”Knights were covered in multiple layers of armor?” Do you realize how heavy that would be? Plate armor had some overlapping pieces to protect joints, but knights only wore ”multiple layers” during a brief period of history when their armorers couldn't decide whether plate our mail was better and decided to use both, greatly increasing the weight of the armor and thus handicapping their knights on the field of battle. They did typically wear passed among coats beneath their metal protection, but I do not really count this as armor.

What did you mean"The samurai was armed with a long, sharp sword called a “katana”, we understand that one cannot cook bacon on a katana.?" Do you mean Master Shifu?

Very impressive!! 5/5

What a nice little time you provided us with. BTW this is in first place in 'more' category under 'most popular display' Congrats!

Amazing and fantastic and could you also check out my mocs

Very good but I think you should make the samurai's torso the color of the armor.

your right aliens and everybody (or thing) also deserve starbucks

Only 1 to 4 percent? Driving on the Autobahn makes me wonder if it weren't more. A LOT ... BTW very good tower.

HAHAHAHA, but seriously folks...I am just trying to dispel a few miss, er, I mean myth's with a fact or forty.

And this comes as a surprise to people? Ever been to Walmart on a Saturday morning?

I do not like to disrupt people's pre-conceived notions with facts, but here is a little nugget: http://news.discovery.com/human/neanderthal-human-interbreed-dna.html

Who woulda thunk that this would not only be your most popular creation, but controversial as well! My favorite part about Mr. Baldacci's statement is that only the first two levels are 'mythical'; his neighborhood must be overrun with Space Marines and Intergalactic Infantry! It just cracks me up that ideas like walking on water and turning water to wine are supposed to be more plausible than the idea that the physical characteristics of a living creature can change over a long period of time to better suit it's environment...witchcraft I say! LMAO!~H

Well thank you one and all for the comments, very nice indeed. At Xeno, cheers buddy and I agree, this site is not the place for religious debate. At Barto....HAHAHAHAHA and at Matt, gracias for saying this is my best (Although I like the Monster Tower better), and your last statement gave me a good laugh after spending over an hour commuting to work!

It's really too bad when a friend receives that great and lucky honor of having a creation elevated to MOTD, and the response is stunted by a stale and tired rant of exhausting religious rhetoric. This is one of Dan's best creations, with evident effort and quality, and with layer upon layer of excellent representations of eras and warriors it's a unique look at history. PS: Hitler killed people because he was a bad man that twisted beliefs and past events to fit his own agenda. Using that event as an example to show that evolution is evil is..wait a minute...twisting beliefs and past events to fit your own agenda.

I like the tower for what it is: A fine LEGO® creation and quite informative. What I don't like are religious people who always have to rub in their believe with force. This is not the right place for it, I think.

A fine history lesson here, like an episode of Deadliest Warrior. Now as far as the Neanderthal issue, some believe that modern humans may have interbred with them, others do not. Clearly these scientists have never been to a State Fair.

HAHAHA, I do stand corrected as I will bow to your knowledge of proper Latin.

this is brilliant, thw whole scene looks great (but alittle unstable) and the stories is great and very detailed, so is the backgrounds of the diffrent warriors. Gratz at MOYD (moc of yesterday)great job

Gongrats on MOTD dude, I love the historical references, especially about the homo sapiens, they're so true ;) love to see more of this objective, reasonable and truthfull based creations

This got MOTD? Hmmm, missed that. Thanks though. To the christian and the non-christian, no fighting lads, each to his own beliefs. Although, scientific fact trumps religious fantasy in my book. Cheers.

uhhhhh nice job i like it except the ones in the ce's i prefer just plain old people not Jedi (thats

awesome1 i love all the soldiers,and how you have even included a summary!i hate to sound like a noobie but could you please check this out-http://www.mocpages.com/moc.php/275912

Cool moc. Actually "scutum" literally means shield in latin, as it is a second declension neuter noun. Just a bit of info, thought you might like it! Singular: Scutum, scutum, scutum, scuti, scuto, scuto. Nice MOC again!

