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@zinnn Yeah, since my previous post, I have read about the newer style "squared" holes inside technic pins that do not allow for bar connections. I guessed that may be the case with the newer tail/trunk/branch piece and is probably why it does not work. Your solution looks pretty good.

@zeronthegreat You could check if there is a 3rd party LEGO store near where you live. Bricks & Minifigs is one of the bigger stores with multiple locations (at least in the USA). They typically buy used or 2nd-hand LEGO outright for cash or trade-in and will most likely give the best price for the quickest turn-around and lowest effort on your part. If you take the time to sell online through your own store/eBay/BrickLink/social media, you will likely make more money, but it will take much more time and effort.

@zinnn I have not tried this with physical pieces and it would be a single stud connection on the base rather than a technic pin connection, but it should theoretically work to use the following pieces to cover the technic pin on the tail piece and use the round tile with bar to push into the technic pin to convert to a stud connection. https://www.bricklink.com/v2/catalog/catalogitem.page?P=18654#T=C&C=88 & https://www.bricklink.com/v2/catalog/catalogitem.page?P=20482#T=C&C=88 All three pieces are available in reddish brown. 1x1 round bricks could be added underneath the round tile with bar to increase the height of the trunk for a little variation. Bars covered in 1x1 round bricks and 1x1 round plates with hole through center could connect in the technic pin to increase the strength of the connection.

If I am understanding your question correctly, the solution is simple: Temporarily replace a tile that is under the 2x8 plate with a plate so there is a stud for connecting the 2x8 plate, then swap the temporary plate back to the requited tile after the 2x8 is in place. As far as I know, Stud.io does not have mechanical connections that would allow for the rack gear assembly to actually slide in the software. Temporary pieces to position final pieces are a common technique in Stud.io for atypical connections (lack of stud to anti-stud, bar, or Technic pin/axle in final assembly).

I hope they don't go only digital. The function/purpose of digital instructions is evident to me and I do use them, but nothing beats building with physical booklets with my nephews, in my opinion. Maybe I am just old-school and nostalgic to my childhood experience in the 90's, but I love to collect the instruction booklets with the sets of my childhood and still prefer printed instructions to digital whenever possible. Along with this, I still value physical informational books over only digital media. In this modern day, I like to keep my real-world experiences rather than replace them all with digital experiences, but I may be in the minority.

I imagined the furnace exactly as you mentioned. Keeping the furnace away from the market stall as to no overheat the customers (keeping it off-scene) makes sense. Now the hat makes sense; that reformer's hat reference works well enough for me! My mind could not come up with a relevant reference and could not get past the newsboy reference and my plans for the same hat in dark green for some updated Adventurers minifigures.

Great build, @Kai NRG! Interesting techniques to make this colorful and immersive scene! The green glass bottle is just perfect for a variation on the actual bottle piece! Blowing the glass in front of the customers is an interesting presentation. How far is the glass blower from the furnace for heating the glass? I don't see it in the picture. The only thing I'm not sure about is the use of the newsboy hat in dark green; it seems too anachronistic to me to be included in a 'Medieval' build, even in a fantasy setting. The hunters hat in dark green would work better for that figure, in my opinion. Funny that the mouse seems more interested in the glass-blower's tongs than in the cheesemongers' stand... maybe it was on its way to the cheese when it got scared into hiding by the kitten?

This is quite interesting! Great work, @Davidz90! Clocks have been a long-time fascination for me, and I have wanted a grandfather clock for my living room as long as I can remember. Until now, I never considered making one from LEGO pieces. This is an excellent merger between 2 of my interests along with a love for engineered mechanics! I would be very interested in a printed copy of the book if you find a good way to publish! After I have some time to read through the book, I might have more feedback or questions on the contents.

I've used the same method for exporting BOM's from Stud.io models with graphics as @Berthil mentioned. What is BrickStore? How does it work for exporting graphic BOM's from Stud.io? Are there any links you can share for me to read up on this instead of expecting direct and complete answers to just be given to me? I'm quite interested if you can offer help to get me started. Edit: I just looked it up, assuming you are referring to https://www.brickstore.dev/? This looks quite interesting for some of my needs! I'd still be glad for any tips you can offer to help me get started using it.

Excellent! A stock of coal yet to be burned would really complete this steamer. ...Now if there were just a simple way to use a light brick to give real glow inside the furnace of the boiler...

