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That's one of the nicer toilets I've seen. Any chance of a close-up/partially built photo showing how you did it?

Now THAT is a lot of cheese.

Remarkably enough, I managed to remove the batteries (or perhaps a parent did?) from both the train power supply and also a stand-alone battery box that came with a lights pack. Train power supply still lights up the 2x2 brick lights, so it does appear to be the motor. And yeah, I'll probably replace the motor eventually, but in the meantime the loco has a spot of honor in a small park near the tracks. Must take a photo...

Uh-oh, Jasper - do I see another awesome MOC in your future? :)

I do want it to look nice, but don't want it to totally consume the budget, at the same time. :) I think ya'll are right - I should bite the bullet, buy the baseplates I need and build up one plate - then I can fill in as bricks permit...

Hello, Relatively new AFOL here, escaped the dark ages just in time for Cafe Corner. My son and I got a pile of track, the Cargo Train (his), and the Emerald Night (mine) for Christmas. So we pushed three coffee tables together, got out some 80's era road plates, and were ready to make a town with the modulars and some other odds and ends. I was happily snapping straight track along the side of the baseplates (it fits the old ones quite nicely), feeling good about the whole thing, until I got to a curve. Uh-oh. Now what? I guess my options are: * remove all track from baseplates - which I don't want to do, because my table is just barely three baseplates wide, and I can't really secure it next to the baseplates, since these baseplates are (obviously) not a full plate high. Plus having baseplate in some areas offends my sensibilities in some way. * Raise all of the track up by one plates on top of the base plates. So straights would have another 2x8 underneath, and I'd support (but not really secure) the curves with a tile on the base plates. That'd require a big pile of plates I probably don't have (except in primary colors), but I guess is the better option. * Something else? Thanks for any ideas/examples of how to make this work! p.s. To borrow from the Town thread, here's my first train: It was still running when my son got me out of the dark ages a year ago, but now the motor has failed. Bah.

Lovely MOCs. Can you tell me how you did the windows on your black building? I like it, and I don't recognize the parts used. Thanks!

LOL. Thursday is Thanksgiving day here in the US, and is the /actual/ holiday. Friday is not even an official holiday (although schools and many adults will have it off if they don't work retail), it's just the day the holiday shopping season semi-officially starts, and sometimes the best day for sales. (Although the day after Christmas can be better...)

Sometimes the banner is OK, I was guessing it was server load, maybe, although only the banner seems to be affected. I loaded up my virtual shopping cart, and the 10 off 100 discount isn't applying, either. It's saying that Fire Brigade doesn't cost more than $100, up at the top, and so doesn't qualify for the discount?? (Mind you, I'd buy TWO if that were correct. Alas, it shows the normal price in the total.) Nice job, LEGO, perhaps I will try again in the morning. Perhaps. (Ok, ok, I'll try again in the morning, but I'm annoyed.)

OK, so it's apparently Friday now on S@H-USA. The discounts are posted, and there's a link for additional discounts, but it's showing me the same 4 uninteresting items on sale that have been there for a week. Ya'll seeing the same thing? Cached page?

It doesn't seem like too much brown to me. :)

Wow. Just wow.

Wow, these are lovely. I'm impressed by how much you fit into that space. When I tried to do the Cafe Corner interior, I spent a bunch of time swearing about how it was too small to fit anything in. You've inspired me to try again. :)

So am I. I assume we'll both get better at it. :) Don't forget a whole bunch of extra tile and plate in order to make the building modular, as well....

... But don't I remember some discussion from a couple weeks ago about how the UK PaB was by weight, not by cup? If so, no amount of cup packing will improve the price Eskallon gets.