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    Agreed: It's very post-apoc, and very nice too!
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    Real world photos uploaded to the first post! Sadly, when I gave the train to him I forgot to get pictures of the whole vintage consist together... @samsz_3 Thanks, and I too remember looking at Sava's trains and going: "why can't I build like that?" He was one of the ones who inspired me to start building trains beyond Lego sets. @brummer Cool vintage train, and I'm glad I inspired you to dust if off! (that train is only about half-a-decade younger than me!)
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    The answer is sadly yes, @Lego Mike. Most of the world just experienced increases on a bunch of sets in the last few months, with most of the ones that were bumped up were nearing the end of their production lives - but not all. Brickset has had a series of articles / lists on North American and the UK prices increases... Europe also has had them but I can't find an article, but Asia (for the most part) has not. You seem to have found some of the few sets that have gone up.
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    Sorry for the late reply, but thanks for the compliment! As for Ideas, I don't do upload there, becuase I like having control over my own models future instead of giving it away to Lego. Also, I just updated the first post with a better truck and more content. Here is a comparison between the two: New 8-wide... ...and old 6-wide.
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    Thanks @Bornin1980something! I was starting to wonder about that myself Thanks @Poodabricks! I agree about the color-scheme... it was very Tim Burton / 1989 Gotham City inspired.
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    You had me going there @John Carter! A tip of the hat to you, for bamboozling me. Also, I had to LOL at @Bornin1980something's comment.
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    Considering Ethan already has a figure you can buy off Bricklink, you might not have to sacrifice anybody...
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    Now I wanna see this as a Lego theme / TV show. Imagine: espionage, intrigue and sailing ships with animal motifs! I guess the "Pirates of the Spanish Main" would be the bats, spiders, and etc. from the original theme? Would the ice-bound ones be another country? What about the Phoenix tribe? Would they be islanders? So MANY questions! Now I'm disappointed that all we got was regular-old Chima... I would have much preferred this instead!
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    @Modeltrainman The set you are thinking of came out in 2011 as 7189 - Mill Village Raid. The one being discussed is from 2009 and is set 10193 - Medieval Market Village. No goats are included in that one, but brown cows got started there! As someone who loved the original set for his "vintage town" set in the mid 1800's - early 1900's (along with the 2011 Diagon Alley it went along with so nicely), I'd say I'd love to see what they could do with it, but I wouldn't buy it. I also think the modern bag-sorting system would do wonders for this set! (Dumping all the parts in one box at one time still feels odd, all these years later. I mean, 10194 didn't do that, and that was released in 2009 too!) But I digress...
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    Over two-thirds of parts are in now my possession, with 283 parts found / received, and 99 left to go! Construction has also started on the tender... the model should be finished by Friday the 19th, if all goes according to plan.
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    Three copies are needed @CP5670 - one for each ship: one for 928, one for 924, and one for 918
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    (emphasis my own) XL (11) and LL (10) Wheels that are just one or two sizes bigger than standard Lego ones (#9) work just fine with Lego track, so this statement makes no sense. It's almost as if they're just looking for excuses to not make a regular size, good looking Hogwarts Express. see this handy chart by @supertruper1988 that I borrowed from the train tech forum for what I mean by the sizes / numbers: (big picture alert!)
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    There is a prototype for everything! Push-polls were wooden beams placed between an locomotive and a freight car set on a adjacent parallel track. As the engine moved, it pushed the car along. Woe betide the poor soul who was nearby when it fell out of position, (normal operations allowed for this, as when the engine stopped, the car didn't and the pole fell down as a result of the widening gap.) as getting feet slammed into with a heavy oaken timber 5 inches across and 12 feet long would lose you your foot. Hopefully you wouldn't be nearby when it wouldn't violently splinter while under strain, otherwise you just became swiss cheese. (this wasn't that infrequent, but was NOT normal!) Push pole pockets are the dimples on the corners of period US locomotives and freight cars for use with the poles, an example of which is seen below from Wikipedia: The "Poling" practice started around 1870, and was outlawed around the time steam finally gave up the ghost here in America, so the mid-1960's. So, again "linear shunting" has been done before @Toastie!
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    Maybe it's got semi-rare parts? Or maybe a really popular MOCcer published instructions using some parts from it, and it skyrocketed because they're getting hard to find loose? (Like the red XPOD dishes because of that famous Akira motorcycle MOC)
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    Thanks @Darkkostas25, but I think it looks better without too many fine details.... more toy-like, just like the original My Own Train series from 2001. Side note: Finally! Undeniable PROOF that the Caboose was used on Wild West era passenger trains! Take THAT rivet counters! So my train is actual prototypical after all! (photo not mine, it's from a pre-1894 railroad group on Facebook) The line depicted is the Florence and Cripple Creek RR, sometime between 1893 and 1915. (It's bridges are even drivable after 100+ years.) Incidentally, my paternal grandfather's family lived in Florence, Colorado back in the same timeframe, and could've very easily rode this line!