Very nice, @The Reader! I also noticed that white hull piece in the new Animal Crossing sets and planned to make a similar small steamer like yours. Your African Queen is reminiscent of one of my favorite sets, the Adventurers set 7410 Jungle River. The boiler and stack are well designed and a nice upgrade from the 7410 set. The top of the stack looks great with the inverted cone over the 1x1 round tile with bar/pin holder. I like the inclusion of the gauge and handwheel, both as a reference to a real boiler and a reference to original Adventurers steamer sets. The fully supported awning covering the stern of the boat is more ideal than just the windshield on the 7410 set. Adding a bench at the stern is also an excellent upgrade. I also really like your choices for the minifigure in all aspects. This guy would make a great companion to or updated version of Gabarro, though he would need a blue bandana to really be a Gabarro update, in my opinion (at least a bandana of any color). All-in-all, I think you did a great job with such relatively small space and number of pieces! The only thing missing is a few 1x1 tiles or plates for coal in the barrel.

There it is! Thanks for pointing this out. Of course, I should have realized that Max was likely the UK/European name. Being from the USA, of course I learned the character's names from USA versions of LEGO Mania and Shop-at-Home magazines.

Yep, that is how I understand the characters. Rudo Villano was also called Max Villano (which seems to be the more common name used online, though the original name was Rudo, at least from what I saw in the Mania magazine and set information in the Shop at Home catalogs of the time), but Gabarro was switched to "Gabarros" online by mistake and has permeated erroneously throughout online references. Hopefully my corrections do not come across as too critical... the Adventurers theme just happens to be one of my favorites that came out during my peak LEGO age (6-12 years old), so I know quite a lot of details about the theme! The reference is obvious and your "set" would fit right in somewhere on Dino Island as a connection point between the 2 subthemes you mentioned. Though this build is fairly simplistic and might be improved with the addition of more plant pieces, I think you did a nice job of accomplishing your goal to create what could have been an original set.

For sure, trees and the broadleaf plant piece would really help this build fit the Jungle subtheme better. I have all of the Adventurers sets including those from Dino Island, but I also liked it much better when the adventures went back to locations based (at least loosely) on real cultures and geography. The Orient Expedition subtheme is one of my top favorites of all time. Those are great ideas for more adventures! I've got lots of my own ideas as well as plans/designs underway currently for more adventures for the team. Though some argue the theme is troublesome to bring back due to exploitation of cultural history and references to colonialism, I still think a wonderful return to the Adventurers theme could be had through more focus on learning about real-world cultures, architecture, geography, botany, and animals across the world (rather than focusing on stealing artifacts). As time allows, I'd like to make my own sets for the Adventurers theme that essentially mimic National Geographic magazine articles about exploration, scientific studies, etc. Some ideas could be similar to those covered in the adventures of the fictional reporter, Tintin. That comic series has many similarities to the Adventurers theme.

Interesting additional build for the Adventurers! Though the characters are from the Jungle subtheme, the design style is much more similar to Dino Island, especially due to the inclusion of the water barrel, crane, and rusty steel roof slopes from that subtheme as well as large green bricks for the baseplate. The simplicity of the build and reliance on mostly rectangular plates and bricks looks very stylistically similar to Dino Island sets. A warehouse is a great idea for filling out more backstory on these villains and would have been a neat inclusion as an official set. Firstly, technically, his name is Gabarro without an 's' at the end, at least from what I can find online confirming what I remember from LEGO magazines including the Adventurers Jungle subtheme. Somehow the 's' got added erroneously at some point online and was cross-referenced to many sites of LEGO history/resale, so that is a common mistake to make. This character is not defined as a hero or villain. Most commonly a neutral character working as a river boatman for whoever pays, Gabarro is shown helping the heroes in the comic at the end of the instructions for set 5976 River Expedition and is shown passing the sun disc to Señor Palomar on the side of the box and an inside page of the instructions for set 5986 Amazon Ancient Ruins. Apparently, there is a book, The Lost Temple - An Interactive Puzzle Book, in which, according to a Brickipedia page: "Gabarro aids Señor Palomar and Rudo Villano in finding the Sun Disc until they are ensnared in a cobweb trap. Upon recognizing that the Sun Disc belongs with Achu in the Lost Temple, Gabarro betrays Palomar and prevents him from stealing the artifact in the end." Rudo (Max) Villano is definitely a villain and seems to be made to be the evil version of the hero, Johnny Thunder. He was one of my favorite childhood minifigures since I liked the design and clothing colors and got him in set 5956 Expedition Balloon and set 5901 River Raft in 1999, so he was not always a villain in my play adventurers, but he does seem to be intended to represent what Johnny would be like as a completely evil villain. Adventurers is one of my top favorite LEGO themes of all time (including all of the subthemes/sub-subthemes), so I enjoy such discussions!