CamelBoy68

I look forward to toasting your success !

You could probably do Day 2, but the first one I'm not convinced, even if you drive, you have to factor in parking, traffic etc....If you make it three days, you could then squeeze in Cardiff...

I did all of them by train over 5 days: Day 1 Sheffield, Liverpool Day 2 Leeds, Glasgow Day 3 Manchester, Cardiff, Westfield (S/Bush) Day 4 Brighton, Bluewater, Westfield (Stratford) Day 5 Watford, Milton Keynes i did this order as I live in the East Midlands, so its almost a circle back to home. However, if you started in a location which has a Lego store then you could get another couple in, such as Brighton, you could probably do 4 or 5 in one day. The thing to consider is how much time travelling takes, it maybe quicker by road, but that wasn't an option. Newcastle shouldn't be too much of a hassle, I could probably fit into day 1

Some of you may remember I went on a tour of all twelve UK Lego stores during July and I've finally managed to collate all the pieces, work pressures had gotten in the way.... So over the 5 days, I picked up 34 Large Cups and 3 Small, recycling as I went, getting the 75p discount on as many tubs as I could. From this I got 78 different pieces in 27 colors (see breakdown below) for a total of 18,307 bricks/pieces. Most of it will come in handy for upcoming MOCs but a percentage was just filler for the cups. Here's a couple of summary pics, the full list can be found at my Flickr set http://www.flickr.co...camelboy68/sets

I have nothing to complain about either eB or BL. I tend to only buy stuff from Uk sellers, due to shipping etc (except for those extreme situations were a piece isn't available), but I have found no problems whatsoever. If fact some of the turnaround of BLers is quite impressive, both for packing and speed, less than 24hrs in some cases. I look for track record, range of parts for BL and the old adage of "if its seems too good to be true..." for eB.

of course building the WOPR, started me thinking and a quick Google later.... my version of the Cray Supercomputer. wiki - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cray-1

Ah, the magic of movie making.....

"Wouldn't you prefer a nice game of chess?" I came across a still from the movie Wargames the other day, and thought that would be a nice build.... http://www.imsai.net.../wargames-2.htm That's the good news, now I'm going to have build NORAD.......

Great fun, so many to pick from. My votes are: 10. Monster Van by Yaktuu (2 votes) 29. Funicular Railway by eurotrash (1 vote) 50. Eagle 5 by Xyver (1 vote) 66. A-Team Camper by pif500 (1 vote) 105. Mystery Machine by sparkart (1 vote) 109. Tie Bomper by GIR3691 (1 vote) 112. Invisible Camper by Dr Spock (1 vote) 175. Steampunk Camper by aditayam (1 vote)

Cool ! - I didn't even know that command was there, thanks for the tip

Hi, You could download an LXF file and run it through LDD Manager, that will give a part list of whatever you create within LDD. Maersk http://www.eurobrick...600#entry959484 LDD Manager http://www.eurobrick...showtopic=41993

http://youtu.be/v_H23dEmO4Y Come into my life - Joyce Sims

at the cinema White House Down - quite enjoyable on TV Taken 2 - ah, the cash-in sequel, maybe the third one will be better....

I definitely agree with York, especially as you can see an area they do the restoration work. Another one is the London Transport Museum in Covent Garden, although not quite a train museum, it has a nice collection of underground (tube) trains as well as vintage buses. http://www.ltmuseum.co.uk/ Also, a little closer to home is the Rushden Transport Museum http://www.rhts.co.uk/ . its a small remnant of how extensive the old railway system used to be and while not as grand as the major ones, it has a great deal of charm.

Thanks for the feedback, it looks like I while do some beams, as I thought the weight might be an issue. Here's the initial draft of the roof, with no support system. There's no chimney stack at present, that will come when I finish the ground & first floors. Top Front Rear/Side The small slopes (2x4 & 1x2) are a design choice, trying to match the small slates on the real building. The flat roof will extend out from the rear, covering about 20x20, with a smaller one at a lower level. Snaillad, I love your work On your semi-detached building, was that roof hollow ? cheers CB68

Hi Guys, I am starting to design a terraced house in LDD, to minifig scale (80 studs long by 26 wide), its based on a real property hence the unusual size. My question is I've designed the roof, approx 13 Bricks tall by 26 studs wide (that size doesn't cover the whole building, as there is an extensive flat roof & a small garden at the rear). Would you make it entirely solid, for support, or would you make a series of beams ? Bear in mind, that there is no loft space, so making it solid is an option. also, if any of you have built something similar, would the weight of a solid roof be too heavy (about 400 2x4 bricks to fill the void) ? cheers CB

Sorry dude, I misread your post, it sounded like you went to Stratford recently, not last year....

I did Brighton, Bluewater & Stratford in one day as part of my PaB Crawl.... St Pancras to/from Brighton St Pancras to Ebbsfleet Internation, then bus to Bluewater (train about 17 mins then a short-ish bus ride) Ebbsfleet Int - Stratford Int - about 10 mins, and puts you right by John Lewis at Westfield.. CB68 I think you would be hard pushed to find any Olympic Figs out "in the wild" anymore, you could have rung up the store to check though....

Hi vliet, They are pretty much the same size and have the same number of PAB wall buckets. The variation in these will only be slight, maybe 2 or 3 buckets different, otherwise they are pretty much the same. Of course, you could visit both, use the Central Line from Stratford and it'll take you to White City or Shepherds Bush where London Westfield's is. Have a look at the iPab section of the Brickbuildr site for a guide to what's available. Its fan maintained, so don't rely to heavily on them cheers CB68

All you need now is an oppulent carriage for the "bad guy"... It looks really fearsome !

I took the more sedate 4.5 days instead... You'd have to agree where to start, close to a store or in the middle of the country, although that cuts into available time. I think you would have to rule out the North & Cardiff, not just to distances, but lack of promixity to the stores. Which leaves: Brighton Bluewater Stratford Milton Keynes Watford Westfield Which I think you could easily do in a day ! Make sure you finish at Westfield, as they shut at 22:00 You would also have to make clear what constitutes a visit to a PAB. qty of large/qty of small/minimum type of bricks (ie, you just can fill one large with 1x1 tiles) But, yes I would be up for some of that....

Well I made the trip around the UK and these are the tubs I collected (I recycled as I went)... That's 34 Large & 3 Small. I'm still in the process of sorting/counting, so will post a summary soon...

Tour is almost at an end. Flickr pix have been added, as well as updates to the blog. Final tallies will be available shortly...

Hi Legogal, Unfortunately, not this time, just the stores. I live in East Northamptonshire, so popping in is not an option... As a "packer & stacker" I should be quite adept at filling the tubs...

For no other reason, than it seemed like a good idea at the time, I have decided to visit each of the UK Lego Stores (currently that is 12) and plunder the PaBs.... Starting on Mon 22/7 - Sheffield and Liverpool Tue 23/7 - Leeds and Glasgow Wed 24/7 - Manchester, Cardiff and London Westfield Thu 25/7 - Brighton, Bluewater (Kent) and London Stratford and finally Fri 26/7 - Watford and Milton Keynes I suppose I could have stretched it out a bit more, but a week is all I could spare at the moment. I will be travelling by train to all destinations, so that's another bonus ! Roughly speaking about 1200 miles and 22 hours staring out the window.... I shall be keeping my blog updated on a daily basis and be posting a summary here on my return. So if you happen to be in the vicinity and see a weary chap with a large bag of "rattle", say hello...