If I recall correctly the Lego company produces a certain amount of bricks each year of different colors. The reason for the different colors is to use up the stock of previously made bricks. Having sets in just a single color would be expensive by having to switch the molds to different colors more frequently. So instead of that they use the parts they have on hand, colored for the interiors and the exposed parts in the correct color
Almost - it's to ensure that loading on consumption of coloured prillstock for making future parts, remains balanced, to prevent some colours becoming more expensive to make per unit.
I believe the colorful pieces are there so it's a bit easier distinguishing between the different bricks, especially if they are spread out; and to see them in instructions.
That would be a very sensible design guideline. But it's not it. The coloured pieces are introduced to balance future inventory and prevent certain future colours not becoming more expensive to mould because demand was allowed to peak and trough, especially given the very wide range of volours that now exist
I never saw it firsthand, but a friend of mine who used to work in Long Beach once told me that the QM's whistle is so loud, it sets off car alarms in parking lots all aroumd the area whenever they sound it. :)
As a kid growing up in LA back in the 60's my parents would often take me on the old SS Catalina steamer over to the Island "26 miles across the sea Santa Catalina is wait'n for me" she'd groan and creek all the way, often blasting her fog horn as we crept through the ever present fog and haze that hung right off the Long Beach coast. I'd explore her stem to stern, her stair cases leading down below deck to the open sides and hanging lifeboats or her bow cleaving through the waves where I'd watch the flying fish leap from the water. My mom would show me the old dance floor where she had danced to swing bands when she and my Aunts and their friends would get a break from school in the 1940's and sail over to spend a weekend dancing at the lovely old art deco Avalon ballroom "High atop Avalon Harbor" My Grandmother had photos of she and her Sisters aboard the Catalina and the Avalon taken sometime in the twenties and thirties, flapper dresses and pulled down cloche hats and fur stoles. Elaborately decorated silk stockings and silk shoes with lots of little straps and buttons showed off their shapely legs as they posed around the ship on the steps leading down from the bridge to the bow and as they leaned against the funnel...I remember buying a wonderful small model of the Catalina from her gift shop which was a prized possession of mine for many years. So many great memories of those steamers and the island for both myself and my family for generation after generation. Just by chance, I sail out of Long Beach once more in a couple weeks on my way to Catalina and then off to Mexico, I'm looking forward to it, but it will never be the same. maybe if I try hard I can imagine the band, lining up to greet us on the dock once more, playing "I left my love in Avalon" and my family and I tossing coins to the kids laughing and diving into Avalon Harbor retrieving them as they sparkled and tumbled through the crystal clear waters of Avalon Harbor 26 miles across the sea...
I’ve been to Avalon & Catalina, I have a few pictures of the Catalina, it’s quite a beautiful town, ship & dance/casino. They old airline is quite interesting, my grandparents said they flew on it, they also said that the back door flew open. Hmm… But note they used quite old aircraft if the time I think. But take it with a grain of salt
I have fond memories of taking the SS Catalina to Avalon in the late 50's and the young boys diving for coins. To a child's eyes it seemed like a very exotic destination. Anyone else remember the talking Mynah bird attraction? How very exciting those infrequent 'luxury' vacations were for a kid living in Boyle Heights.
@@WitchKing-Of-Angmar pool area of the world part of the day tour guide Legends ghost tour guide new year reel life ture life movie all day away magic of the world part time past flash back to look like she feels like almost top of the same place looks like Tim burton movies same place looks like James wan
Oh how I love your photos of the ships in Halifax Harbor. My Grandfather's family was from Dartmouth across the bay. I love the city of Halifax. It's my favorite city along with Portsmouth, New Hampshire. I miss going there! Thank you!
I visited the Queen Mary for the first time last December, was well worth it. She was and is quite beautiful, although I do hope she is repaired some time in the future.
I hope you do a video building of the big official Titanic set Also hope the Queen Mary reopens soon, staying on board is definitely on the bucket list
Hi Tom, will you do a deep dive video on the SS Catalina? I first saw it in Ensenada harbor half sunk during a cruise into the harbor in the 1990s and have since collected books and models of it. I think it is a beautiful ship.
