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  1. Lego Dino 500
    What if there was a "Spam Reporter" rank if you report more than a certain amount of spam, like if you've reported 20 spam posts or more? And to control the spam, there could be a time limit between posts. Nothing like a 24 hour wait, but it could be a decreasing trend. Like wait 1/2 hour to make your second post, 20 minutes for 3rd, etc. That's how Reddit controls spam.
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    Congrats on the build! And the horn looks fine, nothing wrong with a bit of greebles. That's one heck of a way to join us I might add, I still haven't built a single one of my MOCs.
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    I can't wait for these, they look awesome. Having multiple sources of tracks and components like SBrick, ME Models, and you Coaster will really help expand the hobby, hopefully enough for it to be caught on more by other people as well. Now to wait for someone to produce aftermarket 9V motors and regulators... 9V is almost self sustaining now.
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    They're not from Lego, it's third party. I imagine it's going to just stay where it is, like all the other aftermarket brands like Brickarms.
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    Well those wheels look beautiful, same as the valve gear mechanism and the rest of the model. I can't wait until we get some more large scale models like this that are only possible with the new large curves.
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    I'd love to see larger radius curves from Lego themselves, but you can already order them from ME Models. And the size of the locomotive is what makes it attractive. Usually Lego trains are extremely small, and disproportionately sized in all manners. Height, width, length, all contorted to Lego City scale. If it's an accurately scaled large model of a diesel locomotive, that's what drives this set compared to Creator or City.
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    Well, time to get building.
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    What Top Gear car?
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    I've been fiddling around the past several weeks on a chassis design, and for the life of me I can't get started. I keep getting stuck designing the front axle. It's going to be independent suspension with steering, using 30X20W wheels and 56X26 balloon tires. Can anyone help? I'm trying to design it to be 16-18 studs wide. I'm hoping to make something small and light enough to get some decent speed out of 2-3 M motors.
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    I voted yes. I'd like to see aftermarket RC components in technic MOCs, but it'd have to be with some caveats though. The problem is the parts simply can't tolerate the stress of such amounts of power and heat on them. If I had things like custom milled aluminum liftarms, motor mounts, and bearings I could mount axles and driveshafts in, then I would do this in a heartbeat. Or for example the CV axles, if someone could design some sintered aluminum replacements that could tolerate the stresses that'd be awesome.
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    How do you build one of those? I want to put one in my next car model.
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    It's not just because of breakage. I'm pretty sure because quality control gets more difficult with longer pieces, and they're easier to warp. Like how you mostly see 1x16 bricks being damaged or warped, compared to 2x4s and 1x6s.
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    Are you going to strip out the whole car for weight? I'd take out everything. Gearbox, seats, flappy paddles, steering wheel, etc. Then lube up all the axles with graphite lubricant to prevent melting and torquing of parts. And add in a white 24 tooth clutch gear for extra insurance to protect the transmission and your brushless motor. You could probably get another 4-5 mph out of it that way too.
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    What about a big diesel locomotive? Like a GE ES44AC in BNSF colors, it'd be pretty cool. It could have a intermodal car or two, a snowplow, and it could be packed full of functions. A sequential gearbox, opening doors and engine compartments, fake engine, pretty much all the features you can have in a diesel locomotive shoved in a big model of one. They could do something of a pretty decent size and scale, about 8x8x48 and still stay in the $60-$70 range if they forgoe the accessories and cars.
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    I have to admit, a few small details like the headlight mounting bother me. They could have mounted it a brick shorter on the liftarms and made it flush using a 1x1 technic brick and a clear stud. But I'm excited for this new Technic UCS series. I want to see something big, muscly, and American for the next set. Like a Viper, Challenger, or a 6.7L diesel Ram. I rode in one, and if you mash the accelerator the 0-60 is insane for a full-size truck. I'd love to see a SRT Hellcat Challenger even more than that though. This set is going to be a must-buy for me.
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    I found one that's kind of unsanitary today . Lego Tooth Box The build is okay, but that's a human tooth. Someone lost a baby tooth, and what did they think? "Huh, I should keep my teeth in a Lego box." And they thought they should post it online, so other people can keep their teeth in Lego boxes.
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    I love the sculpting on the nose! That shaping is legit, it looks like an actual airplane nose.
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    I can imagine it'll be Western or Classic City next year. Lego got lawsuited by New Zealanders over Bionicle in the early 2000s, and I imagine they'd be tiptoeing on egg shells since. Now they're much more powerful, they don't want any bad PR.
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    That's a pretty big issue. I mostly alleviate it by modifying my trains, cars, buses, and trucks to a certain width. I don't have anything physical built yet due to lack of funds, but I keep my cars to 4x12x4 studs, trains to 6, and trucks and buses to 5. When it comes to funky scales like minifigs your best bet is to scale relatively rather than exactly.
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    I'd love to see Monorail, classic space, My Own Train, and Forestmen rebooted.
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    I'm guessing it'll either be a 4-4-0 or a 4-6-0, with some themed wagons. Like an updated 2005 Christmas train. But I really want it to be something big like a 2-6-4 with a full passenger train like the Orient Express or Polar Express.
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    Has anyone started work on the Cloud Cuckoo Land submarine yet?
  23. Lego Dino 500
    Holy crap, how'd they get it without breaking anything? As others said, this would be very difficult to pull off surrounded by people. I'm willing to bet it was an inside job, by a burglar, security guard, or one of the neighboring store employees. Someone who has access to the mall unsupervised after hours.
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    I don't necessarily agree with you Blondie-Wan, the issue we're discussing (and poking fun at!) is the fact that it's painfully obvious that most of these people do not meet the Project Guidelines And House Rules. One of the rules states You must be at least 13 to have an Lego Ideas account By the age of 13, a child almost always has developed the emotional maturity and intelligence to recognize the quality of their MOCs, and whether they'd stand a chance on Lego Ideas. Case in point, me. My first project was this project, the Classic Space Star Fighter: I spent hours designing and redesigning this, because I was trying to make something that could get supporters and I wanted it to be as good as I could make it. The fact that most of these contributors contribute passively, voting on projects doesn't necessarily mean they're of use to the community. I'd say their time spent spamming out low effort projects in some minuscule chance of getting that sweet 1% profit would be better spent kicked from the site, as what I said earlier: it's painfully obvious most of these builders aren't old enough to be on Lego Ideas. But that Last Brick one, that was pretty decent. I just supported it, it'd make a neat little desk build.
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    It'd be pretty cool to see a updated Metroliner or Santa Fe, with updated parts and building techniques. One consolation though: It has to have a full train or at least a club car.
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