Happy Simian Saturday!

 Happy Simian Saturday Everyone!

Just some AI generated Lego Fun for your Saturday morning!

Lego Mania!

 Happy Saturday everyone!

Hope you all are doing well and getting some quality time in with family and friends. Had to go to Wally World recently and on a whim, I picked up a Lego Battle Pack and a Lego "sort of compatible" Hot Wheels car (didn't know they made these). Also, a friend recently gifted me a pack of Lego compatible cool weapons for minifigs. Legos sure have come a long way yet are still compatible with stuff from my childhood. 

     As a kid, I loved Legos, but didn't have very many, my pride and joy (and the only actual true set I had) was the original Yellow Castle set.  I saved up money from mowing yards and doing other work to be able to buy it.   Then came the great Vacuum Disaster! My grandmother decided to help clean the house and proceeded to knock off the castle, and then vacuumed up many of the pieces. The castle was never the same again.  Sadness...

     I've toyed with trying to rebuild it, but yikes the classic sets are way expensive. Hmmm something to ponder. There is a Bricks N' Minifigs near my house, I'm tempted to visit it.  Definitely a slippery slope, I have a ton of 28mm minis, but the Lego Minifigs are calling me again. I have several already that I have picked up over the years, you can see a few old posts about them. 

     I also found where Modiphius has put out a BrikWars rules set, allowing you to use minifigs for tabletop skirmish, unfortunately, Lego apparently has taken issue with the art and you can't buy the book now??!! Modiphius is redoing the art, so the book won't be available for some time.  Argh!  

     Meanwhile I can play around with AI Art to prompt my imagination for Brik Battles! 

Have a great Saturday! 

Happy Simian Saturday

 Haven't done a Simian Saturday in ages, so to make up for that, I thought I would post some A.I. generated images I worked up recently for your enjoyment!

Need Lego to actually do these for real, I'm a sucker for Lego Minifigs!  Have a great Simian Saturday!! 

COBRA FANG Copter

 A follow up to yesterday's post.  Over the weekend I had to run into the local Five Below store and happened to go down the toy aisle..when I spotted the COBRA F.A.N.G. Copter!!! Love that classic cover art from back in the day.

     I always wanted the original action figure version of this as a kid back in the 80's, but never had one, so of course I had to grab this! Ok, I grabbed two of them!  Yesterday, I finally had a bit of free time to assemble one of them, with it being 99 degrees outside (110 when you factor in the heat index), staying indoors and playing with ..er I mean assembling Legos ...well Construction Blocks, is smart right?  

Nice little vehicle that captures the look and feel of the original.  Now I need to find a set of skirmish rules that will allow me to use it in some tabletop gaming!

Waldorf approves! and he finds fault with everything!  (Waldorf minifigure sold separately).

The Monkey Militia

      It's been awhile, but long time followers of my blog will know that I am an AFOL (Adult Fan of Lego).  In particular I love the minifigs. Pictured above is the results of a rather long term project of picking up any of the Lego Chima Gorilla minifigures that I could find, while outfitting them with appropriate weapons and gear. Combat knives, Assault Rifles and Tactical Vests.  Not sure about the leader with the Katana and Owl, but we shall see.  Anyways, I present to you The Monkey Militia.  I should have waited till Saturday to post this, for a Simian Saturday post, but here it is early.  I'm hoping to work these into some Skirmish gaming soon. Maybe as a rival gang for Five Parsecs from Home, Space Weirdos, or something else?  Do any of you use lego Minifigs for your tabletop games? 

Lego Sunday Morning Mayhem!

Some Sean Mcnally Lego Movie Concept Art for your Sunday Morning.
I love the look of terror on Thomas's face in this one as the BrikWars err... I mean Lego Wasteland Raiders attack!
In another year or so my grandson should be old enough for us to enjoy this level of mayhem and fun!  He doesn't know it yet but I.. I mean HE...has a big bin full of Lego sets still in the boxes ready for us, I mean him, to plunder!

Lego Apocalypseburg

I haven't posted about lego in quite awhile, but yes I am still an Adult Fan of Lego, now that I have a grandson I have an extra excuse to prowl the lego aisles at the local store.

I saw an online post the other day that made me take a second look...

I have to admit this looks really cool, and appeals to the P.A. (Gamma World) fan in me.

P.A. Green Lantern is cool looking, although I think Batman seems to be trying to overcompensate for something!  Now I feel the need  to assemble a lego Ape mini-fig army.  I'm sure this set will be ridiculously expensive, but wow it is cool looking!  Have a great weekend!

Sunday afternoon Legos!

My wife came into my man cave and caught me taking this picture.  She gave me a look and I said," I got these for our grandson", she said,"he is only a month old?... and if they are for him why are you playing with them?"
I replied,"playtesting, dear, I'm playtesting!"

