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  1. legotownlinz
    Looks like they had some cars from the 80ies in stock.
  2. legotownlinz
    This flexibility is great, best on market.
  3. legotownlinz
    I wish the modulars use a base plate that supports wireless lighting like the one from i-Brix. Until Lego has such a solution they should continue to use the flat baseplates.
  4. legotownlinz
    I'm also hoping for a train-related building like an 18+ train station.
  5. legotownlinz
    Are there any rumors yet? How many train-related sets will we get in 2021? In the last years, there was at least one train-related set and an average of two sets per year: 2020 10277 Crocodile Locomotive 40370 Trains 40th Anniversary Set (gift) 60271 Main Square (tram) 2019 70424 Ghost Train Express 71044 Disney Train 2018 75955 Hogwarts Express 60197 Passenger Train 60198 Cargo Train 2017 10259 Winter Village Station 2016 10254 Winter Holiday Train I've listed only sets in minifig scale.
  6. legotownlinz
    I don't see any reason to remove interiors or save parts somewhere else. Modulars should get better, not worse, and I hope that Lego will manage to offer sets with more pieces at the same price. Otherwise, their offers will soon look underwhelming compared to the ones of competitors. Imho they already do, other brands do not save tiles of the upper floors...
  7. legotownlinz
    I think my example is typical for most trains designed for Powered Up. It uses a standard base plate and has a size similar to many other engine, it's not a particularly small engine. Left and right engine are 99.9% identical. The only difference is a polarity change of the motor. I use two motors in every engine. It's a rule of thumb that one motor is required per three wagons, otherwise the train can't climb the inclines of two plates per straight track.
  8. legotownlinz
    Here's an actual train and for comparison a typical USB cable. A Lego Pup plug requires a free space of at least one stud with two studs being better to have enough room for the excess length of the cable. The USB-A plug has a length of five studs (not including the metal part that would be inside the jack!) and six studs if you don't want to cripple the cable. Neither left nor right to the battery box is enough space for the 2 x 4 wide voltage range brick, least of all for the USB cable.
  9. legotownlinz
    My real ones all died. They did not. The leaked image looks completely different. But nice attempt to lure us into your website. ;-)
  10. legotownlinz
    The PF power supply looks good. The wide voltage range input brick is big and additional space is required for the USB-A plug and the Micro-USB plug on the other side of the cable. Special very thin and very short USB cable would be required. All together, this solution exceeds the available free space of most trains. I don't see any chance this approach is practical.
  11. legotownlinz
    My favorite train is the Horizon Express. I like the design of the Crocodile best, but it is too slow and derails too often to be my favorite train.
  12. legotownlinz
    What?! Alternative facts? Using a blatant lie to promote a product makes me a bit angry...
  13. legotownlinz
    Agreed, that's needed. But the pickup is not available, so the product is incomplete. Like a car sold without wheels...
  14. legotownlinz
    Indeed. But you need space for the rectifier and the capacitors in the wheel set or you need extra space somewhere else which would require a redesign of most trains. That should be possible for most trains, but it is an obstacle that holds possible customers off from buying the product. I get the point that the company behind Keybrick One is not excited about the idea of vastly redesigning their product and I'm fine if they don't do it. I just wanted to say what features would make me buy it. And this is definitely convenient recharging of my trains without removing any parts. If I have to disassemble anything, then I can stick to Lego's hub, which allows me to just replace the batteries and run the train again without waiting until the batteries are charged.
  15. legotownlinz
    And there it goes... That's what I meant when I suggested an universal input that accepts any voltage. Reducing the voltage to 5V on the tracks is not enough, you need the rectifier on the train and not in the power supply because the polarity changes when you turn around the train. This either destroys the Keybrick One or it won't charge. And what is the use-case where you don't need these add-ons? I'd say that most of the trains hubs are used in trains and there you need some way to charge without disassembling the train. That's what 95% of your customers need.
  16. legotownlinz
    I still dislike how Lego changed the original fan design. Obviously a few people in China also thought the fan design is better. Have a look at AliExpress... ;-)
  17. legotownlinz
    Please do it right and support a wide voltage range directly in Keybrick Two. Any external solution is a mess because it requires extra space it is complicated to connect homebrew stuff it's more likely the Keybrick gets damaged electronics is required for every addon
  18. legotownlinz
    I'm also hoping for version two. Here are my thoughts and reasons why I'm not ordering the current product: The battery recharging hassle is the main customer pain point of the Lego hub but unfortunately it is not addressed by the Keybrick One. The USB connector is as inaccessible from the outside of a train as Lego's battery holder, thus no improvement. Wireless charging or power pickup wheels would be required. No slowdown: Nice to have, but I implicitly compensate the decreasing voltage by using a higher speed step. Of course this only works when not using the highest speed step with fresh batteries, which I rarely do, so that there is a margin to compensate the voltage drop. Less weight is an anti-feature. The more weight the better to have enough traction. All my trains suffer from slipping wheels in inclines so I build them as heavy as possible. Eco, normal and boost mode: Using a slower speed increases the battery live, but why should I limit it in the battery box if I can have the same result by just not using the highest speed level? The LED indicating the mode cannot be seen when the battery box is inside the train, making it impossible to change the mode without disassembling the train. A beeper instead of the LED would be more useful.
  19. legotownlinz
    I also wish Lego would make it easy to buy parts for MOCs. But offering such a service at a large scale and with acceptable pricing requires to automate the whole process and to always have a large stable set of available parts in stock that MOC designers can rely on.
  20. legotownlinz
    I read somewhere that most of the Bluebrixx parts are made by Xingbao. The clutch power of my Xingbao sets varies, sometimes it is more, sometimes it is less than Lego's. Only few bricks are unusable. But the track could be made by some other manufacturer.
  21. legotownlinz
    Trixbrix curves are 3D printed while the Bluebrixx ones will certainly be molded. Bluebrixx never made their own molds so far, I wonder who is the supplier of these tracks.
  22. legotownlinz
    Starting at 2:00. He probably meant R56, not R54...
  23. legotownlinz
    The second best option would be the same connector as in the Lego Power Functions rechargeable battery pack. It is robust and user-friendly. Imho it's more important to have a future-proof wide voltage range input than a certain connector. If USB-C is too complex and using anything else than 5V for micro USB dangerous, then don't use USB.
  24. legotownlinz
    Wow. Re-visiting the page after a few days and nobody added a comment. Diagon Alley had at least a dozen new pages in a similar time span. The Colloseum seems be doomed, no interest at all...
  25. legotownlinz
    Competition is strong. I've recently bought modulars from other brands instead of Lego sets I'm not interested in. My buying behavior has changed the last few months in a way that is unfavorable for Lego and I'm pretty sure I'm not the only one because there's an increasing number of opportunities to buy sets from other brands and lots of people on YouTube & Co. promoting them. Lego has to change and offer a larger number of sets. They already starting doing that, everything is possible now. Even the least likely thing - a new AFOL train set - happend this year!
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