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One can only guess. What I do know is that any new Avatar series will have a seriously difficult challenge ahead of it, since it will inevitably be compared to the original series. BTW; I see they're speculating about new airbenders. IMO, the new airbenders will not be air nomads, but a new people based around the technician's colony. Notice how Aang remarked that Teo "has the spirit of an air bender", and that the colony's culture heavily explores travel by air - through technology, sure, but all bending styles started out by learning from nature in one way or another. Winged flight can be seen as a primitive, unconcious way of bending air, and I think that one day they will figure it out how to do it without the wings. So in the end there'll be an entirely new air-bender culture.

I honestly do not see the problem. Sure, Emerald Night is wider than most trains we've seen yet (MOCs aside), but as long the train in the opposite track is 7-wide or less, there won't be a collision, ergo no problems. You'll need to have some distance between the intersecting sections of track and the train, sure, but that's the same case with all trains, especially longer cars that swing over other sections of track.

Wow! That looks just fantastic! :thumbup: Seems like you're mastering modeling with SNOT pretty well already - bikes like these are few and far between, just because of the advanced SNOT-work, so this is just... excellent.

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I don't remember seeing that many custom minifig-scale bikes outside the molded 3rd party ones, so this is absolutely original, and can't have been the easiest challenge, I guess. It looks real fast though, but then again, bikes like these are supposed to look fast, right? Very cool.

Wow. This is a very original and creative MOC! I must admit, I've never thought of this, and I've played Rollecoaster Tycoon very virtually every food and drink kiosk were shaped like the products they sold. So this is a refreshing breath.

This is a very, very cool MOC. I just love how you captured the ruggedness of the real deal. And that's before I start factoring in the building techniques used. Again. Very, very cool. :thumbup:

Very interesting. That last technique is used extensively for building tanker for trains. I don't recall them being that refined, though. I also like the pillars. For the green square with white octagon, replace the nestled headlight-bricks with a single 1x2 brick, and the lower half, replace the plates and tiles with a 1x4 plate and 1x4 tile. That should give it a nice, clean look. Besides, there's no need to overcomplicate things. Indeed, eventually you will notice that the "nestled headlights"-technique isn't perfect when used in rows, as there are some 0,01mm or something there that causes some extraordinary stress to the bricks. Also, seeing your interest in extraordinary building techniques, here's an interesting article written by Jamie Berard - creator of Café Corner and Green Grocer, about stressing bricks with do's and don'ts.

Certainly not the swedish one, that's for sure. But I did notice that they've moved the launch-date forward four days here.

Very cute station. Personally I would have moved the boarding-platform 1 stud closer to the rails on each side - that way there'd still be room for 8-wides to pass without leaving a leviathanian gap for the 6-wides, which I suspect this station is scaled towards? I should also point towards how the platforms are too low, but that would just ruin the looks. And who cares if it's too low, if it looks this good? Thanks for sharing!

Beautiful. Just beautiful. The highlight for me would be the underside of the arch, and the way you took the picture makes it feel like you're there, so kudos on the photo skills too!

Very nice and authentic looking. Impressive use of pneumatics, too!

Hahah! Now that is just fantastic! But is it safe...? (Not that it seems to bother the passengers getting on)

Really? Does it tolerate corners? Diesel, and the locomotive he's based on, is such a unique and memorable shape. My only gripe with your MOC is the all-blackness of it - something I've told both Cale and Sava as well. Please break up the color with some red, because this MOC deserves better. Pleeeaaase!

In one of the new ones...

Very nice indeed. Nicely chosen colors aswell. Really catches the petrol station atmosphere that building like these have. Looking forward to the car wash.

Very, very nice. I don't recall that many actually model the prime mover inside of the locomotive, for the sole reason that it'll never be seen, so this is a nice change of pace. Not a big fan of the all-black paint-job, but hey, that's PRR's problem, not yours! Thanks for sharing!

The pick-up truck is very nice. Reminds me of an old Ford or Dodge truck. And nice way of fitting two figs side-by-side by amputating their arms! Kudos on attempting to make that grille work on a mini-fig car. While I don't think it doesn't look any good, I've tried it myself and know how hard it can be, I have two ideas that might work: - Move the headlights backwards, the headlights should in general be behind the grille, to create a wedge shape - Or just build a T-ford or some other vintage car, where the grille guaranteed will fit in, together with the narrow hood and outrigger headlamps.

I guess timing has it's space in the equation, too. Just look at what happened in the same time-frame when RB5 and Cale's locomotive came out! That, and trains is a bit of a niche-theme right now - here's hoping that will change! That said, this is a very nice train. If I had to pick out something that I really like, it's the last train car with the terraced end, that one looks fantastic. As for the engine, err, I can't help but think that it just looks a little plain - but then again it's based on a movie prop real locomotive. Edit: Didn't see that bit. Sorry.

Cabooses were known as brake vans in Europe, and basically served the same purpose: it was a fail-safe in the event a train would separate itself, the caboose would engage the brakes on the separated half and slow it down to a halt. And they were always the last car on the train. Today the cars usually have an automatic system, similar to that on trucks, that engages the brakes should the train separate.

...while the insider posted in the blog (earlier in this thread), that 10194 will feature it. It's words against words, KD. I guess we will see in about two-three months' time.

Am I missing something here, or does the link just lead to a content-less page with Post-Office as a header? Nevermind, I'll comment on the nice building I see here on the forum. First of all, it looks like it's built like a rock - thick walls, solid stance and no weak points - i.e. no delicate details. It's no CCMS, but I dare say that this looks very classic and nostalgic - it reminds me of a library I built years ago as kid which had a similar color scheme and solidity as this post office. So I might be a little biased when I see this, but I nonetheless think this is very nice.

Very, very nice, Simonwillems! Your city really looks alive and active, with a very busy harbour and no "dead spots" and the likes. I'm wondering, is the train bridge solution something that has been used in real life? The only place I know that uses a solution like that is Sandvika station, that has the tracks doubling as the roof of the station, and shops and ticket booths gathered in a "mall below". The reason I'm asking, is that this particular station (if my memory serves me right, it's ten years since I've been there) is that it litterally sounds and rumbles like an earthquake everytime a train passes over. But it is a nifty and space efficient solution to integrating trains into a town layout.

Well, i just came across this article, so there's a chance they might lose Spongebob. But sure enough, LEGO can only grow so quickly (and as CEO Knudstorp have stated, don't want to grow too quickly), and one can only hope it won't negatively affect any of the other lines.

True, but Medieval Market was officially unveiled in October, and not leaked out. That is not the case here. The reason for LEGO not asking for having the pictures taken down could be that it's simply too late to have any effect; it's pretty much spread to any website about LEGO - it's even talked about on LUGNET, and that's saying something.