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  1. Lego Dino 500
    I'm really excited for all the Holiday sets this year. I'm crossing my fingers my Lego Store has plenty of white 4x6 and 4x4 plates, I'm wanting to make a huge diorama around my Christmas tree, similar to the Polar Express. And with the white cheese and tiles from the PaB Panda, I can detail up my 60052 and assorted vehicles to look snow covered.
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    Ehh, that actually sounds pretty cool. Fantasy themed trains in sets would really help to motivate Lego train popularity. Just make it decent, and add plenty of details.
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    Me too. I won't pass judgement until I've seen the sets IRL, but it seems there's a few pretty good buildings from the bits and pieces I've heard in the thread.
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    I kind of would want some smaller scale Lego buildings and facades, for town building and train layouts. Ideally it would be things like houses, apartments, restaurants, post offices, and hotels, that sort of thing. I'd be happy with less than a full interior like the Modulars, it just needs to be something with the front of the building, six studs deep, and enough room and detail to add to a Lego town layout.
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    Agreed. I'm excited to see more original buildings, and prison island seems cool. It'll be the first police set since 7899 that I've gotten.
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    Agreed. I'm starting to get tired of how large the boxes have been getting. I understand if it's meant to be for anti-theft measures, or to keep the contents from being crushed, but some sets like 60060 or 60052 have oversized packaging. I'd rather have a smaller box that's packed well than some huge monstrosity of a box that takes up enormous amounts of space. I'd expect to open a box, and find it full of bags, all nice and hefty with the instructions nicely packed on a piece of cardboard. Not a few tiny bags floating in a huge box, sliding around. And it's kind of hard to believe that somebody would make an account JUST for the sake of complaining, and with bad grammar. I wouldn't be surprised if this is just a troll.
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    That's what makes me sad about the new City lineups. They've all degenerated into yearly firehouses/police stations, with all the accessory sets, the one big City town square/city builder set (like this year's 60098, the seasonal special theme, and then three or four actual city/town buildings thrown into the mix with minimal effort. You can't build a good Lego city nowadays with all the sets they have, you have to cross themes and kit bash sets to complete a non fire/police building. We need more truck stops, bus stations, restaurants, post offices. Just give us something semi decent, we're all getting tired of the constant barrage of duplicate sets. We only need a new one every four years or so, kids aren't gonna miss out on receiving a firehouse every year.
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    I just had an idea that I think would be quite ingenious for the track designs. What if you made power routing switches, like with Kato Unitrack? That'd allow you to use an arbitrary blocking system similar to that of scale model railroads, and it'd still comply to the same standard rules of 9V rail geometry. Then you could have sidings, switching yards, and industry tracks off of a single power supply. The only thing is, you'd have to have some sort of option to choose between power routing and non power routing, so you could crossover tracks and use multiple power supplies and stuff.
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    Personally, I'm excited for it. This is the set that's gotten me interested in the Winter Village series, and I'm excited that my Lego store still has the Santa's Workshop from last year, and a bunch of other rare goodies because I live in a area of the USA where Lego doesn't sell too well. Now I just have to hope for the next Creator train to come soon, so I can have a really nice Christmas display. Time to stock up on white plates and trans blue tiles now.
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    Agreed. I'd love to have more City sets beyond the firemen and police sets, and that's all there is outside of the ridiculously large collection of vehicles, as well as the one big City set they release per year. But unfortunately, that's all they've released for the past 10-11 years which is why all I've bought are the trains. If they released some nice apartment or house facades similar to Santa's Workshop or Christmas Toyshop at a decent price, I'd buy those up in a heartbeat. Lego needs to seriously reform their City theme from the commercialized mess its created where they release sets only for a safe bet to make money instead of some nicer riskier set designs. The best source for hotels, apartments, and other businesses shouldn't be limited to Creator and Friends.
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    It seems unlikely, but with the fact that Lego allowed TBBT to be made, who else wants a Hell On Wheels locomotive to show up on Lego Ideas?
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    All I know is I hope it's a new Santa Fe or a GG1 with a set of Amfleet cars.
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    It's possible. You'd just have to have the balls hitting the keys, and not xylophone bits.
