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If I was in this situation, there is one thing that I wish people would tell me first . . . and here it is: Aside from all of the positives and negatives metal track (9V) vs. plastic (Power Function) track. 9V and 12V tracks have one restriction that PowerFunction tracks lack and its that a train can go backwards. Now when I say backwards, I DO NOT mean that there are trains that don't travel in both directions, but if you imagine a track shaped like the letter 'P' where you have a switch in the center of the inverted line. That illegal and your stuff will short out if you have 9V, if you are running a PF train, it'll start at the bottom of the oddly shaped P and continue around and back down the bottom of the P like a turnaround. Controlling multiple trains is also easier, or possible depending on your perspective.

In Canada the pick a brick wall is roughly less than 50% price of the Pick-A-Brick online just not the selection. Go . . . . . visit the wall, it will have the gears turning in your head. Even just to run thousands of 1 X 1 trans discs through your fingers like sand. (unless you're a germophobe then don't)

There's that and "You might want to wander over to the food court for 40 minutes while your pair of purple 4 X 2 bricks print.

She's lego so it's okay to put duct tape over her mouth if you find the screaming annoying.

Just something to get the gears turning in your brain. Forgive me if you're already aware of this. I could be wrong, but this is the only set that I'm aware of with this setup. 7750 http://www.eurobricks.com/forum/index.php?showtopic=32910 It might be the most beautifully executed train of the 4.5V, 12V era. The key here is to kind of open your mind up to possibilities. They wanted to space the wheels out in a unique fashion so instead of having the the actual motor in the engine. The tender was actually the motor,and the engine was aesthetically the driver of the train. The wire that you see in the pictures.is ONLY to power the front lights on the train. I realize that this might not be the best solution for some of your ideas, but this could resolve many issues. The other thing that it would do very aptly would be to allow more cars on a train without a second motor at the end, by placing the motor closer to the center. It can also alleviate the issue of using large rear wheels on the engine car or simply having a short ole timey engine. I'm considering using 7715 as one of my PF engines with a coal or utility car behind it housing the batteries and IR receiver.

Lego.com is all out of PF Motors until well into March. So . . . I ordered 3 of them from TRU and a battery box. They have $5 off after $25 of lego and free ship after $50. I'm having these delivered to my US Warehouse, pricing is also favourable. TRU price $13.99 + 5% tax - $1.25 savings per item average = equivalent of $13.44 USD or $16.13 CAD Lego.com price $19.99 + 13% tax (assume free ship w/ $75 order) = $22.59 CAD

IR receivers and motors are actually really cheap from the Lego website & TRU. In addition . . .if you haven't already I would consider picking up some of the LED's that attach to the IR receiver and battery pack, they're only $6 US from the Lego website.

Ooops!!! Sorry about that . . . pretty gross I mean to crop that out. I've uploaded a second copy of the pic over the first one.

I'd really appreciate an Academy Award. I'm hoping to tidy up some of the missing sets from the 1980's town Legoland series that are lacking in Reviews. When I read three complete sets, I gasped I thought that you were looking for us to have three sets of Lego 6399 for example. Yeah . . . I've got lots 'n lots of sets.

I have one "other idea" but it really depends on your look that you're trying to achieve, it's one of those I'll build it when I ever get around to it things. If you're trying for a real industrial look, and I've seen this in person (cannot find a good pic on Google). If your door is 15 bricks high. Use 24 modified bricks on each side. Have the edges of the the top 15 bricks extend well beyond the roof line of the building, you could use some slope pieces to both provide support against it, as well as improve appearance/add style, then from there utilize a string pulley system to open and close the doors. Negatives: Would increase vertical footprint, could potentially negatively impact appearance. Positives: Would allow the train shed to look significantly more "industrial", would allow a slider crane to properly operate inside without interference from above, it's a MOC so something extremely unique is extremely valuable in terms of design - right??

Nope, we're still talking 6394, at the moment, I don't have any of the modified bricks for that set, especially any of the rare yellow ones, so I just did a test fixture using 6386 wanted to see how these slide, etc. The final destination will still be 6394, four pieces will also create two garages' worth. Some parts in the mail for that right now.

Most "real" fire stations are starting to look like residential buildings and offices. I like this interpretation!! Everything up top is severely unique!

In the past for the narrow gauge railroads, I've elevated the rails and used a turn table design to rotate the tracks and change the direction of short trains (short would be 1 or 2 rails long. I realize that rails might be at a premium (though you wouldn't "have to" use them. I would strongly consider rails up top for your hoist or some type of slide movement perpendicular to the movement of the current hook. That would earn huge points for both playability, realism and appearance. It looks like that's the intent anyhow.

