2025 - Your LEGO Technic Year

[Paul B Technic]

I am keen to hear about your highlights (and lowlights) as far as LEGO Technic goes in 2025.

1 - What was your highlight? Favourite MOC you designed or something that was a win for you?

2 - Low light? Something that didn’t work out or a set that was disappointing?

3 - Your plans or goals for 2026?

 

[Jurss]

1. None

2. All mocs. From sets I bought, ferrai fkx and bronco had some interesting building techniques.

3. None. 

Sorry for pesimistic start

[SNIPE]

1.High point
There wasn't really a single set that blew me away, the 42209: Volvo L120 Electric Wheel Loader was probably the best set but it was small and I only built a replica of it. There was some nice new parts and recolors however.

2. low point

probably 42215 to be honest, I waited a long time for it, looked at blurry images and read information in EB threads etc then it has:

1 motor and 1 battery box
no motorized turntable
no motorized drill spinning
no motorized drill hammering
no motorized attachment release/attach
no LED's
no transmission
and probably stuff I've since forgotten

3. 2026 plans

My plans for 2026 are to finish some half built MODs, sets, or MOCs. Too many to mention, some are not technic.

Edited December 10, 2025 by SNIPE

[thekoRngear]

1 and 2: Buying Nissan Skyline GTR (R34) was the low light for me and at the same time the guys who selflessly helped me fix front axle rolling resistance problem here in EB

3. Due diligently watching every Technic set's reviews and decided whether to buy or not. Have plans to rebuild some of my sets i.e., the 42128 HD Tow Truck. It was built exactly 4 years ago and functions as intended till to date. Maybe rebuilding it is now a high time

[Paul B Technic]

Thanks for the replies.

I ended up starting on my own thoughts, and it got a bit out of hand ;)

 

2025 – My LEGO Technic Year in Review

 

As 2025 draws to a close, it’s the perfect time to look back at a massive year of building, modding, experimenting, and expanding what’s possible with LEGO Technic. Despite a slow start, the year turned into one of the most creative and productive periods of my Technic journey.

 

A Slow Start – But Worth It

Just like in 2024, the first few months of 2025 were quiet.

Family life, commitments, and everything else demanded my attention, so Technic projects paused for a while. But that break actually helped reset my focus, and when I returned, I came back with far more clarity and direction for what I wanted to build.

 

Quality Over Quantity

Across the whole year, I built 14 models, but this time, it wasn’t about churning out builds.

Only 4 were built as “A-models.”

The rest were C-models or full MOCs, crafted from the parts of sets I already owned.

More than ever, I found myself looking at new Technic sets not as finished products, but as platforms, raw material with potential. What they could become mattered more than what the box showed. This shift shaped everything I built in 2025.

 

Pushing the Limits of 42177

The Mercedes-Benz G 500 (42177) became the backbone of my Technic projects this year. What started as a standard set evolved into a completely re-engineered platform with interchangeable rear attachments, a redesigned tray, and a fully functional PTO system.

The rear PTO, added retrospectively, became the heart of the system and unlocked endless attachment ideas.

I designed multiple rear-mounted modules, including the G-Class Ute conversion, a new tray layout, and various snap-on functional units.

One of the highlights was the Rubbish Loader Attachment, driven by a small linear actuator via the PTO, complete with a purpose-built loading ramp to keep the load contained. A simple concept, but one that dramatically increased functionality and play value.

42177 wasn’t just a model this year, it was a platform for innovation.

 

Non-LEGO Brands – Some Hits, Some Misses

2025 also saw me explore a few non-Lego brands.

Results were mixed: some offered interesting parts or fresh building styles, while others didn’t meet the quality, clutch power, or durability I expect for Technic builds. Still, it was a worthwhile experiment that gave me a better understanding of what’s out there beyond LEGO.

 

TechBuildDB – A Huge Step Forward

Another major milestone was the development of TechBuildDB, my custom tool for managing MOCs, attachments, notes, and design logs.

What started as a basic idea evolved throughout the year into a proper web app with features like:

Record creation and editing

Photo uploads

JSON export

Indexed navigation

A cleaner UI designed specifically for Technic workflows

It’s becoming an essential tool for planning and managing my builds, and it will only get better in 2026.

 

A Shift in Design Philosophy

Somewhere along the way, I realised my whole approach to Technic had changed.

Rather than building display models, I focused on:

Designing platforms

Creating attachment ecosystems

Prioritising functionality over aesthetics

Building mechanisms inspired by real machines

Ensuring everything was modular, durable, and easy to swap

This mindset gave me far more creative freedom, and it made 2025 one of my most rewarding Technic years yet.

 

A Milestone: My 200th Blog Post

This post marks a big moment, my 200th blog entry on PaulB Technic.

There’s no better way to celebrate that milestone than with a full-year reflection on everything I’ve built, learned, and experimented with.

It feels like the perfect way to round out the year.

 

Looking Ahead to 2026

If 2025 was about building foundations and exploring new ideas, 2026 will be about expansion.

