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My god, I wish I could've built that well at 19. I STILL can't built that well a decade later! Kudos on an awesome shuttle build... especially in such a short time-frame with part constraints!

Thanks @Feuer Zug! I had thought about using those parts, but I already had the others on hand so I didn't use them. Thanks again! Thank you @wolfmanone73! Thanks @Toastie, and that's cool about the museum! Personally, museums tend to be my calm / happy place... especially if it has historic vehicles!

"This is the police! Come out with your hands up, we have you surrounded! Surrender now, or we are going to use force!" These two identical models were heavily inspired by a Checker Taxicab build I found on Rebrickable by user Labronco Brick Designs. (This builder had reverse engineered the taxi from the LEGO City Undercover video game) I changed the model around a lot to create a '50s police car. This car isn't based on anything too specific (but apparently there WERE Checker police cars in Springfield, Michigan at one time!), but it does get the general "look" of the stereotypical 1950s police car correct, from the single red 'gumball' light on top to the streamlined styling. You can see the original builder's model (alongside a whole bunch of other cool cars from the video game) and their accompanying free instructions here. The rear of the car with the stylized taillights and non-functional trunk latch. Each vehicle seats two: an officer upfront, and a suspect behind. That's all I have for these models, and thoughts / comments / questions / feedback in general would be appreciated!

Will do! I'll probably make a thread for it as well.

My UP house is coming soon too, and I've already built a back half for it based on this film accurate design from Rebrickable. Also, I would kill for a 'Spirit of Adventure' zeppelin from UP or Capt. Hook's pirate ship from the original animated Peter Pan film.

Blue rails are from 4.5 era only. Also, Eurobricks doesn't host pictures, (That's why the limit is so tiny) so you might want to find another hosting site for the pictures and then insert them here via links and embedded images.

Check out this thread for some tidbits of inter-connected lore info.

The yellow motor looks like the '70's windup motor with train wheels added on.

Thanks @The Brick Boss! Lego Island FTW! Thank you! I plan on actually using Ronny with Pepper's head and a white hat, as I already have the Ronny but I still need a proper Pepper head for him. The Brickster will also be updated like that, but torso and pants are undecided at this point. I can't wait to see what you do with the pizza truck @TeriXeri!

Here is the NYC-style modular building I designed for my dad's modular building collection, but I might end of building it myself if he doesn't want it. For the building I was partially inspired by half of set 76108, Sanctum Sanctorum Showdown. The delivery truck was heavily inspired by this build by @hachiroku of the classic Pixar vehicle Easter Egg. The pizza parlor is a front for a gang of nogoodniks who are led by the Brickster (who else?) from the LEGO Island theme. Chef Enzo (from the Hidden Side theme) runs the pizzeria as part of the front, although he secretly has been sending the police info on the Brickster's operations as undercover operative "Deep Dish". Pepper Roni (from the 2002 LEGO Island sets) is going to be the pizza delivery dude who eventually foils the Brickster's plot, as usual. The chimney on the rear of the building *looks* like it goes up in one piece, but it separates at the floors and actually isn't connected at all to the other levels. On the roof is a water tank, while on the ground floor is a window AC unit and back door. First floor: standard pizza restaurant fare, with menu piece on the wall, wood fired oven and cash register, plus four tables with at least two chairs each. The sign out front would have two pizza-box tiles for use as a "neon" sign. I also used a ramp to the front door because of ingredient deliveries and for wheelchair bound customers. Second floor gets a lot more... interesting, shall we say? Filing cabinets for records of "enterprises" of all kinds, a big ol' desk with a reclining chair and two smaller chairs for potential "clients". The gas heater / stove is for if the police raid the place... you get the idea on why! Third floor with the Brickster's home. A rabbit-eared television, a money-counting desk, bed, and safe for holding said dough are all up here. This model of the iconic Pixar Easter egg, better known as the Pizza Planet delivery truck. I changed around the rear camper section to be more stable, added a different 'rocket pod' to the roof, and placed printed placards on the side of the doors. Also, LEGO Island's famous delivery dude will be driving this vehicle when it's built in real life. Yep, you read that right: Pepper Roni has got his drivers license! The model seats one figure and the center section of the roof comes off to place a fig at the wheel. NOTES: I plan on building at least the truck with Pepper Roni. (Already found a bunch of parts for it from my collection) If the building gets built or not in real bricks remains to be seen. ...Thoughts?

