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Couldn't see another post on this topic, apologies if I missed it. https://ideas.lego.com/projects/0b9f43ac-67c0-4108-9e82-a44d6574b8ab This particular one shot to fame, getting 5000 votes in the last four weeks alone. I did a search and found six other Polar Express sets on Ideas with nothing like the same support. The winner looks like a worthy design but I bet the others are not so happy. Anyway, another train set for the Ideas team to think about. I've never even seen the film, is it worth a look?

Really nice, agree that eight-studs is the best way to show a packed commuter train. It's also a lovely finishing touch to do an appropriate MOC station to go with a MOC train, it makes it come alive.

This is great, now that TLG have 'proven' the superiority of the new wheels everyone will flock to buy them and the Bricklink prices for the old metal axle wheelsets will plummet (perfect for skeptical Luddites such as me). Hope that TLG will now put the same effort into fixing the tram wheels.

60197 is due for replacement in 2022. How planned is this likely to be at this point in time?

Congratulations, the more that TLG sees demand for trains, the more likely that they will try to satisfy it. But, sorry to rain on your parade, you need to look again at the Ideas T&Cs. In my reading of these, if The Canadian were to be accepted, then that would automatically disqualify The Corridor. Ideas won't accept a submission for IP that TLG already holds the licence for, so as soon as they get the necessary permissions from VIA Rail, then that disqualifies any subsequent submission that would require a VIA Rail licence. If they decide to do a whole sequence of VIA Rail sets, that is their decision and your further involvement is explicitly ruled out in the T&Cs. Surely, unless TLG close down their Denmark HQ and moves to Canada, they are scarcely likely to create two Canadian train sets in any case. Better to devote your obviously considerable energy and skills to a new project.

To expunge a popular design without trace or explanation is very Orwellian. Everything in awesome unless it violates TLG policy, then it must be eliminated.

Looking forward to these, especially as I can be flexible, spoked/solid fine, just want black. Low friction is preferred, but how would a metal axle work? Would the mount include springs and frames?

Think my best bet in terms of geometry is to try and attach a thin Technic liftarm underneath the airline part, i.e. the body, as far back under the overhang as possible. Not sure how robust I can make the connection though. Annoyingly, Technic thin liftarms seem to be out of system not only for Lego (thicker than one plate) but also for Technic, I can't find any useful pins that will connect them, e.g. to an anti-stud, without slack. With the tiny clearances I have, there is no room for slack. Google is pretty broken these days, lots of hits for Kadee couplings, but nothing useful I could find on close coupling on models with overhang. If you are not trying to buy something, Google is clueless.

Seconded! The tram wheels are so small it's impossible to build a decent bogie around them, any plates attached underneath their mounts foul pointwork. So I will just have to cut up a base-plate to give me a half-plate that helps to hold it all together 😱

Friends, Seinfeld, Big Bang Theory, Flintstones, Mickey Mouse, Sesame Street, Dr Who. It's not difficult. Long running, international success, recognisable ensemble cast, successfully rebooted (possibly as film). Could probably write an AI computer programme to pick them. Scooby Doo, Loony Tunes, Frasier, Tom & Jerry, Top Cat, Wallace & Gromit. I came up with this list off the top of my head, then checked Ideas. Yes, all doing well, except Top Cat but the ones I saw looked dreadful. Wonder if Sergent Bilko is worth a shot, or is comedy army out as far as Lego is concerned? We could probably come up with a good list if we wanted to. Or run through this list. https://www.empireonline.com/movies/features/best-tv-shows-ever-2/ Lego could check out this list too if their marketing department can't cope with IP mining

Thanks to you both, very helpful I see, of course ... actually, saving that plate height might allow me to mount a coupler direct to the bogie, such as 3176 Was wondering if those holes might be useful, is there a clever way of doing this so that when the goes round a corner the coupling opens out, and on straight track it pulls back in to close-couple?

Well, now it seems that Botanical Gardens Station is also going to be served by a new Underground line, and for the Edwardian era, that means Gate Stock: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/London_Underground_1906_Stock [google Underground Gate Stock for lots of great photos] I have mocked up something to test various ideas for a three car train. As you can see, I have managed to keep the overhang under control, just! To save a bit of space, the trailer bogie is offset, so first question: Currently the trailer bogie is on a turntable with a couple of hollow stud plates so that I can offset it. Can anyone think of a way to save a plate's height and still offset the bogie without raising the floor? Second question, and this is my undoing, what am I going to do about couplings? I don't think there is enough clearance under the Airline parts, and raising the fuselage(!) up will be a shame. I do hope this problem is going to be fixable, because it's going to look splendid when it is finished. Any other comments appreciated. As ever, I am designing for Lego rather than striving for authenticity.

Thanks for all the suggestions, and especially people who mocked something up, really appreciated. That Standard Stock model would look really nice finished! One of the advantages of minifigure anatomy is that they are very short, this means that when I worked out the profile, there was no need to give extra head room in the middle, if they can sit down they can stand up! And that is just as well, because now I have mocked up a prototype, it is obvious that a lot of strength in the car is going to have to come from the roof.

