My LEGO Nexus Organization

This property is built on Overbuild

Well my first contest ends tomorrow night Saturday 14 May at Midnight Mountain Time.
--- Feat: Count the number of ANIMALS in the jungle. [Hint: not bugs or my pet plant Venus Tri Flap]
--- The Prize: King's Crown
--- How to enter: Mail me in game ONLY the number of animals in IntrepidAlso's Jungle Tree House on Chantey Shanty to win.

My Second contest for a Brief Case runs from 16 May 2011 to Midnight (Mountain) 21 May 2011.
--- Feat: Count the number of TREES in the jungle. [Hint: not bushes or flowers only trees with brown trunks]
--- The Prize: Briefcase
--- How to enter: Mail me in game ONLY the number of animals in IntrepidAlso's Jungle Tree House on Chantey Shanty no sooner than 16 May 2011 and no later than midnight 21 May 2011 to win.

My Third contest for a Orange Parrot runs from 23 May 2011 to Midnight (Mountain) 28 May 2011
--- Feat: Count the number of FLOWERS in the jungle. [Hint: not bushes or trees, only plants with colored blossoms (not Venus Tri Flap either)]
--- The Prize: Orange Parrot
--- How to enter: Mail me in game ONLY the number of animals in IntrepidAlso's Jungle Tree House on Chantey Shanty no sooner than 23 May 2011 and no later than midnight 28 May 2011 to win.

The property features:Hundreds of models to create a dense jungle utilizing the surrounding forest and waterfall feature found in the LU Chantey Shanty property. The sway rope bridge up to the tree house alone took a couple of weeks to build and several days to modify when I discovered my minifig would have to be 8' tall to use the handrails and had to completely rebuild the handrails. There are a number of bird models of my own creation on the property to include a Vulture, Bald Eagle, Crows and Phoenix. Perhaps the most unique feature is a pool for your minifig to immerse in, using a model water behavior posted by yhnmko1. That's right. Your minifig can rest it's plastic bones in the luxury of a balcony pool overlooking the waterfall.

Screen shots:

Here's a wide angle shot of the property
(http://i278.photobucket.com/albums/kk99/Intrepid_album/Gaming%20graphics/LEGO_Universe_2011-05-09_13-17-08.jpg)

This is an overhead view of the dense jungle that is very difficult to navigate through and filled with hundreds of individual models. Notice the rope sway bridge going up to the tree house is one fully connected model:
(http://i278.photobucket.com/albums/kk99/Intrepid_album/Gaming%20graphics/LEGO_Universe_2011-05-09_13-15-09-1.jpg)

Here's a closer view of just how dense the jungle is and how well the property lent itself to this build:
(http://i278.photobucket.com/albums/kk99/Intrepid_album/Gaming%20graphics/LEGO_Universe_2011-05-09_13-19-23.jpg)

This Brick Build view allows you to see the entire property and it's layout:
(http://i278.photobucket.com/albums/kk99/Intrepid_album/Gaming%20graphics/LEGO_Universe_2011-05-09_11-28-36.jpg)

This is my favorite place to be on the property and it is not uncommon for visitors to say 'I could just go to sleep here' *winks at MsRowdy*
(http://i278.photobucket.com/albums/kk99/Intrepid_album/Gaming%20graphics/LEGO_Universe_2011-05-11_12-29-54.jpg)

This is now officially my favorite "concept" property (that is, a property based on a theme, not on missions).

The King's Crown went to a player named Jaytzmini. The number of animals is 31 and he submitted 29

This weeks contest is for the briefcase. Just be the first to tell me how many trees there are using in-game mail.

I was WAY off.

Intrepid, I can't find it...

What? It's gone? Who took it? It was there just today!

It's not on the property list, even when I search!

Search does not seem to work.. I had that issue the other night.

Still...how much Reputation do you have on your property, Intrepid?  I manually searched down to properties with less than 20 Reputation, still nothing.

Oh, and i was able to search for "Jungle" and "Tree", still nothing.  Did you modify it recently?  That might explain it...

EDIT: Oh, and have you paid your rent recently?

Whew! I just looked and it's still there.

Lol. Ya rent's paid up for over a year from now. Rep is at just over 450. But given how rapidly it drops it could be less by the time you find it. I cleared a few players from the friend list so I need to find you when you're on and friend you. The "Social" category is by far the easiest way to find properties.

I'm on now, if you want... ;)

And soon as I see the property, I'm counting those trees!  I want that briefcase!

Yes but your Friend list is full.

