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Is there a way of filtering the master parts list of Studio by available in a certain colour? Or easily making a custom list (palette)? I want to just use parts available in bright light blue for part of a project. I could make a custom palette manually, luckily the parts list isn’t huge, but i feel like there should be an easier way.

I'm looking for instructions and a parts list to turn my 42043 Arcos into an RC model. I am just looking for steering and drive, I don't want all the functions RC. I'm only just getting back into Technic and don't have a lot of spare parts or skills, so I'm hoping I can find a good guide and parts list. And will a L motor be powerful enough to drive the truck and haul a trailer with a 42430 Volvo digger on it? Or will I need to fit an XL motor in?

Can you print the motor covers in other colours? I really need one in yellow. Also can you make them more like the original Lego one, with smooth sides except the three recessed rows of studs at the top. I'm worried the extra studs may catch on bits the monorail doesn't, and it rather spoils the smooth sided look of the original.

Is there a tool, either to download or built into a website, where you can give it a list of parts and it will return a list of colours that all the parts are available in? I've done it once or twice before in Excel and it's very tedious work, so I'd love a tool that can do it for me.

Seems you can only use the API if you have a bricklink sellers account. Oh well. The Brickstock method isn't too bad now I've tried it. The best way is to look up key parts and what colours you can get, then see if the other parts can be got.

Thanks for that. I've used Brickstock before, but I've got a 14 day old baby and havent had time to get my laptop out and fiddle about. I'll have a try. Still want to look at the API as I want to improve my coding.

For making planes and cars, and probably trains. I've designed a few and want to see what liveries I could build them in. So I'd have a set of parts for the wings, lower body, upper and lower stripes, main body and roof/tail. Same idea for a car. Once I've worked out what colours each set can be in then I can fiddle around in LDD and see what's nice. I'll have a look at that, thanks.

Yeah I've used that before and made an excel sheet. Gets very tedious if you've got more than a small handful of parts. And there are now dozens of different colours too. I think this would be quite easy to write a script for, I just don't know enough programming.

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Kids love helicopters though. My four year old thinks a helicopter with a winch is the best thing ever!

Love this, brilliant engineering (as are real interlocked frames). I can't quite work out how the levers move the locking bars, can you show this? Is there a crank or something? Hope your new parts will get it working properly. That is the whole idea of interlocking. To try and prevent conflicting moves being signalled. E.g you couldn't set the points for a train to cross a line unless that line was signalled at danger. All done mechanically in the original lever frame boxes, then by relays, and now by solid state electronics and software. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Interlocking This is a mechanical box. The idea is that when a lever is moved to unlock a set of points or set a signal, it moves a locking bar across that locks or releases other levers. So in theory you can't set the points and signals in such a way so that two trains collide.

Hi all, Does anyone know of a clone brand that makes a Princess Leia slavegirl minifig? The figure doesn't have to be brilliant as I'm only after the hair piece. I'm trying to make a lineup of my family and that's the closest match to my wife's hair, although a bit short. It costs over £8 on Bricklink, and that's from sellers with over £50 min order! Or over £20 for the full figure. So I'm hoping to find a decent clone brand. Very excited to see the Lepin emerald night coming. Think I'll be ordering one or three of them. Has anyone built a big Lepin kit? Are they good quality? I've got a few Enlighten trains and they're pretty good, although sadly discontinued.

Great idea. I didn't see this post the first time around so thanks Mods for bumping it up. You could do it this way. You'd have to solder some link wires between the fixed and moving bits of bridge, which might be tricky without melting the plastic of the track. Or use two sets of 9v track power connectors to join the two sections, but that would be rather bulky and ruin the look of the bridge.

I tell you what, if one of the Chinese knock off firms remade the Lego monorail, making sure it's 100% compatible with the original system, I would give them so much money.

Has anyone ever bought Lepin and can speak to the quality. I never got Emerald night and can't afford one on eBay or Bricklink now. For £55 delivered I'm very tempted. I know my son would love a Lego steam engine too. Maybe a joint Christmas present to us from me...

