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  1. Vilhelm22
    Um.... The 26th June announcement is apparently ’LEGO CON’... So not lights.
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    That’s amazing! Truly remarkable parts usage throughout!
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    @Kim-Kwang-Seok I didn’t mean to sound negative - apologies. Here’s the data summarised by Brick Fanatics: https://www.google.co.uk/amp/s/www.brickfanatics.com/the-lego-groups-full-2020-annual-financial-results-by-the-numbers/amp/ All I’m really saying is that I think from my experience there are some local and in store declines, but overall there’s still been an increase.
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    I think this is one of the key missing aspects to @Kim-Kwang-Seok’s question. There are far more Lego stores now than ten years ago, including some of the biggest such as Leicester Square, London (the world’s biggest) and West Edmonton Mall (Canada’s biggest). These have transformed the shopping experience. Also, online shopping has become even more of a thing than ever before, with more places than ever stocking the stuff. Your example of Smyths - admittedly I haven’t looked at Star Wars, but taking city as an example, there are 63 available sets vs 72 at shop.lego.com . I don’t think the product is in decline at all - and if you look at the rise in numbers of adult style sets in the past 2 years, plus the company’s annual review showing huge gains this is very evident.
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    Very nice! Cargo Railway and Metroliner are the only two 9v trains I’ve ever actually seen in real life, and you’ve merged the two brilliantly. Great work!
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    I was going to create a thread about this myself! What feels like a very long time ago, in February 2020 before COVID hit, LEGO showed ‘Night Mode’ kits to gauge people’s reactions, which I think were generally positive. https://www.google.co.uk/amp/s/www.brickfanatics.com/official-lego-night-mode-lighting-kits-revealed-at-lego-world/amp/ However, they weren’t their actual sets, but rather Light My Bricks’ (you can tell from one particular picture and there’s a very angry Brickstuff post) and I assume that they are now finally ready to produce their own. The 26th June announcement shows a lit up brick so it’s my most logical conclusion...
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    Well the price point makes sense - considering the two available right now are the two out expensive ever, I'd expect a considerably cheaper one. Hadn't seen that GWP, but I'm intrigued now. Would love a swing boat, but I'd prefer a bigger one at a later date. Ideal would be one like the one at Legoland parks, but I doubt we'd get that.
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    Yeah I'd agree with you there, at first I was really disappointed but now... The actual studs used in the mosaic total 10240 (40 16x16 panels).
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    Very nice! I haven't actually yet commented on this thread despite seeing it practically every day, but this an excellent MOC and the self propulsion is a brilliant achievement for a pre-1850 locomotive. It's also been interesting simply as one I didn't know - I have London's Science Museum only an hour away and the NRM and Locomotion a few hours away, but as it hasn't been preserved apart from the replica it's not very well known, me included. The piston rods must have looked brilliant back then, but today they just look ridiculous!
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    It’s a great build and will mean a lot to many I’m sure. I love the monochrome minifigs particularly - they add so much more to the set! I generally think of a single minifig has being £3, which means that the rest of the set costs £-2 using this logic. Even if it’s a dreadful PPP on the surface, when you look at it properly it’s pretty good. On a side note, even though it’s not it’s original intention, I can’t help but think the yellow fig just looks naked...
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    Very nice! The yellow one is my favourite because of LEGO's own one that it had at one stage...
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    Quite surprised this thread hasn't been commented on more recently. The Daily Bugle has just been announced officially, and if you look closely it is modular, cleverly joining onto the news stand in front. I'm not a marvel fan myself, but I still really like this, and will probably eventually pick it up. Actually the most exciting thing for me is the yellow taxi that accompanies it. I reckon those will sell individually for a pretty penny on the second hand market. With this modular type building, plus the Spring Lantern Festival earlier this year, I predict we'll be seeing a lot more of these type modulars not from the modular buildings line in the future - a thing I'm not complaining about.