@Deus Otiosus: I'll answer each of your supposed allegations against Christianity one by one: The holocaust - Hitler believed in Survival of the Fittest (Evolution). He though the Aryan germans were the fittest and Jews, Africans and Gypsies were worth being exterminated so the fittest could survive. And he was a evolutionary Satanist, BTW. As for the crusades, they were instigated by the Roman Catholic popes, who I do not believe were real christians. More like mid-medieval people with a lot of power. and 90% of the crusaders were actually ex-convicts escaping feudal taxes, knights escaping the law or other duelers, or people seeking adventure. Few of them really believed slaughtering Muslims was right, and the Bible clearly describes that that is WRONG. Just because some nominal 'Christians' did it doesn't mean the Bible proscribes it. And the witch hunts were also 'technically' run by the Religious (Christian) councils. But did you know they actually exterminated only 20 people over those years? And in addition, this brings me to my original point. Just because they did it, doesn't mean it was right. Christians lie, or do wrong things just like everyone else because we are all sinful. But that doesn't mean the bible says to lie and do wrong things. And finally, the 'religious councils' during the Witch Hunts were nominal councils growing fat on tithes. Few of them actually had any scriptural grounding. But they were right in their premise. the Bible teaches strongly against witchcraft throughout. But their means of going about was not Biblical in the slightest. And for your point about Neanderthals: Give me one good piece of observable evidence that things can change from one species into another.

A certainly creative stack of vignettes!

I congratulate you on this lucky occasion, and as I see, it is your first MOC with over 100 ILIs. That was an unexpected discovery, seeing you are one of the most famous people on MOCpages. And for the christian guy ranting about neanderthals: did you know neanderthals (homo sapiens neanderthalis - did you know we didn't evolve from them?) discovered music and were in no way brutes, especially compared to homo sapiens sapiens (Holocaust, Apartheid, the genocides over native americans, crusades, The witch hunt...).

Congrats Mister Bones on getting you first Moc with over 100 likes!

This is great! You've done your history home work^^.

I love all the figs and historical references. Good choices as well. But unfortunately the first two levels are mythical. Neanderthals and Homo Sapiens are completely mythical. Science has shown that the skulls we find are not actuall enlarged craniums and skulls suggesting a transformation from ape-like anscestors, but swelling caused by tumors of vitamin defeciency. Plus, if we can accept a Biblical viewpoint for a moment, a world-wide flood would result in catastrophic burying of all living things. Afterwords, there would be so much debris in the air it would cause a cold expansion on the poles, (a.k.a and Ice Age). This would wipe out crops and force a wide spread reducion of Calcium consuption among Humans. Resulting in the malformation of the Cranial Cavity. Which makes much more feesable sense than 'evolved' ape-men. Besides, it is genetically impossible for an ape to become a human. For even one strand of Ape DNA to change correctly into its known 'evolutionary anscestor' is lower chances than selecting a 'marked' atom from the known universe in one try. So I cannot understand why anyone believes we evolved from brutes like the Neanderthal man. We are the human race, created in God's likeness. But other than the first two levels, the rest is great!

Nice to see a well built and informative MOTD. Not sure about the sun never setting on the British Empire: we British are awfully modest, these days..

Has Shifu ever tried to cook bacon on a katana? Lovin' it.

Best MOTD in a good few days.

This so cool!! It is very different from all of the other creations I have seen! I think the depiction for each group of warriors is fantastic!! Great Job!! Could you comment on this?? Thanks!! http://www.mocpages.com/moc.php/274526

very, very good, I especially love your SAS soildier, and the neandertal ofc :P

Good work, Mr. Bones!

Thanks! If only I could take better photos.....

Sweet! Some things in this MOC are also funny (in a good way), so yeah, it deserves all those likes.

Thanks, I will go look over your page.

Very cool! But where did get the roman soldier? Can you check out my creations please?

this is very good, the shining knight is my favourite !.....

This is really creative, interesting to see earth's future will involve lightsabers, er I mean x-88 laser swords! I knew they were real! Nice job.

Yes, Thank you.

that is so cool, is it s suppose to be a time line ?

Awesome! I love the Samurai, is that the Collectable Minifigure one?

No, he is from the old ninja line, I forget the name of the line, was out in the 90's I think. Thanks for the comment.

Cool build!

WOOOOW !!! This is one of the best idea I've seen !! coooool !!!!!

