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Yesterday I bought this lovely set MISB for only 50 euros. I am so happy!

So all theories about this set being a fake can definately be throw overboard! I'll buy this, 89.99 euros is not that bad for a price! Thanks Tony, it seems that TLC has taken a good look at your fantastic trains in the proces of development.

This looks like a fun contest! I am currently in the middle of constructing something like a walled city and will maybe post one of the already finished buildings in this contest. Only problem: it is slightly higher then 25 studs high, there is a tiny tower sticking out a bit higher.... Is this height rule very strict? In Medieval times many buidlings were higher then the surrounding castle walls, like in this picture of my hometown Zutphen in the Netherlands The church is much higher than the walls in the foreground and it has been like this since the medieval times.

Hello fellow Eurobrickers, Although I uploaded this city some time ago to Brickshelf I never found the time to post it here on Eurobricks, but now that time has come. I always like to experiment with city's like this and make something I never tried before. I thought it would be a nice idea to make a big railwaybridge with little shops underneath and an elevated station platform. For that reason I bought hundreds of 1x2 light grey bricks and dozens of arches. The result is this city, it was a bit tricky to photograph the street between the row of houses and the bridge because much of it got shaded by the buildings and the train overhead. Let's take something of a tour: First we have an overview of the city showing the bridge, port, houses and a little piece of the freight area in the foreground. In the distance a stack of forgotten-to-remove-before-the-pictures casette tapes is visible.... This next picture shows my recently acquired 6542 port, it has acces to the street behind the bridge by means of an underpass. Underneath the bridge/viaduct a row of shops is visible e.g. a bicycle rent, surfstore, and cafe. On to the buidlings: First this castle/cottage like building with a large garden housing the owner's ferrari, grand piano and boat. Looking at the fence you can see the result of the only Bricklink order yet that never reached me in all those years: I ordered a hundred spears to finish the fence.... The main row of buildings overlooking the train track. The police station and the red cornerbuilding next to it I imported from my previous city because I could not part with those.... In the foreground you can see masts, more on that later on The hotel for which I never completed the interior, I am pleased with the way the facade turned out, Here you can see the stationplatform, elevator, station building and the the square in front of it with a statue of a local hero on horseback. There are also stairs to acces the platform from the ground up. Underneath the stationplatform I situated the 6373 Motorcycleshop from 1984. I had to climb my chair before taking this picture, it shows the entire layout with to the right the beach, in the center my steam train and next to that the museum ship. A different perspective of the railwaybridge, showing all the consecutive arches, and the traffic creeping through between the bridge and the houses, Although suffering from poor lighting this photo gives an impression of the busy streetlife. In the distance the security gates for acces to the stairs to the stationplatform can be distinguished underneath the "Bahnhof" (which is German for railwaystation) sign. The prime tourist attraction of the port can be seen here: a 17th century ship of war. Visitors can purchase a ticket at the ticketstand (nearly visible behind the main mast underneath the railwaybridge in the first picture), can have their picture taken with a soldier from the good old days along side a real cannon and can acces the ship via the stairs. The rigging and masts are restricted areas though. In this picture you see the beach just as the people wondering about there: there are showers, there is a pizza restaurant and there's the terrible sound of trains passing every few minutes.... To conclude the tour there is this picture of the piece of paper I "designed" the city on, back in the days. The design shows the lighthouse on the far left side, that one has been moved to the center and the 6542 port has been added on the left side. Oh, look: for the bridge I used 512 1x2 grey bricks and 64 1x8 arches.... More pictures of the city can be found in THE BRICKSHELF GALLERY, showing 43 photographs. That's it, I hope you like it, questions and comments are most welcome!

Thank you It has been a while since I posted the fire-engine here on Eurobricks, but I have dug up the topic. It can be seen by clicking this link, it was part of the great firetruck competition in 2007 and I am still pleased to remember it won. Well, so much for self promotion...

