Great job! I love the vines! :)

wow!!! dude you have A lot of plants hi im eli j is it A treehouse if it is then I love! it:)!!!!

_____sorry so amazing I forgot what I was Gunna say,AMAZING,that and you have WAAAY too much time on your hands bro...lol but still EPIC!! I always love the big pillar approach

Wow...this is absolutely amazing!!! You have very impressive amounts of leaf pieces;) Well done!

Oh, My, Gosh, This is Amazing! Though I probably would have still chosen Pirates Remorse over this just because this would Definately distract the eye away from the water. But this is still beautiful and I love all the plant work. :D

A beautiful fantasy paradise place! A place for dreams... 5/5

Nice MOC, good color scheeme. @Stuart Kahler: Some trees do grow very mathematicaly correct in shape (mostly coniferus trees follow fractale equasions if not disturbed). It realy does not look very 'organic' but it is up to the author's imagination what kind of a tree he is building.

Wow! You are ridiculously talented at these titan Mocs!

WOW! very neat, I really like your plants and the waterfalls. it reminds me of avatar, also the rock detail is very cool! 5/5

Avatar beautiful !!.....extremely imaginative, very well done.....

Blah, blah, rocks, water, beach, vines, I like it a lot.... I just wanted to add some suggestions to what Dave Kaleta said. As to the rocks, I'd suggest adding one or two smaller rock formations jutting out of the sand. Maybe around 4 studs wide. Or maybe a tiny island with a little protrusion of rock just a bit off shore. Make a strip of shallow water to connect it to the main island. But it didn't pop out at me until Dave mentioned it, so I think it's pretty minor. -- But the main detractor is the trees. They remind me of tiered dessert trays, even when viewed at an angle. Real trees don't have symmetrical groups of four branches spaced at regular intervals. Most natural trees aren't round like suburban ones that never have to compete for light. -- The branches coming out from the trunk should be staggered, and each one needs to be leafed out a lot more. Attach leaf pieces directly to others in groups of three or more, and don't be afraid to bend them, as they flex a lot. These two have fantastic leafing: http://www.mocpages.com/moc.php/8007 http://www.mocpages.com/moc.php/6219 And most of all, your vines should be growing all the way up the tree trunks (attached, not simply hanging from the branch tips). In real life, that's how vines stretch from place to place, usually chocking a tree to death in the process. -- I do like the pine trees a lot. They came out really well. -- I'm slightly puzzled, where is the water coming from, and where is it going to? You'd think that much water falling down would leave a pool of turbulent water in the beach below. Does it all come from a spring in the middle of the rock spire, or a magical well somewhere?

thats freaken tight

Looks like something from Avatar. Very exotic. My turn to critique!!! Needs wild animals and minifigs in vehicles trying to kill them!!!

Hey Lee, thanks. I am curious to know if you saw my Vines tutorial, or if you were using these photos as your learning reference? If you havn't seen the tutorial make sure to check it out on my page, its third on my most recent. Thanks again!

Love the water effects and the rock and the vines and the trees, and....and....and....

Vine elements noted, and will be plagiarized for a future design. Some very interesting techniques to be sure. I have had this open for a couple of days now before commenting, and have looked at the pictures multiple times. Thanks for sharing. Lee.

Enchanting!

I think that this is absolutely magnificent and I can't think of anything out of place. I've thought of a place like this in my mind, but this basically hits the nail on the head. Nice job, Happy 4th!

Wow!

I love the foliage, especially the vines. The use of all the different 'plant' parts gives the greenery so much depth.

All these plants, the rocks and the water: thats incredible vivid.

Wow, beautiful stuff as always. Those vines look A+! :) I agree that the spacing between the different tiers of the trees is a little regular, although it doesn't detract from the overall build for me - gives it a vaugely cartoony feel which i feel is appropriate.

Very beautifully done! Dave makes some good points about the trees and rock/sand transition, but they are minor and in no way take away from the overall visual appeal of the piece. I'm no purist, but I too would like to explore other possible solutions to your very clever vine technique.~H

Impressive organic work on this, Dude! Looks great, should be a nifty story along with it, I bet.

From the thumbnail, it looked like a small model on a regular printed baseplate. When I clicked onto it I pleasently suprised. Very pleasently suprised :) This is a beast! Great job :D

Thoy, this is one of the most beautiful creations on MOCpages right now. It is just outstanding. Regards, Eric.

Nice^^

The vine effect is awesome and as far as the floating islands, the creation has the first 4 letters of magic in it's name so it works!

The vine effect is awesome and as far as the floating islands, the creation has the first 4 letters of magic in it's name so it works!

:-O !!!! No words to describe it !!! Marvelous !!

Wow, this is incredible! When is it to be displayed at toy world?

I am so glad you didn't let me get away with this, this is because the centre base plate lifts up and out of the base for transportation. Another geographic in-consistency that no one has mentioned, the two islands which are completely floating with only vines connected. Thanks Dave!

