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Parts for building from MOC instructions
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lugnet.trains
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Wed, 17 Aug 2005 23:52:54 GMT
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Hi,
My son (5) and myself and fairly new to the Lego world.
We've built from bunch of Lego kits, including some relatively complicated
e.g. the Santa Fe locomotive. And are looking to expand our horizons.
I've discovered the following link:
http://www.bricksonthebrain.com/instructions/offsite.cfm?linkID=851
It's got an MPD file; I'm familiar with MLCad (I'm a programmer); and I can (I
believe) extract a parts list from this.
The parts list is of course quite long. I've bought handfuls of parts in the
past from various vendors on www.bricklink.com and my experience is that very
few of these independent vendors will have all parts.
So how best to collect (order) all the parts associated with the URL above?
Best of all of course would be, for a fee, I send the parts list to some single
party and they collect everything in the list and send me in effect a kit (I
don't know if this is available and if it is it's doubtless not cheap).
Or are there any good tricks (comprehensive lego parts vendor search engines
or software or some other kind) that will allow me to put together (in some
optimized fashion so that I'm not contacting 50 differnet vendors) all the parts
that I need to build the locomotive above?
Help appreciated.
pat
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Message has 4 Replies:
 | | Re: Parts for building from MOC instructions
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| (...) Hi Pat, You could try the latest version of BrikTrak (URL) still officially beta, but generally works pretty well. It allows you to import an MPD file, and produce an XML file of the parts list suitable for uploading to your bricklink wanted (...) (19 years ago, 18-Aug-05, to lugnet.trains)
| | | Re: Parts for building from MOC instructions
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| (...) Unfortunatly Ross' suggestion is probably the nearest you are going to get to what you would like. I have had the same problem with having to buy from multiple sellers. I think it is a problem that occurs more with train building than for (...) (19 years ago, 18-Aug-05, to lugnet.trains)
| | | Re: Parts for building from MOC instructions
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| (...) Pat, Have you tried LEGO factory? (URL) It has a limeted pallette of parts/colors, and the editor is a bit primative. But it's suppossed to be upgrading to an actua partl ordering sytem at the end of the month. With a train specific upgrade (...) (19 years ago, 18-Aug-05, to lugnet.trains, FTX)
| | | Re: Parts for building from MOC instructions
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| (...) Hmm. Nice as that MOC is, your best bet is probably to pick up the Metroliner set for $150 from SAH: (URL) you have the Metroliner, modifying it to the engine style you want should be a good exercise in creativity for you and your son. To try (...) (19 years ago, 18-Aug-05, to lugnet.trains)
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