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    any info on 31080: Modular Winter Lodge I see a listing in brickset with this title, but no details. (except for "Mini Modular" which I guess means its not really a modular, right?)
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    My daughter started gravitating on her own towards the elves sets a lot more then Friends sets... I worked hard to not show a preference though Inside I was cheering when she said "Daddy, i think I want the elves instead of the friends set." My little sf/fantasy geek in the making! Now we have a lot of dragons. We'll see where she goes net. The Scooby Doo sets are getting mixed during her legotime adventures as well...
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    Worm gear variant,and more reliable top gear connection. Link to new build: https://studio.bricklink.com/v2/build/model.page?idModel=16410
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    Thanks for the suggestion about the worm gear. With a medium power functions motor (~405 PRM at full power/no load) My current gearing is going to result in about 228 RPM... Not quite half speed. Another stop down gear from mote shaft to gear box drive shaft... even and 8 to 20 would only cut that in half... still over 100 RPM at full power. Given a worm drive gives about an 8:1 step down, I think I may just do that, and eliminate some parts. I could vary voltage, but I want to make a simple switch my daughter can throw, without spinning the mini-dolls around the room like bullets. Here's some of the resources I was using to come up with gearing and speed http://philohome.com/motors/motorcomp.htm http://sariel.pl/2016/01/print-friendly-gear-ratios-table/ Here's a link to my current construction on Bricklink's baseplate platform. https://studio.bricklink.com/v2/build/model.page?idModel=16344
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    I've worked up a powering build for the friends Ferris wheel. the standard 9v motor I have has an RPM that is way way to fast for direct gearing. From what I understand, I need a small gear as the drive gear, and a larger gear as the follow gear,in order to slow down the rotation. I've added two in series... 12 driver to 20 follower in gear box, and 12 driver to 20 follower at the top of the drive shaft. top of shaft has a pin hole gear for stability--- that outside 20 follow gear isn't connected to the axle... In the gear box, I added another mirror drive gear, to give more stability at the bottom and to turn the pretty lights on the side of the gear box. At some point, instead of hooking the motor up directory, I guess I could add an idle gear, to allow the motor to drive multiple amusement park rides (swings?)... Motor turns on/connected to all the rides... but each ride would have a separate switch to engage its drive gears. and/or I could have another speed stepping at such a switch... but now we are getting to the limits of what I know how to do... I'll burn that bridge after I build this base model. I THINK this drive shaft should be stable enough. we will see....
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    I was very pleasantly surprised at how cool this set was. My daughter saw it at the Lego store this weekend, and she had to have it. Surprising number of bricks for the price point. Very solid play value... both daughters mucked about with it for a while. Sliding panel design i've seen in many friends/elves sets. The Sea-witch Mini doll, with separate necklace actually was a Nice touch. Love the black dress/tentacles piece. I haven't seen this one before. Only missed opportunity was no Fork/dingle hopper included. there was a brush, but no fork!
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    I had a blast with this kit. I can't recommend it enough. Plus, the kids seem to like it. A bit to much, actually. ("Noo... you can't play with the rocket... that one is DADDIES Lego set... not yours... ohh all right" 30 minutes later we've got a NASA launch pad disaster on our hands)
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    Revised rooftop, and Revised backside
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    So I've changed up the 2nd story, adding A Queen Anne style turret and copula, mirroing the display window one on first floor, and added a low slung roof. Not sure the 45 degree slopes are working, and limited color range makes we want to replace em with curved tiles, but I fear that will make the roof look too much like the overhangs below. But maybe that's not a bad thing? I'm also considering ways to dress up the turret... I don't necessarily want another full window up there. but its a bit plane now.
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    Updates! changes! A second story! From the front, nobody would suspect that this beautiful cafe... Has a medicinal dispensary on the second floor, in back. But it is certainly a bit of marketing synergy to house both establishments in the same building... The giant leaves on the back might be a bit much. I'm thinking about replacing them with the green flower plates that are decorating the rear entry right now. We'll see. This is definitely not going to be a three story modular. Small building, with ground floor facade being overwhelmed already. Low roof line to top it off. We'll see how that goes.
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    So I've always loved the Front facade and colors of Friends 41119. I wanted to work up a modular that maintained a front facing patio, but kept the back accessible, and added a staircase to the top floor. I haven't decided if I want to add the "Green Cross Medical Dispensary" up on the second story, or maybe just a party deck, and flip the staircase down into the patio.
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    I am looking into putting an Orange Night version together with Matching Livery on the coach. Seems like this is a doable color swap, with reasonably priced pieces.
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    Why Stephanie? Why is Stephanie the most prolific of Non-licensed* Unique minfig/mindolls, with 32?! https://brickset.com/minifigs/name-Stephanie I guess it has to do with the popularity of the theme, right? But come on. My kids and I are not big fans of Stephanie, tbh. When there are more unique versions of Stephanie then there are of Han Solo, something is wrong. I'm just saying. The next most popular non-liscended character is Jay from Nijago. Maybe with the new movie coming out, Jay will surpass Stephanie next year? We'll see... Personally, I'd like see Elves go deeper and bigger then Friends. My 6 year old has migrated from friends to Elves, so I'm biased, but.... :) *licensed character leaders include exactly whom you would expect. Batman, Luke Skywalker, Han Solo. "Clone Trooper" wins, hands down, if you want to count him as one character. :)
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    I think our only hope for a new train set is a superhero themed train set. Just saw the Lego batman movie, and there was a throw away shot of a "Bat Train" in the bat cave. I want that. Now. Please! Are you listening, Lego? A bat train would outsell every Lego train every made. I mean, I'm sorry your previous Train liscence, the Lone Ranger train didn't do very well but come on. We need a Bat Train! Here's the scene that has the train...
