Lego Dino 500

I can really see that being a good sized sports car, especially compared to the size of other cars and City vehicles. If you've ever compared a Dodge Viper or Pagani Zonda to a Honda Accord in size and shape, this is fairly reasonable.

Apple cider and hot chocolate are both delicious. Why not both?

Think like a Radio Flyer wagon. Have the 2 wheel bogies connect to the next set like Intermodal cars or connected bogies the right distance apart with the couplers with a pivot on top, and it'll act like normal 4 wheel sets except they're holding up two cars each.

While it's cool, it doesn't seem all that "American". Most of the ambulances I see around me are based off of Ford F150 chassis and cabins, with a custom built compartment and body on the back half of the vehicle.

I love how realistically this is designed. Every detail from the windscreen, the pantographs, and the wheel covers are designed perfectly and mesh well with the design of real trams and light rails by Stadler and Siemens. Now you have to build a road system around the layout of the tracks

Are you going to try any new compressor designs? So far, the new one on your new prototype is pretty slow, same as the previous one. I could help you mock something up in LDD if you want to make a ore original design. Have you seen this compressor design made by Sariel? It seems you could translate the design for the larger pumps, but it seems small enough and compact enough for the job. Or you could stack two of them together, side by side.

That's pretty cool. I was going off the Lego train world record at a France LUG, which was around 26KPH.

I'm not sure how attached you are to that design, but if you replaced the staff pieces with 1x1 bricks and used 2 1x1 modified plates with knobs for the end, they'd look a lot thicker and feel more angular like the actual gun.

I've been collecting mine for 11 years, and I'm about to turn 16. I already have around 30,000 parts like I said which averages around 3,000 parts a year. However I expect my yearly average to go up severely once I have my own job, hopefully to around 12,000 parts a year.

I'd say it could have as many possible functions as the Super Cars. Gear box, movable piston engine, detailed interior, doors, couplers, locks, and possibly a turbine snow plow. Keep in mind this would be a $50-$75 set theoretically, at that price level all you get is independent suspension, HOG steering, and a piston engine. This wouldn't be a fully blown out $250 set with crazy amounts of functions. But it would be sweet to get a line of Technic trains, or provide a few alt models. You could turn it into a shunting engine with a MOW crew and construction equipment, a ballast tamper, or possibly a crocodile engine.

Liberally use graphite lubricant on the car wheel sets, build them somewhat light, and use large radius ME Models track for turns. You can also file away at the inside of the wheel sets if the wheel flanges stick on them. And for locomotives, put the technic together with the gears slightly loosened to minimize friction.

What about a tower crane? A decently detailed and functional crane could go for maybe $75 or $100 and be around 3 or 4 feet tall. On another note, it'd be cool to see some micro scale construction equipment and vehicles all to the same scale. But something else I'd like to see would be a big ultra detailed diesel locomotive would be cool, and it could easily be 1/33 to 1/38 and use the same Lego Train track for display. A 1/33 scale model would be around 2 1/4 feet long, and have a length of around 70 studs depending on the design process. And that could easily go for around $75 or less, and it would appeal to Train and Technic junkies alike.

This looks and drives really cool. I'm not sure if it's your intention, but the headlight size and profile of the front makes it look almost like a Land Rover Discovery. If you just changed to the slick or rounded tires on those wheels and added second row seats and a roof, it'd be instantly recognizable as a LR Disco.

Are they made up ones, or based off of real ship types? I have a pretty good idea. Ship type: Reaper Size: 75' - 250' Crew Size: 25 - 75 Armaments: 50 - 150 cannons located located around the outer perimeter of the hull Masts: 2 masts, located on the main hull of the vessel one in front of the other. Speed: 25MPH to 45 MPH, depending on current and windspeed. Culture of origin: Nordic Special Features: Contains a main hull and a smaller stabilizer, similar to sea kayaks and catamarans. Being used a s a counterweight to keep the ship upright, it has additional storage space accessible from the hull. Has a flat front to the main hull and sharp angular sides to the shape of the ship.

I was looking it up just now, and Ents are actually about 10 feet tall at the most, with Treebeard at around 14 feet tall. You could easily do some micro-Ents about 2 or 3 bricks tall and put them in the garden.

