AdultFanOfLegos2011
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- 4.6Average Rating
- 165Helpfulness Votes
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- 7Review Count
- September 3, 2011First Review
- April 21, 2013Last Review
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Constitution Train Chase
Constitution Train Chase
Posted:April 21, 2013
AdultFanOfLegos2011
Age:
45-54
years old
Customer Type:
LEGO Fan
Building Experience:
Advanced LEGO builder
Overall:
5
/
5
Nice Train set
" Mini figure details are very nice. Tonto is really good looking. Silver can stand on its hind leg. Nice spinning Gatling gun. silver bars and nuggets are very cute. It is missing instructions to convert this into RC train set, but it can be done by putting the PF train motor and the AAA battery pack in the coal tender and the IR receiver in the locomotive steam engine. I motorized mine and added LED headlights, too. When motorized this train tends to be top heavy so go slow around the corners. Nitpicks: Smokestack should be bigger and black (see photo). Lego need to have a coupling rod for the counterweight flanged train drive wheels. Why Emerald green? Emerald is a rare color and makes upgrading difficult..
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I would recommend this to a friend!
From: Olney
State:
Maryland
From:
United States
Age:
45-54
years old
Customer Type:
LEGO Fan
Building Experience:
Advanced LEGO builder
Play Experience (Optional):
5
/
5
Value for Money (Optional):
4
/
5
Level of Difficulty:
Easy
Very Easy
Very Challenging
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77of 109found this review helpful.
AT-ST™ & Endor™
AT-ST™ & Endor™
Posted:February 16, 2013
AdultFanOfLegos2011
Age:
45-54
years old
Customer Type:
LEGO Fan
Building Experience:
Advanced LEGO builder
Overall:
5
/
5
Love the walker design
" I love the AT-ST walker design especially the swivel head/turret - the cardboard box around the globe was torn and the instruction booklet was missing on my set - so I didn't have any instructions with my set but luckily all the parts were inside the globe and I was able to figured how to build it just by looking at the box art ( which turn out to be a bit more challenging). . I like the globe design on this one because it reminds me of earth. I'd like a set with the Clone War's ice planet Orto Plutonia (transparent blue?) with a Talz and one of their mounts/animals or senator Riyo ChuChi. with an ice speeder. yeah that's the ticket. Or maybe a black hole or Yellow Star set... :-)
"
I would recommend this to a friend!
From: Olney
From:
United States
Age:
45-54
years old
Customer Type:
LEGO Fan
Building Experience:
Advanced LEGO builder
Play Experience (Optional):
4
/
5
Value for Money (Optional):
5
/
5
Level of Difficulty:
Easy
Very Easy
Very Challenging
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4of 4found this review helpful.
Valentine’s Day Heart Box
Valentine’s Day Heart Box
Posted:February 3, 2013
AdultFanOfLegos2011
Age:
45-54
years old
Customer Type:
LEGO Fan
Building Experience:
Advanced LEGO builder
Overall:
4
/
5
Elegant design - brings wishful thinking
" This is a very simple build. The heart shape design is elegant and simple giving it a sturdy feel without the need to have many more pieces to reinforce it. However, the top cover swivels out of the way on a Technics pin a bit too easily - a latch to keep the lid from swiveling would have been a welcome design addition. (I would have use the another technic pin to do that). Another possible feature woule be studded interior compartiment which one could attach letter tiles or a printed tile saying "Be My Valentine". Ah but then it would cost a bit more than 4.95 would it? When I made another heart with a door hinge instead, i had to reinforce it to make it as strong as this orignal Lego design - AND so it was a more costly design and harder to build too - hence- I congratulate the designer for making such a sturdy yet simple design.
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I would recommend this to a friend!
From: Olney
State:
Maryland
From:
United States
Age:
45-54
years old
Customer Type:
LEGO Fan
Building Experience:
Advanced LEGO builder
Play Experience (Optional):
3
/
5
Value for Money (Optional):
5
/
5
Level of Difficulty:
Easy
Very Easy
Very Challenging
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3of 4found this review helpful.
LEGO® Power Functions Train Motor
LEGO® Power Functions Train Motor
Posted:February 1, 2013
AdultFanOfLegos2011
Age:
45-54
years old
Customer Type:
LEGO Fan
Building Experience:
Advanced LEGO builder
Overall:
4
/
5
Improved Low end Torque but needs improvement
" Improved over its predecessor - it has more pulling power - especially at the lower power level range - this is very important since it doesn't draw power power from the train track but must draw power from the 9v battery pack. Unlike the Power Function M-Motor - the Power Function Train Motor does not have enough torque/power at the low current level (as supplied by four Lego Power Function Solar Panels) to pull a train car. So I'm disappointed in that respect. At high speeds especially when the track is not flat or the track is making a sharp turn - the rail wheels might lift off the track or slip on the track causing either a derailment or loss of power. There is sort of a balancing act between keeping rolling resistance down and maintaining enough wheel traction - don't know the answer to this one - I've seen a bunch of lego track modifications to deal with this problem...design works for modern diesel trains but notfor powering a working steam engine
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I would recommend this to a friend!