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    That looks really good. It adds a nice depth to it you wouldn't get from a simple straight line. Also, the brick tolerances are enough to make curves using staggered grill plates and 1x2 plates. Sorry about the image size, it's the only one large enough to really show the technique.
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    That seems pretty cool. It'd make a great accessory set, like the track crossing set we had a while back. I imagine it could be part of a "City Maintenance Set", with a tow truck and a street sweeper. Or in a Experts set with a track snow plow, and a few cars, which is the better yet ultimately unlikely choice.
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    Man, I'd kill for a consist like that. I can't wait until Bricklink gets the new features up eventually, I heard from /u/scootersbricks on reddit that they're planning on implementing something similar to brick wizard to order sets by part. I imagine that could possibly lead to more and more competitive pricing, until we end up with decently priced 2x3x6 windshields and light grey bogies. But if Lego does have something planned for 50th Anniversary of trains, I'd want it to be a new Superchief. They've done it in the past before, with the Legends Barracuda and Metroliner, I can't imagine them not. This is the most highly coveted train, and it's for good reason.
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    If that's the case, rebuild what you want. I'd focus on the Creator Expert and some of the PF trains, and then keep the rest for parts to build with. As for the organization, I can't imagine mine's any worse. 30,000 parts, all dumped in like 7 bins. It doesn't stop me from building.
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    That is very true. But that was the most relevant example I could find. There are so many projects that you can obviously tell were made by someone under 13, with minimal effort, or are far too unwieldy and impractical to produce, like that Rivendell or X Men Manor model. I've seen some stunning projects on there that just get buried in all the spam posts, losing any chance of reaching 10,000. As for the Little Prince, it originally had effort put into it, and not just later on. I'm just tired of all the "proud father" posts and low effort spam posts that people keep submitting and leaving to rot in the vain hope it'll reach 10,000.
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    Besides the image quality, some of us just don't have the pieces to build our submissions in real life. I mean, my collection is decent, but I don't have any (or enough) parts to build my projects on there, like this project I've made: https://ideas.lego.com/projects/83326 That's the reason Lego Ideas allows LDD models. But it really needs a category system and a way to remove dead and low effort projects like this: https://ideas.lego.com/projects/79722
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    In all honesty, I'll get anything as long as its's fun to build, interesting, or of a decent size. I only really collect a few specific themes like Bionicle, Trains, and the occasional City or Technic set that catches my eye. But I do have priorities as far as sets go. It's Bionicle and Trains first, then Technic, and or any big Creator set that looks cool.
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    What about a Diesel engine with some MoW equipment and some freight cars? Or better yet, a transition era diesel passenger train and a separate MoW crew in the set.
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    I love your take on all these 1 wide train MOCs. Just a few tips, but if you put the silver grill piece with a 1x2 plate staggered half off it, you can link them together to make curved track like this. And you can also make it look a tiny bit less grainier by replacing the catenary lines with some colored fishing line. But other than that, I'd love to see more microscale trains, it's a hardly explored subject as far as Lego goes.
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    Yes, more American road diesels would be good. British diesels have this sleekness to them that is quite fascinating, but the size and loading gauge of American diesels just exudes raw strength. I'd love anything from a Dash 9 to a GP40 to a F class, preferably with passenger cars and freight cars. Like a CBQ Flying Zephyr would be amazing, and just close enough to the Santa Fe to claim its heritage and improve on the original concept. Lego is now the #1 toy brand in the world, their risk factor and marketing strategies for separate locos and cars would be dramatically different and successful now. I'd be happy even if they provided a convenient way to order extra cars through Pick A Brick, that way they don't have the risk factor of a bunch of competing sets.
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    And also look at Tor Tollne's valve gear design. Unlike the way you directly connected the cylinder to the valve gear, which is based off a purely cosmetic design. If you went with a simplified Baker valve gear design and connected the the pneumatic switch to say the blue rod in this video somehow and stored the tank and compressor in the tender, it could possibly improve your old design:
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    I'm talking about the new one in the new Mercedes Benz Arroughs set. I haven't used them, but it seems worthwhile to check out.
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