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Have they said when these are going to be offered?

This might be possible with the Bricklick go fund me program. You might get 5000 AFOL to fund a re-release of a modular.....or something very close where old parts are discontinued.

Feel the general consensus is correct, TLG does not re-release sets because they do not believe they will be as profitable as the ones offered today. And I don't blame them. If you want an old set shell out the +$1000's for it or Bricklink something very close which in itself is usually a enjoyable experience.

Would be a disappointment if they do cancel the WV set for 2021. Should that happen do have a bit of a buffer. Planning on adding the Winnie the Pooh set 21326 to my Holiday display. Seams made for it...add a few white leaves and some white studs for snow. While I favor the more village offering of this theme, the kids like the Elfs and Santa better. Our display is for the whole family and would much prefer an Elf or two gets moved around and such then have a nice looking village that just collects dust....no one plays with. Hoping our Elfs get into all kinds of trouble in our display this year! ;)

I agree, already thru most of my Lego budget for this year. Sure next years offering (hopefully) will be worth the wait. Playing catch up on the Winter Village sets and the last few Modular buildings.

This subject really turned me off Lego for a bit. My goal is Lego is supposed to be fun and when its not I take a break. As popular as Barracuda Bay is really don't see why Bricklink (TLG) did not include one of the Pirate Ships to be considered for the Bricklink go fund me sets. The only reason I can think of is TLG feared this go fund me set would pull dollars away from the Barracuda Bay. As many set as the Barracuda has already sold......feel this is TLG being a little too greedy. Oh well, sailing on. I have an old Viking set that should be able to moc the boat into a nice Pirate Themed set. Thinking Impearl...something for the Barracuda to fight.

See TLG is returning pre purchase funds if not hitting target during crowd funding stage. Does this also apply during the design review? Basically is TLG going to refund everyone's money if the do not produce the set?

That is it, thank you.

Hello. Looking for the post on this forum where someone moc'ed the station set 7997 in gray. They had several station mocs in their tread. Was well done. I recently build a moc similar in red//tan. Wanted to refresh my memory what it would look like in gray. Any help greatly appreciated.

So have you considered the current set 75955. Fairly simple to add an engine module under the tender. $65 US for the set, plus motor/battery box. Get two sets for an extra coach and moc engine. PU or PF, does not matter for adding power. If you go with the PU, you can control via the power up app. Can do limited programming for automation (easy programming). Adding a $15 color sensor open up automation even more!

How about a Polar Express train! That was a popular movie

Well.....hopefully another movie will become popular that features a good train for TLG to model. :)

Lot of good discussion on this topic. Cost is definitely an issue IMO. TLG might explore offering more sets without PU items and track. Think the Harry Potter train sold well. No reason this could not be extending to the city theme, motorized and non motorized sets. Do hope any non motorized sets allow for the upgrade to motors thou!

Quick update on this moc. Hopefully you can see the pictures attached this time. Overall really did not like the look of this moc. Rebuild it more to a traditional building, (apologies no picture) and still didn't like it. Took it all apart and used set 7997 as my inspiration. Color choices were limited to bricks on hand. Like this one much better. Do plan on going back someday and cleaning things up a bit, maybe change out some colors. The walk way colors on the original set (brown and drak gary) IMO never matched well. This continues for my moc...that will be one of the first things I change. Anyhow, thought I would share. Hope inspires others to do even better! IMG_3306 by Bill battles, on Flickr Overview, Station services 3 track, Walkway connects middle platform to station. Campground in front of station. IMG_3307 by Bill battles, on Flickr If you look really hard you can see bits of the ot the original set in there. Red was the only color I had slope of this size in volume. Didn't have any corners so that is why the gray tiles were added. Design varys from 7997 as base is all one level and arches in the front. The clock and station sign made in into the moc. Personal favorite is the Grandma sharing a milkshake with her grandson on the roof. IMG_3309 by Bill battles, on Flickr Extended the platform, added some benches and two roof sections. The modified 4 by 6 plates are not a favorite. Prefer ones with full studs. Will be changing these out when parts are available. Had to check on those red slopes with the blue flags. Yep, the are official Lego. https://www.bricklink.com/catalogItemIn.asp?P=3297px18&in=S

