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    If the loco was produced in olive green, I think that it would be pretty recognisable as a Prussian P8. I don't think that's an accident, I suspect that LEGO decided upon that as a prototype before Belmond vetoed the colour. I'd better start researching whether the right parts exist to recolour the loco.
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    I hate to break it to you, but they're not a charity. Orient Express is very much an active brand, more so now than it was when CIWL ran it. Besides, they've partnered with BNSF and Maersk (though the latter doesn't really operate trains)
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    Lack of a Belpaire firebox is another difference.
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    I was amazed when I visited Munich at how shallow the U bahn was. Deeper than our sub-surface lines (which see a lot of daylight), but far removed from the seemingly endless escalators in the UK. I wasn't impressed with the signage though, how on earth does anyone navigate around the Hbf?
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    Like this? https://www.google.co.uk/maps/@51.4960705,-0.1763619,2a,75y,355.84h,101.25t/data=!3m6!1e1!3m4!1sqYB6x_ZBUFqn4UshYEiyLw!2e0!7i13312!8i6656?entry=ttu
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    Is that any different to a green grocer? You go in, you buy vegetables, you leave. Or to take a more recent example the florist that formed a part of Assembly Square. A post office could be the ground floor of a 16w building. I don't like the colour, like others I feel it gives a haunted house vibe rather than museum. Once pictures are released officially I would very much appreciate it if the skilled Photoshoppers on her could render a recolour in dark tan. Olive green worked well in PR, but I can't think of any other use for the colour. Thing is though that in my mind I have a set idea of a natural history museum which is the gothic one in Kensington, so anything that differs will never feel right to me.
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    The Swiss crocs wouldn't have done, but I do have a second set in its box that I'd been meaning to rebuild as an AE 3/6. Those were used on the route.
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    Understatement of the year. If I saw it for the first time I'd be wondering which DR loco was the prototype.
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    Even a GWR small prairie. Imagine the Internet wibble if they'd modeled this. https://theflourmill.com/images/locomotives_5521_1.JPG If you don't like it, don't buy it. God, the whinging is tedious
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    Well they did make a non-functional display piece into a minifigure scale working model.
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    I like it, I didn't want another broad gauge one like the Hogwarts Express.
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    Winter village sets use them
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    I'm rather glad we are, my wallet can only take so much
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    32x16 isn't exactly an unusual size
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    Baseplates aren't moulded to a size though, they're cut from a sheet.
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    Creative licence, if you expect authenticity from filmmakers then you'll be waiting a while. It's still a representation of a train from Venice to Innsbruck using CIWL coaches.
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    Not going to happen. Mattel own the franchise.
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    Not enough dirty clothes on the floor though. The bed should have something mouldy festering under it too.
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    01: 3 points
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    01: 2 points 02: 1 point
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    01: 2 points 03: 1 point.
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    It is, and I always intended to own both, but I try to go for the older set first on the basis that it'll be the first to retire. Previously I went to the Liverpool store intending to buy the Diagon Alley set which wasn't in stock so I ended up with Hogwarts Express
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    Yes, if only 1p too high for the Medieval Blacksmith or the A frame house. As it happened, the Blacksmith was out of stock in Liverpool so I ended up with a much more expensive set (lighthouse) instead. This is becoming a habit!
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    Looking at your recolour, I'm left wondering why Lego thought that dark orange (or whatever surrounds those first floor windows is) was ever a good idea. Matching the yellow used on the rest of the building makes so much more sense.
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