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Thank you all for all the kind comments! I really appreciate that! @ SearchFunction: Thanks for your wonderful idea! It works perfectly and i'll never have thought of that technic! Cheers! @ Landshark/ Alasdair Ryan: Actually it isnt a PF system... Or rather, it isnt even a Lego light system... It was something i got off the hardware store cheap, paying like only $1.70 for a set with a battery box that requires 2x AA batteries to 8 light bulbs. The lights are quite bright though, and the battery box isnt that BIG to easily fit into any trucks/ cars... Here's another look at my emergency vehicles; all with flashing lights. And here's a really lousy video (my digital camera sucks) of them in action: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6schL8AlMQc There are altogether 4 different types of systems used here. Can anyone guess them all? keke ~ Thanks for reading and thanks again for all the kind comments!

Dear All! Here's sharing a new MOC i made with compliments of the wonderful technic shared by SearchFunction on how to build a 4 seater 6 stud wide vehicle: Double-Cab 6-studs wide seats 4 comfortably Fire pump truck! Here's the back view with 2 hose reels for fire fighting action. The reels attach to neighboring fire hydrants to tap the water to another fire boom truck as per SOP fire ops... Here's a top view showing the double-cabin. Seats 4 comfortably within 6 studs! Nice! The right view of the truck, with 2 ladders attached and pump equipments... A photo with the ladders removed for a better view at the pumping gauges and external compartments: There are 2 side lift doors at the left side for easy access to fire fighting equipment stored inside the truck... Wait a minute, whats that i see behind the 2 yellow fire extingushiers at the rear door?? Let's take a closer look! It's a switch! So that means.... Working flashing lights for my fire truck! Nice! Photos cant see that clearly of how it works, here's a video (pardon the low quality): P1010849 Nice? Quite hard trying to get all the bulbs and wiring in place... Here's a final view of our fire fighting heros! Thanks for reading! Comments & Critism welcomed! Hope you like it and Cheers!

Thank you so much SearchFunction! All i can say is i'm so totally in-debt to your technic! I've always wanted to create a 6-studer that sits 4 comfortably and i must say i would never have thought of that technic! It totally works and rocks! Thank you so much for sharing! A MOC is coming up in view of this technic! I'm so excited!

Hello again guys! With my photobucket back into action, i would like to share with you guys another set from the 2011 CARS series, the 8426 Escape at Sea. Unlike the 8487 Flo's Cafe which i really really liked alot, this set is slightly less astonishing... However, it does have the exclusive Boat though which can only be found in this set. Professor Z and Fin McMissile can also be found in 8639 Big Bentley Bust out (Not released yet), but for McMissile this set contains his multi spy gadgets like the submarine fins and propellers. Enough of introduction, lets get on to the review proper! 1. LEGO Set No/Name Lego 8426 Disney's CARS Escape at Sea containg 159 pieces 2. Where you got/bought it from Online. 3. Offical Retail Price Retail price is $40.90 in Sillypore before discounts. 4. No of Minifigs (if any), name them if you know the names NIL! But there are even better 'figs' than minifigs here; i call them CAR-Ractors! Mainly Professor X (the main bad guy in CARS 2 movie), Fin McMissile (British secret agent) and Boat (Now who knows Boat's actual name?). 5. List of parts (if possible), especially the interesting or rare parts, please highlight them Refer below 6. Your "building" experience - which you can do a step by step to show it with photos Refer below: Let's begin! The box front cover! we gave this set an alternate name: 'Boat does not float'. In other countries, there are more set details like the set name and number of pieces (shown here), but back here in Singapore we only have 'Boat does not Float', hence the alternate name we came up with for this set Back of the box. Flick missiles! Let's open up the box, shall we? About 60-70% of the box is used... Not bad! Two main bags, instructional booklet, DSS and 2 huge pieces belonging to the boat's hual. (We'll come to that later) Let's start with the building of the CAR-Ractors! Destroyed bag 1... Sky blue and Dark+light green pieces! Nice! Some special pieces, mainly a magnifiying glass belonging to the professor, McMissile's face & new car bonnet piece, Professor X's face block and McMissile's Shiny cool-looking wheel hub! Let's build Professor X first! He's a small chap... Getting there... Done! He's actually really cute! The magnifying glass is a great added detail! A look at the rear ~ A cute and fancy car! Here's how he looks like behind that magnifying glass. Mean! Now, let's build our Favourite British Secret Agent, Fin McMissile! He's long... (No pun intended) More on his base... Dont know what that red 2x4 tile is there for... Added in his submarine fins & propeller! Done! Fin McMissile ready for some sea action! He even has a hook on his side! Here's a look at his rear with the propeller... Cool looking! Here are the spares left after building pack 1... Strange, an additional wheel hubs? Now, although cool looking, guess Fin McMissile is not ready for the road right? Lets do a little modification... Remove his fins.. And install the additional wheel hub as a spare tyre! Now he's ready for the road! Fin: Hold it RIGHT there PRofessor X! Professor X: Where's my Escape Boat? Now for the boat... Opening Pack 2... Building the hual of the boat... It's rather huge! Nice idea to use the plane pieces as boat huals! The boat is hollow inside, and the red strip you see on the hual is brick built in! Here's the completed hual! I see alot of MOC potentials with this! More details on the hual... The completed boat! His so mean looking! It comes with 2 sea beacons; a nice touch! He even has a huge search light and radar dish! Nice! A look at the rear... There's the space where Professor X sits... A look from the front! A mean looking ship which one would not like to encounter on the sea... Let's test the flick missiles! Target locked on and Ready.... FIRE! Quite some firepower there! Professor X: Goodbye Fin McMissile! Till we meet again! The 1x6 tile fits nicely for Professor X to sit on! Here's one final look at the set altogether! Professor X: You can run, but you cant hide! Give it up Fin McMissile! Flick missiles fire! Fin McMissile: You'll have to catch me first! 7. Your overall rating based on fun, playable, value for $$$, part, minifigs, etc (on a scale of 0-10 where 10 is SUPER-DUPER-SET!) Fun 8 - Well, quite Fun. You can play talk and have fun chasing Professor X (or vice versa) and 'hooking' him to death with the included hook on Fin McMissile or 'flick missile' Fin to death with the flick missiles on the boat! PLAYABLE 10 - DEFINATELY playable. i can foresee kids play talk and having ALOT of fun chasing and fighting it out with the goo versus bad CAR-Ractors! VALUE FOR $$$ 7 for me - I got this at a steal, but for the US price of USD$19.90 i would say it's only an OK value set, esp coming as a Licensed Set. You dont get much CAR-Ractors and mainly only for the boat, but the boat looks OK enough for me. But for the SGD price of SGD$40.90, i would say it's rather over-priced... FINAL VERDICT 7/10 ! - This set is only an OK set for me. Mainly got it for the boat after i saw there is another set scheduled to release in August with Professor X and Fin McMissile. But this set has all the spy equipment that Fin needs though... 8. Your name as the reviewer. Sammy Oh Thanks for reading! Cheers!