So I have been having some success with the app. Got a train to come out of a siding, run around the layout a few times and put itself back into the siding...repeat. Also got two trains to index themselves at my station, that is change tracks (passing siding at station). Required one going backward thru a switch but works good. Added way to many steps to maximize the trains swapping movements. If I was a kid, I never would have figured out the Power up app programming. Agree, for the price TLG charges for stuff one would think they could afford to properly support this product. They give you a sizeable book to build a pirate ship, but to program a train you are on your own.... Anyone find aftermarket PU plugs? As TLG does not provide extension cables need to make your own.

Oddly, S@H was out of stock for the sensors, but my store had them. Added second sensor and my my trains are running by themselves. Life is good.... I found a series of youtube vidoes that where very helpful explaining the blocks of the app. Wish I had found this before. Lot of good info. Now I need to find a way to add more sounds to the app.

Thank you, that is it. Now I need to get a second color sensor. Is their any documentation on what all the function blocks do in this app? Assume their is a block for a motor that will ramp the speed up slowly, currently I am using a bunch of reg motor blocks, increase them each by 20% with a timer in between them. Acts like a ramp up speed but sure there is a better way to do this.

Question on the Lego Powered Up app. In the custom programming building "create" , saw a video where program was able to code for two hubs at the same time. I cannot locate where this block is that he used. It is located right at the 5;00 min mark on the video. I am able to link to both hubs, just cannot find this control block need. Really neat video showing power of the app. I am wanting to control two trains at a station with a passing siding.

Thank you for the explanation. Was unaware the voltage on my Ni-MH was only 1.2 V. Can see some advantages. One key performance I see from the Power Up system, like the PF before, was putting the battery box over the motor. How dose one 9 V battery compare to 6 AAA in weight?

I an not that familiar with Lithium Batteries. Why would you do this vs using rechargeable Ni-Mh? I have been happy with my AAA Panasonic Eneloop rechargeable ones.

The best part about this hobby is you can build whatever you can imagine. Glad you have kept up with your city build. Looks like you are getting a lot of enjoyment out of it. If you don't already have one suggest a farm....lot of creativity can go into this build.

Interesting read. As coming back to the hobby 2016/2017, all my stuff is based the RC/plastic track. Feel this product would be a great option for those with metal tracks needing replacements or additions. As most have commented costs will the main challenge for AFOL to convert there systems. Taking a 50,000 height view of the issue, IMHO it would have been better to have made a system that allowed putting metal rails on the existing plastic track, Some sort of snap on connection. Looking as close as possible to Lego's original offering. Cost would be down and if the power pickup could also be developed would be the best of both worlds. Hope someone looks into developing this option. Edit, Did not see FX is looking at developing the power pickup. Excellent.

Those passenger car cars came out awesome. I'm jealous. Great job!

thought about this, but the orginal rocket is what drew me to this set. Plan on keeping it. This shuttle is more in scale with the rocket. The rocket is actually underscaled but will make it work. Thinking the shuttle will be parked of to the side of the launch platform. I like to see inside my building so try to keep them open in the back (doll house style). Thought about building a garage, but feel a training center or lab would be more interesting. Fire Station sets are a great place for red bricks.

Ok, this is what I am starting with. As you can see my shuttles are a bit out of scale. Thinking will make to displays, one on earth as a launch center (will be by my airport) and the other on the moon. For the moon, planning on having one of the shuttles discovering an alien space ship. Have most of the Galaxy Squad sets and even more of Mars mission (excellent bad guy). For the Launce center, will keep most of what you see below for the display. Will expand the control center to 2 or 3 levels, open back. Planning on adding a lab and training center as separt building. May combine these depending how large the control center gets. IMG_3277 by Bill battles, on Flickr IMG_3273 by Bill battles, on Flickr