Hey Joe

I can briefly share my experience with lighting 3677 before I have to go make dinner. It's easiest to put lights on the end that's shorter. I ordered about a dozen parts to reconstruct it to give the wires room to get through. It's not as physically sturdy now, but it doesn't really matter. The key parts for me were two of these 1x2x1 Red Panels; After I put it together using these panels I realized that it's possible to do it w/o them, but at a minimum it does involve some modification (a.k.a. Bricklink order) as it's solid bricks inside there and you gotta make a hole to run the wires through. Anyway, hope that helps. Joe

I learned last week that the red tag on items at Wal-Mart don't necessarily mean it's on sale. It just means that it's a discontinued item at Wal-Mart that may or may not be on sale. That place disgusts me with their anti-labor policies. The only reason I go in there is to get distilled water and look for Lego bargains. Sometimes they have some good ones. The blue cargo train has been 15% off on Amazon for the past few days. 15% off is still too expensive for me, however. Have fun, Joe

The articles said that her fence had $50,000 worth of Lego merch in his apartment. They don't say how much of that came from the Lego employee who was busted for stealing. It could be a very small percentage. I cannot condone stealing, but it's somewhat understandable given the low wages and little or no benefits that most retail workers are given here in the States. I'll stop there before start to go off on a rant about how unfair and unequal American society has become. Joe

Hey! 3677 is the best set I've ever bought by a long shot. It's a major workhorse. Honestly, I thought it was kind of a bizarre looking thing when I first bought it because I thought it was too long. However, it's easiest to put lights on the shorter end, and then run it with that end facing forward. It very much looks like a mid-sized American road unit when it's facing that way. Joe

Hi Annie, It's good to see you back on board here. Joe

There are some Lego videos of the new trains posted on Lego's YouTube page. There's a CITY mini movie and a TV advert. Joe

The expense of the sets really puts me off as well, but I do have a couple theories about it. First-of-all; I think a lot of these sets are priced with their sale price in mind. Take a look at Brickset's sale page; ALL of the sets seem to go on sale at one time or another. These sale prices are the true, fair retail price of the sets IMO. This excludes the exclusive, or D2C sets, of course. If you want to pay full whack they'll take your money, but... Secondly; these CITY train sets are sold for longer periods of time than most. The two current ones have been on the shelves for what, four years now? What seems expensive in 2014 will be cheaper in 2018, especially when it's on discount. Patience is on order for me. It's tough though, those blue engines are awesome! Joe

Thanks for the great review. The minifigs are awesome, and you got love all those printed pieces. The ship kinda reminds me of the Avengers plane with that large downward sloping piece. Underwater themes are great, aren't they? Atlantis is one of my all-time favorites. Cheers, Joe

Hey, looks great! Joe

Hey, looks great. I might suggest making the left side three doors wide instead of four. It looks a little too large maybe? Joe

Hey, looks great! Thanks for sharing. Joe

Hey, I really like it a lot. Thanks for sharing. Joe

Hey, it's funny and thanks for sharing. It would really go well with a circus train. I might get a handful of 1x1 trans blue plates (is that what they call the little round ones?) to throw in there for 'water'. Joe

Hey! I loved this theme, but seriously; what more could they do with it that would SELL? It's a pity, everyone (except me) is so fixated on licensed stuff that quality stuff like this is shunted off to the side. The discount aisle at my local Wal-Mart is full of Castle and GS sets, I scored some great stuff! Anyway, in this upside-down value system what we need is an Alien Conquest movie! The sets will follow naturally. 'Nuff said.

I couldn't agree more. These sets are too expensive, and I'm a little upset. The new Simpson minifigs will be $4 each? $250 for a whacked out floating cow? Madness. I'm going to stop buying new sets for awhile. Joe

Hey, that's great. I just get a couple days use out of mine, but the trains run a long time, and it's been very cold in the basement. Joe

Haven't seen much LR stuff here in the US Midwest since Xmas (when it was heavily discounted at TRU and the Lego Shop). I think I witnessed the last gasp of LR 'round these parts at Wal-Mart today. They had a couple train sets at 50% off (plus tax). I couldn't resist picking up another one, lots of nice parts. Wish I could find the mine at that price. I haven't seen the movie, and don't really care for licensed products, but LR was a nice theme. It's too bad we didn't get a second wave, I was kind of hoping for a Fort Legoredo redux. Joe

Keep in mind that you can export the data you've entered into the site. It's a little late for that now, but for future reference it might be useful. Anyway, Huw mentioned that he did daily backups, so it shouldn't be a problem. Maybe just don't try to change your data until he gets it sorted. Jod

Hey, really nice and the stickers look great. Joe

Hey, very cool. I didn't realize that the word 'shunter' was used by Americans. Here in the Midwest I've never heard it used. Maybe you've been hanging out here too much, as have I!

Thanks, and same to you. Hey, excuse me, but I thought you looked familiar. Are you THE Robert Cailliau of CERN? The co-inventor of the World Wide Web? What a great honor to have you here with us at Eurobricks, and let me thank you for your work. Geez, I'm studying philosophy online, ordered a laptop off Amazon last week, and keeping up with friends halfway around-the-world in the blink of an eye because of you and your colleagues. Joe

There was a 'China-only' set last year, 10250 was the number. Joe

How could they sell an equal amount of straights and curves? Sets normally have 16 pieces of curves, and just a few straights if any. Anyway, new year, new thread; I'll chime in and say that the track situation isn't good. I totally bypassed Lego track and went with Enlighten. Joe

Thanks for the pics and advice. I've not had any issues with Eneloops yet, but will have to pay closer attention next time I swap out the batteries. Perhaps the blame lays with Eneloop for poor design rather than with Lego? Joe

Hey, it's awesome! I especially like the curved roofs. Joe