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    (sorry for the slight bump, just couldn't help but leave a comment!) Just supported at 6,077. I'll repeat what I said on Ideas: I remember the big surprise in late 2008 when this huge robot broke through the surface of the island of Mata Nui as revealed in the video from that time. (It rocked my world to think the last seven years of Bionicle had been on / inside a giant mechanical being, to say the least) And then the eyes shifted from green to red: everybody knew what that meant... Here is my EB-exclusive thoughts on the actual model: This model is awesome. It invokes many memories of that era when Lego could pull off a MASSIVE story reveal without it being spoiled 2 months or more in advance. It also tells the sad tale of the start of the end of G1 Bionicle: at this point, it had a year-and-a-half left to live, and was probably already being replaced by Hero Factory at least in the set design department. (It does take two years to design them after all!) But at least in that moment of late 2008, we were not thinking of that far-off horizon of the Chronicle's End in 2010. We were just wondering "HOW could they top that next year!?" In mid-2009, we would know who Mata Nui really was, where he came from, and (eventually in early 2010) where he was going. Thanks for the trip down memory lane, @Axelford. I hope your project makes it to it's Destiny of 10,000 votes!
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    I just ordered the remaining 117 parts for my Blacktron I robot today. I hope to have it all together by November 1st, if not earlier.
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    I also didn't know that, and I've been using Bricklink since 2007 or so!
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    "Hey, who turned out the lights!" Awesome series of DW figs! Vashta Nerada is my favorite, as the two episodes (Silence in the Library / Forest of the Dead) were the creepiest I ever saw from the 10th Doctor. I mean, who isn't scared of the dark at some point in their life? Plus, it was the start of River Song, at least from the Doctors perspective. From hers, it was - SPOILERS - It's a shame we haven't got many real figs of that theme from official sources.
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    It's also been all over every single website / news-site / magazine you can possibly imagine... I've seen people post links to really obscure magazine articles on Facebook about it. These magazines have literally no overlap in Lego vs whatever they're normally talking about. I saw in the one post to my wall from a friend along the lines of "did you see this?" that Men's Health Magazine even had an article about this set. It's kind of getting crazy, to be honest.... It's like 1997 ALL OVER again.... except this time we don't have to listen to people complain "The door was big enough for Jack! She should've let him onto it!" This set is awesome, don't get me wrong. But if I hear one more person ask if Jack and Rose come with it, or that if I saw the new Titanic LEGO set...
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    I loved that book when I was younger... I have a feeling Katy is in safe hands with @zephyr1934 at the throttle. I always wondered this since my first reading at age 5-ish, however: What the heck happened to the conductor who was most likely in Katy when she went airborne? I can only figure he jumped out the other door when she snapped off, died on impact (probably holding on for dear life all the way!), or was riding in the cab of the steamer at that time. If it's the third one: he probably wasn't employed much longer at that Railroad, as I believe there is (was?) a rule about staying in the caboose to clamp the brakes down manually just in case the train broke and the air-powered ones didn't hold. I'm probably overthinking it, but that stuff makes a guy wonder what kind of Mickey Mouse organization that railroad is running there!
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    Is it the end of the beginning... Or the beginning of the end? Either way, one thing is certain: mini-figure life will never be the same! Blacktron I is coming... soon. Check out the revised main post for the backstory, updated text, and new screenshots of the 76155-inspired model!
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    Every single "Adults Welcome" ad features the same monorail in the background at some point. Every. Single. One. I commented on one of the four about it being in all the commercials, and got no official response... I think they are just teasing, (same with blink-and-you-miss-it goat in the "Rebuild the World' ad with the knight trying to cross the river) but you never know what they have cooked up in Billund!
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    Go right ahead, @M_slug357! I will warn you that some of his design choices need updating such as window frames need to become tab-less, a 5-tall door needs to be added instead of the one shown, corner panels in white need changing to the new kind, etc. However, the finger hinges for the grain loading doors are unavoidable, I think. (If you need design help or more pictures, let me know.... I'll do my best to answer any questions!) Thanks @Paperinik77pk! I have been wanting to do that for YEARS.... 2011 was the first time that part was released, and that's just about how long I've wanted to do this.
