paanjang16

Here are some of my ideas:- Octan Park and Service:- 2-3 storey car park with car elevator to bring your vehicle to your parking lot. Have a service garage with car lift, tool box and car wash. 4 petrol pumps for Legoman to refuel thier cars before they head home. Vacuum the car interior to keep clean. Includes a tow truck and a service car for the Octane stuff. Park your car in the garage! Sent it to the service station for a check-up! or just refuel before heading back home, the play value is limitless!! Other accessories include a sedan car, a convertible, a van and a motorbike. Ironically Lego had already created this gem back in 1988 with the Metro Park and Service Tower Lego Park and Ride Similar to Octan Park and Service, but with a connectible monorail station! Use the elevator to park your car at the parking tower! Walk down to the nearby LRT/MRT/Tube/Subway station! Have a Hot dog while waiting for the train! Includes 2 sedan, 1 van and 1 SUV. Also includes monorail track and 2nd station. Lego rough terrain crane Based on the Tadano Rough Terrain crane, it is a small compact crane that has a wheelbase of a small truck but capable of lifting heavy loads and be in some rough situations. Features include fully extendable boom, extendable stabilizers, large wheels, motor functions to lift stuff, those heavy counterweights found in Lego ships and an awesome looking driver. Lego Harbour 2010 On the dock are harbour cranes similar in shape to the crane from 6542 Launch and Load Seaport, but with motor functions and able to lift the container and unload them on the ship. The ship meanwhile as a turning propeller so that it can sail across your bathtub. The dock is long enough for the crane to move from one end of the ship to the other without moving the ship. Have about 10 containers to play load and unload. The crane in 7994 just does not cut it anymore; shows how cheap Lego is. Lego double decker bus Let's go cross country aboard the Lego double decker bus! Features a top deck with 10 seats, staircase to the lower deck, TV and table in lower deck and driver's compartment. Also have engine and luggage compartment in the rear. Includes 1 driver, 1 attendant and 5 passengers. Below is the picture of a double decker bus I took to Singapore from Kuala Lumpur. Lego tower crane 2010 Featuring the box girders from the Crawler crane as part of the tower and boom. Lego Osprey helicopter Twin rotor blade helicopter based on the Osprey dual rotor. Many more coming soon

I voted more "own" themes. The original classic town, pirates and space themes is where I grew up with, and to me it is where Lego do best. I came out of my dark age not by any Star Wars set, not by any Indie sets, but the latest City set. I'm afraid what Lego will come up with for the next few years for pirates, city and the like. I'm afraid with so many licensed sets they need to come up with, the man hours allocated to design a new set for City and the like will be stretch thin and we get lackluster sets. Remember the time when Lego has no licensed sets how many awesome City, Space, Castle, Pirates sets came out? I'm talking the period before 1996 when the 1st Star Wars sets are to come out a few years later. The Town sets in the 1997-1998 was a disaster, no thanks to R&D for the Star Wars sets of 99. During this period too the pirates line was discontinued. Instead Lego is spending money on Ben 10, Disney license which I am sure cost a bomb to pay and a bomb to develop. Imagine if the same amount of money goes to:- 1) Designing a better ship in pirate, need something like a BSB 2) Return the city monorail! (this one maybe with the Disney license a monorail can be designed) 3) More original and amazing city sets like the Metro Park and Service Tower, 1991 harbour sets 4) Space ships that is as good as those from Blacktron, Space Police 1, M-tron 5) Another 8880 supercar 6) Fabuland 7) Paradisa; replace Belville with it! I know licensed sets are one of the biggest cash earners for Lego, such as the Star Wars sets, but having 2-3 is will do and have more time for the bread and butter themes of Lego.

I recognize the clock! It came with my old airport set 6392 back in 85! In fact according to Peeron it mostly came out in train stations Link Belville looks horrible to me Too barbie-ish and does not look Lego at all. Would prefer they went with Paradisa instead.