Thanks guys. No supports were used, just brick on brick. (It was a bit wobbly though. The Monster Tower is far more stable)

Holy Cow! Thats a lot of comments!Just kidding,Love the build. How on earth did you get the tower to stand? I would assume you used supports.

Awesome! Great idea.

This a simple, but so brilliant idea, you had there, i love it!

Never a fool! Just a mistake, no big deal at all. I do think you are correct on the Helots (But I would have to look into it because I do not know....HAHAHAHA)

OH, Helots is what I was thinking of, sorry for the mix-up. Oh goody, now i've made a fool of myself...Nah, if you think about half the people here, I might as well be Albert Einstein.

This is an amazing tower! 1 bit of criticism: Hoplites were Spartan SLAVES, not the warriors themselves.

I thank you for the comment, but you are wrong on the hoplites, not sure where you came up with that. Go do some research, you will find out.

Great Job, but i have 1 question. WHERE ARE THE PIRATES!!!!!

I like the Roman Warrior's section the best, clever job, nice work. I was wondering if you'd be willing to judge in an upcoming contest, if willing or not please let me know here: http://www.mocpages.com/group.php/15129

really awesome

I am sure I have no idea what you mean.....hahaha

This is MADNESS! Your not compensating for something are you?

HAHAHAHAHA!

I got a phalanx for ya' right here! Oh wait, I'm thinking of something else...

Wow, 75 I like its! You said it wasn't very good, I told you it was!

realy neat lego creation love it all the last one is really funny ,any way can you comment an my new creation if you can and have time,tnx

The PG is because there are a few bad words, probably safe to look at if you wish. Dim Death, not bad

Um, Dim Death(Dim = Dem)(Death = the unlucky people), your latest tower suggests parental guidance. Could you change that a notch? (PS: Like the nickname I gave you? XD)

Nice work Bones that's really cool.

Dear Mister Bones, I have some grave news for you, and it is with a heavy heart that I deliver these news. Some wise-guy at Hollywood stole your Jacked-Up Fairy Tales idea. The perpetrator must've been a Twilight fan, as the new movie "Little Red Riding Hood" seems to follow this format. Rather than a 5-year-old with a basket of muffins skipping merilly to her grandmother's only to find that the wolf has eaten her, Little Red Riding Hood is somehow a teenager in love with some weird guy, and the whole movie is this love story mixed with a hunt for the wolf, which has been killing people for no reason. It could very easily be a good werewolf movie, but the fact that it's Little Red Riding Hood showcases the disrespect for children's tales that rightfully belongs to you. I hope that you get to the bottom of this, and make sure that you give me credit as the discoverer of such plagirism.

Very neat indeed. Neat structure plan.

I'm too lazy to check and make sure that someone hasn't already made an "over-compensating" joke - I'm sure that some of our buds have already had at it. This is pretty impressive, Bonesy - I like this idea. It'd be sweet to see how tall you could make this thing.

HAHAHA, now that's funny! Cheers Timmy!

what you said about the Neanderthal and homosapien sounded exactly like my history teacher

Is that the Series 3 Samurai minifig?

I'd say, looking at all these comments and this MOC, I'd say: MOCpages would be nothing without a man who's fit to be on a graveyard shift. No offense.

Yes, but sadly, it is looking more like months, than moment

That's the tallest bignette/vignette tower I've ever seen! It's amazing it can stand on its own. Really awesome work, I love these "through the ages" kind of creations.

Ah, it´s a shame you don´t have the time to build at the moment.

No, that one is from the late 1990's Ninja sets.

brilliant work mr bones

Technology has come a long way thanks to war. But I dont think we will have lasers by 2200, lasers technically cant exist as a lethal wepon either. >Eric

Great work. i love history and I like to see your not biast about the British empire (I find most peopel hate it) May I ask, is it okay for me to build a tower, I have seen a couple around mocpages already?

That's what he said! I still think a second tower is warranted. Amazon, Viking, gangster rapper...

Very true, but I would have needed to make the thing so darn big, it never would have fit in the picture!

You could have made more 'cause there are many more ages you didn't explore but nice work and idea overall.

I love that idea! Do it Matt, I will go check your homepage now.