Thanks guys for all the kind comments! And i am so glad my account has been restored! I personally got 2 sets of this as i love it sososo much! Now it seems more fitting into place after i re-watched CARS movie back in 2006. Thanks guys and do tune in for more CARS 2011 reviews!

Thank you all for all the kind comments and thanks for reading my amateur review! Thanks Dunjohn! Now i know he's a dude... Cause he did look a little... Good luck on that lottery Bro! Thanks Aanchir! Your infomation has certainly helped me alot! Yap SHARP eyes on that wrong build on Flo and thanks for that correction! So now i know where the term 'Texas Tea' comes from... I was wondering why CARS need cups to drink... Glad you liked the review! Thanks KielDaMan for the Front Page! It's a great honour! Yap, i'm seriously waiting for Doc Hudson and esp. Sheriff! Thanks again all for the kind comments! I'm SO collecting ALL of the CARS series!

Hi people! I havent been posting for a while but i'm simply over-whelmed by the latest CARS series! I loved it so much, esp this set that particulary caught my eye, the 8487 V8 Flo's Cafe! Without further ado, here is a reivew to show you how much i love CARS! 1. LEGO Set No/Name Lego 8487 Disney's CARS Flo's V8 Cafe containg 517 pieces 2. Where you got/bought it from Online. 3. Offical Retail Price Retail price is $149.90 in Singapore before discounts. 4. No of Minifigs (if any), name them if you know the names NIL! But there are even better 'figs' than minifigs here; i call them CAR-Ractors! Mainly Radiator Springs Lightning McQueen, Radiator Sprins Tow Mater, Flo, Fillmore, Serge and Sally. 5. List of parts (if possible), especially the interesting or rare parts, please highlight them Refer below 6. Your "building" experience - which you can do a step by step to show it with photos Let us begin shall we? I'm just so excited! Let us take a look at the box: Front of Box. SO SWEET! The first thing that caught me IMMEDIATELY was Fillmore the minibus! look at those art on it! Back of box. Showing some more details, and the spring launcher thingy that is so ambiguous in all Racer series sets. Let's go already! Yet again another OVER-sized Lego box with the pieces utilising only about 40% of the whole box as a marketing tool... Pour out all the contents... CRAMPLED instruction book... zzzz... Lay them out nicely... Basically 4 bags of parts, a instruction booklet and a rather small DSS for the structures. That means, ALL the CARS parts are PRINTED! Now how can you NOT love that? A shot of the instruction book Ripping open pack 1 and pouring out the contents... Wait, what are these you see there?? [glow=red,2,300]PRINTED PARTS! HOLY COW! OH MY BUDDHA![/glow] they are just so ssswwweeetttt! Some new parts are also spotted like McQueens and Flo's printed canopy piece, Mater and McQueen front/ rear lights piece, a wedge plate with 2x1 stud space, a 3x2 slope piece etc.. Lets build.... Lightning McQueen! Base of McQueen Added the sides... Almost done. One thing i really have to mention, look at those racer wheels, esp the hubs! Aint they just a beauty? Sweet! Viola! Lightning McQueen ready to race down the road! Two Orange cones are also included. Here's a view of McQueens rear. Specially note the beautifully print canopy piece that says: "Lightning McQueen" in small white font! Now, let's build McQueen's best friend, Tow Mater! Mater's base.. The Sky/ medium blue 4x2 brick is printed on one side with 'Tow Mater' and 'Radiator Springs'. Simply beautiful details! MAter's front with his signature one headlamp added... Towing mechanism that really works! More on that later... Almost done! Mater uses two types of wheels/ hubs... One thinner in front and the other thicker behind for that tow truck look. Because of this, it is also slightly slanted to the front... Completed MAter! Very detailed, even to the side mirrors and buck tooth! A rear shot of Mater. I love that printed tile with hooks and worn off danger paint! The tow really works! Best of Friends? The dynamic duo is complete! Now, let's build Flo, owner of the V8 cafe, shall we? Flo's base. A different building technic... Front lips added... Body added. From here, you can actually see Flo is re-modelled after an american cadilac car design! Sleek and long! Flo uses normal racer white tyres on hubs that suit it's overall light blue colour.. (i love this colour!) Completed Flo! A stunning beauty! The rear shot! I love the rear and all the details! Bag 1 completed with some extra parts. Let us move on to Bag 2. MY FAVOURITE bag, because it contains Fillmore, the printed minibus, and the prime reason i got this set for! Pouring out bag 2... [glow=red,2,300]WHAT? HOLY COW AGAIN! OH MY BUDDHA! [/glow] Beautiful printed parts! Esp Fillmore's parts! Simply beautiful! Serge even has printed Sergent Rank on his doors! Note also a new 2x4 bracket is formed... And fillmore's beautiful classic wheel hub! Let's build Fillmore the minibus! My Favourite! Sorry you have to excuse me for my excitement... Fillmore's base Fillmore is gonna be TALL... Fillmore's rear~! Note the nice usage of the 'torchlight' piece as Fillmore's exhaust pipe! Body of Fillmore filling up... ALL those BEAUTIFUL printed bricks!! Fillmore's face added... Almost