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Nice seeing that the new Reddish Brown color looks like rust in these pictures

The designs definitely look like Mahri more than Toa Nuva. I stopped buying Bionicle back in 2007, and didn't buy a new set until this year. It helps that the Toa look like reboots of their original forms this year.

Nearly two and a half years ago I posted an early WIP topic on a 2-8-0 Consolidation I was designing on LDD (original WIP here: http://www.eurobricks.com/forum/index.php?showtopic=82535). Life got in the way, and the project was put on a standstill. Now I have picked it up again, and over a few days I have made some fast progress. Here is the address to my Mocpages folder with the photos of the WIP. http://www.mocpages.com/moc.php/420133 I based this model of my hometown musuem's steam locomotive, Tooele Valley Railroad #11. She ain't no superstar in the railroad world, but #11 has a storied history which makes her a desirable prototype to base my Lego 2-8-0 design on. #11 was built original for the Buffalo and Susquehanna Railroad in 1910 at Alco Brooks in Dunkirk New York, but was never delivered to the B&S due to the railroad's bankruptcy and inability to purchase the locomotive. A few years later the locomotive was shipped from New York to Tooele, Utah (to clarify the pronunciation, "Too-will-uh" is how the locals say it). In Tooele #11 worked a busy short line connecting a large smelter with the busy Union Pacific and Western Pacific railroads. When she was retired in the early 1960's, #11 had become the last steam locomotive in common carrier service in the state of Utah. She was considered to be restored for use on the Heber Creeper Railroad, however Tooele residents decided to keep her on display in Tooele (thus the Heber Creeper choose to instead restore the UP #618, a Baldwin 2-8-0). Now #11 resides at a local museum. So onto my WIP model. I like some of the details, I am happy I choose an eight stud wide width, and I like the piston design (based roughly on dozens of other Mocs I have seen). What is driving me nuts to no end is the cab, once I finished building it on LDD I could see the cab sat one stud to high on its frame, and that the front windows were to big. It is not that fun rebuilding stuff with LDD! I might also rework the walkways on the boiler to obtain a more prototypical shape. Once the corrections are finished, I will work on the steam and sand domes and other details, then add the tender. The tender will be built big enough to house all the PF equipment (the locomotive itself being unpowered). So how is the project coming along. Where can I improve its design a bit more?

The story set up was great. The crash was one of those things so horrifying that I couldn't look away... Question? We're there any scratched pieces of figs after this, or did the ABS hold out well?

Yeah it sure takes a lot of work to collect a lot of bricks. For example I got my first Lego sets around 2001 when I was 7 years old, it has taken me 14 years to build a large collection (most of which were gifts from my parents). Even then, I don't have a lot of spare bricks since I don't disassemble a lot of sets. Plus with gifts from family members, I confess a few Megablocks have slipped into my parts bin. I would like more Lego bricks, but my current budget doesn't allow for crazy insane purchases from Bricklink or Pick A Brick. As for the painting, it is a bit of a touchy subject in Lego fandom. I personally haven't painted any bricks...yet. One of my other hobbies is HO scale trains though, were I giddly slap a ton of paint onto any boxcar I can get a hold of. In this sense the Lego fan community can be a bit strange, seeing all other branches of scale modeling depend on customizing, repainting, weathering, and kitbashing. With that said, the Lego fans who get really really good at painting, customizing, and parts bashing have earned a lot of respect in the fan community: for example Brotherhood Workshop on YouTube uses a few custom parts from time to time: and they are considered one of the best Lego based animated channels on YouTube. So in short, if painting bricks is your thing, then do it. If you have a few clone brand bricks and not a lot of official Lego, use them. Do what works for you, this is a creative medium after all!

The use of the curved fence as a radar looks good, and the chocolate box looks really professional with that black point.

Actually an Earth GAL... She ain't no soft girl isn't she?

