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I was wandering the dealers stalls at an anime convention about 6 months ago and spied http://www.bricklink.com/catalogItem.asp?S=8840-1 in amongst a load of random anime paraphernalia, the stall owner seemed quite surprised when I pointed it out and gave it to me for £5. Full set with box and instructions. :D

It's pretty good, much more successful than the one I tried to make a long time ago which kept coming off the tracks. I'm surprised that yours stays on the tracks on the peak just after the loop, did you have to use any tricks to prevent it coming off?

I had a pretty good haul, in terms of Lego and overall this year: Non Lego: 1TB external hard drive. Ski bag. Lego: MMV, which I've been wanting for a long while. The entire Prince of Persia range. Apparently my mum found them together fairly cheap on e-bay so snaffled them up. Used most of the pieces in a MOC already. :D £40 Lego Gift card. Not sure what I'm going to spend it on yet, may well go towards one of the modular buildings. All in all I couldn't have asked for anything better. Considering that I didn't ask for anything at all I thought this was a pretty awesome turn of events.

I'd love to come to this, I have a few worries about transport however: I will almost certainly not have the use of a car for AFOLCON. Public transport to the centre itself seems to be easy enough, are there also regular buses to the recommended hotels? I would like to bring at least one MOC for display, however I would be getting the train most of the way, does anyone have any recommendations for how to transport them? (This is assuming I can actually get them from Scotland to uni in one piece.) Also, unrelated to transport; do you guys do anything in the evening? I've been to a few anime conventions and they tend to have a lot of socialising in the evenings, do you do trips to the pub or anything similar?

Hello everyone! My name is Ben/zed0 (both get used in real life), I'm doing a PhD at Warwick Uni, though I live in Scotland when I'm not there. I grew up with Lego, I think one of my first memories is getting a castle set (6085-1) for my 4th birthday. I'm interested in most themes, though I think Castle is my favourite, I've just finished a MOC for the Classic Castle contest, need to get some decent shots of it. I got back into Lego a couple of years ago but apart from reading Brothers Brick I haven't really done much with the community, hopefully that will change. There are photos of some of the things I've made in the last couple of years on my webspace: http://zed0.co.uk/Misc/Lego/, I need to spend some time getting decent shots of them and moving it all over to flickr. Other interests include: computing, climbing, maths and anime.