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  1. Lego Dino 500
    I can confirm it's common, it's in all metallic silver parts. Plates, tiles, curved slopes, bionicle pieces, it's just how the pigment spreads in the ABS.
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    I'm pretty excited for this. I'd love to see more wheels, 1 wide bricks, transparent panels and windows, and now we'll be able to get these. But unless Lego keeps dedicated stock for PaB (I can't remember if they do or not), we should keep in mind that PaB is usually leftover stocks of pieces that Lego needs to clear out.
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    I think it's a natural evolution in the transition between KFOL to TFOL/AFOL. When we're younger, all we care about is size and play functions and imagination. We could give less of a crap the spaceship we made from a Creator/City car set looks like a color bomb exploded, we let our imagination guide play and we didn't care for further detail. As we age, we begin to build the talents and maturity required to fully realize our imagination (i.e., more access to bricks and better hand eye coordination) and we use it to advance our skills with Lego, school, jobs, and other hobbies. There's a reason a 7 year old can't build a P51 model kit and have it as good as an adult, and that's the reason. So ultimately it's because we learn to prioritize features and details and take advantage of our newfound talent and ability. I've had pretty much the same thing, I've gone from the playlets and vehicles and now I heavily focus on buildings, vehicles, and landscape and I make the most of my collection.
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    Your welcome. I'm curious about the furniture design, I'm starting to plan my own layout hopefully in the style of Bricksburg. All I know is it'll have a train line, modulars, and Winter Village buildings on either end. I'm hoping to kit bash sets to start building out the buildings like Emmet's apartment, the interior is so well designed.
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    I love the Emmet's Apartment build you did. Are you releasing a LDD file for that soon? And here's a link that should have some more references for the Sea Cow:
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    Wow, the Gingerbread house looks awesome. Only thing is it's a bit out there for what I want to use it for, so I think I'll take off all the candy accents and use them as buildings for this year's holiday display I'm going to work on.
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    Let's all cross our fingers. We've gotten our iconic American/British diesels, British electric and steam, now it's time for American electric or steam trains. And the Southern Pacific Morning Daylight is certainly iconic enough to become a set, people have already built numerous versions of it already.
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    I love how simple and well designed this build is. You sought to capture the essence and profile of this train rather than every detail, and it makes this instantly recognizable since you didn't try to cram every detail in there. Do you plan to make anymore cars?
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    I'd still love to see a SPMD in the original black orange and white scheme, but it's more likely they'd do the patriot scheme in red white and blue since that livery was used in the 1970s around the start of Lego Trains, and we just got black orange and white in the HE.
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    Huh, I didn't know about the Base8 standard. But the point is, this isn't dependent on 32x32 baseplates which have changed color to bright free, and have gone up in cost making it somewhat unfeasible and ugly for us that don't have extensive amounts of the old ones. And as soon as I can get more bricks in about a month or so, I'm going to be picking up as many white 4x6 plates for a snowy train layout to fully test this concept.
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    I guess you could attach it to a train car and weigh it down using ballast to create a underwater train which could be kinda cool, I'd just be worried about how many cars it could tow. Is there any guide on disassembling and repairing this motor? I just found mine, and it doesn't work. Edit: I just opened mine up and lured a bit of vinegar in the motor to dissolve rust and battery acid, and it works again. I just swabbed out the inside and all the motor contacts and then poured a bit in and let it fizzle and poured it all out, and it seems to work again, but the motor's a bit temperamental.
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    That's pretty much a perfect train. Offer the set with the loco and the tender and a car, and then sell a single individual car set with parts to make articulated chair/restaraunt cars, sleeper cars, and a observation car ending. Be it diesel, steam, gas turbine, or electric, I'll accept it.
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    I meant that it's impossible to perfectly proportion cars to mini figure scales because the proportions of the figures don't scale up properly. I think your car builds are really well done, but the length and height don't seat minfigures too well. It looks like it'd be pretty simple to extend it by a stud and raise the roof and body a plate of two above the wheels and axels to better seat minifigures of you decide to.
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    Now that he's banned because he's eight, can one of the moderators delete this topic?
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    Oh. I guess when you have that many baseplates already and have to move them around that much, it's much more convenient. I have extremely limited access to them and don't like the new bright green, so I came up with this. I'm sure if I loaded up my prototype sample with plates and bricks on the bottom it could be sturdy, but I designed this for a stationary layout with as few pieces to keep it as simple and inexpensive to brick link as I could.
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    The design of the cars are extremely well thought out and planned, the issue is they're designed to mini figure's height and not they're width, which is unavoidable. They're a lot better proportioned and scaled than regular Lego cars, they just look like they can use some selective compression of detail in the future.
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    I have a piece of it built from white 4x6 plates, and it's definitely more than sturdy if you're careful how you handle it. I haven't gotten a chance to mount any buildings to it, but it definitely seems strong enough as long as you properly support and hold the piece, same as the baseplates.