It's quite awesome! I love every segment of it! ~Ryan

I'm thinking of doing something similar, instead of a tower, side by side and each scene will have the opponent fighting the person. It would be significantly smaller though. What do you think? BTW Would you mind checking out my new and improved homepage?: http://www.mocpages.com/home.php/29218 I want some feed back on what you think, too much of something, too little? That kind of thing. I want to know what my viewers like.

Thank you, I will bring back the minifig series soon.

a very nice addition to your collection!,i can t imagine how in a single tower ,you could despict all significant warriors!,but,maybe 3-4 separate towers covering different periods would be the ticket there!,still,as it is, this one looks very good,and the figs are also very well chosen!,i still miss your minifig collection vigs though!,they were so good! good show mr bones!

Thanks, that is one of my favorite quotes.

Great tower Bones, and to they guy bellow me the quote goes-- "I know not with what weapons World War III will be fought, but World war IV will be fought with sticks and stones." -Albert Einstein

25 stories...now there's a goal! Hahaha! I love this! Good thinking on linking them as a history class rather then a story. Ending with the Neanderthal would have been my top floor. As in the wise words of Einstein: "I don't know what weapons will be used in WW3 but in the war after it, it will be a club!"

What's wrong with 25 stories- is it too fragile...btw you commented E.K.O's Raxus Prime and you said you have no clue what it is... well have you checked out my Raxus Prime... it's Star Wars planet working as junkyard for spaceships and so on.... appears in the game Force Unleashed and in star Wars books, comics and stuff....

nice job i otta try that Keep On Brickin.~Ford

Oh...that would have been good. If I had added them all, the bloody thing would have been 25 stories!

Excellent idea... but you should've added spanish conquistador between knight and samurai

Here is a little nugget for you, by the way....stay in school my friend: Infantry was the dominant military arm in ancient Greece, and the Spartan infantry eclipsed all others. A Spartan hoplite (footsoldier) wielded a pike of seven and a half to nine feet in length, which he handled more skillfully than his opponent did his own weapon of lesser stature. He donned a helmet, breastplate, and greaves and carried a short sword at his waist.

Amazing! i love the detail on each level.

Oh thank you SO much! Guess what? I was a history major, I know exactly who we evolved from and it is not neanderthals, also I am aware of the difference between a hoplite and a spartan. This is Lego buddy....time to chill out a bit.

good moc but very very inacurate to actual history. i myself being obsessed with greek and egyption history find this somewhat offensive. the hoplites were NOT spartans. spartans carried swords and shields, while hoplites carried spears and shields. also spartans did not wear armor only helmets and capes. i think you should have added a historicly correct norseman or viking if you don't know what that means. they were a pretty big part of history. also humans did not evolve from homo sapiens that is the scientific name for humans. humans are homo sapiens they did not evolve from them. we evolved from neadrothals which are sort of like monkey men.

Nice work, man! Love the progression between each level.

Yes, wanted to add a viking and a sioux warrior, but.....

Very awesome man!! I was going to ask what happened to the canucks...but then you posted the bit about the Space Marine representing them too, eh. A little surprised you left out Native Americans....but guess you have to draw the line somewhere!

Thanks everyone, glad you all liked this, now I need to work on the presentation....

This looks EXACTLY like something I would make.Great job,although,if each one had been seperate it would have been terrible,but altogether it is very cool.-Master N

Wow!!!

This was an excellent way to travel through some military history.

Very Creative! Well done Bones!

this is great, hehe I see you're into brickarms now :p oh well, it just looks so good, nicely done

That tower must be very dangerous for villains. Awesome stack of vignettes.

Very cool, im baffled how you balanced it all.

Well, yes, but that is totaly beside the point

very innovative, and a good idea - Mountain Boy

awesome man!

You have got to be kidding. :-)

You are insane.

Thanks! Yes, the future stuff is fiction, but it could happen.

Wow Great Build! How Big Is It?

Favorite is the Hoplite, and Roman. An excellent little history (and some ficton) lesson. The term Hoplite comes from the round shield they used. It was also an honor to go into battle with a loin cloth, let alone full body armor... Also I love the British, and the Civil War soldier.

Not sure how you can present this as the world is only 2000 years old ;-) Lee.

HAHAHA, yes, well many were left out because of heighth issues, such as the poor vikings, 2000 era soldiers, etc. The SAS guy is more late 1960's to 1970's.

