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[Ngoc Nguyen]

Hi everyone, this is a chance to make history from RacingBrick 

 

[Bartybum]

18 hours ago, Ngoc Nguyen said:

Hi everyone, this is a chance to make history from RacingBrick 

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I guess it's a neat build. But like... it's just a car. That's it. Sure it's got a couple of bells and whistles, but like... meh? We already get too many cars in Technic, why would we want them elsewhere? There's nothing spiritually creative about it.

I think that the only way for the Bricklink Designer Program to yield a Technic set as a winner is to have something that's thematically captivating with some mass appeal. Kinetic sculptures, a GBC, clockwork devices, moving animal sculptures (SO many you could do), a steampunk vehicle, a loom, you name it. Look at someone like Alexandre Rossier's YouTube channel, or some of Nico71's non-vehicle builds. Remember the Sisyphus MOC, or anything else made by JK Brickworks? I think those are potentially winning ideas, not a car.

Technic has the disadvantage of being a physically larger medium than System. Because of this it doesn't lend itself towards detail, so for the same size a Technic set just tends to be ugly, so it needs to be tarted up a little with system pieces to make itself visually interesting. But once it comes together it REALLY comes together.

Below are some Technic build concepts (some of the aesthetics could be improved) that I think could have a better chance. Noting that the pneumatic ones (assuming pneumatics aren't allowed) would need a different power source, like a pullback motor or hand crank. In my mind that pendulum clock has what it needs to be a Technic BDP winner:

Edited 2 hours ago by Bartybum

[howitzer]

33 minutes ago, Bartybum said:

I guess it's a neat build. But like... it's just a car. That's it. Sure it's got a couple of bells and whistles, but like... meh? We already get too many cars in Technic, why would we want them elsewhere? There's nothing spiritually creative about it.

I think that the only way for the Bricklink Designer Program to yield a Technic set as a winner is to have something that's thematically captivating with some mass appeal. Kinetic sculptures, a GBC, clockwork devices, moving animal sculptures (SO many you could do), a steampunk vehicle, a loom, you name it. Look at someone like Alexandre Rossier's YouTube channel, or some of Nico71's non-vehicle builds. Remember the Sisyphus MOC, or anything else made by JK Brickworks? I think those are potentially winning ideas, not a car.

Technic has the disadvantage of being a physically larger medium than System. Because of this it doesn't lend itself towards detail, so for the same size a Technic set just tends to be ugly, so it needs to be tarted up a little with system pieces to make itself visually interesting. But once it comes together it REALLY comes together.

Below are some Technic build concepts (some of the aesthetics could be improved) that I think could have a better chance. Noting that the pneumatic ones (assuming pneumatics aren't allowed) would need a different power source, like a pullback motor or hand crank. In my mind that pendulum clock has what it needs to be a Technic BDP winner:

As was said in Racingbrick's video, it's car precisely because cars have mass appeal. Yes we get too many cars in Technic but this one breaks the pattern in that it's non-licensed and packed with functions so it should be far more interesting to Technic fans than whatever you can find in official sets.

I would also get a kinetic sculpture, GBC or clockwork any day over another car, but let's face it: there's nowhere near as much market for those as there is for cars.

As for the model itself, the functions seem great and the design is nice but I don't like the colour scheme. Somehow the white doesn't sit well at all in the model, perhaps it should be either completely red and black or perhaps the white should be replaced with some other colour. I guess this is a matter of taste and I'm still going to vote for it, just for the sake of being Technic, but if I were to ever build it, I'd try something else in the place of those white parts.