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The hillside house looks better than I had expected! Lots of windows and door pieces for use in MOCs!

My only complain is the garage door however. I was expecting it to be those sliding type which is found in the police and fire stations.

I am curious to see how the light brick works in this set.

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The Treehouse reminds me of the old TIme Cruiser sets. With stuff all over the place. I'm not sure if that's a good or bad thing yet. :blush:

Well, the good thing about Creator is that even if the model displayed at Toy Fair isn't satisfactory, each set has two more chances to really impress because of its two additional models.

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My only complain is the garage door however. I was expecting it to be those sliding type which is found in the police and fire stations.

I think the brick-built garage door fits in with the Creator philosophy better than the sliding door would. There are very few specialised pieces, even the animals are brick-built when they could easily be single pieces.

I think the tree house and the family house are going to look good together, they kind of make a family unit.

But I think the tree house would have worked better in other colours, or using 'log' pieces... It looks a little too much like a mini Creator house on a tree. Maybe a fort would have been better...

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User 'cavegod' posted this over in the Star Wars thread:

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LEGO 10236 Star Wars Ewok Village £200

LEGO 10235 Creator, Product name unknown

LEGO 10234 Creator, Sydney Opera house £250

Sydney Opera House? I hope it's better than the Architecture one.

-Sci

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If its 250 in the UK that means its probably somewhere up there with the Tower Bridge, Eiffel Tower etc in size (and is clearly badged "Creator Expert")

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This sounds great, an iconic piece of Australia that is in a large scale to put on the desk for display :classic: . I will be looking forward to this and I am quite intrigued to how they are going to design the roof, as it is quite a hard shape to capture in a big lego set. Let's hope they get it right, because it will make or break the set.

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From Brickset:

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31011 Aviation Adventures

No part count or price info yet. Looks to be about the same scale as the Sonic Boom from 2 years ago, so I'd guess around the £50 mark.

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User 'cavegod' posted this over in the Star Wars thread:

Sydney Opera House? I hope it's better than the Architecture one.

-Sci

There was talk of this a year or so ago actually by the folks in charge of Opera House itself......it must be better than that smaller scale one....please Lego. :classic:

Plus that new aircraft 3-in-1 set....the plane reminds me of WWII fighter planes....which one I'm trying to Zero in on. :laugh:

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Hmmh, I don't know. Like most Lego planes, prop planes especially it looks just that bit wrong. Not to mention the eight-cylinder radial engine... :laugh:

But hey, just one image so far, maybe it'll turn out to look far better.

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The primary model for Aviation Adventures actually bears a strong resemblance to Howard Hughes' famous 1935 H-1 Racer, which had a radial engine (but not a two-place "bubble" canopy). With a few mods it could probably be made into a passable replica of this plane. The H-1 Racer is generally regarded as the origin of the classic WWII fighter plane configuration. The original is in the Smithsonian. I saw it as a boy but I didn't really realize what I was looking at at the time.

From all accounts, flying the H-1 was definitely an "adventure." An exact replica was sadly destroyed in 2003, and its pilot (Jim Wright) killed, when it crashed due to a propeller gear malfunction.

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I certainly look forward to Rufus picking up the 31011 Aviation Adventures, because I will like to hear your thoughts when you have actually own and built the past Creator aircraft sets. I am very tempted to get this set.

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I certainly look forward to Rufus picking up the 31011 Aviation Adventures, because I will like to hear your thoughts when you have actually own and built the past Creator aircraft sets. I am very tempted to get this set.

Now I have to review it! :laugh:

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Well, now that I see the fuselage is mostly white, it no longer looks so similar to the silver H-1. The box art looked more silver to me. Still, many WWII planes used radial engines (The F4U Corsair and Grumman Avenger, for example), so there is still potential to modify this into something like a real warbird.

And it's a nice-looking plane as-is.

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618 pieces for the aviation set, according to this pic of the box:

Thanks for the info and the links! Nice to see you can feather the propeller. :thumbup:

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Hmmh, I don't know. Like most Lego planes, prop planes especially it looks just that bit wrong. Not to mention the eight-cylinder radial engine... :laugh:

But hey, just one image so far, maybe it'll turn out to look far better.

Were you referring to the fact that even-numbered radial engines are extremely rare?

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