Holodoc

Hello Hans and welcome to Eurobricks! You have chosen a nice place to hang around and chit and chat about our all favourite hobby: LEGO! I hope you will like it here - there's so many different themes and niches, so I'm sure you'll find yours. Looking at your username: Some German relatives in your family?

Nice to see you have found your way back, Nucleur! So welcome out of your dark ages an in the light here (again) on Eurobricks! Looking at your username, do you have some sort of 'French connection'? Did you have another username back then? Mind telling a bit more about yourself: Your favourite theme(s), what brought you back to us and so on? We are all curious people and would like to know a bit more about the members.

Somehow confusing, but finally I got it! I still remember it! If someone feels to be forced to do somthing or not, it's the wrong way we are going. As much as I agree on the fact that the MOC posters have to face that they won't get many replies I aslo agree on: Abou digital MOCs - see above. I will have an eye on the underaged members - if I find any. As I stated some posts above, I find rules absolutely necessary and not sticking to rules makes them superfluous. Maybe I will be the bad cop from now on, but this issue is on my agenda! I agree with you with the bolded text: I'd rather have a small forum like this thread here than having 1.000.000 members not really contributing with anything. So this is the end of my comments. It looks like the conversation already has faded out to a certain degree. I really feel sorry for not being aware of this topic, so some of my answers may be redundand or repeating. But I have made a list of what I want to adress to other staff members and some changes have already started (frontpage). It's clear that we are not going to agree with all aspects that have been brought up here, but we (staff) try our best to keep that parts alive that we cherish the most. You all helped us here with replying to this topic. THANK YOU VERY MUCH - and of course GO ON!

Thank you very much for a) the time you took to make up your mind an b) writing all this down here! Hobbes already replied to your forum-software issue and the only thing I can add is my own history when I first had to deal with the new software: It kept me some months away from posting here. You really had to learn everything from scratch again. I really hated that and can imagine that this must have been the case for a lot of other members. But that's now 2 years ago or something? I hope now the most users know how to use this forum. My note from your comment: We should have a topic which explains all the new stuff when we have another software update. The fact about titles are a shame for moderation. I apologize. Now let me see how I can fix that... Finally your reasons why you are not browsing this site like you used to are well known to all members. See my comments about time some posts before. I hear and agree with you about the out-of-date subtext. Maybe there is a way to highlight the current themes more without deleting the older stuff. For the competitions Peppy already replied and I second it's better to keep it the way we have it right now. Okay, let's see if I understood: I see this is your very first post here? You started with exactly the right topic!! Thank you for stopping by and coming out of the cover and sharing your input. This might be the start of a wonderful career here. Welcome to Eurobricks. When I see someone like you I always invite them to this topic to tell a bit more about yourself - if you may of course. Just like I wrote above: A big thanks for sharing your thoughts! The frontpage issue is noted, but I think the changes are already noteable. Definitely on our list. Too bad it's June already. A fantastic read! Thank you so much for highlighting the pro's of taking part in such games. I hope a lot of members will read this! If I was not completely uninterested, sorry! For me it's waaay to time consuming. This pretty much sums it up! Woooohooo, you are argumenting against digital building? Where's my rapier? As far as I can understand you prefer building physically (me too, btw.) there are limits. Somebeody has already adresses it in this thread: The limit of parts you actually have. The limit of colors you have that one part in. Some people don't have their bricks in reach all the time. And it can be as tricky to get the parts on the place where they should be, expecially when it comes to digital building!