done... Note Fillmore uses a never-seen-before wheel hub that really resembles a classic VW van wheel hub! Extreme Kudos on that design TLG! Here's Fillmore! You gonna love him like i do! Let's take a 360 look all around him (or is it a her?) Left side view... SWEET! Rear view. SWEET SWEET! Right side view... SWEET SWEET SWEET! Front view... SWEET SWEET SWEET SWEET! Love the usage of SNOT technic for Fillmore and the jumper plate for nose! Wow... That was mind-blowing... Let us carry on with Serge, shall we? Serge's base. As you can see, it's gonna be alot shorter that the other CARS, maybe because his a jeep? You gotta love that Sergent Rank PRINTED on his doors! SWEE! Canopy rear added. Check out that AMERICAN STAR printed tile as his bonnet! Serge uses normal classic wheels... Serge is ready for action! FALL IN! Serge rear view. Note the 'frying pan' piece as the spare tyre so commonly seen on jeeps... Lastly but not least, let's build McQueen's love, Sally the Sportscar! Sally's base Sally uses regular racer wheel hubs in light grey colour... Completed Sally! Aint she a beauty? No wonder McQueen loves her! Think she was re-modelled after a 'P' brand sportscar... Striking resemblences... Sally's rear view... Really striking resembles... Let's take a closer look at that printed rear... Look at that! Even the exhaust pipe and the license plate number is printed in! Bag 2 completed with only 1 extra part... Let's get together for a group shot, shall we? 1,2, Cheese!! The love birds.... Wait up Sally! Now lets move on to Bag 3 shall we? I'll be short-cutting from here on as there aint much special stuff for the structures, and primilary i think most people buy this set for the Car-Ractors rather than for the structure, right? Pouring out Bag 3... Some special pieces to note. A TAN coloured support stand, normally seen in black for monorail and space sets... A new 4x4 yellow plate, but with a 2x2 hole in the middle. Why you ask? More on that later... And new 1x4 slope piece esp good for making classic 4 wide cars... Here's how the petrol stand looks like... Here's the roof with the two yellow plates with hole in the middle. Now this is the mystery... Mystery solved! The 2x2 hole fits beautifully into the 2x2 bricks on the stand, making it easy to remove yet fitting to the structure! Thumbs up for this techinc! Next we build the wash bay.. Same roof attaching technic used... Ta-da! Both stands done. I've omitted the stickers, but basically this is a petrol stand and the other is a washing bay... Now for the main Cafe... Pouring out Bag 4... Not much special parts here, just that i cant understand why CARS need to drink from cups...And oh yes, if you are wondering what is inside the white cupboard thingy, it is the rubber band used to propel the CARS. Quite common for Racer sets, but rather rare to come in white as they are usually in black... Here's the base of the CAFE. I like the round corners! Here's the launcher mechanism... Fitted into the CAFE... Now here's something very cute! A BEER/ TEA dispensor thingy! SWEET! Again i dont understand how CARS can drink beer or tea... Covering the roof... Almost done here, except for the stickers which should go here: I've omitted all the stickers, which should make the CAFE prettier.. The competed V8 CAFE! Now you gotta love that sign on the top that says 'V-8' ! Igenious use of parts for the V and the double white life persever for the 8! Here's a shot of the CAFE with McQueen! And now, for a test trail of the launcher, i've placed McQueen into the launcher and on the ground... RAMP the huge disk on the top and.... McQueen flys away! Not too far, but about 1 meter or so... Fillmore should go even lesser as he/ she is (can someone give me some hints on this?) heavier... Finally, a last parting shot of the good friends in Radiator Springs: Friends Forever! *Wait, someone's missing... Where's Sherif? Thanks for reading and hoped you enjoyed this review as much as i had enjoyed making it! 7. Your overall rating based on fun, playable, value for $$$, part, minifigs, etc (on a scale of 0-10 where 10 is SUPER-DUPER-SET!) Fun 10 - DEFINATELY Fun. You can play talk with all the CARS and start washing them in the washing bay or filling them up with petrol or sending them off using the launcher... PLAYABLE 10 - DEFINATELY playable. i can foresee kids play talk with all the CARS and start washing them in the washing bay or filling them up with petrol or sending them off using the launcher... VALUE FOR $$$ 10 for me - I got this at a steal, but for the US price of USD$59.90 i would say it's a good for value set, esp coming as a Licensed Set. But for the SGD price of SGD$149.90, i would say seriously over-priced... FINAL VERDICT 10/10 ! - It's a MUST-GET set for me! I just loved ALL the CARS, being printed and everything. The details are just mind-blowing down to the smallest font... Cant say much for the structures but the V8 CAFE portion was rather well done and one can have lotsa fun launching the cars around... Plus, this set has 4 (FOUR) EXCLUSIVE Car-Ractors; Fillmore, Serge, Sally and Flo NOT INCLUDED IN ANY OTHER CAR SETS! This makes this set a must get if you wanna collect ALL the Car-Ractors! 8. Your name as the reviewer. Sammy Oh

