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So who is your source? Jan Beyer?!

Maybe stickers?!

Roland has a printer for it. There is a Belgian guy that can do this (ask at BeLUG).

well actually WiFi is not a sensor but more like an actuator (since it uses a radio transceiver). NXT has i2c connections on the sensor ports, that is why you need to connect it to a sensor instead of an actuator / motor port. So the source is wrong :) However, wifi is of course nice although I wouldn't know what to do with wifi and the NXT apart from making a static robot. I prefer Arduino.

Well, I think the ambassadors should raise this issue! You make some very valid points!

Very nice indeed! Sell it to Windsor park ;)

Really nice indeed!!!

I don't see a 1x4x5 frame in LDD. The glass for it is there though! I double checked (also searched) so please add it TLG!!!

Well, there are at least quite some ideas at brickshelf: http://www.brickshelf.com/cgi-bin/search.cgi?q=mcdonalds&stype=dfic we reproduce the stickers of the old set. About unhealthy food... like always... enjoy but use your common sense and also eat very healthy food instead of fast food and drink water beside a soda at the time.

Very nice indeed!!! Love your details. Nice stickers too, that always makes is more complete. House and station are neat and elegant.

You probably want to use glue that containsMethyl Ethyl Keytone (MEK) and Acetone. That will let the LEGO melt together.

well, we need to be professional of course ;) otherwise our model railroad fans might laugh at us, we don't want that of course! and we can learn from that of course, I was wondering about the name by the way, that is why I looked it up...

very nice concept. This technique is also used in roller coasters and gondola's in ski resorts.

Well, I guess wait till there is an AFOL shopping event and buy it in the LEGO store then?!!

Very nice! Best of both worlds IMHO!!!! I like 4-wide cars very much.

I don't think these are hoppers however (although I like the concept ;), 7777 is a nice idea book indeed!) http://en.wikipedia....wiki/Hopper_car This type of car is distinguished from a gondola car in that it has opening doors on the underside or on the sides to discharge its cargo. The development of the hopper car went along with the development of automated handling of such commodities, with automated loading and unloading facilities. There are two main types of hopper car: open and covered. These would be called a "side dumper gondola" I guess:

It will not be very efficient to use an RCX and (just) LEGO... I use both RCX and NXT in education so I know quite something about them. You might of course try to do some electronics tricks with it, but a better solution is using e.g. the Arduino. Did you also want to make a block system for controlling the trains?!

Take a look here: http://www.1000stein...marktplatz/pab/ At the 1000steine Forum they also discuss such a things (but in German)... Update: uhm, too bad, they don't have one for Günzberg yet: http://www.brickbuildr.com/view/pab/side/off/73/

"Red Cargo TrainAvailable NowPrice € 169.99Sale Price €149.99" http://search2.lego.com/exec/?q=train&pt=〈=2057&cc=NL&u=

but they are quite rare! old fashioned tech beams with studs also work very well!

so no news yet?! The cargo train is now discounted at least! (already?!!).

we will be there ;)

I got the 7710 in 1981 (when I was just 2,5 years old), in fact it is the only set that I know the date I got it off (5th of December 1981). I have play quite a bit with it and I still like those loss very much!

Well, they stopped letting you buy anything since DesignByMe was cancelled. Apart from that. They offer for all parts some standard colors. I guess regular is targeted for kids and extended more for us AFOLs.

Arduino might be easier and cheaper, but. Using some convertor cables you could attach PF to NXT. A PF motor is not a servo, so you need to compute what 360 degrees is. For the LEDs: http://www.tau.ac.il/~stoledo/lego/i2c-8574/