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Nice job! My first thought when I saw it was nostalgia for technic Racers sets from the early 2000's, due to that yellow shock absorber and all those red liftarms. I think building with parts you had on hand lent it a nice Lego-y feel which I personally like. Also, I agree with you that the proportions came out really well.

I hate to come in with a suggestion after you're pretty much finished, but maybe some different transparent colors could add that futuristic touch? As it is, it looks great. My thoughts when I saw the pictures were that it is sleek and modern, and looks like fun to ride around a town. I agree with the other commenters that the steering mechanism is really interesting and stands out. I also really enjoy the shape made with those angled panels on the back. Thanks for sharing your creation and your design process!

I'm not enough of a technic guy to critique the mechanical functions, but I enjoy the look of this! Well done! It's really nice to see some of the parts from the Sian being used "in the wild". The forked-tongue fork and cobra hood are both funny and very cool looking to me . I also really enjoyed reading your building and design process! I liked your drawing with the longer pink tongue, but I'm not sure how that could have been done well in a physical build.

This creation is really well-designed and stands out, ExeSandbox. I want to add that I'm from Oregon and when I first looked at this creation, I felt totally at home. It looks like a place where I would want to be. I don't know if there's a proper architectural word for it, but I feel that the design of the house really captures a certain American style of domestic architecture perfectly. I also think the work you did on the lighting and rendering is really special and adds a lot to the good feelings I get when looking at it. The plain back yard is good! Looking at the back, I especially appreciate the windows at ground level---that's a very authentic detail. One thing I'm not sure I like is the fact that the tree roots are all oriented the exact same way. Kind of breaks the realism in my opinion.

I like the look of this, Ransom Fern! Sleek design and good photography and video production. Looks sturdy too (maybe with the exception of the wingtips on the horizontal stabilizer), so hopefully some kids who get the set can see your video and have fun with it!

I'm not an expert on this issue, but another color to look out for is yellow. New yellow is often slightly translucent and can look a bit ugly when mixed with classic yellow in my opinion. Maybe keep those separate. As a buyer, I wouldn't be bothered by minor mold variants, but I can't speak for everyone.

Case in point: I had totally forgotten that Life of George was a thing that existed.

My thought is build it in stud.io following the instructions and upload to Bricklink. I'm not sure where you could share the inventory since you are not the designer.

So beautiful! Thank you for sharing this. My favorite detail I see so far is the technique for those arched windows on the front.

I really like looking at this, Mesabi! It's a very imaginative design. I basically understood what I was looking at from the picture, but your explanations of the backstory do help make it even more immersive. I like the decorations too. The bacon flag and TNT pieces work for me. The Shell logo though... I really have to use my imagination for that to not be just a Shell logo. Probably my fault.

That looks cool, Brick New World! Maybe it could be contemporary art in your town layout! (just joking)

Thanks for making the jaw move! I really enjoyed that.

This is a great tribute to my favorite Lego theme! Really appreciate the Adventurers love. I know how much something like this would have interested me as a kid because I built lots of ruins for Johnny Thunder to explore myself, and this is kind of how they looked in my mind, haha. I think the curving shape with the river and bridge both at an angle is my favorite thing about this design. The river is a nice callback to the days of raised baseplates, but somehow putting the bridge at angle makes it more immersive when I look at it than those old sets.

Thank you for sharing this, kris kelvin. This is a very immersive build to look at! I can imagine feeling at peace in a place like that, or maybe some excitement if I were to track down the answer to a mystery in one of those books. The L-design keeps the interior from feeling cramped and I think really helps with that immersion. Great design choice!

I'm not very familiar with F1, but I enjoy that color scheme! I also appreciate the relatively compact size. Thanks for showing it off :)

I like the way it looks, and it appears sturdy, which is of utmost importance when playing with the younger Lego fans! Thank you for sharing :)

I think this is a perfect combination of old and new Lego elements, which is one of my favorite things to see! The color scheme looks great, and I like how the angles of the windscreen were used in the whole design. We would love to see more :)

Thanks for sharing, CDM! I really enjoy the way this mod looks. Seeing it reminded me of the Spokane, Portland, and Seattle 700, which I have seen at the Oregon Rail Heritage Center in Portland.

I cast my final vote for Pirates! I kind of suspect Pirates won't win, but it is my favorite of the remaining themes and was my favorite as a kid, so it felt like the authentic choice.

Hi B1z! It's great to see another Eurobricks member in the Northwest---I'm from Oregon. We would love to see some of your creations.