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    DISCLAIMER: This steam locomotive featured below was heavily inspired by pictures of @SavaTheAggie's 4-4-0 from 2007, visible here. I added a tender inspired by another Sava loco (his 4-6-0, also from 2007) as seen here. I also made the front bogie actually connect to the front of the loco. (before, in the original design it was totally free-floating) I also made a few structural / style tweaks here and there, to make it "my own". My dad is getting this loco for his 65th birthday, as I wanted to make him something he would find relatable to his own collection of 1990's / early 2000's 9v era trains, of which he has most of what was released. This engine is meant to go with a few copies of 10015 - Passenger Wagon, and a single 10014 - Caboose will accompany this engine. The loco isn't motorized however, but it can be by removing the tender's wheels and adding in a 9v motor instead. Sadly, when I gave it to him I forgot to get pictures of the whole train together... this older picture will have to do until I can get a proper one taken. Thoughts?
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    I would love to think this would work, but it would require a literal complete redesign from tracks up, with a ton of parts being not used. (Probably) Nothing recognizable as being from original set would be left by the time you got it done. If you DID manage to pull it off, make instructions for the rest of unwashed masses trying to figure out a good Hall loco.
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    That conductor wasn't part of the Hogwarts Express though, as he didn't know anything about Platform 9 3/4! He was just a regular conductor who happened to be asked a question by Harry, and latter witness the sealing of the archway when Harry & Ron Ran into the (now solid) brick wall.
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    As promised, here is a pic of the XS wheels on the new rail-mobile MOC: I didn't know what to expect with these, so I had to rework it a bit to make them fit.... I ended up shaving a layer of plates off the bottom of the model for it to work. I hope this help somebody who needs this info. On the other end of the size spectrum: supposed #15 (or so) size XXXL wheels are included in the new Hogwarts Express set 76405. Beware: They are all flanged, and so no blind ones are in the set. View them compared to the regular L-size (#9) official drivers in the spoiler tag. (very large picture warning!)
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    At the very least, this new Hogwarts Express might bring down prices on blind driving wheels! (since they comes in packs of two flanged and one blind as they come off the mold) Also, those of you making "Singles" will have a new source for prototypical XXL driving wheels! ...just think how this 4-2-4T would look on YOUR layout!
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    2x8 and 2x10 tiles don't exist, period, although many wish they did! 2x6's only came out this year / late last year, and 2x4's at least a decade ago. The only tiles in trans clear are 1x1, 1x4 (hard to find and expensive in quantity) or 1x2 tiles. 2x2's existed in a couple sets in the 1980's, but those are as rare as hen's teeth. Check out this link for a list of what I'm talking about on Bricklink. Basically, you're gonna need to redesign your model, as what you're looking for doesn't exist. Good luck on your search @JohnsLegos!
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    Why would they do 10 wide?!? I was hoping for the first decent Hogwarts Express engine EVER, but alas, it was not to be. I guess new wheels are something to be excited about, though. (even though they are most likely impossible to use on regular switches / curves, at that size!)
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    "Those dang killer teddy-bears took my leg, I had to fight for insurance since the Rebels destroyed my employer and my pension went up on the Death Star II!" - TK-1138 Awesome MOC!
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    To give CS credit, it was developed in the mid-1970's and was the first mini-figure-scale space theme when released in 1978. SP I & II, Ice Planet Spyrius, Roboforce, Exploriens, and UFO were almost a decade (almost two!) later. So, of course things would change from 1978 to 1997... but I wouldn't say for the better, as the dreaded Junior-ization took effect in most themes by 1998. (see the last gaps of Classic Town) Don't forget: LEGO posted it's first earnings loss in 1998 for fiscal year 1997, the very year UFO and RoboForce came out. (Roboforce was also only ever released in the USA, too) My popular opinion is CS and SP I / II kept LEGO in the black, while Spyrius, Exploriens, Roboforce, and UFO helped drag it into the red due to being so different to what came before - or since. (Ice Planet was ok, because it gave us trans-orange chainsaw memes!)
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    Do you wanna get banned /blacklisted from buying Lego in the store or online that badly? Doing what you suggest is against terms of service, as far as I know!
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