Thank you guys for the wonderful comments! Really appreciate that! Yap, my next project would probably be a 'monster' car dealership.. With beautiful lights in a glass panel environment, and that Black mini will be the showroom crown jewel! Or maybe a car factory instead?? I love these minis! Cheers!

Finally able to procure enough parts to continue this project ~~ Well guys, hoped you like my minis so far... In fact, i love it so much for it's pure cute-ness and simplicity that i deceided to embark on an 'mini army building project'... And here they are: Heh heh ~ I love minis! 10 and no blank file Sir! A frontal view! they come in many colour combinations ~ Take your pick! ;) And here's mini me with my mini fleet for a mini photo shot ~~ Closer look at the 2nd row... The last row... RHS column closer view ~ I kinda like Lime & white ~ Smoothing to the eyes ~~ Middle column view... Black & white is nice too i think~~ and lastly a LHS column view... So how do you think of it ?? And here's a closer look at the overall 'voted favourite colour' of them all.. The punky all black with silver lining~~ All black with it's sporty rims is nice & smoothing ~~ And here's a shot at them line-up in a row... And you see the guy at the other end waving his hand ? Here's another view ~~ An arial view of them in line ~ And a rear view ~ however, there is a very major fault to the mini.... It ONLY sits one.... Sadly.... All C & C very very welcomed! Cheers! :-/

Thank you guys for all the wonderful comments! Yup, i love it so much, i'm so gonna get more parts to make even more of them! ~~

Well... With the current hike in Car prices and the increasing demand of Eco-Friendly cars, and the recent Lego official model 3177 minicar, i humbly present to you the latest car model arrival in my Lego City: The Eco Mini! The Rear view, showcasing the Battery pack behind that can be charged anywhere at a service station. The Front view (Strangly Familiar??) In fact, i liked the model so much that i build (or rather, try to build with my limited parts) a fleet of them: Current standing at Four ... Sadly.. The rear view. I simply love the yellow one with the yellow/ white colour combination and beautiful sports rims ~~ Let's get a closer look at each of them: The Red/ white ~ With clssic car doors in for the convinence of our lady driver The blue/ white ~ For the busy business man on the go. Release stress by driving a mini in a traffic-packed city... The white/ grey ~ For your daily driving fun with sunroof ! All together now! Say Cheese! Thank you for your Comments and Critism! Cheers! Bonus pictures: For those of you wondering how 'mini' this is, here is a comparison picture with the actual Lego 4x4 SUV from 7635: Sure looks wierd with the smallest and the largest Vehicles in my LEgo city featured together~~

OK... With the hospital about 99% complete (missing grills for the ward beds, visitor chairs and a runaway nurse), i would like to share with you guys to see what you guys think of it. Please, feel very free to comment as these comments can aid me further in my MOC-ing experiences. Please also pardon the picture poor quality and my poor photo-shooting skills, also the 'yellowing-bricks' and my first huge attempt at MOC-ing: May i present to you, my own City Hospital: Isometric view of exterior Front view of exterior The front entrance, with signboard and a bench for passby to rest. (Seen here with a dude playing with his kitten) Right wing of the hospital. The 'Wing' Emblem is supposed to be some form of advertisement (Use imagination) Remove the roof, and we see the plan view of the 2nd storey. My personal favourite part of the hospital, the rest room! Seen here with Marion Ravenswood, taking a break.. Her coffee is made by the coffee machine sitting on the table, and soon enough she'll become a couch potato watching LED TV.. (Decal WIP) The 'X-Ray' Room, complete with Double enforced radio-active proof door.. Here we see the radiologist outside operating the 'X-ray' machine... Viola! An 'X-Ray' is formed! What's a building without a toilet? (Pardon the wierd colour scheme..) A Hospital Janitor cleaning up the floor A nurse pushing the medical trolley to the wards... The wards. Currently, there are only 3 beds... (seems like my City's minifigs are rather healthy!) A female Doctor doing her rounds... (Missing Visitor Chairs) The plan view of the ward. The nurse-station, manned by two nurses on duty. Overhead cabinet for storage of syringes.. Now we move on to the first storey... The plan view of the first storey... The reception counter and cashier, with cabinets for patients medical records... Waiting area.. (Missing one red chair X-X and LED TV Decal WIP) Doctor's consultation room. Seems like someone is gonna get a jab from our pretty nurse... (Ouch!) The Accident & Emergency (A & E) department... A minifig was brought in via ambulance (parked outside).. A police counter to attend to crime-related accidents... An A & E nurse assessing the patient... "Doctor David to the A & E immediately please..." A tap in front of the Operating Threatre (OT) for sanitation before Ops.. The OT, complete with LCD monitor for the Doctor (Endoscopy), Patients Health Graph, IV-Drip, OT Table light and oxygen cylinders.. (I initially wanted to put in the chainsaws and drills but that would seem too scary...) The right wing mainly serves as the entrance to the 2nd storey, but there is a pharmancy inside: Take a closer look with the windows removed. There's a rack for medicine, a refrigerator and a cashier for paying for them The rear view of the Right Wing, featuring parking space for an ambulance (seen here is the 6666 ambulance) and the doctors car (seen here is the 6523 Medic Car) And finally, a rear view of the whole hospital with the roof back on. I intentionally left the rear open so as to allow for better play ~~ I hope you like it! C & C most welcomed! Cheers! *Lastly, a teaser picture for my next MOD/ MOC. Actually, it's already about 99% complete too..*

