Tag Archives: LEGO Hobby Train

My LEGO Vault “For Sale” list

September 5, 2010 – 3:45 pm

Update: 9/11/2010 All items are no longer available.  As of tonight I received an offer for the whole lot which I have accepted. So unless something happens and the deal falls through, I have sold entire contents of my vault! As I noted in a post yesterday, I am planning to part with a fair [...]

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New Trains for 2010 but limitations persist

January 21, 2010 – 5:10 pm

New Trains! When I first saw some links to the 2010 trains I was excited.  These would be the first trains to be based on the Power Functions and in my opinion, the first train sets to come from LEGO since the decision to drop the 9v line.  One could argue that there were two [...]

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Cool background on the Emerald Night

January 21, 2010 – 3:14 pm

I am not sure how I missed then when it was posted, but I just saw the link today on Eurobricks  (which admittedly I don’t visit very often). There is some pretty cool footage in the video and some insight into the LEGO Vault. There is also an brief view of the LEGO Hobby Train [...]

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2010 LEGO Train Sets

December 24, 2009 – 11:13 am

I saw a link to this image on the WamaLUG mailing list. You can read a bit more about 2010 LEGO Trains in this article on BrickSet.  A couple of initial thoughts: It is nice to see LEGO Trains coming back and as expected, they are Power Function based. I really wish LEGO would release [...]

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The last module!

January 25, 2009 – 3:10 pm

Renee and I just finished the last module I need for my neighborhood portion of the NCLTC layout at LEGOPalooza next weekend (yikes!). This is a middle module and features a bunch of the dark red elements I got from the UTB project.  Unfortunately I ran out of the dark red headlight bricks – I [...]

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