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    The only thing I want from Lego right now is the "bat train" I saw in the movie today. Bat Train!!
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    Try running it without the spinning christmass tree car. That causes a lot of drag. second... try running through stragihts, and not around curves first. Add Cars one at a time on the straights... it should be able to pull everything, level, across the straights. Final thing... Are your batteries fully charged/new? Low batteries = low power for the motor. Good luck.
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    I was thinking of something like this... I did a recolor and slight modification of a MOC by Murdoch17 here. Certainly a bunch of details could be added. For this particular moc White, medium Lavander and Magenta parts seemed readily available. Trucks (Not rendered) will be mostly black, but a front swinging truck can also be Magenta...
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    I was thinking of something along these lines myself. First, I wanted to look at some of the vehicle color schemes, to see what might be a good fit. there've been a couple of different Vehicles already. Sports car, Convertible, Mias Roadster, Summer Caravan, Popstar Tour bus, and hart-lake city airport plane and Dolphin Cruiser come to mind... Second... I don't think a steam train is right, but also I don't think a Modern electric passenger is right. a sleek 1950s era streamlined diesel, with the right color scheme? Even if you didn't do a streamlined diesel, something like when of the f7's, or f9s, or e series? something recognizably "Vintage" Diesel. I'm in love with the detail of this one here. The Heartlake Express? Some kind of cool Friends Livery. We can probably dispense with the B engine to save money. But three passenger carriages... 1 Regular, 1 dining carriage, and one observation car in the rear, but the rear should have a viewing platform in back? Again... the City Of New Orleans above... but swap out the last carriage with one with a rear observation platform? actually, some of the carriage details on the orient express carriages might translate well.. Anyway... I'll keep digging around, and see if I can come up with an E series MOC LDD file that I can "repaint."
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    So when I finally got my train setup running around the tree, I had to convert a cattle car to a phone camera car, and take some POV vids. enjoy... Comedy Gold:
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    Thanks for the feedback and kind words. Yeah... I didn't mean to have a black roof in the first place...the blacks were part of my "placeholder build." But I did indeed run out of black, or I just wanted to use every damn Lavender slope I had. dark Pink and white rooftop is also just placeholder, at this point. I'll probably buy enough lavender to have a completely lavender roof, and then work on different window/roof trim possibilities based on how the vast expanse of lavender looks. The Master Chief keeps showing up in my various Heartlake city builds... I got a white elephant gift of him in a "grenade case" last Christmas, and now he just sort of.... turns up. The Friends colors seem to be a natural for me a lot of building and architecture stuff... but I'm in San Francisco so the "Painted Lady" Victorian Gingerbread styles are literally everywhere here. Happy to have bins full of these friends colors. Though my daughter has skewed a bit towards the "Elves" of late... so I've got a dragon crouched on top of Emma's house. Heartlake city is getting dangerous, I guess. I'm still kicking around the idea of converting "Emma's house" to a "Mid century Modern" modular with a front yard... Rooftop balcony on one side and dormer windowed bedroom on the other would give it an interesting line... But gotta finish up my Pet shop before I start futzing around with that... :)
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    One of the first Friends buildings I bought for/with my daughter was the Heartlake Food Market, and when she lost interest in it, I started working on a Modular rebuild. I'd seen several 3 story versions that looked kind of generic, but I wanted something that incorporated the "attic loft" feel of the original model, maybe with some dormer windows in the roof line. Switching the entry to 2nd story studio to the back was critical, and I kind of like how that back stairwell/landing turned out, though I still need a couple of finishing details. I also wanted to elevate the height of the store, so adding a line of windows above the canopy, while keeping some of the purple stripe color detail from the original was a goal. I had it sitting around, mostly unfinished because I didn't have the right color bricks, but I finally just demo-ed a finish, mostly in white and whatever I had sitting around. I'm going back and forth on some of the window treatments, and I got rid of the brick top along the top of the second story after originally keeping it. I've got a lot more detailed work to do inside, and I'm not entirely happy with the columns on the back... need some pink trim, so they match the columns on the front balcony maybe, and maybe the shutters AND columns are too much on back, but the attic loft has room for small bedroom, and bathroom, separated by a full sized door/door frame. And I'm not entirely sold on some of the front trim details I've used though i do like my tile and cone railings on the balcony. Any thoughts or ideas for future versions/final colors are welcome. Here's a bunch of shots I couldn't upload. https://goo.gl/photos/ASQy6Dz3LPxhzdPT8 Kind of a mess/work in progress. but its MY mess!
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    This street car looks a lot like the "Peter Witts" three door, double headed tram design... I assume the "Tram of Opicina" are similar to the Peter Witt trams that were built for Milan? http://www.streetcar.org/streetcars/1895-1895-milan-orange/ San Francisco has a historic orange "Milan" one that looks pretty sexy, rolling around the streets of San Francisco. I'd love to do your tram in this historic Orange Livery. Please let me know if you are willing to share any details/parts lists digital design files with me. I have supported your Tram on Lego Ideas already. :)
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    Dumb question. I used LDD to swap out all the emerald green parts for bright orange parts. But when I try and upload it to bricklink, it just gives me an error saying I have invalid parts. Is there a way to identify which bricks in a given LDD file are "not real" from a color perspective? I'm willing to bet I can come up with a pretty solid Orange Night Train, with a little bit of Swapping out of some bricks that don't exist in Bright Orange... But I don't know how to go about ID-ing the offending bricks. Any thoughts, other than using the exported spread sheet and checking each one against a parts database by hand?
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    Has anybody come up with a mod to power the Friends 41128 space ride? Its a nice set, but would have better play value and display value, if it was powered, IMO Thoughts? Possibilities?
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    Thanks for the detailed Information. I appreciate it.
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