legotrainfan

Welcome to EB! Classic space is great stuff! Good taste! *y*

I think vinegar has not been mentioned yet. The truck transports some barrels from a vinegar factory. :-D

Sorry, I've asked that question myself too. I've also got some sets more than once. I don't think there is a way of marking the quantity. At least I haven't found out how it works if there is a way of doing it. There is one thing I have to say to your 18 pages of LEGO sets: *y* *y* *y* WOW! Pure envy is coming up! |-/ ;-)

I also have many castle sets. The last castle that found their way in my collection were a purchase made by my brother: Black Falcon Fortress and Guarded Inn (the legends). I think around that time he must also have bought Guarded Treasure 6094. Since then the castle collection hasn't grown. I can use his castles. He doesn't care that much about them, preferring his Playstation 3 and his Roco modell trains. Look at my collection. Ca. 40 sets listed there belong to my sister and my brother. The rest belongs to me. You'll quickly realise I was also a castle fan for a long while. ;-) And here the link to my collection: http://www.brickset.com/lists/collection.a...er=legotrainfan PS. Thanks simonwillems! Now I know how to quote.

I usually keep most boxes, but several of them are in very poor condition. For some sets I got as a child I don't have the boxes anymore. What I do throw away are the boxes for straight and curved rails (4515 and 4520). I had so many boxes for those rails that I thought it didn't matter to throw them away. And I bought some used sets on eBay, and sometimes the boxes were not included.

I've been wondering if anyone of you could tell me how I can insert a quote? I mean I've quoted another eurobricks user before, but it looked like the following: But when you quote something, the user and the time when the user posted it is also there after the word QUOTE. So could someone tell me how it works correctly? Thx in advance.

Yes, Brickmaster, you are right, but we feel that we know a star somehow personally through their films and the gossip we've read and heard about them. People who are starving in Africa and in many other parts of the world are anonymous to us. So it is easier for us to ignore and forget that there is suffering everywhere else as well. Ledger's death shows us that you can be successful, rich and everything, but life can still be short. Success and wealth are much wanted things in life, but they are by far not the only things that matter.

How I became interested in LEGO? Well, this is now going to be very vague at the beginning. When I was about four, I can vaguely remember being given ambulance 6688 and Weekend Home 6380. I still have them and they are almost complete. I don't have the ambulance's white tile with the red cross on it anymore. I don't have the weekend home's stickers. I think they were never used. They must have got lost a while after I had got it, I suppose. I have neither the box nor the instructions for both sets. Only some years ago could I rebuild the ambulance and the house because I bought a CD with most LEGO instructions on it. But the weekend home was not complete. So I had to buy some parts on eBay and from TLC itself. And the red plate 6x16 for the house was broken into two pieces. I was simply too young to take care of such sets well. As you can see it took a long time to complete them. I can remember a blue tracter with shovel, but maybe my memory is deceiving me here, because I have no single brick that could prove I have ever had it and no box nor anything. Maybe it was someone else's set I once played with. I also got some fabuland sets, but they are far from being complete. I cannot even tell what sets they were. And there might have been one or two DUPLO sets when I was small, but I am not at all sure. My mum often visited one of her female cousins when I was small. She just lived one or two minutes away from our old home. So I always went with her for one reason: LEGO, Playmobil and a model train. The latter I was not allowed to touch. It was a "real" modell train and not a LEGO one. My mum's cousin had so much stuff because she had three boys. All of them were several years older than I was. And I took advantage of that circumstance! By the way, I was the oldest child. My sister had just been born, and my brother was not yet born. So I could not use the toys of older brothers and sisters. Later in the course of my childhood my sister and I got some starter sets - I can remember one red brick bucket that we still have - and several other sets. I always got playmobil and LEGO stuff, but somehow I always liked LEGO a bit more, especially the older I grew. Always before Christmas or before my brother's and sister's birthdays I tried to influence their Christmas/birthday wishes. I wanted them to wish LEGO sets so that I could also profit from their wishes. My attempts to influence them always remained unsuccessful. :'-( My brother always preferred playmobil to LEGO. He only has 25 to 30 LEGO sets. My sis preferred barbies and only has 5 to 10 LEGO sets. But I have their LEGO sets now. :-P They don't care much about them anymore. My LEGO collection grew in my teens, but especially in my teens I was made fun of because I was still a LEGO fan at the age of 13 and 14. Everyone else had a Super Nintendo and a Game Boy. So I let myself influence and also needed a Super Nintendo and Game Boy. I regret having them now. The games were always so expensive and everything's worth nothing at all on eBay. What a waste of money! I should have used it for LEGO instead! :'-( When I was 16, I stopped my LEGO hobby. I thought I was too old for LEGO. My dark ages began. Some years later I discovered eBay and used it as a way of getting lost and broken pieces. Especially shields and weapons for my knights had been lost and broken. So I tried to get them on eBay to complete my sets. I am not sure, but I think the Santa Fe engine 10020 ended my dark ages. I HAD to have it!! I got it MISB on eBay. I bought it twice. I cannot remember having bought other used and new sets from eBay before it, thought there might have been some. Anyway, set 10020 set my love for LEGO afire again. And, of course, the Santa FE waggons followed (apart from one which I must still get), and suddenly I wanted to get all the 9V stuff I did not get as a child. Only in 2007 did I discover bricklink, and I have used it to obtain lost and broken parts, but also sets.