I would seriously consider a Disney Monorail set if they ever thought of building one I have bought the Takara Tomy "Tomica" version of the Tokyo Disneyland monorail (about Hot Wheel size) when I was in Tokyo Disneyland as shown below. So if Lego wants to build a Lego monorail, I highly believe that those Disney guys will allow them too, or even pester Lego to do it!!! If there is a big reason for Lego to come out with a monorail set using the old monorail tracks (or just invest in whole new types), I think this is the BEST reason I can think of. Imagine this set selling in Disneyland; you sat the monorail, now you can build one at home!! Other thing I can think of:- 1) A REAL Lego "Black Pearl" instead of the rip-off of the BSB 2) Pirate ships like the flying dutchman, etc. Imagine the ships, forts, minifigures Lego can produce that will put the Megalblock version to shame! 3) Buzz Lightyear monorail set, base, vehicle and minis 4) Collectors sets like Green Grocer but have buildings like in Disneyland

Welcome to EB. I'm from Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia and its good to see another member from our region joining us here. Yup, its true, AFOL's biggest problem is not only the dough to buy the sets, but the space needed to store them

Wow, 51 pounds for Brickbeard's bounty? and 25 for this ship? Over here in Malaysia the Brickbeard's Bounty ship costs RM 499.00 at TRU (with no off-season discount, no TRU card discount, no discount EVER!!), which translates to a whooping 87 pounds according to xe.com where 1 pound = RM 5.77. In fact the most overprice of all is the Clone war Republic Gunship costing a heart-stopping RM 799.00 (138 pounds) at TRU with no discount unless the jedis really exists. Compared to Singapore the same thing costs only Sing 199.00 (83 pounds). The irony is that Singapore is just across the causeway from Johor Bahru!!! The KO BSB I got it for RM 180, which is less than half the price of the new ship. Brick by brick BSB is better than the new ship like the cannon deck, the storage hatches near the cannons, the castle, the number of cannons, the size of this ship, even the rigging used to hold the sails is a combination of several pieces instead of the technic joints we see in the new ship. But I do agree with one thing, this KO ship CANNOT and WILL NEVER beat the real thing. Some of the pieces are soft, the yellow is different than regular Lego, the sail has a weird skull design etc. But to me getting the replica of it will do. That is why I am hoping Lego will come up with a 3 mid-section, 2 deck, 4 cannons, 2 mast ship that mimics the BSB instead of making a little frigate which is Brickbeard's Bounty. Will we finally see an imperial warship? :pir-skull:

I too bought the fake Black Sea Barracuda aka The Black Pearl. From looking at the instructions of the BSB online, I would say it is 85% similar to the BSB as there are some parts which were modified by the clone lego company. The box of the pirate ship. The instruction manual has a little comic The box contents with multiple plastic bags of parts + 1 stern section + 1 bow section + 3 intermediate section + sail. I finally understood why TLG used numbered bags, building something with 800+ parts of almost similar color is VERY time consuming Some random instruction page.Some of the instructions are almost direct copy of the BSB. The crew is not the same as the crew of the BSB, with the captain in his younger days still with his right leg and right hand. Also some of the pirates have original shirt designs. The back of the minifigs are not printed. The finished ship in all its glory. I would say it was a challenging build, with the stern being a little complicated and have to reconstruct a few times. If there is something missing, I would say there is no plank to throw your hostage to the sharks! The crew and some of the accessories you will get. Among the contents are:- 4 cannons 4 Wild west rifles (a little high tech for these guys right?) Usually during this era they will use only Muskets Chrome pistols Monkey Parrot and other stuff Now for some comparison:- Weapons; The original Lego pistol, sword and musket has a "Lego" words on it and not chromed. But if you do not know what to look for the copy looks similar to the real thing Monkey; Both the monkeys are almost similar and checking which one is the real one was initially difficult cause there is no "Lego" words anywhere on the monkey! But being original, Lego wrote their trademark INSIDE the monkey! Real geniuses :pir-skull: Oh, in the first picture the real one is on the right. A snippet of my review on my Lowyat forum site Part 1 is here Post number 1458 Part 2 is here Post number 1471 Part 3 is here Post number 1475 I would say that it is worth getting with you are aware that it is a KO and not going to give it to anyone (well, who gives fake Lego as presents?). Really wanted a BSB, but could never afford or obtain one Also compared to Brickbread's Bounty, this ship is bigger! the new ship only have 2 intermediate sections, BSB got 3!