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    This grain elevator model was made by my dad in 1999 / 2000. Like most of his MOCs from that time (the single-stall version of his train shed, Bridge on the River Baseplate, the factory in sand red), he built it before he had a BrickLink account. With this one he never finished it 100%, probably due to having kids (including me) tearing it down and scattering parts every other weekend while he fixed it during the week. Eventually, he put them up out of reach except for special occasions such as the two weeks bracketing Christmas. This vintage model has been used by our family for layouts at his house at Christmas and other times for a long while, throughout most of my childhood up to 2015 or so when we stopped doing a tree + floor layout. He eventually gifted it to me about a month ago because he built the Brick Train Depot version and it is better / bigger by like double in size. (I've been asking for it in one way or another since early 2020 when he built the BTD model.... took me almost a year and a half, but I got it at last!) But before we get to the revamped version, here is the photo of it in it's pre-restoration state. This was from the day I got it, September 12th 2021. It was actually dirty in places, missing several parts, slightly yellowing, and very dusty. ...and here it is now! It's still got some yellowing, and slightly dirty despite my best attempts to clean it. (I don't have any cans of air at my place, so it might be a while until that's done!) The model has finally been completed after ~22 years, with the conveyor belt added and missing old gray parts added in. I added tan baseplates for the bottom, as it fits with the rest of my buildings better. My dad always wanted a conveyor put in to his elevator haul grain to the dump-chute to load his six blue 4536-style hopper cars. Well, it's no longer his grain elevator, but it's finally got a conveyor! The white handle, which can be turned to make the belt move. This view looks down the chute into the area where the grain is stored before being dumped into the hopper cars I haven't made yet. Looks like someone forgot to close one of the two hatches all the way! These two finger-hinged doors hold the grain back until it is needed to be loaded. But what's a elevator without something for it to load? These five single-bay grain hopper cars plus the matching caboose are (eventually) going to be built for the vintage grain elevator MOC my dad gifted me recently. The engines that are going to pull them will most likely be the two Santa Fe bluebonnet F7 units I have lying around. Also, the bay on each car can still empty out as designed in the 1991 set (4536 Blue Hopper car) this model was taken from. Here is the Bluebonnet units I have already constructed. That's all I got about these MOCs, any thoughts? Comments questions, suggestions, and complaints welcome!
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    The Manor Von Barron (Haunted House) set has been modified and instructions made, as seen on seen Rebrickable by user Das_Felixle. The MOC as it is uploaded needs a good amount of work: according to comments from multiple users, the second floor and roof are unstable and fall apart a lot. You need 1,400 parts extra to build it as the MOC is intended, but as stated, you might want to do it in a digital format first to rework it!
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    LEGO finally comes out with a set I've wanted since approx. the year 1999 (when I really kicked the Titanic obsession into overdrive by watching "A Night to Remember" at least once a month, at a age younger than you go to Kindergarten in!), and it's so expensive I can't afford it, even with a months worth of work. Oh well, it will be mine in my dreams, as the price is sure to go up after a few years once it goes on the aftermarket! ....Ship of Dreams it has been all my life, and in my dreams it will stay.
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    How I lost my mind building the tipsy steam loco from Hell (part 2) Do not adjust your computer screen, for it is not askew. The engine is just drunk and can't stand straight. In reality, the frame is square and level on this loco, but the boiler is not... a slightly twisted 16-long technic rod (my only one) is to blame, and it wouldn't be so bad if it wasn't so obvious to me when looking at it. (my OCD isn't going to let that one slide, sadly) But wait: that's not all! The 4-10-0's side-rods won't move properly, as there is too much give in them, the tender is still missing two green 2 x 2 tiles, plus the exploding rear wall on the prison car doesn't work 100% of the time. (I'm still trying to forget about the broken reddish brown clip from yesterday's post to boot!) I will have to order about 13 more bricks for this project, but judging how it's going so far I don't have high hopes for a fix anytime soon... this is truly "The project from Hell"!
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    Curse you reddish brown! Or, An update on the MOC Wild West military train's IRL progress Look closely at the unused clip on the Lone Ranger-era cannon on the right. Now, compare it to the one on the left and notice the difference. This happened without provocation, where the broken clip in question (which was holding a cannon plunger since ~2015 with no problem) suddenly decided to dispense of it's load. Not sure where the tip landed, as I can't find it. Oh, and the train cars in the background are from the 8-wide Wild West 4-10-0 + military train. I've built everything but the steam loco itself, but I can't finish this whole MOC today. I've had to redesign the prisoner car's exploding wall area (twice!) and have realized I'm short a couple parts for the tender that I know I don't have extras of. Frankly, I'm afraid at this point the loco won't work as planned, judging by how this day is going so far! When this train get's completed, it will join four other trains on the photography table. I'll get the pictures taken at that point, due to this being the last Western train I plan on making. (yeah, I'm not so confident that will argument hold up in the future!)
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    I do believe in my post, I stated I had no store on Bricklink. So your last comment was untrue as if even one person has not got a store, and "protest for" Bricklink, as it makes that statement you made false, .logically speaking. Also, the statement about stores being run by "random unimportant someone" was completely unwarranted. No-one is unimportant: everyone has a role to play in this great big theater production we call life, and I'd prefer it you didn't insinuate otherwise! (EDIT for spelling.)
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    I had to change (most of) the roof due to structural issues with how it interacted with the rear wall. I also added back the 1930's car as it will cost less to add the roof to an existing vehicle than buy all the dark blue. See the 98% revised main post for a close up of all the new goodies!
