Sir E Fullner

For the parts used, those are some excellent MOCs, slightly reminiscent of the old TOMY Thomas and Friends sets.

In fact, the Rev. W Awdry placed Gordon's basis on the prototype A1/A3 Pacifics. A good reason why the Fat Conroller got him cheap.

Well, just in time for the 70th anniversary I got my own collection of the Railway Series stories. I think I might make some more RWS-inspired MOCs in the next few weeks...

Thanks for the comment. I'm sticking to Camberwick Green for the moment. Trumpton, being a town with paved streets, is a bit difficult to construct in LEGO, and the only defining features of Chigley are the biscuit factory, potters, and Winkstead Hall with Bessie, all of which are never seen close together.

Thanks for the comment. Sometime after exams I'm planning to make Colley's Mill and Crockett's garage, but for the time I'm going to formulate the plans in my mind while figuring out acid-base titrations in Chemistry.

This latest creation of mine is one I am very proud of: the town layout of Camberwick Green from the TV series of the same name. For those of you who don't know, Camberwick Green was a classic 1960's TV program broadcast on the BBC from 3 January and 28 March 1966. The series was clay-animated by Gordon Murray and narrated by Brian Cant, featuring the daily goings-on of the citizens of the small village of Camberwick Green. Among them, the baker Micky Murphy, Fishmonger Mr. Carraway, soldier man Captain Snort and his boys of Pippin Fort, Dr. Mopp, modern farmer Jonathan Bell, and the laid back windmill owner Windy Miller. The model above features the bakery, fishmonger's shop, post office, and Dr. Mopp's house, along with vehicles from the series, like Dr. Mopp's car and Micky Murphy's bakery truck. For more information on Camberwick Green, visit this link: http://trumpton3.homestead.com/Camberwick.html For more images and the LDD file to the creation, visit this link: http://www.brickshelf.com/cgi-bin/gallery.cgi?f=555918 As always, comments, questions, and criticisms are welcome. Thank you! Always entertaining, always inspiring, always:

I think I'm gonna need CPR...

Nice work, but this really belongs in the Pirate MOCs section of the forums.

Are we able to incorporate our EuroBricks rank into our character?

You can find the lxf file in the Brickshelf link I placed in the original post.

Corrington, definitely. I can see myself in Corrington as an Enlightenment scientist with a dark red jacket and tall beaver hat.

Not too bad. The Edward, Henry, and Gordon models, in my opinion, look slightly too infantile, but I would like to admit that I borrowed a bit of your Toby and Henrietta design in my creation.

Fine by me. The LDD file is located in the Brickshelf link, and now that I think about it, Gordon does have square buffers. Oops!

Very continental, which is pretty good. Since the fishmonger has the only toilet, does the baker's family go over to his place to use the bathroom?

Hello, all. It has been a very long time since I have started a new topic in Eurobricks, what with university and all, but this new creation of mine just deserves mentioning. This year, coming May 12, will mark seventy years since the publish date of the first Railway Series book by the Rev. W. Awdry: The Three Railway Engines. In honor of this auspicious occasion, I have decided to build in LDD the first eight of The Fat Conroller's engines, getting inspiration from real-life engines, the illustrations of the books, and some features of the TV series. So, without further ado, may I present to you Thomas the Tank Engine, Edward the Blue Engine, Henry the Green Engine, Gordon the Big Engine, James the Red Engine, Percy the Small Engine, Toby the Tram Engine, and Duck the Great Western Engine! Making these engines took a little over a month, starting with Thomas and ending with Gordon. Also included are Thomas' coaches Annie and Clarabel, and Toby's carriage Henrietta and baggage van Elsie. All of the engines are able to couple up with each other, and feature enough cab room to accommodate a full engine crew. The easiest of the engines to construct was Toby, but by far the hardest was Gordon. Thankfully, his class of locomotive is extremely close to that of the Emerald Night, and with a spare model around to tinker with, I eventually found a good boiler shape. Duck was slightly difficult, being a Great Western Pannier tank, and I am more or less content with the design. More pictures of the engines up close can be found at this link: http://www.brickshelf.com/cgi-bin/gallery.cgi?f=555289 For more information on the Railway Series' seventy year history, please visit http://www.sodor-island.net/ As usual, any comments, criticisms, or questions are quite welcome. Thank you for looking! Always entertaining, always inspiring, always:

It's so impressive...I cannot believe it is actually real.

That was very good. I'd like to see more just like it.

Oh mama, that's a lot of booty! And it's an amazing fort, as well.

