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    Well, it seems like this will be Emerald Night - part 2... only one passenger car for people to buy per set. Since it's $500, I can only imagine what aftermarket prices will be for coaches. Thankfully, this means people wanting to unload steam engines to recoup a bit of their loss at buying at least four sets (there have bee four or five cars on the train depending on what film it's in) will leave people able to buy the loco for (hopefully) much less. It's happened before, with set 10194 thirteen years ago. (Since my Hogwarts Castle / Olton Hall loco isn't too great, I'm going to attempt to either buy one from BL once it's available, or recreate it via instructions.)
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    Real world pictures of the towboat added as of now! ...the tows themselves will have to wait.
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    You don't have to put it in the insert media. You just add the Flickr picture's link into the actual reply box where you type usually, and it should convert it automatically to a picture.
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    Saw the original Muppet Movie on Friday. It. was. awesome!
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    Don't forget that Creator set 31130 (Sunken Treasure Mission) has a recolor of the Benny's Space Squad classic helmet-revamp in Dark Bluish Gray! (along with a neat DBG / dark blue torso that could be repurposed for Space!) It's too bad the helmet or airtanks are not Light Bluish Gray... could've been useful for all those custom "Rocket Boy" CS astronauts floating around.
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    "Ah, it feels good to be in a bear's natural habitat... a Studebaker" - Fozzie Bear Here is Fozzie's 1951 Studebaker Commander from the original Muppet movie in its original rusty condition. It should fit Fozzie Bear and Kermit the Frog, but I make no promises on the banjo fitting for the “Movin' Right Along” musical sequence. Sadly, the roof is very hard to remove (and this being reddish brown of unknown vintage) that I fear removing the roof to place the two figures inside will shatter parts. The Muppet CMF's my dad bought will thus just have to stand next to the car. (Its not like you can see inside the car to see them driving anyway!) Even if I could get the roof off, Kermit has to sit in the backseat as there isn't enough room up front for both side-by-side. In fact, they have to be centered in each row of seats to fit at all, due to arm constraints. In a show I saw about this film they mentioned the following factoid: The car seen in long-distance tracking shots was an identical second car, while the one with the closeups / scenes of Fozzie visibly driving had the steering re-connected to a wheel in the trunk, along with the relocated pedals and shifter. They also mounted a TV camera in the nose of the car, and a monitor in the trunk, so the driver could see where he was going. ...and that's all I've got. But before I go, I'll leave you with this: “Someday we'll find it, The LEGO Connection, The Designers, the MOC-ers and Me"
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    Thank you @Johnny1360, I love history, and building LEGO. This combines both hobbies in a neat and tidy package! I just added a bit more to the first post, and ordered the final 86 parts for the towboat (no barges) earlier today. You can see the new stuff below: These are quite commonplace if you live near any of the major rivers of the mid-western USA: a "pair" of un-powered barges! (I think they usually use them for grain and silica, among other bulk goods, but here they are empty, mostly because like the towboat model I made, they have open bottoms.) These type I see a lot here in Saint Louis, and are of the modern variety... although I'm unsure how long they've been using this design, to be honest. It seems to be two barges next to each other, but in actuality, they are one big barge. I did this because less parts are used this way. I will eventually have two of these ancillary models hooked onto my tugboat / each other with 5-long LEGO chains.
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    I'm not seeing any of @Tube Map Central's pictures for this entire thread. Anybody else having issues, or is it just me?
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    Only 88 bricks left to find or order for my HT Pott towboat MOC! As enough parts for it have been found, construction of the hull has started. In the process of finding parts, I modified the flagpole into the version shown, and added curved column bricks to the front of the first deck to make it cheaper and use less bricks... I will show what I mean when it gets finished IRL.
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    "No time to say hello-goodbye, I'm late! I'm late! I'm late!" Awesome work, love the cauldron and old tire for the clock!
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    Awesome MOC, love the CHIMA headpeice usage! Fun fact: The yellow pressure suit worn by Bossk in "The Empire Strikes Back" is actually from a costume used in the 1960's Doctor Who serial "The Tenth Planet"... the last serial of the First Doctor. (It is only viewable nowadays in still photos, as the BBC deleted it to make room in their tape archives.. but the serial lives on in Bossk!)
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    I want Thomas the Tank Engine (owned by Mattel) LEGO system sets so bad... I guess it's a good sign they haven't removed the one on LEGO ideas. (fingers crossed!) ...and yes, I know they did Duplo Thomas over 15 years ago. When Mattel bought out the rights to the franchise, Duplo Thomas stopped very shortly thereafter.
