City Advent Calendar - Day 22

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.

@TheOtherMike said:
"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."

I had a couple of that piece, but tended to think of them more as sci-fi guns (e.g. 6209 where Dengar used it as such); although admittedly my first one of it was used as a camera in 6425. The piece I linked, though, I had in 7414, a set I played with a lot back in the day.

Also admittedly I did have a couple of the unmistakeably-a-camera https://www.bricklink.com/v2/catalog/catalogitem.page?P=30148 before then, too, so I don't know why my mind jumped to the one from the Orient Expedition set particularly. I guess that one was more like the cameras I had in real life when I was younger, so it was the more immediate association for me.

@vizzitor said:
"I would have preferred to see this static, brick built train than the 3D printed one in 10361. Still quite annoyed at that decision."

This one isn't even blue to reference that new set. Lego really has no confidence in the bland new train selling, do they? That must be why they added the 3D-print in the first place, to get people to talk about the novelty and get some free advertising.

Make way for the train.

@Norikins said:
" @vizzitor said:
"I would have preferred to see this static, brick built train than the 3D printed one in 10361. Still quite annoyed at that decision."

This one isn't even blue to reference that new set. Lego really has no confidence in the bland new train selling, do they? That must be why they added the 3D-print in the first place, to get people to talk about the novelty and get some free advertising."

Or maybe it's not blue because https://brickset.com/parts/design-4595 doesn't already exist in that color, and it would have been pointless for the designer to burn a "frame," given how much of the piece is covered up.

@TheOtherMike said:
" @Norikins said:
" @vizzitor said:
"I would have preferred to see this static, brick built train than the 3D printed one in 10361 . Still quite annoyed at that decision."

This one isn't even blue to reference that new set. Lego really has no confidence in the bland new train selling, do they? That must be why they added the 3D-print in the first place, to get people to talk about the novelty and get some free advertising."

Or maybe it's not blue because https://brickset.com/parts/design-4595 doesn't already exist in that color, and it would have been pointless for the designer to burn a "frame," given how much of the piece is covered up."

Lies and corruption! All you need is a time-machine to travel back to 1993, when it was last produced in blue, in 6973.

@Crux said:
" @TheOtherMike said:
" @Norikins said:
" @vizzitor said:
"I would have preferred to see this static, brick built train than the 3D printed one in 10361 . Still quite annoyed at that decision."

This one isn't even blue to reference that new set. Lego really has no confidence in the bland new train selling, do they? That must be why they added the 3D-print in the first place, to get people to talk about the novelty and get some free advertising."

Or maybe it's not blue because https://brickset.com/parts/design-4595 doesn't already exist in that color, and it would have been pointless for the designer to burn a "frame," given how much of the piece is covered up."

Lies and corruption! All you need is a time-machine to travel back to 1993, when it was last produced in blue, in 6973."

There won’t be a minifig-scale Time Machine in production for another ten days.

@ThatBionicleGuy said:
"(Speaking of loading, has Brickset been running slow for anyone else lately?"

It's going fine as usual for me.

@PurpleDave said:
" @Crux said:
" @TheOtherMike said:
" @Norikins said:
" @vizzitor said:
"I would have preferred to see this static, brick built train than the 3D printed one in 10361 . Still quite annoyed at that decision."

This one isn't even blue to reference that new set. Lego really has no confidence in the bland new train selling, do they? That must be why they added the 3D-print in the first place, to get people to talk about the novelty and get some free advertising."

Or maybe it's not blue because https://brickset.com/parts/design-4595 doesn't already exist in that color, and it would have been pointless for the designer to burn a "frame," given how much of the piece is covered up."

Lies and corruption! All you need is a time-machine to travel back to 1993, when it was last produced in blue, in 6973."

There won’t be a minifig-scale Time Machine in production for another ten days."

Ah yeah? Mine arrived a couple of months ago.

Good build overall for this year's AC. I was expecting it to come in day 22 and day 23, not all on one day.