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    It is great to see lots of different takes on the same box wagon. I have quite a few, but they only three (Four with the green one from the official set.) different types and all look rather similar. I am just as keen however on seeing a longish train of different color/length/shape box cars as I am at seeing one pull a whole load of the same. Different ones someone seem more old fashioned and branch line to me which is god for a smallish LEGO Trains layout.
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    Little sheds of this sort really make a railway layout much more interesting and believable.
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    My local store seems to be out of all except Star Wars. I bought a Friends one for the wife a couple of months ago but now they have non left and last week I bought the last CITY one for myself. I put it off as I was not sure that the bits would be much good? Interestingly they seem to have plenty of the Friends one from last year on sale also.
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    I like this it really looks like what it is supposed to be. Good Build.
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    I would much rather they stuck to the normal format. I can understand a special line for the movie as this is something special to LEGO but the Simpsons? Why not have a line specifically for superheroes or Lone Ranger or whatever else range they do? I am not sure they will sell well, where I come from most people think the Simpsons have had their day. It was good but now it is old and tired, time to move on to something new. It just seems like LEGO is a bit late for this particular range.
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    I love the engine, I am not familiar with the scene as a whole beyond the details of it that were put up here a while ago, but it looks pretty good to me. Even the damaged carriage at the end looks good to me. Should it be at such a right angle though or should the train have smashed through it somehow?
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    I suppose the question to making better LEGO bricks is why? If you want a 1X1X1 ratio then as alois said you can use Modulex. I have a few of those bricks and they do seem to be a lot more like a real world ratio to me. But you don't need to make them, they already exist. If you want to do it, just because you want to do it then that is fine, i can't see many people wanting to copy you though, but that does not matter, it is your project so I hope it works out for you and you continue to show your photographs. I would be particularly interested in some pictures of them made up, stacked or built into a model of some sort.. However, it will not be better LEGO, only LEGO can make better LEGO. You can make some building blocks that happen to have some similar features to LEGO and share some functions but that is about it really.
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    I guess if you really do not want them made up you can 'carefully' take them apart to use for a MOc or two. Do not 'smash' them as even if they don't break you run the risk of scratching some bricks. I do buy sets to keep made up myself and also some just for bricks. What you need to ask yourself is if you build a MOC, will that actually get used? I mean how many adults use LEGO in the same manner as a child does? I use my rains and part of the reason I like to build trains is that they can be used rather than just sitting there doing nothing. But if you build a really nice MOC, beyond display value are you going to use it for anything? I think for many of us the display is the use?
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    Hrw-Amen replied to ER0L's topic in LEGO Town

    This looks very interesting and good. I have seen similar on HO model railways before and that all looked pretty good, but the vehicles only went around a small track. Having them go around the whole town would be good. I liked the bus best of all the vehicles and if they ever do go faster those old ladies in the car had better be paying attention to what is in front of them rather than yapping to one another about whatever it is old ladies yap about!
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    I have a lot of ordinary bricks (Mostly red and white.) bought for me from around 1970 onwards. I have a couple of 4.5V train motors that have stickers on them (When you open the case.) saying they were made in 1967, which makes them a year older than me. I don't know if I have any really rare stuff, but I have a lot of LEGO both just bricks and sets from the 1970's through to around 1996'ish. I do still have the baseplate for a really old ferry boat that the ends opened up on and you could run your train inside. I had endless fun with this as a child, but as I got older I kind of lost a bit of interest when I noticed there was not anywhere to put the crew/passengers as although it had windows around the top there was no floor or anything above the train holding section making it rather unrealistic. I note on Brick Link a couple of those base plates selling for around £40.00 which seems ridiculous to me! I suppose that maybe rare, I am not sure?
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    I prefer it in the red and black myself, but it is a nice little engine.
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    Um, Independence? Possibly, although it is not such a good name for an engine from England!
