simonwillems

Why? Are you running short on toiletpaper? :-P

Thanks for a lovely review! I only recently bought this set off Ebay (pretty good deal: MISB for 30 euro's!) and I enjoyed putting it together and mixing it with the other Piratesets. When you put two sets of two baseplates together you'll get a large pond with an island in the center, just to achieve that I bought two more baseplates off Ebay. The result is this MOC. I always loved the Islanders and have most of the sets, not all of them but that is going to change in the future. *y*

What strange hobby do we share.... :-D As to the CRAPP abreviation, Mister Phes has put it like this:

That's a great price! It is almost impossible getting any monorail for under 100 euro's these days... Good to see you grabbed it!

Thanks for this review, it's a nice set with some cool pieces and nice techniques, I like the way the roof pieces are used to make the spiders back, for instance Ouch! That's not a good thing, let's refrain from that.... ;-)

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I am also anxious to see the new system and especially the new battery box. Is it going to be like a big brick or are there going to be all kinds of curves, roundings or sticking out bulbs on it? I am glad it is a separate part, not something that is included in a train base like the current system with which you can only build long trains... I am a big fan of lights so I hope some system emerges to put lights into carriages as well... We'll see.

SNOT keeps bothering me, because I can't mentally disconnect it from the translation of the word snot in Dutch: the green stuff coming out of your nose when you pick it..... :-X

Hello my dear community, Some time ago I received my first order of Big Ben Bricks custom trainwheels and soon after that I started experimenting. I bought these wheels thanks to our member Tony (Savatheaggie) who inspired me with his beautiful trains. I decided to go back to my childhood and reconstruct the model train locomotive I was given as an 8 year old. It took some time to get used to the new dimensions of the wheels and the correct way to apply the connectionrods between the wheels, but I managed, and want to show you the result below. It has become an eight-wide model with working front light (only one) and working fire using the light provided by the RCX lightsensor connected to a 9v battery inside the locomotive. The motor in the tender powers the train and also the taillights mounted in the rear of the tender. Excuse me in advance for the darkness of the pictures, this is the best my camera can do and I found it very hard to take good pictures of this big black model.... Here you can see an overview of the locomotive, together with it's drivers, a view from the side more detailed view, showing the side connectionrods on the wheels, front view, showing the only working headlight, here you can see the angled 'cockpit' view from the rear, showing the taillights on the motorized tender, this one's kind of blurry, taken without flash to show the fire burning inside. The lightsensor provides such a strong light that it blinds me every time I look at it and the camera suffered likewise.... :'-( the same picture, but taken with flash. I made the fire using this piece filled up with round 1x1 transparant red and yellow 'lights'. The lightsensor is placed directly behind it shining his light through. You can see the round pieces in this picture as well as the reflection of the sensor itself which is blue. In this picture you can see a technic liftarm on the side of the kettle with a technic axle on one side, this is the hidden switch that controls the lights, it can be turned causing the polarity switch, hidden inside, to switch on the lights. A view from above, the tender, you can clearly see the motor here, the front wheels swivel, allowing the tender to get through all the curves, the model I used to build this train in comparision, can you see the difference....? :-) and from the side, the underside, the train in the layout.... Hey what's that!? Engine trouble solved practically with live stock on the road parallel to the tracks... *sweet* this one is to show the size of the locomotive compared to the original 4554 station, here you can see that the train is capable of taking every curve. The Brickshelf gallery And that concludes the sightseeing, comments are welcome of course! :-)

Welcome to Eurobricks! That is a really nice looking tank you made, it's huge I like the use of those new axles as wheels for a tank. Keep up the good work! :-)

I remember getting this set a my local Shell station, it came out about the same time the Shell gas station series was released, including this set I bought the numbers 1, 2, 3, 5, 7 and 8. The boxes included a stickersheet with a sticker showing the number on the box (3 in this case). Why? I never found out. It was a cheap way to get a backpack, two dynamite pieces and a brown plate :-)

Here in Europe the Dwarf's mine has been available since the beginning of january.... 50 euros, quite steep. I didn't know it was not availabale in the US. I'm sorry for you guys across the pond ;-)

Nice little house! With so much detail put in it. These kind of small houses are quite common here in Amsterdam as well as the picture below shows: The interesting story with this is the following: A servant of a rich Amsterdam resident stood in front of his masters big house and sighed and said: "if only I had a house as wide as the masters front door, I couldn't be happier". His master heard him saying this and decided that this man's wish had to be granted.... :-)

That is much better! *y* Now I can see what you meant by showing us this pictures, what a little resizing can do... The pics look less blurry too. I actually like the atmosphere of your little scene, well done.

