I'm lucky that I ride the tube in London (the metro, for you yanks) every day to work. This gives me about 45 minutes to play Castlevania in perfect lighting conditions and then switch off and lose all my progress because I can't find a save room.
The only other place I've found the lighting conditions to be good was a carpark in Texas at midday. With the sun directly overhead the screen looks great! Unfortunately after a few days of this my pasty english skin burnt to an unhealthy red, my girlfriend was irritated and wouldn't take me out in public for a week.
What was cooler -- designing your own X-Wing from scratch, or just slapping together one that's basically a step up from a snap-tite model?
Actually the recent ranges of Starwars lego looked so cool that I ended up buying all of them, and getting my housemate addicted to Lego again as well. I think they've developed a brilliant cross-over there for kids and for big kids who want their own lego X-Wing to play with.
I'm disappointed by lego kits that use huge pieces, eg. for a castle wall that could be built by lots of smaller bricks (remember, there are probably production cost issues involved in this). However, I think that new specialised pieces are a great thing and we shouldn't harken back to the days of 1x4 2x4 or 2x2 and nothing else.
I can testify to this since I tried to take all my starwars lego apart and build something new and even with a plethora of funkily shaped specialised pieces I still couldn't build a spaceship that looked any good.
Somewhere on the web is a picture of a guy (with the aid of his longsuffering wife) proudly holding his Star Destroyer that he built from lego bricks. Unfortunately I think he ran out of grey, since its mostly blue, yellow, red, black etc.:)
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I'm sorry, but you're a far braver man than me if you're going to let a 400pound robot get a grip of your wing-wang.
Imagine the consequences if things went wrong? I bet that robot has a fair amount of grip - it'd be like being trapped in a milking machine.
I'm lucky that I ride the tube in London (the metro, for you yanks) every day to work. This gives me about 45 minutes to play Castlevania in perfect lighting conditions and then switch off and lose all my progress because I can't find a save room.
The only other place I've found the lighting conditions to be good was a carpark in Texas at midday. With the sun directly overhead the screen looks great! Unfortunately after a few days of this my pasty english skin burnt to an unhealthy red, my girlfriend was irritated and wouldn't take me out in public for a week.
What was cooler -- designing your own X-Wing from scratch, or just slapping together one that's basically a step up from a snap-tite model? Actually the recent ranges of Starwars lego looked so cool that I ended up buying all of them, and getting my housemate addicted to Lego again as well. I think they've developed a brilliant cross-over there for kids and for big kids who want their own lego X-Wing to play with. I'm disappointed by lego kits that use huge pieces, eg. for a castle wall that could be built by lots of smaller bricks (remember, there are probably production cost issues involved in this). However, I think that new specialised pieces are a great thing and we shouldn't harken back to the days of 1x4 2x4 or 2x2 and nothing else. I can testify to this since I tried to take all my starwars lego apart and build something new and even with a plethora of funkily shaped specialised pieces I still couldn't build a spaceship that looked any good. Somewhere on the web is a picture of a guy (with the aid of his longsuffering wife) proudly holding his Star Destroyer that he built from lego bricks. Unfortunately I think he ran out of grey, since its mostly blue, yellow, red, black etc. :)