First of all, when my friend told me the review of the 7839 Cargo train was out on Eurobricks, i was like I had to see it almost immediately! And man was i impressed! I really must say you did a terrific job at reviewing a wonderful train set which alot of us would kill for! Thank you Thank you so much! And i'm glad your sons had fun building the train too! I wished i could do that ~~ Anyway, like alot of bros here mentioned, i do believe the price is putting us off a little, if not alot.. It's kinda overpriced.. but the new battery box surely is interesting, and definately very MOC-able! Sweet! I love the minicars too! I'm sososo gonna create a fleet of them, sitting on train wagons pulled by my BNSF.. ~ Car dealership just got bigger! I'm wondering why two of the cars can have the exact same number plate though.. The trailer with the Red container is just so sweet! The truck is kinda off though... Cant say much about the locomotive though... I personally like the 4512 Cargo train locomotive better than this one... The overhead cargo train is a Super Plus point! But erm i was wondering... are cars hoisted down by cranes? The tanker wagon has got to be a hot point for this set! I think i dont see ANY cargo train sets ever to have actually a tanker wagon included... come to think of it, i think the 'My Own Train' tanker wagon is the first one, right? There's just one minor thing; i think you got the picture for 'Bag 5 The Cars Wagon' and the picture for 'Bags 8 the trailer and small yellow container' swapped... Anway Thank you once again for a very wonderful and detailed review! For me, i'm gonna sit and wait for sale for this baby... 200 bucks is truely a killer.... BTW, i voted 4 (above Average), one point taken away by the sky-high price... Cheers!

Thanks guys for the kind commetns! Actually, the 'posters' are those from the town plan cinema.. To be frank, i recently obtain quite a number of loose spares (containing a town plan totally jumbled up) that sparkled my MOC craze... However, having not enough bricks of a single colour for a nice colour scheme always poses a huge problem to me... Ok.. I guess i should continue on with what i have initially planned (hospital), with limited time left, i could only start on the 1st storey, so here goes: The Plan view of the hospital, interior in. The rear is the A & E department and Operating Threatre. The front is the walk-in-clinic with an individual Consultation room.. The front desk reception. Attending to walk-in-patients, get a queue number and proceed to wait for the doctor. Take a seat and watch some TV (wall-mounted LED, decal WIP) The door to the consultation room Register with the front desk and obtain a queue number. Take a seat and watch some TV while waiting for the doctor (Decal of wall-mounted LED WIP)! A & E department. Seems like a minifig is injuried and admitted via ambulance.. A Police counter at the side to attend to Crime-related accidents.. Two side swing doors provide easy access for Emergency cases brought in by the ambulance. The Operating Threatre, with LCD monitor for the doctor, drip and oxygen tank.. Needs to add in more items (WIP)... Lastly, our lovely 16minifig nurse! Isn't she sweet?? 2nd storey should hold some wards, specialist clinic, maybe a nursary?? What do you think? Comments and suggestions very welcomed as this is just my second MOC building.. Thanks!

Hi all ! Sunday. A great MOC day! With the initial idea of coming up with a Hospital (which my town doesnt have one..) and to house my minifigs nurses (they need a place to work), Here's what i came up with, using the basis of 6597 Century airport terminal building: Isometric View Front View, with main entrance Left Hand Side Wall I like to call this the 'Right Wing' of the building Plan view Remove the roof (2nd storey) The link bridge and a open-air balcony 1st storey. As you can see, i have divided the 1st storey rear portion into A & E cum Operating Threatre and the front portion for walk-in-patients There are doors at the sides, so that the ambulance can park in, unload the patient and straight into the OT (WIP) Right Wing stairs and entrance There is actually a pharmacy inside the right wing for collection of medicine... The corridor towards the link bridge The Ring Wing exit door and link bridge Well, what do you guys think? It's still Works-in-Progress (WIP) as i have yet to fill out the building with furniture and interior... Which brings me to the next question. i intitally wanted to have a Poll but unfortuantely didnt know how to so... So guys/ gals, need you help to decide on something: Based on the above building, what do u think i should create? 1) Hospital (original plan) 2) School (Looks like one too) 3) Police Station (I have yet to have one...) 4) A shopping Mall of my own 5) Community Centre (CC) AArrr... I'm so confused as to what to make, so please assist to poll in some ideas and comments please... Thank you guys/ gals! Cheers!

