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  1. Murdoch17
    @legoturtle If it's branded city, then I believe it goes here in this forum. That's the way it's always been.
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    Nice work! However, LEGO really needs to make that seat piece in white, among a number of other colors.
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    Many, many, many more magnitudes of people died of Covid than in surgery accidents or from other medical malpractice for the same timeframe. This is a undeniable fact, and your argument is comparing apples and oranges. Don't @ me with a response..
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    LEGO is a massive company with parts from all over the world coming together for one set - Kickstarter things aren't like that. The LEGO brick making / printing / instructions machines are running a maximum capacity, day and night non-stop with no room for more unless something is removed from the lineup. They makes these special sets several months in advance of them shipping when they can schedule it in, while Lego sets proper are 6+ months ahead. of street date. They only make as much as needed for BL sets (no more - no less), while LEGO sets are a different story altogether.
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    I am fairly confident what I said is what has happened with past programs. I remember reading in years past that people have had packages lost and then then never receiving the sets because LEGO had no more to send.
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    They probably aren't gonna touch that... too soon to the last plague (Covid-19). It might be considered in bad taste or something...
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    Agreed with what @Space Coyote said. Also, the placement of the occupied nest and Mike with empty cooking pot makes it look like he's gonna be making scrambled dinosaur eggs!
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    We can agree to disagree, but I'm just gonna point out that the theme is called Winter Village, after all.... wintery buildings with Christmas decorations are kinda the point. It's like TLG doing a modular building one year without an actual building in it. Can you imagine the uproar?
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    They only made as many as were ordered - if yours gets lost, stolen, or damaged, you out of luck.
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    If they do a Mountie, then I want a stereotypical mustache-twirling villain as well. Dudley Do-Right needs to be able to foil Snidely Whiplash's plans, after all!
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    @ivanlan9 Thanks! The reason the end gates are the way they are is so the ferry can connect to the tracks on land and load cars. I couldn't think of a way to get it to work otherwise.
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    Thanks @JHS_NL!
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    Thank you @JHS_NL!
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    If it is true, then they are REALLY scraping the bottom of the barrel...
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    Nice work, love the vintage look and elegant color scheme!
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    I don't think that's how rights work... LEGO has gone after people for less than what you're describing. They recently sued a European company (HA Bricks) that was using LEGO parts and installing ball bearings for train use, won against them and told them to cease operations and give over list of customers or a lot of money would be owed than what they already were forking over. The word 'LEGO' was used without permission, (among other things!) from what I understand. They are very, very, very protective of their bricks, reputation, logo and copywrites. I personally wouldn't touch this if I were you!
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    Nice work @The Reader!
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    I think the lawyers from LEGO would take issue with you using LEGO-branding, LEGOLAND, and their bricks without permission in a video game...
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    Oh, the sweet, sweet irony...
  20. Murdoch17
    Thanks @Feuer Zug! I was also inspired by the Albatross, a former Vicksburg-area railroad ferry from 1907 that was converted to a St. Louis river cruising ship (one of the largest vessels ever on the river) called the Admiral in the late 1930's which then became a casino and then was sadly scrapped in 2011. You can read about the Admiral here on Wikipedia, and view a picture of the Albatross on Flickr here, courtesy of the Herman T. Pott National Inland Waterways Library. (You can loose a few hours perusing through steamboats on that Flickr page!)
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    Thanks @Feuer Zug! The 44-tonners have quite an interesting history for sure.
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    (I was torn between Train Tech and Town forums for this thread, so if it needs moving - don't hesitate to move it, mods!) Recently a Flickr user named elijahleestewart commented on one of my riverboat pictures asking about me making a Ninjago ferry from season 4. I said I already had City set 60119 (Ferry) and was not interested in making another. But this conversation got wheels turning, and about two hours later I came up with this vessel you see here, which was made by tearing apart my original Ferry to revise it. The port / left side of the vessel. From here you can see the ladder to access the bridge. The starboard (or right side). The opening gates no longer fold down (as in the original set 60119), but they do split apart to allow train cars to be loaded two at a time. You can load two of the bigger cars (24 or 28 studs long), three 16-long cars, or a single 34 stud long depressed center car on this ferry or you can mix and match. (The last 34 stud long car type is too long to have two of it's kind on there, but it can fit one 34 long and another of anything shorter than that such as a 16, 24 or 28.) The roof section of the bridge is removable to place figures at the controls. Another source of inspiration was the Albatross, a former Vicksburg-area railroad ferry from 1907 that was converted to a St. Louis river cruising ship (one of the largest vessels ever on the river) called the Admiral in the late 1930's which then became a casino and then was sadly scrapped in 2011. You can read about the Admiral here on Wikipedia, and view a picture of the Albatross on Flickr here, courtesy of the Herman T. Pott National Inland Waterways Library. (You can loose a few hours perusing through steamboats on that Flickr page!) ...That's all I got. Thoughts, comments, opinions, and questions welcome!
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    Thanks @zephyr1934! Glad I could help @Ropefish! Thank you @Darkkostas25!
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    This 7-stud wide diesel is modeled after the General Electric (GE) 44 ton switcher locomotive made between 1940 and 1956. The little diesel is bi-directional, and doesn't have much to differentiate between the "front" or "rear" expect for the air horn on one end in real life. My LEGO model lacks these, so it is totally symmetrical. You may be asking yourself: 'Why 44 tons, what's so special about that number?' I give you the answer from the Wikipedia article on this loco type: "This locomotive's specific 44-short ton weight was directly related to one of the efficiencies the new diesel locomotives offered compared to their steam counterparts: reduced labor intensity. In the late 1930s, the steam to diesel transition was in its infancy in North America, and railroad unions were trying to protect the locomotive fireman jobs that were redundant with diesel units. One measure taken to this end was the 1937 so-called '90,000 Pound Rule' : a stipulation that locomotives weighing 90,000 pounds (41,000 kg) – 45 short tons – or more required a fireman in addition to an engineer on common carrier railroads. (Industrial and military railroads had no such stipulation.) The 44-ton locomotive was born to skirt this requirement. The 45-ton rule was eventually repealed in 1963." Side view of the loco showcasing the symmetry of the model. In-universe, This diesel is painted as Brick Railway Systems loco 97 in a throwback black / red paint scheme to celebrate the railroad's 130th anniversary in 2024. (In reality, it's my fictional railroad I made up when I was a fourth grader, which is having it's 20th anniversary this year, so I've been feeling a bit nostalgic recently.) Thoughts?
  25. Murdoch17
    Agreed 100%!
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