FelixTheCat

That is sweet. One of the hardest parts I've found with vehicles like that is getting the proportions right but you've hit the nail on the head. Love the winch on the front. How much work would it take to make a working tailgate at the rear of the cargo bed?

Lego does do something that could be used for progressive swinging. You'd just need to program the entire run into the control centre which could then be repeated at the push of a button.

I reckon I've bought hundreds of sets in my lifetime. I've had 2 occasions (both in the last 12 months) where I was forced to use Lego's part replacement form. Both times it wasn't due to missing parts but deformed parts. I thought I had a lot of bits missing when I built the Emerald nights train the other day, but soon realised where I'd used different colours further down the track. I was then left with 1 missing window pane, which my eagle eyed 3 year old spotted under the couch some 3 weeks later.

Picture this. It's 1989. Were doing our monthly big trip into the city where we always pay a visit to the toy store cause it's right near all the tool and homewares shops that mum and dad visit. I've just turned 10 years old and flush with birthday cash from overseas and interstate grandparents. They know they're no good at choosing toys and anything worthwhile costs a fortune to send from Ireland, so birthdays, christmas and sometimes randomly a plain envelope with a handwritten letter and some funny looking money turns up and everyones happy. The exchange rate is pretty good at the moment and I've got a couple hundred bucks to spend. I walk in the shop and make a beeline for the lego. We're going for something big this year. Round the corner into the lego aisle and the first big box I see is this. There is no contest and no doubt. The only issue I have is what to spend the rest of the money on. Don't ask me what it was cause I cant really remember paying much attention to anything else. The next 4 hours are painful. Theres still groceries to buy and a 2 hr drive home. I held onto that box the entire trip home. Couldn't take my eyes off it. Kept flipping up the lid to see the minifigs. The governor was just something else. He was like the god of all minifigs I'd ever seen. Exquisite detail and a huge sense of nobility just oozed from him. Soon as we're home it's straight into building. Screw dinner, screw TV. I've got more important stuff to do.

I reckon it's the best small plane for a long time. It was good value for money and just the right size of model for my plane mad 3 year old to build pretty much by himself.

No worries. I can make do with 6. The weathered one would look pretty cool though. Like you I've inherited a fair few collections from friends and family and it seems to have been a fairly common set over here. Most of mine are fairly clean but I like having faded and old chewed pieces to give a bit of character to the occasional MOC. Have you got a picture of your one assembled?

If you're in Australia I'd be pretty interested. Considering you signed up to this website on my birthday I reckon thats a sign that you'd be an honest bloke to deal with.

The best thing about lego (real classic style) is that there is no nations, no race, no superiority. Everyone in Legoland is yellow and thats it. It's just building and imagination.

Are you guys kidding? This set is Fan-bloody-tastic. Just cause the wind turbine isn't as big as the Vesta's one doesn't make it worse. Chuck a minifig next to it and it looks plenty big. If it's not tall enough just add 2 more rows of white cylinders. The truck is one of my favourite of recent times. It incorporates an important element that has been missing from a lot of city vehicles lately. Opening doors. It has a superb design with the 4 tool boxes and exhaust stacks, and the extendable multipurpose trailer has no competiion whatsoever. The support car is excllent in it's own class (again with opening doors) and I picked up my set for $50Au from Big W which I thought was an absolute bargain. If there'd been more than 1 on the shelf I reckon I would have bought at least 4. I gotta vote "outstanding" for this. I'm thinking a 9v micromotor in the windmill as a next step. Either that or 3 windmills on a hill with a single motor running the lot via the long axle up the centre.

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