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OK, it’s gotta be said, I think there’s some LEGO space builders that are total jerks. But hey, I decided to start building space ships, so I guess I gotta get used to them. And after the Bonktron debacle, the next best I could come up with is this.

Hope you like it!

Ben Fleskes gave me permission to post my reduced versions of his train wheels, so here they are!

This is a seriously cool MOC. You can read about it here.

Sometime last year, I was sharing a very nice chinese meal with a couple of fellow AFOLs. There was some alcohol consumed, but that’s probably irrelevant. Sometime during the evening, the conversation turned to LEGO. Well it probably did many times actually. But this particular time, the idea was put forward of a new space (space!) faction.

Well most of you probably know, I don’t build space. But maybe because of the company, maybe because of the wine, I agreed to build something for this faction. So we had to come up with an idea. And as we were in a restaurant, and all fans of the Muppets, all we could come up with was the Swedish Space Chef Consortium.

Well we talked about it for a bit, and thought “what kind of ships would chefs build?”. And the answer was, of course, ships that look like kitchen implements. Mixers, rolling pins, various types of cutlery were all mentioned, as well as a “silver champignon”, and a couple of other food-related items. But I decided to do a corkscrew.

So I went home and did it. One of my co-conspirators kindly supplied a rock-raiders drill piece, which I felt would be vital, and didn’t own, but I supplied the rest. And it was with glea that I showed off the resulting MOC to the others.

But when I asked “where are yours???”, all they could do was mumble excuses like “I don’t have enough parts” or “I’m working on some other super fantasmagorical space thingy”, so I said I’d hold off posting pics for a while. But a year or so later, it appears the SSCC is indeed a consortium of 1.

And here it is.

For some time now, our customers have been asking for more options with our cranes. To this end we have secretly been working on a telescopic boom for our BRE-550M mobile crane.

And it is finally at a stage where we can show a sneak peek. It will have 3 telescopic sections, and we are also working on a Sideways Super-lift (SSL) option. So without further ado, here are 3 very early shots of the prototype.

Enjoy!

Edit: Three more early pics added 8 Aug 2005