City Advent Calendar - Day 22
Posted by CapnRex101,
Mrs. Claus appeared yesterday, sending us fully into the most Christmassy part of this calendar! Doubtless that will continue today, but I am not sure exactly how.
There is an easy way to find out...
This toy train is pretty standard fare. The locomotive and carriage are designed around the old camera element, which is a common technique and one that continues to work, featuring connection points for 1x1 round tiles as the wheels on either side and a linkage between the two sections of the train. The design may be familiar, but this colour scheme is appealing and I like the plume of steam too.
Overall - Similar toy trains have appeared many times, but the colour scheme on this one is lovely.
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I feel like having two shades of green on such a small build may not have been the best idea.
When you said 'the old camera element', I was legitimately thinking of https://brickset.com/parts/design-30089 at first, as the main camera piece I had as a kid, and wondered how you built a train around that... before the picture loaded and I realised my mistake...!
(Speaking of loading, has Brickset been running slow for anyone else lately? It started when the modular building was revealed, so I at first thought it was just the rush for that news affecting the site, but it's still slow loading for me even a couple weeks on. Not sure if it's just higher site traffic than usual because of all the advent articles causing the server more stress, or if it's just a me thing...)
I feel it could have used more gold than just the smokestack but admittedly I also don’t know where you could fit it without displacing the other colours or wrecking the proportions
One nice thing about building the train around that element is that it lets the wheels touch the ground, unlike the wheels on 75366's Juggernaut.
@ThatBionicleGuy said:
"When you said 'the old camera element', I was legitimately thinking of https://brickset.com/parts/design-30089 at first, as the main camera piece I had as a kid, and wondered how you built a train around that... before the picture loaded and I realised my mistake...!"
Before I hovered my pointer over your link, I was picturing https://brickset.com/parts/design-4360. I first got it in 6659, although that would have had a different version of the mold (as the database says that the version I linked to debuted in 1994, eight years after the set I linked to came out). You must be a good bit younger than I am, as your camera piece dates to 1997.
My city calender from 2013 had this kind of train yesterday:
https://www.bricklink.com/v2/catalog/catalogitem.page?S=60024-22T=S&O={%22rpp%22:%22200%22,%22iconly%22:0}
That one had pips as the wheels instead of the rond 1x1s but the smokestack is bulkier, using an old ice cream element. And the cabins have an aditional plate. It's 19 parts instead of this build's 18 but that's only because of the weird two 1x1 plates for the wagon's windows. So this one feels a lot dinkier and overall worse than the exact same type of build from yesteryear. At least this one kept most of the bulk.
I would have preferred to see this static, brick built train than the 3D printed one in 10361. Still quite annoyed at that decision.