Clerestory was a standard feature on early London Tube trains as a way of ventilating the car and providing extra headroom on the tiny trains: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/London_Underground_Standard_Stock#/media/File%3A1927_Standard_Stock_L134.jpg https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/London_Underground_Standard_Stock#/media/File:London_Underground_tube_coach_(CJ_Allen,_Steel_Highway,_1928).jpg Any suggestions for modelling that internal raised central section in Lego, preferably with curved slopes. I'm working 8-wide.

The target market is people who don't know what to buy for you for your birthday!

Simulations are not the real thing, Mythbusters took a look at that. https://mythresults.com/unfinished-business MythBusters Episode 234: Unfinished Business Premier Date: August 22, 2015 A video game that simulates a skill can improve a player’s real-world performance of that skill. (Related to the Video Game Special.) BUSTED Adam and Jamie chose golf as the skill to be tested, since neither had ever played the game before. At the Pebble Beach Golf Links, they practiced their swings and played four holes without any training as a control test. Adam scored 43 and Jamie 47, after which they underwent separate training programs for one day. While Adam took lessons at the Pebble Beach Golf Academy, Jamie played a golf arcade game at the workshop and tried to incorporate the on-screen information into his playing. When they re-played the same four holes as in the control test, Adam scored 33 (a 10-stroke improvement), but Jamie’s score fell only two strokes to 45. Analysis of their swings before and after training revealed that Adam had learned much more than Jamie about the technical aspects of the swing. These results led them to classify the myth as busted. So, no, I would never trust a build that had not been tried for real. There are too many subtle interactions here. For example, some parts have better clutch than others. A person uploads to Ideas, gets to 1000 votes, the hope is that 10,000 people will support it, looks promising. If they all buy it, that might be a 2000 part set at £150 a go, total £1,500,000 changing hands. And this person won't try a build? Forget it.

I think you need to read my post again, I'm not talking about uploading MOCs on Eurobricks here, which is most often done for feedback and improvement. For Ideas, there is an implication that this is the almost finished product, other people will want to buy the set and build it, and preferably not have it fall apart. That changes the ground rules.

So many unpopular opinions that would be get me shunned forever ... Here is one: Don't submit to Ideas if you only have renders. If you can't be bothered to buy it and build it then why should I? You have to wonder whether some people on Ideas have ever even held a Lego brick before in their lives, if there is no physics then it is not Lego! Actually, I know that MOCing can be unbelievably expensive, but I personally think that anyone who has got to 1000 and is looking promising SHOULD build the thing and show us the photographs.

Than Thanks to inspiration from another thread, I have clear laser print water slide transfer paper on order. I will design top opening window frames and apply to window glass, watch this space.

Indeed, but a big deal for them to realise they need to redesign it. I'm learning to play music, still at the completely-useless level, but even for me the way that they mis-sold that piano as playable suggests that no one working for Lego can play a musical instrument.

The violin had a straight bridge, which is a huge no-no for competent violinists, just looking at it will upset them, they will hate it.

Should Lego have just one anniversary set? A single winner is not only divisive, it throws away sales. I voted for trains, if architecture had been there, that would have been my second choice. Now I don't care what the anniversary set will be, I certainly won't be buying it. Perhaps there might have been enough demand for five anniversary sets.

Thanks! As soon as I made this the basic part, I was trapped in 8-studs width: https://www.bricklink.com/v2/catalog/catalogitem.page?P=11301#T=C Tumblehome is done infinitely better here, but I didn't want to take the mass SNOT route: The original plan was for Car No1 to be an extra compartment long, but it looked absolutely nuts on standard curves. If I decide to invest in some wider radius third-party curves, then I definitely should extend everything, and that might make them look less toy-like. Car No4 in particular would look a lot more stylish with a second set of doors. Thanks! You might be right. Wood panelling would definitely have made them look older. The windows also, framed opening top lights needed. It is a real pain that seated minifigures protrude into the window, it really narrows now options, especially as Lego now does a terrible range of windows. District Line B stock here (1905): https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/London_Underground_B_Stock L&NW railway Oerlikon stock here (1913): https://simple.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/LNWR_electric_units

But then, as we saw from Sesame Street, If Lego really want it, they will redesign the entire build. Likewise they could scale anything down that is too massive. So, what are they looking for? Concept? Build? IP? I don't think they are looking for build at all. If a winning concept or IP grab happens to have a reasonable build they will absorb it as a foundation, otherwise they will start again. [So no point showing that a build comes apart for play features, Lego designers will sort that out.] Perhaps Ideas submissions should be split, different types of submission for different aspirations. 1) Here is an original concept that Lego should try as a set (no rules, even modded parts permitted, just let it rip) 2) Look at my amazing build, Lego should take it as is (automatic reject, Lego designers don't like outsiders doing their job) 3) Vote for iconic IP as a set (no complete build necessary, perhaps a couple of minifigures and test sections at most, that would have won the Minecraft vote, yes?) [Oh yes, and while I am here on this thread I will have a quick rant: Designers, stop submitting just renders, if you can't be bothered to build it for real, even after it has 1000 votes and looks promising, then why should I?]

This is the problem, the face of Ideas looks like some sort of democratic Kickstarter, but really the back end is more politicised than the Communist Kremlin. Maybe if they were more upfront about what might stand a chance, for example if your build is a city building on a 32x32 baseplate then forget it. The result is a hopelessly confused nest of vipers in which wannabe Lego employees, IP grabbers, the genuinely creative and the genuinely hopeless all try to grab attention.