GeForce GTX 1080 Ti LEGO Digs Up Discontinued Set for Boy Who Saved Up for 2 Years In need of a feel-good story heading into the heart of the holiday season? Well friends, you have one, and it comes courtesy of LEGO, or "The best company in the world" as seen through the eyes of one extremely grateful 11-year-old boy who received a discontinued train set from LEGO after he tried acquiring it on his own. His name is James Groccia, and like many kids, he has a love for LEGOs. His just happens to run deeper, and by the time he was 10 years old, he had already accumulated a handful of LEGO sets, including Hero Factory, Creationary, Lunar, Limo, and others. For Groccia, LEGO sets are more than just toys. He has Asperger's Syndrome, a form of autism, and he participates in a LEGO playgroup to help with his social skills, When he was around 8 years old, he spied The Emerald Night Train set "and fell in love with it," according to his letter to LEGO. Way out of his price range, his parents told him he'd have to save his money to buy it.
And so he did, for two years, or an eternity when you're that age. The only problem is, by the time he saved the necessary $100, the set had been discontinued and the only ones available were through second-hand sellers asking $250 for what had become a collectible. He was crushed, but didn't give up. Groccia wrote a heartfelt letter to LEGO explaining his situation and asking whether they had any at their corporate headquarters. Two days before his 11th birthday, a package arrives from LEGO containing the train set and a letter of its own. Groccia's reaction is captured in a 4-minute video embedded below. Give it a glance, you'll be glad you did. blog comments powered byVery Slow to get all the parts as some very rare, I tried to keep the measurement all even through out the train and roof-lines First Class is the Standard Carrage that comes with the Train. Second Class has added Computes and differant seating. Third Class is Differant Seating again and bulk passenges.
The Fasilites Wagon, what can I say we all need it and its normally missing from most trains. Wages Wagon, I had miss calculated the parts I ordered and had to many left over so i made this , main differants is the doors are very wide although still look same. Cargo, I had the base before I started this wagon and I redisigned it atleast a hundred differant ways before I settled on this one, The base has been extended at each end by 1-thick to keep the line accurate. The Custon Caboose can be found here that was my first addon to my Emerald Night Thanks for looking, The Bagman The Bagman Quoting Jack Gerrie Thanks I have no instructions as it is all custom. using base plates and roof tiles I decided on the lengths of each carriage also ( cost and availability of roof tile ). The dark brown is very rare so it came next I used black to start the job then replaced with the dark brown when it arrived The Bagman Quoting Chris Belaire By using the bricklink inventories pages,
You can find all the pieces you need, I always start with the most rare pieces to see if I can aford to start a model and work from there, I hope you like and feel free to rate my models , Karl The Bagman Quoting Mark Peiffer /catalogItemInv.asp?S=10194-1 starting with the speicialty colours and roof components, lots of the train parts are from my other train sets so this helps keep down the costLEGO® is a trademark of The Lego Company. This page is fan created and not endorsed by any Lego company. All pictures of sets are owned by the Lego® company. Group Since November 14, 2006New sister group for train techniquesGot a question? Try the Ideas Book10 Dec 2009: New sister group for layout pics created!train techniques
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