Any way this is just me and my opinion, may be I like MOCpages more than others because it took me out from my dark ages as well.

I know that this is off topic a little bit, but I just liked to share my opinion here, and thanks for this great topic and thanks a lot for blogging my stuff from time to time, TBB.

Peace,
Firas

1. Get married, have children, go to college, or travel for work. Basically any significant expenditure of time that becomes a higher priority than LEGO. If one of these options doesn’t work for you, do like I did and add several of them together. I’m currently averaging 8 pieces added per day on my Post-Apoc Diorama.

(Do not mistake step 1 for not building. Not building is called a Dark Age, Grey Age or possibly Bley Age)

2. Stop taking photographs of your MOCs. Your reasons may be the above time crunch, poor lighting because you live in foggy Pacific NorthWest, camera technology issues like Flickr doesn’t accept 35mm film or a moral objection to using environmentally-unfriendly batteries. I chose the lack of a decent white sheet, and an embarrassing MOC posting involving a dirty grey towel.

3. Voraciously seek out and view the widest variety of other people’s MOCs as possible. In this way, you will see creations similar to your own and the public reaction to them. You may need to imagine melding two postings together to better understand how the community would respond if you had actually posted your own MOC. This gives you all the constructive criticism you need to improve as a builder, without the heartache and internet drama of having not been blogged, or harassed with comments about studs showing, rainbow warriorism, and passe building techniques.

Hopefully, these steps will help the shy, unskilled, or rebellious LEGO builders out there to avoid accidentally being blogged. If all else fails, and your creation ends up on TBB despite your best efforts- you can always resort to making wild accusations about copyright law and privacy invasion. It won’t help, but it will sure be fun.

Oh, and about all the bandwagon and other popular things getting blogged here: I think we can all agree that they may come in various degrees of awesome, but that all of them are blogworthy, right?

It seems fairly reasonable to expect bloggers to feature what they’re into. It is a matter of taste after all. The cool thing about all that “meta” stuff is that it helps a blog keep itself honest by quantifying its own proclivities.

Not only has TBB been kind enough to feature some of my stuff (even if it is all brown steampunk!) but it’s a daily source of inspiration to me in terms of exposure to new builders and techniques.

If TBB only featured the work of the “usual suspects” then there’d be no need for it to exist – those guys are probably all on our Flickr contacts lists anyway.

Dave: I agree, but I don’t believe MOCpages is going to improve any time soon. Also, if you want more members for it, then you’re getting a large percentage of “eltie clone comandurz”.

I guess I have a soft spot for MOCpages (it helped bring me from my dark age) and I would like to see more happen with it. I’d like to see it become a bigger, better community. …in spite of the ‘annoying kid ratio’.

There are shades of valdity to Kevoh’s statement however fractured and fragmented they may be. To this I would simply remark, if you don’t like listening to popular music, don’t tune into the top 40 station.

…and yeah Dan. THUNDERCATS, HO!

TBB is a site that I read on a daily basis, yet seldom comment on, and plan to continue reading in the future. I do see the same patterns of popular builds and themes, as Kevoh mentioned, but they are getting blogged because of that very reason.

As someone who thinks he should have been blogged once or twice more than he has (though I have never self-promoted …blatantly), I have to wonder what this bitterness is about. I mean, it’s just a blog. Are we here to build or get blogged on TBB?

I also try hard not to blog about a builder that I have recently blogged.

There are a lot of pop-culture referencing creations that I find off-putting, actually. I can admit to being swayed by a few, though. I absolutely loved the Thundercats when I was growing up, and that pod-racer was a great stand-alone creation.

This is why the post is called “How to get blogged on TBB,” and not “What LEGO creations are good.”

Diversity of coverage comes from having multiple bloggers, as we do, and reading multiple LEGO blogs. I don’t want to sound like I’m turning readers away, but we blog what we like, and if you don’t like it, there are plenty of other fantastic LEGO blogs you could be reading. ;-)

… but seriously some of the above is true lol. I’d like to be blogged here but I don’t have the uber-creativity or photographic skills…

Be conformist! Spaceships that look like cliche spaceships, yes! Creations that neatly fit into a preexisting theme, of course! Bonus points if it fits into an official LEGO theme! The more you are like everyone else, the quicker everyone will like you!

Reference pop culture, blatantly, repeatedly, and without any additional commentary or critique!

Use the color brown! That automatically makes it either Steampunk or Post-Apoc!!!

Be named Nnenn, Legohaulic, Sir Nadroj, or Jehkay!!!

Star Wars! Brickforge! Hipster ironic nostalgia!