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Having recently picked up a couple of Maersk trains, I've been looking into motorising them. Given they've only just been released, I was surprised to find that the recommended rechargeable battery box (#8878) is shown on
[email protected] as being 'sold out' (not even on back order), and the recommended motor (#88002) as 'call for availability' (although it was 'sold out' yesterday). Neither were available at the Milton Keynes brand store when I checked a week back either. Were LEGO just surprised by the level of demand to motorise the Maersks, or is there an issue with PF supply ? Also, I'm assuming that the new 'standard' (i.e. not rechargeable) battery box (#88000) can be used in place of the rechargeable one - correct ?
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^^ @gime I got 2 Maersk Train sets, plus a couple of extra wagons with the containers from someone who was splitting a set.
I assume you haven't yet, or you could simply have tried fitting a battery box in there.
Like Huw, I suspect that I'll go the 9V route with this loco too.
I'll build one for now, and when my big City layout is complete I'll build the rest of the wagons and run the train on there. Not yet decided whether to offload the second loco or have 2 of them pulling the train.... The layout will almost certainly be exclusively PF, so I'll be converting the Chief to run on it.
I can't see them in the section for motorising it.
When I can sneak it past the wife again, I'll have another check and may motorise it at the same time.
Every so often, I break out a set, to make sure she doesn't get too suspicious.
I dragged the Frie Brigade set out for my birthday, nearly 2 weeks ago.
Unfortunately, I'll probably have to wait until Christmas until I can reveal the Grand Emporium. :-(
PS. She's just popped out, so I've found and fixed my mistakes in the engine build, and also stuck a motor on it.
:-)
SO if everything is selling out, then does this mean another update to the PF system? Or when people are saying 'selling out' they mean on backorder?
I too will be seeing to 9 volting this bad boy
Mercifully my GF doesn't mind, at least she has not said anything... yet.. but since she also goes up with me to fill up a PAB cup I'm not too worried, as long as I get her a set of the new series of minifigs I should be ok...
And since my Town/Train layout is fairly large the new track is sooooo much cheaper than 9v and flexi track has made life easier!