This is the work of a genius! I immediately took out my plastic drawer of handtruks and started trying the design, and it works excellent. The handlebar piece fits nicely in between the top of the trolley. What you can do with the grill pieces is put them vertically instead of horizontally, it will break with the horizontal framework of the trolley but on the other hand leaves you with half see-through grills. I wish I still had that beach layout build....

Well... Just remember to alway look to the right and to the left before crossing the street... Sorry, I just had to... On topic: I think when you want to create such an army, stacking up on the impulse set with the orc-ish creature would be a good start.

Tanks for all the kind comments, they are really appreciated! I made some train-layouts before and incorporating the train into a city layout is always tricky because a train is often so overwhelmingly visible that it leaves no space for the rest of the town. With this bridge it made a lot of shops etc. possible underneath the tracks, that's why I decided in favour of it, moreover there is not really that much free building-space in my room available, a problem many builders encounter, I think.... The only (small) downside to building a bridge like this is that it is impossible to have the whole thing attached to some sort of oval track to make the train go in circles. All it can do is travel from side to side, but hey: I am a collector and builder so the actual playing with the train lies in the past. Thanks! I had a hard time breaking down all the other buildings from my previous layout, so those two had to stay intact... I based the red building on a house in Amsterdam (in the Raadhuisstraat to be exact) but it could have had some more colors and features, I agree. The beach was more of a last minute idea of mine, I tried some landscaping with plates and the like, but found it to be better looking left out in the end, I might experiment some more with my next beach... Yes, the fence, that's why it took so long for me to take pictures of the layout, I was sitting, wishing, waiting for that order but it never came, I got a total refund from the seller but I had liked some spears instead. Those coaches are from my Blue Train, I just swapped the locomotive and because the loc is also eight wide it's a perfect fit! I looked at some pictures of the Sandvika Station just now and it looks great! Here in Holland many cities have elevated stations such as this, because when trains got invented most cities where already in short supply of space to accomodate cross-town railwaytracks. I saw the most beautiful example of an elevated station last summer in Hamburg, the Dammtor station: In Berlin (also Germany) there is a whole network of little shops situated underneath the railwaytracks, it's a really nice site and practical as well. I am afraid that as we speak, on the very same spot this city rests on, a Medieval walled city is taking shape, so this one is already gone... So the next town I present will be a leap back into history.

I like the idea of the set, it is nice for those of us who don't have so many normal civilians or want to start a city. Personally I will not buy this set pretty soon, at 8 euro's I find it a bit expensive for 4 minfigures. Furthermore it is nothing new for me: I have literally hundreds of minifigures, dozens of roadsigns (printed ones, not stickered!) a whole fleet of handtrucks and half a drawer full of printed-tape-tiles. But still... I like the idea.

This looks very good, I love the luggage racks! The one thing I would recommend though is to attach the couplings to the wheels or at least to the same turntable as the wheels, the way it is now makes it look better but it will be very hard to attach to an other waggon or the locomotive because of the free space between the wheels and the coupling. If you look at the third picture you posted you can see the couplings sticking out outside the track: it will be very hard to keep the waggons connected in curves because they won't line up. Especially at eight wide trains. A quite technical story, I know, but it will all become very clear once you attach another car. I struggled with the same problem while constructing my eight wide train and got pretty frustrated at some point.... I remember the discussion about the non-existence of tan windows in the 10194 topic, I see there is living proof here about that matter. I like to see the complete train some day!

That to me seems a non-convincing argument, how can you distinguish the pupils of minifigures that are in a low resolution picture...? My eyesight is quite all right and I can see either pupils or pixels when looking at the figures.

It has been a long time since I posted in this thread and in the mean time many Legosets have been gathered. The latest set I have acquired is the 10193 Medieval Marketvillage, I traded it for an MISB 2140 Roadside Assistance Crew I had lying around in my house.

