Last bit of usefulness to report… included in the instructions are details about replacement pieces to use if specific pieces aren’t available in another color. If it wasn’t helpful enough, the instructions also list the part numbers on BrickLink for your ordering purposes. This way you can build based on actual cabooses or come up with your own color scheme. For customization purposes, the bill of materials lists what pieces go on the inside, what goes on the outside, and which pieces should be specific color (mostly black). The back of the instructions comes with a bill of materials stating all of the pieces you will need for the set. I haven’t actually built the set so I can’t verify that they are good or not. The actual build instructions compare with ones you would see in a LEGO set where it shows you the pieces you need and a picture of where you are at with the build. The first few pages contains some details about the actual caboose to include when it was first built, where it was used, and some of the stats about the caboose itself. They come in an individually wrapped bag and weren’t crammed in like they usually are in LEGO sets. It is a plain white box with a BMR sticker affixed to the top. I ordered the North Eastern Style Caboose for $40. Props to the BMR team! An order sheet specified that I would be receiving one of the decals in the mail directly from OKBrickWorks. The box size was right and the sets were wrapped in bubble wrap. The package arrived promptly and was possibly one of the best packed items I’ve ever received. I received an order notification and shipping notification rather quickly. I purchased a few of the sets and today I’ll take you through one of them. They’ve turned their detailed MOCs into sets that you can customize. They’ve also done something great for fans like me who are not good at building MOCs. They’ve built a standard for everyone to follow so people collaborating on a train display can build separately and then assemble it all at a show and have it fit together. They want to show other model railroad fans that the “L Gauge” is a real thing. You can read about them and find links to some of their work here. The site has been built by a group of LEGO train fans from around the world. One such group has a website called Brick Model Railroader. Despite LEGO not diving into trains, the fan community has done their best to pick up the slack. LEGO hasn’t offered much for a while and hopefully the new Crocodile Locomotive is a start towards more brick trains. I enjoy building different LEGO themes, but when it comes down to it, I really trains make it to the top of the list. Plus you get a small passenger train so win, win all around here. Designed by Bricky_Brick, the same designer as #21322-1 - Pirates of Barracuda Bay, I think this set would add some elegance to some of the more boring train stations that exist in the current LEGO set realm. I’m a big train fan and a modular building fan and this set would look fantastic mixed with the two themes. If LEGO/Bricklink reads this post, here are the three designs I would like to see made in the 2021 AFOL Designer Program. There are a lot of great designs and then some that it looks like LEGO has produced in a different form already. If my link doesn’t work, go to the Ideas site and when you search, select Product Phase - Not Approved and IP - Original Ideas. My search revealed 44 sets in this category. The rules are the project must not have an IP tied to it and it must have achieved the 10,000 votes. While not exactly what we wanted, I can’t complain about this effort. Instead of soliciting new projects and crowd sourcing them, they are going to use designs from the Ideas platform and produce some of them. We heard nothing for a while, but we finally got something a few weeks ago.īricklink announced on 17 December 2020 that they were going to re-open the program, but it would be slightly different in 2021. A number of fans, including me, hoped the AFOL Designer Program would return. LEGO announced their purchase of Bricklink at the end of 2019 and there was much consternation in the fan community as to what would happen. I was a big fan of both of them and probably would have purchased all 13 of them if I had unlimited funds. One was #BL19003: Skyline Express and the other was #BL19012: Bikes!. They crowd funded 13 sets that were designed by fans and released them for purchase in 2019. In 2018, LEGO and Bricklink teamed up for the AFOL Designer Program.
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