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Hi all, Im coming over to NZ (Auckland/ Hamilton) from the UK on Friday for 2 weeks. any requests? Have mountains of stuff, too much to list here, e.g. polys x hundreds. After that we're moving over properly at the end of June. Speaking of which, does anyone know the Duty/ tax situations for people importing their Lego collections?

Thanks. Which one's you in that pic then? :)

I'm one of the biggest posters on the Brickset forum, and I've not really given Eurobricks much of a chance in the past, mainly because I didnt much like the forum design. Has the design improved or something? I quite like it now. Anyway, hi, my name is Simon, I live in Surrey UK, just south of London. Hard to say when I came out of my dark ages as it was a gradual slide, but then pretty much within 2011 I stepped into a new gear and went from a few tens of thousands of bricks to about half a million. I like the Lego-designed sets, and I also MoC a bit, but my favourite are mods, where i start with a set and improve and expand it, sometimes radically, and I've done quite a few of those. My fave themes/ styles are historical-ish (Viking, LotR in a big way, and some potter and castle), trains in a big way, and anything a bit 'world' or 'travel', from Prince of Persia to the Fire Temple. Oh, and the modulars of course, although my interest in those is waning after the last couple of releases. My other hobbies are travel and mountain biking and being a dad. I have 2 kids, and we do have more than a little bit of duplo although its all for them, ahem, honestly.

This is beautiful, thanks for sharing. Does anyone have any pics of them put together in a layout or just a station?

I managed to PF the tram with only 4 studs extra length compared to the original by adding the receiver in the roof above the driver, and using panels each side of the battery box so the wires could route around the side of it. It's a bit fragile but works really well.

thanks, good call.

Just finished motorising the tram.. wow, that's a great set. Who needs the passenger train! Just waiting for the straight track now.

you selling? im interested if you are ...

Thanks, that's great; I'm liking the fact you can use curves on inclines, otherwise it'd be too much. I like his fig-8 setup, surprisingly compact - cheers!

Oooh nice program, thanks. Doesnt seem to have the flexible track in it though, so Im guessing its limited to the old possibilities, and that with the flexi track a lot more things are possible? Already had an experiment with layouts, and have ordered another 2 level crossings and 3 packs of straights to make up for the shortfall in that area. Couple of things I was wondering about though ... is ALL track compatible with the PF track, even 12v blue and grey ones? I was looking at adding a crossover but this or 9v seems the only realistic option. ... it a bridge over itself possible? what grades can you achieve up and down, and do you need to use the old track with 'grip' on the rails for those? I'm thinking that by the time I've got the right gradients for a bridge, it will be one long run of track.

I'll give you 210 + P&P for the GG and Firestation

This is great set, much better than I'd thought it would be and really sits well next to the Orient Expedition sets. Hope theres a Prince of Persia sequel coming, or they just keep releaseing more big sets from the film.

Looks neat, although Im not sure what the big deal is about flexible track. damn handy I say, so long as you don't go nuts with trying to max out the curve every time or creating silly s shapes. They certainly help with making layouts less of a pain to do.

OK so not much in the way of responses here! So far Ive built the emerald, cargo, and tram, and motorised the emerald and double-motored the cargo train. Not liking the passenger train, so planning to MoC it into a eurostar or similar. Might get expensive. Then will open another cargo train and build it as a dummy for a twice the length cargo train....

hi - im interested in a batch of 10 but cant PM yet - give me a mo and I'll get my count up.