Hrw-Amen

I hate it when I get beer all over my LEGO, it has a habit of going all sticky and there is no way to wipe it all off unless you take every brick apart and soak it, dreadful idea!

For me I stayed with it right up until 1995 well into my twenties and after buying my first house. I dropped out when I had to move back to my parents due to relocating my job and I only had a single bedroom rather than the whole house. Still kept what I had but did not buy anymore until around 2011.

Looks really nice, wish I had the patience to do that.

OK, thanks for that. I have managed to track down a dozen or so of the discs so now it becomes clear how they work. I was labouring under the false opinion that the tube was the launcher sort of like a mortar, but now I understand that it is just the magazine. Thank anyway.

It does indeed look a lot like the trains run by South West Trains, (They come to my home station.) but I should say that at least the ones that travel on the South West Trains route from my home to London and back do not have pantographs at all as they pick up the current from a third rail that runs along the ground next to the wheels, we don't have any overhead cables down here in the deepest south. Other than that it pretty much captures the essence of the trains. I often bemoan that nearly all the modern LEGO trains based on European ones have pantographs as for me unless I travel a long way i do not see them at all.

Very nice. Looks the part there with that engine running past, just like it was straight out of an 1980's Arnold catalogue!

Looks like it could work in the real world?

They could do with a space theme to link ADU with the Galaxy Squad, after all they are essentially the same uniform just different colours and the blue squad not even that different. Maybe something showing that Galaxy Squad are a natural progression when the ADU take the fight out to the alien homeworlds. For my own models and stuff, I have now the original aliens from the ADU sets have made peace with Earth and the ADU and I have a couple of those aliens actually in the ADU uniforms to act as liasons. The new threat from the bug aliens threatened to over run both Earth and the ADU aliens home planet with their squishy mucky bug paws and the only way for them to be defeated was to quickly end the war and team up to fight side by side against the encroaching bugs. That way we see aliens (From the CMF series.) equipped in heavy armour alongside humans going into battle against the new bug threat.

Just a quick question, I have put it here as most of the sets this comes in appear to be sci-Fi related. I have recently come across a couple of these disc launchers (Bricklink ref 53990.) but they are not something I have seen before. I believe they must have come out in my dark age and not been in many sets (if any.) in the last four years. So the question, having got a couple with a load of other stuff, how on earth do they work? I thought they would be spring loaded, similar to the cannons, but they do not appear to have any moving parts? (Unless mine are broken?) I have tried google and found loads of images, but not one on how the things actually launch discs? Also they seem in the images to come with some smaller radius green slime coloured discs, not the standard 2x2 that I was expecting. Has anyone got a Bricklink part number for the discs they use? OK, thanks for the information.

Really nice looking engine.

I did see they had them in Argos at Bournemouth yesterday! My local toy store got them in this morning, got some straight out of the packing box.

I think it is much better with the working pistons. Not sure that dark green looks good though for a US train like this. Most of what I have seen seem to be black with gold banding, or red? Then again I have not seen many American trains so feel free to ignore me. By the way, I like the soldiers, I am currently building my own army.

This is something I have also been thinking about for a while and had actually planned to do this year but unfortunately my gardener died. It would be hard for me to do it on my own as I am a cripple and bending is a big problem. We were planning to run it on a raised track bed around the edge of the garden. Then mount the track on flat boards of say five or six track lengths. It was not planned to be anything wonderful, just a loop like you said with a passing place and maybe a siding. The idea of mounting track on boards was that when the winter came or i was not going to use it for a long while it could easily be stacked away in the garden shed and not take up too much room. Also it would not take long to lay out again when I wanted to use it. I have tried the IR outside. It is not that good. As long as I was in a enclosed space, say a corner with the house on one side and the high wall on another it was fine, but once the train was out in the garden there was no way to stop it. Even though it was no farther away that it would be in the living room, the signal was just lost. I figure that may be an issue for points/switches depending on where you want to put them. I have read posts about this and people in general seem to think the reason it does not work out in the middle of the garden is because it is in the middle of the garden and the signal disperses rather than being bounced off walls and ceilings etc. I guess that means the station would have to be in the shade? Obviously I do not know what the property is like where you are, but I think you would also need to consider if it would attract unwanted attention from children etc looking over your wall and/or people popping into the garden at night to pilfer bits of track, mini-figures or even your station. Where I am it is not too bad as they would need to be about eight foot tall to see over the wall, but it is also something to think about. As Jopiek said, there are a number of videos on Youtube but I am not sure that they are for the post part left out for any length of time, the majority look like they are just there for the duration of shooting the video. Anyway, best of luck and lets see the photos when you have started.

How about telling your parents, show them the damage to your train motors etc, then get your brothers to pay for the damage to be replaced out of their pocket money &/or college fund. Once your older brother realises his future employability is in doubt if he does not have the funds to finish college and get his qualifications he may not find it quite so funny?

Very nice couiple of bridges there. I like the raisng Action a lot.

That is a really nice store, the interior looks so bright which is something it is not easy to achieve.

I actually thought that first picture was from a normal model railway and did not realise it was LEGO until I looked a lot closer.

It does indeed look very awesome and actually quite intimidating. If I saw a real one of these going along past my house I'd think we were in for some trouble!

I would like to see the movie figures done as a set, similar to the Olympic ones, but do not really want them replacing a whole CMF series as then they will not really be CMF, but more a movie merchandising series. Although a lot of them may be released in sets, maybe they will have slightly different dress or something, perhaps like the classic space man but with hair, holding his damaged helmet or something?

Obviously the home of an elderly witch making out she is a sweet old Grandmother. Lets hope that young man outside does not get tempted in by some candy or he will be turned into a pumpkin or something.

I am not a member of a LUG, as far as I am aware there are none within a few hundred miles of me? At least I cannot find them online anywhere? I may join if there was one local, it depends on the rules they stipulated, I am not sure. I like the idea but in the past my experience of joining 'club' type things has not been good, people are just not committed or one or two want to take over everything. Being a cripple I find it hard to get out and about to anything beyond say, a ten mile radius of my home. I can drive but only short distances and then my wife has to take over which she is not to keen on. A lot of the time she is at work when I have a day off so it is not possible. Having said that, if there was a LEGO event near to me I would probably try to get there and have a look. There is a local train club for people generally into trains, (Not LEGO ones but just ordinary model Trains.) I have tried to go to that as a visitor but it is mobbed by families with hundreds of children which due to the nature of my crippledness I find really hard to cope with. I had wondered how they would react to a stand with LEGO Trains, would they allow it or not in their group, I am not sure but I would need a lot more general scenery before I could put on a decent show. By the time I get home from work I am way too tired to do anything like mod a forum. I can barely keep my eyes open long enough to check my e-mails and read the 'Train' section and 'General' section. I occasionally.

Looks good, I like the idea of using the narrow gauge track around the edge to run the turntable over. Does the turn table go all the way around to turn an engine to face the other way? It seems so many that we see just turn a small bit to lead into different bays in the round house and are not able to actually turn a loco.

It certainly looks better with two tracks but I think the platforms need to be extended quite a bit unless you are just planning on one carriage passenger trains.

This does actually look good and is something that I can see myself copying at some point in the future. I actually think my red passenger train is a little bland, but this would make more impressive and actually very nice. Thanks for showing us.

How about: More train sets ans individual wagons for them along side wider radius curves?