@Aanchir, thank you for enlightening me! I haven't closely followed Ninjago since the first year, to be honest... My original point was that Lego's shift to conflict within sets makes the return of the peaceful Indians subtheme extremely unlikely in a play theme. A secondary point is that the return of Western in any form as also unlikely, for several reasons. You could be right that the violence would not be much of a problem for modern Lego. I definitely see the trend of more monsters, magic, and spooky stuff in a lot of kids' media nowadays, so I think you are absolutely right that a broad section of today's kids want that. And whatever the reason, I see the same trend towards fantasy antagonists in Lego products, which to me is a strike against the return of Western.

Good point! Creator is another exception. I think most of what I said in my post is at least applicable to Lego's recent original play themes for boys. It would be great if Lego tried to do Western or any other historic theme as a product line marketed toward girls and boys... But for that they would really have to change their strategy.

That's why I said could be more problematic . Based on Lego's products over the last thirty years or so, for it to be an entire play theme marketed to boys, conflict would be featured. And for the last twenty years, Lego has strongly tended to portray conflict between humans and monsters. It's hard to say what forms of violence Lego finds acceptable since they aren't consistent about it. A few points to consider, though: First, the weaponry would be more modern and destructive than knight or pirate weapons. Second, soldiers would probably be cut because, as I said, their primary role in the West in the late 19th century was to fight Indians. Third, as America tries to deal with its past, some might decry any depiction of the 19th century West as inappropriate for a toy line. Many consider the pioneers to be complicit in genocide. Overall, I think that based on Lego's recent history, realistic historical themes without fantasy elements are very unlikely to happen for a number of reasons, of which violence is only one. Personally, I interpret the most recent very short-lived reboots of Pirates and Castle as Lego testing the waters to see whether there is really as much demand for those themes as the AFOLs say there is. Based on how small those themes were, I'm guessing the demand wasn't there. Shane is a great movie, but it's from the 50's. Given how much Lego loves police sets, I think you're right that sheriff vs. cattle rustlers/stagecoach robbers is the mostly likely form for a non-licensed Western theme. I certainly hope we get one some day! That's amazing! I need to read that book. I also see people online say that Star Wars saved Lego, which apparently isn't true.

Great creations, sander1992! I think my favorite one is the combo model in the last picture; such a unique shape. Do you have a backstory in your mind for Blacktron? Are they criminals, a military faction, good guys, something else?

I would love to see a Western theme with non-violent sets. The problem is, Lego doesn't do any of their original themes that way anymore except City. In the old days, Lego themes (Space, Castle, Pirates) featured multiple different factions of humans, but many sets only had one faction represented in each set. That way, each individual product could be in alignment with Lego's no-violence founding principles; the fighting would only start if a child combined two sets. Multiple factions in one box became more common in the 90's (Pirates, Cowboys/Soldiers/Bandits), but they still used the technique of one faction per set for the Indians subtheme. Of course, I'm quite sure that all the way back to the 80's, most kids who had both would make their Blacktrons fight their Classic Space guys. And nowadays, Lego acknowledges that kids want to make their minifigs fight each other. in this 2009 New York Times article, a Lego spokesperson says, “we think kids really want to have this good-against-evil play; they want this fighting against each other.” This is why every recent original Lego theme features two conflicting factions in every set and at least one faction is nearly always non-human. The only recent examples of original Lego themes with human vs. human conflict-in-a-box I can think of are Ultra Agents, Kingdoms, and the Castle and Pirates reboots. Of course, Lego is very hypocritical about all of this and features plenty of human vs. human violence in their licensed themes, but my point is this: I believe, based on the way Lego currently does their original themes, that if Lego brings back Western as a play theme there will be conflict in every set, and Indians will not appear. Personally, I don't think Lego has any plans to do Western again any time soon, and I believe that is why it didn't appear in the poll. That is speculation of course, but I think Western has a lot of things going against it. It would feature human vs. human violence that could be more problematic than that of Castle or Pirates. It could be decried for racist depictions if Indians did appear, and could be decried for erasure if Indians didn't appear. The soldiers would probably have to go too, when you stop to consider why the soldiers are stationed in the West in the first place; post-civil war, the US Army was mostly in the West to confine Indians to the reservations. And Western probably has very limited appeal to kids. I've wished for years to see realistic depictions of many historical eras in original Lego themes, like 19th century America, early modern Europe, or the Ancient world. We haven't gotten coverage of any of these outside of Collectible Minifigs any time recently, and I won't be surprised if we never do. None of these themes would have universal appeal, they could be too boring for kids if there were only peaceful sets, and the violence might be a problem for Lego if conflict were included. Human vs. monster fantasy themes just seem to work better for Lego these days. I agree that it seems odd to have all this hullabaloo over one set. A line of anniversary sets would be great! Do you know of a source for that 40% number? I often see it said online that Bionicle saved the Lego Group and I've been trying to track down whether that's really true or not.