Adventures in Transylvania Coffin lid mechanism...

[Simon1969]

Hello all...

I am looking to make a similar coffin lid that slides off using a mechanism / technic pieces and maybe even have the vampire / Frankenstein rise up like the Adventures in Transylvania Bricklink set. 

Trouble is I am finding it really hard to do. I cant find any instructions out there for the A.I.T. set and nothing else advice wise that would work. I would settle for just getting the lid to slide off and then back on again turning a wheel or dial located out of the way. Its for a Frankensteins casttle / tower MOC I am building and the Transylvania set is incredible and has some nice ideas I am trying to borrow...

Can anyone help or advise on how to do this and what parts etc?

 

Cheers!

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Edited August 21 by Simon1969

[Oky]

I don’t have this set, but I’m pretty sure the sliding is achieved using a Technic lift arm connected to the underside of the lid in the back left corner via a frictionless pin, hence the oddly shaped cutout on the back of the coffin to fit the mechanism. Not sure how the minifigure raising is done, but there are several ways to do that. 
Hope this helps. 

[Simon1969]

 

Hello.

 

Thanks for the reply. Yes on looking at it closely I saw the cut out. Can you or anyone else show me or give me the part number of the frictionless pin and the brick or whatever it is you think is used to attach on under the lid? I thought originally it was all done through the hole in the floor of the coffin. But now I can see there is an arched set of pieces built out from the wall and the mech comes up from in there behind the lid, attaching to it as you say. Then its dragged to the right (looking from the front) and the rounded smooth technical pin follows along the slope, up and along the tiles and the drops off the side. So it can slide over this surface with ease as its being pulled to the right by an arm that hides down into the arch pieces. Very clever. It must have taken him a while to work out how to do this and then the raising of the figure. As that is all driven off the same hand turned wheel on the wall outside. 

 

I had a response from Lego saying there are no instructions published as yet and they wont be till the sets ship out in November and December. Very annoying. Like its some big secret. Do you or any others here have any more ideas or help as that was a good call on the pin.  If you can show me the pieces I need for that it would be a start as I cant find anything small enough to attach to the under side of the lid that will hold it firmly and yet has a pivot so it can move and twist as it follows the slop tiles. It also has to rise and fall as well to follow the contours of the coffin edge...

[Oky]

My guess is that the pin connects to a plate 18677. It can be any frictionless pin, but for sturdiness it can be the tan kind with the axle on one side. And yes, the lift arm is likely hidden in the fireplace. 

[Simon1969]

Thanks

 

I had two mixed bags of lego technic on order from the bay of E. Various pins and axels and arms etc. And yesterday they arrived and in one of the bags was a red plate with hole exactly as you have described. So I spent most of the afternoon trying ideas till I had a simple mech working. I modified the back of the tomb I built to have a notch in it and the a slope going up and away to the right. This part fits in and the lid stays flat, so all I did was make a large L shaped arm that is pinned to it and goes out the wall to the dial on the outside and it works pretty well. It lifts the lid a bit as it tips it over and slides off and you can move it back. Its not as sophisticated as the Adventures in Transylvania mech seems to be as it does not just slide over. But it works. So what I will do now is wait till the instructions are available at the end of the year. And then see how they did it and order those parts to modify what I have done. It will work ok for display in the mean time and I can build the rest of the stuff I want.  I have given up on trying to get the figure to raise out for now, it can wait till Nov / Dec and I can get the proper bits and guide. 

Thanks for the help!

 

 

[kelceycoe]

If you look on Youtube for a guy doing a review of the set (early copy he got) you can probably gather how it is done. Or just wait for the instructions to be released.

Honestly, after buying the set, I cancelled my order. While that is a cool function, it's not worth the $375 this set will cost after taxes (assuming it's even released here in the US given the tariffs) nor the ugly addition to my mostly Monster Fighters castle color-schemed buildings. Plus once I bought this I'd feel like I'd need to upgrade my Arkahym Asylum to have semi-matching color schemes. Plus I found the minifigures to suck especially Dracula. All that money and Lego couldn't even reuse the Dungeons and Dragons head YET we get a female vampire just fine in a lower-cost set? Dumb, dumb. Plus that "coffin" design absolutely suck and doesn't even look like a coffin. Lego done way better with the Adventurers and I digress.