Hmm, how did I arrive here? Well was researching about the new Brickbeard's Bounty ship and stumbled across the review about it here from google. Then later found a review of the clone version of the BSB, Imperial flagship made by a clone (or rip-off?) lego company called enlighten as I was researching about it too, and somehow google showed a few links to threads with the clone ships. Was contemplating if I should buy the replica/clone/rip-off of the BSB or not since I saw it on sale in a mall nearby. Not to mentioned someone here posted a picture of the enlighten brick tank here too, so I came here from google that way But came back here again and again after reading those fantastic reviews bout the old sets like the airport monorail, old pirate sets, old space sets and others. The pictures and reviews as well as some humor in the last few picture made reading about those sets fun.

A big imperial/armada/french/good guys warship with:- 1) 4 cannons on turntables like SES (with 2 more as spare) 2) 8 cannon ports like SES 3) 3 intermediate ship section like the BSB (unlike the Brickbeard's Bounty, only 2 intermediate sections) 4) large sails with no markings and color stripes only like BSB, so that can change allegiance easily 5) Castle at the back that follows the curve of the ship like BSB 6) 10 guys and maybe 1 girl (captain's daughter?) for crew 7) Tall masts like the BSB. The rigging to hold the sail is like BSB (the new ship with technic parts does not look good to me) 8) a crane to lift up rowboats and a place to store the rowboats 9) 2 or more decks on the ship like BSB 10) more loot 11) can float on water with remote control and can fire cannons with a press of a button 12) minimum 1200 pieces Sounds more like a UCS ship more than a 100 dollar ship set. Hey, maybe a UCS imperial ship or BSB is a good idea :pir-skull:

Thanks guys. Yes, it sure will an expensive and additive hobby as well. That's why it is good to come here and research more about the sets before buying Another shot of the old Lego airplane. Pilot assisting his passengers to get aboard since there is no steps or ladders. Luggage guy placing luggage in the back. If it does look abit weird, well some parts I have to salvage from my pool of Lego parts and improvise since I lost the original part

Hello everyone, paanjang16 here I'm from Kuala Lumpur, capital of Malaysia and born in 1984. Will be 25 this year, male, still single and hopefully can get more sets I'm a mechanical engineer, designing building services like air-con system, fire-fighting system, plumbing etc. Used to play with the Lego Town sets from mid 1980s to mid 1990s such as Lego Town, Lego Space and a few smaller sets from other series in between. Extremely thankful to my parents for buying me such classic sets which to me is still better than today's set (Sorry, I'm bias ) Got out of my dark age around early this year with the purchase of the 7632 Crawler Crane. Was instantly hooked to the design of the set which is extremely realistic and almost like the real crawler crane in the construction sites. Glad Lego went back to the basics and produce sets like these which to me is like classic town. Anyway I still have some very old but not complete sets (blame it on the way I used to play with toys as a kid) like:- Lego Airport 6392; reconstructed recently Metro Park and Service Tower; not reconstructed yet Safari Jeep with suspension; reconstructed recently and many many more Even have some Duplos with a barnhouse and farm animals (look the the red tractor, I think it is still sold today as a Lego set ) The Legoman from the airport set and Metro park and service with the car wash assembled for a photo shot. The most recent Lego set was the Thunder Driller. The planetary gear system was the one that made me bought it. Still looking for some old sets which I never could have gotten since I was like... less than 10 years old Anyway taking the drill from the Thunder driller and combining it with the crawler crane, it will become a bore pile drilling machine! That's how useful those crawler cranes are in the Lego construction site. I am also a forum member of the Lowyat.net forum. We have our own thread on Lego at the site. Not as big as the Eurobricks forum though. http://forum.lowyat.net/topic/228340 Again, cheers and hello from Malaysia!