My mocs weird mechanisms alternative builds and more plus new Systech lineup Developement topic

[Auroralampinen]

Ok, out of pure curiosity since lego copied my outrigger design for the 42242. I had to test does the 42242 outriggers work on the Mechatech Logging Truck and surely enought they do work on the Mechatech Logging Truck:). 

So my theory what happened and why lego decided to copy my design. Well, i strongly think a rooky lego designer saw my moc and thought hey this compact outrigger design could work in our small unimog and i released the Mechatech Logging Truck in 2025 so i don't this was a concidence that me and the lego desinger landed on the same design. Well, it could be concidence a really really rare concidence. But i have strong suspicion that the rooky designer just went to rebrickable and saw my moc and decided to go the easy route by copying my design and slightly tinker with it and im completely fine if you copy my designs just put credits on the description and i will be really happy and i did ask lego about this but since 42242 isin't revealed they cannot help but they did say that said, I would like to reassure you that we take intellectual property and the work of our fan community very seriously. Our design process involves extensive internal development, and we do not use fan-created models or designs without going through the proper channels, permissions, and agreements. Protecting both our designers’ work and that of independent creators is something we are firmly committed to.

But i strongly feel that because the 42242 isin't revealed/released yet. I strongly think lego want's to create lazy excuses for copying my design and not to have take full responsibilty about this copying. But i will ask them when the model is revealed/relased again and we will see if they make new excuses. Because my trust for lego is completely vanished and tarnished after the launch of their new Smart Play AI+ system crap so my hopes for lego taking full responsibilty for copying my design is really really low:). 

Man i really wished that "chinese" were the only ones copying stuff but apparently danish are too liable for copying. Well, nobody is perfect but lego makes/wants you to believe so hard that they are the good guys and everyone else is the villains. Well, not anymore since lego clearly copied my design;). 

And i probably slightly excasurated the word "stolen" and i should have using the term copying i don't think lego maliciously stole my design(eventhought i think they did). But i strongly think a rooky lazy designer wanted day off from work and that’s why he decided to copy my design because its the easy route plus i do design my models with strict standards and clearly my strict standards did pay off since lego accepted my outrigger design in a offical set with slight polishing on the design:). 

Edited Tuesday at 06:54 AM by Auroralampinen

[Auroralampinen]

Hmm, the 42242 licence plate says LT which probably means Lars Thygesen. Now i have even more questions how can a senior designer land on same design of outriggers as on the Mechatech Logging Truck and i have no hate towards him. But im still baffled how this can happen that i released the Mechatech Logging Truck in 2025 december and 6 months later the 42242 releases with the same outriggers as on the Mechatech Logging Truck. How this can happen i have no clue. Yes, i know relax it's just a simple outrigger. But now i have even more questions because it is not anymore a rookie designer who just started working on lego but a senior designer. So did we both land on the same design by accident or did he just want a day off from work and copied my design because its the easy route. I lean towards possible copying. Because if this was a concidence this would be really really rare concidence that we both landed on same design without knowing each others. Hopefully i will get after 42242 release much "professionaly" written message from lego how this happened. Im really really interested and curious to hear/learn from them how this happened. Because now they just write "excuses" because the set isin't yet released or revealed. But i have to question them in summer about this:). 

Edited Tuesday at 09:43 AM by Auroralampinen

[Jundis]

Dude, in all seriousness:

This is not a copying of your design. They just found the same solution for a common problem. In your pic above you even changed the upper connector in your original design to an L-shape liftarm to make your claim...

Just be happy you found the same solution :-)

Also you seem to have copied it from Lego first (8069):

*Edit: And from my MOC from 2021: 

 

Edited Tuesday at 10:31 AM by Jundis

[Auroralampinen]

2 minutes ago, Jundis said:

Dude, in all seriousness:

This is not a copying of your design. They just found the same solution for a common problem. In your pic above you even changed the upper connector in your original design to an L-shape liftarm to make your claim...

