Did Santa Bring You Any Lego Technic Sets Today?

[DLuders]

Did you get any Lego Technic set(s) as gift(s) today? If so, feel free to tell us what you got so we can be envious....

Edited December 25, 2011 by DLuders

[davidmull]

Yes I got 8421 & 8436 both misb :) 8421 looks huge :)

[Zerobricks]

Nope, not this time, because he knows I already own enough

[Jim]

Last week I finished a year of hard work and to celebrate this, I bought all of the 2012 sets and the 8053 Mobile Crane, so Santa got early this year

How about you David?

Edited December 25, 2011 by Gekke Ted

[sverre]

Yep! I got the 8109 flat bed truck from my work.

They know I'm a nerd! :)

[JunkstyleGio]

Got me 9390, 9394 and 9395 already before christmas.. And 9391 and 9392 will arrive this week!

So more than enough to play with!

Edited December 25, 2011 by JunkstyleGio

[Wiseman_2]

Unfortunately not, but then, I didn't ask for any... I shall be waiting a short while and buying 8109 first up, then a few of those new city sets, which will be my first foray into "regular" Lego in a couple of years

And maybe 9395 later in January.

[DLuders]

I received the 8081 Extreme Cruiser set, which I plan on motorizing using Louskam's instructions. Maybe I will make it more "extreme" by adding a rocket launcher on the roof or something....

[Alasdair Ryan]

Only the 8110 unimog.

[dhc6twinotter]

Nope, no LEGO for me this Christmas. I tend to buy my own LEGO at sales, so I just asked for camping gear and tools.

[zewy623]

I was going to get the 8110 Unimog, but apparently it was on back order for Febuary but i had to push my limits by threatining to cancel my order, but the nice customer service representative lady said that she would try to find one. She found one in Chicago, but the over-night was too late for Thursday, so it shipped o-n on Friday, didn't show up on Saturday, and today cause of holiday. So maybe tomorrow!

And I'm not sure if its considered technic, but i got all the new ninjago sets today, and they have technic beams. so i guess i got semi-technic gifts. If thats even possible.

:edit: Tomorrow my relatives are coming down from Minnisota, so I guess that I'm still in luck for other technic. I guess I have an extended christmas with family and all.

Edited December 26, 2011 by zewy623

[Jurgen Krooshoop]

Noop, I didn't get any Lego for Christmas, so I'll just work on my own model.

[allanp]

Got the unimog, YEEEEEEEEEEEEEEY, had it built in time for crimbo dinner!

[timslegos]

I got the 8109 flatbed truck .

tim

[Robert M]

I got the last Unimog U400 in the UK. Had it built in 7 hours, and now planning to find another for parts, to build accessories. Already changed it, took thinggs away, added more things, and it still looks the same as original.

[grohl]

Minimog and the Jet Plane.

Besides that I found there the Midi Scale ISD

[Edwin Korstanje]

No nothing My wife said you have too many lego. but you will never have too many lego i think!!!????

I am almost ready with a big Horsetruck 8 wheeler with compleet inside moterhome and stables and is 70cm long with 74 LED lights and 6 wheel drive and i build this one for my litle girl.

Later this week he is ready.

greetings and everybody a hapy new year.

Greetings Edwin

Edited December 27, 2011 by VFracingteam

[davidmull]

Got the unimog, YEEEEEEEEEEEEEEY, had it built in time for crimbo dinner!

Finally u got it,so what do u think?i think the pneumatics work great :) and I have it since August!

[allanp]

Finally u got it,so what do u think?i think the pneumatics work great :) and I have it since August!