Although I normally prefer purist builds, you have incorporated the clone bricks excellently! Awesome MOC. Although I normally prefer purist builds, you have incorporated the clone bricks excellently! Awesome MOC.

LOL. Great model, even with Kragle!

As of September 2015: The original Hogwarts Express (Mostly Disassembled) The Emerald Night (Intact) The Maersk Train (Intact) The Horizon Express W/power functions(Intact) The Constitution Train Chase (Intact) 60052 Cargo Train (Intact-Rolling stock and Buildings divided between my college dorm and my parent's house) Plus I have a small MOC based on the Edward Thomas from the Talyllyn Railway in Wales (but the MOC was done in red bricks as tribute to Peter Sam from the Railway Series). This MOC is my longest lasting-not disassembled MOC, I cannot recall how much time I have had it built now!

This is awesome!

Yeah I just counted the wheels, that is an FEF allright.

I vote No to armed Lego City cops. It is a nice break from more violent themes. And if I do want something more dark... I have enough Star Wars guns to arm my Lego Police Force of 4 outstanding cops! Yeah I have only four Lego cops... I have more Galidor sets then I have cops !? But I wouldn't mind Lego guns in a City set if it was something like "Skeet Shooting Range Adventure." That is gun use in a non-violent way.

Big Boy locomotive? British Deltic? BNSF Green Goat Switcher? There are my guesses..

I love the Night: but I admit the boiler makes it look like a Big Boy boiler on the wheels of 2-8-0 from the early 1900's... A lot of great designs in the Night (the curved slope pieces were awesome!), but the final scale is just... Wrong. Would be better pretending it is an USA Southern Railway 4-6-2 just based on size than the British LNER 4-6-2 it is shaped as. But anyway back to the new Lego trains... Although AFOL's are only 5% of the Lego market, a good train should attract AFOLs, Railfans, Parents and Kids. I think the Lego Transcontinental Railroad Golden Spike model currently on Lego Ideas is a great example of this appeal: I have met Railfans at a convention in Evanston Wyoming showing their support for this model, and most of them are not AFOLs either!

This is funny, I can easily imagine Coca-Cola lasting into a space faring society, kinda scary when I think of it...

Nice. It looks like you have incorporated the shops from the newest station set into a classier build.

Well I have a few Galidor to System adapters: the trick from there would be System to CCBS.

Okay, confession: back in the day I liked Galidor. I was an 8 year old kid, and I built up a small collection. Now, nearly 13 years later I don't really use the Galidor stuff, since I agree with most AFOLs that Galidor was just... Bad. However with these new Star Wars battlefigures, I see some new human head molds, and cannot help but notice the similarities with Nick and Allegra in Galidor. I couldn't help but wonder if I could use the heads from Star Wars and Galidor to build true humanized CCBS figs. Am I crazy, or has anybody else thought of this?

Awesome house. Although I will admit I though the name was a Bionicle refrence at first...

I have my modulars in a closet at my parent's house (My dorm doesn't have space!). I have four modulars ( Cafe Corner, Grand Emporium, Town Hall, and the Chinese Cinema) plus the Haunted House (an honorary modular). They are set up as a street scene on a shelf, with cars driving inbetween. Sometimes I put my superhero minifigs on the roofs fighting bad guys.

I'm not even Catholic: but I am totally digging this MOC. Pure awesome, instantly recognizable.

Yeah I think the battery box only comes in grey and red. But I like the idea of having the batteries on the main locomotive: since more weight over the drivers should increase traction.

I think the locomotive would look better perhaps if it was a block or two shorter: but I am not to sure. But that cab! Wow! The dang GE cab with the "slope thingy" is hard to capture in Lego: but your's is one of the best cab fronts I have seen. I might steal the idea someday ;)

A lot of recent Lego trains, although built on a 6 stud frame, have enough overhangs they look more like 7 stud or even 8 stud. Both the Night and the Maersk did this to an extent.