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RE your last sentence: 'Allo, Allo!' is right up at the top of the greatest of British comedy along with Monty Python's Flying Circus and Blackadder (along with a few others). We now return you to your regularly scheduled madness, confusion, and Luigi's pizzeria jokes. (with some DC set discussion)

Artemis has been revealed, along with the Milky way art set. Brickset has an article about them.

Adventure awaits! Johnny Thunder, Dr. Kilroy, and Pippin Reed are off on another expedition into the unknown! (Main post edited 4/24/24: I changed around the Scorpion Tracker to have it's top down. The car and the newly revised Johnny Thunder, Pippin Reed and Dr. Kilroy are also shown in more pictures in the first post.)

Let me find my jaw, I seem to have dropped it somewhere around here... It's AMAZING! Love the tall pointed roofs of the timbered buildings. Keep up the good work!

Huh! Didn't know that about their being a precedent at Disneyland. (I did know of other cases from way back when, though) So I guess then that 3/4's of my engines are Disneyland inspired? (Let me know when they get a 4-10-0!) Thanks for the info @Feuer Zug!

In mid-2022, I wanted to make a "older" version of the Jurassic World set 76947 - Quetzalcoatlus Plane Ambush for my Adventurers themed models. So, I stuck the nose of set 5935 - Island Hopper onto the plane, completely redid the color scheme, and added floats where the wheels were. Then I forgot about the model for two years... until now, when pictures have finally been taken! Here we see the plane with it's pilot, Pippin Reed. The rear of the plane. The cockpit and cargo area have opening hatches. Thoughts?

Yes, it was that bad. I've read two books that deal with this: "A million little bricks' and The Secret life of LEGO Bricks'. The first one talks at length about how LEGO went wrong, and how they fixed it. The other one talks more about the parts and how it's impossible to do it today, among other things. I also talked to actual people who bought PALLETS of the Legends sets (and Super Chief cars, but that's another story) on deep, deep discount around 2003.

Thank you, I'll try to get it done soon! I also realized I forgot a picture of the rear of the 4-10-0. So I just added it.

Sorry for the double post, but there is a minion named 'Mel' in every set, while 'Tim' is in two sets - both have regular and mega minion forms, so it looks like Mel and Tim get mutated late in the film. ...If the sets are anything near accurate, of course. *glares at Iron Man VS. the Mandarin - Ultimate Showdown*

There is a Conehead minion that comes in set 75581. He must have just come from France.

They did as you suggest once before: LEGO Legends. It failed horribly and they swore 'never again'. Also, older sets have parts and systems (finger hinges anybody?) that no longer exist or are now considered out of system. It isn't gonna happen, sorry.

That made me LOL!

Thank you!

Well, I'm two years late, but here is the loco shed in real bricks! Check out the revised first post for more pictures!

Thanks @JWBDolphins for the kind words! Thank you @Ropefish, I agree on the classic style! Also, Thanks to whoever front paged this thread! It's a great honor!