I'd love to see a new dedicated train theme like the 1980s era Lego City and Trains, with signals, rail crossing, signal towers, bridges, buildings, scenery packs, and supplementary cars for the train sets. In the 1980s, you could build a fully functional town with buildings, nature, public transport, cars, trains and monorails. And all the baseplates they included with sets allowed you to piece everything together like a jigsaw puzzle to make a full blown city. Now we don't even receive any baseplates in sets, everything is just a bare building and vehicles. And the train theme is neutered too, with two trains, a station, and assorted straight/flex/switch track every two/three years. A new theme similar to 12V/9V would bring all of that back, with updated building techniques and parts and the marketing to ensure it does well.

I have 119 sets and 119 mini figures with an estimated size of around 30,000 parts, including duplicates and loose PaB pieces. I've collected all of them over the past 11 years of my life, starting with Hordika Vakama and Nuju and 7255 General Grievous Chase on my 5th birthday party.

I really love how detailed all your models are, and the scale and effort that you put into all of these. Do you have any videos of your Lego trains running?

I actually kind of like the ferry. It's large, simple, and doesn't make use of any large specialized parts. It almost looks like a smoothed out '80s style set, with updated tile pieces and mini figures. I might actually get one or two, maybe have a ferry service and a train bridge on the layout I want to do. I wish we had more vehicles and buildings like that. Let's cross our fingers for a fully brick built PF passenger train next, it shouldn't be long since we just got the Heavy Haul Train.

Congratulations, it just passed 1,000 supporters. Soon it should be getting it's 6 month extension, if any time's to blast and spam the media for these projects, it's now. Contact your local news station, online publications, social media, and post it to various subreddits, where the right title and subreddit can mean thousands of views in less than a day. I can't wait for this to make the reviews in the next year, but it all depends on marketing.

I'd love to see a more advanced steam engine too, it's pretty much the main idea apart from a new F-class diesel. Maybe a proper 2-6-0 locomotive and a few heavyweight passenger cars, like the first 323 push along train to celebrate the 50th Anniversary?

These are really well designed. I really hope at least the locomotive makes it, it's only 16 away from 1000. I look forward to seeing these in stores in the next year or so, hopefully.

Lego really does need to overhaul Lego Ideas. All the good projects are left to rot under a blanket of "proud father look what my kid made" posts and only the ridiculously huge impractical ones or the ones who catch the media's eye get to 10,000. It should almost be counted as vote manipulation, nobody who voted for the Golden Girls set would have been an actual customer of Lego. This vote manipulation from an outside source is the #1 reason why so many good projects can't make it to the top. It's no different than using alt accounts on Reddit or Twitter to get your content to the top, and there needs to be something done about it. What if you had to use a Lego VIP account with purchase history to submit projects? But it's a shame the Douglas DC-3 didn't make it, that would've been an instant purchase for me.

I think while Lego has become the most powerful toy company in the world right now, they're still wavering and recovering from some of the financial decisions in the early 2000s. Much like grandparents who lived through the Great Depression hoard sauce packets and napkins and save leftovers for too long, they're still overtly concerned about falling back in that pit so they've been doing as much as they can to increase profit and squirrel away money. While this is good for stability, eventually they're going to reach a point in at least 10-15 years where they stop concerning themselves with customers and quality, or they're going to have everything like a finely tuned machine with large part counts, low costs, good customer service, and good brick quality. Lego will easily last 150+ years, it's just a matter of how they value the reputation of their company versus profits. It's not unfeasible, Nintendo started out as a Hanafuda card company in 1889 and they're around in 2015 after 126 years doing the same thing in essence. However, I lean to the more optimistic side of Lego's future. They have more bricks, more colors, more themes, and bigger sets now that are even better designed. Compare a City set from the 1980s to today, and it will be drastically improved in comparison from brick quality, details, and building design. But I do think they're going to have to cut back on themes a bit, down to the core Creator, Technic, City, Classic, and 4 or 5 action/story themes possibly.

These are some of the best models I've seen, on par with or better than Bricktrix and SavaTheAggie. I'd love to see you tackle some Pullman cars and a Baldwin 2-8-4. Are you gonna post pictures of your layout and some consists?