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LEGO told you that this was the "full lineup"? Aren't they aware that you're one of the most well known Technic guys on YouTube and that everyone is waiting for a better hub, remote, motors and possibly sensors to get announced? It's almost as if they were trolling you. They even forgot to include the LEDs:

They closed it a day early in Germany. That was fun.

And the kicker was that those sets were sitting so high up on a shelf that I couldn't reach them. I had to ask an employee to get a ladder. I was looking for them and it took me a few minutes to spot them. They were basically hidden. I ended up calling my mom begging her to stop at my hometown's TRU store on her way home from work. She did but she too was allowed to buy one train only. I also called the store in Paderborn but they supposedly didn't have any in stock. And you've been told over and over again that the individual wagons and carriages from the My Own Train line were never sold in regular toy stores and thus not available to the average consumer. You've also been told that those designs were so bad that they didn't even appeal to many "hardcore" LEGO train fans. My Own Train sets were released in 2001. Is it too hard to comprehend that buying stuff online was pretty much unheard of at the time? The better designs from the 80's and early 90's actually did so well that those sets sell on eBay all the time. Many of them are going for quite a lot of money, actually. Prices for regular parts like 4025 in black shot up like crazy even though LEGO must have made millions of those. A smart move would be to start selling them under Bricks & Pieces and actually advertising their availability! As for track pieces: Their own fault, if they insist on not selling straight track seperately. There's a reason why curved track is so cheap and readily available on eBay. In 2018.

Why, though? A lower price would mean that you could buy more of them.

Same in Germany. TRU had the Maersk train. Six of them. I wanted to buy all six but they wouldn't let me. By entering and exiting the store multiple times I managed to get two of the six sets. Way to limit your sales. And I had to drive 110 km for that. What fun that was.

I know what you're talking about. I know a guy on a different forum who recently said that he was making $100.000+ a year and still couldn't afford to live in the bay area. I totally see how one could think that $180 aren't that big of a deal when you're used to seeing much larger sums dissapear from your bank account on a regular basis. I totally get that. This video (Fran Blanche/FranLab on YouTube) had me shaking my head in disbelief, too. To put it in perspective: I'm smack in the middle of Germany. I don't live far from our city's centre. It's about a 15 to 20 minute walk, actually. My 1 bedroom apartment was renovated in 2004 (not a dump) and my rent just went up from 156€ to 180€/month. Including utilities I'm paying less than 300€. When I move back to my hometown, I will be able to rent a decent 2 bedroom apartment for less than 400€/month including utilities. Germany is not (yet) a 3rd world country but spending 180€ on a LEGO set sure feels like giving up a substantial amount of money. That's also why that 30€ price increase doesn't sit well with me.

Most of the track pieces are being used in the pirate coaster as well as other mainline sets. They produce millions of those! I'm done talking to you. I studied economics. You live in a country where people seem to agree with paying upwards of $1500/month just to rent a shoe box sized apartment. You guys obviously have a different view on the value of the almighty US$. Still doesn't change the fact that some few guys are ruining the hobby for a vast majority of us.

The rollercoaster had exactly ONE new piece and most of the other ~4000 pieces were in fact of the (much) smaller variaty. You're welcome.

Called it back in April: My opinion: Pros: Sand blue 6 wide window for trains as well as regular sand blue windows. Dark orange bricks may come down in price. (Good for a possible Town Hall rebrick.) Clear garage pieces may come down in price. (Good for a possible Fire Brigade rebrick.) Cons: Octan. I always preferred Shell's colours and generally liked the Shell sets better. Yet another corner building that you can't really display on a Billy bookshelf. One side will always be next to impossible to see. Overall design/style. It surely is no Parisian Restaurant. Things like the umbrella on the roof simply being put on a regular antenna and then placed on the ground really makes it look more like a regular Creator set. Too obvious re-use of torso prints, heads and hair pieces. There's nothing that stands out like the Diner's boxer or Assembly Square's baby. 2x2 printed tile with the Heartlake City map as a poster on the wall. Really? A new/special print would have been nice. Like Starfarer , for example. Interior details are lacking compared to the Parisian Restaurant's kitchen, The Diner's punching bag as well as Assembly Square's LEGO fan's apartment and Dentist's office. Even the Detective's Office had better details like the ceiling fan. The more I look at it, the more it feels as if this modular should have been released shortly after the Pet Shop. The syringe is regular light bluish grey while the scissors that sit right next to the syringe are metallic grey. Looks as if they used left overs. Some modified bricks being the wrong colours again add to the general disappointment. The 1x2 brick with studs on one side that's holding the wall clock, for example. Why is that tan instead of dark orange? Medium azure doors instead of sand blue. They don't match the windows. PRICE! Not sure whether or not a 20% discount will be enough for me, this time. Most likely not. Who felt that this was acceptable for a 180€ set? Again, thank you to everyone who rushed out and bought the rollercoaster at full price instead of waiting for a discount.

