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    Is there a UK price for the TIE bomber yet?
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    Hi all, seeing as they haven't been added to stud.io yet, has anyone made a stud.io or LDRAW part file for the new UCS Hogwarts Express wheels? Part 90840 Thanks, Sam
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    I think the tram looks pretty good. I don't have any of the winter village sets and don't want the buildings but I might piece the tram together or buy it split
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    Back of box pics are out, showing a moderately sized, but detailed interio
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    rarest_lego_minifigures on IG has an interesting leak...
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    From usual leak places... New winter village set is a high street with a tram that can be motorised and runs on track...make your jokes now...
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    These look awsome!
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    This looks amazing! I was too young to MOC but remember being on the internet and seeing Sava's trains - and then going onto LDD and not understanding how he got the big wheels! Very fond of this era, looking, forwards to seeing what you make
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    Quote from the designer, Marcos Bessa on his Instagram in a reply to a comment "...I wonder at any point in the design process, did you consider making it slightly smaller and to be compatible with Lego train track?..." "quite early we’ve decided we wanted a different experience than the play theme version of the train, that we still have in the assortment. Besides, doing a steam train bigger than the ones we’ve done, but keeping the “big wheels” small enough to work with our tracks means doing it in the scale we’ve done before. You can’t really make bigger wheels and still have the engine run on all our types of curved tracks."
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    They didn't even taper the boiler properly. Each section is flat, and gets 1 plate higher. I'm fine with the engine in red, but the coach should have been dark red. The windows are really wide, nothing like a BR MK1 but I guess it's easier to see inside like that.
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    Based on some quick maths, the locomotive is 1:34 scale (10 studs:GWR hall width). This custom 7 wide track (i.e. rail, 5 studs, rail) is 1:31.5). If you want to go on width of Lego track to standard gauge track that's 1:38.2 scale. I can start to understand where the sizing has come from if they want to make the minifig dioramas in the carriage look good. However I think this could have been done leaving the wheels at 6 wide (so compatible with normal track) and making the train in 8 wide. At 7 wide the scale would be 1:48.5, at 8 wide the scale would be 1:42.4. They could have definitely made it 8 wide and had really nice scenes in the carriage, and it would have been compatible and looked about right for people who have existing trains/layouts. This does lead me to ask why most British train MOCs are built to 7 wide...
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    Not sure why people are calling the set "minifig scale" or bigger than "minifig scale". Minifigs don't have human like proportions they aren't the best guide. Minifg compatible is more of a thing, i.e. do minifigs look "right" with it. Minifg height to average person is 1:45, and width is 1:32 Based on some quick maths, the locomotive is 1:34 scale. This custom 7 wide track (i.e. rail, 5 studs, rail) is 1:31.5). Most British train MOCs are designed in 7 wide which is a 1:46-1:48 scale depending on the prototype. If you want to go on width of Lego track to standard gauge track that's 1:38.2 scale. So it fits to a given scale, and a bigger than standard train scale has been chosen for the minifig dioramas in the carriage to look good. However by doing this it's incompatible with the last 56 years of train which have run on 6 wide track.
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    The tile between the jumpers is 4 wide (see studs in front of it). And look at the cab roof as well. I'm quite sure it's 10 wide. But even if it was 9 wide, using those size wheels is not at all what builders have done.
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    Looking a bit closer, track appears to be 7 wide. Sleepers are jumper, 4 long tile jumper. And the axles are grey (odd). All the drivers are flanged so the new wheel won't be coming in unflanged . Pony truck doesn't look like it can even pivot, however the chassis looks to be 4 wide presumably with bushings on either side so could be modded to 6 wide rails - but it wouldn't turn.
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    https://imgur.io/a/a0ASBQR https://www.reddit.com/r/Legoleak/comments/wjlfgn/i_ordered_lion_knights_castle_but_lego_sent_me/?utm_medium=android_app&utm_source=share Link, mods remove if not allowed. Someone got it accidentally shipped to them directly from Lego so it's not copyright breaching I think?
