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    Thank you so much, @LM71Blackbird!
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    Thank you! It was quite a challenge. Especially considering all the different interior rooms, and things! And then the wheelchair mining came along, which made me realize that none of these hotels were ADA compliant!
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    Thank you, @CarrollFilms! I'm hoping to have an observation car done by the end of the Autumn, so hopefully it'll start to look more like a full train! :)
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    Thank you! :) I'd been meaning to share the MOC here on EB for ever but never got around to it, and then I realized I had photos of all the different iterations and thought what the heck might as well show the process! :)
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    Thank you @Bricksmith! I really hope it gets through, it's currently in the 1300s. I'm hoping the story is unique enough and I tried to make the engine and passenger coach different. Plus, there will be a second passenger coach coming soon! :)
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    Winterfield Academy has been intact for about 8 months now, which is the longest I've gone without tearing down a MOC and rebuilding it! But I think it's only because I'm still working on the interior decorating.
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    This was one of my first large-scale MOCs, that came before the Orient Express Thriller or Winterfield Academy were even conceived! (back in 2014) I had watched the miniseries for "The Shining", and I've always been enamored with National Park lodges. So, the product was The Glacier Falls Lodge, the official lodge for Brickler Mountain National Park! A perfect getaway destination/luxury hotel catering to any minifig's vacation needs! This MOC went through at least six different iterations, before finally being pared down to a (very) downsized version fit for LEGO Ideas. At its prime, though, the Lodge contained an enormous lobby, full dining room and kitchen, and several guest rooms upstairs, with two bathrooms per floor (kind of in the style of Chico Hot Springs in Montana). The first iteration was built in 2014, during that summer we had a major fire that caused us to evacuate. This hotel was thrown in a box and taken with us in a car at night fleeing to Seattle. Later, when the fire season was over and we returned, the hotel sat on the desk for several months without being worked on. The Second Iteration had a change to the tower, it was more octagonal and separated from the roof. And I used the Town Hall Skylights for the Lobby. The Third Iteration sadly has no pictures, as my computer had crashed and we lost them. But it was pretty ugly. I had the idea to try and make octagonal towers on either side of the main doors, with the idea not turning out very well. That iteration was fragile, and fell apart easily. The Fourth Iteration was a HUGE model, with an upgraded, fancier porch and a sign out front! This was also when I made it into more of a Victorian style hotel, with a large wrap around porch, and the two towers on either side. These were half-octagonal towers, which made it a lot easier to stay together. (I had actually figured out how to build them, and gotten the pieces for it). The roof was a major challenge, but we made it work! This iteration also had an enormous, well thought out and beautifully built dining room, as well as a large kitchen with three to four walk in freezers! The Fifth Iteration was downsized in terms of length to make it fit through the door, lol! The basic hotel structure remained the same, however, with the exception of a large rearranging of the rooms inside. This was the first project that I submitted to LEGO Ideas, before having to downsize it again for it to be accepted. This was by far the best iteration of the six, and the only one we have interior pictures of. 5th Iteration furniture and Grand Fireplace 5th Iteration First Floor Porch Detail Lobby Facing the Dining Room Lobby picture 2 Piano Music Room Lobby Picture 3 The cool part was that the interior walls of the 5th Iteration were removable! 1st/2nd floors This was also the first iteration to have major interior decorating and fancy chandeliers! The 6th and Final Iteration of this MOC kept most of the basic structure, subtracting much of the width, in order to make the 3000 piece LEGO Ideas limit. This unfortunately was at the cost of sacrificing the entirety of the interior minus several pieces of furniture. This iteration currently, sadly does not exist anymore. It was torn down and the pieces used for Winterfield Academy (pictured below) However the 6th Iteration is still up on LEGO Ideas right now, and currently has 2036 Supporters! If you would like to give your support as well, I'll include the link here. We would really appreciate any support given! :) https://ideas.lego.com/projects/66655f37-9622-4836-a2cb-797e916f4e2b Anyways, that's the whole story on the MOC! This was by far (not counting my disastrous attempt at a county courthouse when I was 15) my first successful MOC that I thought looked relatively decent! Please tell me what you think, anything you like about it, etc., in your replies! I'll finish with a couple shots from last December and our promotional Winter Photoshoot! :) Thanks for reading! :)
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    People have been asking regarding a second coach, so here's the work in progress digital render, the physical model is in the works! :)
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    Is it just me, or does it seem like since the new guidelines have been put in place, more and more people have been stealing people's ideas and submitting them as their own? Maybe since they can't do as many IPs, they feel like all the original ideas are being used up? Idk, it just seems weird. But then, Ideas is a weird fish!