These pictures are only to describe in extremes: ~ much too large ~ way too dark and ~ very blurry. I like your idea, but please try to resize your pictures before you post them! :-)

Thanks for that information, it opened my eyes as to the function of the threaded axle! :-)

Very nice video, the music really adds to the action and it's beautiful to see how these complex looking trains move so smoothly on tracks! I just received my first shipment of BBB wheels and will start experimenting with them shortly. Your trains are a good example of how well they seem to be working. :-)

I don't know what to write and where to start saying how much fun I think this MOC is! An utterly vivid imagination, I must say. GREAT! *y* *y*

Thanks for another fun review! This set is high on my list of things to buy, I love cranes, built many and bought many including the classic 8460 from 1995 and the more recent 8421. That threaded axle never stopped intriguing me... It was use in so few sets (I believe 8851 contained one as well?) and I still don't know why it's better than any other axle. Congratulations with a near mint copy of this set! :-)

That love is mutual I can assure you..... For the details of the street I am happy to point you to this Brickshelf folder, I took some pictures of this city before, I only changed some of the houses, the street is still the way it was. Thanks for taking the tour...! :-)

Man..., this set is a disaster what were they thinking! :-D :-P I just remembered one other fun aspect of this set: The crane hook can be attached to the underside of the rear bumper, to hold it in position while driving along, but when things are like this and you try and wind up the cable the winch is strong enough to break the (original provided Lego) rope.... It 'worked' with my copy. :-D So this set is capable of demolishing itself.... But still, one of the best Technicsets I have, with all stickers intact. I'm not so sure about that flag though, must check on that.

Hello My Fellow Eurobrickers! Some time ago I showed you my city in this thread. Many things have changed ever since, I rebuilt most of the houses after ordering lots of white windows and black bricks. I changed the houses to the style used in Amsterdam between 1600-1800. I also improved the traintrack layout so I can 'park' the trains outside the city. So now I basically have a piece of Amsterdam built on rocks (which are not quite common in Holland), it may seem strange from an historical point of view, but I think it looks great :-) . Let's take you guys on a guided tour: Here you see a small overview, I left the corner building intact, only added a floor The red building on the corner, housing a small 'Bijoux' shop selling diamonds. This building is the heighest in town, The big black house next to it, with hoisting arm and stairs in front, there's no interior in most of the houses, and no back wall (if you look closely the nob of the central heating in my room is visible through the center window X-D ), This picture shows a store consisting of two separate houses, the right one being the house I am most satisfied with. It shows the sign of Amsterdam (the three crosses in white, black and red), a detailed photograph of the front of the house, showing the same sign, and a detailed view of the house next to it, I did not change the policestation in the middle, so no new pictures of that and we are all familiar with Marketstreet, so moving on to the house next to MS. This one has an extra floor inside the first one (visible through the windows in the top of the white section), the roof was the hardest part on this one, and connecting it to the front was a real pain because everything consists of SNOT techniques.... a view from the side, showing that these houses are all very short and how Marketstreet sticks out of the layout, a view from the other side, showing that there's no interior on the top floors (there's not even a third floor! ;-) ), and some of the cables used to feed all the 9 volt lights in the houses. here we see the train transformer used exclusively for powering the lights, together with part of the technic structure holding the top part of the layout. The traintrack connects the 'train parkinglot' with the main layout, through a switch inside the tunnel. top view of part of the layout, showing the different roofs on the houses together with a 9 volt light unit (half underneath the closest tree), view of the above mentioned light unit, the cable runs underneath the streets and the light shines on the red corner building, some of my trains, parked behind the layout, the rails connect to the switch inside the tunnel. In this Brickshelf folder there are some nighttime (9 volt) lighting pictures, they are of the 'old' town. The entire Brickshelf folder. of both old and new houses in my town. And that concludes our tour, I hope you enjoyed it, I did. Reactions are welcome. :-)

Thanks for reviewing this classic set. I got it when it first came out and still love it: the suspension, steering and robust look of the model haven't been done that well ever since. This set puzzled me though, back in the days. The rear suspending part containing the differential and some gears was shown different on the box from the instructions. In the instructions it showed that the (grey part of the suspension) in the back had to be made using a 1x2 smooth tile and 4 cornerplates (2x2) in grey. The box however showed a much sturdier solution using a 1x8 tile and a 1x8 plate. It is also visible on the cover of the instructions. The pieces I mean are in this picture: Otherwise, great set!

Nice modification to the original set, but I second the trailer-raising suggestion. Maybe with another of those axles. Well those axles, although long ago used for the last time, are not extremely rare. The part appeared in 16 sets and are available from a price starting at 5 cents on bricklink. It 's really worth considering buying a few. check it out here!

Yesterday I bought this set, MISB for 15 euros. I went to collect it at the sellers house and he turned out to be a Lego-collector as well, we had a nice little chat.