Gracias mi amigos! Well, there is more than enough FACTUAL evidence the first two did exist, so....yeah. If only I could get the main pics to look better....maybe a bit of photoshop...hmmm

This is great! Reminds me of that show Deadliest Warrior. Surprised you didn't have an Amazon dio! That would be hot, I mean, cool!

Now that... is awesome! I'm actually surprised you haven't been raked over the coals by the closed minded fans of Lego telling you that the first two didn't exist... Give it time. hehehe Great work man! Glad you overcame the balance issues. And I agree... might be time to start a trend with this concept. ~ Chris.

I wonder if tower vigs would be in vogue soon (or has it been?) Great way to present. It surely worked in depicting the evolution of the warrior. Very creative, Bonesy! Samurai warriors rule!

Cheers Mark! Any tips on how to fix the presentation would be more than welcome, as the tower is still built. (You can e-mail em to me if you have some ideas and a bit of time.)

What a brilliant concept, Bones. Absolutely love it! Nail down the presentation part of this, and it's a shoe in for TBB!

I agree, the pics of the whole tower look poor, I need to figure that bit out if I do another tall tower.....which I am

Thanks for pointing that out, I corrected that bit of writing.

Cool idea for a build. It was well executed too! I like your predictions for the future as well.

From a glance it looks really scrappy but when you focus in you can see the complexity and the smoothness of each level! Beautifully and cleverly done. Kudos on the excellent build.

Surprisingly, not once. However, the top 4 levels were a challenge becasue the level with the Civil War guy is quite unstable.

HAHAHAHAHAHA! That was a nightmare, but at least his hair caught fire in that one ad.....

Thanks, but...what? What's this about the French? Oh, I left them out of the confederation....oops, oversight.

This structure is really defying gravity! The separate MOC's are great to see the history, and the building techniques are great too... Another great one! Greets, Jelle

Awesome, I love these little progression through time towers you're doing! This one looks very stable. I like how you used many different warriors through time, but it could of been better with some sort of chain-mail wearing warrior such as vikings, and also the medieval knight would rarely carry a shield if they had full plate armour, as does your minifig. :D

Is it... stable? Awesome from top to bottom... or should that be bottom to top.

Wow! That is one amazing build, wrapped up in a somewhat seasoned history lesson and flavored with plausible predictions of the (near) future.

Amazing work Bones! The vigs each have a pretty good history lesson and the sheer size of this is impressive! I made a tower like this before but it is no where near is big as this.

Awesome

Well, thanks for this lesson in our history and the things to come in our future. Impressive and nicely detailed build! Size matters, no!? ~Cheers

Great build!

Nice idea and an awesome work. 5/5

Good work!

I'm looking forward to using one of those m-7 particle blasters. I hear they make short work of preparing moon-cheese salads. Excellent tower and history lesson all in one. I'm pleased you got it to stand so high. We once had warriors here in New Zealand many moons ago too, but lego doesn't make costumes to match them...http://scrapetv.com/News/News%20Pages/Everyone%20Else/images-3/maori-warrior.jpg modern day kiwi warriors are a just a bunch of unsuccessful rugby league players that nobody really cares about...

Wow, now that is a tall tower! How many times, if ever, did it topple over?

LOL "We understand one cannot cook bacon on a katana" Favorite line evah!

Excellent build Mr Bones. But where are all the Viking warriors? :D Still very very nice.

Wow, 13 levels? I gotta do something like this... Great job sir. But no gladiators? Those guys were better than legionaries in my opinion. ~Waff

Ambitious and interesting. Why did you leave out the combatants in the Great Cola War of the 1980s? Legions of one-gloved Michael Jackson clones wreaked havoc on the world in the name of Pepsi but it took just one Whitney Houston to win the day for diet coke. Perhaps it was only a dream. More like a nightmare, really.

Love all the variety and flavor of all the backgrounds. Two questions though: what do you have against the French; you say we have to buy your book for the class, we can't rent it?

I hope to live to see the Moon War. I will regale my grandchildren with stories of the days when Koreans and Kiwis fought side by side. We melted down our Lego to supply the precious Acrylonitrile Butadine Styrene needed for the moon landers fuel. I regret that I have but 100,000 brick to give to my confederation of countries. (oh, nice MOC)

EXCELLENT a lot of history, very cool. Is it balanced?