Thank you so much guys for all your kind words! Glad you enjoyed it as much as i enjoyed doing it! @ Brickster: Thanks for adding the poll and index-ing my review! It's a great honour for my reviews to be added/ indexed~ Yap, i do have one more classic 9v train set (4555 freight loading station) that i'm looking to do a review on, hoping to assist in filling up the Train Tech review index! Thanks again and cheers ~~ Keep on Train-ing! Cho cho ~~

Thank you Mack for the kind words! It really perk me up! Yap, i do agree the multi-colour is rather getting to me... I should build it up into two-storey shophouses and houses instead. And yap, i'm looking at adding more furniture to it, propbably convert one into a shop along the way... Thanks guys for your kind encouragements~~

Hello guys! With some time and no money on hand, i decided to try my hand on some modular house building. For years, my minifigs have been sleeping on the streets, and the recent Creator houses that i have are just not sufficient for me to house them all... With that in mind, i tried my apartment building. Initially i wanted wide and high, but discovered my spare bricks were not really enough so i think a high building is what i would really want.. WARNING! This is my preliminary design and it would really look like child's play compared to the many other MOCs showcased here... However, it would greatly encourage me with your comments for me to improve further as i always live by the principle: " Critism encourages improvements' so... Very Thick-skinly, i present to you: Front View Wierd colours right? The result of not having enough bricks of one colour... It kinda looks aweful to me... Isometric view from the side. *Excuse the back-drop* Apartment open for viewing! The roof, 7th and 6th storey. The 5th and 4th storey. *Yap, that's Indy there finally settling down and looking for a place to stay* The 3rd and 2nd storey. The 'inverted doors' there serve as an emergency fire escape doors that we see in buildings. (Actually it was just an excuse for having not enough bricks) The first storey. With doorbell I think i mentioned modular? All the stories including the roof, except for the 1st (because of the door) are interchange-able and connectable in anyway. Like this. You can make a single storey office with roof... (shown here with my MOD red pickup previously shared) Or a single storey Shop front... Two storey bungalow anyone? How about a 3 storey shophouse? A four storey office? A five storey apartment? How about 6?? Sorry~ Getting too fun re-configuring the building, but i guess you get the drift.. And finally a rear view. What do you think of it guys and girls? Please assist in providing me with some valuable input as this is my first hand try at modular house building... Think i got to get more bricks to start matching the colours... Now it looks like am artist house... Also, need to start constructing some furniture for decor and filling in the apartment, as it looks really bear on the inside right now... C & C most welcomed and thanks for viewing! Cheers!

