CP5670, on Jul 22 2008, 07:32 PM, said:
Those were excellent articles and really examined the new pieces in a lot of detail.
The new excavator seems to be inferior to the old 8851 though, since its reliance on the linear actuators limits the bucket arm to two degrees of freedom instead of three. I like the idea of the linear actuators but I think this particular model was not a good place to use them instead of pneumatics. In general, this year's set lineup doesn't particularly interest me, but many of those parts look very useful. I might get an excavator anyway just for the linear actuators and treads, and definitely want to pick up the new lights and polarity switch off Bricklink as well.
Hmm.... well i partly agree with this.
My local lego stare finnally got the new techinc sets in stock, so i picked up the new off roader, as well as the excavator. (I really wanted the tellahandler instead of the excavator, but the price was more in my budget). Anyways, i think that this was both a good choice for the new linear actuators, and a not so good place for them. After i built the model and began to play with them i quickly noticed that while the new L-A are very smooth in there operation, they are also slow. Very slow. I can eaily see this hindering the playability. Ahh heck, i does. While trying to scoop up some smaller lego parts and dump them in a box, it took a bit longer than i expected. You also get a bit tired of constantly having to turn the knob at the end. ......But, with the addtion of the new power functions set, all of those problems are taken care of. This et really should have included this stock, and not an option. I will agree that having 3 degrees of movment would have been better than two, but for only using 2 actuators, i still think they got the function of the bucket down preety good.
CP5670, on Jul 22 2008, 07:32 PM, said:
Most of the Technic threads here actually seem to attract a pretty good amount of interest. They just aren't very common. I think there are a decent number of Technic fans here; we just need to start posting more often.
BerndDasBrot, on Jul 22 2008, 07:55 PM, said:
word.
(though I am a less-poster. I even need to be motived (or motivated?) to post something.)
besides: how many "hard-core-technic-fans" are on EB?
Agreed. Although there may not be as many techinc fans as star wars, or bionicle, the topics have allways generated a good amount of interest, with good discusions to boot.
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