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I would have thought that the chance of getting 200 track pieces for £10 would create a pretty strong point of waiting, even if the chance is pretty small. Besides I am not in so much of a hurry that an extra week is a problem, and also curious to see what will happen!

Built it this last weekend and it is fantastic! And I discovered that you can get all four ghostbusters seated in the car with no modification - you just need the two behind the driver to be sat facing each other, but it is a tight fit!

Phoned them up, and was told the track was out of stock, but if I leave the order open and call back in a week they should have some more. I do wonder if that is their default answer and what they will tell me next week!

Ghostbusters. After building the lego Ecto-1 it felt like almost essential viewing. I was impressed by how movie accurate the lego model was.

Then there's our networkers which try to do racing car impressions...

Unfortunately not, in the small print in the order they have the usual get out clause of price/availability etc being subject to change. You only have that right to make them honour that price if you have already had your payment accepted and thus entered in to a contract, which I have not yet because the payment line is not open until tomorrow. If it does not get flagged up as an error and they do accept my payment however then it is legally binding...

I am not sure what is going to happen here, but I wanted to order some parts to extend my new 60050 train station from bricks and pieces. There seems to be many errors on the lego inventory for this set on the UK site, one of which was track sections for 5p each! I immediately ordered the max 200 from the drop down box and submitted the order, I have got the confirmation email showing £10 for the 200. Funnily enough the lego inventory now shows 'out of stock' - presumably as an emergency measure until they can correct it properly. I will call them up tomorrow to pay, I wonder if they will honour it?

Ironically the original minis did in fact have huge steering wheels! However the cooper varient that lego has copied would have had something smaller and more sporty!

Thats easy - you bricklink your way through all the models in the 8888 expert builders book!!

I have ordered the station, and bricklinked some parts to extend the platform length to match my 6 car 7725. An interesting mix of old and new! I wonder how easy it will be to get a spare sticker sheet - I quite fancy adding some lego boxes to the toy department in my grand emporium, as well as using the customer information screens on my other station too!

I must say the attention to detail on this is superb. My first car was a mini that was upgraded to almost cooper spec with the the twin carbs, the filters of which seem to be represented with the 2x2 round tiles with grille pattern.

I never watched the cartoons. Slimer (or spud as we called him) was the very first ghost caught by the ghostbusters, after a considerably long battle around the hotel with sliming and generally charging around the corridors before the battle finale in the ballroom. Being the first ghost battled and caught was a pivotal moment in the movie - it proved that the ghostbusters could do the job and get taken seriously. Before slimer was caught, hardly any calls were coming in to the ghostbusters and their financial gamble looked like it might have been a big mistake - ghostbusters looked doomed. After he was caught the resultant publicity caused such a deluge of calls that they could not cope and had to recruit a new member. Not only was this one of the most significant parts of the movie. if not the most significant, (without catching slimer ghostbusters would have crashed and burned). It became an iconic moment which many people would like to recreate. After the movie came out, Slimer was THE most talked about ghost at school, long before any cartoons!!! How you managed to get 'insignificant' after all that is beyond me!

Re-read the first three words of the dictionary description of greed, and compare that to what you have written above. In what way is that difference not abundantly clear?

I suppose a statement like that was asking for it, might even make a nice modular too... http://alexanderjame...-3916-3139.html

You can increase either speed or torque, according to gearing. The only way you can increase both is to increase power. A motor gives its maximum power when running at approx half of its no-load speed, assuming a good battery which does not drop the volts much under load. So if you gear it accordingly that's the max power you will get out of a standard motor. If you want more, then you will have to overvolt it and expect reduced motor life.

Superb! Never even thought about seeing a shisha in Lego!

Looking at it, I suspect a floor may be possible - 8 off 8x16 tiles look like they would cover it, and if you removed the poles from the cars and one of the technic axles would stack vertically above them in the truck, that is with the 8 long side vertical, without sticking out of the top. How they are secured both on and off the truck might be the determining thing though. I suspect that on the real thing the floor does not fold, but is in sections which are dismantled and stacked.

