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    I'm not holding my breath on any of the ones mentioned either. I was being a little silly, trying to imply how little is left of space to redo... sorry it didn't come across right!
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    Paging @Mister Phes.... can you help him out please? I'm unsure how to proceed, so I figured involving a mod would be wise.
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    @hikouki Add to that list of things they've done: Galaxy Squad insectoid Ice Planet 2002 Alien Conquest Space Police III (aliens as well as officers) I'm still waiting for UFO / Insectoid aliens, Life on Mars figs of any kind, and remixes of Biff and Sandy Astrobot! Also, where's my FACTORY space figs? I've wanted some printed Space Skulls torsos for over 15 years!
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    So I was thinking about taking the new Harry Potter ship (set 76440 minus stickers and banner flags) and changing some colors around and adding two deck cannons - if possible - for a Spanish treasure ship. I'm thinking about turning the dark red and medium blue to regular red, and the gold to black. (with some parts substitutions where needed) I may even add another small center section someday, if I can. A ton of gold 2x2 bricks will be going below decks in the hold as well. The issue is, I can't picture if this will look good or not. I just can't picture the color changes in my minds eye. Thoughts on this color swap? Full disclosure: this is going on an Adventures build as a ship-out-of-time thing, located near Dino Island. You can read the whole page-long story on Flickr here.
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    It looks interesting from what I can see of it, but you really need to host photos elsewhere, as Eurobricks isn't meant to host them. Post pics at Flickr, or Bricksafe (or other photo hosting sites), then you can then deeplink them into your post here on Eurobricks. I can't wait to see it fully once you post more photos @KolonialbeamterdeMartinez!
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    I have two engineers in my family (one built his own benchwork for their model railroad, the other builds shelving / and boxes out of wood for their Lego. Both were overengineered and will out last me!), and they both warned me about those not working forever. You do you, though @Berthil....
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    wall mounted "Floating shelves" are one of the ones I would avoid, for example. Anything not supported properly / screwed into the wall with underside supports is a recipe for disaster... unless you get a bookshelf. This avoids wall mounted shelves altogether!
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    @Juide_Sock I would be careful putting heavy Lego modulars on wall shelves, to be honest. Unless you REALLY secure it into the wall and use heavy duty shelves, it won't work. I've seen too many aftermath videos of such shelving collapsing and the carnage that comes afterward. Doing something like what @Yoggington has done is probably the safest bet - the top of a small freestanding bookcase or something like that.
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    Thank you for the good advice @Ropefish. I'll try to keep that in mind for the future!
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    Thank you @Lion King!
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    Yeah, a modular church isn't gonna happen for the reasons @Lyichir stated. We have as much chance of a church as getting a modular morgue. (which is zero)
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    We're all living in the Matrix / a simulation and nothing is real. (either that or we're brains in vats, dreaming of a life) It could also be everyone and everything is a figment of my twisted imagination... even myself. Because I think therefore I am.
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    That's the new 3x3 variety, not 2x2. I'd say it's actually more useful than the old 2x2 for trains, to be honest... Here is an example I've been working on of using them for a observation car.
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    In 2003 I got World City set 10027 (Train Engine Shed) and played with it for number of years, but it was sadly destroyed sometime around 2007 in an attempt to make it totally enclosed - this was because I didn't have the skills or the parts. (I also didn't know about Bricklink at the time) Then in 2014 I made it again, but this time it was far too large (96 studs long and 32 wide) and unwieldly when moving it - which lead to that MOC being scrapped in mid-2016. These two abortive attempts to modify the set were recently on my mind, so I decided another run through of the set was in order - with slightly-expanded length and enlarged entrances to allow for bigger modern locomotives (such as my steamers) to pass through, but yet small enough to not be a burden when transporting. (The total shed length is capped at 80 studs, and will not be extended.) The outside of the shed. I replaced the original expensive black sliding doors from the set with a brick built version. You may have noticed it's not a fully enclosed building: I didn't complete this MOC because at Gateway LUG shows in the past, I've gotten public comments about not being able to see inside my train sheds. So it's half a shed - but fret not! Unlike the original set, this model is modular and two copies of my MOC could click together using technic pins at both ends if I ever wanted to build another one. The five roof sections are removable, with the middle portion being the extension to the original set. Some of the tools of the shed (L to R): foreground: drill press Lathe big oilcan Octan 55-gallon oil drum (not shown here) Vise (not shown in this pic) background: lug wrench small oilcan socket wrench drill various wrenches The repair shed crew. The shed with my 7-studs wide yellow 4-8-4 loco in it in an atmospheric B&W shot for that old fashioned feel. I even wrote a story for it: 'It's mid-August 1944, and World War II is raging on multiple fronts across the globe. American trains run coast-to-coast nonstop, taking men and material all over the country to be shipped everywhere you can imagine to stop the Axis powers and win the war. The railroads are at their absolute peak during this conflict - never before have they moved so much so quickly. Still, regular maintenance must be done, even during the austerity conditions of war. Steam locomotives especially need servicing every once in a while, and here we see Brick Railway Systems 4-8-4 number 5086 just arrived for a light overhaul and tune-up. The staff of the servicing facility pause in their duties for the government photographer, get the publicity picture taken, and then get back to the grimy, greasy, dirty work of railroading. 'Keep 'Em Rolling to Victory' say the government posters - and this is exactly what this crew intends to do!' Thoughts?