You don't need to continue throwing these walls of text at me. You're the guy who basically wanted to tell me that kids don't like teddy bears anymore. Can't take that kind of senseless drivel seriously. @LEGO: If the statement about trains not selling enough is true, then please do yourself a favour and stop selling 60197 & 60198 in 2019. Feel free to use those two slots for more lucrative things, instead. Don't hold back because of morrons like me. Don't worry, I can spend my money elsewhere.

I'm happy with my collection of 80's and early 90's sets, so I stopped buying regular City sets years ago. I only really collect the modular buildings at this point and would buy new Creator Expert trains if there were any. Made exceptions for the fishing store, VW van, the Mini Cooper, the Speed Champions Mustang as well as the Winter Village Train and Station but that's pretty much it. Other than that I only buy marked down sets that contain useful pieces. Newt's suitcase, for example. Or lose figures, bricks and pieces off of Bricklink. That doesn't happen all too often, though. Sure, there are more sets that seem interesting but you can't have everything. I knew about Beanie Babies and Vinyl Pop, so I made sure to stay far away from Brick Heads. I really wanted the buildable Stormtrooper on the Speeder Bike but ultimately decided that I didn't really need to own it. Same goes for the Architecture series. I would have absolutely loved the London and Sydney skylines and had them in my shopping cart multiple times but never pulled the trigger. I also never rush out and buy brand new sets at full MSRP. Even with the Hogwarts Express that I wanted for the large train wheels and figures I waited for LEGO to include a free set with my order. Well, the HE turned out to be on backorder anyway... I got my Assembly Square for ~186€ instead of the usual 239€, the American Diner for 109€ instead of the usual 149€ and the fishing store for 119€ instead of 149€. If I sell the free set that was included with my most recent order from lego.de, then my Mini Cooper will have cost me about 40€ instead of 89€. Buying at MSRP would have been a colossal waste of money. I also refuse to spend 9.99€ on a set of Powered Up LEDs that probably have a BOM cost of less than 15 Cents. I recently bought 1000 warm white 0805 LEDs off of Aliexpress for 3,99€ shipped.

As I said: "All they'd have to do is replace the 9V stuff with Powered Up. Done." Still doesn't mean that any serious redesign would be required. Not at all. Swapping those few bits out is super easy. Especially with the updated 6x28 baseplate with it's larger holes for the Power Functions connectors. Also, again, fairy tales. If trains didn't sell, then there would be no 60197, 60198, 10254 or 10259. Plus, you simply can't sell what you don't put on store shelves. Do you know why "My Own Train" didn't sell well? Because the designs and colours were terrible (extremely primitive steam engines) compared to the metroliner era. I remember die hard AFOLs (this was back in 2001!) only buying these as parts packs for their mocs. Who would go for a KT205 instead of a 7750 with a red 9V/PF/PU motor? No one really knew about the Santa Fee but it still sold well enough for them to make a second release after the limited one sold out. The BNSF didn't sell because no one knew about it and there was no rolling stock available for it to pull. Same goes for the Creator Expert trains. They weren't available in regular toy shops and as far as I remember weren't advertised in LEGO's own catalogs, either. At a time when many still didn't use the internet very much and "playing" with LEGO wasn't an established hobby for adults just yet. That's probably also why the Hobby Train ended up being a rather obscure set that even many AFOLs may not know about. There's a German shop owner on YouTube. He'd love to be able to sell train accessories. He says his customers are actually asking for these things. The Hogwarts Express 75955 was sold out and on backorder for weeks and when it was finally available again, they felt the need to limit it to only 1 (one!) set per customer. My 2nd order was cancelled because of that. All the more frustrating to anyone who may want an additional two passenger waggons. Also, why do people always ignore the fact that the Emerald Night was released at a time when many felt the direct aftermath of the financial crisis of 2007/2008 and/or were afraid to lose their jobs? I was at Uni at the time and working 30 hours/week at Burger King. For a whopping 5.60€/hour after the deduction of health care fees and stuff like that. New hires would have gotten even less than that, but we didn't hire anyway. We let people go. Boy, did our revenue go down in 2008/2009! I wanted an Emerald Night badly (well, three, actually) but figured it was smarter to put the money in my savings account, instead. Here's a good example for a set that probably didn't sell well: Yeah, but what exactly did they expect? That vehicle looks so basic and boring as if it belongs to a Juniors set.

