2026 Technic Sets Discussion

[2GodBDGlory]

1 hour ago, Zerobricks said:

Square cube law says no. Going from 1:8 to 1:6 means models are some 2,5x heavier and you start to experience issues with supporting such weights.

I was pretty skeptical too. I've designed a 1:7 supercar using Unimog tires, and as you say, a seemingly small scale difference ended up with a far larger model!

I looked up 1:6 cars from that Taigaole brand @Satisfied mentioned, and found models of a Porsche 911, Mclaren W1, and Lamborghini Revuelto. After calculating scale for those cars, they came out as 1:6.8, 1:6.3, and 1:7.3, respectively. So they definitely seem to be exaggerating the scale, but at least in the W1's case, not by as much as I expected. (Though it could be their listed dimensions are wrong, the real-car dimensions I looked up are wrong, or the proportions are off in a way that maximizes length?) At any rate, those truly are massive, and it's interesting to see commercial takes on at least 1:7 supercars

[Satisfied]

20 minutes ago, 2GodBDGlory said:

I was pretty skeptical too. I've designed a 1:7 supercar using Unimog tires, and as you say, a seemingly small scale difference ended up with a far larger model!

I looked up 1:6 cars from that Taigaole brand @Satisfied mentioned, and found models of a Porsche 911, Mclaren W1, and Lamborghini Revuelto. After calculating scale for those cars, they came out as 1:6.8, 1:6.3, and 1:7.3, respectively. So they definitely seem to be exaggerating the scale, but at least in the W1's case, not by as much as I expected. (Though it could be their listed dimensions are wrong, the real-car dimensions I looked up are wrong, or the proportions are off in a way that maximizes length?) At any rate, those truly are massive, and it's interesting to see commercial takes on at least 1:7 supercars

Absolutely! You’ve definitely found the three sports cars from that brand. They claim to be 1:6 scale—admittedly the scale isn’t perfectly accurate—but they’re way bigger than 1:8 models, reaching about 68 cm in length. The only pity is they’re just shell cars with no gearbox; they’re only designed to add motors for remote control. They do come with larger sports car tires, though.

[Auroralampinen]

10 minutes ago, Satisfied said:

 The only pity is they’re just shell cars with no gearbox; they’re only designed to add motors for remote control. They do come with larger sports car tires, though.

Who the h*ll puts motors into that massive heavy monstrossity. Like how you can drive that indoors and if you go outside, pieces gets losted all the time:/. 

[Auroralampinen]

The new hail mary lego set has even more gears and technic than i thought :). 

Edited Saturday at 05:05 PM by Auroralampinen

[AVCampos]

1 hour ago, Auroralampinen said:

Who the h*ll puts motors into that massive heavy monstrossity. Like how you can drive that indoors and if you go outside, pieces gets losted all the time:/. 

Well, it's probably not as heavy, but 8448 did come with instructions for motorisation with a single 9V motor (twin motors optional), and even autonomous driving with an RCX.

[Auroralampinen]

13 minutes ago, AVCampos said:

Well, it's probably not as heavy, but 8448 did come with instructions for motorisation with a single 9V motor (twin motors optional), and even autonomous driving with an RCX.

Oh the Autonomous driving sounds really cool for 90s model. I didn't know the super street sensation can do that :). 

Interesting that it tooked nearly 30 years to make it work in real life. And the results are kind of mixed. Luckily in finland we don't have that much Autonomous vehicles. In tampere one nysse(tampere bus/public transit system name) bus route is drived by Autonomous bus and the trip is about 10km both directions or 5km one direction:).

Edited Saturday at 05:52 PM by Auroralampinen

[AVCampos]

Actually, the implementation of autonomy on 8448 is a pair of bumper sensors that let it know if it hit something on the left or right side, so I have a slight feeling that it wouldn't be quite well accepted in real life. 

[Auroralampinen]

7 minutes ago, AVCampos said:

Actually, the implementation of autonomy on 8448 is a pair of bumper sensors that let it know if it hit something on the left or right side, so I have a slight feeling that it wouldn't be quite well accepted in real life. 

Oh, thats more primitive than i thought or imagined. But hey good for 90s and probably really advanced for 90s tech. So i wont judge the slightly primitive system by todays standards:). 

Edited Saturday at 06:06 PM by Auroralampinen

[2GodBDGlory]

57 minutes ago, AVCampos said:

Well, it's probably not as heavy, but 8448 did come with instructions for motorisation with a single 9V motor (twin motors optional), and even autonomous driving with an RCX.

It was pretty cool that you could do that! I believe there was also the possibility for remote control with the right Mindstorms accessories?

[AVCampos]

Yes, the RCX can be controlled via this IR remote: https://rebrickable.com/parts/upn0200/control-unit-rcx-remote/

... and the topic has now officially deralied from 2026 to 1999. 😅

[Satisfied]

12 hours ago, Auroralampinen said:

Who the h*ll puts motors into that massive heavy monstrossity. Like how you can drive that indoors and if you go outside, pieces gets losted all the time:/. 

Brands of building blocks here love making these shell cars for their 1:8 scale sports models—they remove the gearbox and stuff them with various motors for remote control, and surprisingly, they actually run pretty fast.

[2GodBDGlory]

13 hours ago, Satisfied said:

Brands of building blocks here love making these shell cars for their 1:8 scale sports models—they remove the gearbox and stuff them with various motors for remote control, and surprisingly, they actually run pretty fast.

Yeah, weight definitely hurts speed, but not as much as a gearbox does, in my opinion