Thank you for your input! A lot of that has been adressed already. It's once again about rules and the way time and people have changed. And yes - a lot of questions with no answers. At least we all would like to do it the right way. But what is the right way? So many wishes which sometimes are contrary to other ones. Hard to find one solution for 5+ problems. I second the wish for joining dates and adressed it to the techies. One note about being political correct: Never stop arguing. Never stop writing. If you stop to do what you think you should, the idiots win. And don't get upset about people moaning about a typo of yours. Stay calm and don't feed the trolls. Most of us are no native speakers to English. So no worries about grammar and the right use of words, please. I agree with your view on competing with Jangbricks, etc. I really love everything you have written! Excellent summary, especially when it comes to getting elitist! Note to myself: Browse the "Hello, I am ..." topic more often. Like I used to. Are internal motivations superior to external motivations? As long as one of them keeps the member to stay on the site, either of them should be apllied. Thank you for your view about elitism. I was never aware of that. Good to know you are now even communicating with 3-digit members. I understand that looking at the forums list might be overwhelming at first glance, but I don't see teh improvement in merging some of the subforums. Hopefully the amount of posts will stay the same. You will have a cleaner list of forums then, but the 'mess' begins in the subforums where all the topics come together. I share your view on pinning threads. Some nice ideas about the contests. Just let me say one thing about Technic-contest. Look at the moderator there. See why they have the contests? He's one of the most active ones around. That's way the music is playing there. But that is just the explanation of it. Of course there should be a wider variety! I second your wish to share the useful photography information of the RA to a wieder audience! Please stay true to yourself. Even if you stay terrible and spiteful. What I don't belive you are! Constructive criticism always helps! Good you pointed that out! After all it's all honorary members in staff which are working behind the scenes to keep this site running. We are all investing our spare time here alongside our jobs. Please take that into account when complaining! But I strongly believe all of you do!

Wow! This is a long - but worthwile - read, thank you very much for your thoughts and the time it took you to pin all that down. We appreciate such thoughtful members. I agree to what you said about TLC and their way over the past years. LEGO is now known everywhere - not at least because of the movies. The idea of rewarding people around here more is a nice one, the problems occur when it comes to the conversion of the ideas. Who pays for shipping for example? But we are nevertheless working on such ideas. Personally I don't like FB, Twitter and the like. It makes life even faster and somehow arbitrary - definitely not the way I am planning my future. If someone wants to work on this: Welcome - do it. I won't be part of that though. When it comes to mature talking and worthwile conversation I am all in again! That's where I am going to put my focus on being the newest moderator. I have to disagree about the Reviewer's Academy: Writing reviews is work. Voluntary work is always better than forced one. Those who want to do that: More than welcome! Those who don't: Stick to what you really like. I understand your motive though and once again thank you for your input! With all the people posting in this thread I don't fear about the future of Eurobricks! This topic is the best evidence of what makes the core and the spirit of EB! Reading your post and replying took me about 45 minutes. That is the problem! You have to invest to get somthing out of it! Yet, in-depth-conversation is possible in a forum format. We won't change that anytime soon. And we are definitely not going to change our name. See above: If you don't invest your time, you won't get a lot out of it. I am completely on your side. Even with the last sentence. But is it helpful to draw lines on the age? Look at the contribution of JACKATTACKS. I would miss such input. That's a wonderful idea, indeed! On my list.

