fred67

I completely disagree - I'm voting for a set I'd like to see built based on the submission. That's it. A vote (or "support") is saying "I think this should be made into a set." It's not "Hey, I wouldn't buy it, but good MOC dude!"

Why is that bad? When I opened my Cafe Corner to build it, it had an aftermarket value of $850... I knew it and I opened it and built it with my family anyway, no regrets. I mean, you bought it because you wanted it, right?

As far as structure goes, maybe they should categorize things - sci-fi, modern, city, video games, fantasy, and then sub-categorize (trains, building, ships or vehicles). Normally once a week or so I go there and just browse the things in order until I see the ones I've seen before. There are categories that are just right out for me, it would help me focus on the things I'm interested in. I also don't think people vote in the actual spirit of the site. I would argue again that this site is for possible ideas, not MOCs, yet many people support a project simply because they think it's a good MOC... if I wouldn't truly buy it, I wouldn't vote for it. It asks how many you think people would buy - you can't put "zero." And, of course, I think they ask these questions for a reason, and it may be part of what helps them decide which ones they will choose given that a number of sets hit 10k each period.

I disagree - it's NOT a place for MOCs, and there's more than rebrickable to see MOCs. I certainly think the net should be wide enough to catch a lot of things that might inspire people to make better versions of, but then that's why it's "ideas." LEGO should alienate it's core audience on Ideas since it's a site for people 18 and older (AFAIR). Eliminating the terrible and not-a-chance stuff would probably reduce the noise, but it certainly wouldn't eliminate even half of what's shown.

+1 redtrooper27

One, two, three, and more.

It must take that long, because I don't see it now. In my current display cases, a 5x5 arrangement (with two series in each case) will look damn impressive on my shelves. Meanwhile, you'll still presumably have some boxes with minifigures... and I fail to see why that's so much better. And for the record - I have a whole lot more I use for "playing."

ME's rails were actually pretty good for the most part, but sometimes suffered from conductivity problems if not lined up really well. They ameliorated the problem by including some metal tape, but that's not a good solution for those of us with temporary layouts. They eventually did a kickstarter project that collected enough for them to make new plastic (PF) and metal (9V) track, which was supposed to be better than their initial offering. The kickstarter project suffered some setbacks in that a large percentage of people reneged on their commitments, but ME trooped on anyway, and to date have various track pieces in plastic that started shipping earlier this year. They are still working on the metal (which is what I donated for), and it's taken a disappointingly long time, as they've had other problems they are working through - they want it to be better than the track they used to offer. To sum it up, their newer version of the metal track should be better than the older version, but it's currently still a work in progress.

Well... that set is what got me back into LEGO as an adult, but to make a long story short: it's OK for for train parts, but the train build itself is not very good - but the set will allow you to adapt something newer to 9V, and you'll have a good set of starter track (and hope ME starts delivering those metal tracks soon). The rest of the pieces - white, blue, big blue trans pieces... not really a great collection for MOCing, IMO.

I don't know how I missed this (reading EB several times a day). It's really a fantastic MOC. My friend lived in a rent controlled building that looked eerily similar to that... Really well done! EDIT: You might be a purist, but otherwise I'd suggest this piece from brickforge (the bottle, not the figure):

