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Thanks Grumpy! Hope you have a Grumptastic day!

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I think it was the big like tower wasn’t it?

@@_travis_bricks Heartlake city community center tower, yeah!

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I love the size, but it definitely adds to the display problem.

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Thank you for the kind words! I appreciate you watching and commenting!

Oh I like the shared dinning space idea! Thanks!

This is the type of energy I need lol

This could be because I think the boiler is a stud or so wider. Again, I didn’t build the original version so I can’t speak to that, but I thought he said that in his video. He has two videos regarding this subject. I linked part 2, but part 1 is equally informative. There’s sooo many videos out there of people trying stuff and I watched about all of them lol

@@_travis_bricks Its the gold stripe printing with mine, Lego had great difficulty printing straight on those curved 1x4 bricks so when i look at it I can see they are well outa whack, same with a lot of others ive seen...but not yours, they did a great job with yours.

I want a Santa Fe so much, but I just can’t justify the price. I barely justified the price to get an Emerald night, and now I’ve been looking to get more carriages and those windows are so expensive. I’ve found some builds that use something different than the original windows and it drops the price significantly. It’s on the list. I’ll probably try to pick a second copy up used in a year or so. If I have happen on a good deal, no rush, but I’ll definitely get it before too long. I KNOW I saw a video where someone had done the tender and the carriage test, but I don’t remember if they tried them together… I also don’t remember if it was Danjo’s video or not, but somewhere I saw that the weight was too much for the magnet connection, especially when adding more cars. But I agree the current way is very clunky even for my smaller than average hands. What I’ve found is the just prop it up with my finger and “slam” the car into it. Not efficient, but it works. You’ll notice I actually used a technic lift arm for the connection between the engine and the tender. I didn’t wanna risk the engine separating from the tender and pulling plugs and the whole thing get stuck somewhere dumb. If I can find the video with the motorizing the carriages, I’ll drop it here. Thanks for watching and commenting!!

@@_travis_bricks So i looked into 2 train motors and it aint happening, I hoped to replace the 6x6 plate in the carriage with a 2x6 technic plate and a 4x6 plate, but its too close to the end and far too much of the motor sticks out, looks all sorts of awful. The Tender also looked awful and one motor does nothing as soon as you get to a corner, so I removed the train motor. I have ordered 4 motors, wanted to order them from Lego but they have nothing, everything is retired or out of stock. Cannot say I am all that impressed with the replacement for Power Functions, no extension cables, limited inputs, less motor types. Other than the Bluetooth connection everything is a downgrade, I knew where I was with the old system, it had the medium and large and extra large motors plus the servo motor for points and the train motor, thats 5 motor types, all lego had in stock was train motors which I have and cant use. I had a feeling I was going to be doing it your way, plus I will take your advice on the connectors and go with technic pins that are easy to connect and never fail. So now I am stuck looking at my gorgeous dark blue train that wont move for another 10 days when my 4 motors are expected to arrive. The Emerald Night is in my view the greatest Lego train they have released, I could almost justify ANY price for it. The reason I have ordered 4 motors is because I intend to also put 2 motors with the diff in my Emerald Night and have it pull a few Orient Express carriages. The greatest engine pulling the greatest carriages, now that is going to be simply magnificent, a ten outa ten all day long! Why not give it a try? You could even make a vid out of it, have fun building, all the best!

I got mine second hand with the PF motor in it but I don’t have a remote, but I’m debating upgrading it. I love the the thought of the OE cars with the Emerald Night… that may happen soon. Thanks for the comments!!

He’s done some amazing stuff. I also have his design for a retro style electric train I hope to build someday.

I love the trains. They’re a huge hassle and lots of parts, but so fun.

I mostly use Game of Bricks stuff. If there’s a kit existing, I use it. If not I buy components and figure it out. I’ve done a few videos on lighting. Most recently is the vlog on lighting the train shed and that was using components and might give you an idea of what’s involved.

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Already have more on order! And a lot more at that! I might “ivy” over the corner like I did on the other one…which means I should’ve worked some SNOT bricks into the corner… story of my life lol

Definitely on the list of possibilities!

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That sounds awesome. The original design for the Ideas botanical is very museum like, but we all know that what someone submits for Ideas, is rarely what the actual set ends up looking like.

Right after I got done uploading the video, I was sorting one of my buckets of doom and found one… 🤦🏻‍♂️. I’m not convinced I love it, but I don’t hate it… I appreciate the offer!

I started small too. The original portion of my city was only 30” by 70”.

So I had thought about it, but my concern was if I put a light there, you’d see inside the tunnel too far and it’s not finished very far in. If you look at my video for the tunnel that goes under the city gardens, I did leave studs for maybe like a red/green light, but I didn’t on these. IRL it’s very dark on top and in front of the tunnels, so I’ll probably need to address that someway, but not totally sure. Brickcross station is gonna be right in front and will have lights, so I’m kinda hoping some of that light will spill over to the tunnel area.

I think I was cheese sloped out after doing all of them for the water 😂. I may go back and add some. I don’t like covering all the studs, but it could probably benefit from some. I’m also a little low on DBG or LBG 1x1 cheese slopes.

Yay! Please reach out if you need help. Game of Bricks is based overseas so you should be able to get the exact same parts!

@@_travis_bricks oh I did not realize they were in the EU!!! Super! I will start making a list and add things on my cart on Monday then :)

Wow! Thank you! I watch his a lot too and in his “defense”, a bigger area means bigger problems and infinite amount of options. Working in tight parameters means in some ways my options are limited. And what’s that saying, necessity is the mother of invention? Thank you for watching!

That’s what I’m thinking about using.

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Well I certainly wasn’t giving away free feet pics lol

I have a box set aside for you for some day :)

I’m assuming those are the Pirates of the Caribbean sails? I have not washed those, and it’s hard to say with the ones I’ve washed if the whites got whiter or if the colors popped more or both. But I don’t think it would hurt. And the very least it would for sure fix the dust problem, unsure if it reduces sun damage/aging. Sorry I couldn’t be of more help, unfortunately I haven’t seen any of the PotC ships on a good enough bargain to pick them up yet.

I liked the pattern too. I think it might reappear somewhere else in the city… maybe the raised sidewalk in front of the museum area…

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There’s definitely a lot going on

The problem is the Orient Express cars require a HUGE turning radius. They actually never line up straight with the track at all in this little S turn. It’s kinda crazy.

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I could for the side rail, but the one that runs into the shed has a trough under it so it would look odd to have regular track there

@@_travis_bricks Is there a pit inside the shed, like at JiffyLube?

…oh, I should have been more patient. I see now. Thanks for sharing.

@@we5tbevryertyv hahaha no worries!

That’s who it was. In the moment of talking about it, my brain stopped lol. I’m too impatient to wait 😂