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    Hogwarts Express has leaked!!! Wow. It's 10 studs wide. The bogie wheels are the normal Emerald Night drivers. The driving wheels are new - I'd say they look about 6 wide not including flanges? It's on a custom display stand and the track is 8 studs wide (6 between rails) This thing is huge. However it's probably scaled larger than most people's trains. Most AFOLs moc UK stock in 7 wide (some do 6 some 8), as our stuff is smaller than in Europe and America. 1 carriage, loco tender and carriage are all regular red Personal note: Man I'm impressed by this but also...Lego had the opertunity to make a set that would appeal to train fans and HP fans...and they didn't. On the one hand the price makes more sense but on the other... It's just not compatible with anything. Unless Lego have a plan where they will move there train standard to 10 wide on 8 wide rails I really don't get this. Everyone on this forum knows how hard designing a steam locomotive is, having to make something look good, scale well and go around curves. It's not easy. But TLG were the best candidates to do it they can make new pieces etc... All these years asking for bigger wheels and wider rails...they could have started that move with this set. And they didn't. The only use I can see out of the new wheels is for those wanting to make single wheeler locomotives. In the past few years TLG have been moving towards making sets for new adult collectors to the hobby rather than long standing, moc building AFOLs. That's fine, it makes them money. But come on, this is just a big "we don't care about you" to train fans.
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    Wow this looks great! And thanks for the instructions. Presuming it's pure LEGO, will it go around R40 curves?
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    lovely!
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    From Promobricks: 75331 Razor Crest USD $529.99 6187 pieces October 3rd
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    Wow this is incredible! I love by leaving behind the 6 wide Lego track, the models can become so much more detailed and have no compromises! Now given me the idea of upscaling one of my trains...
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    Yep. I think IDEAS should ban liscensed themes. They just don't show any creativity - instead it's "here's some minifigures you wanted, and some stickers with fun Easter eggs!!". And I say this as someone who loves Back to The Future and Doctor Who (and regrets not getting the ideas sets in my dark ages). The new House Pocus set looks like a pretty decent building...but so many better and more creative (and maybe more importantly larger appeal with the AFOL community) projects were like the Steampunk explorers or Riverside scholars.
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    Very nice! Love the windshield snot work!
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    Glad I found this topic, because its something I've been thinking about for a while. Agree with a lot of things that have been said here and won't repeat...instead here is a long wordy ramble from a young AFOL who probably spent more time designing steam train MOCs on LDD then playing with my City sets between ages 7 and 10... (feel free to skip) One thing that I do really think has harmed creativity is liscensed themes. And I say this as someone who's collection post dark ages is made of Star Wars sets. For example, a kid in the 80s with a classic space set may think "wow, this is a fun spaceship, but I could add extra rockets to make it faster, or cooler wings etc..." but a kid now with a star wars set will think "this is my x wing fighter, and it looks like an x wing and plays like an x wing". A kid would have no reason to take parts of a Star Wars ship apart or add different add ons etc, because it wouldn't look like what it's meant to be. Same with other themes... Nothing is wrong with building sets as per the instructions, and for MOC builders that's where you first learn skills and techniques. However I think LEGO definatley has moved away from pushing creativity with sets. One intresting reason for this that I haven't seen discussed here is how specialised parts have become. I'm not talking about big boat/plane/bionicle pieces, but there is just so much variety in parts now, if you buy a normal, non classic/creator set, there are hardly any standard bricks, instead a lot of plates (increasingly non rectangular), slopes, wedges, brackets, SNOT bricks... and that makes sets much more detailed - but at a cost of what they can be rebuilt into. For a bit of context, I started playing with LEGO as a child in about 2006, went into my dark ages around 2011, and came back as a TFOL in 2018. My first non technic set back was 75218 (2018 X Wing), and there were just so many new parts that blew my mind - not because they were new shapes - but because they were effectively a part that I would have made from mulltiple parts as a kid. For example, the L shape tiles, 2x3 tiles, all the new brackets that were introduced around 2013 (I think from checking bricklink). This increased speciallity, reduces reusability. I don't think the creative side of the hobby is dying, but