From: Rockville
State:
Maryland
From:
United States
Age:
45-54
years old
Customer Type:
LEGO Fan
Building Experience:
Advanced LEGO builder
Play Experience (Optional):
3
/
5
Value for Money (Optional):
4
/
5
I would recommend this to a friend!
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+1point
3of 5found this review helpful.
Red Cargo Train
Red Cargo Train
Posted:February 18, 2012
AdultFanOfLegos2011
Age:
45-54
years old
Customer Type:
LEGO Fan
Building Experience:
Novice LEGO builder
Overall:
5
/
5
Good starter train set
" The Red Cargo Train looks like a WWII era diesel track switcher, the Alco RS1. I found it an easy build. The train engine's smaller size made it more difficult to route the LED wires for with working headlights but it was not impossible. The coal conveyer belt loader and coal gondola car is a great follow up to the Yellow Cargo Train's Truck Container Gantry Crane. The crane-flatcar with the track gang car is good followup to the Yellow Cargo Train's Smartcar Transport flatcar.
"
I would recommend this to a friend!
From: Rockville
State:
Maryland
From:
United States
Age:
45-54
years old
Customer Type:
LEGO Fan
Building Experience:
Novice LEGO builder
Play Experience (Optional):
5
/
5
Value for Money (Optional):
5
/
5
I would recommend this to a friend!
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0points
1of 2found this review helpful.
LEGO® Power Functions Control Switch
LEGO® Power Functions Control Switch
Posted:December 28, 2011
AdultFanOfLegos2011
Age:
45-54
years old
Customer Type:
LEGO Fan
Building Experience:
Novice LEGO builder
Overall:
4
/
5
works but not compatiable with 7 speed IR
" This is a straight current 3 pole switch that allows forward, stop, reverse ( there's also a black microswitch to reverse the switch's polarity). If this switch is between an "on" AAA battery pack and a motor it can put the motor in forward or reverse or it can turn the motor off . If this switch is between an "on" AAA battery pack and an IR remote unit, this switch will be fixed in the "ON" state (i.e. the allow the pulse modulated current from the IR remote unit to go through no matter what position the 3 pole switch is in) when the 7 speed IR sends a signal to go on. I was trying to use this switch as a kill switch for an IR controlled conveyor belt - until I realize this switch would not work with a pulse modulated current.
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I would recommend this to a friend!
State:
Maryland
From:
United States
Age:
45-54
years old
Customer Type:
LEGO Fan
Building Experience:
Novice LEGO builder
Level of Difficulty:
Very Easy
Very Easy
Very Challenging
I would recommend this to a friend!
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+21points
28of 35found this review helpful.
LEGO® Power Functions Light
LEGO® Power Functions Light
Posted:September 3, 2011
AdultFanOfLegos2011
Age:
45-54
years old
Customer Type:
LEGO Fan
Building Experience:
Intermediate LEGO builder
Overall:
5
/
5
Best when you have more than one
" This outputs a really nice soft white light. I used an array of 12 of these LED units to created a 24 LED flashlight powered by a hand crank dynamo which was bright enough so one could read a book at night if the book was about three feet away. With a Lego Education Energy Meter X1, I built a rechargeable Flashlight powering one LED assembly; The Energy Meter was able to power the LEDs from about 9.5 volts to as low as 8.0 Volts. The Energy Meter measured that the LED's current drain at 9 Volts was at .001 Amperes (.009 Watts). The only thing I would change with this particular LED design is the elimination of the black 2x2 brick that is between the wiring connector and the two LED lights - because more often than not the black 2x2 brick was was in my way when I had to do cable management. If I could add something it would be scaleable parabolic reflector to hold one or two LEDs AND a Lego-Power-Function-connector to the Legos-eLabs-connector cable.
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I would recommend this to a friend!
From:
United States
Age:
45-54
years old
Customer Type:
LEGO Fan
Building Experience:
Intermediate LEGO builder
Play Experience (Optional):
5
/
5
Value for Money (Optional):
4
/
5
Level of Difficulty:
Easy
Very Easy
Very Challenging
I would recommend this to a friend!
Share:
+23points
49of 75found this review helpful.