I’ve just looked up the Bluebrixx site - lots of very interesting models!
Regarding the 8w model locomotives and rolling stock - does this mean they are 8 studs wide? Also, will they run on standard Lego track?
Hi drago
There are 15 numbered bags so it is quite manageable at about 600 pieces per bag.
I have bought about a dozen smaller sets and only had one badly formed brick where I had to use a vice to fit it in which is about 1 in 15000 bricks.
There tend to be more extra bricks left over than with lego and I have never been missing a brick.
Brick quality is just as good as lego I would say. There are no paper instructions so you need to download the instructions on an iPad or computer.
This set is quite detailed so there are a dozen bricks you need to save till the end as they constantly break off during construction but that that is just an order of attachment issue and not a problem in then end.
Unfortunately if you want one, it has been out of stock since I bought what I think was the last one until they produce more.
They make a smaller Krokodil for about £50 with 1542 pieces which looks nice but I do not have it.
If you buy less than £135 worth at one go you save the German VAT which more than compensates for the €10 carriage.
Do not buy this one
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I do not have any lego track but I think the answer is yes as the wheels are the same distance apart on the 8w as the 6w as I have built both for Bluebrixx
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Gorgeous!
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Many thanks. My son has a Lego train set. The new version of the Flying Scotsman looks quite interesting when that is released.
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Ooh, that’s going on the list! I can extend the track behind the Orient Express to accommodate it. Do we have a release date?
I think on the website it says ‘coming soon’ or something similar.
They already do a Flying Scotsman but the new one looks much better - it has more realistic valve gear for a start. It is shown with the experimental wind deflectors on the smoke box but you might be able to build it without?
Here it is.
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Hmmm. Doesn’t look much like the one on the “Ideas” website. I had been hoping for LNER apple green 4472!
Removing the wind deflectors would not be difficult but might require a trip to Bricklink 
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Yes it’s definitely more of a ‘representation’ than a scale model. Certainly closer to BR green and 60103 than apple green and 4472.
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You could wait for the Cobi one which should be out soon but it will be more expensive and is 60103. 2700 bricks and about £200.
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Now looks like a good model (apart from the livery, natch 
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But it does make me wonder about the Lego set………
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Then this might be the Gobricks parts! These are excellent. I am really so tempted! But I still have several medieval sets unbuild …
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I know - I haven’t several sets of them. Also the ones with no numbered bags, once had a greater amount of missing parts and ordered them. They asked me via email why there is so muck missing - think it was a bag missing.
But normally all is fine. Bluebrixx specials come in semi nice boxes with no printed instructions - but no problem, I wand to build and have no need in carefully storing the Lego boxes 
If crocodile - I want the big one but for nostalgia the small one will also do.
I last year sold my complete Lego collection (nearly all old Modular’s and several other sets - a lot of cars) only to start again with castle bluestone a short time later …
Damn addicts
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The medieval sets look fantastic, I’m very tempted, but I need to finish the Lego Home alone set and I’ve got to finish my Crocodile now, having seen @IanS excellent build, there’s waaayyyy tooooo Much I want to build, just haven’t got the display space, so I’m going to have to be very selective 
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I managed to get hold of an unopened box of a limited edition set 40690 ‘Tribute to Jules Verne’s Books’
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