Having switched all my trains over to power functions I'm having a clear out of all my 9v track. I have the following to go: 50 straights - 5 for £10 36 curves - 6 for £2 4 points (2 left hand and 2 right hand), complete and working with the little yellow levers. £7.50 each. 9v controller and track connector lead. I don't have the plug in transformer for this, but it works off 12v DC, so a transformer will be easy to find. £10. Bundle of everything - £130 Postage will depend on what you want and where you are, I will send as cheap as possible. I am in the UK. Postage for the whole bundle would be somewhere around £10 for the UK. Free collection from Paisley would also be possible. Payment by PayPal in pounds sterling please (PayPal will convert to your local currency), or personal cheque or bank transfer for UK buyers.

Good on you Fett, go for it. I was intending to do something like this myself one day, but you are much further advanced than me and have much better contacts. I wish you well and have pledged myself. Really hope it happens. My three year old son and I have the monorail out at the moment and could really do with a lot more straights.

I'm just wondering if anyone has a non working monorail motor I could buy. I'm wanting to dismantle one to see how it works and conduct experiments , and would rather do it to a broken one. I'm also looking for a couple of monorail bases, but they don't necessarily need to have the bogies included. I'm in the UK, but will pay postage worldwide if it's not too outrageous. Thanks, Tom.

​ I'm having a New Years clearout of my Lego collection. I'm in the UK, so all postage prices listed are for the UK, and prices are in pounds sterling. I'm happy to post anywhere in the world at cost, please contact me if you want a quote. I'll combine postage on multiple purchases and send as cheap as possible. All the sets and polybags listed below are mint in sealed box/bag. 10233 Horizon Express £100 + £8.50 postage 10224 Town Hall Modular £300 + £8.50 postage 21110 Lego Ideas #008 Research Institute £30 + £5.00 postage All these poly bags £3.50 each, postage £2.00 30305 Spider-Man Super Jumper poly bag 30229 Repair Lift poly bag x2 30264 Chima Frax' Phoenix Flyer poly bag 30271 TMNT Mikey's Mini Shellraiser poly bag 30285 Lego Creator Tiger Poly Bag 30312 Demolition Driller poly bag 40048 birthday cake poly bag 41019 Friends series 1 turtle's little oasis 40109 Creator Mini Cooper poly bag x2 £15 each + £2.00 postage 40082 2013 Christmas tree stall £25 + £3.50 postage 40106 2014 Christmas set, Toy workshop x2 £12 each + £3.50 postage 40107 2014 Christmas Winter skating Scene £10 +£3.50 postage 40138 2015 Christmas Train set £20 + £4.00 postage 40139 2015 Christmas gingerbread house £25 + £4.00 postage DC Comics Martian Manhunter poly bag £10 + £1.00 postage Pirates Adventure - 2015 Limited edition pirates set £12 + £3.50 postage Payment can be by cheque or bank transfer in the UK, or Paypal for overseas buyers. Thanks for looking Tom

This is brilliant. I love microscale creations like this. +many internet points for you!

Ah right, I see. That's a good idea. The LDD version would be awesome. Do you know how many parts it is? Also I assume that wagons and shunter don't actually couple, you just hold them with you're hand?

This is utterly utterly awesome. If you make instructions, or better yet kits, i would happily pay for them. I just love this. One query. Do the loads fit in the wagons, or do you have to rebuild the wagon tops? i cant quite tell from the pictures.

i thought I'd start a new thread rather than hijack the other one. I was intrigued by this quote: What do people reckon? I think 4 is plenty old enough. I have a little toddler who has been playing with my Lego trains since he was 2 3/4. He has Duplo trains and Brio too. He's train mad. He kept pestering me ("Daddy, can we play orange train (meaning Horizon Express)), so one day I gave in. And he's great. Occasionally delicate bits will get knocked off, but it's Lego and easy to fix. He's never broken a train on purpose. He can't quite get trains on the track, and he can't manage to clip it together. He can work points just about. I usually just make a big loop around the sofa, with two or three passing loops so he can have two or three different trains to play with. Whilst I let him use the Power functions, and he understands how to, he prefers to push the trains around. I also tend to find a pile of people jammed in the door of each carriage as he likes to play stations. So rejoice AFOLs and let your kids play with your trains. After all, if they smash it its Lego and you can rebuild it. And that's half the fun ;)

I think that design is great. Works well as a six wide in my opinion. It would fit in well with the current city vehicles. Like the colour too.

That's really very good with the limited parts stash. I like the idea of alternate builds, always found them fascinating and/or downright odd back when Lego used to put them on the boxes. Good work. Brick on!