Yes, I agree to your observation an a lot of people here think so, too. I have only one explanation for this and please let me quote this sentence: Life is what is getting in your way when you made different plans. I'm sure we all have made that experience. For me I can say -having been around the boards for 12 years now - that it is a come and go: Sometimes I'm more active, sometimes work and other issues stays in the way. The same counts for staff and regular members. So I believe there have been reasons for the staff being a bit quite the last months, nevertheless we have realized (like other staff members already replied) that a) this is a problem and b) we want to fix it. And we certainly want to bring back more of the fun and happiness! See post above. Sure I wish, great MOCs get more replies, but I believe it's mostly a time problem. I'll comment on this later down, because this has been adressen several times Looking at my own kids I can absolutely second this! It looks like 'the youth' is moving towards faster communication and a forum is definitely a slower medium. Yet what I want Eurobricks to be is not being a snack but brown bread. A source you can rely on and come back to when you need something. And I believe EB is on a good way to it - while there is still a lot of work to do. Thank you for your positive assessment! It's in contrast to other opinions (see below) I hear you. That's a point I want to have changed as well. And I will adress it in the staff forum. Too bad I myself am not into coding and programming at all, but other people are. Admitting you are 15 is a risk, you know? :wink: But I do appreciate your adult input here, so I won't comment any further on this. Leaks are always a problem. As far as I understand that leaks are an interest we all share, I have to say that promoting leaks or even allowing leaked pictures here is a no-go. And I don't write this being staff (now). I write it, because it's causing severe problems for TLC if third parties get to know what TLC is working on before it's released. Copycats are fast and heedless. I have seen copied sets of mainly Chinese origin that are hardly recogniseable as copies! Of course it's illegal to copy other ip, still some do it. And we don't want to support them! Thank you for the insight on VaderFan. I have no knowledge what happened, but I am 100% sure there was a severe reason behind this. We have never banned a member for nothing. Agreed. The busiest time LEGO wise is always the end of the year and the time around July/August. Still there is a general slower movement like stated in the other posts. You're right with the reviews. We are discussing it right now. Totally agreed. Reading these days seems to be totally overrated. But we can't change the people, can we? It's hard work though if you are interested in a certain topic and want to discuss it when you have to dig through 20+ pages first. Once again: Who has the time to do it? :look: Less nostalgia may be a niche problem. The vast majority doesn't seem to be interested. For myself there could be more. Less reviews has been adressed above. The double-posting issue happens. We surely do not favour it and in your case it would have been an option to merge both topics. Then again reading is simplier if you don't have to browse a bunch of pages to get to the official announcement and official pictures. I can understand both sides. Thank you a lot for making us aware about how EB is looked at on other sites! I was completely unaware of this. Still I believe we are doing it right. Of course will members be pissed when we warn them or even ban them. And I understand they are raising their voices on other sites to complain how unfair we are and so on. Rules are a must and I am a big fan of them. They make life easier. The rules here are clear and comprehensible. Can you specify where constructive criticism was rejected? That should never happen of course! We all learn from constructive criticism and when it comes to official sets we do know that there is still room for improvement. :wink: I agree on ideas: Topics started with a LEGO ideas behind it should be tagged this way or even be moved to a -yet to be created- subforum. First: Here is the hologram doctor! Too many users... I am proud to be part of the biggest online AFOL community. Sure it makes things uncomfortable - we realize that when we meet in Billund at our events: 50 people IRL are already the limit to handle. So what are we going to do with 150000 members here. Thanks God they are not online at the same time. I could also live with the state 10 years ago and I agree on most of the arguments you bring (homier, we knew each other,...). I believe you remember some members here leaving around that time to found Brickhorizon.com. Look at their (not any more existing) website. Then I definitely prefer being here. Yet we have to work on 'cool staff members' and definitely on more black humor and sarcasm! Bring back satanic black! There were leaks... Yes, yes - again I understand all your motives on leaks. Comment see above. All in all your post shows what a lot of people are yearning for: The good old days. But we are moving forward. So my only advice is: Learn from the past and manage the future! (Good to see you are back and active, Hobbes! ) I want to thank you for your post, because some aspects I couldn't have written better! Especially when you are dealing with the time problem and the collecting/moccing. Don't we all feel the same way? I sincerely hope you haven't had a moderation problem so far. And I can only advise to keep on posting when you feel like. Please report problems if any occur. If you had problems: Can you directly link to them? Of course it would be nice if moderators were always around to post their reply first - I'm just missing your view for reality here. Yet I agree to be more active in general. That's for the first page of the topic. Hopefully I have enough time to work on the follwing pages the upcoming days. Stay tuned.

