Murdoch17
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Anyone else still waiting on orders from oct, nov, dec?
Me! Nov. 28th is when i ordered, and my standard order still hasn't shipped. I'm not expecting it before Valentine's Day, honestly.
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The friction-y plastic axles are a major turn-off for me. That, and I just disassembled my 8 wide trains because they didn't match my other stuff. Thus, this is one set I'm not being suckered into buying by FOMO! Also, I hate that boxcar. American boxcars / cattle cars NEVER had cupolas on the roof. So there's another mark against it.
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So, if that is the scene we're talking about... A full set? A Marvel bookend, like the LoTR and Harry Potter one?
SHHH! Don't jinx it! We need a proper Marvel train! Hopefully with more than one car and with the ability to take a motor! (A guy can dream, right?)
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You have a train to catch.
I don't know many Marvel movies, but the word 'train' has my interest totally peaked. In fact, wasn't that phrase used in the second Spiderman Movie (2004) during the train scene? Or am I crazy? (I would sell my soul for a remake of set 4855!)
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How about Febrovery @YellowFrog? (I think I'm spelling that right....) It's all about building space rovers in February!
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I do not think Disney is very popular nowadays
What on Earth makes you say that @kosnevmisha? If it wasn't popular, LEGO wouldn't be making any money off Disney-related themes and would quietly drop them as a business partner. (which is not happening!) The only partner I could honestly see that happening to is DC Superheroes theme by Warner Brothers. (Now THERE is a theme that is on life support!) But Disney? It's Not happening... In fact, if I was a betting man, I'd put money on the Walt Disney Company / Mickey Mouse probably outliving us all.
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What is One Piece? I've never heard of this, and now it's going to be a Lego theme?
It's a Japanese manga series, a 1999 anime series with over 1,100 episodes (and counting!) and a bunch of films, plus a newer 2023 live action Netflix show. The only reason I know any of this is because:
A) I looked it up on Wikipedia.
B) I know some people who are obsessed with the older show and are really excited for it, but I'm not one of those people who cares one iota about this theme... if it's based off the original anime, it would shock me as it's far too adult for LEGO from what I've been told / been shown by my friend.
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Is anyone else disturbed by the dalmatian print on Cruella de Vil's dress? The whole point of 101 Dalmatians that she wants to make a dress out of puppies... so it looks like in some alternate timeline, she did just that!
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Very nice!
The MOC also reminds me of a personal experience last spring. I drove by East Broad Top in Pennsylvania (abandoned narrow gauge coal hauling railroad that was never scrapped and portions of it have been operated as a rail museum for decades). At the end of the line where it meets the standard gauge (several miles away from where they operate today) there's a dual gauge yard that was full of narrow gauge hopper cars. I was last there 30 years ago and wandered through the yard/forest where the trees had grown up through the cars over the years, very surreal.
When I was back last year it is heavily marked with no trespassing signs and I heard rumors the cars had been scrapped. It was really hard to find any sort of view into the yard. But we finally found an embankment where you could still see in without trespassing. Many of the cars are still there. Reportedly, there was even a standard gauge steam engine stored in a shed there but that might have finally been moved to a museum.
@zephyr1934 That ex-EBT standard gauge 0-6-0 switcher had it's main rods cut in three places per side. It is now repainted and on display in a RR park somewhere in Red Bay, Alabama. See here for some pictures of it by a Flickr user I follow... it's very sad.
...Anyway, I love the MOC @XG BC! You nailed the abandoned RR look!
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Main posted updated 1/3/25:
Whole post updated with pictures of the train, including the new passenger cars!
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I picked mine up this morning. The line was insane! I didn't realize this was such a big release day. It was the first time I've ever gone for release day. We got there right at 10am when they opened, and we waited an hour to get into the store. The line was as long when we left as it was when we got there.
I was surprised by how small the box is. It's about 2/3 the size of the Galaxy Explorer and about half as heavy I'd guess, which is surprising given their similar part counts.
The box is beautiful. I'm not upset about the size at all. I like more reasonably sized sets myself. I know some people wish they'd used the vintage packaging, but I like the modern look on this one. It's not as boring as typical Icons boxes. The blue grid pattern is a nice touch to add contrast with the black ship, and the Blacktron logo looks fantastic on the front.
For January 1 releases, I'm usually in line about two hours (give or take) before the store opens, and I'm usually not the first there. The one mall here in St. Louis with a LEGO store opens at 10, and the mad dash from the mall entrance door line to the LEGO store line is certifiably insane. The final line that forms at the store merges from multiple entrance door lines. Luckily, this year I managed to have a family member snag one online for me at midnight as they were ordering the entire Animal Crossing wave. (so I avoided the melee!)
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looks like a good recolor, i think there is a tram system with a similar paint sceme, idk which one though
ExpandNice. Doesn't SEPTA have those colors?
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ExpandSplendid find indeed!
It is classic Amtrak livery based I think, but SEPTA is close.
Thanks everyone, I've passed the comments on to him!
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It is now after midnight and I can't buy the Renegade (I'm a Lego Insider). It is supposed to be available on 1.1.2025.
Until midnight CET there was a banner "LEGO® Insider Early Access on this set – 1/1-1/3" but now it is gone and I can't still buy the set
did it ever work for you @SpacePolice89?
