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The original string supplied is the best and with the strings used in the "newer" pirateships (with a stud on every end) you can also do some nice things: I put them on top of the yard-arms, running over the top of the mast making it look like the yardarm is also connected by rope.. It's just visible in this picture on the front mast of the Skull's Eye Schooner.

Although the set is now on Shop@home Europe, the pictures are not there yet. What an amazing set... 8-|

Some great layouts are displayed here (I love that very well designed hospital!!) and after showing you my city somewhere earlier in this same thread it's time do display my latest layout: a racetrack. I put it together in just half a day (placing all the minifigs in upright direction took up most of the time) but I am statisfied with the very colourful look of it all. This race uses most of my town minifigs (a few hundred I think) and also most of my wide tyres... Feel free to comment. (Images clickable) And the Brickshelf folder

This thing is so huge! I bought the Millennium Falcon issued in 2000 and it looks like if you open just one storage area in this new version, the old one can fly right in....

Thanks very much for this review, a chance to see some more picturers then justbthe one in the catalog. The ship disappoints me though: practically no interior, no seat at the "bridge" and WHY are there technicbeams used inside the ship? There is one thing I do like about this boat: the way the binoculars stick out of the strobelights. Last years policeboat had a lot more detail and interior, I like that boat over this one. The lifeboat system is a nice idea but I think it's way to big to look realistic. But the review is nice....

Today I got my bricklink order: twelve orange Vests!! Useful for fire and/or police minifigs....

It has been discussed somewhere, although we didn't knew the price of the 10182 set, so that is news... Thanks!

Here in Holland we had the first day of snow this winter, in Amsterdam the weatherstations reported 4 or 5 cm of snow, not that much and it quickly melted away.... But hey.. snow is snow!

Great space set this is, I wonder how much it weighed... and how much it has yellowed ever since 1979 (if it still exists that is) *sweet*

That is by far (and I mean really far) the best Harry Potter creation I have ever seen! *wub* Great find, thanks.

Welcome fellow Dutch Eurobricker, enjoy the forums! :-)

That's where creativity and MOC'ing comes in handy... these commercials are played in most toystores in Holland so after seeing the commercial you can immediately take the sets off the shelf and buy them.

I was expecting to see four amazing British band members with guitars and piano.... but this is nice as well. :-D Good work!

..and those who are are having trouble reading it in sky blue..... :-D Anyway, nice review. This set will not be added to my collection I am afraid.

Wow, that looks really great! *y* You should post it in the Islander MOC's- thread It kind of combines Islanders and Vikings.

Happy Birthday from snowy Amsterdam! :-)

Thanks for all the compliments!! :-$ Technic is indeed tricky sometimes, but I like experimenting with it. However building things all over again with a slightly different gear and completing a model that doesn't seem to work at all are sometimes very frustrating things.... But the joy of seeing how something you made really functions the way it should, makes you quickly forget all those frustrations. :-) I am not a big fan myself of those official "see-through" models Lego brings out sometimes (some are really well done like the 8421 crane for example) and so I like to combine normal Legobricks with the technic ones to add a more realistic touch. Time is a problem very often, like Gylman said, it took me a whole day for example to finish this last cradle elevator....

That's a way of coping with it, I'm not so sure about "rosewood muskets" however... :-/

Just take a look at their faces.... that's right....: paint :-D ;-)

In this forum I don't come across many technic (and I don't mean Bionicle) MOC's, or technic related modelteam-like real functioning MOC's so I have decided to post a few of my own to show that technic is really a nice "theme". (Images clickable) Here is my latest technic creation, a cradle elevator: and the Brickshelf This one I made some time ago, a real functioning bulldozer with three electric motors, it worked really well and was quite powerful.: Brickshelf of this bulldozer

I never knew lego produced blue capes, I like to have a few for my Imperial governor some day...

Welcome to our nice little community here on Eurobricks. Star Wars and town are great themes, I once collected the star wars sets but now I am back into town things. Do you have a Brickshelf account, or any other website to show us your creations?

Nice Catamaran, you made, it can certainly hold more Islander-minifigs then the original design. *y* Maybe I would have painted the sail with some islanderpattern, but that is kind of hard to do.