This is probably the greatest creation of months to come! I thought your MOCiversary MOC was unbeatable, but you have proven well once more, oh great one!

Excellent. I really do like how the vine looks from here. Really astounding Thoy. I love how the water looks. It really gives that feal of depth under the water.

So, excellent work here. Those vines and the rock work along with the waterfalls are really nice. Although you've probably heard it enough from other people, I do have to say that your tree design does look somewhat unnaturally rigid and symmetrical. However, other than that, a brilliant piece of work.

So I can just sit here and gush over the build, or I can offer some thoughtful critique. First, I just want you to know that even without the figures, I really dig the composition. You have a wonderful eye for spacing and color. The vine technique is so detailed and natural and you've really accomplished your goal with it. One of the issues I'm having is with the trees. From most angles they look fine, but when you look at them in profile, the repetition of arch elements and the leaves all at the same level make them look very mechanical and unnatural. The other issue is have is the transition between the sand and rock on the base. It's a little too abrupt for the scale of the rock formation. Maybe if there were some sand drifts or sand specks near the bottom the transition might be more effective. Regardless of these things, this is an outstanding build and I enjoy seeing and learning from it :)

Wow, very neat.

Thank you for sharing your masterpiece :) MOCs like these realy make rethink my curent build ;)Many thanx for inspiration!!!

beautiful!

My girlfriend and I saw the presentation picture and the world stood still. O M G, this is so beautiful!! The waterfall effect alone is so amazing (but how on earth did he do that!?!). Your mastery of water and beach with wet sand is so natural now. It's a little lost paradise. Ok, I read the comments and gave a closer look to those trees... which did not strike me first. Ok, there is still improvement in blablabla... I will open my mouth when I will be able to do even better. 10/5 just for the pleasure of watching your MOC. Keep on making us dreaming.

I sure can, I may even remove some of these photos and do some better pics this arvo. It probably wont be instore until Saturday. Thanks Elk.

You know, Flesh and Dark Tan coloured leaves would be awesome to mix together - get that Autumn look. Having a look at these pics I think I shoulda waited till daylight to photograph it... Oh yeah, the mage is on holiday ;)

This is the intention, I was wanting it to look natural and un-lived in. If you've ever been to a thicket of forest this works perfectly :) Thanks man.

Effective? EFFECTIVE??!! Never before have I SEEN such a magnifiecnt display of scenery! (Props for bringing back the white leaves!)

Very nice.

Freaking cool

Very well done! Really the only thing that could be improved is your tree design. When seen from head-on, the leaves are very flat and leveled. Try making those branches a bit fuller by stacking more of those branch pieces on top of each other.

where did you get white leaves

Gorgeous! I love how the vines look!

This is amazing! How you made the sand look wet on the edge is great. The vines and the waterfalls also look excellent. Over all a stunning build!

*Jaw Drops*

Superb!

Wow, this is amazing. When you said sculpture in your how to do vines post, I thought, maybe 25 studs, but holy cow...this is amazing!

You, sir, are a Lego sculpting GENIOUS! Every detail here just makes my mouth water. Oh, and the vine technique definately works to great effect here; they give this moc less of a "bricky" feel, if that makes sense.

I love it Thoy! While I can't bring myself to mutilating my bricks, I am not opposed to anyone else doing it. And of course, there are those thousands of trans-dark blue tiles that I can't afford.

nice one, i like the mountain there holds the whole thing up, and your vines looks really great and fits so much as it can in this place. nice job, keep it up

This is truly beautiful, you know what I like even more than the vines? the water that is pouring from the edges, looks just great, very realistic. Great work

Definitely deserving of over 5 heads. Superb work! I love all of the foliage and the feel to it. It has kind of a fantasy/medieval feel to it. Mind taking a look at this? http://www.mocpages.com/moc.php/277341. I am not trying to be annoying, if you don't look at it it is fine with me. I want it to be popular for a group it is in. Back to the moc, amazing build quality and I hope to see more!

This is breathtaking! Great job!!!!

Magnificient! This is totally and completely AWESOME!!! :D When I saw your earlier post with the vines, I knew something awesome was coming, and I was right!! :D

Very nice, the trees are a bit monotone, static but the vines completely make up for that, love the waterfalls, great job, now where's that mage ?

This is amazing but sorry I'm purist so I cant give you 5 because of the vines.there are surely better ways of doing the same thing with out cutting up the stems of the flowers so i can only give you 4.The rest is stunning though.

Great stuff - the toy shop will be very lucky to have such a fine moc on display! How long is it going to stay there? Can you post an in-store pic too?

Wow! Great stuff as always. I must admit, the top foliage looks a little scruffier than your usual stuff but other than that, it's another great build! I love the vines and the hanging waterfalls.