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Got two Toy Story 7594 "Woody's Roundup" sets today for just 19€ each (at the Karstadt at Munich's central station, they still got several sets left) – quite a useful parts pack at that price. And filled a small PaB cup at the Lego store. A pity that it was a few days too early for 10218...

Again, thank you all!

That's a great layout with a nice multi-level use of the available space. Inspires me to rethink my plans for my future Lego room to maybe add another level, too (and not just one train level partially in a tunnel under half of the city)...

Must have been this one.

The round part is usually this one, available in several sets or separately on Bricklink, of course. Put it on a 2x1 inverted slope and some brick or plate on top, and you got your toilet.

Great! Loving all those nice details...

Thanks, again! With containers that big (40 ft models or even longer?), that looks like it will be a substantially larger terminal... another MOC to look forward to. :)

And I feared I'd have to say that to someone. Looking forward to seeing yours...

That's really great! So many details and so good ways of using all those figures...

I don't think I'll build a seafront/harbour. There'll be a passenger station (with long platforms) and some extra rails, plus lots of modular-style houses, but even my future Lego room doesn't have unlimited space. :) Guess where all the Maersk-blue parts come from...

Thanks, everyone! Well, the claws of the spreader are connected with rubber bands and held apart a bit by plates behind them, so you can carefully push the spreader down on a container or the container upwards, and the claws snap on the container. You can see the mechanism a bit better on some photos on MOCpages. The crank operates two threads (with the rubber band providing the friction to keep everything from rushing down) which, unfortunately, can slip from side to side on the spreader; there's some room for improvement... Everything else is just pushed along. I don't have the space for a full setup yet; I'll have a dedicated Lego room (for a train+town setup) in my new apartment, but construction work on that has only just begun, so it will take some time. I turned both the Lego truck and its TRU sibling into container trucks – though instead of making two TRU containers like I did with the Lego truck, I'm saving the remaining white panels for a future building.

Well, the Maersk train needed a home, so I built her one on four big baseplates, including a crane bridge, a tool shed, a building with repair shop, office and control room, as well as two simple long container cars and an old short one (not much to build there) and some containers. Edit: If you can't see any images here, it means that MOCpages is down once again – that's why I now uploaded them to Flickr, too. Featuring my container raffle Classic Space container, as well as pallets (left of the shed) shamelessly, erm, inspired by LT12V's station. Removing the rolling stock to show more of the tracks and ballast – you know, this is an old place that hasn't been used for the recent past and hasn't received proper maintenance. Now that, as my story goes, Maersk has purchased it, it gets refurbished – the building and the crane are already done, the ground is almost cleaned, but the shed's roof still needs some fixing, and the track maintenance set, erm, crew hasn't been released, erm, arrived yet to clean/replace the ballast. The crane's spreader is probably built more complicated than necessary, but my supply of new style Technic parts is limited (well, except for a few big sets that I don't want to take apart). It grabs the containers using some rubber bands which works surprisingly well... This guy enjoys chopping off the corner of the crane's buffer stop (otherwise the Maersk wagons wouldn't be able to pass): And a painter is finishing his job (the talks about a painter on the upcoming modular Pet Shop inspired a good way to do with fewer Maersk blue bricks...) » More photos on MOCpages

Really amazing! Big house, nice architecture, many details... (Though I also think some photos look a little too foggy.)

Great! Nice train and nice station! I like the sloped wall at the bottom, this really adds to the good look of the overall shape – one of the advantages of building it 8-wide, and still have a usable interior (which makes me think about turning to 8-wide trains too some day... before I'll have the space to build a proper layout anyway). But the doors don't open, do they? :)

I think the red tank version with the continuous white stripe looks better. The rear opening with the little engine is a nice idea too, but don't these doors interfere with the next wagon? Maybe the big hatch on the side as on the white tank version is better there. At any rate, your Swiss LRZ make nicer models than our rather plain RTZ in Germany. :)

Really fantastic! A great looking train with an even greater mechanism.

Mine arrived now, too, thanks again! Should we make a chart of how long local postal services took to deliver them?

Well, "Nothing really special"? I think it's great – you got some subtle architectural details in this big building without making it too fancy. I'm just wondering what your trains going from European cities to Tokyo and NY look like.

Great! Lots of nice details, and the colors work surprisingly well indeed. But drive that painter away, he's about to paint the wall white! ;)

The EN is advertised in the back of the Maersk train instructions, so I guess it will still be available for some time. (Though that may be just as long as the first batch of printed instructions lasts...)

There's usually always one spare 1x1 cheese, tile, and round plate as well as Technic pins (and some other things like the small lever, not in this set) per bag, so don't worry about those. But I'm not sure what "white 2x1 stud slopes" you're referring to, I don't see any in the inventory and don't think I had any in my 10219. That being said, either I missed to place a 1x2 black door rail plate – or had one extra... Oh, and I swapped several Maersk-blue or other rare pieces for ordinary ones in those places that are hidden anyway. :)

I got one – yes, one's enough for me – in the store in Munich (Germany) this afternoon; I wasn't the only one, but it wasn't busier than normal. And I got the free small PaB cup (minimum is 55€ here) which I didn't know about. :)

That's a great bus! Though I think it might look better in color rather than in gray. As for the toilet: You might also put that ring on an inverted 2x1 slope and put the tank on top of the ring's stud – which has the advantage over RubeusHagrid's design that it doesn't use a brown part. :) Then you may even fit a wash-basin in that little room.

Yay, I won! Thank you, random number generator. :) And thank you, CopMike, for this raffle. There were lots of great containers. I'm already building a container terminal for the train, so three more employees with the correct hard hat color will certainly be welcome...

Thanks for the review! 8878+8887 = rechargeable battery box and its charging transformer 8884 = IR receiver 8879 = IR remote 88002 = PF train motor So the lights (8870) aren't mentioned. Well, maybe there's a way to add them anyway. :)