Wall with a secret

TheBohrok · Post by **TheBohrok** » Tue Feb 08, 2005 3:32 pm

Greebling is a term that means making highly detailed features on a MOC, such as a space-ship.

forester3291 · Post by **forester3291** » Tue Feb 08, 2005 5:16 pm

Awesome idea Bruce. It even LOOKS cool. Due, this is simply a great idea!

I will ahve to use this for some of my MOCs and see how it turns out.

Thanks for sharing dude!

Post by **Bruce N H** » Tue Feb 08, 2005 5:44 pm

According to The Completely Unofficial Star Wars Encyclopedia, the term came from the production team for the original movies: "a term used by the production designers and artists for the films, a greeblie is any technological-looking detail added to a starship or vehicle design."
Rosetta Stone Digital Dictionary and Wikipedia both relate the term to computer graphics, but since the computer graphics community is a geek* community that grew up since Star Wars, it is completely consistant that they may have incorporated the term from the SW source.

In LEGO, greebles (greebling, greeblization, greebly) usually refer to small elements covering the surface of a Space or other tech-y creation. For instance:

This is at the opposite end of the spectrum from studless ships. For instance:

Think of the contrast between the Millenium Falcon on the well-greebled end, and the Naboo Royal Starship on the studless end.

Bruce

*The word "geek" here is used affectionately, since we're all members of a geek community here to a greater or lesser extent.

The Blue Knight · Post by **The Blue Knight** » Wed Feb 09, 2005 7:51 am

Bruce N H wrote: *The word "geek" here is used affectionately, since we're all members of a geek community here to a greater or lesser extent.

D'oh! I resemble that geek remark!

Scnicker · Post by **Scnicker** » Wed Feb 09, 2005 8:00 am

The geek term changes according to the perspective that you're looking from.
I know that I'm no geek, but that's off topic. Anyways, I use your way of "cheating" often because of lack of my bricks.

-Yankı

Blueandwhite · Post by **Blueandwhite** » Wed Feb 09, 2005 3:21 pm

The Blue Knight wrote:
Bruce N H wrote: *The word "geek" here is used affectionately, since we're all members of a geek community here to a greater or lesser extent.
D'oh! I resemble that geek remark!

...Of course you "resemble" that remark! You still play with LEGO bricks

!

Later.

lil Jon · Post by **lil Jon** » Thu Feb 10, 2005 6:09 pm

Thats probably about what the inside of my walls look like.

That looks very strange. You should make it so theres like some hidden space guys in there too possibly working on the computer stuff.