Guardians of the Galaxy

Jay has been posting up a storm about the upcoming Guardians of the Galaxy movie, this movie is really getting me excited.  I've been a big fan of The Guardians of the Galaxy comics (old and new) for a long time, so this should rock!  I don't see Bug from the Micronauts in the lineup though so that's a bit disappointing.  Anyways I think this will be my next Sci Fi Campaign!  Now to decide on the rule system to use; X-plorers, Stars Without Number, Rogue Space, Machinations of the Space Princess, Savage Worlds..so many choices!!  I did do an X-plorers conversion for Rocket awhile back, course I've also done a ton of Marvel  Aliens conversions for Stars Without Number...my recent foray into Rogue Space showed me I can run crazy off the cuff adventures (which is very much in the spirit of Guardians of the Galaxy), hmmm decisions decisions...

Long time followers of my blog know I'm a fan of Sci Fi and Lego and I just saw where there will be Lego sets for Guardians of the Galaxy!  Can't wait to see how these look!  I'll be using them for minis in my Campaign!

Rogue Space Session 1 part 2

Here is the continuation of my Rogue Space game from Saturday evening.
If you missed part 1 you can check it out HERE.
The continuing adventures of Jupiter Zeus; Space Simian

.....He approached her, offered to buy her a drink and… (Rolled maximum possible results on his Empathy/Persuasion rolls!) Suffice to say, Jupiter didn't have to worry about needing a room for the night.  The next morning he woke up swimmy headed and feeling a bit weird.  The Aelfar woman was gone..what was her name again?  He remembered her saying something about tracking down The Merciless Mang… that was one mean S.O.B. He knew of him... the human warlord usually had android guards, drones and such around him at all times.  Now for some reason Jupiter felt the need to track that bastard down and take him out.  What the hell?!  He also somehow knew that Mang would be on Tarlkin's Landing in three days and would be lightly guarded.  Checking his pocket he found a low passage ticket indicating he had booked and paid for passage to Tarlkin's Landing…WTF?!  Oh well nothing to do now but see it through.

Three days later….

Tarlkin's Landing, three miles outside the "town" of Heretic's Fork.

Jupiter Zeus had acquired a pair of binoggles and a hoverboard from a drug addled local. Wasn't much to this place, pretty much a dried up nowhereville, but he had a job to do.  Not sure how he wound up with this job, was still a little fuzzy about that part. He munched on the snacks he had "borrowed" from a local in town. 

 

Mountain Dew Cheetos!  Yummy!

Looking out over the dry creek bed just past some red rocks he spotted his quarry.

Yep that was definitely Merciless Mang and one of those damn androids of his…looks like one of them Clawtrons. 

 but not the  "regular" Clawtron 8000's, this one looked tougher.

  

(Clawtron 8000)

This job isn't paying enough for this..what the heck is this job paying anyways??

Jupiter failed his acquiring roll to note the drone flying overhead…but the drone had picked up the simians presence and radioed its master. 

A Hornet Class Drone, based off of the more common Vulture Series, but faster and nastier!

Jupiter was focused on the two figures crossing the dry creekbed in the distance, and totally missed the other Clawtron 9000 now alerted to his presence by the drone and it set up an ambush.

 Fortunately for Jupiter Zeus, the Clawtron 9000 missed, its flamer pistol scorching the rocks near where the gorilla had been hiding. 

 Both the android and gorilla proved to be closely matched both had high Fighting skills and several rounds of back and forth attack and counter attack ensued.  All the while the drone recorded this from overhead.  Jupiter slightly damaged the Clawtron but its armor deflected most of the damage.  Then the Clawtron scored a blazing hit on Jupiter, the smell of burning fur filled the air, but the gorilla's hide and armor absorbed much of the damage, "THAT HURT!" the ape yelled and tore into the android with his laser pulse rifle, scoring a direct hit and turning the android into a pile of busted gears and circuits. Mang observing the video feed nodding his head, the warlord had learned what he needed and withdrew. 

Jupiter Zeus now angry, injured and well mostly angry leapt on the "acquired" hover board and pursued.  "You're not getting away from me that easily!" the ape yelled.  The gorilla was quickly gaining on Mang and the remaining Clawtron, Jupiter fired a shot at them while riding the hover board, but missed wildly.  Then the Hornet Drone struck and launched an electro stinger attack at the hover board.  Jupiter made some crazy rolls and managed to stay aloft, but he couldn't focus on shooting at Mang, it was all he could do to stay aloft on the hoverboard. 

Mang had reached his own transport vehicle!

 Which was way more heavily armed than anything Jupiter was prepared to take on!

Jupiter spun the hoverboard around and raced in the opposite direction at top speed!  Mang fired a mini-missle at Jupiter, if not for Jupiter's high Fighting skill (and an expenditure of LUCK!) he would have been toast! as it was the hoverboard was fried and he crashed into the rocky hills.  Mang apparently satisfied that the ape was either dead or incapacitated recalled the drone and withdrew from the area. 

Jupiter Zeus was hiding under a rock, his pulse rifle was a mess, the hoverboard unrepairable.  He dug out his med kit and patched himself up the best he could. He watched Mang drive off in the distance and vowed he would get revenge on the Warlord.  This whole thing seemed like a setup…

In the meantime he had a long walk back to the Starport ….

 Epilogue coming soon...