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My brother who doesn't have an EB account made this recolor of the 2024 Downtown Streetcar set into Metroliner colors and asked me to share it and his Flickr stream.
Hope that's ok @JopieK and I hope you guys like it. He really is proud of it. I'm sharing it here because it's his only picture of it and it doesn't really warrant it's own thread with just one picture.
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@Lemerbrix if you leave, it'll be sad to see you go. Good luck wherever you go, have fun whatever you do, and may your brown bricks never be brittle, the presents you get always rattle, and your life be full of Danish ABS plastic forevermore!
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Jyn Erso: Rebellions are built on hope.
Jyn Erso: 'You're rebels, right? Well, I rebel.'
(I'm so glad they got rid of that line in the finished film)
Also: Happy New Year everyone!
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As PeerTube (open-source YouTube competitor) is becoming popular, would it be possible to support video embedding for PeerTube links through BBcode too ?
Here is a personal video I would have liked to embed : https://tube.interhacker.space/w/gqKyoBSjnsTPRqCokexgZMUnfortunately, the only currently proposed way for embedding it is HTML code, which is restricted on forum posts for obvious security reasons.
<iframe title="LEGO telescopic doors" width="560" height="315" src="https://tube.interhacker.space/videos/embed/7cedc633-becf-4cff-baaf-39d5a47aeb3b" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen="" sandbox="allow-same-origin allow-scripts allow-popups allow-forms"></iframe>
Thanks in advance...
Tagging @Jim for help here with this.
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Welcome to Eurobricks!
@SavaTheAggie has done something using a similar method with his 'quarter scale rail' project, which you can see here in his Flickr album about it.
Also, as a side note: Eurobricks isn't meant to host photos @CodeHard. You need to find a outside site to host them like Flickr, Instagram, Bricksafe, or another site, then link them into your post. @JopieK can help you more with that as he's our moderator here in train tech.
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Personally I am not interested in those big expensive Icons sets and if we get only one set I would prefer it to be a remake of the blister pack battlepack over a big ship. This is simply perfect:
SNIP
Why not both a crew battle-pack and the ship? That way people with the old set from 2011 have more crew, and people who have the new one also have more crewmembers. Win-win. Throw in a British redcoats (without flesh showing on torsos) battle-pack as well for extra fun, and it also is a win for older Pirates fans who can swap heads and hands for yellow. Win-Win-Win.
After all, LEGO is in business to make money, and this would make them mountains of it. It's just good business (
) and would make the most sense to do this.
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60468 is conspicuously missing from the list...might be an urban passenger train to pair with the station. Looking forward to the Arctic train, hopefully it's not a dud.
60473 is also a missing number when comparing this list and the winter wave launching Jan 1.
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This summer list is utterly disappointing :(
20 years of LEGO City and all we get is a weird assortment of sets. Very few but expensive explorer sets, a weird police line up and nothing worthy to replace the Downtown. Why end the life of many building sets if all we're getting is Vehicles?
Airport? No
Hotel? No
Car Workshop? No
Hospital? No
City Plan? NO!
Not even a new police station good enough to replace the current one to match the new looks.
Maybe it's not a complete list of upcoming sets? We don't usually get LEGO exclusives on the lists this far out, for example. These early lists usually comes from retailers like Walmart, Target, and so on... so it's possible this isn't everything. I noticed there are a lot of set numbers missing, such as 60468 and 60473. What could they be?
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) and would make the most sense to do this.
LEGO Sci-Fi Ongoing - Rumors, Speculation, and Discussion
in LEGO Sci-Fi
Posted · Edited by Murdoch17
Mine 10355 is done, with some special modifications made!
The new cockpit is taken from the Blacktron Cruiser GWP with added parts from a free Rebrickable MOC's instructions, while the cargo pod is reverse engineered and modified from one posted in a Brickset article. (You can view the Rebrickable MOC here, while the Brickset article about modifying 10355 can be viewed here.) Here's a bonus atmospheric shot and a short description:
On the rain-soaked moon of Titan IV, Blacktron forces have a secret outpost, used for constructing and testing of new space ships and weapons. Completely hidden under the permanently stormy skies and helped by it's remote location, this outpost is also secluded by means of electronic scrambler devices and a camera-confusing layout, rendering any orbital ship / satellite photos unusable for anyone but those with the proper clearance codes. However, during times of high solar activity, the scrambler devices are turned off for fear of them being destroyed by the flares. In this extremely tight window, pictures may be taken of the base below.
In one such solar window, a passing planetary mining survey ship from M-Tron managed to get a single photo of this new Blacktron ship sent off before transmission ceased abruptly... most likely by countermeasures being deployed by satellites to destroy the orbiting ship. Back at M-Tron corporate HQ, realizing that they had info on a new, previously unknown Blacktron ship, sent off copies to the Space Police for further investigation. This ship appears to be a combination of the cruiser type (SP codename 'Invader') and the frigate-type nicknamed by the Space Police as a 'Renegade', with this new hybrid between the two now named the 'Vendetta'. Beyond this single picture, nothing is known of it's capabilities and none have since been spotted in flight or combat.
...yet.