I am pleased to notice that the juniorisation process has finally stopped. The building techniques to create new models have increased again. You can see that there has been immense thought in creating them... as it should be. And the other good things they have done are: Cafe Corner, Market Street, Christmas Train, Santa Fe engine plus waggons, BNSF engine plus container waggon, Hobby Train Set. Well, these are the recent sets for which I worship TLC. But TLC also did something good to me when I was a child. From 1985 to 1995 I found the sets brilliant!

Hi holodoc, Thanks for your interesting links! I checked them all! I don't think brickshelf is for free, isn't it? And there has been this discussiong whether it will close down or not. So I am not registered there.

Unfortunately I have no pics on brickshelf.com. Even forum activities are quite new. I started off with brickset, because I like writing reviews and I also love that set list function. So I finally know how many sets I actually have. I was looking for a forum to discuss my hobby with people who share my LEGO passion. Well, that's it. Now I am here. I am not an active builder. I am more a collector. Well, not really a collector either. I don't keep things in their boxes. I love building them, but somehow I must have left my creativity in my childhood. So I don't build MOCs apart from the Santa Fe B-unit, which I want to tackle soon. But this is an easy construction, the B-unit. I have a room full of LEGO trains. The room is 3 meters broad and 5m long. Let's say 4m long since there is a cupboard in the way. Unfortunately the door opens room inward, which means that you have to plan the layout without forgetting the door. I must still be able to open it. ;-) What I have got in that room is about half the LEGO I have. Some LEGO I put back in the boxes to protect it from becoming too dusty. Just at the moment some castles come into my mind. They have been standing around for such a long time that there is more dust than LEGO on them. X-O Time to wash 'em. Since the end of the 9V trains was announced I have been busy with eBaying. I just want to get some more 9V motors. One or two of my locomotives don't have one yet. And I want to have some as spare parts. I have the freight train from 1991. I don't know how long its motor will continue working. And I am busy with buying tracks, of course. Space is a problem in our house. My brother has a Roco modell layout which has been growing like my LEGO train layout. So there's always a fight over place. His layout is also quite big 4m long and 2m broad.

Hi to everyone! Actually I saw this part of the forum too late. I mentioned some of my LEGO preferences in the thread on TLC's worst decision. Anyway, I'll give you some more details here. I'm a big 9V train fan. I only have two 12V sets that I got second hand from eBay. These are 7814 and 7824. All the other stuff is 9V and I also got plenty of 9V from eBay, most of which was MISB when I bought it. I am also registered on brickset.com. I use the same user name. There you can check my collection and go through my reviews. I can remember reading a thread here on eurobricks in which it was discussed that brickset members post annoyingly simple reviews. What was also criticised was that most brickset users said things like "there is no minifig in this set" and "there should be a car in it". Well, I must admit I'm guilty. I have also done that. But I tend to write as accurate and detailed reviews as possible. I only review sets I really own and I hate reviews that only have two or three lines. I mean when it is a small set that is reviewed, three lines might be ok, but not for a big one with lots of functions and details. By the way, is the use of eurobricks free? I read through the stuff before you register carefully. I found neither information stating it is free nor information to the contrary. Thanks in advance for answering. my question.

Hi! I'm a newbie here but eager to discuss everything that has something to do with my beloved hobby. I usually prefer LEGO train stuff as my user name indicates, but I also have some sets of other themes, of cours, but they are mostly quite old. My love in LEGO space has not been reborn since Blacktron II and Ice Planet. All that came afterwards did not interest me. The same is true for the castle series. I have the Inn and the Black Falcon's Fortress, both legends. I don't have any newer castle sets. So, as I said, I am mostly interested in train sets and city sets to make the whole layout look nicer. By the way, I have 9V trains only and my heart broke into a million pieces when TLC announced that 9V stuff was being discontinued. I also didn't like the introduction of the new hinges, but I must admit they are more stable than the old ones. I didn't like it when LEGO introduced the blay colours. Nothing against the new colours if the old ones were still produced. But when blay came out, prieces for old gray bricks on bricklink went up terribly. But I do have some sets with blay in them, of course. The colour change did not make me stop buying LEGO products.