The Dalek madness courtesy of the Lego Digital Designer continues! Most recently, I revised some of the inner workings to allow for a working waist swivel. It bumps the price up another 30 cents, but I'm totally keeping it.

I added a neck swivel to this one. This modification was mostly for fun, as I knew I wouldn't really like the look of the flat plates required for it (whereas the base pieces are mostly turned on their sides, the torso is upright and would otherwise have the connector pegs sticking up). I even did one with both the neck and the waist swivels, but in addition to the aforementioned flaw the dual swivel really highlights the blockiness of the design (think of how a Rubik's Cube looks when none of its three "levels" are in alignment).

And this was totally just for fun -- I'll probably stick dollar store spiders or tiny octopuses into the actual versions when they arrive. At any rate, this guy looks considerably happier about becoming a Dalek than the folks in "Revelation of the Daleks"! 🙂

And note that I wrote "when they arrive" above -- I actually ordered two Lego Daleks last night, so they should be here in a couple of weeks! Incidentally, you can't actually order Lego Daleks because of copyright infringement rules and whatnot (well, I think people have ordered minifig Daleks without any problems, but those approximations aren't quite as good as mine), so I had to mess up the models considerably and make them look like other stuff before placing the order. I didn't realize this until I tried to upload a couple of Lego Daleks to the gallery and had them rejected for the copyright reasons, so hopefully nobody at Lego will notice that the models have pretty much the exact same pieces and figure out my fiendish plan. Or maybe they will and they won't care. I can see why they wouldn't want to sell models of copyrighted or trademarked material -- especially given that the picture of said creation appears on the box -- but should they really care what I make out of the pieces once they're in my possession? Anyway, I hope all of that goes through without a problem and that my mangled Lego Daleks arrive safe and sound and ready to be reassembled into their original designs.

At any rate, assuming all goes well, the next Lego Daleks you see will be actual photographs! Finally -- finally! -- all of the hours I have devoted to the creation of Lego Daleks will yield tangible results.

The Doctor doesn't stand a chance.