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  1. Murdoch17
    Thanks @Shiva!
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    Thanks @Karalora! I don't have any instructions for this MOC - all i have is a LDD file that' is missing a bunch of parts. Sorry to disappoint you if I did!
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    So back on May 5th I managed to digitally reverse engineer and expand upon the upcoming Creator set 31167 - Haunted Mansion. I gave it a back half, some furniture, a removable modular base with a pine tree, and a ghostly inhabitant: Dr. Henry Pepper. Who was that you ask? Stay tuned to find out! The house in all it's spooky glory. The base with the house removed. The house removed from it's base. This is the front side. The rear portion of the house. The inside of the house in the front features a dining room and drawing room on the lower floor, with a large music room upstairs. The inside of the back half features a living room on the lower floor, with a bedroom and library on the second floor. Harold Pepper, PhD, was a professor of geology at the University of Chicago. I say 'was', as his mysterious death at his family home in St. Louis in 1894 was most puzzling for police, as no signs of foul play were discovered, and no suicide note was ever found. Even his cause of death was undetermined, he just simply dropped dead after eating breakfast. Suspicion focused first on the breakfast and later, on a mysterious, odd-looking doll found in the garbage pail that no one in his family has recollected seeing before. After the funeral, it appears the late Dr. Pepper refused to leave the premises and move on. His spirit has occasionally haunted the house ever since, with most sightings being around his date of his death. However, in the family is it generally said that if he is seen outside that date, someone in the family's death is near. As of 2025, the house has been abandoned for ten years, with the windows boarded up and doors locked. Urban explorers have entered the premises illegally, and have reported the ghost of Dr. Pepper to be quite agitated at the intruders and or the state of the house's decay. He might even be considered a poltergeist, chasing one group of vandals from the house by throwing things at them as they ran away. The mysterious doll. (NOTE: The above story is totally fictional. Any relation to any real persons, living or dead, is unintentional and completely coincidental. The ghostly Dr. Pepper mini-fig is named after two things: my favorite soda and the Pepper's Ghost illusion technique.) Thoughts?
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    Thanks @LEGO Train 12 Volts! RE: powering the caboose: Not with the way the stairs are constructed, no.
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    Thanks @idlemarvel! This diesel can be pushed or pulled by another loco, but is not itself powered. As it currently stands, only two of my many locomotives have the option for 9v motors to be added on: The GM Aerotrain, and the Pioneer Zephyr.
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    I remember when the original BNSF Lego set 10133 was delivered back in 2004 to my dad's house. (for him - not me, sadly!) That set, along with the complete Super Chief he already owned from two years prior, got me even more psyched for LEGO trains. Granted, I couldn't afford the set at the time, but now I'm 20 years older and have money - yet still can't afford it! Thus, I decided one day late in March to redesign the 9v Train set 10133 - Burlington Northern Santa Fe (BNSF) GP-38 Locomotive into the modern black / yellow / orange color scheme. It turned out nice in LDD, but then I decided to make something else from it's basic shape. I looked around, and saw an high-hood ex-CB&Q SD24 repainted into the Burlington Northern cascade green / black paint and fell in love. This MOC is the result of that love. Burlington Northern SD24 No. 6240 pulling a BN wide-vision caboose. The front end of the diesel loco, with the high short hood. The real BN loco number 6240 was scrapped long ago, but it lives on in my MOC. The rear end of the locomotive. I'm missing the trio of 'torpedo tubes' (air reservoir tanks) up on the roof, and I'm not sure if this bulge on the left side was on the actual SD24 locomotives.... but beyond that, it looks pretty accurate in my eyes. The cab roof comes off to place an engineer fig at the controls. The three-axle truck with the floating middle section is mostly my own design. I based it a bit off a much longer version seen in the Alco MRS-1 sold by Anthony Sava. Built in 1969, this Burlington Northern caboose was the home away from home for the train's conductor and brakemen. This specific sub-type of Caboose is called a wide-vision caboose, which was a type that became prominent after World War II when taller than usual freight cars became common. The new extra-wide cupola allowed the crew to see around these obstacles, but the life of the car was rather short, having last been last used in the 1980s when it was donated to my local train museum. You can find the real-world version of this specific caboose at the Museum of Transportation in St. Louis, Missouri. (You'll be seeing a LOT more freight cars from this museum some time soon, so stay tuned to Train Tech for when I post that thread!) The rear of the caboose. Thoughts?
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    Oh no! I hope you were able to get the set later somehow @JopieK... Thanks @Shiva, and yes - more windows in green would be great!