Just be happy you found the same solution :-)

Also you seem to have copied it from Lego first (8069):

*Edit: And from my MOC from 2021: 

 

Yeah im really happy and curious how we both landed on same design. So i will now trying stop talking about this:). 

 

[Auroralampinen]

Well, i probably was a little bit harsh with my wordings, about the outrigger situation and im truely sorry for that:(. 

And yes, im really happy to see similar solution as on the Mechatech Logging Truck in a offical set:).

On the other notes this year marks as my second year on eurobricks plus creating good mocs with premium free instructions. Im really happy how my 2 years has gone eventhought i have still a lot of learning to do but i have made a lot of progress in these years:). 

About my pantasy praise. Well, im sorry for praising pantasy on wrong forums i had again little bit hard spring time mentaly but im now slowly recovering from that and i try my best to not talk about pantasy on 2026 technic forum:).

But how has my 2 years gone statics vice. Well, i have gained total of 62 followers on rebrickable and my most popular youtube video is the 42203 better version with 8.6k views wow. 

And yes, im still a newbie to create good mocs and my mocs will not look as good what the more senior moc designers will create and im ok with my limited skills and i do csre about my works eventhought i might be a noob for many im still really passionate about my works and i don't want to compete with senior moc designers and i like to follow my own paths and create stuff which i enjoy to make and create. Eventhought this stragety might get you a lot less views and less reconition:). 

Lately since im really impressed and enjoyed building pantasy models with nice system excteriors with insane technic inner workings inside. I have had a few thoughts that what if i switch to system technic hybrid building. Yes, i have really limited skills for buying system bricks and stuff so the switch to hybrid system would be insanely difficult. But system technic hybrid buiding would maybe allow more detailed builds and little bit more flexibility for me. So im concidering really hard to switching hybrid building style because i like creating technic functions. But everything else around the functions is a pain for me to create and build. With system pieces the detailing department would go thru the roof. So maybe in the future i will switch to hybrid building. But currently it is a massive hassle for me but to be honest the end result would be better:). 

And summer is only 2 months away and i will go in july a rental summer cottage for a week with my trusted pelago bicycle and maybe i will brought there the new unimog to build and played with. Because that would be really nice to be in a summer cottage and enjoy build technic builds offline inside the cool cabin in a hot july day:). 

But 30.4.26 i will go cycling a long trip i have planned to ride a 89km trip and im now really excited for that trip plus the cycling trip to summer cottage for week:).

But this was the april monthly update and i wish you to have nice first of may(vappu in finnish) :).

[Auroralampinen]

18 hours ago, Auroralampinen said:

Lately since im really impressed and enjoyed building pantasy models with nice system excteriors with insane technic inner workings inside. I have had a few thoughts that what if i switch to system technic hybrid building. Yes, i have really limited skills for buying system bricks and stuff so the switch to hybrid system would be insanely difficult. But system technic hybrid buiding would maybe allow more detailed builds and little bit more flexibility for me. So im concidering really hard to switching hybrid building style because i like creating technic functions. But everything else around the functions is a pain for me to create and build. With system pieces the detailing department would go thru the roof. So maybe in the future i will switch to hybrid building. But currently it is a massive hassle for me but to be honest the end result would be better:). 

In case you are curious about my moc design origings. Here it is:). 

