Hobbes

Anybody noticed or knows anything? City Transportation Doesn't contain anything yet, though...

I guess you missed a few zeros... Your question I can't answer, though...

Mhm. I wonder why they released it already. It's against their usual release cycle (which Jake explains in his Q&A). They do have the airport sets for next year and the new train and lots of non-city stuff but it's still a first in recent years...

Interesting, look at the minifigs: Box pic as we now it (also on S@H): S@H set pic: Now what?! Is there a chance of a "re-release" with different minifigs? ;)

Individual pieces:

Yet? Now, that is scary...

I have it... well, actually my girl-friend bought it at a local warehouse sale but wants to keep it for an occasion like birthday or something as a present for me *wub* So it sits there in my storage room and I can't open it (same goes for the 4512) 8-| Your gallery isn't public yet but I think I know the little buggy you mentioned. I have that, too. Oddly enough it was a little present for my girl-friend from me. Guess she "made up" big time ;)

I didn't mean to contradict or disagree, I just found those two helicopters and liked 'em ;)

Those are currently used for helicopters. I just built the "new" police station the other day where a helicopter with those skids is included. Didn't like 'em (the heli itself is nice, though).

Those auctions already ended... Somebody was. Desperate, or just plain stupid...

It looks like some people just don't check regular prices anymore: Advent Calendar Or they just don't read anymore: MIB - or is it... For you non-german-speaking folks out there: The second auction sells the box (and only the box!) of the shuttle! "OVP" stands for "OriginalVerPackung", which is basically the same as "MIB" or "MISB". The key here, however, is how he phrased the auction: he didn't say "Shuttle mit OVP" or just "Shuttle OVP", he said "OVP vom Shuttle", which means "Box of ... Shuttle" or "Box from ... Shuttle". Auctions like this are very "popular" in the cell-phone category. Tons of boxes were sold (or at least paid for) like this. Didn't think I'd ever see this in a toy category. Guess people stop at nothing for money... on the other hand, if you don't read carefully and have enough money to waste it, you don't deserve better... *wacko*

The cover on the box looks fake (the water around the bow)... or it's another "prototype picture"... tough call...

I'd see it as a "contraption" where they hung their hides and skins to dry...

That would do it for me: (click me)

Here's how my train looks like: Nothing special, no modifications whatsoever, just the brown kit added to the engine and the engineer from the Train Engine Shed. Pretty plain, but I like it. Looks great around the christmas tree ;)

I'm kinda torn about this set. On one hand I like it because it looks "western", on the other hand it looks kinda "childish". I don't think the blue windows fit the red coach. I don't particularly like that color combination. IMHO it should be clear or trans-black, if you want it to look cool in some way ;) The engine looks like something's missing. I can't put the finger on it, it kinda looks unfinished. I agree when you say that this train is reminiscent of the 70s trains (of which I had set 171; I miss most of the parts now). BUT: in your western city that trains looks very nice! For a western-like or "nostalgic" train I use a MOT (duh). I bought a small black steam engine with tender (I don't like the big models), but plain black looked kinda boring after some time so I bought the brown kit to make it a bit more "colorful". Behind it I run 2 green coaches and the red caboose. On the green coaches the trans-blue windows don't look too bad but I'd rather have a different color, too. Same with the caboose. Overall it doesn't look too bad, though, so I use it at christmas to run around the tree. Did that for the first time last year and it looked really cool - I like the MOT line :)

LUGNET shows the price when the set came out, not what it's worth now.

Click for answer ;)

To answer your question from the Castle & Pirates Forum: Thank you :) I don't build MOCs - yet. The modification on the 4511 is a "slow approach". I built a model of one of our local railway locomotives. But it ended as a... well... I wasn't at all satisfied. So, I have to try a lot, try different building techniques (which I know almost nothing about), then break them down again and end up building sets the way they're supposed to be. But as the picture of your old city shows, that can look good as well - at least to me ;)

By request of TheBrickster, here ya go (thumbs are clickable): Most of what you see I "collected" since May 2004 when I found a 7725 (you can see it in picture 6) on a local internet auction portal. That got me out of my dark ages :) The boxes standing around are full of spare parts. Didn't want to unpack them now...

Not a recent shot, but I do have a digital camera and I'm gonna take a new picture. Be right back... Edit: I created a new thread in a more fitting forum: My Collection

You say you're going to get one, but in a "complaining" way. One can only come to the conclusion that you need one. And now I'm going to complain about you not having one. Even I have posted some pics of my collection already! Go get a digicam! Today! Now!

You. All the time.