Captain Zuloo

I'd have to say trains. They move on their own, and they are the basis of my layout. Plus, I just really like trains. What did you vote TheBrickster?

They can't, except by staff or special members. But not to worry, just don't do it again and we won't have to keelhaul you.

http://www.flickr.com/photos/capn_blackmoo...57623119385713/ Time zones.

Ahoy there, and welcome to Eurobricks! I love the look of your city from the picture in your post, unfortunately your Brickshelf folder is not yet public, but I'll be checking back tomorrow to look at it. Looks like you have a good collection of trains too, you may want to visit TheBrickster in Train Tech. Seeya around mate!

You know you're a LEGO fan when the first thing you do when you wake up in the morning is grab your laptop from the side of your bed, turn it on and browse Eurobricks for an hour or two before getting up and eating breakfast.

I'm pretty sure it all depends on the printer, but my best suggestion is to find out the x length and the y height and stick the sail image in MS Word and adjust the size of it until it meets the size of the real sail. Then print it out and it should be the right size. Let me know if I make no sense.

Haha, that is gold! Captain Green Hair will get a laugh out of that one! On a side note, I think this could work, but I doubt it will. You may get a few people who print out some decals and post green coat MOCs, but the truth is that you could never compete with red and blue for one reason. They are official minifigs, and there are a huge number of them out there.

Interesting topic TheBrickster. I personally don't like this concept much, unless it is a really big pizza. I never like layouts that are just a circle. I appreciate what challenges with size, money availablility etc. the builders face, but I really think unless it's under a Christmas tree, simple loops are a massive for me. This does have the scope for much larger layouts to make use of though. There was a particular HO layout at the CMRCI Model Railway Expo 2009 (my local train show) and it was a big diorama of Japan. It was a big city scape, and it featured bridges, tunnels etc. with 2 or 3 different levels at each section. It was certainly the coolest scale railway layout I've seen. To turn this into LEGO could well be an easy task, especially for LUGs and LTCs at big expos. All that would be required is a big donut layout (hole in the middle) and a row of cardboard boxes sitting at the back of the tables. Cover this in green sheets/bricks/camel poo etc. and you have an elevated section on which you could easily lay 2 lines of track and a little scenery. This concept has potential on a big layout, but I just don't see it on simple circles of track.

It's an APMAX contest.

Quatro or Primo.

But what is the advantage of that? Digital LEGO is IMO pathetic in comparison to the real stuff, so I only see digital LEGO having a purpose in being blueprints for a real model/layout. This makes me wonder what you would want to use parts that never existed for. But each to their own I suppose, just my 2c.

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Only to find it has already been moved? No, wait! There's a second one!

I spend far too much time on Eurobricks, and although it should probably stop, it won't. Like Zorro, how many times I visit Eurobricks in a day depends on how busy I am at the time, but on average I probably spend around 4 hours per day on here. In my opinion that's far too much, especially when I have work that actually pays me (unlike the Classic-Pirates.com blog ) to get done while I'm online. But we'll never know what else I could achieve was I to be online less, because that'll never happen.

Not to worry, you make a great effort, and that's what counts!

Well before you trash her, can you please take a few photo of this cannon mechanism? I'd be very interested to see it.

Nice animation, the voicing was also brilliant! I see why you posted in the Pirates forum as that Pirates scene is indeed very cool, but as it is more than just Pirates, I'll move it to the Brick Flicks forum. Thanks for sharing! P.S. I also embedded the video into your post. For future reference, you can do that by using the following code: [youtube]uneS8D4cm9k[/youtube] Where uneS8D4cm9k is the "v" value in your video URL, in this case

...when you actually yell "Yes!!!" when you find the brick separator that you thought you lost...whilst you have guests you don't know very well over.

The Baseballs - Hot N Cold

Unfortunately there is a somewhat limited selection of parts in LDD. You will probably have more luck with MLCad or similar. But just in case I'm wrong, I'll move this to the General LEGO section and we'll see what others say about it.

Great review Iz! Not sure I'd fork out $15 for this set, but I'm also a scrooge. i'm in love with your fig positioning, really funny and added alot to the review. Well done!

What a jump! I think there's no question that Eurobricks is certainly the #1 LEGO fan forum on the internet.

Isn't that a shame! I was about to go and buy some when I read that comment. They look really cool, so what a shame they don't have them anymore.

But why not make use of the big wheels? Surely they turn as well as any other LEGO wheels?

That is a good point. It would seem to be a waste were they to re-release the Olten Hall without dark red big drivers. It would seem most logical to produce them in dark red for more than one set...fingers crossed.