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  1. Murdoch17
    I don't buy from Brickowl, as they are smaller and have less for sale than Bricklink so the situation is probably worse there for these rare parts. However, I will take your funnel idea under advisement for the future @ILoveSeatron.
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    Thanks @Toxic43! 20 metal-axle wheels, 10 modern magnets, 10 yellow bogies plates are going to run me over 100 USD after S&H (~88 before S&H) from two Bricklink stores. Except for the wheels, the parts are probably cheaper on PAB standard, but that's down until January and has a major shipping backlog of over 50 business days. This is gonna take a while....
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    It's down until January according to the banner... probably because of the backlog. I ordered standard on Nov. 28th, and if I see it before February, and all of what I ordered arrives, I'll be happy.
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    Sorry for the late response, but thanks @Shiva! And now for another update: I've had this ghostly 4-8-2 steam loco built for over a year, but have had issues designing accompanying train cars for it that made me happy in the thirteen months since construction ceased. But that's no longer the case! These five blue, red, and gray passenger cars are on the list to be built at some point in the near(ish) future. The closest car is a streamlined observation car, while the next three are identical coaches. The furthest car from this picture's viewpoint is a combination baggage-coach. Out of the 971 bricks I needed at the beginning of this project, I have found 472, with 499 left to go. I found this all yesterday, and and am almost to the half-way point - let's see how far I can get today! Sadly, I've had to split the parts list in two: there are 40 expensive train-centric parts that cost just as much, if not more, than the entire remainder of the train's 459-parts strong list by itself! So, the cars' bodies might get built long before I can get the more pricey bits. Thoughts?
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    So far, nothing from 2025 Friends is screaming out at me to purchase it, or at least reverse engineer it like the Castle B&B did. We will have to see what late spring / summer holds, but I'll bet they'll be something much more up my alley then!
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    You can find the 2025 thread here, as created by @Lyichir, so thanks for that! (Maybe a mod can pin that topic and close this 2024 one? @JopieK perhaps?)
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    Fun fact: The reason the Thagomizer has it's name is due to the Far Side comic strip (and the late caveman, Thag Simmons.) The part of the dinosaur had no name before that strip, and afterwards, paleontologists decided to name the spiked tail the Thagomizer in the strip's honor. You can read about it more here. Another example of one is the Horrendous Space Kablooie from the strip Calvin and Hobbes, which is now an actual term for the Big Bang.
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    @Chocolate Frog Lego isn't doing the TV series from what it seems.
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    I've seen them on on other sites in the past, and EB if on another computer besides my main one. I run an adblocker / privacy thingy most of the time, (sorry!) so I don't see them usually. The OP was the one who mentioned them first, anyway.
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    agreed.
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    ...especially when motorization is officially said to be impossible (it wasn't, though it does require mods), and the use of plastic axles really makes things 10x worse.
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    I'm sad the To Story train is 4+. I pray it has a lot of reusable prints, but I'm not holding out any hope in it being track compatible. The last train that we had from Toy Story was in 14 years ago in 2010. We need another Western train - and a 100% complete one, at that! (they always skimp on the steam loco's tender, be it the tiny C.K. Holliday one, or the skimpy Lone Ranger vehicle, or the non-existent one from Toy Story.)
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    Ok, who has a BeeGees pre-disco reference on their DC Aslume BINGO cards? Anyone? Bueller? (Personally, I prefer 'New York mining disaster 1941' from this era more...)
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    That's not the year, though. It's the position on the mold. They mold a lot of them (maybe 40? IDK) at the same time in the same steel mold every few seconds.
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    Good point. Reproducing the LEGO logo by 3rd parties is a good way to have lawyers knocking down your door...
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    The whole song is highly questionable. The lady wants to leave and get away from him, but he's not really letting her leave and most likely has spiked her drink. So yeah, it's a horrible, awful song.
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    Yes it was bad - worse than what you're going through. (I have entire models I can't disassemble for fear of them turning to dust) It was so bad, I still try to avoid buying affected colors from Bricklink unless the parts aren't available from Pick A Brick. ...It's just too much of a risk that they're old and will shatter. I have no idea about the circle bit. It's possible it was molded incorrectly / a bad batch, but who knows when it was made? It could be new old stock from affected era, or a newer one-off bad batch. We will never know for sure!
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    @Freak_NL If those are dark brown (which they appear to be), then it's Lego and was a known issue. They had a period from ~2010 to ~2019 where almost every reddish brown, dark brown, and dark red part had a very good chance of shattering while being used. Some other colors were affected, but less so. it was due to a plastic problem from the ABS manufacturer that was exasperated by LEGO storing the pellets in a unheated / uncooled silo in a warehouse. They fixed this issue no later than 2019. If these are black, then it might have been an older bad batch. I've had plenty of the printed black 1x1s with letters from around 2011 break on me, which may be related to the issue above... I don't know for sure about that of course - it's just a theory.
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    Since LEGO appears to be doing a 180 and going back to the metal axles VS. the plastic ones used in the 2022 sets, I think it's possible that new trains may come in 2025. Maybe people aren't buying the plastic-axles trains, and it's hurting the LEGO bottom line? I don't have any clue if that's what's truly happening, but it wouldn't surprise me. The fact remains plastic axles are horrendous and they brought back the metal ones three or so years after saying they were totally done with them.
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    Grim, Billy and Mandy, Dexter and Deedee, Courage, Muriel and Eustace, Ed, Edd, & Eddy, the main five KND, Regular Show's crew, and the Foster Home for Imaginary Friends' gang would all be dreams come true in sets of a CMF or two. After all, we got the Powerpuff Girls and Adventure Time in several sets / Dimensions, what about some of their contemporary shows from those eras? (Speaking of AT, we were really done dirty by not getting the whole main cast as minifigs...) Heck even Uncle Grandpa's RV might sell. I'd buy it, just for the zaniness / strange cast of characters!
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    But it's an easy fix if you want it added, at least.
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    If they do a minifig version of that, they better give us 99 of the puppies and two adults. It's the only proper way to do it!
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    @Yoggington it makes a good starter kit for an overpass!
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    Welcome to Train Tech @ILoveSeatron!
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    ...and neither is Home Alone or it's sequels!
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