This long journey started in November 2021 with a used copy of Toy Story 3 set 7597 - Western Train Chase - bought from a local Lego resale shop here in St. Louis. I quickly expanded the loco to have a tender, then working pistons, and finally rolling stock. I was then inspired by the original 1955 engines from Disneyland for a second coal-burning loco, (the C.P. Jupiter and U.P. 119 from the Last Spike Ceremony of 1869 was also an inspiration!) and then awhile later a 4-2-4T styled after the C.P. Huntington. (This became a 2-4-4T last December.) The 4-10-0 was originally 8-wide, and was built before I got the 7597 set in August 2021. I never liked it in eight wide, (I never even photographed it in that form) and when I was taking apart all my eight wide MOCs recently, I took pity on it and converted it into 6 wide to preserve it. Then, I took photos of all the locos... I still haven't finished some of the freight cars, so the rolling stock will be added later. (I promise it won't be three more years!) All rolling stock added 6/1/24! The trains all together, minus the rolling stock. This 4-4-0 pulls my passenger train This was the first engine finished. Rear of loco No. 1. It's styled as a mid-to-late 1860's wood burning loco. You could also say it is likened to the Jupiter and the Gov. Stanford of Central Pacific Railroad fame. The passenger cars were styled after three sources: the one in set 7597 - Western Train Chase, set 10015 - Passenger Wagon, and the Disneyland and Santa Fe 'Retlaw 1' MOC's made by @TJJohn12. This is my coal burning 4-4-0 (numbered 8), and pulls my railroad executive's train. The front of the coal-burning locomotive. This MOC is modeled after a early-to-mid 1870s loco, but it could be considered to partially resemble the Union Pacific 119 from the Last Spike ceremony of 1869. The combination baggage / sleeper car is for my railway executive's train. This car's purpose and paint scheme is actually inspired by a car owned by the (fictional) Wasatch and Nevada Railroad in the 1975 Western / thriller 'Breakheart Pass', based off the novel of the same name by Alistair MacLean. This private car was based off the same source material as the tan sleeper / baggage car, which is the film Breakheart Pass. In the film, the car was named 'Fairchild', after the fictional Nevada Governor played by Richard Crenna in the film. As to why Abraham Lincoln is standing at the back of the car even though he is actually long dead by the 1870's, I have but one answer: because it looks cool to have him there! The 2-4-4 tank engine I'm using as a switcher, and is seen here moving a cut of freight cars. In my fictional backstory I wrote, loco No. 4 was originally a 0-4-4 Forney loco that soon needed a leading two wheel pony truck to operate better at speed and keep wear down on the front set of driving wheels. Of course, in reality, it was first built as a 4-2-4T like the C.P. Huntington you can still see in the California State RR Museum, or at you local Zoo / amusement park, as smaller-scale replicas are made by Chance Rides for places like that. This coal-hauling hopper car was modified from 2007 set 10183 - Hobby Trains - specifically, it was alt model 28 - Gondola. The tanker car you see was inspired by part of the 1997 set 2126 - Train Cars. This green boxcar was taken directly from 2011 set 3677 - Red Cargo Train. The caboose was inspired by set 10014 - Caboose - and set 7597 - Western Train Chase. This monster of a steam engine hauls my freight train. This loco (No. 3) is modeled after the only 4-10-0 to ever run on US Rails. This, of course, was the 1883-vintage El Gobernador. (Spanish for "the Governor") The real locomotive was a colossal failure, but this one is (in my fictional backstory) built from the plans with the mistakes corrected, making the loco a good drag-freight engine. The rear of the engine, with it's tender being two studs longer than the others. The cannons on this flat car were inspired by 2013 Lone Ranger set 79106 - Calvary Builder Set. This drop-side gondola was inspired by the one in 2022 set 60336 - Freight Train. This red boxcar was lifted from 2006 set 7898 - Cargo Train Deluxe. The caboose was inspired by set 10014 - Caboose - and set 7597 - Western Train Chase, but done in yellow instead. This loco (No. 5) is a 4-6-0 wood-burning steam loco. The 'look' of the engine was inspired by the Baltimore and Ohio loco 'Thatcher Perkins' from 1863, but with a different, more colorful paint scheme. The rear of the loco, which does not have a train assigned to it... yet. Anyway, that's all I got. Comments, questions, and other things like that are welcome!

I don''t think "nobody cares", it's just that we are probably all waiting for pictures!

He just released a new color for the train wheels, (light bluish gray) so I'd say yes, he is.

@hrdknxbrix LEGO has never approved a modular building on Ideas, and never will. This is because Ideas is for expanding the Lego portfolio of themes (such as Minecraft, Doctor Who, etc.), not previously established and still running lines like modular buildings. Sorry, but it ain't happening.

You are asking me pick a favorite child. I can't...I won't! (It is either Johnny Thunder or Lord Sam Sinister from 2003, to be honest, as Adventurers was my jam back then.)

EDIT: Just saw @Peppermint_M's post from the last page. Per her advice I'm going no further with this.

@Captain Key You're picture is extremely blurry. You might want to post pictures somewhere else (like Flickr or Bricksafe), then deeplink them here. (EB isn't meant to hold photos except for your Avatar.) You can't delete the one you attached either, you'll have to tag @Jim for that. I've already tagged him here, as this is in the wrong sub forum anyway - it should be in town and needs to be moved.

Looks awesome! As for a name, I suggest: 'Transforming Modular Concept - 10305 inspired Castle' ...you can then replace the words after the hyphen with whatever theme you're modeling, such as: 'Transforming Modular Concept - 10027 inspired Locomotive Shed' or 'Transforming Modular Concept - 10228 inspired Victorian Mansion'. (These are just examples I pulled out of the air, but it works regardless!)

You forgot the Carrows! EDIT: Just saw the 1-4 part. Sorry!

The bands are on there. See the third picture from the bottom on Brickset's review.