Sure. It's just that those two images show a 4+ (Juniors) set and a set that mainly consists of four figures. I really don't see peer influence/presure to be too much of an issue at that age. Many kids these days stay at home with their mom for a few years before (and if they are actually) going to kindergarden. During those years you can have a lot of influence on a kid that doesn't leave the house much without you. My parents "gave me" a N scale model train for christmas when I was 2.5 years old. My dad showed me how it all worked, how to operate the switches and how to turn the lights on and off. I loved trains ever since. I actually did go to kindergarden when I was younger than 3 years old and while other kids may have shared their interests with me and got me interested in other toys, my love for trains never went away. Could be a similar story, if a 3 year old gets shown the above mentioned sets or even the ones from the late 70's and early 80's. Also, if LEGO made Classic Space type sets that were fun to play with, then I'm sure that many kids would like them which in turn would make peer influence a good thing.

Why wouldn't they? Not too long ago, I've seen a 3 year old girl play with empty joghurt pots for hours on end. I've also seen a mom and her kid building homes for their Smurf figures out of old cardboard boxes. Imo, it's all a matter of how you interact with your kid. If all he/she knows was taught to him/her by the almighty TV/smartphone/tablet, then yes, he/she may only be familiar with name brand stuff and may view other things as inferior. I gave a Monchichi to each of my friend's kids shortly after they were born, because Monchichis were pretty popular where I grew up in the mid 80s and I wanted to share those fond memories. I see those kids maybe once or twice a year because I live far away from my hometown, but everytime we meet they tell me how much they love their Monchichis. Even their moms told me that the Monchichis have to come everywhere, when they travel. Would those kids have ever asked for one, if I wouldn't have introduced them to them? Don't think so. Not enough YouTube ads.

That's your opinion. Many people like the set and that's why even fakes sell for quite a lot of money. I wish LEGO would finally re-release the EN to put an end to this and to make the prices come back down. That would be a much more effective blow than fighting numerous long winded legal battles. I heard and read quite a few times that even AFOLs bought multiple fakes just for the tan windows. And no, regular Creator windows don't come close enough. Also, there's no need to update the Metroliner. It's the perfect LEGO train set. It has everything. It offers much more play value than 60197 (doors, windows, lights, more minifigs, beds, an engine and a much longer platform) and doesn't look too much like a shoe box on wheels even with it's not too over the top front pieces. All they'd have to do is replace the 9V stuff with Powered Up. Done. Trains not making enough money is quite the fairytale. If that was the case, then why even make 60197 and 60198? They do sell. There are quite a few webshops that have review sections and trains usually have pretty much the same amount of reviews as other sets in that price bracket. Also, Powered Up (or PF before that) isn't that expensive to manufacture. It's not as if they'd have to give the rest of the bricks away for free. Aaand... train sets are some of the most heavily pirated sets. There has to be a reason for that. I've seens kids beg thair parents for a LEGO train and I've heard teenagers talk about how awesome of a set 10254 is and how they enjoyed building it.

Bought 4 packs of R56 track. Thanks for the code. Hope it helps a little. Btw, are you going to get a brand new product in or do you need to make space for a new batch of an existing one?