Hello Guys & Gals! May i present to you another train review of one of the most interesting train set ever produced. One main set without a locomotive! Here it is: 1. LEGO Set No/Name 2126: Train Cars, released in 1998, 378 pieces and 5 minifigs baby! 2. Where you got/bought it from EBAY.com 3. Offical Retail Price That's a tough one. According to Brickset, no data found, due to limited release. I dont remember seeing this in local stores here in Singapore too; but according to Peeron: US$69.50. 4. No of Minifigs (if any), name them if you know the names 5 baby 5! That's quite a large number of minifigs for a medium size set back then. It also came with a large number of tools, seen here carried by the minifigs. 5. List of parts (if possible), especially the interesting or rare parts, please highlight them That's a huge number of good and useful pieces in this set, which any train fan would love having! That was also the reason why i bought this set! It comes with two train base (one black/ one red), two large 16x6 studs bacl baseplate that you can build any train car or a large container with, 8 train buffers with magnets, 4 'bogie' plates, 12 train wheel assembles and the train wagon end grill pieces (6 black, 2 old grey and 2 yellow)! That's bascially enough to build ANY train cars by yourself!! Also worth mentioning are the printed titles and slopes, the yellow dumper piece, 3 brown large barrels with covers, a hinge plate 2x9 and trees (two small and one large cone shaped)! SWEET! 6. Your "building" experience - which you can do a step by step to show it with photos OK. Let us begin some lego-ing fun with our 5 minifig cast for today! First up, we start with the red flat waggon: Train Officer: Let us begin guys! Train Workers: Affirmative Sir! Minifig civilian: You guys need a hand? Minifig Girl: No-way am i getting my lovely hands wet with grease! Everyone was happy to help, with the train officer over-seeing the entire operation. Well, girl there still is rather unwilling to help out... Train Officer: It's very simple and fun! Here, u can try to fix this side door onto the hinge piece... Girl: That's rather fun! Minifig Civilian: *to himself* Hey, that's my girl! Train Worker A: This piece first! Train Worker B: NO! This piece first you doop! Being Train Workers, the wheels assembly was no challenge for them at all... But i wouldnt say so for the civilians... Train Officer: A little teamwork here guys! Heave men! While the two of you push that wheel assembly in! Train Workers: HURRY! My hands are slipping!! Civilians: You think this thing is light??? I kinda like these waggon grill end pieces.. Lovely! Man: Let me give u a hand my dear... Girl: My hero... Train Officer: Showoff... Loading the Train Waggon with the tree cargo.. Train Officer: Let's get these trees in and do our part for our earth! Train Workers: AyeAye, Captain Planet! The completed Red Flatbed Waggon. A beauty! This waggon will look nice when pulled along by a Santa Fee or a BNSF~~ Train Officer: OK Men, next we construct the tanker car. Follow these instructions carefully. Count the studs! Train Workers: What's with the broom Sir? The beautiful printed slopes pieces, acting as gauges and meters. The underbelly of the tanker car. Train Wokers: Let us show you how it's done, junior.. Man: No please... not in front of the lady... Girl: hehe ~~ A long plate to keep the entire wheel assembly sturdy... A little fun with the hoses and 'blaster' guns~~ Minifigs need some fun along the way right? The waggon end pieces. Super! The large barrel, used as a form of tanks. Girl: I need a shower! This works great! Train Workers: Of course! We will get the water now!! Train Officer: I'll go get the shower foam!! Man: No way! She's mine! Girl: Just kidding! Now get me out of here!! The completed tanker car. Look ok to me, just dont get the idea of the 3 barrels.. Look kinda small to me.. Also missing the decal on the long blue brick that susposed to show the pipelines on it... Next we construct the black dumper truck.. Train Officer: Ok men. Put your heart into it! Train Workers: Yes Sir! Do we get a raise after this?? Man: Showoff... The base of the truck.. Teamwork makes a job so much easier! Truck almost finished... Man: Leave it to them.. I've got something to tell you dear.. Girl: Buy me a car and i'll consider, Austin Powers... Man: Darn i forgot my 'mojo'... Ta-Da! the completed dumper truck! Looks and works great! Next, we construct the yellow/ black hopper waggon. Train Officer: Let's start with the base first... A long plate to secure the wheel assembly sturdy... The hopper assembly.. The mechanism of the hopper tanks. A neat way to construct them! Man: A little help here would be nice lady! Girl: A man never keeps a lady waiting... Train Worker: Huh ?? Waggon end grill pieces. Yap, i love them ~ The tipping mechanism of the hopper... Neat working function and brick-built! Man: This is fun!! Whee!! Train Workers: We wanna try too!! Train Officer: My turn! Ooopsss... I mean, QUIT FOOLING AROUND! The Tipper tank. Brick-built! Nice attention to details with those printed arrow tiles! Girl: I need a shower again... Train Workers: Sorry lady, you're not going to fool us this time. In you go the the hopper tank! The completed Hopper Waggon. Sweet! I kinda like this hopper waggon. Black and yellow is just so appealing ~~ A picture of how the hopper wagon works. You can load in the 1x1 round bricks and pour them into the waiting dumper truck; either from the left or the right as the arrow suggests! Train Officer: Let's split up. My men and i will work on the railway maintenance trolley, while the both of you fix up those cars. OK? Train Workers: YES SIR! Man: Come on my dear. Let me show you how it's done... Girl: Guess i'm stuck with you then... The base of the small railway maintenance trolley.. Completed! A neat little maintenance trolley with storage space for tools! Neat! PITY it only sits one... The base of the car. Rather small, but sure good-looking.. Man: Here Dear. This is the car you ordered. So, u might wanna consider again what i've said earlier on?? Girl: BYE! See ya Doctor Jones... A look at the rear. Sweet little minicar! Man: My dear! Wait up! Girl: Persistant little dope... I kinda like these minicars... SWEET!! Should be able to build a fleet of these... Finally, the car transporter waggon. We start off with the train base... Train Officer: Com'on guys! It's the last waggon! Let's go! Train Workers: We better get that bonus you agreed on! I love those red/ white stripes tiles! Lovely! Train Officer: Teamwork guys! Heave Ho! Heave Ho! Train Workers: Hurry! It's heavy! Man/ Girl: We're trying our best! The completed empty car transport waggon. Loaded with cars. Great looking! This is my personal favourite wagon of this set! If only i had enough spares i can build 5 of these with 10 minicars and pulled byb a BNSF... SWEET! Finally, it's finished! One look at the whole complete set. Sorry i couldnt photograph them all in as the completed set sure is LONG! It's about 700mm long! Take a look at the photos inside the instruction manual. Showing the loveliness and workability of this set! Sure is playable! That's so much to do! 7. Your overall rating based on fun, playable, value for $$$, part, minifigs, etc (on a scale of 0-10 where 10 is SUPER-DUPER-SET!) FUN: Sure is FUN! It's great to pull along long cargo, esp. when they're assorted! 9/10 PLAYABLE: SURE IS PLAYABLE! That's so much to do! Load the trees, load or unload the hopper wagon with the tipping tanks and the dumper trucks, load/ unload the cars, pump petrol into them, repair/ maintain the train cars etc... SUPER! 10/10 VALUE FOR $$$: Ok, for the RSP i believe it's a great price to pay for a fun set! 9/10 PARTS/ MINIFIGS: Now this is the main attraction! Although having a piece count of only 378, it has a ton of train parts that almost immediately, one can create your own train car! 5 minifigs is super generous! You get 2 train workers, 1 train officer and 2 civilian minifgs! Great! 10/10 OVERALL: 9.5/10 !! Great buy! Thanks for reading and hope you have enjoyed reading it as much as i did~ Cheers! Not to forget our cast for the day~ C & C most welcomed! Thanks! 8. Your name as the reviewer. Sammy Oh

!!! *Crawls around on the floor trying to find my dropped jaw and glasses* That's it~ It's simply wonderful! My eyes popped out the moment the doors popped out! Absoluate genius! Great working doors! Can i just ask what the rubber band inside the door is for? Wow... Interior and exterior lights, opening doors, PF functions, IR... Simply amazing train that will definately wow everyone... Thanks for sharing and truely remarkable creation!

Hey! That's a super impressive Car Transporter you got there Bro! Very very nice! Works great too! Seven minicars! How did you get the scale up so right just for seven minicars or two stretch limos? Wonderful MOC skills! My envy~~ Thanks for sharing! Very nice!