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    Welcome to EB and the LEGO train hobby @trainguy49132! If you’re using the PF/PU train motor, you connect axles directly, forming a 2-axle bogey, which can attach either to the 6x24/28 bases as mentioned by @Feuer Zug, or with a technic plate as part of a larger base. Other more standardised motors require quite a lot of work to get the right gearing - and it is worth noting that rpm and torque varies between motors and generation equivalents. These are generally still more common however in the MOCing community, as it allows extra detail on the bogeys themselves. As @Duq said, @HoMa’s book is a brilliant place to start for L-gauge beginners, as well as being a good read generally for any FOL, whether K, T or A. It provided me with some useful information about building Lego trains which I still use frequently today. I hope this helps, and that you have success regarding your project. I’d love to see whatever it is that you’re building on here at some point in the future when it’s done...
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    Fantastic MOC! Your roof design is one of the best I've ever seen.
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    Well congratulations @adwind on reaching 10k again! I supported this quite a while back now, I think at about the 2k mark, or possibly before (to tell the truth I can't really remember, except it was early on!)..... A well deserved place in the next review, though heavens only knows how many projects will hit 10k this time around. Best of luck in the review (though I'm aware this is a very long way off) - I'd definitely pick this one up if I had the option!
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    Thanks @ScotNick - these will be really helpful in the future when I get round to building a UP FEF class locomotive, which uses 80 inch wheels IRL, so BBB XXL or size 13. Also, is anyone aware of anywhere I can find Stud.io parts for ball bearing wheel sets?
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    The S8 prices will almost certainly be relatively proportional to the S32s, ie 1/4 the price or slightly more..... My guess for R88s is that a box will be less than that for R72, but two will be more (1 box of R72s is 1/2 a circle, 1 box of R88+ is 1/4). As a box of R72s is EUR 59.99, I'd guess probably about EUR 39.99 per box for the R88s, meaning EUR 79.98 for a half circle.
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    Maybe 60197 is for an underground network or something? On the standard London tube map not all the overground lines are shown.... Think of the centre/terminus as like Kings Cross St Pancras....
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    Love it! It reminds me of the changing map at the London Transport Museum which shows how the Tube map has changed since its creation....
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    We’ve just had leaked and publicised on Brickset 10289 Bird of Paradise. https://brickset.com/sets/10289-1 Pleasant surprise on my part. I wonder if it will be out of stock as much as the current ones are.
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    I still have hopes. Looking at the numbers of Expert type sets that have been released this year, and those rumoured, there are quite a few gaps still. This is all the gaps from 10278 (Police Station) to 10295 (Porsche 911): 10279 10282 10284 10288 10291 10293 10294 The RMS Titanic and Camp Nou are almost certainly two of these, but that still leaves five more, assuming that catchup to 10295 is made over the course of this year, as it was with last year’s release of 10277 prior to 10274, 75, and 76. Of these, the only one listen on jjp’s site is 10291, with a rumoured price of US$100 - this is the same price as the Crocodile. I may be reading too much into this, but these facts combined with how frequently I’ve seen 10277 out of stock in the past ten months points pretty favourably in our direction..... Here’s hoping anyway.
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    When an exploration theme has first appeared in recent years (ie not the 2018 arctic stuff, for example) the theme has generally had a couple of new and very well used torsos that appear in almost every set. There's generally a standard torso, and then one for the heli pilot(s). You can therefore probably expect at least two new torsos for the rescuers (is that a word?) - possibly a new scientist torso as well?
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    Considering that 80107 was a modular itself, I reckon that they may well continue in that style, one set per year at a smaller scale than the modulars, but using the modular standard. Sort of like Market Street, being cheaper and aimed at getting people into modulars, rather than being a main one itself (though it is definitely counted - see the video where Jamie Berard introduces the Assembly Square, with all previous modulars included, and Market Street is one of them). I know this discussion has been had many times before and been ended many times and I hate to spark it again BUT.......I'd love a train station. Also, on a side note, this has really got a thread already, that just hasn't been active this year much, and despite its name, it is the place where most wish lists get posted: It's one of the oldest, most commented on threads in all the forums that's still in some use. Generally gets going roundabout June discussing the next modular, even though it's 6 months from there to its release.
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    No. I know that there's a Creator Expert/18+/Advanced Models Camp Nou set coming out later this year - could they be doing that now? And maybe that's why there hasn't been more architecture recently.
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    @HoMa has posted on his Instagram page a clip of the Fx Bricks 9v track, including both the S32s and the R72s - it’s clear that the information ’coming soon’ on Fx Bricks’ site can be taken to mean very soon indeed, if it’s at the pre-release independent review stage now....
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