I bought mine in late august (I think. May have been early september.) for ~2.49€. Saw it in multiple local stores since then. I'm in Germany, though.

Twisting my words? You clearly bought this after the most recent Kickstarter even though Scott already said that he's working on a new idea. All I said was that impatiently spending money on a sub par solution is a waste when one of us is working hard on a better solution. Promoting TrixBrix' inferior products isn't helping, either. Also, I said I was on holiday. I ended up spending eight weeks at our beach house where cell phone reception is terrible (2G at best) and when I was back home it was more than obvious that my 500 Euros weren't going to change the outcome anyway. But yes, it would have helped if I would have known about the Kickstarter a little earlier. I had bought four 60197 trains and a few other sets just before I left. I wouldn't have spent that money at the time, if I would have known about the Kickstarter. I only mentioned the Campain and me not supporting it to express that there was more demand than it seemed.

No. It's because too many of you guys are inpatient and waste your money on 3D printed stuff instead of waiting a bit longer and spending a bit more on a higher quality product. You guys buying that 3D printed stuff (I'd really love to use the word "junk", instead) shows that there is demand. This looks terrible to me: As the old saying goes: Buy nice or buy twice. I didn't back the most recent BrickTracks Kickstarter because I wasn't prepaired to spend that kind of money at the time (was on holiday) but would have ultimately gotten the 16 switches bundle. Waiting for Scott to tell us about his new plans.

Nice try. I chose that avatar in memory of my great grandmother and because set 3797 was the first LEGO that I got to play with. She could have brought me Playmobil or even a Barbie doll and I would have been stoked to own a toy ... any toy ... from West Germany. Those were status symbols comparable to a 7 year old owning an iPhone 8 in 2018. I didn't ask for a Fabuland set. I didn't even know that LEGO existed. Actually, I wasn't aware that she was allowed to leave the country. I was 7 years old and stuck in East Germany, at the time. My guess is that this little car was all my great grandmother could afford since she bought it with the money that her friend gave her so that she could buy a snack or a coffee while visiting the city of Wiesbaden. I didn't fall in love with LEGO because set 3797 was so simple to build. I fell in love with LEGO because I instantly felt that the build quality was much better than anything I had ever seen before. I did play with PeBe and Formo when I was much younger. I got this for my 3rd birthday: Various sets of those when I was ~5 years old: And this one for christmas when I was 10: But yeah, I'd prefer real new Fabuland sets for 4 year olds instead of those Town Jr. / Jack Stone inspired sets. Kids aren't going to use those specialized big pieces for long anyway and Fabuland figures have a certain charme that those Jr. sets lack. Otherwise, what was so hard about putting this together: ? Why make dedicated Jr. sets, when they often complain that they don't have enough "slots" available? Why invest in those huge specialized pieces when even train windows are apparently/supposedly too expensive to make and sell?

I still feel that the 4+ sets are a waste. We didn't need those simplified builds when we were kids and my friend's 3 year old doesn't need them, either. The Snow Groomer and the Yacht have the most potential, imo. The harvester set makes for a true head scratcher and I've never seen a fire fighter on a bike or a huge fire truck like this in real life, even though I live somewhat close to the local fire station. I prefer 60107. Overall, I like the new Creator sets better. Especially "Deep Sea Creatures" and the "Shuttle Transporter".

I ended up buying four of those 60197 trains and parted them out. I still wish they would have included classic train doors and windows. I also wish that Powered Up was at the very least compatible with BT4.0. At first I thought my receiver/battery box was broken when it wouldn't connect to my Xperia Z3. Turns out, I may have to thank the guys at LEGO for motivating me to have a look at the Arduino stuff that I always thought was neat but never really knew why I would want one.

Those exclamation marks ... 45-54 years old. Building Experience: Expert LEGO builder. https://shop.lego.com/en-US/Hogwarts-Express-75955 Edit: Stoked to see that you guys are allowed to buy 5 of those sets, while us Germans have to be happy with just one. My 2nd order was cancelled. Now I'm even more pissed about the loss of my 5€ PayPal voucher that went poof because of that cancellation. Great, just great.

That's a lovely diorama. Nice details and great colours. I really like it a lot.