Hello Guys! Trying my first hand at MOC and hoping to share and get some comments on it~ Have been trying to MOC for some time now, but still felling inferior to show my creations, as compared to some of the dazzling creations show-cased here. Anyway, Allow me the honour to present to you one of my first MOC since i was a child, a Yellow Panel Van. What's a Panel Van u might ask? It's a cross between a car and a van, something like this: And here is my attempt at trying to re-model it in Lego, using classic town 4-studs goodness: SIDE VIEW The panels came from the classic refuse truck. I love the 'Recycle' logo~~ Works great as a Cargo logo~ The Rear opens up for storage. It has about a 2x4 stud wide spacing, enough for a crate, shown here. And here is the driver, pleased with his Panel van even after so many years of wear-and-tear. A trusty vehicle! I Love using these 'Octan' jumpsuit torso guys for delivery men~ And the other model, actually a MOD, modified from the blue-prints of the pickup safety vehicle showcased in the recent City set 7747 Wind Turbine Transporter: Familar?? I kinda like the pickup, so i tried my hand at making one for my town... I'm loving the red. I wanted to try white initially, but ran out of parts and discovered red spares were more so... It worked out rather fine i think. One last look at the both of them together. Please Do leave some comments and criticism for me to help me to improve! Working out on my first MOC modular at the moment too.. Hopefully it works out ~ Cheers!!

WOW! Wonderful and superb review on one of the most highly sought after train sets! The legendary club car! MISB! That's a heavenly gift! Congrats on getting one of the best train cars set MISB! Great humour in a nice review! So i guess Admiral Akbar started getting sir-sick with all that flying? Haha ~ Thanks again for a humourous and wonderful review! Cheers!

WOW! Lighting Tiger, i cannot tell you how much i love your town/ city! It's so sweet! It has everything a town needs; pub, clinic, stores, hot-babes!! Really love your MOC stores and houses! I like that phone booth! Place where Superman can transform.. Very beautifully made! Not to forget the use of personalised decals! Sweet! Thanks for sharing and hope to see your town/ city expand even more!

INDEXED 1. LEGO Set No/Name 6656 Tow Truck, released in 1985 containing 53 pieces 2. Where you got/bought it from Ebay 3. Offical Retail Price RSP ? (i've checked Peeron and Brickset but no available infomation..) 4. No of Minifigs (if any), name them if you know the names Just one, a mechanic dressed in blue overall with classic smiley face 5. List of parts (if possible), especially the interesting or rare parts, please highlight them This set doesnt really comes with alot of parts, being only 53 and majority of the parts are rather generic.. So it probably loses out on the pieces portion... 6. Your "building" experience - which you can do a step by step to show it with photos Ok. I just got this wonderful nostagic little classic blue tow truck from Ebay and almost immediately, i was filled with nostagic feelings and turned into a child ~~ This set is full of memories for me, it may even well be one of my first few Lego sets! Without further ado, our blue mechanic guy, Bob (can we fix it? Yes we can!) will run you through the building of his trusty tow truck: The layout of the set. I was kinda amazed at the quality of the instructional booklet, being 2nd hand that i got off ebay. It looks almost new! Here is our mechanic hero Bob in his working blue mechanic coverall and his most important tools. Back then, there were only the spanner and hammer for mechanic tools, unlike modern sets with drills, oil cans and even screwdrivers... How did Bob open them screws back then?? As a really small set back then, the pieces are very generic and i do believe almost any AFOL can copy and build one immediately. Worth mentioning are the classic 'cabin-base' piece, the red 'tow'truck' piece, two numbers of 'hinges' and a old grey minifig chair~ We start by first fixing up the chassis of the truck. It's about 10-studs long, which is rather nice for a tow truck of that era ~ Next, Bob starts by building the wheel guards and the classic 'cabin-base' piece for his tow truck. The base of the tow truck is almost complete, with the rear having two numbers of hinges for lowering and hoisting the tow! Very simple, effective and attention to detail working rear winch to tow the borken down cars back to the garage! The tow truck cabin has a minifig chair in it, so Bob wont get piles for sitting on the hot engine all day long... The classic doors are present here too, and Bob making sure the winch is working well. Two side guards with holes for placing tools in it and a rollover bar on top makes it looks so much better! Almost done here! The yellow beacon light warns others of a tow truck approaching and Bob here found another use for the rear working winch in case he gets a tire puncture... As mentioned before, the tools can be placed either on the sides or at the top of the rollover bars. Neat! Ta-Da! All done! Bob is now ready to go 'rescue' poor cars stuck on the road! Our favourite road hero! Here we see a poor minifig stuck on his way to work because he forgotten to check his radiator and it blew on him... Luckily for him, Bob happens to be passing by so... With a little switch of the 'imaginary' lever, the winch goes down and hooks up onto the front of the SUV. (seen this SUV somewhere before?? ) And he's on his way to the garage! Thanks Bob! Bob can help almost any of the 4-studs cars/ trucks/ suv/ pickups, so long it can hook its winch onto. Here, Bob helps out another stuck pickup on his way to the spaceport for the shuttle launch... HOWEVER.. Bob has his limitations... 7. Your overall rating based on fun, playable, value for $$$, part, minifigs, etc (on a scale of 0-10 where 10 is SUPER-DUPER-SET!) FUN: 9/10 This truck is so ready for any towing work with it's working rear winch! Go around town towing almost any vehicle! (Except see above) PLAYABLE: 8/10 Tow trucks are always playable, towing vehicles around~~ VALUE FOR $$$: -_- Cant coment on this as i don't have it's RSP, but for the price which i got it used from Ebay, it was downright worthy! 8. Your name as the reviewer. Sammy Oh Hope you like my review! C & C most welcomed! Cheers!!