I love Eurobricks, but it's a forum, and doesn't really facilitate CMF swapping - the thread is too long and out of date, as members don't keep their posts up to date - don't let that dissuade you if you're interested, though - it's not nearly as bad if people just add a post to the discussion, and trades definitely do happen . Lately I've been trying to drum up interest with a little success, but trading CMFs seems to be much better done on a dedicated website that can tell you if someone's lost interest (hasn't logged in in a long time) and can automatically match your wants/haves with someone else's haves/wants. So far I've found two sites (if you find more please let me know): Project Swapfig, and Swap Minifigures Series First I'd like to point out problems I have with BOTH sites. Both sites, in an effort to be "web2.0" actually have ended up with fairly slow, and often counter intuitive interfaces. The fine line between amount of content and easy to follow graphics has been shattered on both sites by relying too heavily on huge, cartoony graphics and lots of big fonts and images, while being fairly lacking in textual details. I have to assume, maybe, they were designed with mobile in mind, but they don't really work well on desktop, IMO. Swapfig: The swapfig trade interface is pretty nice; the screen is divided left/right, with your "table" on the right (displaying what you have up for trade), below which is the items you have that are on the other persons wanted list, and below that is your entire inventory. Their side is similar. You can drag/drop or double click items to put them on the table to trade. You actually do this for both sides, then submit the offer, at which the other person can accept, reject, or counter. When you've both accepted the latest offer, the offer moves from "offers" to "trades" in your trade manager, and you can find the other persons address and mark your part of the transaction as sent or complete, and there is also an icon you can click on to raise issues. The trade page itself comes off as being fairly intuitive and functional. Pros: There's a "news" section that let's you know the site wasn't just written and abandoned, that things are actually happening, even if slowly. There's a nice logged-in graphics, similar to Eurobricks, in the upper right that also acts a quick menu to things like your profile and messages. The banner across the top acts as a link back to the home page, and has the familiar menu style options below it, including searching and links to your "trade manager" and inventory. There's support for more than CMF, including a large selection of minifigures from other themes, and what seems to be most polybags. Adjusting inventory isn't all that bad... you select the series or theme and the figures from that theme are displayed, you check up or down arrows to adjust your inventory for specific figures. Probably the best part is you can limit your potential trade searches to "active users." I'm not sure exactly what the definition of that is, it's not in the FAQ (that I can find), but it's obviously users that have been active in some recent amount of time. "SilentMode" (who I guess is the same SilentMode from Eurobricks) runs the site - is very responsive to issues and questions. Cons: Some of the icons used are non-standard. Apparently a 3D cube icon links to your trade manager. On the line representing your trade, the envelope will open a window to send them a message; the "tag" will open a window showing you their address. You wouldn't know unless you hovered or clicked on it. New/Sealed is different, and not a superset, of "complete." If I were searching for "complete" sets, I want sealed to be hits, too - after all, they must be complete. The "Trade Manager" is one of the two most important sections of the site; There are four categories: offers, trades, issues, and ended. it's not obvious what you're looking at - the styling is just not very good. It defaults to "offers," but shows offers that have been accepted (that should only appear in "trades" at that point). When I click on "trades," it shows me my current trades - and one in which both of us have marked it "complete," which then should be in ended. It's a bug... most of my trades are in "ended," but I can't get rid of this one. Swap Minifigures Series: Cons: Offers are too simple... you are only given a choice to offer what you have that they explicitly want, and are only shown their inventory that they have that you explicitly want. No chance to go outside and offer something they might not have thought of. You cannot put multiples of figures up on the table to make a trade offer. The site is not a scam site, but the main page looks like a credit card/phishing page. No real menu, the buttons to go where you want are all at the bottom; the top section of the screen doesn't tell you you're logged in, although in certain places the main content area might (IOW, even when you're logged in, there are "sign up" and "sign in" links in the top, with no indication in the top that you're logged in). "My Swap Page" is really ill-defined and not clear what you're looking at. Enormous fonts and large minifigure images in the background don't make up for the lack of clarity... is what I'm being shown current swaps? Offers? Yes, the information is there, but it should be a lot more clear. The "Contact" page points to facebook. I don't like facebook. I avoid using facebook. I log in like once every sixth months if I'm bored, and even then I use incognito mode on Chrome so I don't have a million cookies to clean up afterwards. I accepted my first offer there a couple of days ago... and still don't know the other persons address to ship to. On swapfig, you enter your address as part of your profile, and it's only shown to accepted traders. Sounds good to me. Now I have to wait? Not happy. Links to the other users pofiles don't work for me (Chrome/Ubuntu). I'd notify the maintainers, but see two points above. There should be a form submission to send them a problem. The list of what you can trade is smaller than Swapfig; doesn't even have S14 yet, despite S14 being "in the wild." I really can't think of a whole lot of pros. Both sites seem really clunky to use, both seem to have been over-engineered a little to try to be "modern," but sacrificed ease of use in the process. Despite all the drawbacks, though, there is a clear winner here: Swapfig. When I tried to report an issue on Swap Minfigures Series and got a facebook link, I'd just about had it with them. I have one pending trade that I will mail off and then delete my inventory entirely. While competition is good, it's too much of a pain to manage inventories on both sites (AND here!), and the more fragmented the market is, the less likely you'll be able to find someone to trade with, so I'm going to stick with the one site. I'd like to add that I really appreciate what both sites have done, though, despite being so critical. I know it's hard to develop decent web pages - most people have no idea, but see so many websites think it must not be that difficult. It is. When people ask "come on, how hard is it to...?" the answer usually ranges from "it's not that simple" to "it's actually very difficult."

I gave that Valentines Day set to my wife for Valentines Day. Didn't help.