Yes, 4x4's often have the front diff offset, it is usually so that the propshaft/diff can run alongside the engine/gearbox rather than underneath which would require much more clearance to allow for suspension movement. 4x4 vehicles may also have the rear diff offset to match the front as the transfer box may have both outputs in line, and it keeps all the propshafts parallel with the chassis when viewed from above. Early Range Rovers are a good example of this. It can also be an advantage when rock crawling. If both diffs sit on the right for example, you can straddle a high rock towards the left, and hopefully it will miss both diffs, gaining a valuable extra few inches of clearance.

I was there! As an 11 year old boy I found it absolutely amazing. Unfortunately I do not seem to have any pictures, only memories. The two things that stuck in my mind the most was the huge lego train layout featuring the new 7740 and 7725 as well as others, and the elastic band powered car competition. I wanted to enter, but I was not aware of the competition before arriving, and really you were supposed to bring a car that you had already made at home. So I scurried off to the free build area, to try and build something based on my memory of the car that I had seen in the 8888 technic expert builder ideas book. I could not quite find all the bits I needed so rather dissapointed I had to give up. Does anybody else have any memories or pictures of this show - especially of the train set up?

Superb! It captures the look very well!

Not always, it pays to compare. i got most of my blue bricks for market street (both shades) from lego bricks and pieces because the price new was less than or about the same as second hand from bricklink. The blue arches which were selling for up to £10 each from bricklink were selling for 55p each direct from lego, although the price on bricklink had tumbled to around £1 each as a result, it was still much cheaper to buy brand new from lego at the time.

Many thanks for the tips! I suspect running a lego railway single handedly at a show will be a piece of cake compared to what i have done before*. I think I will probably go 'semi modularised' - key sections of track mounted on boards, with the rest added to suit. I am also looking for tables to put it on - something like this perhaps? http://www.ebay.co.u...=item3cd6722874 *Single handedly running an O gauge Live steam railway at the Great Dorset Steam Fair. Five consecutive days, around 6 hours steaming per day, and the loco's needed constant attention and monitoring whilst running unlike electric! I was knackered at the end - as were the engines!! See here!

I am planning a modest 12V based layout that I intend to take to model railway shows and the like. I have the basic idea in place, and knowledge of OO/HO type set ups, but lego is just a whole new ball game! The layout features models from the 7740 to the Horizon express. The railway station is the main central feature, which comprises of two through lines, flanked by two loops serving the platforms either side like this: Actually thats quite an old photo, (must take some more!) it now includes a bricklinked 2150 station building as well as being extended to take a six car Horizon express but hopefully you get the idea. The station would be towards the front of the layout, with a road running behind along which will be a row of modulars as a backdrop. The track consists of two circuits that form a double track with one train running in each direction, whilst another waits at the platform. I also have a harbour area with some sidings for a freight train made up from 7794 and 4645 to include also! I am anticipating having an operating area to stand in the middle of the circuit, with the harbour area behind. Now on a HO/OO layout almost all things would tend to be permanently attached to baseboards which would then be bolted together to form the layout. With lego I expect that this would not be practical, espesially for the modular buildings which would need to be packed seperately and whole. But what about the track? the sleepers come with holes so that they could be screwed down, so I guess anything from laying the tracks and buildings out on plain 6'x2' tables, perhaps with a cloth/felt cover, to purpose built baseboards is possible. On the one hand lego is specifically designed with building/dismantling in mind, but on the other I don't want to spend hours assembling the layout! So whats the collective wisdom about taking lego train layouts to shows, and any good do's/don'ts?

Another vote for scam here, avoid.

I suspect that pram may be a uniquely British term - shortened version of prambulator, and generally used for the older style of big wheeled baby carriages which were essentially mobile cots (Think opening scene of Ghostbusters 2) I think what you call strollers we call pushchairs.