@Grand Admiral Thrawn Pictures have to uploaded elsewhere (Flickr, or Brickshelf or many other options.) and linked into your post. The upload space you have on Eurobricks is for things like avatars and such, and that's why it's so small (It's not meant for actual photos) I believe there are tutorials somewhere about doing all this, but I can't recall where here on EB. Sorry I'm not more help.

LSD must be popular in Billund! The videos / presumed sets are so odd, it must have come from an acid trip. ...But I guess hallucinations are a kind of dream, so it fits.

Hagrid was at the station at the end of Philosopher's Stone, which (fun fact) was actually the first sequence filmed of the entire series.

I realized the track spacing issues when the model made it to the voting period. I also remember seeing the other issues with clearance and thinking "If the got that simple bit wrong, what ELSE did they get wrong?" I was very vocal on Facebook when people were asking if it was a good idea to get it. (I told them no, it's not worth it) I guess this proves my point this set is just for display and worthless for everything else but a parts pack, and even then should have been gone over more thoroughly by it's designer for flaws, as Lego sure as heck didn't! (In a similar fashion, the Modular LEGO Store model from the same Designer Program isn't even to scale with mini-figs, and thus incompatible with the official line it's emulating! But that's off topic...)

"In the summertime, when the weather is high You can stretch right up and touch the sky..." Sorry, had to get that song by 'Mungo Jerry' outta my system... Anyway, this is a fantastic MOC! Keep up the good work @evancelt!

Agreed 100% on everything you said, and I think I've seen the Ukrainian monuments project on Flickr... it's very cool, and a good way to immortalize in LEGO what has sadly been lost in the real world. On another note, I will also mention @SavaTheAggie is the one who designed that T1 model and made instructions for them to sell to raise money for the project, in case you weren't aware. He is certainly an awesome train builder!

Looks very good! However, the flag needs crossed bananas, not bones.

What does a railroad do with a tired, worn out (yet historic) steam loco from an earlier timeframe, when scrap prices are too low to make it worthwhile to destroy right away? Why, send it to some lineside municipality looking to fill out a park and get a tax write-off to boot! Such was the fate of a lot of older locomotives in the early 1900's, 20's, and 30's. (The 4-4-0 Texas of the The Great Locomotive Chase fame comes to mind in this regard.) Sadly, a lot of World War II scrap drives drove towns and cities to destroy historic engines and other pieces of our shared industrial heritage, causing irreplaceable pieces to be destroyed and untold damage to be done to others. In the decades following the 1940's, many engines were also destroyed by Mother Nature - left to rot in public parks until they were beyond saving and the cutting torch was brought in to put them out of their misery. Thankfully, not all was lost in these dark times! A lot were pulled from their pedestal and refurbished cosmetically, with shelters erected around them. Some very lucky few were even restored to working order for a new generation to enjoy the sights, sounds, ands smells of a living steam loco and a long-passed way of life. Now, onto the LEGO model itself. This modular-compatible plinth was born out of a idea to show off a western loco in a modern LUG layout without it looking odd. The locomotive portion of the model was heavily inspired by the famous C.P. Huntington 4-2-4T steam loco originally owned by the Central Pacific, which was at one point on a plinth very similar to this one. Thoughts? EDIT 7/19/23: Added new pictures, as I made the model modular-building compatible. Original pictures in spoiler:

These look fantastic! Keep up the good work!

I started seeing how far I could go with a project I never finished: an oil well and a nodding donkey-type oil pumpjack. I put the two raised baseplates that are to be used for the project together, and added bracing to the inside. But, there is an issue: the walls nearest to the other baseplate are molded with a slope / slant, which means there will be a very noticeable gap between the two. I've check both, and they are identical in this way, so it was designed like this by LEGO for some unknown reason. I wonder why they did that...

I find no faults with this model or suggestions I can make to better it. In essence, I agree with what @Modeltrainman said:

No, they have not made US stadiums.

Who was that masked man? ...we will never know now! I'm reminded of Judge Doom from "Who Framed Roger Rabbit". He wasn't what he appeared to be, and we never find out who he really was, same as this guy! Also, what happened to the horse race money and diamond? I guess the bad guys got away with them....

Looks fantastic and 99.9% accurate, but you got the flag wrong as it needs to be plain white one of surrender. (it's the only Confederate flag that mattered in the end anyway... )

YOU SHALL NOT... PASS!!! (sorry for shouting in all caps, but it had to be done.) Fantastic LotR MOC! Now we need a follow up scene from a few minutes later...