I borned in 2004 and i started to play with lego very young i had few atlantis sets plus others. My father was technic builder he had build multiple old technic sets when he was a kid in the 90s. So he introduced me to technic world and i originaly in my child hood years builded with technic with studs system. I did put power functions motors and linear actuators to my technic builds which were system based using technic bricks. My first technic set was the 8041. Which i got around when it released in 2010 i was around 5-6 years old at that time and i remember it was slightly difficult to build because i was system technic builder. But i quickly learned the studless technic system and in 2010 christmas i got the 8043 i did build the 8043 when i was 6 years old and i idid made a few building mistakes next year's christmas i got the 8110 when i was 7 years old. So i started building pretty young. But i in 2010-2013 i did build my prehistoric mocs with system technic. Until my dad decided that i should move to complete studless system and i did move to studless system because of that and after that i have builded studless. But because my origins i have to started to heeavily to go back to my origins roots(hybrid technic building) with modern pieces. But there is one issue i know what pieces i need when i build studless technic models. So the hybrid system has one issue because i dont have any experience with modern system moc creations so the what pieces i need are for me pretty unreached territory. But i do have a clear vision/idea on my head if i switch to hybrid system. Because i like insane building techniques. You will see them some times on my technic builds and im really creative with my builder solutions. So if i switch to system technic hybrid building i would get freedom for creating more insane connections and i have plans that if i move to hybrid i will start making a lot of mindbending building solutions just like what mike is doing in lego:).

And yes, I know this process to switch to hybrid system will take a lot of time and thinking. But im ready to study and teach my self for crazy building techniques in system builds. So going forward i will now start making pre procedures for the inevitable switch to system technic hybrid building. So maybe in near future or in 2030 my builds will be system technic hybrid. This is my current vision how to move forward with my moc building spree and since i like to evolve a lot this will be a massive step/move forwards:). 

[Auroralampinen]

1 hour ago, Auroralampinen said:

But there is one issue i know what pieces i need when i build studless technic models. So the hybrid system has one issue because i dont have any experience with modern system moc creations so the what pieces i need are for me pretty unreached territory:).

 

So my roadmad for future is make this system technic hybrid building a reality i do dream about it. Eventhought the switch will be kind of hard and you can say pleace build digitaly that would make life easier. Well, for me it wont make my life easier i have always builded models in real life. I don't like building digitaly first. So the digital approach isin't possible:).

But i have a lot of ideas for my future moc building career when i will switch to hybrid building:). 

But don't worry this switch wont affect funcionality of my builds. I will still make functional models i just switch to using both systems in harmony in my builds. But i will now start my switching process by bying a few system pieces, clips, ball joints plus others that i will, start to learn system sculpting and creating. This is gonna be a long road ahead for me. But i promise end result will be good but now i will spend my time learning system based building and building tricks and solutions and since i already like building with crazy techniques in some of my mocs this switch will give me more flexibility and freedom to create more crazy connections:). 

And yes, i do have a few concerns about the weight. Because system based big builds are notoriously heavy. So i have to make sure my future models will not turn into a gym exercise equipment;). 

Edited Saturday at 05:14 AM by Auroralampinen

[2GodBDGlory]

I do like to see Technic and System merged, so that sounds like a cool approach to take for the future!

[Auroralampinen]

1 hour ago, 2GodBDGlory said:

I do like to see Technic and System merged, so that sounds like a cool approach to take for the future!

Yeah, but you should not expect any miracles overnight this process will take a lot of time, effort, hoarding a ton of system elements/pieces plus a TON of hard earned cash from my pocket because i still refuse to make my instructions behind paywall:). 

So my plan is to first incorporate more system building on my technic models, then i will start make more system based models with technic functions. This sounds simple but it isin't this will take a lot of time. Because i have to study using system bricks and i tryed to use studio today for testing system building but it didn't click/work to me. So i have to order a ton of system elements and i will start long learning road (to h*ll;)) towards the system based building. Yes im really primitive/dinosaur because i cannot build models first digitaly:). 

But i will not ditch studless building it will continue after transition. But i will start to make more system builds with technic. Because i fell in love with pantasy system builds with complex technic functions inside and because lego doesn't do a lot of system builds with a lot of cool technic functions. So this area is kind of gray area. So my plan is to create more system builds with a lot of technic functions. Kind of same as seen in the technic prehistoric days(1977 etc... Before switching to studless). But with modern building solutions and with much better instructions;).

So my future model lineups:). 

Mechatech/Airtech. All of my mechanicaly/pneumaticaly complex models mainly studless but in future increase of system elements and details for looks:). 