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    @Globemaster8 thank you! It's picking up speed at 1063 at the moment, I'm hoping it continues to go! :)
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    @koalayummies thank you! :) I suppose it does always help too if the idea has a large supporting fan base. I wonder too if people follow a herd mentality when it come to projects, like thinking a project may not be worth their time until it's reached a certain number of votes. Maybe the project has to prove itself that way? I have to say I'm not well versed in these things, so all I can really do is update and hope! :)
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    @ColletArrow Yes I have!! I need to reexamine the engine as soon as I get back from my trip. Someone else asked me if I had it motorized yet and at the moment I don't, it's a solid mass of bricks! So I need to do a little juggling around. But I hope to work on it soon :) Thank you! :) Only 8,981 left to go! :)
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    Good news!! We just passed 1000 on the project today! This gave us a date extension to 436 days to get to 5000. Only 9000 supporters left to get! :) And I included pictures of the proposed second coach in one of the project updates on the site!
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    @Vliebricker thank you! Unfortunately at the moment it is not motorized. The engine is almost a solid mass of bricks! It's one of my projects this summer to figure out how to redesign some of the engine/tender to try and make it more fitting to motorization, as well as to add a second coach! :)
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    Also a question is how do you promote your project as many places as possible and on as many websites as possible without it seeming like spam? A lot of forum type websites (for good reason too!) don't allow you to directly post regarding your project. So how does someone with very little social media following get the word out there? Food for thought...
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    @ColletArrow thank you! Part of the number of updates is because, since I don't have large amounts of social media following, I have to keep the project somewhere near the top of the Recently Updated list! :)
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    Thank you for all your advice and suggestions, @ColletArrow! I must confess that I have never made a train before, so as this is my first one I'm glad to have people to point me in the right direction! I think some of the parts that I used were in place of parts that I should have used, but I can definitely remedy this later this summer, as I'm working to overhaul some of the project! :) (I've found the large wheel don't move as well as they should, probably as you were saying!) Updates here or on the Ideas site? lol
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    @Exetrius YES! I figured out how to do it! It did take a while with the frustrating photo insert process, but I got it! Thank you for the advice! :)
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    @Capparezza Ahhh makes sense. Thank you for clarifying, now I'll know one if I see one!
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    So detailed and realistic! Excellently done! That's always one of the things I have trouble with in my trees, I don't have enough pieces to make them that detailed. I'll get there some day! :)
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    It's such a palpable palpative palpitating Palpatine! (try saying that five times fast!) ;)
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    True that! I just think trains don't really have such a huge audience sadly, although I still have hope for mine. I thought maybe the Orient Express would be at least recognizable. Apparently there's a remake of Murder on the Orient Express coming out in November! Although it might spawn competitor Orient Express projects! ;)
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    I love it! Although I do wish the bakery/cake shop had been its own modular, it definitely could have occupied more space than squished in the building as the ground floor. But that's just my opinion, I like everything else about it! :)
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    It seems like we should be due for some Hospital-themed? Or it would be nice to see a National Park-type hotel or lodge maybe!
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    YESS!! My Gare de Lyon is currently on the table across from my bed, and I find myself staring at it ALL THE TIME. Just appreciating what it looks like. That sounds really weird but it's true.
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