Hello everybody! That's an interesting topic here. Thank you very much for opening the debate on EB's future (somehow). I still have to read all the questions and answers and replies so far, but still I want to tell you that the staff (Jim posted it) is aware of the changes in the past months. When we were at the event in Billund three weeks ago, we had a staff meeting (with a good part of the staff being around), and we share your observations. After heaving read all of your input here - which is deeply appreciated!!! - I'll reply whith what I can add to the matter more substantially. Still I'm amazed to see so many old buddies posting here!

Thanks for the welcome! The freedom of Extended Mode can be frustrating from time to time and I completely agree with SylvainLS: LDD could be so much better, of course. Yet no hope for substantial changes any more. Did you ever physically built the MOCs you have planned in LDD? I once planned building my local hospital in LDD but stopped when I realized I had to built too many walls. I wasn't able to handle that in LDD. That's one lesson for life in general!

Hello. I'm just curious: Why didn't you do that until now? So much more possibilities in Extended Mode...

Hello everybody! I just realized Superkalle opened a topic about the changes here. So: I am the new one! Legolijntjes and me will take over from Superkalle, who did an absolutely fantastic job here! It's big footsteps he leaves behind and both of us will do our very best to keep that up. Thank you for all the kind words so far! You already know loegolijntjes in the subforum from being the former regulator, so let's write something about myself. If you insist, you can read my welcome topic from 12 years ago here. If you have to... just then ... But to cut it short, I've been around the boards for quite a while now and somehow some admins wanted to get the work from thier shoulders advance me to be staff, too. With Superkalle stepping back and me being interested in digital building as well it was a somehow obvious choice to take over here. My main interests are city/trains and modular buildings, but my collection is a lot wider spread than that. From time to time I do some basic moccing, mostly for our annual events. Important inauguraion things to say to you? Not really, just keep up the nice and respectful posts you all have shown so far. We all appreciate that and that is what makes Eurobricks a nice place to be. If you have questions please never hesitate to ask either me or legolijntje! I myself surely may not know every answer to any question - especially when it comes to technical stuff - but there is still the intelligence of the crowd.

Very nice and comprehensive review, JopieK! I have a lot of (if not all) of the last cargo trains and I always look forward to new ones. What I don't like with this years release is the - in my eyes not fitting color scheme. Not, that TLC is particularly looking to match the colors of the waggons of recent releases, but this year it really hurts my eyes while TLC used almost the whole color palette: I quite dislike the white bricks on the bottom of the enigne (why didn't they use just green, yellow and dbg?), the crane waggon is yellow, blue and lbg, one container comes in red, the snow mobile of course in orange and light blue, the logs are naturally brown. YIKES! Of course I understand that it's a kids toy (*dammit!*) and TLC wants to give us the aspect of living in a wonderful colored city, still in my ideal AFOL world I would have liked to see a more matching color sheme for engine and carriages. That's almost tooting the same horn like Snefroe did. Too bad we don't get real trains any more. Although... *cough* CREATOR EXPERT??? *cough* One little question I have about bag one: It looks like there are two green 1x2 plates. On the finished palette with the gold and notes it lookes like you used four or even six of those plates. What is right? Finally I think it's a good set (besides the color issue) with fantastic play value. Still nothing beats my all time favourite 60098 train set:

Very nice build, indeed! The first question that came to my mind looking at your photos was: What color is it? Maybe a stupid one, but I can't determine if it's orange [bright orange], dark orange [dark orange] or earth orange [light orange brown]? Looking at the amount of different bricks you used it has to be orange [bright orange], but can you clarify? At the front of the engine you used decals or printed elements for the white stripes, right? I would love to see a photo of the front. And I absolutely second the wish for a comparison to a regular train. Is your build 20-wide?

Thank you very much for this information! Now on my wanted list.

Very nice MOC, indeed. Too bad there was no way to show all the cool stuff it comes with in a single photo. But still you ended up being 2nd. Well deserved!

Very nice shot! You also managed to get the bright light orange head, which is really hard to get. Bravo!

You can find my Testarossa (entry 7) here.

