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[prateek]

Siegfried, on Jul 7 2009, 07:35 AM, said:

Ignoring the absurdity of a monorail steam train, I love it! I'm suprised it has so many cars; was that only one motor?

I love the Metroliner as well... and I wish I was there.

I was thinking that too, but it is a good idea nonetheless, and a good excuse to put a monorail in Fabuland City, and ( ) nice downscaling of Emerald Night. How many Emerald Nights did you buy to make the train and the carriages?

[brickzone]

I like it a lot, the style of Emerald Night is carried beautifully in the reduced "monorailified" version.

Incidentally, we had a steam monorail here in Ireland at one stage. In Kerry you'll probably not be surprised to hear. The Listowel and Ballybunion Railway was a Lartigue Monorail.

[Tom Bricks]

The Metroliner makes a wonderful monorail. The Emerald Night does look odd as a monorail because it looks unbelievable but it looks good downsized.

[Holodoc]

What a wonderful monorail!
The emerald of monorails so to say.

Since you told me in Günzburg about this I desperately waited to see those photos.
Thank you so much for showing them.

Now I´ll get to build... you know what I was talking about at our event, so shhhhh - don´t tell anyone.
The only problem (as always) is time.

[paintballman413]

I was very amazed to see the Emerald night monorail in person. It was so cool. It is a very fine peice of work. to bad they don't make a set for it.

[ACCURATEin]

There is so much grandiosity within this design that I am in a state of shock!

It is such a great idea to modify something and make it into something that has never before been done.

This layout is looks similar to the main street in my Lego City. Except for the execution of the elevated train has surpassed the level that mine currently rests. I am tempted to source some monorail tracks, even though I am afraid there will be none available anywhere!! haha.

Very nice work here! I must now watch the video once again!!

[Dragonator]

What a cute little monorail!

Yeah, it was so worth waiting to get back so I could say that. Nice job CopMike on an absurdly interesting monorail train, I'm sure everyone must have loved it at BrickWorld. I really like how you managed to incorporate the same design and shape of the original loco into the very limited space of the monorail cars, that must have taken some effort! I can't belive you managed to get so many carriages on their as well, that motor must have been a pretty good one. From the video it looks like it could put on some good speed. The caboose was certainly a nice touch too.

The Metroliner also looks fantastic, I have always loved that train. Very sleek design, especially the roof, and the coloured strips match up really nicely too.

All in all, a brilliant effort I must say.

[Teddy]

Great stuff CopMike!
I like your MOD, or should I say MOC, of the Emerald Night.
I really hope Lego will re-release the monorail system in the future.

[eti]

Hey Copmike, apparently we had the same idea! I had not seen your mini Emerald Night but well, the shape of the monorail train just asks for it, right? So here's mine:



Click for more detail shots and a Youtube video. Does yours also have space for microfigs inside?

I wonder how you solved the battery box problem - the thing is 4 wide (or are there smaller ones which you used?) but I don't really see where you hid it. Mine is behind those faux wheels, which does make the engine a bit wide.

[Macoco]

Wow I must have missed this, good job on reviving this thread!
Very cool and excellent work!

I love Monorails, this one is kind of strange to me , but who cares, it still is very cool!
Also nice job eti! Your EN Monorail is also very nice too!

This post has been edited by Macoco: 10 December 2009 - 02:44 AM