Comments on: Star Wars Deck Plans

By: Martin

Martin — Sun, 28 May 2006 15:39:21 +0000

It’s a nifty site, Frank, and it looks like a lot of fun to work on.

By: Frank V Bonura

Frank V Bonura — Sat, 27 May 2006 06:46:25 +0000

Thank you so much for reviewing my site.

Long Live RPGs!!!

By: Martin

Martin — Wed, 03 May 2006 22:37:49 +0000

Neat! I had no idea how that worked — and 600,000 Legos? Wow.

By: Frank

Frank — Wed, 03 May 2006 20:19:33 +0000

In some ways his process was probably like the LEGO designers process, in other ways, probably very different, due to different aims. The LEGO designers need to translate an idea into something that has visual appeal, construction appeal, constrained by business realities (costs, inventory control and production scheduling for large variety of different pieces, etc).

The fan is striving for the best embodiment of their idea, constrained primarily by pieces that exist, difficulty of acquiring certain rare pieces, overall budget, and possibly just finding “the right piece” (I’m thinking of myself with my 600,000 LEGO pieces filling a room, and how I could easily overlook the “perfect piece” because I have no idea I even have it).

Fan designs also tend to be on a scale that dwarfs LEGO official sets. If you take a fan design of a certain size, chances are it has at least twice as many pieces as a comparably sized LEGO set.

Frank

By: Martin

Martin — Tue, 02 May 2006 22:45:26 +0000

That’s pretty sweet, Frank. I wonder if the process he went through is anything like the process Lego’s official designers go through — what do you think?

By: Frank

Frank — Tue, 02 May 2006 22:11:45 +0000

Ben recently created a new web page for his LEGO creations, here's his LEGO Millenium Falcon Frank

By: Martin

Martin — Thu, 20 Apr 2006 22:42:50 +0000

Thinking about the Lego Millenium Falcon renews my deep desire to own the Lego Death Star and Star Destroyer — those puppies are awesome.

By: Frank

Frank — Thu, 20 Apr 2006 18:27:12 +0000

Here’s an interesting site (courtesy of the Way Back Machine – not sure if the site has a new existence somewhere) for the Millenium Falcon.

I’m looking for a site that still has pictures of Ben Fleskes’s awesome LEGO Millenium Falcon…

Frank

By: Kestral

Kestral — Thu, 20 Apr 2006 06:46:08 +0000

Considering the prevalance of D&D and fantasy among most gamers, I find your mix of genres to be pretty good. I personally will probably take a look at this to perhaps improve my ability to design realistic interiors.

By: Martin

Martin — Wed, 19 Apr 2006 22:32:42 +0000

I try to maintain a good mix of genres with my miniposts — do you feel like there are too many D&D/fantasy-related ones?

By: hellibrarian

hellibrarian — Wed, 19 Apr 2006 15:23:43 +0000

Nice to see some non-D&D stuff.
Great site for those boarding actions