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Not currently.

The reasoning is 'cruddy' because you basically went through agf's 'Open Letter' and said the exact opposite of what he did. You don't agree with him, fantastic. I think you're just baiting him. He brings his opinion on the matter into places it isn't warranted, absolutely, and I made it clear that I feel that way. That doesn't mean that your approach is any better, or more mature. Moving on.

Train folk use servo motors for crossing gates and the like, so yes.

This must be going viral or something, as it has shown up on my bookface crawl from people who aren't Lego fans.

Probably at least one for every time you reference YOUR thread in a topic where it isn't warranted. That said, this is pretty cruddy reasoning throughout, and clearly just a way to make agf mad at you. I'd be surprised if the mods don't lock or merge.

At first I thought I was looking at the HO-scale train you used for a comparison/model while building. Then I saw studs.

Anybody who's built this notice that in step 76, when you connect the blue beams coming forward from the tail to the fuselage, that there is enough strain in the geometry to actually flex the liftarms?

^HH was also the last of the Monster Fighter sets and lasted looooong after all the others were gone.

The troop transport is canon. In an unusual move, after Kenner made the toy, Lucas retconned the story so that it was an Imperial Troop Transport that attacked and destroyed the Sandcrawler, offscreen.

^Depends on the sets... People are still selling MISB 10179, and that's a lot more that $300 profit these days.

Picture review with a SHORT video demonstrating interesting functions. This does not mean showing the same thing going back and forth 60 times, either.

Planet Series IV - Hoth / Snowspeeder

^Of course a 5000+ piece Technic set would likely have over a thousand pins.

Just amazing! Very impressed by the inclusion of a full interior, too. I can see that the kitchen and sleeping quarters are next to each other, is there anything inside the lowest level besides the cannon?

Dark Ages was mid-late 80's until 2013. Sometimes I wonder what my parents did with my old tubs of bricks.

As someone who started using LEGO even before the 1978 introduction of Space, let alone before Technic, and was in the Dark Ages from about '87 until 2013, I've got a different perspective on this. I had just one motor back in the day, and it was HUGE. Like 4 bricks tall, 6 studs wide and 12 studs long and black. You had two choices of what to power: 4 wheels or two treads. SNOT was virtually non-existent so apart from some black vehicles I think the only thing I ever made was a windmill. The battery pack took either 2 c's or 2 d's, and was enormous. It was connected to the motor by a 10" wire and had on and off positions. Technic sets were still pretty rudimentary, but I had 850, 871 and this as my flagship set, and one of my absolute last sets before 'growing up': . . . Now that you know where I'm coming from, I hope that you're not horribly offended when I say: Are you frickin' serious? Whining about sets being too big? Complaining about being able to power almost any function you can imagine and control it remotely? Please just, just please. If you don't like a massive, multi-motor remote controlled set, DON'T BUY IT. But complaining about its existence is just asinine. If you want to make things like we used to you still can: (please not that these sets came with bricks in ALL THE COLORS! I guess there were only 5 colors in the world back then. ) But while you're at it, I'll be more than happy to build some of these, and maybe MOC from them, too:

The wife won't get off my back to buy more LEGO sets.

Both have their place. I think the best is a picture review with a short video that quickly demonstrates any functions.

FB is retired. Pet Shop is still active.

Um... The rigging doesn't show on the inventory list... and that set has been replaced on S@H in the US by another high-$$$ Serious Play set that doesn't show the boat riggings on the pile.

No way that passageway holds up under its own weight. Sorry. As cool as it would be to do an interior on this, you aren't going to be able to. You need to start framing the interior to actually hold the shape. You should look at successful extra-large scale projects and see how they approach them. Learn from the lessons of those who have gone before you. That massive Star Destroyer that was making the rounds earlier this summer would be a good place to start.

I'm going to do one for Reviewers' Academy after Final Exams tomorrow. Chem161 and Calculus III Wish me luck.

Wow. I thought the pinball machines were great... Then I saw that jukebox!

Just WOW. I don't care if you don't like MOCs with non-official LEGO parts, you can't deny that this is a work of beauty! I can't wait to see if Madoca comments!

Must be something, they picked up over 4K in about 20 hours! I'm really surprised how many people have pledged for the 8 SBrick package, and that's certainly not hurting the cause. Anybody want to guess a final number? I want the square for 87K. At least they won't have to do as much borrowing to get to 100K now. Those guys must be pretty excited, this does confirm that there was a significant audience for the product.