SUCCESS!!! This isn't the final destination for these pieces, especially the rear two which are just propping up the rear end of the garage. The garage door slides over these even smoother than the 90 turn from the top piece to the bottom pieces. I'm happy. Aesthetically speaking I was pleasantly surprised it's not really overly noticable when the door is open. Took about 8 pieces to get 4 good ones. 2 didn't cut at the right angle and several shot across the room at really high rates of speed, and I wasn't able to locate some of these, they may be under the chest freezer, I wore safety glasses because of this concern. Close-up of my work.

I'm assuming that it would make the door too "stiff" to fluently open at all, but you might be able to join two 1 X 14 (or whatever the brick size is) upside down and right side up.

When you ask for quote specify the currency. Ensure that you have your information setup in terms of exactly where you are from to expedite shipment quoting, etc.

I'm relatively new to Bricklink but have done a couple of transactions via paypal. I always do it manually. Login to paypal, put the person's e-mail in as a business (so that they pay the fees). Then the amount and then afterwards copy & paste the bricklink transaction number in the comments section of the payment. That way they will know exactly what you are paying for. Just a word to the wise. They have an auto-filter for country, if you are worried about delays and paying customs, just order from people from your own country.

SX50 is the newer version of the SX40, as much as I've heard it's identical, but 50X zoom over 35X zoom, same image processor, everything. They just cleared most of those out in November, the SX60 is the next Canon Superzoom flagship, but it's around $500 USD right now. The SX520 is a fine piece, it's just short a few features, some of those features might not be remotely important to the average Joe.

You know how you bid on way too many auctions and you kinda hope you win them all and kinda hope you didn't. I just blew $112 on E-bay, for six lego lots (fortunately all one seller and all in the same country): 816 - Illuminated bricks and battery box. 4022 - A cool floating boat 4010 - A significantly less cool floating boat (these are my first two floating boats, bath time is gonna be a riot!) 6440 - Light and Sound Jetport fire truck 6430 - Light and Sound Police truck (are light and sound vehicles bathtub compatible???) 6395 - Victory Lap Raceway w/ box. Kind of an interesting lot of legos, my monthly spending is gonna be over soon after this haul. Hoping that the vendor allows me to pick up in person.

The SX520 has the super zoom but despite it being 3 or 4 years newer than the SX40 has an inferior downstep processor, in burst mode it's actual full-picture capabilities are about 1/3rd of the SX40. For very few shortcomings, the SX520 is excellent value if nothing else. I didn't want to screw around with many settings, since I was at a hockey game tonight. I think that's actually ISO800, which probably if nothing else killed my photo quality, 8.0 second exposure time though. I counted to six before removing the plane. Hard to tell if my hand/arm left any traces in the picture.

Do they at least include a circular saw in the set like the others have with the brick seperator??

That would be way too easy!!!

There was actually an article that Lego in Canada was unable to keep up with Christmas demand because of spikes caused by the Movie. I would hope that this was just seen everywhere, but I'm noticing similar around here. I'm not concerned as Hot Wheels looks similar. Very empty shelves, same as Transformers. It's something that will balance itself out.

Did plates ever come with a groove for garages, my inclination is no, I've never seen them. All I need is one plate, but I'm making two garage doors. So left-right X 2 = 4, so . . . not stacking them. I will likely stack the 4 to cut them, and maybe use some already chewed up lego to hold the piece in place. Again . . . I'm open to other ideas, that doesn't involve destroying pieces 'n such.

Hi . . . . . . not sure what to expect, but penny for your thoughts in terms of how you'd feel if I started sawing into lego plates and bricks??? I realize that it's an illegal building technique, but . . . I'm considering it, unless there's some one out in cyberspace with a better idea. I'm trying to equip set #6394 with some garage doors. So the idea is that I'm going to take a four 2 X 1 red plates (super rare . . . I know) and saw into it for the garage door grooves. Help with idea: 1.) Has anyone already done this? 2.) Do you think that the door will glide over this plate reasonably well?? 3.) Do you have a better idea?? I really don't want to take the red out of the whole set, but that's the obvious "other" answer? Questions of personal faith morals? 1.) If I take a circular saw to a piece am I going to hell??? Lego hell? Some sort of horrible MegaBloks reality that's arguably worse than hell?? 2.) Is this okay because a 1 X 2 plate is not rare, no one will miss it?? 3.) If you do think that this is a Lego-sin, is there something that I can do to make up for it??? Sorry if this topic has been covered, I tried the search function and came up empty handed.