Rusty riders. My car models with "boring" features in future more system elements and details. Still dead btw. Because i have made so far only Mechatech models:). 

Soapbox Collection. My small scale technic builds with complex features in future more system elements and details:). 

NEW Lineup Systech. All of my future system based models with complex technic functions inside:). 

And my main goal with systech lineup is mainly reach. Because many peoples have beef with technic like it's way too complicated. Or hurts fingers:). So systech will be mainly rebirth of old 90s technic stuff with modern looks, functions, pieces, building experience. But also other stuff like windmills etc... Anything with cool functions. Plus fantasy vehicles and city style small builds with technic features. I try my best that Systech will reach to the masses and i try to fine tune all painpoints of modern technic. I know this is a loooong process research and developement project and if i find this to bee too bold i might scrap Systech. But so far i have a lot of ideas for Systech. Like bringing back old steering system designs from 70s;). Systech isin't minifigure scale mainly some builds might be but majority will not be and Systech will not launch anytime soon i have to do a lot of test building, fine tuning, developent, buying system pieces, etc... But i make a slightly nervous promise the end result will be good. But to get there will need a lot of engineering. If you are curious, Systech will use pneumatics, linear actuators, prehistoric 70s gear rack functions, prehistoric 70s brick build steering systems. Plus others. I have a lot of plans and visions so i have to maybe buy office meeting room idea paper stand and few markes to draw ideas. But i will try make my best with the first model of Systech lineup:). Yes, im too really nervous will the Systech see the light of day or is it gonna end up the graveyard of failed projects. I really hope it wont go to there and it will see the light of day and bridge the gap between modern technic builds and modern system builds. I know i have a lot of work ahead but im ready. I just need a lot of time and thinking process and hopefully i wont burnout my self again with too big/massive project:). 

Sorry for aton of text. Im truely excited for future of my builds and career:). 

[Auroralampinen]

Allright now im going somewhere for my Systech vision/idea/concept:). 

Yes, Systech will not use that many technic pieces and it will stick to mainly brick build technic connections plus other crazy building solutions. So Systech will be really easy and enjoyable to build for those who want to enjoy technic functions but don't enjoy building technic. So Systech will focus on brick build functions without using that many technic pieces so everyone can enjoy the technic functions experience without the painfull modern technic building experience and i have to start looking and taking notes from speed champions models for inspiration to getting the chassis rock solid without too many technic bits:). 

And yes, i know the Systech will maybe gain the nickname 4+ technic because of the simplicity of building experience. But to be honest im happy that more peoples can enjoy technic functions without the pain of building studless technic:). 

Edited Saturday at 05:27 PM by Auroralampinen

[Auroralampinen]

Ok, day 2 of developing Systech lineup:). 

I have now created a bunch of steering system concepts and dump bed actuator linkage concepts:). 

So far the development is slow. But i do have many cool ideas on my head for system based mechanisms. Because in the Systech lineup everything and every moving piece is pretty much made with system elements and i do have to take notes from offical lego builds about building techniques and other stuff:). 

So my vision for Systech lineup is that it will be in middle of City vehicles and pure technic. The Systech lineup is mechanicaly more advanced than city stuff. But unlike technic in Systech land every moving function has been made with system elements with few technic bits. So Systech will be more aproachable to casual peoples than pure technic with same functionality and my main focus with Systech is getting the kids learned how different linkages or mechanisms work and building process has to be "simpler" for more younger audience than regular technic. So Systech lineup is kind of like modernized version of the studded era of technic in the 70-80s just living in it's own world and theming. So the Systech lineup is currently my true passion project and i hope Systech lineup does see the light of day in the future. But until then i have a lot of work and studying to do. Like for example how to incorporate functions by only using system elements. But i will make few excemptions. The more higher age rated Systech models will include more technic bits and pneumatics and linear actuators. So Systech will work as a middle lever before moving to full technic kind of like the modern 4+ lineup just beefed up for slightly older demographic which allready knows how to build city and other themes:).