Plans include:

More attachments for the G-Class platform

A second-generation PTO system

Possibly an all-new base vehicle

Further development of TechBuildDB

And diving deeper into new Technic mechanisms and building styles

2025 has been a year of growth, not just in models, but in creativity, mindset, and engineering.

Here’s to an even bigger, more innovative 2026!

https://paulbtechnic.blogspot.com/2025/12/2025-my-lego-technic-year-in-review.html

[dr_spock]

1. Whipping a GBC module together the night before Bricks in the Six. Surprised it was a crowd pleaser during the public days.

2. None.

3. Build more for my LUG events.

[langko]

1. Finally finished a MOC I has been working on for around 2.5 years... Also finally rebuilt the Bugatti Chiron in a way that I am happy with. Was a good year for dark blue pieces! There's a few photos of both on my recent rebrickable workbench posts.

2. Nothing really. I know there's a lot of negative talk with the way lego is going with official sets... but I mainly build MOC's, so all I care about is the new parts/recolours  that are coming out, not the sets themselves. 

3. Hopefully build a new model in a colour I haven't done yet... DBG is probably the most likely. 

[Ngoc Nguyen]

1. High

 

2. Low

 

3. Plan

- Mini 8109
- Mini 42030
- Mini 42100
- Mini 42111
- Mini 42114
- Mini 42210
- Mini 10327
- 421ci B model
- 421ef B model
- 421fh B model
- 421hf B model
- 42100 RC PF Conversion
- SA-2 Samson Bicopter

 

[JunkstyleGio]

High:  42202  Ducatti

A fun build from begin to end. Both fysical and digital.. 

Low:

There were no other sets in the Technic line that i liked. (but I did a few "other brands"..)

 

Expectation for 2026:

The only one so far is the 42221 NASA Artemis.

I like the kinetics of this model. Let's wait and see. 

 

[vascolp]

1 - Release of RemoteBlaBla in july. The MOC I am currently working on (42100 alternate)
2 - The lack of success of RemoteBlaBla
3 - Release my current MOC; Upgrade RemoteBlaBla to XBox?; Build smaller MOCs?
 

[JoKo]

High:  My TC28 entry (Rock Machine) is one of my favourite MOC. My best purchase is a buwizz 2.0 and two motors

Low: A bit disappointed by the licensed cars trend in the Technic line. Also bricklink banning 35 countries upset me. I'm not personally impacted but TLG is getting hard to love... About me, I'm ashamed that I built several MOCs that I never shared. 

2026: I with I will share more of my MOCs and make more instructions.

Edited December 11, 2025 by JoKo

[Auroralampinen]

My highlights constintent of few mocs which i created and a few sets:). Lets start from the mocs:). 1, Mechatech Logging Truck. 2, Miniature Combine Harvester and The G500 Mod from the 42213. 3, Miniature Tracked Outback Dumper, The Soapbox collection Mini Dump Truck and The Mini Road Roller:). 

Set highlights 1, Lego Magazine set Combine Harvester with it’s amazing front blade adjustment function, Pantasy Western Mine GBC set, Craft Brewery, Blossom Café, The Toy Store and the Lego Poinsettia(because im a crazy christmas person;).). 2, The 42198 and 42209, Pantasy Windmill Workshop, Summit Cabin, Steampunk Airship. 3, Nifeliz Adventura Wrange, Pantasy Gumball Machine:). 

Lows. Probably the 42215 and it’s cheap feeling bucket:). (I don't own the 42215 except for the bucket:).). And one moc which i designed and almost published. Until i noticed it had a few flaws for it's design so i had to scrap it:/. But after that i builded the Mechatech Logging Truck. Which was a success and im really happy with it. And it did had my first Gen3 instructions. Which are my most premiumest instructions:). (Please note, I don't want to brag about the Gen3 instructions. And i like to hear your opinions and feedback about the Gen3 instructions, for example what could be still fine tuned:).). 

[2GodBDGlory]

High: Released my modular Toyota Land Cruiser 70 project--My first Technic MOC with instructions! It was a big learning experience, and really complex figuring out how to make good documentation for such a modular setup. I'm really pleased with the result!

Low: Built almost no Lego since the spring. The summer was spent working and hanging out with family, with a bit of 3D printer work thrown in, while the fall (and winter so far) have mostly been spent building another 3D printer. I'm afraid I"m moving on to other hobbies, but I think those fears are unfounded. I've enjoyed the little Technic building I have done lately, and the 3D printer projects are winding up, so hopefully after my Christmas break I can get back to the Technic!

2026: Hopefully finish my Mini Excavator MOC, and get some momentum going again for the Technic hobby! My class schedule for next semester will give me ~13 extra free hours per week, so more hobby time!

[Jay Psi]

High: Finally starting to organise my Lego after putting it off last year.

Low: No MOCs (my own or others) built this year, unrelated to the above - life has got in the way.

