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Kalahari134
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What about reefers? Though those were usually painted white.
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I liked the stackable connectors, but found infrared to be too unresponsive compared with bluetooth, so I only use it for static models like the fairground rides. The best of both worlds would be great.
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Lego's policies discourage depictions of fossil fuels in contemporary sets, but are more relaxed for historic themes. Thing is though that City is not a historic theme. Steam engines belong in Creator (or Icons etc.).
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The freight train and station are already listed as "retiring soon" online
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Modular Building Sets - Rumours and Discussion
Kalahari134 replied to The Jersey Brick Guy's topic in LEGO Town
The only obviously heterosexual minifigures in the modulars (that I can think of) are the courting couple in Parisian Restaurant and the bridal party in Town Hall. None of the other minifigures have an explicit orientation. -
Modular Building Sets - Rumours and Discussion
Kalahari134 replied to The Jersey Brick Guy's topic in LEGO Town
Is there a real-life inverted corner building that people could point to as inspiration? Most of those I can think of are part of a much larger building, something you couldn't do in 32x32 -
Modular Building Sets - Rumours and Discussion
Kalahari134 replied to The Jersey Brick Guy's topic in LEGO Town
I love the bookshop, and the hotel is a beautiful set. I also like the police station's facade, though I wish that it was full width. -
Parked next to it was 4079 Pendennis Castle, a noticeably smaller locomotive, but which bore a notice proclaiming it to be the most powerful passenger locomotive in the country. This was later proven in exchange trials.
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Which will be a relief to the wheelchair-user in the set.
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Modular Building Sets - Rumours and Discussion
Kalahari134 replied to The Jersey Brick Guy's topic in LEGO Town
I haven't seen the inside of a hospital in years. Most people don't spend much time in them either. So my perception of them comes primarily from films and TV. For example, Mr. Bean going to have a kettle removed from his hand, Hattie Jacques as the strict Matron, and Ken & Alan's wheeze to get a TV into the men's ward to watch the football - all lighthearted fun. On top of which there is the potential for many interesting builds - operating theatres, examination rooms, x-rays etc. Besides, this guy really needs patching up:
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Coal Train with Garratt Steam Locomotive
Kalahari134 replied to Haddock51's topic in LEGO Train Tech
The Garratt design wasn't about water capacity (if water supplies were limited they used tank wagons), it was about power. An NGG13 was preserved at the Schinznacher Baumschulbahn in Switzerland but is now in Wales. European use was fairly limited, it was colonial railways that really needed the sheer muscle the machines had. -
No, they're pretty generic and forgettable designs. The 0 Series Shinkansen on the other hand was pioneering and is instantly recognisable, just like the orange TGV Sud-Est which LEGO have previously modelled.
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How do you account for the battery-sized void in the tender then? Plenty of posters have successfully motorised the set.
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If the loco was produced in olive green, I think that it would be pretty recognisable as a Prussian P8. I don't think that's an accident, I suspect that LEGO decided upon that as a prototype before Belmond vetoed the colour. I'd better start researching whether the right parts exist to recolour the loco.
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I hate to break it to you, but they're not a charity. Orient Express is very much an active brand, more so now than it was when CIWL ran it. Besides, they've partnered with BNSF and Maersk (though the latter doesn't really operate trains)