First Marvel Comics, then Star Wars, and now this? Scr*w you, DisneyTM. I hope your heartless company burns into an inferno in Hell! And tell Uncle Walt that he can go suck a lemon, cause you destroyed one of the greatest things about Eurobricks! I love DisneyTM!!

My ideal Christmas gift: my own ship and crew.

LEGO City, a city constantly being expanded and re-built. Everyone who has heard of LEGO has probably heard of LEGO City. However, where in the world is LEGO City? To find out, let's take a look at a few clues spread across LEGO City sets. Disclaimer: These hypotheses are based plainly on LEGO City sets, not any of the video games or offshoots. They are not endorsed by the LEGO company in any way, shape, or form. Clue 1: Farms This is not technically the City, however it was released under the LEGO City theme. Looking at the farms, we can see the most common commodities farmed include wheat, hay, pigs, and dairy cattle. While you can raise the livestock almost anywhere, wheat and hay require certain areas of the globe for growth. Wheat for instance, is usually grown on the North American Great Plains, Great European Plain, Plains of Argentina, Southern Russia, Northern India, Northeast China, and certain parts of Australia. By looking at these regions, we can further pinpoint LEGO City's location. Clue 2: Civilian habits, clothing, and vehicles Another way to find the location of a culture is to look at its habits and customs. The male minifigures of LEGO City have short-cut hair, businessmen are clean-shaven, workers have some facial hair, and everyone seems to dress quite conservatively. Women also dress conservatively, with hair done up in ponytail, bobcut, or flowing around shoulders. Minifigure clothing is western in style, with suits, buttoned shirts, sweaters, polos, T-shirts, and long trousers. Most of the restaurants serve pizza, along with a few coffee shops serving croissants. In set 60026 Town Square, we see a statue of a medieval knight. The vehicles driven are based off of very modern cars and trucks, and the driver's seat is on the left side. The trains are based off of European designs, like the High-Speed ICE, IC, and freight locomotives. Therefore, we can further conclude that LEGO City is located somewhere on the European continent. Clue 3: Currency Sets in the LEGO City range do not feature much currency, however, the only paper currency featured is a 100 currency bill. Coins have values of 1, 2, 5, 10, 20, 40, and 50. One can further hypothesize that LEGO City is located in a European country with high inflation on currency. Europeans countries with such currency include the Czech Republic, Denmark, Hungary, Norway, and Russia. So, in the end, we can hypothesize that LEGO City is located in either the Czech Republic, Denmark, Hungary, Norway, or Russia. Do you have any other clues as to LEGO City's location? Please share them in the comments below. Always entertaining, always inspiring, always:

I just had a thought. What type of horses should we use: the old type or the new type?

I think I might have some Cavalry troops and a small outpost somewhere, space permitting.

A little over a month ago, the village of Pilger, Nebraska (down the road from my home town) was brutally hit by an EF-4 tornado system. The whole town was utterly decimated, comparable to the allied blitz of Dresden. Several homes and businesses were destroyed, along with the middle school I attended. Pilger, however, was not the only point of destruction for the "[sic] two fingers of God tearing a path of destruction" (phrase used by my English teacher). Several farms, both big and small, were pulled up like pawns of a chess set. My uncle's house was just scraped on the nose, but his neighbor's farm was completely demolished. Even with all of the devastation and despair, there was nothing stopping hard-working Nebraskans from pulling together and giving a helping hand. For the first two weeks after the tornado, the high school in my home town was packed with volunteers as plentiful as fish in the sea, and enough bottles of water were donated that they could keep the oases of the Sahara irrigated for the next 300 years. The only surviving Lutheran Church in Pilger opened up a coffee shop in the basement for people to chat and enjoy a good hot cup before doing work, and my English teacher pulled together a speech festival at the high school. One point that I would like to bring up, though, is one that came to me today. As I was driving home from helping my grandmother, I happened to notice two children operating a lemonade booth next to the local swimming pool. At a close glance, they were selling lemonade in order to buy new LEGO to replace the collection that one had lost in the tornado. I happened to pull together a box of bricks that I don't need or don't use, but I could not help but think of all of the other boys and girls who had lost their favorite LEGO sets in the horrible tornado. This is why I think it would be a great idea to pull together and donate some of our AFOLs' vast collections to donate to the area tornado victims. If you have any ideas, please feel free to comment below. Always entertaining, always inspiring, always:

I have been in several places and forums all over the internet. And I have discovered that some very big-named books and movies, such as Indiana Jones, Pirates of the Caribbean, and Twilight, have fans who often write fan-fictions about the book/movie's own universe. Has anyone ever done this with the vast themes in the LEGO Universe? Please comment and show your views. Always entertaining, always inspiring, always: