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Nice to see the classic Spidey and classic Doc Oc here!
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Admittedly the only 2015 set I've modded is The Protector of Fire's stubby arms... He looks so much better with long arms! The 2016 sets I don't think I'd mod much either, but my issue with them is that they don't look different enough from the current sets to justify another purchase. Maybe my opinion will be changed once high res pictures sneak onto Shop@Home...
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Well first: Where else was that cow going in 60051, we don't want our kids to really think that cows are given train rides for fun now do we? Second, the key to hooking kids to trains: 1. Shove a train based T.V. show onto their local stations while they around the ages of 3-6(example: Thomas the Tank Engine was one of my favorites as a young kid back in the late 1990's) 2. Let them visit local museums with a few real trains and a nice model railroad set-up (the museum which did it to me, the small town Tooele Valley Railroad Museum in Utah) 3. Shove a few books about different locomotives into their high school library(Jim Boyd's book Steam Locomotive was conveniently placed in my High School book shelves...) 4. Convince them to go and wait an hour next to local train tracks just to wait for UP 844 (or any other preserved steam locomotive) to roll by during its special heritage tour... And there you go, hook, line, and sinker! (Admittedly while all these steps worked on me, I have observed that the kids 10 to 15 years younger than me are even more wild and crazy, and have lost almost all interest in the real world. My suggestion to introduce them to trains:make a popular MOD for Minecraft with a working SD-40 !!) Anyway back to 2016 Lego trains... At this point I'm starting to think this thread is becoming our wish list page, since there have been absolutely ZERO rumors about a new train set for 2016.
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^Because everything is Awesome! Maybe you could make up brand names to reference other Lego themes, take these ideas for example: Ye Ole Christiansen Toy Shop Ekimu's Masks and Costumes Exo-Force Cybertech Blacktron Operating Systems This list can go on and on... Just make puns! Or steal from the licensed sets too: Stark Industries (Marvel) Buy N' Large (Wall-E) Wayne Enterprises(DC) Ect. Ect. Ect...
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^Although from a trains fan coal would be far more interesting. Just look at Model Railroader magazine and note how many times coal mines and power plants are mentioned... Although I agree that Lego would be far more likely to sell an "Octan Solar Farm" than a "Octan Coal Power Plant." That's just Lego being P.C. these days. (After watching the Lego Movie though a coal plant seems more in tune with the Orwellian style of Octan in the movie)
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^Powerplant needs coal. What delivers coal? Trains. In short, if Lego Trains has to be part of Lego City, I want it to have more impact on Lego City than just being there.
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Yeah I don't think the mask packs were even super popular back in the day. I always felt the packs shifting towards "Ammo Packs" was a sign that it was less about collecting and more about adding additional play features to the sets. Still I do wish we had mask packs still around, $3 for 3 or 4 masks would be a lot easier than going on Bricklink and trying to claim ONE old mask for $10! If anybody invents a time machine, I'm going back to 2001 to buy up entire boxes of Mask Packs...
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The Millennium Falcon colour thread (White, Grey or Blue!)
xboxtravis7992 replied to appiah4's topic in LEGO Star Wars
We'll always miss Thrawn; but other than that not to sad to see some stuff go! Then again, Lando's other ship "Lady Luck" was pretty stylish and would make a great MOC. -
To quote an old Looney Tunes short, "Shall we? Will we? Let's." It would make for a fun time turning over spammers with illegal schemes to the Feds!
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Recently I've been having problems with my old Turaga figures from 2001. Their Rubber Bands have been drying up and becoming britle! It's weird because they aren't played with often and are on display. They are not exposed to sunlight either, and my home is if often a rather steady temperature. Has anybody else had this problem? How should I prevent it? With what Rubber Bands should I replace the broken ones (since I fear that if I Bricklink the same ones used in 2001 that they will dry out and crack too...)
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A bridge does sound like a good solution, especially seeing that the tables are pre-made (and cutting them might ruin them). The bridge can be easily removed, to allow access to the center layout.
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Yeah I'm really liking the last one. You could trim the table in the bottom right corner and use the wood to connect the tables in the upper right corner. You could then create a lift out bridge to connect the tables in the bottom right corner. Looks like you'll have enough space for a small workbench/storage area in the lower left corner, and you might have enough room to include a staging/fiddle yard (a small area hidden from view of the rest of the layout, where you can put trains on and off the layout) on the layout. You could put the staging yard on the table on the bottom left corner, for ease of access.
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Yeah combining CCBS and System can be difficult sometimes, but the Hulkbuster includes some conversion pieces in-between the systems. There is a Creator set out right now that was recently featured on Brickset as one of the best sets of the year that includes other essential mech parts, i.e. Galidor/Exo-Force joints and Mixel joints.