Hi Rick, Very cool this yacht of yours, a real statenjacht! My father has a similar ship out of wood (miniature of course...) I believe it was an assemble-yourself kit someday. I like the size of it, as it is used to transport the vips between the ships of the line it is supposed to be a lot smaller than the regular fleet's vessels. Great job! Edit: Hey, I see that in my absence you mods created a monkey emoticon! Cool, let's first use it here: Sorry, I just had to Let's not let it distract us from the nice ship.

This looks fantastic, and I hope it is not a fake (it looks too professional indeed to be fake!) Maybe Emerlad Night is Lego's counterpart to famous trains like the Orient Express, or is it a real train from the past? I am too lazy for wikipedia-ing right now... I hope that this train, if released, will not be restricted to the new flexible tracks and that it runs on the 9v ones too. Can't wait till april first!

Hi Agent Rick57! Coincidentally I made the BR24 with the large wheels from Big Ben Bricks and I think it turned out good (look in my signature). The middle sized wheels are relatively new to BBB, so most of the trains you see on Brickshelf and Flickr are made using the larger ones that have been around longer. I have not yet compared all the wheels, but I can say that the small BBB wheels are the same size as standard 9v Lego wheels, as can be seen here. I hope this helps a bit, good luck with your project. I know from experience that it can be hard to make a suitable mechanism to connect the six wheels, but that is a lot of fun too.

Thanks for this review. This set has been around some time here in the Dutch stores and every time I visit one I am having a look at it. I liked it at first glance but I was (and still am) held back by the price. It is 70 euro's out here and that is way too much! The design still looks nice and now that I have seen a picture of this set next to the 8479 and 8421 (thanks for that) I realise that this dumptruck is a really huge vehicle, something that can't be seen anymore on TLC's computerized box arts. That cuts down on my feeling of over-pricedness. This set combines the features of two sets I still want to purchase some day, the cherry picker truck and this years 8294 digger. I think however I will buy these two sets instead of this dumper. Well, no need to buy an overpriced set just for those panels: there's always Bricklink and in time the panels will appear in many different sets, I suppose...

Welcome Bricks, always nice to have some bricks in a Lego forum... You're name makes me wonder though: these boards have hundreds, maybe even thousands of members and not a single one of them ever went for one of the most simple and obvious names around: Bricks. I am sure you'll enjoy your time here!

Thank you for this first review, I am sure a prospering career lies ahead. I like this car, it is nice, but I prefer it's predecessor: the yellow car from a few years back. Still it has some common piesces in quite a rare colour so I might just pick it's up when I find it on sale somewhere.

It's Another Tequila Sunrise..... No it's not, it's beautiful! Thanks for sharing, I did see it before and liked it, I was not really bothered by the sticking-out nose and I like both versions.

While browsing Brickshelf I came across this masterpiece and though not really into castle I was quite stunned by the ingenuity of this builder See for yourself: (Picture is a link to the gallery of the builder: Aliencat)

Somebody empowered with moderator skills is going to have to close this. But at least some of us had fun....

I just had to post this reply, it is just as self explanatory as the reason for posting.

20. Capt. Kirk - Walk the plank, you scabby dog 8. oDDerFisken - You or your girl? 4. Rook - Rated R All contestants good luck!

I seemed to have missed this thread, but I saw the MOC on Brickshelf some time ago and was amazed to find out that you had not yet opened a thread on it.... The building is absolutely stunning! I love the colorscheme, the little details like the fish, the helmets for lights, the carpet inside with different shades of red: beautiful. I am from Europe too and there really are some examples of architecture like this on this continent, like the Tuschinski Theater in Amsterdam, take a look: Your MOC reminded me instantly of this particular theatre, Hinckley(39?)

Nobody said anything about Germany.... Intertoys Amsterdam has a few of the sets as well: a few small sets of those horrible Power Miners, the City-Life set with the minifigs (which is overpriced at 10 euro's I think), construction vehicles including a digger and the dumper (which are both 15 euro's, hence the different size of the sets...?) and the big crawler crane which is priced at 55 euro's. Also the smaller Technicsets are available: bulldozer, tractor and red 4wd.