Possibly the best technic set ever released! Never before have the workings of a real life vehicle been so realisticly recreated. The complexity of most if not all recent sets relied soley on complex gear tarins (which are great) but 8110 has some of that and more with it's realistic suspention and pneumatics. There are sooooo many other toys, some are construction toys, there are a million others that are RC (with actual proportional radio control and have proper servos) and have lights and sounds and so on, technic is unique and about something else more than being just a toy, it can be like owning a real digger or whatever only smaller, which is why realistic mechanics are so important for technic in my opinion. As a kid I had lots of toys, and an 8880 super car, which to my 9 year old self was not a toy, it was a real supercar that was mine. The unimog demontrates that kind of realism like nothing else in many years. Oh and yeah, the pneumatics work like a dream. I was surprised when it had the power to lift a rather heavy and plush slipper into the bed and modile phones and TV remotes and and even other smaller technic models. So yeah, I love it!

Edited December 26, 2011 by allanp

[davidmull]

Possibly the best technic set ever released! Never before have the workings of a real life vehicle been so realisticly recreated. The complexity of most if not all recent sets relied soley on complex gear tarins (which are great) but 8110 has some of that and more with it's realistic suspention and pneumatics. There are sooooo many other toys, some are construction toys, there are a million others that are RC (with actual proportional radio control and have proper servos) and have lights and sounds and so on, technic is unique and about something else more than being just a toy, it can be like owning a real digger or whatever only smaller, which is why realistic mechanics are so important for technic in my opinion. As a kid I had lots of toys, and an 8880 super car, which to my 9 year old self was not a toy, it was a real supercar that was mine. The unimog demontrates that kind of realism like nothing else in many years. Oh and yeah, the pneumatics work like a dream. I was surprised when it had the power to lift a rather heavy and plush slipper into the bed and modile phones and TV remotes and and even other smaller technic models. So yeah, I love it!

I knew u would like it,I just hope Lego continues doing models like this,it's an engineering marvel I think,but the sets for 2012 don't look very promising, I'm really dissapointed the log loader in march doesn't have pneumatics :( maybe ill still buy it and convert to pneumatics tho :) I'm just looking at my 8421 new that I got for Xmas so can't wait to build it.

[allanp]

8421 is also a very good set. The next years sets don't look that good on first sight (shame about there being no pneumatics, at least not longer ones ) but they never do in these prerelease pictures. Even the unimog looked underwhelming the first time I saw it. It looked to me like just another, slightly bigger 8436. Not even pneumatics could save that set! If only the first picture showed that it had 4WD, suspention and a motorised compressor. And next year there is a chance that I might get the servo and L-motor i've been banging on about in the RC car. I really do hope so as the current motors with their really slow geared outputs are boring and a proportional servo motor (not just left/middle/right) is a fairly basic requirement for RC vehicles.

Edited December 26, 2011 by allanp

[Phantom59]

8110 Unimog :wub: . (I wonder if Santa dose a repeat order)

[davidmull]

8421 is also a very good set. The next years sets don't look that good on first sight (shame about there being no pneumatics, at least not longer ones ) but they never do in these prerelease pictures. Even the unimog looked underwhelming the first time I saw it. It looked to me like just another, slightly bigger 8436. Not even pneumatics could save that set! If only the first picture showed that it had 4WD, suspention and a motorised compressor. And next year there is a chance that I might get the servo and L-motor i've been banging on about in the RC car. I really do hope so as the current motors with their really slow geared outputs are boring and a proportional servo motor (not just left/middle/right) is a fairly basic requirement for RC vehicles.

I got 8436 for Xmas too,just because it has pneumatics ;(

[chorlton]

8109 Flatbed Truck.

Built a bit in the morning, stopped to cook christmas dinner for 6 and entertain for the rest of the day, then stayed up til midnight to finish it. I normally like to take my time but once I could see how the lift rail at the back was going to work I didn't want to stop.

This may be my favourite set, it's just so well designed and put together with the lift rail and the way the rear drops when lowering the flatbed. I'm very impressed.

[allanp]

8109 Flatbed Truck.

Built a bit in the morning, stopped to cook christmas dinner for 6 and entertain for the rest of the day, then stayed up til midnight to finish it. I normally like to take my time but once I could see how the lift rail at the back was going to work I didn't want to stop.

This may be my favourite set, it's just so well designed and put together with the lift rail and the way the rear drops when lowering the flatbed. I'm very impressed.

I also found this set to be a pleasent surprise.