I always thought the random colored pieces was a way to give people a larger inventory of colored pieces. Orange and light green aren't very common in a ton of sets that I've seen or owned
15:49 I actually have a letter from the Queen Mary. It waa written 2 weeks before the ship retired, the passenger who wrote it explained they were coming back from the Grand Canaria Islands. Its really interesting. I found it at a car boot sale a few months ago
In the last video you said we could make suggestions on what we want in new Histobrick kits, I was just wondering, could he make an RMS Olympic, with the OG paint colors. Also could he do a Mauritania kit.
Rms Olympic 2, Ms titanic 2, Ms Britannic 4, and Ms Oceanic 3! Sadly, Queen mary has been bought out by disney and converted into an art-deco promenade in Long Beach and Nomadic has become the name of yet another tender, carrying passengers from certain shallow ports to Rms Olympic 2.
We have almost everything that we plan to include of the interior finished and most of the exterior. Right now, we are importing and polishing. I don’t want to release on THG’s toes, so I’m waiting to see what they’re doing before we commit to a release time. Follow HFX studios on Facebook; we post updates there more regularly, but an update video will be here as well.
I wish Histobricks do Trains and planes, old abandoned ghost towns, did the older tv show sets with the base to put the houses and buildings on like Happy Days, Lavern and Shirley, Mork and Mindy, The Waltons, Little House on the Prairie, The Andy Griffin show, Petticoat Junction, The Beverly Hillbillies, Green Acres, Hallmark Movies, Hunter, All NCIS TV Shows, FBI’s, All Law and Order TV Shows, Fire Country, Seal Team these are only examples of what I could think of from previous TV shows to everyday TV shows if they would consider doing something like these in the future?
It's interesting how the paint scheme she's had evolved over the years (though it's hard to find colour photos of her from before her hotel conversion) It seems that her sailing colours alternated between darker and brighter oranges, though rarely an outright red.
I think to let people know these are inside bricks, often these aren't seen unless lego themselves mess up and make an error wich every other lego style brick maker fixes on their sets..
They’ve done one already of her in her dazzle camo. It was in the first video I made of these kits, I think. Or do you mean you want to see her civilian colors?
@@PartTimeExplorer I would love to see her in her civil colours also I looked on their website and I only seen HMHS Britannic and RMS Titanic but I did see any Olympic
I've just never been able to get my head round lego models of historic liners. They always look as if a child has just built them (which is fine if you are a child) but not something I'd ever have on display. I'd rather see traditional models that are historically accurate.
Yeah, I’m not paying almost $500 for a model that small when I can go and buy the official Lego Titanic that’s like 10 times bigger and has a full interior for around $100 more. I’m sorry but these are way overpriced for what you get.
looks amazing, Tom! 👍 on an unrelated note, there’s a very interesting shipwreck that i know of down near Panama City Beach. it also has significance to the town of Carrabelle, which has great sentimental value to my family. the ship’s called the S.S. “Tarpon”, and it was a small passenger steamer (similar to the S.S. Keewatin). The wreck’s still there, as a diving site. have you perhaps heard of it before, or considered it for a video?
Next up on Part Time explorer: Tom travels to Jarrow and builds an Olympic replica at the breaker's yard.
Lol, if only...
_Warspite_ on the rocks off Cornwall. Hurry up, Tom, the tide's coming in...
In dazzle camo circa 1918.
If I recall correctly the Lego company produces a certain amount of bricks each year of different colors. The reason for the different colors is to use up the stock of previously made bricks. Having sets in just a single color would be expensive by having to switch the molds to different colors more frequently. So instead of that they use the parts they have on hand, colored for the interiors and the exposed parts in the correct color
Almost - it's to ensure that loading on consumption of coloured prillstock for making future parts, remains balanced, to prevent some colours becoming more expensive to make per unit.
Also some parts are cheaper
I believe the colorful pieces are there so it's a bit easier distinguishing between the different bricks, especially if they are spread out; and to see them in instructions.