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    Has anyone e-mailed him recently to find out what is happening? I did a few months back as I had also been going there regularly for updates and nothing was happening. I think it was around Easter time though so ages really. There was not any big advance at the time that I could tell anyone about. It maybe worth getting in touch again though. Perhaps he has been moving forwards with the project but does not want to get peoples hopes up by posting pictures and then having to take them down again? However a bit of an update on where the project is would not hurt. Maybe if a few of us e-mail him he may give an update?
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    Lots of cows, nice layout.
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    Yes, i did see they were in with every vehicle, but they are even in some that are bad guys vehicle which made me think they may be something else? I guess it would be too much to have three factions all at once.
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    I think the main problem will be the overall cost. If I am reading it right I could potentially as an individual, not part of a club, sign up for this; but I may end up having to ship out say 100 containers. This would cost a fortune in parts and postage. There should be various limits at least for people on their own who cannot afford the cost that maybe a group could. I like the idea of maybe just making five, or ten or whatever you can afford and swapping them for a similar number, but I don't think I could sign up to swapping an unknown number of containers. If everyone on Eurobricks that has a train signed up you could be in for a mortgage sized bill for parts let along shipping! You would need a whole container in the real world to transfer them in!
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    Yes, not specifically for the carriages you are wanting to build though. I make nearly all of my railway bases (Apart from official stuff.) from plates and technic plates for the holes. I have plenty of threads on here that you can see as well as loads of stuff on my flickr pages. I won't post a link as it seems it wants to scroll through all 500 odd pictures when i tried it. But here is a link to some old fashioned coaches I made and there are many more in the train tech pages at the start of the forum. http://www.eurobricks.com/forum/index.php?showtopic=74815
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    Looks very good, if only I had that much room to set things up.
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    A really nice train and the whole scene. I like the cat climbing up the tree at the side.
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    Nice selection of birds, especially the first couple, those beards make good wings and even the pompom makes a good colorful head! Like the turtle at the end as well!
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    I guess that is one use for broken clone bits or even none broken clones that are broken just for this, after all what do they deserve? It is good, it does look like a post apocalypse sky scrapper that is half torn down into rubble. A whole block of these would be quite impressive assuming of course you have enough clone bits to break up.
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    Having watched the trailers and looked at the sets I am a little confused (Not that its hard.) but are the black cubed robots supposed to be good or evil? It just seems to me that the robot police are obviously evil and I note that some of the police have guns which seems to be a departure from normal CITY police. I suppose it is because they are evil robot police! But the black cube robots, as I said not sure if they are good or bad from what I've seen?
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    So this bearded guy, what is his name, 'Vitruvius(?)' his staff has that kind of chewed bit look that I had so many of when I was a kid, as I expect we all did. Are they actually going to employ an army of seven to eleven year old kids and ply them with buckets of staffs to chew their way through in order to get that authentic look for his Mini-Figure's staff, do they have an old chewed one that they are just going to make a model from and cast them ready chewed?
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    I have even heard parents referring to cheap knockoffs in the UK as LEGO when shopping. It is really disappointing that the local Toy stores insist on selling the horrid knockoffs right next to the real thing. It is just asking for it to be misunderstood. When I queried with one of the store's staff why they were doing that, they said that the owner had told them to put a lot of the cheap knockoffs next to the official LEGO sets so that parents would compare the price of something that appeared to be the real thing with the real thing and buy more of the cheap ones. Apparently they had to order another load of cheap knockoff ones as they sold by the dozen whereas across the aisle the real LEGO had only sold a couple. It is really depressing to see this kind of thing.
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    I never use e-bay for LEGO. But I have had no problems with Bricklink, the longest I have ever had to wait for an order is a week and the chap did e-mail me to let me know what was going on so that was OK. I tend to have four or five sellers I use all the time and at first if I am using a new seller (Assuming my usual ones don't have a part I want.) I only place a small order say under £10 to begin with. If they come up to scratch which so far they all have then they may get used again. There are two sellers I tend to use more often for large orders and they usually e-mail me when they have a lot of stock in just incase I am waiting for them to get stuff in. I find sticking to a few known sellers gets a really good service and you can build up a good rapport with them. Last year I even got Christmas cards!
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