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Maybe the best idea would be to scrap the table idea all together and instead build shelf units against the walls. For example this article written about HO trains discusses why a table is inefficient and takes up to much space without giving enough (http://www.layoutvision.com/id28.html). With HO trains, a common table layout can accommodate small curves such as 18" radius curves, and 22" radius curves. However, most large scale HO models run a minimum on 24" curves and run best at 30" curves, something impossible with a small table. Your problem with trying to incorporate big ME rails curves on a Lego layout is the same issue, eventually there is a point were a solid table is impractical and often impossible. Complicating the issue is that Lego trains are a big scale, meaning that realistic curves will be double the radius of the HO examples I have listed! Building a shelf against the wall is often a better choice to incorporate bigger curves without killing up available space (again this website has an example of shelf layouts in HO scale: http://www.layoutvis...lery/index.html Or perhaps these examples of O scale layouts which are similar in size to Lego trains would be a better source of inspiration: https://www.google.c...jCh3yoAWf&dpr=1). Plus once a shelf layout is built focus can be changed from running trains in endless circles (which is pretty unrealistic anyway) to running them from point A to point B and delivering passengers or cargo along the way (which could be pretty fun with Lego since we actually have an easy way of interacting with the Mini-figures, unlike most model trains were the figures are glued in place).
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That was a fun video, makes me think about combining Lego and water :) Which reminds me that I once read a story in Model Railroader once about a man who built his HO layout inside a room with Industrial Heating and Refrigerating Units so he could change the temperature from around 32 degrees F ( 0 degrees C ) all the way up to 100 degrees F ( 40 something degrees C) just so he could model the effects of natural weather on his railroad. He then installed an overhead sprinkler in his layout room so he could have rainstorms when he had the temperature high, or he could drop the temperature to cause a snow storm over his layout... For some reason watching this Lego train going through water and memories of that article gives me the crazy thought that somebody could do some even more cool things with Lego and water... Who knows what is possible?
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Amtrak GE B32-8WH /w Passenger Consist - WIP!
xboxtravis7992 replied to legoman666's topic in LEGO Train Tech
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Never heard of Gauntlet before. Looks interesting though.
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A lot of the old time Disney animators were big train buffs, so they knew very well what was prototypical railroading: making there artistic errors all the more outlandish- they probably did it on purpose! But nothing matches the oddity of the old illustrations for the Railway Series books with Henry's constantly retracting pony truck :(
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How's I forget about John Henry? That's an unsung Disney classic based on a legend that originated in the post civil war construction of railroads. Plus that steam drill from the cartoon is pretty sick looking
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I've been at it since 2000, I'm 21 now. The last two years I didn't but Lego sets, but it was because I was living in South America: and during that time my parents bought me several sets to build shortly after I returned from South America.And then I went to the Lego Store and bought a few of the sets I had missed. I actually went to the Lego Store before I checked Brickset to see what was new, so everything in the store was a surprise!
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Holiday Junction at Cincinnati Museum Center
xboxtravis7992 replied to legoman666's topic in LEGO Events and User Groups
Hmm. Strange to hear about such a well known Lego artist acting so stand-offish. But who knows, maybe "Artists" think themselves to be above AFOLs? Come to think of it, the only Professional Lego Artist I can think of that brushes shoulders with the fan community is Sean Kenny, the rest seem to be a bit distant. -
Bwhahahahaha!
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2-8-4 "Berkshire" type steam engine - Anthony Sava inspired
xboxtravis7992 replied to Murdoch17's topic in LEGO Train Tech
My favorite part is seeing the Berkshire and the Black Daylight together at the end, with that surprisingly simple yet spot on yard limit sign. -
According to Brickset, I own 227 sets divided as such: 75 Bionicle Sets 31 Star Wars Sets 15 Collectible Mini-figures 8 Advanced Models 8 City 8 Harry Potter 7 Galidor (yes, I admit it; I still own my Galidor figs...) 7 Town 6 Marvel Superheroes 5 Power Functions Units 3 The Lone Ranger 3 Discovery 2 Technic 2 Exo-Force 2 Racers 2 Creator 1 Indiana Jones 1 DC Superheroes 1 Seasonal 1 Space 1 Adventurers 1 Lord of The Rings 1 Pirates 1 The Lego Movie 1 Monster Fighters 1 Rock Raiders 1 Spider Man (Toby Mc. version) Money wise, the Advanced Models and Creator Expert have been getting the most purchases in recent years (and on Brickset hold 14205 Lego pieces of my collection), but I have a huge stock of Bionicle sets thanks to how cheap they were when I was a kid (plus a few of the new reboot figures). Star Wars still holds out pretty big, with a lot of the big 100 dollar sets in my collection. I don't know if those 15 collectible mini-figures or the Power Functions (which I bought to power the Horizon Express) should really count towards the total, but hey why not? My collection is rather varied (I think), compared to say the people who focus all their money into one theme. The year I spent the most money in Lego was 2012. My most complete collection is the Advanced Models Trains, I own all three of them! Here's the wonderful Brickset page to over analyze this kind of stuff... http://brickset.com/...ion/sets/graphs
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Nice. I really am digging the retro 50's look. Put some Star Wars figs in and you'll convince everybody in the Star Wars forum you've made Dex's Diner ;)