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  1. Murdoch17
    Thank you @idlemarvel!
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    Nine small 1950s freight cars of seven designs. Each was built to a length of about 16-18 studs per car with two bogies per vehicle. (Originally they had just two fixed axles when originally built, but this was recently fixed to be more prototypical for American freight cars.) The whole train going into a tunnel. These freight cars are (Left to Right): - cattle car - boxcars (x2) - flatcar with bulldozer load - Octan petroleum tankers (x2) - flatcar with load of rails - bathtub gondola with coal load - caboose This livestock car was heavily inspired by the one in 2014 CITY set 60052 but with a roof for more realism. I can now understand why LEGO left it open top in the set, but I managed to make it work. The roof (which was designed with the same look as the boxcars) is even removable and the ramps fold down so you can take out the cow. These two identical boxcars were inspired by set 7597 from the 2010 Toy Story 3 line. They were expanded in length and had the roof trapdoor removed. Here we see a small 1950s-looking bulldozer on a flatcar. The construction equipment was inspired by CITY set 60140, except in yellow with 46 technic links as the caterpillar tracks instead of red with rubber one-piece tracks. Other things such as headlights and gears (for the treads) were added, and the blade was shortened in width by two studs. These two oil tanker cars came from my own imagination, and are made in Octan livery. This is an older MOC of a flatcar loaded with rails updated to have bogies instead of two fixed wheels. This bathtub gondola with a load of coal is entirely my own design. This caboose model is slightly inspired build-wise by the Katy Caboose (as in, "The Caboose who got Loose" from the children's book) model I copied in late 2021 from @zephyr1934's MOC. Thoughts? EDIT: Post updated 12/14/25 with two new freight cars and revised first picture - bathtub gondola and flat car with rail load are now added!
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    It's fine, I was just letting you know what I was planning on doing. I didn't meant to offend if I did, @LL1982.
  4. Murdoch17
    Thank you @Feuer Zug! Thanks @Shiva!
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    Thanks @LL1982! Nope, no motors for me - I never motorize my trains, though some can take 9V motors if I wanted. Also, I am not building the B-unit as that loco segment is not actually from the 103 demonstrator - it's just a FT B-unit painted to look like it is!
  6. Murdoch17
    Thanks @LEGO Train 12 Volts!
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    Thanks for the front-paging and the compliment @JopieK! RE the BDP train design submission: No, I'm not entering anything into the contest... I still use LDD (I have Studio downloaded but haven't touched it at all) for my digital MOCs. I'll get around to learning it someday, but I hate change so who knows when that will be!
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    Built by General Motors (GM) / Electro Motive Division (EMD) in 1939, this is the diesel that showed the way to the future, signaling the start of the diesel era. This particular engine (FT 103) was originally owned by Electro-Motive as part of a four unit demonstrator. After proving diesels were the superior to steam by way of a whirlwind tour of a whole heap of railroads, it was later sold to the Southern Railway and the lead A unit was eventually placed in the Museum of Transportation in St. Louis, Missouri where it resides today, under cover and out of the elements. (the other three units were scrapped before they could be preserved, sadly) My MOC is heavily drawn from the 2002 LEGO set 10020 - Santa Fe Super Chief. As that loco is a F7 from the same basic design as the earlier FT, not much had to be changed on the body outside of window placement and a few other things. The roof however, was completely revised to use the same design as 2013 LEGO Inside Tour set 4000008 - Villy Thomsen Truck. This was due to the needed parts as used in 10020 not being available in black in quantity. The rear of the locomotive. This model was first designed by me in 2013 in a very crude way (as seen on my Flickr here), but was heavily upgraded and modified over the years until finally being built last month when the final part - the windscreen - was released. The inside features the engine and control cab, and the roof is removable. Here is the real loco circa 2018, with the FT B-Unit from the Roanoke Transportation Museum behind the original A-unit. (This B-unit was at the St. Louis museum from 2015 to 2020 as part of a loan, but has since returned to Virginia.) Thoughts?
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    In short: No, there is nothing you can do. Retrobrighting is just a temporary fix and parts will get worse over time.
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    Sorry, but nope @Jack Sassy. I still have the Durmstrang ship x2 MOD / galleon by @Wurger49 to build that I've been working on for a year or so... (I have all the parts, but none of the willpower it as it's very daunting for me to build ships!)
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    I'd say leave them in unless you actively need to swap them out. Otherwise your run the risk of loosening the joint, or (if it's old enough) shattering parts as stuff from 2008 to 2019 in reddish brown, dark red, dark brown, dark blue, and blue (among other colors) can be VERY brittle. For example: My brother's dark red Frodo Baggins torso from 'Riddles for the Ring' shattered the arm and arm socket while swapping hands for the first time! I hope this info helps you @Mistresspaige7120!
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    Nice work! I love everything about it (I'm a sucker for art deco anything), but the color scheme is especially gorgeous on a model such as this - very classy!
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    Thanks @6180HydroSearchSub! I also was hoping for an full Adventurers revival, but was disappointed by the lack of villains.
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    I'm not in Stranger Things, but I really hope somebody remakes the house with a back and / or removes the pull apart feature. It's too cool of a house to not to, and I'd love to see how they would do it! (plus, I'm a sucker for a good old-fashioned Victorian house!) Maybe I'll do these suggestions myself by buying the set, even though I don't like the show. (I don't do spooky) Who knows what the future holds? Stranger Things have happened....
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    I'm the opposite way - I preordered the GE, but sold it without building / opening it, whereas the Blacktron set is my favorite set of 2025, and has been modified by me to be even better!
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    For what it's worth, I was just able to log into Bricklink again.
  17. Murdoch17
    I'm having the same issues. Maybe it's because Amazon web Services is down? Almost half the internet is down today because of that...
  18. Murdoch17
    Yes, yes you are.
  19. Murdoch17
    We are getting three Batmobiles set from the game - that's it. One is based on Batman VS Superman (no superman), one from Batman and Robin (with no Robin), and one from the Batman.
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    If you put something in the picture that isn't for sale, and someone buys it and says you didn't ship them what's that's in the picture that you posted (I.E. the stand too) - then they can go after you legally for false advertising (if you don't know what that means, here's a wiki link) , or have you blacklisted from whatever site you're selling the figs on. I'd play it safe rather than get in trouble, honestly. Just post a picture of the Fig with nothing else that you aren't selling along with it.
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    Unless you want to be accused of false advertising / selling something you actually aren't, I would heavily suggest just the minifigure on a plate - or just the fig itself - in for sale pictures.
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    sorry. Didn't see the 2026 discussion, all i saw was the 2025 one. A mod can move everything from my original DeLorean post forward over to that thread if they want to or feel like it's needed.
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    It appears to be too wide to fit on train tracks, sadly @RichardGoring. We need justice for BTTF pt.3 fans - a car that can fit on train tracks! The printed DMC slope from the UCS version won't fit @thomasanderson - the stickered one in the new set is a three wide cheese slope.
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    So let me get this straight Doc, you built a time machine - out of a DeLorean!?! The DeLorean Time Machine has been revealed - or should I say, the 'Time Machine from Back to the Future'. 357 pieces, rated 9+ $27.99 / £22.99 / €27.99 Available January 1st from LEGO More pictures at Brickset!
  25. Murdoch17
    agreed!
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