Mr Hobbles

Aww, as a City fan I was almost quite happy to hear this as I assume LEGO would then focus their efforts on City, Castle, Space etc! Unfortunately I fell for it hehe. :-$ Ah well, 2007 looks to be a good year anyway. :-D

Anyone? I'm in love with this plane... :-$

I really really like the Metroliner, if only I could find it somewhere with a decent price. I myself bought 4512 World City Cargo Train today from Bricklink for

It looks like two of the new Fire Station's with a ton of white window frames and other parts, very nice. As said it looks almost the size of an actual fire station.

This looks promising, but am I right in thinking that those buildings are minifig scale rather than miniland scale? The first set of pictures look like they have minifigs rather than miniland figures.

Hey there! Welcome! Another townie, I see you found your way to town forums. Have a great time here Nathan

At the moment it's definently construction, purely for the big crane. It's gigantic. However if there was a "Civilian" theme it would be that because of Cafe Corner.

I'm looking for 4032 Promotional Plane, specifically the SAS Snowflake version. Does anyone have it? Doesn't necessarilly need to be boxed, but complete with instructions and the Snowflake stickers... Cheers :-)

Usually I write my messages on my Acer TravelMate C302XMi Tablet PC. Other times I use my PowerBook G4 15 Inch. When I'm in university I use their iMac's.

I received mine this morning. I have to say it's the LEGO set I've been waiting for since I was young! I always hoped LEGO would release something like this. The whole building is very well made. Before my set arrived, I was wondering how the 45 degree corner was done as I'd played around in MLCAD and couldn't get it to fit without pushing the outside walls away. However now that I've built it, it's really quite simple. The containing walls where they touch the corner are actually either round or log cabin pieces. I really like the way the hotel sign is made. It's fairly normal up until you get to the E and then they use a SNOT technique. The only bad point is the tediousness of placing all the tiles for the CAFE part of the pavement. 1x1 tiles never sit exactly square and if you don't take your time it ends up looking like a dogs dinner. But that's the price to pay for such a high level of detail. Also when you're building it, make sure you're on a flat hard surface rather than a carpet. If you aren't, then when you build each level it won't sit exactly flat ontop of the floor below.

That's brilliant! Looks like it was filmed at Legoland Windsor. The ambulance was cool in the first video, but the car and tank were just really quite rubbish. :-D

I don't think so...I have been thinking about LEGO a lot before I fall asleep, generally what projects I can make. I don't think this really counts as dreaming though...

This morning I received my S@H order: 7905 Building Crane 7890 Ambulance 10182 Cafe Corner I also ordered 7242 Street Sweeper, but it's backordered until April 4th. :-( A friend of mine also persuaded me to buy 7237 Police Station from Toys R Us when we were looking for a present for her sister... The ambulance is really cool, and Cafe Corner is only like the best set EVAR. *y* The Building Crane is really impressive too, and much more robust than I was expecting. I love the Portacabin and Portaloo. Awesome. :-D The police station is ok...the van and motorbike are cool. It's generally a great horde of pieces for your own projects in my opinion.

Got 7942 Fire Pickup from Tesco today...was gonna buy 7237 Police Station but Toys R Us was closed and Tesco didn't have it. Also bought three Stanley organiser cases...big stonking carry cases with 16 organiser slots each. Gonna use them to keep my bricks in.

Boths MOC's are really nice! The amount of inspiration that Cafe Corner is giving out is outstanding. I really like the interior detail in there. *y* :-D

Oops pardon the typo. :-P Yeah it's quite easy to confuse, especially if you're purely using the FX moniker. :-)

If I'm not mistaken it's the Quatro's are the ones made for CAD applications...FX cards are about four generations old now, superceded by the 6800's, 7800's, and now 8800's... Regardless though I'm surprised this card cant run it considering it's age, I run LDD2.0 on a laptop with a 1.6Ghz processor, 512MB RAM and Intel integrated graphics and it's very smooth. I would think there's something wrong with your setup that's causing it to run like that...? :-/

I cannot wait. Seriously. I want the train station, the fuel station, the dump truck with trailer, the refuse collector truck, and the cement mixer truck. The port would be nice to have too but it doesn't have a place in my town plans as of late. Oh man I'm gonna be soo broke. :'-(

Never played it personally, but a friend of mine bought the first one today at GAME (2 for

Three years of guesting?! I only guested for a day or two! Some patience! Anyway, welcome!

Third year uni student here, in the UK too, what are y'all studying? :-) I'm personally studying Web Design & Development and a Cisco CCNA. I know the feeling about cash to buy LEGO with. :-( I remember the Aquaraiders, I had a few of those sets before my "dark ages". Had a big yellow sub and a couple of the smaller sets. Personally I've moved onto the town city sets now... Anyway, welcome to Eurobricks. It's a really nice community. :-P Nathan

I didn't dislike the second one, in fact I thought it was quite good. Just not as good as the first. I'm deliberately trying to avoid the trailers for the third so I'll be nicely surprised. :-P

Ok, cheers guys. Some good tips I'll use in the future. Thanks. :-)

Currently I'm working on a Lego City Bank on the same baseplate style as Cafe Corner, with tiles for the sidewalk and modular features. I'm planning it in MLCAD before I build it. It's loosely based of a picture I found on the internet of a building (A bank?) on Fifth Avenue in New York. I've only currently got as far as the first floor, but it's coming on methinks. http://www.brickshelf.com/cgi-bin/gallery.cgi?f=242301 (Public now)

I personally think it looks fine, it doesn't look too large and the details seem ok. Although I must agree about the huge black base curtain piece, it's a bit...rubbish... There used to be a blue and white Technik hovercraft back in the day which had curtains which could be made just about any way you want. Why did LEGO abandon those pieces? :-(