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    I don't know what you are trying to say... it honestly makes no sense @ks6349. As an aside, I have NO store on Brickink (so no vested interests), I've been buying since 2007 and agree it's not the most intuitive out there. However, it's MILES better than it used to be when I started, and getting better all the time... But if you don't want to use it, or don't like it, please don't claim to be "holding a candle" to give "true and accurate claims" to newer EB users. It almost sounds like you're a competitor (Ebay / Brickowl seller? I don't know nor do I really care) trying to divert traffic away from Bricklink for your own reasons.... whatever they may be! Whatever it is that makes you hate BL, please explain, as you haven't done that yet.
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    The Interstellar Zephyr transports Nexus Force personnel as a very high-speed, high-security ground transport between the northern-most city of St. Nicklaus and north-pole-hugging outpost of Ice Station Odyssey, around 500 miles away. (this all takes places on the ice-bound planet of Beta Polaris, which orbits what we here call the North Star, far away from Earth.) Unlike the slower Earth trains, this Zephyr type of space-train is super-streamlined, and can go up to speeds of up to 110 MPH (135 is the loco's top possible speed) on it's special track, with super-elevated curves and long straight-a-way's over hundreds of miles, all while using Positive Train Control (PTC) on the the mostly double-track mainline, where all vehicle crossings are flyovers and switches virtually non-existent once out of St. Nicklaus city limits. This train runs along with nine other identical versions of this train (10 total trains in all) on the route with up to seven in running order on the route and at least two in the maintenance shed / in emergency backup storage at any one time. You may have noticed the train model is NOT in the original light gray "stainless steel" of the original Pioneer Zephyr on which is was (kind-of) based. The orange and white color scheme is because it's for my Nexus Force theme... to be honest, it's not even really a Zephyr that much anymore. It's more of a mix of the Pioneer Zephyr and several other concepts that began in the 1930's - '50's era, like the dome car. (To call it a hodgepodge would be accurate!) This model features three joined cars, with the power car up front, a coach, diner-dome in the middle, another coach, then the observation lounge at the rear. None of the car's roof sections come off, and their is no interior, to save on costs when this model is built in real life. The repurposed 2014 CITY Arctic logo slope on the rear of the lounge car is a missing print, as are the three dark bluish gray "donut" tiles on the loco unit. (these parts should have a engine fan / rotor print) The train uses only a few magnets to sperate the train in the middle, as having Jacobs bogies throughout with my current storage setup would have been unwise. This also leaves open the possibility for future expansion of a car or two... maybe a dome car could be in the cards somewhere down the line? (Yes, I know no shovel-nose Zephyr ever had domes... but this isn't a normal Zephyr, now is it?) You can see more details on the arctic / space base shown above in this thread in the Sci-Fi forum. Be warned, it needs to be updated with some newer pictures of stuff I designed! Thoughts on this model? EDIT 5/10/22: model completely revised and updated. EDIT #2 5/11/22 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.
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    Playmobil isn't a super-major player in the toy market.... not like Hasbro and Mattel, who have Lego above them as number 1 toy seller in the world since 2014-ish. Playmobil being much smaller and not as well known, they are more niche in the theme choices. This could also hurt them in the long run, as the more niche and non-mainstream you get with toys, the harder it would be to sell those toys to Joe Everyman, his wife and his 2.5 kids. Why buy a Roman or Ancient Egypt-styled Playmobil set for your 6-8 year old who may not even know what a Centurion is, or only knows the Egypt you see in the cartoons / movies which features big pyramids, shuffling undead mummies and little else. However, you can buy a Star Wars kit from a movie that everyone either knows or can recognize. I mean, in these modern times (in most 1st world countries) who doesn't know what a TIE fighter / X-Wing is? I also played with Playmobil as a child at times from 2003 to 2007-ish, and it was also more expensive than LEGO from what I recall, so there is that! It also was WAY harder to take apart Playmobil, with most of the time using my teeth to get the inter-panel pins out. Speaking from experience, I'd take Lego any day over the other stuff.
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    MOC pictures taken, uploaded, and added to the first post! Here is the inside of the office that took so long to get done.
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    Agreed! @Jim you wanna help us out here?
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    Slight bump: (Here is the model that was rendered by my brother in Stud.io and uploaded by me.) I haven't given up on this townhouse model from August, with a bunch more parts found from my collection. However, the 1930's car's was swapped out for a dark blue '50's car (inspired by a @hachiroku build based on his Kingdom of the Crystal Skull army staff car) so the parts quantity went up some. It will look similar to this one, but with slightly bigger wheels, light bley sidewall covers plus being in dark blue and not black. The MOC is currently sitting at around $120 US for what you see. (plus the 9 newer parts not found in LDD I had to add manually to the Bricklink list.) Thoughts?
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    Don't give them any ideas!
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    This is in the wrong sub-forum... @JopieK can you help him out?
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    You can look up the part number 11477 (as provided by @Lok24 ) in LDD's search box, just below where it says Bricks", "Templates", and "Groups". That will pull up the part directly, @jburgt. (Also, your original post didn't say anything about LDD, so the Lok24 answer was right on the money for the info provided.)
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