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Lego's ships are all designed as older than the ones we often see in MOCs. They are more akin to galleons of the 17th century than the frigates/man-of-war of the late 18th and early 19th centuries,hence the fore/stern castles, rather than a continuous with a quaterdeck over the rear. The Imperial Flagship follows the same theme, except it has three masts, but the sterncastle is still very evident. One can only assume that Lego are setting their Pirates theme in the Golden Age of Piracy in the late 1600s...

It will be available to order on the 1st or you will be able to go in store then. Lego don't do "pre orders".

So I love it, with a few provisos. Firstly, I really appreciate being able to split in to a 16x32 baseplate for each building, a la Pet Shop, because it provides more flexibility with layouts. The Bookshop looks great next to PR As AllanSmith's image shows, and more places for Lego minigifs to live that aren't tiny apartments are appreciated. Basically more houses please Lego! Love the colours, love the tree. I agree with others that the townhouse is too short though - it definitely needs that second floor. I wonder what it looks like next to the Pet Shop buildings with and without?The backs are plain but I never see those anyway... I'll be buying two or three copies on the 1st Jan!

Picked up today from LEGO retail shop. Early VIP access.

I went to the Cardiff (UK) store. 24 available. Queue got up to 20 in total, so there were 4 available at the end, but there were multiple phone calls from people wanting to come pick them up in the morning, so they'll be all gone by now. 8 more arriving Monday. I arrived 0845 and got number 14, which is surprising to be honest as the store never normally gets this amount of traffic for launches. Earliest arrival was 0700.

Yeah, £150 is fine for the price, I was worried it was going to be £200. The new tree design is amazing. Can't wait to get this!

http://imgur.com/a/YGois Try here. Nice images!

Mine is on the way - I'm not collecting Simpsons, but as a set it is unmissable for integrating in to a city layout.

You've done really well with that haul - the monorail track alone is worth more (9 long straights!), let alone the supports and train baseplates. You've also picked out the important parts you'll likely need - but ensure you get a good motor, not one that is on its way out. I love my monorail. I've got the Airport Shuttle and Transport base, then a still MSIB accessory track pack that I haven't ripped in to yet, then a bunch of bricklink'd track.

Being honest, I prefer older Lego planes to the new ones with the big pre-fab wings/noses and the like. The new ones are simply too big, and when trying to integrate them in to a city layout they're virtually impossible. The older ones like yours are much better.

Absolutely adore this, to the point I want to build my own. Any chance of further information as to your building method, or even some form of instructions?

Interesting. Argos in the UK just sold off their 60051 stock for £70 (down from £100), so nearly 1/3 off. Could be they're actually gone?

It's pretty clear from the picture. The 32x32 brown that came with the DO, and then an additional 16x32. I've got two copies of DO, and this looks like a good way to 'fix' it. Any chance of more pictures, Headofprops?

I just snapped one up for a £30 discount in the UK, BNIB. I was wary of buying it full price (I really don't need more R40 curves...) but the discount swayed me. The nosepiece is massively improved over 7897. Rebuilding in brick is possible, but I'm going to live with it as is for a while.

Post up some pictures of your build. My sandcrawler is right next to my desk, so I can then show you the correct build method.

The real life coast guard in many nations is armed, as they're used for intercepting drug traffickers etc. where some guns come in handy. The US Coast Guard takes this to another level, and their big cutters are very well armed. The newest Legend class has a Bofors 57mm main gun, a Phalanx CIWS, 4 .50 machine guns and 2 7.62mm machine guns all coupled to military grade radar and fire control systems.

My Venator had red bridges as the flagship ;) It's been on my shelf for the best part of two years at this point.

What piece have you used for the cowling under the window? Looks like a one-piece curved part?

I got my USPS notification yesterday as well. Should hopefully mean I get my rails in a week or two :) Tempted by R72 curves now...

I'm looking forward to getting mine, whenever that is - I ordered ABS in dark grey, mix of straights and R56 curves, so I'm a tad disappointed they're selling it on eBay before filling my order (not with the actual fact of selling extra track, but not filling backer orders first). The R104 curves look like they may have to make it over the sea to the UK at some point as well. Hoping they'll look at an EU distributor rather than massive customs charges on each order.

Hi Eric, I know you're probably getting this a lot, but could I get an estimate for my order? Pledge - 10 standard length ABS, 8 half length ABS, 8 double ABS Addon - 8 double length packs Addon - 4 R56 half curve packs Originally backed on 21/04/14. Thanks, Ceri.

BnP, easily. Same goes for the dark blue arches for CC.

I like the design of this set, but my biggest complaint is the layout of the house. There's the one tiny bedroom and the double height living room area, with the remainder being garage. No kitchen, no bathroom, nothing. I'm looking at my own set trying to work out how to modify it without losing the original design language.

Where did you source the replacement DSS from? I'm hunting for some replacement stickers!

Actually, that's only if images are hosted directly on Eurobricks' server. Hosting elsewhere, such as Flickr, places that load on the image hosting service entirely. Seeing as Eurobricks doesn't host images and you have to use a third party service, then there is no load at all for the Eurobricks servers. So yeah, that argument got shot down fast. The biggest issue is the forum rule that reads "Images no more than 1024x768 or ideally 800x600". In other words, tiny pictures. Dynamic scaling of images is common on many forums, which allows the image to fill the width of the users' browser or to click on a toolbar above the image to scale it to full size.