O gauge & Lego

Cool!!!!!

I think the Lego items go nicely with the O gauge trains. I have thought about that myself as my grandson is quite a Lego builder and loves the Lego stuff. I will be watching for pictures of your Lego roller coaster, please post plenty when it arrives! Sounds like a really nice addition to your layout, especially if your granddaughter really enjoys it!! I enjoy just sitting back and watching the grand kids play with the train stuff here. Better than playing with them myself. 

On a side note here, we had the World's Greatest Hobby show visit here a year or two ago. There was a guy that had some fascinating Lego stuff. He had a massive setup at the show. One of the things he had was a pneumatically operated container freight loader/unloader (I believe it was) that even had small little Lego air compressors for the pneumatic system. Never seen anything like it before and had no idea they even made things like that. No idea where he got them? His display was so crowded I never got close enough to ask him about all of the things he had. 

Here is the link to the Roller Coaster.

https://www.kickstarter.com/pr...-constru/description

Eddie

That looks great!! The Lego buildings work very nicely with o gauge trains. Two of the best toys ever invented on one table. Fantastic!!!

Thanks for the link. I will show it to my grandson and see what he thinks. Might make a good Christmas present or even an addition to the layout as you are doing.

I enjoy building with Legos with our grandchildren and have incorporated a city and train station terrace on my o-gauge layout.  I've attached two pictures to illustrate.  Tom

Ok, Roller Coaster finally arrived.  Here is a short video of it and lego fairground rides.

Eddie

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aMh9CQIKUTQ

Very nice Eddie.  I wish I had more space on my layout to add the Roller Coaster and the other amusement park rides that you have incorporated.  Tom

Very nice!
can these guys come over and play?

   I heard the company was having problems. Kinda hard to believe. I have a relative that collects lego, a bit of foaming there too. Most layouts would take up far less room.

   They would have to be stupid to tank the company full with such a hadcore base, hopefully they just downsize. They are an important learning toy IMO, unfortunate more parents don't see that anymore.

   I dont recall having more than a tin with a few pictures to build off, let alone specialized kits. But the accumulation of tins was huge. I had to use brick trapped tinker toys for wheels and gears till I could manage Erector Sets nuts and bolt....and then I couldn't care less about the others

  I did have a toy rivet gun that spun fasteners till they melted and managed to attach a toy pull-back cars frame to a long Lego plate with it. It was still in "Grandmas toy box" last I looked  

I don't think LEGO is having problems, their earnings were just down (And only a little bit.) which is a first in so many years.  So the downsizing IMHO is a knee jerk reaction.  LEGO is not going anywhere, but it also may be a longer time before we see any new trains out of them.