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    I was just filling out a PaB cup full of white 4x6 plates for a Winter Village layout, and I found something interesting. By just using the 4x6 or 4x4 plates and bricks to support the elevations, you can create extremely dynamic and realistic landscaping that's actually cheaper than using standard 32x32 baseplates. Using the typical cost of 9 cents per 4x4 plate in regular green compared to the cost of $7.99 of the new 32x32 bright green baseplates, you can divide the $7.99 cost of a 32x32 baseplate with an area of 1024 studs by $0.9 to get 11 plates per dollar, each with an area of 16 studs. Multiply this by 8 to get a cost of $7.99 for a baseplate compared to 88 4x4 plates for $7.92, which has a combined area of 1,408 studs, for 8 cents cheaper not counting shipping. Even though it is a bit more fragile, it can also be easily reinforced with bricks and plates on the bottom, and with a elevation of 4 plates, you can easily place 1x2 technic bricks to modularize your layout. Would this be a more feasible way to do landscaping on our layouts compared to the baseplates we currently use? Theoretically it could eliminate the need for baseplates entirely, aside from using road plates to model roads and highways. Sorry if this is already established, I've seen it used in dioramas and models, but never in such a scale. Here's a few photos of a piece of modular landscape built with this method. The slope of the plates can also be leveled out at any height and secured with bricks, but you can also use the continuous slope to create forced perspective on smaller or shelf layouts. You can also stretch out the plates up to 3 studs per layer and plate allowing you to create steep slopes or flat planes. This is what the understructure looks like, using various assorted plates and bricks to support the inclined terrain. This example was built using 40 4x4 plates, and can be extended further and this method is sturdier than using baseplates which can rarely split, bend, or warp shape.
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    A good compromise would likely be some pictures of alternate models like the full pages that used to be in sets, and then a link to download the instructions on Lego.com to keep everybody happy. I'm definitely helping to spread the Creator vibes around, I'm getting ready to spend around $650 on Creator between my own allowance, birthday, and Christmas.
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    That's my biggest pet peeve, someone I knew glued their son's Lego sets together, and he ended up crying whenever one came apart as a result I kind of want to see a push for alternate instructions in all their non licensed sets, including action themes and the modulars because there's such a demand for more, as sets tend to get boring after a while. I personally would love to see Modulars and Ninjago alternate model instructions.
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    A "epic storm of man tears"? That seems to be a copout to blame men, gender roles, and the physiological differences in the brain between men and women. Because of these inherent differences, (not to mention the sexual dimorphism present in our species) boys are naturally attracted to building toys and play-fighting and competition, which is what draws boys mainly to Lego. Girls tend to play in different ways, focusing on roleplaying and imagination, which draws girls to things like dollhouses versus Lego. Because of this, Lego has naturally catered mostly to a unisex/boys demographic with their action themes like City and Castle and Ninjago because they're a company seeking to maximize profits, which is natural in the competition-like nature of capitalism. Lego doesn't have to cater to your personal political views, and it will only do so where they can increase profits and the number of kids buying Lego. They haven't done that, because it hasn't and likely won't ever increase profit by altering the dynamics and designs of their main themes. This is why Lego compartmentalizes "girly girl stuff" into Friends, because there they can cater to the type of play and psychological differences that girls conduct and have, without altering other themes set designs and stories, where it would prove detrimental. It is not sexism or exclusion like you claim to think, it's only the specific psychological differences between girls and boys and the way Lego has capitalized off of it. If you feel entitled to put your own personal experiences and beliefs over that of the majority to force them to cater to your demands, that's selfish and hurts everyone else. If you feel this way about Lego, you can stick with Megabloks or the basic bins as I said before.
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    For the mountains and terrain, one of my favorite pieces to use would be the 4x6 plate. You can get it in a pretty good selection of colors, and you can stagger the placement of it to create some pretty decent looking hills and shallow mountains, and you'd be able to reach about 2 2/3 a brick high for every 16 studs of length, which would also let you add in some realistic scenery to blend in any mountains and valleys. And you would have a bit more room for buildings if you removed the short siding from by the Fairground Mixer. Just a few more tips though, I'm excited to see more updates to this.
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    Well 39.99 Euros usually goes to about 45-50 USD, so I'd say it's pretty reasonable for the price point they're at. That's almost twice as much as the Eiffel Tower with 321 pieces, and 600-700 pieces seems reasonable for the Burj Kalifah.
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    This looks really good. My only suggestion would be to maybe add some inclines and elevations to the track around the mountain area, to help build up the terrain and to give a bit of dimension to the track. You can do this by inclining the track 1 plate every 16 studs of track, which is just enough that trains can climb without the motor stalling, and it looks like you have enough room to raise it up 6 bricks by the time it hits the curve on the left.
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    To be fair, the newer modulars are built more densely with a higher amount of pieces while ones like Palace Cinema and Town Hall and the older ones have a bare interior. And I'm guessing they're trying to scale down the buildings a tiny bit to make them more realistic and proportioned compared to larger ones like Town Hall and Palace Cinema to give them that "Wow!" when we do get a larger building. And I'd also like to see some smaller single story 16x32 small town style modular buildings thrown in the mix too, if they released one alongside the standard 32x32 buildings each year.
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