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    Thanks @JopieK, this one has actually been made since January. The reason for posting it now is I'm beating the holiday overload. If you do a holiday MOC in December, it is "eh" but if you do it in June, it gets more attention!
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    Thanks @Feuer Zug!
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    Having seen how small the Dreamzzz logo is, and how well integrated it is into the buckle, I rescind my earlier criticism. I was afraid it was on the back of the torso as part of the coat at a much larger size, but am glad to have been proven wrong. I'll get one, at least (Maybe two?) at some point.
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    So I just saw not one, not two but three Dedra Meero Brickheadz on Rebrickable recently. Get building @THELEGOBATMAN before more arrive!
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    This set does not spark joy. No sale.
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    'It's beginning to look a lot like Christmas...' When I was a child / young teen I longed for 2006 set 10173 - Holiday Train, but never received it. So, 19 years later, I took the train and turned it up to 11 with revised styling, a more cohesive color scheme throughout, and a new Western-style 4-6-0 steam loco inspired by a stretched version of the one in 2010 Toy Story set 7597 - Western Train Chase. This train is supposed to be a late-1800's precursor to the 1930s-made Polar Express, (which I also own a LEGO model of from years back) and I'm it calling the North Pole Limited. It has been built for quite a few months - I am uploading it now as we're nearly at the halfway point of the year and it's only 6 more months until Christmas! This 4-6-0 steam engine is a stretched and heavily modified version of the 4-4-0 from previously-mentioned Toy Story set. The working pistons, tender, and some other details are my own ideas. The rear of the wood-burning locomotive. The passenger coach - like most of the train cars - is heavily inspired by 2006 set 10173 - Holiday Train. The Christmas tree car. The present gondola, full of gifts for the good girls and boys of the world. I wonder if any of those packages rattle... The front of the caboose, which is inspired by 2001 My Own Train set 10014 - Caboose. Back of the caboose. Mr. and Mrs. Claus in minifig form. That's all for this project. Thoughts?
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    BOOO! I was hoping to pick one up, but if that's the case - no sale!
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    I guess your could say she does what she does FUR a reason.
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    I just had a thought: Cruella De Vil is one of only two irredeemable / 100% evil for no reason villains in the Disney catalog that don't have a reason for why they are. As for the others in Disney lore, they are still evil, but at least have reasons behind it: A number want power (Scar, King Magnifico, Evil Queen, Henry J. Waternoose), some are greedy (Madame Medusa, Professor Rattigan, Amos Slade, Commander Rourke), while others have been slighted in some way and want revenge on those who may / may not have wronged them (Alameda Slim, Maleficent, Gaston, Edgar the Butler, Charles Muntz) and a scant few are just following previous orders (Otto the Autopilot). But Percival C. McLeach from the Rescuers Down Under and Cruella De Vil from 101 Dalmatians are just totally in a class of their own: they are the way they are because they CAN, and nothing will dissuade them from their quest. Thoughts? Also, side note: I found out recently that 101 Dalmatians (the original book) has a sequel book that's like an acid trip put to paper. I don't think Disney will ever make a film from it, and for good reasons!
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    There is also a purple one of these windscreen's in the Knight Bus set, @Toxic43. And as this Cruella sets releases in Sept. I wouldn't expect any of the new parts on Bricklink before October or so.
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    Thanks @Feuer Zug! The final bits should be here soon... if the USPS decides to deliver it on time. (they keep getting worse and worse...)
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    He captain's the QAR from the fourth's end into the latest film, up to the point of it's destruction and his capture by Cpt. Salazar and the Silent Mary.
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    My original September post predates the reveal of that set by over 6 months.
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    Very neat! Now you just need a red Fokker Dr.I Triplane, (and a flying doghouse with it's canine pilot as well!) to complete the scene.
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    @Daniels_Work_Account It would probably be much cheaper to source just the parts you need from Bricklink than to buy kits. Other than that, I have no suggestions.
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    I think the jacket is reddish-orange, as it doesn't look like coral to me, but I could be wrong....
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    Sorry for the six-year bump, but this model has been torn apart to be made double track! Out with old, in with the new! Here we see how it will look when finished, as viewed in LDD. ...and here's the current progress on my double track revamp of my Western truss bridge. Most parts have arrived, but one of the orders is still out... not sure when that's gonna arrive. Thoughts?
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    Thank you for summoning me! I was I who made that Adventurers HQ modular, @Lion King. If anyone wants to, they can see it here.
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