Suggestion to LEGO: GIVE US A BIGGER FRIENDLIST!!!!!!

It is loading now. :)

Thanks for coming by guys and good luck on the briefcase. You guys just brought my rep up to over 500. I have had a property on Grove for months that never got higher than 150.

Wow, this looks awesome.  I'll drop by to visit later today!

I never saw a property better than this one! :o :o

I think that you ued all your bricks, and your imagination too!

GREAT property Intrepid!

Wow . Thanks

I've tried searching for your property the last couple of days, but haven't had any success.  Searching for "jungle," "tree," "house," and variations of the three only seem to bring up other players' "Tree House Fort," "Secret Treehouse," and "Jungle House," among others.  And the property doesn't come up on a manual search either -- I've gone through maybe 20 pages of property based on reputation (down to the single digits), and nada.

Any suggestions?  I'd really love to check it out...

The search function for properties is in DIRE need of improvement.. Where is Crush when we need him???

The only thing I can suggest is to add you as a friend since the list is much smaller that way. I'm sorry on many levels I'm so incognito.

I'll try to add you periodically and maybe we can schedule a time. Also if any of our common friends see us both on maybe we can get a shout out.

That will definitely work, but you shouldn't HAVE to do it. LEGO needs to address this issue, it is NOT just your property that search does not work for. 

It turns out that Intrepid's Chantey Shanty property was showing up as "pending approval"* for me, even though he hadn't done any recent work on it -- which is probably why it didn't turn up on general searches based on reputation that I'd done earlier, before we were on each other's friends lists.

I think LU automatically omits "pending approval" properties from general searches on the assumption that you can't visit them anyway, so why clutter up the search result?  If that's true, it might explain why I've had so much trouble finding other people's properties in the past, even though I knew the precise names of the properties.

Another guess -- I wonder if the foundation of the glitch is the fact that the game sometimes thinks all of a player's properties are "pending approval," so long as even one property is being approved.  So, if you're making changes to a property on Nimbus Isle, then the game characterizes your GF and FV properties as "pending approval" as well, ensuring that they don't come up on a general search, and appear blocked if they do come up on a friend's social list search result.

Whatever the reason, it's just one more property bug in a game that seems to be rife with them.  At least the bug that was frustrating me a few months ago -- models disappearing as soon as you set them down -- seems to have been fixed.

* Oddly, you can't say "pending approval" or "approval pending" or "pend approve" or any similar combination in LU chat -- not sure why.

@RBull: If the filter blocks something that you think should be allowed, send LEGO a ticket. They've added quite a few words/phrases to the whitelist based on my requests.

Intrepid: Could you post here when your prop does get approved?

There in lies the problem my friend; the property IS NOT pending approval according to the property kiosk where you pay your rent and edit the name and description it says approved in the lower right corner. This would be consistent with the fact that I haven't edited it.

...BUT I'm intrigued by RBull's theory of other pending properties causing problems because I have made changes on that fig's block yard, grove and nimbus rock properties.

I reported it in game and was emailed the tech support url to report it again so I'll see what I can find out.

It is definitely approved.

Yup -- as of late last night, the "pending approval" problem was resolved, either on its own or because someone behind the scenes did something to fix it.

I was able to visit the tree house and loved it.  The layout of the house itself was very true-to-life to me -- I could readily envision a vacation house set up the same way, with deck chairs out back and a nice hot tub with a view.

I'm exploring your prop right now. It's awesome!

Why thank you very much and don't forget to mail me in game your answer to how many trees are in my jungle for a free briefcase. The briefcase contest ends tonight at midnight. Also don't forget next weeks contest for the orange parrot.

And the winner of this weeks contest for guessing the correct number of trees is *drumroll*

FLIPZ wins the briefcase.

Correct number is 60

Yay!!!  And I got it exact...!  Well, good to know I can still count, even when I'm sleepy from staying up too late!   ;D  Thanks so much, Intrepid!

(http://farm6.static.flickr.com/5305/5851623521_24d00cb21a_b.jpg)
comfortable!

I remember that. Good times.

I think more people would see the tree house if it wasn't on Chantey Shanty.

But it works so perfectly with the Chantey Shantey theme!

Hey, here's an idea--build a miniature treehouse "aquarium statue," and get Superstickboy to put it in the Tank of Wonder to advertize your property!  XD XD XD

That is a good idea! He and I have sort of kicked that around. I was going to put a clown fish on my property that would tell people to go check out 'the tank'. But I haven't been able to get them approved and from what crushinator says custom models that are traded can't pass on descriptions or behaviors so we sort of dropped the idea.