>>9331832>They don't look like Lego anymore. Like, at all.They look like Lego to me. A bit more higher end on the MOC spectrum than most builds, but still very much Lego despite what you think. And this would apply to any sort of MOC that had this level of detail put into them, not just trains. I just rolled with them because that's where my interest in Lego primarily lies but that level of MOCing exists in Castle, Pirates, Space, and so on.
>Your trains have no soul.There's that word again.
>>9331835See now this I can understand. I get what you're trying to say that it's bland because it's realistic, but the "greater creative vision" is trying to get that realism down using just Lego pieces, and that's where the challenge/fun comes for these types of builds.
On the subject of the Ghost Train, I get why you post that as an example of something that's not "boring and uninspired", but the Ghost Train isn't trying to be a Train set. It's first and foremost a playset that happens to have a train in it (same thing applies to the Hidden Side train too). And that's perfectly okay. You can have fantasy trains with silly gimmicks like flapping wings or a chomping mouth on them coexist alongside realistic trains that are based on a prototype model. Remember, the Ghost Train was being sold alongside the Maersk train and the Horizon Express.