with social media, people will show off their set builds, rather than like the 2000s when people would use LEGO social media to show off MOCs. My favourite LEGO theme was and still is trains. I remember looking through Eurobricks, flickr and youtube seeing really cool train MOCs when I was young. These inspired me to build my own - on LDD. This is because I didn't have the parts to build steam train MOCs as a kid - I was lucky enough to get the Emerald Night for my 7th birthday but there was no way I was taking that apart for pieces, and the rest of the stuff I had was City and Creator. (Also side note - sets have gotten increasingly more expensive, bigger, and there is more of an understanding of the resell value of LEGO, which also will drive people to not take stuff apart) Another thing that makes mocing overwhelming is how expensive and difficult it is. For example, if you want to have a big LEGO parts room with different draws for different types of bricks - it takes time to amass a collection that size. If you design something on stud.io and try and bricklink the parts - you can easily end up spending over £100 for a 400 part model. If you saw a set with that kind of price per volume, you'd think it's ludicrous. Back between 2007 and 2010 (I think?) you could use LEGO Factory/Design By Me to order custom models from LDD, however I never could do that as a kid. So a question to older Eurobricks users... Was bricklink (or equivilant sites) around in the mid 2000s? And was using LEGO Factory/Design By Me a way people ordered parts for models? I think its such a shame TLG got rid of LEGO Factory as it was probably the most easy way to get parts for custom models (maybe not the cheapest?). As a child who was fairly good with computers I would design models, and ask for them for Christmas/Birthday's but I didn't get any (probably because a steam engine and 4 carriages was quite pricy...), however I remember my Dad giving me and ordered me 1 train chassis, 2 buffers, 4 wheels and 2 bogies. That was the basis that all my MOCs ended up using.
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    Description from CIty 2022 forum: Contents of the box: locomotive, flat-car, open-car, car transport, 2 electric cars, loading station, 2 cargo containers, pick-up trucks, railway stables, 33 railway segments and 6 minifigures.Cool details and functions: The train and sound effects can be operated with the accompanying remote control or with the LEGO® Powered Up App via Smartphone/Tablet.Gift for every occasion: This LEGO® City Railway Game is suitable as a birthday, Christmas or surprise gift for children and railway fans from 7 years of age.Dimensions: The LEGO® City freight train is 9 cm high, 90 cm long and 6 cm wide.Cool mini figures accessories: screwdriver, shovel, radio and telephone as well as fruit and vegetables.Building and toy kit for children from 7 years of age: The LEGO® City toy set also contains simple construction instructions for each model.33 Railway segments: The LEGO® City Freight Train includes 16 curved and 16 straight rail segments as well as a soft rail section. Guaranteed quality: Each LEGO® element meets strict industry standards to ensure consistency and compatibility and provide great building fun.Safety comes first: LEGO® elements are tested for fall, heat, pressure and torsion to meet stringent global safety standards. I actchually really like it looking at it more. Loco looks unique, like an electric European prototype. Colours looked a bit strange at first but it's growing on me. I think it would look pretty good pulling the passenger cars from the 2018 train. Also a surprisingly nice amount of straight track for a train set Description above mentions a "loading station" but I am struggling to see one - unless you drive up the ramps on the buffer stop? Usually I don't like side builds, but I feel that could have been made a bit better. Guess the ramp is still safer than lifting on with the telehandler. Agree with what's been said above, wagons are pretty good. I really hope the box car has bogies. Last time we got more than one "long" wagon was 60052 (2014). Really like the car transporter, I had 7898 as a kid, which I loved, but more cars is obviously better. Struggling to tell what the teal wagon is carrying, anyone able to make it out? I do wish it had four wagons, but we've not had that since 2006... :( Overall so much better than the 2018 set imo.
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    Looking at the price... In 2009 the EN released for $100 - adjusted for inflation that's $134. The Boutique Hotel released this year for $200. If the build of King's Cross Station is as big and detailed as a modular, and the train is about as detailed as the EN, then that's $334. The only way I could see it being $469 even with more coaches, is by having Powered Up and track. From lego.com it's $93 for the PU hub, Technic large motor and remote control. Add $30 for a loop of track and we are at $457. Obviously it doesn't cost LEGO their retail prices to add electronics and track, so I would hope for $469 the station would be really detailed and there would be two coaches - but I can see how $469 could be a possible price...just not one I can afford...
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