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    Thanks @LEGO Train 12 Volts and @Shiva!
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    Samurai Jack in LEGO.... now THAT is cool! As for Dexter, I prefer the Dexter from Dexter's Laboratory.... but to each their own!
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    Thanks for stopping by @Darkkostas25! Agreed about LEGO City Undercover. Also, the guy I linked to in the main post has a ton of free instructions of cars from the game. Thanks @Feuer Zug!
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    I was fiddling around with an old car MOC found on Rebrickable (based on a vehicle from the LEGO City Undercover game), seeing what colors I could make it into when I discovered dark tan was possible. Me being me, I then turned the car into a rail mobile because I thought it would look cool on my railroad. Thus, it became Track Inspection Vehicle No. 4. It may sound odd, but during the 1970s, railroads in the US were cash-strapped, worn out and over-regulated - they were looking for cheap, quick fixes in every way in order to stay afloat, and this was a way to save a few bucks. If you are wondering why I chose this color - it is meant to be a dirty, ugly, strange color as the railroad isn't trying to impress anyone with this vehicle... and this kind of dark tan actually was a popular color in the 1970s! The rear of the vehicle. The car's roof comes off so one figure can sit at the wheel and the trunk opens. Thoughts?
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    Thanks for the comment @Feuer Zug, but I don't know about them cartoonish - shorty coaches exist in the real world too, even in the USA.... Thanks @Shiva! Thank you @JopieK. I agree about the old trains - they have a certain timeless charm, as does the early 9v stuff. Also, that BR Class 08 shunter originally came from here on EB's Train Tech - it was made ~2009 by @Chromeknight and I subsequently recolored / modified it into what you see there.
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    Originally, me and my dad made me a train way back in the early 2000's as my first train MOC. (you can see it as the last photo of this post) At my request, he got rid the bright colors of the original 1980's train sets it was inspired by with more subdued tones. The black and red are what became the standard color scheme for my fledgling railway for a good many years. And now, two decades later in 2024, I'm updating this original train again. This time, I've Americanized them. Before they were more European looking, with a baggage car at the rear - now, they will have an observation car with a platform at the back and the baggage car added to the front of the train instead. I also added a updated 4-6-2 steam loco with a 7-wide cab and tender inspired by the works of @SavaTheAggie. I really liked the cab and tender from from the 2-6-2 steam loco I recently built (which was originally a Sava design) so I decided to make another engine that uses them too. I took a 4-6-0 frame (originally from the 2023 Hogwarts Express loco) model, stretched it out a bit and added the 7-wide cab to make it a 4-6-2 Pacific (the 2-6-2's tender design was stretched out quite a bit too!). I also put on a bucket as a funnel like in the Orient Express LEGO set. Rear of the loco, with the stretched tender design mostly taken from a few Sava models. (his 2-6-2 for the basic look, and his 4-6-0 for the stripes) BRS stands for Brick Railway Systems, which has been my railway for twenty years. This anniversary prompted me to make this revised MOC. Inside of the cab, which has also been lengthened by a stud since the last time I showed it off. Inspired by set 7722 (steam cargo train set) and the red / yellow guard's van. These three coaches were inspired by the red and blue coaches of set 7715. (Push along passenger train) The observation car is my own design. ...and here is what it all looked like originally. (picture circa 2017) The diesel at bottom left is long scrapped, but the original 0-4-0 steamer survives to this day. This tiny loco was inspired by set 7722 (steam cargo train set) while the steam engine's tender was inspired by 3742 (My Own Train series) from 2001. Thoughts?
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    It came out in reddish brown in 2014 in a TLM set, just so you know.
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    Fantastic MOC! It's funny, though, because I once read that said both Tolkien and C.S. Lewis (writer of the Chronicles of Narnia books) knew each other very well and attended a viewing of Snow White together in 1937. They were absolutely appalled at the dwarves in the film - among other things, they considered them too cartoony and not serious enough. This new take on the story might just be what they were hoping for instead!
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    Agree to disagree on that...
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    What you are describing is basically every year of city since it began in 2005: Almost every year has waves that don't really make sense together (2014 Arctic meshing with 2014 Forest police or 2019 Sky police meshing with ANYTHING) and all waves have outlier sets that don't go with anything, but are cool regardless. (2020's Mail plane comes to mind here) So it's not a mess, it's just the nature of the theme.... and one could argue cities in the real world are a "mess" too, by your own definition. They are hodge-podges of different cultures, various eras of buildings, and disparate ideas blending together into one cohesive mass of a city. No two are alike, just like our LEGO cities.
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    I'm gonna say this once: Disney TV show sets in minifigure scale - Gargoyles, TailSpin (my personal fav), Darkwing Duck, DuckTales, Chip 'n Dale: Rescue Rangers (we NEED more than a Brickheadz!), Goof Troop, Bonkers, House of Mouse, and all the rest of the shows from the 90's / early 2000's - would sell like hotcakes. 90's kids are adults entering / in the middle of their 20s / 30's, and have disposable incomes. It's like leaving money on the table! (House of Mouse would be an easy way to get us figs we'd never otherwise see outside of CMF's!) ...and I have a personal reason for wanting these shows to exist in LEGO: I need a Baloo and the rest of Higher for Hire crew to go with my Sea Duck MOC. (LEGO doesn't make any bear headpieces in black, strangely, so I've got the Adventurers pilot Harry Cane as a stand-in.)
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