2026: Starting the 'superMOC collection' (display showcase of flagship 1:8 supercar MOCs).

 

[evank]

My major goal for 2025 was to finish my large, working "Blocky Kong" game in time for Brickworld Chicago. But it was not even close around the end of May, and then I was sick (strep, bronchitis) in June, so I missed Brickworld anyway. I decided to build something simpler for the next convention, Brickfair Chantilly (DC) in August. So I spent most of July/August working on a working punch card reader. It was good enough and I displayed it at Brickfair. Then I made some improvements, calling it version 2, for the small/local Lego show in October. Finally I build version 3, with the machine being perfected. That's the version I posted here on Eurobricks recently, and on Youtube: https://youtu.be/Z6RxhnPO7SQ ... I'm going to bring it to my office soon, where it will live. (I work at a university and will demonstrate it to students in our electrical engineering and computer science departments.)

So that was my 2025.

For 2026, my goal is again to finish Blocky Kong in time for Brickworld Chicago. I started working on it last week after six months of hiatus. A fresh mind helps solve all sorts of technical problems.

If I finish it, then I have a couple of other ideas for new models in the second half of 2026 and into 2027.

 

[SecondHandLego]

Thanks for asking this @Paul B Technic!

1) My technic highlight of the year is a MOC of  an ant of about 100 studs long. I am super happy about it because it is an alt build of 42009It is in prototype stage, has only few straight corners and I could apply some friction-based techniques to make it pose-able. I had one particular technique in mind but invented another more or less by accident. It is still in still in prototype stage. I noticed only while making the design in studio that it is putting a bit too much tension on some lift arms at one place, so I need to redesign the head. There are no power functions in it, but I hope to do that some time next year ( 3 ) 

2) Low light: as others have commented here and elsewhere, I am bored out of my wits, completely and utterly done, and disappointed to a level that I didn't know existed with TLG's already years long fetish with F1 and luxury race cars. They look slick but if you've seen one, you've seen them all. Oh, they got yet another fancy gear box in a set that is designed to stand still in a display box. Yawn. I wish will put their focus on more functional designs, preferably some without wheels.

3) Make an alt build of the VTOL heavy cargo spaceship ( thank the brick gods for that wheel less set, unfortunately with underwhelming functionality ), get the ant its power functions, and finish the digital design of my Menger Sponge level 3 ( this is level 2). I am aiming for the biggest design on rebrickable.

 

 

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[Zerobricks]

Ooof, where to even begin.

For work, I did the following:

• Motorized the set 42203 using micro motors
• Motorized 42206 so it drives, steers and switches gears
• Same with 42207 so it drives, steers and switches gears
• Squeezed 4 motors inside 42009 to motorize all functions
• Motorized 42210 so it has AWD, steering and motorized drifting function
• Used PU motors to motorize 42213 so you can see the speed it's going at and use constatnt speed function
• Developed and built an AWD Dakar racer designed for driving offroad and jumping over obstacles
• Redesigned 8043 in a smaller format using micro motors
• Built a simple clock that is preciesly controlled using PU motors
• Built the first prototype of a quadroped robot that drives, tilts, raises and lowers, etc...
• Designed and built a working electric scooter that can support and drive children or light adults
• Developing new stuff
• And replied to some 1000+ support tickets 

In private time, I designed the following models:

• Built my own Technic based PC with 3D printed interfaces and a motorized hamster wheel
• 1:12 racer for the BuWizz Gathering contest
• RWD Buggy for the same gathering
• An unlimited 4x4 model for the gathering
• Upgraded the mid scale 8x8 Tatra with BuWizz drive motors
• A tracked racer for the Romanian Technic Experience (RTXP)
• A mini AWD racer, also for RTXP
• 6x6 trial truck for RTXP
• A PU powered buggy for RTXP
• Mini AWD Trophy truck using new suspension and drive components
• 1:12 scale motorized DeLorean with tracks for TC29
• Designed a special STUDDED model and instructions for a birthday gift
• Built a simple tracked racer as a holiday gift
• 3D printed concepts of planetary geared hubs
• And 3 important projects I can't talk about much, but they were very succesfull

Safe to say it's been a very productive year, but if I had to choose the highlights, it would be the following:

• The Dakar racer - It's fast, but has enough torque to climb and jump over stuff
• Electric scooter - Can drive and support a person up to 60 kg with only 2 wheels
• The custom PC - I'm so glad I built it at the start of the year, just look at the prices now
• Mini AWD racer for RTXP - First time I was able to fit a reliable AWD and wide tyres in such a small model
• 1:12 Tracked Delorean for TC29 - It's very accurate and just look badass

The lows would probably be:

• The quadroped - building organic, functional robots with LEGO is always a challenge
• 6x6 trial truck for RTXP - it had issues with steering and just lacked performance
• Tracked racer for RTXP - Kept losing tracks
• Unlimited 4x4 model for the BuWizz gathering - suffered from the case of open diffs and a broken gearbox

Edited December 26, 2025 by Zerobricks