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  1. *thomas*
    You mean the steel axle wheels from the 9V/PF/RC era? yes, you could use those, alough you'll have to change the complete boogie design. I use them on all my old 12 volt rolling stock, much smoother ride.
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    It looks amazing. Your builds are just gorgeous!
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    To be fair: Buwizz did... ;)
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    Maybe it has track, maybe it's motorised, maybe they needed a licence... We'll see.
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    At this pricepoint, I don't think they will make it a 6 wide set. The part-count for this set tells me this would be highly inlickely, unless they add three carriages and a station. On the other hand, wouldn't it be nice to have a nice 6-wide set again along the lines of the sante fe, bnsf, maersk, horizon express etc? It would bridge the gap between 'city trains' and 'afol mocs' for many. One thing that bothers me with lego is their inconsistency when it comes to scale. 6-wide used to be the 'norm', altough it has it's limitations, they (TLG) designed some great sets. Now we had a 7 wide creator set for afols, some 6-wide (traditional) city sets, a 6-wde HP train, an 8 wide disney train, a 'whatever-wide' HP display set. It's just a mess.
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    It's a great set to get started into LEGO-trains. It has a station that - altough a bit small - at least looks like a real station instead of all those other 'platforms' and 'stations' we have got over the past few years. The carriages are short and 'childish', but at least we have two of them. Adding some magnetic couplers and/or moc'ing your own longer coaches doesn't seem that hard.
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    I would ask for a refund. Unless it was stated it was not original/had been altered, the seller has scammed you (maybe unintentionally, but still).
  8. *thomas*
    Fantastic model! Well done. Thanks for sharing.
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    I see (and I agree). But to be fair, those are easy to overcome. It's the first time in years that I consider buying a train set from LEGO.
  10. *thomas*
    I'm just curious: in what way is the new HE not as playable? The only difference I see is the lack of doors (again). On the plus-side, the new HE is a building that is for more engaging than the simple platform.
  11. *thomas*
    You have to put this into perspective. LEGO could've given us one 4 axled cariage, but we would all be annoyed because there is only one car. And we all like to look back at the golden era of LEGO trains (80s and early 90s), but this is what a basic, non motorised set looked like:
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    This is a great 'little' set. It has a nice station (the building is small, but actually looks like any rural station in Western Europe) and altough the engine and carriages are a bit short and lack magnets and doors, it's a great base for an AFOL to mod, but, more importantly, for a kid to play with and get in touch with classic steam train design.
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    The yellow motor was - like mentioned before in this topic - not used for trains. The grey battery box was also never used with trains. The blue tracks were used with push trains, 4,5 volt trains and 12 volt trains (60s-70s). The trainstation has been identified correctly. None of these sets are related to eachother, besides the fact they are LEGO, they don't appear in the same sets.
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    Welcome (back). If you already have a decent amount of 9v rails and motors, you could convert any RC, PF or PU to 9V. You could sell off the PU parts to invest in some more 9v stuff. There is nothing 'wrong' with the PU system, but having to change batteries all the time (or charging the battery box) bothers me.
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    Very nice rendition. Well done!
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    As it stands, I'm also 'in denial'. I have more and more non-TLG bricks and I'm not mixing them. But, there are a few models I'd like to build for which mixing parts will be inevitable.
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    A FYRA would've been interesting... ;)
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    You can make 'anything' work on the current tracks, but consistency would be nice. IF (and I don't know what they are planning to do) TLG decides to make this a 10 or 12 wide model, Train AFOLs won't be very interested since very few of them are interested in static models only. Furthermore, it would be the second train (in a row) that misses the ball for train AFOLs. This makes me think: TLG said that the swiss crocodile would be used as in indicator if they would continue with a more 'grown up' train line-up. What if that locomotive actually sold very well, but TLG has determined that most costumers used it for display? If that's the case, I understand (but I don't endorse) their decision to make large scale models with a higher brick count (and price). It makes designing them easier. As for me: I don't care what TLG does. There many other options.
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    This is not an answer to your question (sorry), but altough I FULLY understand you wan't to keep the 'stock' 12V unit to maintain the original look from the set, I would switch to a new PF or PU unit. The 12v units are becoming very rare (and expensive) and I went trough the same process as you. In the end, I just completely switched to RC (yes, with the bulky base), 9V and PF/PU. Never been happier.
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    Hi all I hope that 2023 will be the year I can FINALLY start building a layout. The last couple of years, I've been building mostly 6-wide, but this scale is starting to annoy me. Nothing against 6-wide, I respect the LEGO heritage, but it's just not realastic. So, I decided to switch to an 8-wide based layout. I do have some models (and trials) in 7-wide, one of them buying the Swiss Crocodile and was wondering how good it mixes with 8 wides sets. Does it look 'odd' or does it take a 'trained' eyed to spot it. Thanks for the insight. Cheers T.
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    Seeing the two next two each other made me realise how little detail the 'big' engine has.
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    People aren't 'upset' because they choose to go a different route, they just don't understand why LEGO 'neglects' a 'die-hard' fanbase. Many AFOLTrains have been around quite some time. Let me put it this way: what's the difference between this set and let's say a 250 USD Hogwarts Express with 2 carriages and/or a more detailed platform in 'regular' LEGO scale but with the same level as detail as the crocodile?
  23. *thomas*
    I've send you a PM.
  24. *thomas*
    As others have said/predicted: the design was never going to be aimed at train-fans. The 'wheel-story' is utter BS. AFAIK, LEGO has used many different wheel sizes to run on ALL their train track since the 60s.
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    Correct.
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