Ah, that makes sense- and it definitely worked
Or it's because those pieces are cheaper then the correct color ones
They think we're stupid and can't handle all the bricks of the same color🙄
That would be a very sensible design guideline. But it's not it. The coloured pieces are introduced to balance future inventory and prevent certain future colours not becoming more expensive to mould because demand was allowed to peak and trough, especially given the very wide range of volours that now exist
I never saw it firsthand, but a friend of mine who used to work in Long Beach once told me that the QM's whistle is so loud, it sets off car alarms in parking lots all aroumd the area whenever they sound it. :)
As a kid growing up in LA back in the 60's my parents would often take me on the old SS Catalina steamer over to the Island "26 miles across the sea Santa Catalina is wait'n for me" she'd groan and creek all the way, often blasting her fog horn as we crept through the ever present fog and haze that hung right off the Long Beach coast. I'd explore her stem to stern, her stair cases leading down below deck to the open sides and hanging lifeboats or her bow cleaving through the waves where I'd watch the flying fish leap from the water. My mom would show me the old dance floor where she had danced to swing bands when she and my Aunts and their friends would get a break from school in the 1940's and sail over to spend a weekend dancing at the lovely old art deco Avalon ballroom "High atop Avalon Harbor" My Grandmother had photos of she and her Sisters aboard the Catalina and the Avalon taken sometime in the twenties and thirties, flapper dresses and pulled down cloche hats and fur stoles. Elaborately decorated silk stockings and silk shoes with lots of little straps and buttons showed off their shapely legs as they posed around the ship on the steps leading down from the bridge to the bow and as they leaned against the funnel...I remember buying a wonderful small model of the Catalina from her gift shop which was a prized possession of mine for many years. So many great memories of those steamers and the island for both myself and my family for generation after generation. Just by chance, I sail out of Long Beach once more in a couple weeks on my way to Catalina and then off to Mexico, I'm looking forward to it, but it will never be the same. maybe if I try hard I can imagine the band, lining up to greet us on the dock once more, playing "I left my love in Avalon" and my family and I tossing coins to the kids laughing and diving into Avalon Harbor retrieving them as they sparkled and tumbled through the crystal clear waters of Avalon Harbor 26 miles across the sea...
Tom is a man of class. A truly refined gentleman.
I almost spit my tea "the disappearing stache". 🤣 these builds are a great wind down from the day . Happy holidays from 02780
Thanks for taking the time to show us this in detail, and in such a pleasant setting. A very Merry Christmas to you and your kin.
Just ordered the QM "Grey Ghost" I'm planning to share these kits with my 5 year old and use them to teach him their history.
Excellent video! I really enjoyed watching you to build those two ships. You did a good job ;)
I’ve been to Avalon & Catalina, I have a few pictures of the Catalina, it’s quite a beautiful town, ship & dance/casino.
They old airline is quite interesting, my grandparents said they flew on it, they also said that the back door flew open. Hmm…
But note they used quite old aircraft if the time I think.
But take it with a grain of salt
Will you buy HMS Grey Ghost? Its new at Histobrick :)
I have fond memories of taking the SS Catalina to Avalon in the late 50's and the young boys diving for coins. To a child's eyes it seemed like a very exotic destination. Anyone else remember the talking Mynah bird attraction? How very exciting those infrequent 'luxury' vacations were for a kid living in Boyle Heights.
Of course, I had also taken a tour in 1937 of the SS Normandy herself. Absolutely incredible beyond anything, sic transit gloria mundi.
@@WitchKing-Of-Angmar pool area of the world part of the day tour guide Legends ghost tour guide new year reel life ture life movie all day away magic of the world part time past flash back to look like she feels like almost top of the same place looks like Tim burton movies same place looks like James wan
@@WitchKing-Of-Angmar in line life story made into making movie made in Ture life story made movie
This is awesome! I'm an avid RMS Queen Mary historian and have spent many days and nights aboard. 🚢⚓
Oh how I love your photos of the ships in Halifax Harbor. My Grandfather's family was from Dartmouth across the bay. I love the city of Halifax. It's my favorite city along with Portsmouth, New Hampshire. I miss going there! Thank you!
Love your videos, your knowledge and your candor. Very fun to watch.
Thank you very much!
Tell histobrick to make a R.M.S. Queen Elizabeth to go along with Queen Mary
I would love to see their Great Eastern set
The USS Enterprise CV-6 also had the nickname “Grey Ghost” due to the Japanese announcing that she had been sunk during battle on three occasions.
I've benn waiting for this ages thank you
First of all Also both sets looks fantastic, and When you were building the bow of the queen Mary was that we’ll meet again by Vera Lynn playing?
Gosh it’s a long time since I watch your vids when I was 8 I loved yours vids but now I still love em❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤
You rock that stache my good sir. Great video as usual! :D
So clam music and cool sets
I visited the Queen Mary for the first time last December, was well worth it. She was and is quite beautiful, although I do hope she is repaired some time in the future.
did u sleep in the haunted room?
