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  1. Gideon8
    Taking a part of the hospital wing out is a small tradeoff. I was happy that I could keep the other half. Hahaha, yeah, it was something that was clearly implied in the original Lego clock tower! Yet, the students only needed to wait for a short period because the pendulum swung fast for maybe only 5 seconds. -------------------- @montgocloud, here is what I meant by "I plan to motorize my clock tower!" Are your clock tower and the rest of your Hogwarts castle shared anywhere? I look forward to see your set up.
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    Forgot that BL allows one to download the list in the XML format! Thank you for doing that. Hahaha, that’s true! Poor Ron! He always ends up in the now noisy Hospital Wing! Thanks for your remark. :)
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    Thank you very much for your remarks! Yes, the speed can be controlled. I should have added that I was using PF IR receiver and the speed remote controller for controlling the M-Motor. The speed of the clock work in the video was either speed 1 or 2.
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    I have always wanted the original 4757 Hogwarts Castle because it had a clock and a pendulum! I found its clock works to be a GREAT mystery until I could look into its instruction manual! Lego was so gracious to create the new Clock Tower and release it! I loved it very much. However, a great feature was missing: the pendulum! I decided to make minimal modifications for adding a pendulum and even motorizing it! My Clock Tower's clock work would not be a GREAT mystery because I made a video which showed how I built it!
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    @montgocloud, hope you will succeed your vision! Mine arrived yesterday. As I tried to add gears in my clock tower, I found a hinderance that I didn’t see when I built it in LDD. I made a small modification and now the motorized system works perfectly! Will begin a thread very soon and share it with everybody.
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    How cool! It must be magnificent since it has a long gallery! That makes total sense why you don’t need DADA in the tower. Yep, will motorize the clock’s hand and the pendulum with the M-motor. Will share a video of the tower after it comes into the stores on July 1st. I have made a really crude building in LDD to find out what pieces I need to order from BL without ruining the building experience, which I am saving for when I finally get it! As for the Horntail, I think I saw someone in Instagram use the longer tail piece (40379) to make the head more impressive.
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    @montyofmusic, thank you for sharing about your project with the Clock Tower! I too have ordered pieces to add a pendulum to my future Clock Tower! I liked your approach of placing the pendulum in the central part of the tower. I especially liked your brickbuilt doors! My approach is making minimal changes to the original structure as possibly. In the LDD, I placed the pendulum behind the structure without compromising the DADA classroom. Yet, the hospital wing will only have one bed because the other side will be occupied by a M-motor instead of the second bed. Looking forward to see yours and possibly others’ in real bricks!
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    There is an authentic picture of the three (yes, with the Clock tower) HP castle sets connected together in the upcoming Lego catalog. It is a nice, if not, accidental tribute to the original Hogwarts castle and Clock tower because the originals are of almost the same height. Apparently, history likes to repeat itself.
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    It looks really cool! It reminds me of a range lighthouse.
  10. Gideon8
    So much, too much, thoughts had gone into this mode. Brilliant.
  11. Gideon8
    Wow! Thank you for sharing your Christmas train and village layout! Very festive. I liked the addition of the led-lighted snow flakes and street lights. I agree that the newer locomotive is cooler than the old one.
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    I would like to see it very much! Especially since it seems to be quite unusual.
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    Yeah, this guy did it with the Toy Story train:
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    Okay cool! Thanks. I like that you kept the original stove with the wires running out of it. I have another question for you. How does your M-Motor run since that you use the 20 tooth instead of another 12 tooth? I would imagine that the up-gearing would stress the motor, cause it to reach its limit, and shut it down..... Did you try to run the train for more than 15 minutes? That happened with my Carousel before I down-geared it to help the M-Motor....
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    It is always really cool to see what people come up for motorizing the Hogwarts Express! May I ask if you use several 6589 technic 12 tooth bevel gears to connect the wheels to the motor?
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    Definitely. Eye. Candy. Wow!
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    @Robert8, yeah, the solid colored rounded studs on the tree looks rather odd to me... I wonder if they would look better if they are transparent? Maybe add some blue transparent round studs too?
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    Didn't expect it to look so much like a building from a ceramic Christmas village. Amazing!
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    @Sunseeker21, wow, you must have nailed it! The alarm box definitely resembles the one from the Fire Brigade.
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    Fire station? Hmmm.... My vote goes to a restaurant in a barn, like this: https://binged.it/2PJiVhI BBQ sounds yummy!
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    @Digger of Bricks, thanks for the video! His ingenious set up with the M-motor and the IR receiver in the locomotive is amazing! It does not look too difficult either! If I do this way, I want to find a tan Technic Axle 6 and use it in place of the black one. I also want to try with the PF train motor under the tender and see how fast it can go without derailing! Haha. I hope the red window frames will continue to be rather cheap so we can BL more carriages. Is there any third party sticker maker in USA or something we can do ourselves so we can get or make more stickers for the carriages? @Goldenmasamune, whoa, I didn't notice the piece manipulations in that video. Thanks for shedding a light on it.
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    Wow, so it looks like the new Hogwarts Express locomotive has enough space for a motor and a number of gears. Cool!
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    Cool idea! Is your battery wagon red? It could be appear as an appropriate tender if it maybe also has some HP stickers...
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    Promobricks did a interview with one of the designers of the new Harry Potter sets. Thanks to Google translate, we can see that there seems to be a way to motorize the new Hogwarts Express! Quotation from the website: When asked why the train was not equipped with power functions, Mark John Staffort gave a surprising answer: internally, there were deliberations about how to motorize the train, especially as many fans would have wanted just that. In the end, they opted against the price but against it - but a conversion is not a problem. In the train there is enough space to accommodate the engine and the battery box. Speaking of price: That's also the reason why the set no railroad tracks are here. Train fans finally have enough rails at home. I am very excited to hear this! I am hoping to get it sometimes and motorize it with the new POWER UP components IF it will be available to be bought separately. I initially thought to turn the motor and the battery/receiver box into the tender like I did with my Constitution and PF. But now after reading the interview, I wonder if the motor can be attached in the front of the locomotive since there are four train motor wheels already in the same place. But it probably would be a problem when it goes along a curve unless the motor is attached to more moving parts. Any other ideas? Link: https://www.promobricks.de/lego-harry-potter-neue-sets-in-2019-stickerboegen-und-power-functions/62430
  25. Gideon8
    Thanks for sharing your layout! I really like your addition of the pirate flags on top of the beach hut. They really turn it into a viable gift-shop for a waterfront town. I HAVE to copy the idea for my beach shop!
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