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    Description from the Museum of Transportation's website on the real vessel I based the towboat off of: The H.T. Pott was the first Missouri River towboat with a welded steel hull instead of a riveted hull. The vessel operated out of Kansas City, Missouri on the Missouri River. It is named for Herman T. Pott (1895-1982), a distinguished river transportation executive and entrepreneur. The groups of barges that are moved on the nation’s rivers are called “tows." The boats that propel the barges are “towboats” even though they push the barges from the back instead of pulling them. The H.T. Pott is 58 feet long and 15 feet wide, and it has a “draft” the amount of the hull below the water line of 6 feet. You can walk the decks of the H.T. Pott. You can see a picture of the real towboat on the Museum's website here. Notes on the LEGO model: The name of the vessel, HT Pott, will go on the studs just below the roofline on the bridge. Besides the lettering, two white brackets and four black curved plates are missing from the digital model. Also, a printed-cloth American flag will fly at the rear of the craft off the second level. The rear of the vessel, with flagpole and ladder to upper deck visible. I plan on putting this 1930's towboat and my 1880's Proud Mary steamboat on the depressed-height table holding my Eads bridge, to give a stereotypical view of life on the Missouri / Mississippi Rivers, both distant past, and more recently. (as the towboat worked the Missouri river traffic from '33 up until the middle 1980's.) Now, you may be asking yourself "What good is a towboat without something for to to push up / down the river?" This was the existential question I asked myself today, and the answer I came up with shortly thereafter was "not very good". So, I set about building something quite commonplace if you live near any of the major rivers of the mid-western USA: a pair of un-powered barges! (I think they usually use them for grain and silica, among other bulk goods, but here they are empty, mostly because like the towboat model I made, they have open bottoms.) These type I see a lot here in Saint Louis, and are of the modern variety... although I'm unsure how long they've been using this design, to be honest. It seems to be two barges next to each other, but in actuality, they are one big barge. I did this because less parts are used this way. I will eventually have two of these ancillary models hooked onto my tugboat / each other with 5-long LEGO chains. (these are not in the picture) The HT Pott is few bricks less in height (and more than a few studs shorter in length) than my 2019 sternwheeler steamboat MOC, the Proud Mary (link to it's topic). Side note: The two being near each other like this isn't exactly an anachronism, as there were a scant few steamboats still plying the rivers when the HT Pott was built in 1933. (Granted, most steamboats had seen better days and were on the way out or retrofitted for cruising duties by then, but it's still accurate!) Thoughts? EDIT 6/2/22: added real world pictures.
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    I'm on a Creedence Clearwater Revival kick. Currently listening to "Run Through the Jungle".
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    8. WimDK
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    I (personally) think two topics would be appropriate : turntable here in Train Tech, engine in the other forum. A link could added in each referring to the other topic. Best of both worlds.
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    The remaining 537 parts that I didn't find in my own bins / buy locally for my space Zephyr model have been ordered as of Saturday the 14th.... and yes, there is an dome car in the consist. Assembly of said model should commence by tomorrow, as the last order (hopefully) arrives today, Saturday the 21st.
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    If you're in the USA, I think it's 7pm central. EDIT: @ivanlan9 it's now. However, I'm getting a 404 error from the site.
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    What kind of sick, Sid-from-Toy-Story type person does that to something they didn't even buy.. let along all the good torsos?!? I wonder if it was a kid, or somebody just being a jerk... or both.
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    Sorry @Carolwood55, but not really, no. These were designed for use with my father's copy of the Disney train and (sadly) he wouldn't let me modify it too much. Sorry for the really late reply, but thanks @Modeltrainman!
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    I added a roof to this older model and revised where the printed Nexus Force logo slope was located on the rear. Here is the original version from August 2020. More pictures of the revamped car are visible in the first post.
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    Thanks @garmsey! Part finding has started as seen below, so hopefully the train (except for dome car) will be built by next month. No promises on that, though! Three hundred parts found, 737 left to go on my space Zephyr. (the wrong colored window glass will be popped out an replaced when it's needed) The dome car, is not included in the totals either way as I'm still not sure it would work out to build it... even if I did make it work, I would be buying almost every single part on it. So, basically, it won't even be attempted for a while. Also, I got the shovel-nose built except for two orange slope parts. Thank you @Paperinik77pk! Retro-futurism is a REALLY hard look to achieve, so I'm glad it comes across as intended. Thanks again everyone!
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    Welcome to Train Tech! Love the brick-built angled lines on your model... you also don't see too many Ireland-based trains in Lego, so kudos to you on building something (probably) nobody else has done before! Keep up the great work @EWay!
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    My Bob was the one from LEGO Universe. You just can't beat the classics! (I want to actually make an counterpart anti-Bob... red pants, blue shirt, unhappy face for a mirror-universe of my space theme's leader.) I would call him Not-Bob, or Nob.
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    Above is the original train from September 2021... ...and here is the revised version as now seen in the first post. Parts are being found currently to make this train a reality... it should hopefully be done next month. (I hope!)
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