's the ending of Cryptid Island from Poptropica. Even if you did get it in, it'd just escape like Stoeffel the Honey Badger
- 'You're telling me that two broke cowboys from Yakima Washington drove all the way down here, they went 25 miles up this rugged canyon to fake a monkey suit?' Yeah, so that you know that noone would be in the background. You go out into the woods randomly, you might, you go 25 miles away, where there aren't any roads yet, and you won't.
- 'we have 10 zillion things in the ocean we'll never see' I hope there's a Kraken, or just megafauna in general. Anything from Lego Atlantis.
- and for the last 20 minutes, they'll finally go camping, hoping to see something, will they? Of course not.
- the guy I think is Knievel's son said something about how he's had a bunch of spooky and scary experiences around Washington State, and to enhance that for the audience, they put an overlay of a person in a dark hood, OooOOoh, and a jumpscare from a game, of a pale figure with blood on it, spoOOoky.
- and they're doing exactly what I was hoping, they've left their camp slightly out of frame, and are yelling in a forest.
- the one thing I'll give them credit for is the video cameras they have out in the woods, apparently they've been there for 8 years, filming 24/7, and it's collecting videos and clips that could be used for conservation and monitoring of animals, according to them they've even seen a Humbolt Marten, a weasel type thing that was apparently extinct, look them up, they're kinda cute.
- I give it 2/5 stars; the stuff about maps and tree aging was interesting, love Bigfoot, and the work with their wildlife cameras is admirable, but it was boring the rest of the time.
Thank you, this has been Something Something with Innes Tahtinen.
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i've started a little series of weekly posts documenting every MoC i made (digitally) over the last few years:
Week 8: 2021
Bonsai, Contests, Old themes and Pride
brickset had another contest where you could enter mods of 10281 bonsai tree. i made two that i thought would look interesting as more alien trees and one using bionicle kanohi (plus jaller)
there was also a category for that contest where you'd make a custom bonsai. i didn't have to many ideas other than "make small" and "abandoned". i don't really like the way those trees look.
the great cloud gardens was a game that i played a lot during that time, so i decided to make a bonsai-like MoC based on the city levels of the game. i still love this build and i hope that i'll be able to build it irl some time in the future.
these are also more directly based on cloud gardens. they depict the levels where you get the seeds for the Wisteria, the Monstera, the opuntia, the bryophyta and the pothos. (i kinda had to guess the names based on the pixelated names on the cards and the closest names i could find for plants that are similar looking to the ones ingame)
i never posted these anywhere because i wanted to finish making all of the plants before posting them. i never finished.
there was another contest on lego ideas where you could build a new GWP with the theme "space" i originally built it as an Ice Planet style-vehicle, but then i looked more into the lore of Ice Planet and found out that they specialized in Rocket science and something about satellites, i think?
this made me redesign this MoC as a futuron vehicle because that subtheme had a focus on transportation and more civilian activities.
i had the idea to make more modern Rock Raiders MoCs based on interesting modern Construction vehicles, i think i kinda overdid it with the amount of colours present on these MoCs, but i'll probably revisit this idea some time in the future.
another ideas contest. this time for a summer themed GWP. i based this on some north sea beach memories i made as a kid. i really like the sunny atmosphere i created with this MoC.
i also played narita boy that year and wanted to make a MoC based on that amazing game, but this never went anywhere. this was also the first (and probably last) time i've used PartDesigner to make a custom part (the sword) and some cutom prints.
LEGO released the Everyone is Awesome set in June 2021, so ideas had an activity to post some Pride Month inspired Creations. i originally made the Stand For the Flag(s) build that i made several variations of and now turned into a .gif, but i didn't post it because i really disliked the colours i used and couldn't think of better ones. instead i posted the Building Bridges MoC. i stimm like it and i think it would make a nice desk decorations similar to the EiA set.
anyone remember Atlantis? i had the idea to build some place to hold all eight Treasure Keys that where released in both waves of that theme. i think the theming is a bit off with this MoC, but i still kinda like the colours i used in it.
first week last week next week
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