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Nice diorama and it's good to see the Stig putting the nose on the Snowman.

Delightful!

Great looking MOC! Cool SNOT lettering, very effective color scheme and a perfect Christmassy winter theme. Good luck in the competition.

Good looking MOC and a lovely rendition of the song on the video. Merry Christmas!

I budget a set amount, but if a too-good-to-miss deal comes up then I'll 'borrow' some money from next month. It's a great idea, until I realised that although the calendar says it's December 2013 financially my Lego budget account is July 2016. That fantastic Pimp Your Camper competition totally consumed my life for what seemed like months. I ended up submitting eight entries, but built many, many more that luckily have not seen the light of day.

Ha! I thought I'd check out what I said in response to this question last year. My plans for 2014: Keep spending under control and within the vague, somewhat flexible monthly budget. Improve my MOCing skills. Allow my Lego City to continue it's sad economic decline by turning the Palace Cinema into an Adult-themed bar. Don't build any VW Campers. My interest in Lego water has... evaporated. Have a great holiday everyone!

Thanks for the great review Rufus. You're right about that rear end - it's missing something, but it's undeniably on my list of sets to snag.

There's some lovely looking creations there concuzz. Very festive!

Just got back from my first ever NFL Game - Chiefs vs Colts. Bitterly cold, some bum refereeing decisions, and the home team misfiring, but what an experience! Loud, raucous, fun. I'll be back next season.

Excellent entry. Good luck in the competition.

Looks good! Is there an interior?

Welcome to the forums Bipin! There's some great looking MOCs in your Flickr feed.

Interesting Andy! A couple of observations: Do these weights included packaging and instructions? There's no much variation in the price/gram rate across the various sets. You rightly point out that if you exclude Haunted House then you're looking at $0.051 to $0.057 and an Average of $0.055, but calculating the Standard Deviation will enable us to see how clustered it is around that average. (I'd do it, but I'm Excel-less on my Mac at home). Doing this analysis by theme (Licensed - SW, POTC, Modulars, Technic, etc.) might be interesting. If all the non-licensed ones cluster around one rate and the Licensed ones are around another cluster (or series of clusters) then that might give some insight into cost of Licensing. Doing this analysis by Price point ($12.99 sets vs $49.99 sets vs. $99.99 sets would also be interesting. You'd expect to see more efficiencies in the pricing model with larger weights (higher Price points). Lego's strategy of pricing sets ending in $9... $149, $159, etc. probably distorts that price/gram relationship. This would be a perfect exercise to do during the Xmas/New Years lull. But taking this one stage further maybe Lego should in future reward VIP members with grams and not points!

Welcome to the forums skybaker!

On a Tractor it's an additional axle (normally at the rear) that you can attach your brush-hogging device, or as we call it in Missouri 'the whirling blades of death'.

Sweet build SpaceySmoke. It looks cosy and inviting. Beerstores make every occasion Christmas! Good luck in the competition.

I'm currently BL'ing CC and what strikes me most is the thing looks very dated in comparison to the more recent Modulars - it looks 'clunky' and with ugly, ugly glassless window frames. I have no problem whatsoever modifying it and bringing it up to date. And the corollary to that means free reign substitution for rare parts! Luckily I do have a couple of 1x4x5 from an old Metro Station hanging around in my inventory, but if I didn't then I'd have no qualms about building for a 1x4x6's. My advice is by all means build a CC, but update the design and don't pay up for rare pieces.

Happy birthday Phillippe and welcome to Eurobricks!

Blimey!, My first thought was that must be the first time the words "Actuarial Tables" and "Lego" have been uttered in the same context. But no, it's been used before http://www.homeownersinsurance.org/who-wouldn%E2%80%99t-want-to-own-a-lego-house/

That is a perfect looking old-school Lego bus! Well done and please show more of your town...

Excellent and original! Good luck in the competition.

Welcome to Eurobricks qiadris!

Welcome to Eurobricks Damo. Those Modulars can be addictive....

Nicely done BrickBloke! It's got everything a good MOC needs - imagination, execution.... and a freakin' slide!

I took the 4554 Metro Station and decided it looked a bit feeble and anemic in comparison to some of the modern sets. So, I increased the height by a couple of rows of bricks and extended it out to get to this.. <Skeleton not included>. Then I decided I'd reuse the pieces to Modularise it and it became.... ...the Metro Station Wine bar Full pictures and evolution of the wine bar in this thread http://www.eurobricks.com/forum/index.php?showtopic=78161 What I found is that whatever you build, you'll probably change it into something else... Have fun!