You may have noticed that we had a little Speed Champions competition at our event in Billund last week. Some of the contestants have already shared their entries here and here and I continue with my own Here it is: The original car was built from 1984 - 1991, exactly 7177 copies were produced. The motor is a 12 cylinder V-motor with 4,9l engine capacity. 396 hourses would have the same power. Acceleration: 5,3 sec. from 0-100 km/h, maximum speed is 290 km/h My entry was chosen because this car is one of the most iconic cars from my youth, exactly from the time when boys start to dream and drool about fast cars. People of my age would recognize the car from the series "Miami Vice" as well, where Don Johnson didn't drive a Ferrari red , but white one. I decided to build a model close to the Speed Champions restrictions, a car that could also have been part of the real series of LEGO sets. Thank you for your votes in the contest, now you can take it to pieces.

Nice to see in the video (5:33) that you can actually move the coaster around without major difficulties. It is quite stable! And Jamie explained the issue with the added chain links: There are around 8 (!) spares in the set you don't have to use.

My latest addition to the collection. After some heay Brasso use. Doctor Phosphorus was really hard work. I hate to de-Brasso the legs and I am still not satisfied with the result (marks on the bends). Nice though that the upper part of the legs is not dual-molded. The hands of the flat silver figure are still dbg, I decided to leave them on the torso as long as no silver ones exist.

This is looking very good so far! And yes, you are about to spend a nice amount of money when you dig in the monochrome whole a bit further. The only advice I can give is: patience. And you are still starting, so there should be a lot of parts you still have to buy or get hold of otherwise. Add the parts you are looking for in one order reduces costs. But I have a feeling you know that already... The e-book was indeed a nice freebie as long as it lasted. I would not recommend to spend 50 bucks on it. With help of the search engine and Bricklink you`ll get almost the same information. I see this is you very first post here on Eurobricks! Welcome! You have chosen the best subforum to start with... It's always nice to get to know a bit more about the members here. Mind telling a bit more about yourself here?

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Nice review! I especially liked the photos "from the inside": The way up and the smile for the camera! While I still think this is very much money for a set with so many "regular" bricks, I realized in Billund when I first saw the real build, how gigantic it actually is! That will make it even more unlikely that this set will ever be displayed somewhere in my house. I am seriously running out of space now and still have to find a place for my latest modular building. Then again I will still have some time to get it - when it is on sale somewhere.

As promised at the event here are the final results of the contest. You'll find some very interesting differences at the two voting instances. Of course the eventees had a different and more detailed view on the cars and questions about them could be answered, whereas the online votes resulted from one photo only. Hopefully we will soon have some more links to the specific entries. (I'll upload my entry later on ) . So here we go: 1) Bugatti Atalante [Vaionaut] - 39 votes Billund / 36 votes online = 75 2) Aston Martin DB 5 [Skalldyr] - 49 / 20 = 69 3) Lotus Esprit [Anders67] - 28 / 24 = 52 4) Mr. Beans Mini [LasseD] - 28 / 23 = 51 5) Nemo's Car I [LegoFjotten] - 30 / 5 = 35 6) Nemo's Car II [BobdeQuatre] - 26 / 2 = 28 7) Excalibur [L@go] - 16 / 7 = 23 7) Ferrari Testarossa [Holodoc] - 7 / 16 = 23 9) Robin Reliant [Peppermint_M] - 11 / 6 = 17 10) Mercedes 300 SL [Elleana] - 8 / 4 = 12 11) Trabant [Elena] - 6 / 5 = 11 11) Honda Fit [Ryushi] - 2 / 9 = 11 13) Alfa Romeo Spider [Hennig M.] - 0 / 4 = 4 14) Pac Man Minis [eiker86] - 1 / 2 = 3 14) Audi RS 4 [Mechamike] - 1 / 2 = 3

I agree, although I have to admit it would have benefitted from the SC mudgurads. Still LF's entry is a really nice and sleek car! No points for the wonderful, but challenge-wise futile background.