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Hello, and welcome to my profile page. I have a room full of LEGO town, railway, space, Doctor Who & other assorted sets / MOCs / MODs. I built my town featuring these MODs of sets: Medieval Market Village, Town Plan, Diagon Alley, World City / CITY, and Trains.
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1930's NYC passenger train with streamlined 4-6-4 Hudson steam loco - real world MOC
Murdoch17 posted a topic in LEGO Train Tech
Before we get to the real model pictures, first, let's set the scene: It's Friday, January 13th 1939: The Civil War in Spain is raging, Neville Chamberlain (British Prime Minster) has just started conferencing with Pope Pius XI after talking with Mussolini for the past few days, and the film 'Son of Frankenstein' is released into theaters. In a rural area west of New York on the NYC Railroad's four track water level route, a J-3 streamlined Hudson is pulling a passenger train through a picturesque snowy landscape of the early morning while heading for the Grand Central Terminal of the Big Apple. ...And now, onto the finished real-world MOC! The entire train in real bricks. This Dreyfuss-style streamlined 4-6-4 steam loco is numbered 5448 and is mostly modeled after a real, long-scrapped New York Central engine. The loco's tender really should say the railroad's full name of New York Central instead of its initials, but I don't want to shell out the money for all those 1 x 1 tiles, so I'm using fewer 2x2 tiles instead to spell out NYC, as it's much cheaper that way! the combine three coaches the observation car. I was originally going to use the new 3x3 macaroni bricks in trans-clear for the rear window, but I couldn't obtain them. Frustrated, I gave up and made my own version. Note: As some of you might be able to guess, this loco with matching coaches were inspired by pictures of Anthony Sava's original streamlined Tequila Sunrise train from 2007... however, no instructions were used to build the engine or cars. Oh, and all the historical things stated in the intro actually happened on the stated day in 1939 according to Wikipedia... and I'll bet the train bit happened too! Thoughts?-
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7075 - It was my first pirate ship, after all! In all seriousness, I voted for the 2009 Soldiers Fort. I ogled that in every catalog it was in for it's entire production run, but never had the money to buy and never received it as a gift. (I got Medieval Market Village that year instead, so I'm not complaining...)
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It certainly was, though in the end it was worth all the stress!
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Agreed - there are themes out there that never received set revivals (I mean beyond CMF's and so on) - Adventurers comes to mind among a few others, but that's gonna change this summer! Others like Western will probably never see a revival. (Lone Ranger doesn't count!)
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10 studs wide version of The Orient Express Train
Murdoch17 replied to James_Bangying's topic in LEGO Train Tech
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10 studs wide version of The Orient Express Train
Murdoch17 replied to James_Bangying's topic in LEGO Train Tech
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Aquazone originally WAS a space theme with it's own molded-head aliens and a monorail expansion. (prototypes / pictures exist of these) It was called Seatron before being refurbished into Aquazone. So you were correct in it feeling vaguely space @Stereo!
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10 studs wide version of The Orient Express Train
Murdoch17 replied to James_Bangying's topic in LEGO Train Tech
It looks good, but Eurobricks isn't meant to host images. Use Flickr, Instagram, Bricksafe, or somewhere else to host them. Then you link them into your post (there are guides in the new member section for how to do this) EDIT: Ninja'd by @TeddytheSpoon! -
As a train fan, I can tell you the train community - especially Lego trains - is even more fractured than space: Australian trains look nothing like European Continental trains, which are different from UK trains, which are themselves about as far from US trains as possible. What scale do we want? 8 wide, 6, or 7? Steam? Diesel? Electric? something else? What about what era? Early? late 1800's / early 1900's? WWI-era? Inter-war? WWII? post-war transition era? mid-diesel ('70's - '90's)? modern? futuristic / fanciful? This doesn't even touch on what wheel arrangement, AC or DC power, or loco manufacturer! (and what paint scheme should it have?) If you get any of this wrong - it becomes an expensive parts pack or won't even sell. (see: UCS Hogwarts Express) All these factors play into something being successful (Emerald Night) or not. (Horizon Express) To say it being a train and would sell automatically is laughable to the extreme.
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Blacktron I revisited - spaceships, cars, and robots OH MY! - finished in real life 3/12/24
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Batman (DC Superheroes) 2024 - Rumors & Discussion
Murdoch17 replied to Clone OPatra's topic in LEGO Licensed
They are in the film, thus that's why we are discussing them in this thread. -
Batman (DC Superheroes) 2024 - Rumors & Discussion
Murdoch17 replied to Clone OPatra's topic in LEGO Licensed
You haven't watched The LEGO Batman Movie, have you? (If not, you really should!) If you can think of a WB villain, it's in that film, alongside a few Universal or BBC bad guys. (DALEKS!) -
It's a VERY nice Blacktron I MOC! Not trying to mini-mod, but, @Isacasi @BrynnOfCastlegate please put your posts in English - it's the only allowed language on EB. I (and others too I bet) want to read your posts without resorting to Google translate! Thanks!
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Marvel Superheroes 2024 - Rumors & Discussion
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LEGO Sci-Fi Ongoing - Rumors, Speculation, and Discussion
Murdoch17 replied to Lyichir's topic in LEGO Sci-Fi
I guess we should have expected it not to be Blacktron-related since the GWP torsos were discontinued on Pick A Brick last year... It should have been a sign.