Did my voting duty.
It's time for a new castle. We have had new pirate ships and rebuilds of classic space through the Lego Movie. Bionicle just doesn't feel like it fits in the realm of iconic Lego sets.

Time for a Castle.

I thought I'd start this off with something my son Lukas started a while ago when he was about 6 he is just turning 8 now.
He has loved penguins for a long time so he has been building versions over the last 2 years.

The squarish one is his earliest penguin

His latest version have become much more detailed based on actual photos of penguins with moving bendable wings and an egg on his feet..

Guess I could jazz up my Bluetooth boat from last years VIEX

Been wanting to start a post about the cool things that our kids do. I find that I am often inspired by the crazy things my boys do.
If you have things that your kids, nieces or nephews have created and you want to show them off please post them here. I'd love to see them... so would my kids!

@krista My Dragon Boat is still together... for the time being!

@krista @sema4 So after discovering that you can't order replacement parts for the Collectible Minifigure series, I sent Lego Customer Service a direct email and they replied this morning confirming that they will send my Dorothy a replacement Skirt, Hooray!

Little weird that they say that they can't replace missing CMP parts but when you email them direct they are happy to do so.

Bit of a process but a positive end result.

Next project is to figure out if they will replace my busted parts...

@krista that’s great, I’ve been pondering a build where a couple maple leaves would come in handy.

Something this large is likely best shot outside on a cloudy day as Mike mentioned. You can do it on a sunny day but you will need a reflector to soften the shadows.

You can also try turning the lights 180 degrees and reflecting the light back with large white cards or vinyl sheet (just don't melt it)
Also if you have an overhead light aimed at the backdrop right behind the shuttle it will kill nearly all of your shadows. You can try a backdrop light that is brighter than your other lights so it overexposes your backdrop so it becomes just pure white.

You could also have a look at this video: https://fstoppers.com/commercial/product-photography-tutorial-shows-how-shoot-large-objects-55863

Though it's harder to do what he does without proper studio lighting.

Good luck!

PS and yes, Photoshop out those wrinkles... that's the best and fastest fix. Pixelmator is great software for this. Use the Clone tool rather than erasing.

Pretty close to the 30 a day! Looking good!

@vdog Sorry I meant where you can see the current vote standings.

There was a very good comment there about the fact that there a bunch of different categories for Space and Castle themes so the folks interested in those will have their votes spread out, where as the folks interested in Bionicles or Model Team only have 1 category so all their votes are gathered together.

Poor way to try to narrow down the list.

@Krista I'd be happy to chat with them to see if we are a fit.
Both my kids would think having another kid to hang with in the Lego Studio would be a definite plus.

Not sure yet if we will be starting official Lego workshops for kids again. But something like this might work.

Feel free to pass along my number. Thanks!

@Ian I guess if you can't do the feel test that will open up more trading of minifigs to get the complete set.

Did my voting duty.
It's time for a new castle. We have had new pirate ships and rebuilds of classic space through the Lego Movie. Bionicle just doesn't feel like it fits in the realm of iconic Lego sets.

Time for a Castle.

@scotth510 But if you count Classic Castle, Forestmen and Lion Knights that works out to more than Bionicles. And that's not even counting the other Castle Series which total over 12,000 votes themselves.
Now those votes may be the same people voting for 3 different Castle series... but who knows.

@vdog Sorry I meant where you can see the current vote standings.

There was a very good comment there about the fact that there a bunch of different categories for Space and Castle themes so the folks interested in those will have their votes spread out, where as the folks interested in Bionicles or Model Team only have 1 category so all their votes are gathered together.

Poor way to try to narrow down the list.

@vdog Do you know how to get back to the comments that are after the voting? I can't seem to get back to it.

My favourite is the Time Cruisers... I don't think many people even know about it though.

They don't have the Unitron series which is where the Monorail came from. I wonder if that is just under Space or M-Tron. Would love to see a new Monorail!

Looks pretty awesome!

Pretty close to the 30 a day! Looking good!

@krista I was looking at the separate components for the move hub for Boost or the Droid Commander which is $79 which a big chunk the cost of Boost $159 or the Droid Commander at $199 for the set.