splatman

As long as you don't cut thru any load-bearing studs, there should be no issues. Yeah, like Gravy from the kitchen to the dining room. "The Gravy Train has arrived".

I have thought of eventually cutting holes thru walls for Monorail track. The holes would have (non-LEGO) doors that can be closed when they're not in use. Holes in walls are also great for other things, like if you need to run Cat5 cable to a computer in another room.

I've thought of the same thing since the reading the Red Cargo Train thread. With the PF Batter Box soon to be available in Red, I can PF my Airport Shuttle. Now, if only the IR Sensor also came in red. I guess I could improvise with red tape. The only other thing I'll need to buy, is the 9V-to-PF adapter cable.

The start/stop (aka Monoswitch): This can be replaced with a small sensor-trip device that can be placed anywhere alongside the track. The motor hub would have a corresponding sensor. The PF IR Remote would be used to start the train, as well as start and stop the train anywhere. The car bases would be left out, using only the bogies with wheels as specialized parts, allowing the cars to be brick-built from the start, much like RR train cars. I understand the L and R switch tracks being large expensive assemblies. Those can be left out until the the MR theme gains market traction, like I said in the OP, just like the other track configurations I suggested. And I wouldn't ever ask TLG to bring back any old electric system. That's what PF is for. All in new gray: Understood right from the start. Not every AFOL is not going to buy because of the blay thing. I own several meters of MR track, and I wouldn't care that all my new track will be blay. I'll either keep the gray and blay track in separate "districts", or alternate my gray and blay track pieces for a checkered effect. Maybe TLG should make new MR track in another color entirely. Black track, anyone? Probably the reason they weren't profitable, was because the sets were real expensive. I don't remember what I did to get my parents to buy me the Airport Shuttle set for my birthday, but it did translate into no LEGO sets under the C-mas tree that year. A week or so after my birthday, however, my mom thought I should have some switch tracks, so she bought me the AS expansion pack. If the sets had only the train and some track, they would've sold more units. The stations, like I said in my OP, would be sold separately. Those who couldn't afford them after buying the main MR set would MOC their own. About extending the cars: See my OP about using towball pieces. Considering what Freakwave said, I must've not been clear when I mentioned using a PF motor in the motor base/hub. The hub would have pin sockets for fastening either the M or XL motor with technic pins, and a + axle (or + axle socket, in which a 2L + axle is inserted), to connect with the motor. I forgot to mention in the OP: Use 1x4 tiles, not plates, to connect the track pieces, for better aesthetics. All in all, by no means did I suggest or support redoing MR exactly as before, but instead, update it with PF and more. The only thing that would need to be compatible with the old MR, is the track. Scott.

There's Monorail (MR) talk elsewhere in the Embassy and elsewhere on EB, but I thought a topic focusing solely on MR would be in order. Specifically, about asking TLG to bring back MR. TLG may have said they're not doing MR again, but they said the same about other things, and did bring them back. A recent example is the #10152 Maersk Sealand ship. The idea here is, if we ask TLG enough, we'll start seeing MR on shelves again. Send them emails, snail-mail, tell them you want MRs whenever they ask for input for future sets, gather signatures at brickshows where MRs are displayed, etc. How many people have visited a brickshow and said "I didn't know LEGO made Monorails."? TLG said (or so I've read; CMIIR), is that the machine used to assemble the motors, reached the end of its life (or was retired), so that sounded the death knell for MR. The long straight track mold has been concreted. Suppliers have gone out of biz. Sounds like excuses, IMO. They replace worn out machines and molds and switch suppliers all the time. The PF XL motor would be perfect for powering a MR train. The only special parts needed would be the motor base, and, of course, the car bases. Or just have bogeys for the cars, like there already is for the trains, and brick-build the cars from the base up. The ends of the motor base would have studs, to which towball (3183 and 3184) plates can be attached to link the cars to the motor base. Or the motor base would have towball sockets molded in. This also easily allows multiple cars to be linked together, just like a railroad train. Brick-building the cars (from the base up) opens more possibilities for building cars of different widths and lengths. The tracks: -Add a slope piece that goes in between the ramp sections, to make a higher ramp. 16-studs long and 5 bricks high. Use 2 to make a double-high ramp. -Make curve tracks 1/8-circle, so diagonal track is possible. Update the switch points accordingly. Add a larger radius 1/16-circle curve track that equals the RR curve track's radius. Maybe even skip the smaller-radius track for now. -Add a Y-switch track. The above can wait until a year or 2, after the MR theme as a whole picks up steam in the market. Start with the basics; add the whistles and bells later. MR Sets: Instead of large, complex sets like the Airport Shuttle, do it the same way as the RR trains: MR trains sold by themselves as sets, maybe including a simple loop of track. Track would also be sold separately, but not as expansion packs. If straights and curves must be sold together, include at least 2 straights for each curve. Stations, level crossings, etc., as separate sets. Maybe even the RR station set, etc., would include instructions to build/convert for MR use, eliminating separate sets for RR and MR. Now, people, let's get this ball rolling!

You might want to keep them in case you decide to run power. Or save them for something else.

TLG should make this a set. A tile in each color, with nothing printed on them, on a white or clear 16X32 baseplate. With a card listing all the colors, with their numbers and names on one side, and showing their positions on the palette on the other side, like in the image in the starting post. Let's take this to TLG as a product suggestion. They could do this every year, but a different part type each year. Next year, they could do 2X4 bricks. That would give an opportunity to collect a variety of pieces in each color. I would buy a multitude of this set, so i would have a bunch of tiles in every color.

Hi One annoyance: When clicking on a link leading to another part of this site, it opens in a new tab. What's wrong? Most other sites don't do that. Browser problem? It seems to limited to the EB Frontpage. Browser: Firefox 3.6.16. OS: Ubuntu 10.04 Lucid Lynx. If I wanted to open a page in a new tab, that's what the right-click > Open in New Tab command is for. Scott f.

Let's talk more Kitty! Give it a pink Splat!

Petra indeed. More power to ya! It looks very well... Captured. In time and space. It's truly Not of this World! Petra hung up their amps in '06 or so. And Secret Weapon is a song on their Unseen Power album. Please, do more Petra-themed MOCs. God Gave Rock And Roll To You! Edit to add this update: Petra got back together and put out a new album: Back To The Rock. Check out their website: http://www.classicpetra.com/

I thought the 's kart was RC.