@@randomrazr The property wasn't open :(. We did go onto it, near the pear, and took some pictures.
@@historyarmyproductions could u break in?
@@randomrazr There was a guy with a bullhorn yelling at us to leave lmao
@@randomrazr Ahh, I see your of the CRIMINAL persuasion as so many of you young uns these days.
Wow these ships 🚢 are really big and it takes time to build these ships 🛳
I hope you do a video building of the big official Titanic set
Also hope the Queen Mary reopens soon, staying on board is definitely on the bucket list
Would you do the lego titanic? Id love to see what you think of the model accuracy
Hi Tom, will you do a deep dive video on the SS Catalina? I first saw it in Ensenada harbor half sunk during a cruise into the harbor in the 1990s and have since collected books and models of it. I think it is a beautiful ship.
I would love to. I have material on it
@@PartTimeExplorer Wonderful! Looking forward to it.
by the time we get to the 1/1000 scale video, the thumbnail will be an unreadable ironic whirlpool
Hi Tom I was wondering did you plan to review the RMS Mauritania kit from HistoBrick?
I gotta say the orange funnels on Queen Mary look more White Star than Cunard in my opinion. And yes I know the two merged in her construction.
Thanks
I would love to visit the queen Mary one day such a beautiful ship.
The reason for the different colors on the interior is that Lego has leftover parts of that color so they use they in areas hidden from view
I always thought the random colored pieces was a way to give people a larger inventory of colored pieces. Orange and light green aren't very common in a ton of sets that I've seen or owned
15:49 I actually have a letter from the Queen Mary. It waa written 2 weeks before the ship retired, the passenger who wrote it explained they were coming back from the Grand Canaria Islands. Its really interesting. I found it at a car boot sale a few months ago
Love this series !
When I tried to get it just now, it was still Sold Out!!!
If I had the money to do so, I would purchase two Queen Mary sets.
The second set would be renamed to SS Poseidon, from The Poseidon Adventure.
And displayed upside down?
In the last video you said we could make suggestions on what we want in new Histobrick kits, I was just wondering, could he make an RMS Olympic, with the OG paint colors. Also could he do a Mauritania kit.
It looks beautiful. It is expensive but it is worth it.
The different colours is to help u biuld to brack up section if it was all gray for e.g some may struggle to follow some steps
lets see you tackle the 9000 piece titanic ;)
Thanks!
Happy to help once more!
Wish you all the best and have a great blessed day and life! GOD bless
Thank you, once again! I hope you have a merry Christmas
@@PartTimeExplorer Your very welcome my pleasure happy to help!
Have a great blessed Christmas as well! GOD bless once more!
I just recently ordered the Queen Mary, now having to hear there's over 200 steps, looks like I'm going to need a stiff drink or two.
Plz do a video on the histobrick SS Arthur M Anderson. It'd go well with the Anderson
5:20 the thing i wonder is, what if White Star Line did become the upper hand in the merger
Rms Olympic 2, Ms titanic 2, Ms Britannic 4, and Ms Oceanic 3! Sadly, Queen mary has been bought out by disney and converted into an art-deco promenade in Long Beach and Nomadic has become the name of yet another tender, carrying passengers from certain shallow ports to Rms Olympic 2.
Next up: time travelling and building the HMS Hood on Bismarcks deck while it explodes into a million pieces in the background!
Histobrick did a black-hulled Mauretania. In 1930, the real boat had its hull repainted white.
Hey Tom.
Any update on the Lusitania experience?
We have almost everything that we plan to include of the interior finished and most of the exterior. Right now, we are importing and polishing. I don’t want to release on THG’s toes, so I’m waiting to see what they’re doing before we commit to a release time. Follow HFX studios on Facebook; we post updates there more regularly, but an update video will be here as well.
@@PartTimeExplorer Kick ass! Thanks for the info. I will fallow HFX for sure.