The Lawrenceville, GA store has the flat shiny round tiles in silver. I decided to put my money where my mouth was, so to speak, so instead of whining about it more I went to the store yesterday and recorded everything that was there and updated the wallofbricks.com site. The only problem was wallofbricks had one element that it wouldn't let me put in green... it's a new part/color combination this year, apparently. EDIT: Tried to update brickbuildr, but it's just too awkward to use. My advice is check wallofbricks, and if you go - go ahead and take some pictures with your phone, or just jot it down, I'd love if we could keep that site up to date.

I like it too; I think the most disappointing thing is they should have used the pumpkin head trick-or--treat pail that is appearing in S14, but it's a nice little vignette.

I've done a lot of set rotation, but I also have a lot that I don't want to rotate, like modular buildings, so as time goes on even my "rotate" shelf space gets less and less.

I've condensed all my trading into one thread in the bazaar.

For the record, I now have a mirror of Alban's bluebrick editor and files (the first time I tried to download them there's was some really bad transfer problems - most of the time it timed out, although it seemed to work great the last time I looked), and there's a lengthy thread discussing it, including the addition of some new elements.

Of course they make flex track in both G and O gauge. I just looked it up on several different sites. So you take the rail out and put it in a modified LEGO compatible sleeper... I don't see what the problem is. I suggest, again, that all someone needs to do is make nice, LEGO compatible sleepers that can hold O or G gauge rail. If you look at the blog link I posted, you can clearly see the results of the O gauge rail used to make LEGO flex track:

As much as I think it's a dumb idea to re-release this set instead of a new one (or re-releasing a different set), I can't find myself able to rate it one star because, as a set itself, it certainly warrants more than that. I won't $#@ up ratings just because I think the release of the set itself was dumb, and I really don't like when people take that approach, honestly. IOW, if someone who kids are just getting into LEGO goes and reads those reviews, they should get an honest review of the set, and not a review based on politics.

It's an absolutely beautiful MOC that stands ZERO chance of being selected and, if it ever was, I would never be able to afford it. It's one of those non-starter MOCs that I don't understand why they even allow it.

^^ Without explaining why, a few years I was entitled to pretty decent discount at the local LEGO store, and I pretty much bought everything I wanted. Skip ahead to now, and my wish list on LEGO.com is nearly $2000.

OK, and so what's wrong with O-Gauge, then?

^^^ YES, YES, and YES.... If someone could just produce 1x8 cross ties that are compatible with G-Scale track, then we can make large sections of flex track that can have any radius we want, and all the flexibility you could possibly want between straight and curves. The only trick becomes switches and crossings. I have a LOT invested in 9V track, but to make a system as flexible as other model railroads have had forever? That would be all I need to ditch the vast majority of my 9V and move on to G track in LEGO gauge. EDIT: AH HA! I found it: "Ken's Flex Track for LEGO Trains." He uses O-Gauge and modifies 2x8 plates and uses rail joiners to make sleepers. Relevant Image.

I'd like to post a "me too" about the Sugarloaf Mills store in GA. The Wall Of Bricks site is woefully out of date. It's one of those "if I ran TLG" things that I'd make sure we had an up-to-date site like that, but then that's why I don't run a billion dollar company. I know they want me to go in the store so I'll buy something else, but I can't run there all the time to see what's new.

I have probably close to 100 sets sitting on my shelves unopened, plus maybe 20 more that I've unboxed into smaller plastic bins in order to save space. So, I'll give an example of the problem: I have a 10210 Imperial Flagship, new in the box, sitting on my shelf. So I ask, if I take it out and build it (and I'd love to), then what? I have no where to put it. It's big, bulky... I have no shelf space to display it. Someday I hope to have a whole room for my LEGO (*), and I can have a whole table just for ships. But what am I supposed to do right now? If you look at the thread where people display their modular buildings, you can see what I have built crammed onto the shelves... I have two more modulars sitting on boxes on other shelves. I have the 10231 Space Shuttle, still in the box. Same reasons. Even the 4504 Millennium Falcon. I want to build all of these some day. But if I hadn't bought them, all of them, I'd NEVER get them, as their prices now range from anywhere to 3x to 10x what I paid for them. So I when I see a set I like, I buy it and store it because if I don't, I will regret missing out on it. I agree and disagree... I understand wanting new parts in new colors; I have a huge collection of parts, but unless I have something in mind for a particular part, I won't buy a set to get it. I may end up paying more on bricklink later on for that part, but I wouldn't have ended up buying a whole set that I really didn't want.