Hey tom lyncky when are you going to get the HMS Hood and kms Bismarck and by the way can you get lego the Carl d bradley
Will you do the official Lego Titanic?
that sounds like it was from the brick its so satisfiyng 7:17
Never heard of ss catalina until now
Did my boi just use Chaos Control?! 😂 0:53
I wish Histobricks do Trains and planes, old abandoned ghost towns, did the older tv show sets with the base to put the houses and buildings on like Happy Days, Lavern and Shirley, Mork and Mindy, The Waltons, Little House on the Prairie, The Andy Griffin show, Petticoat Junction, The Beverly Hillbillies, Green Acres, Hallmark Movies, Hunter, All NCIS TV Shows, FBI’s, All Law and Order TV Shows, Fire Country, Seal Team these are only examples of what I could think of from previous TV shows to everyday TV shows if they would consider doing something like these in the future?
I have a Real Bell From The Queen Mary
The inside are multi color so it’s easier to distinguish them in the instruction manuals and it gives builders more variety for custom build.
Full list of Cunard liners done by Histobrick:
Carpathia
Lusitania
Mauretania (with black hull)
Queen Mary
It's interesting how the paint scheme she's had evolved over the years (though it's hard to find colour photos of her from before her hotel conversion)
It seems that her sailing colours alternated between darker and brighter oranges, though rarely an outright red.
woke ness in a ship video
comminism on a capitalist video
I would like Histobrick do the Exxon Valdez
I'd buy historbrick but the prices are stupidly high
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I’m waiting for my LEGO rms queen Mary to come
I hope they do queen elizabeth ( the original one ) and maybe titanic 2 if they can
How many pieces is the queen Mary?
1138 pieces
@@PartTimeExplorer Thank you so much
can you build the ss nomadic?
YEEEEEEEEEEEES
YEAHHHHHH
why do people say stern to stern?
it’s “stem to stern”.
stem referring to the very tip of the bow.
@@DerpyPossum ah thank u
I sought that you could build model out of “Lego”with over 1000 pieces and have it be only 19 inches long.
I got the last Carl d Bradley from them
i would do both colors for the funles
I think to let people know these are inside bricks, often these aren't seen unless lego themselves mess up and make an error wich every other lego style brick maker fixes on their sets..
They fill the insides with multi colored pieces because those colors are cheaper.
I believe that the Queen Mary even has a Theater onboard but I just guess
yeah but its derelict
When are historbrick going to do olympic?
They’ve done one already of her in her dazzle camo. It was in the first video I made of these kits, I think. Or do you mean you want to see her civilian colors?
@@PartTimeExplorer I would love to see her in her civil colours also I looked on their website and I only seen HMHS Britannic and RMS Titanic but I did see any Olympic
man, after almost 2 years it finally sold out like last week, its a shame ngl
I've just never been able to get my head round lego models of historic liners. They always look as if a child has just built them (which is fine if you are a child) but not something I'd ever have on display. I'd rather see traditional models that are historically accurate.
When you’re doing a math problem: -35:54
Why are the model SOOOO expensive?
I thought they were sold out ;-;
edit: oh wait Tom sent you but other people, it’s sold out until it’s back in stock
Also, have you seen LEGO’s Titanic? The hull is very realistic and curved...
Older ships were so much better
I SAID AREN’T YOU GONNA REPLY TO MY COMMENT ON THE QUEEN MARY!!!!!?????
I'm not sure what you want me to say - if it's out of stock, I'm sure Histobrick is going to make more eventually. Follow their pages for updates
@@PartTimeExplorer And how do I do that?
The SS Catalina wasn’t even on histoBrick!!!
The link to the SS Catalina is in the description
Yeah, I’m not paying almost $500 for a model that small when I can go and buy the official Lego Titanic that’s like 10 times bigger and has a full interior for around $100 more. I’m sorry but these are way overpriced for what you get.
HELLO!? Aren’t you gonna reply to my comment about the queen Mary?
Queen Mary Elizabeth bag Lego make with
Love your channel, but can't watch you do the Lego thing. Not unless you are to share?!?!
Just trying to help a friend's business
@@PartTimeExplorer, lol I definitely understand that. Anytime you can help a friend, you do it.
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Lol hi again
@@dnib4 indeed
Tooo pricey
0/10 kit. I don’t see the hotel ghosts anywhere!
White star was better
looks amazing, Tom! 👍
on an unrelated note, there’s a very interesting shipwreck that i know of down near Panama City Beach. it also has significance to the town of Carrabelle, which has great sentimental value to my family.
the ship’s called the S.S. “Tarpon”, and it was a small passenger steamer (similar to the S.S. Keewatin). The wreck’s still there, as a diving site.
have you perhaps heard of it before, or considered it for a video?