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    AND one of those people did it all through renders. Unless I missed a post Didumos doesn't have the set yet to physically mess with the new parts. Perhaps Lego should consider contract work... hand over the desired specifications of a module (like for a gearbox, front suspension, etc) and see what the results are. No different than the automotive, space, or aviation industry.
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    Okay... that was funny...
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    This might not mean much, considering who might be manufacturing it, but the bottom print and bottom logo are not even straight. Fake pic no matter what.
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    Thank you, Erik, with your visual it makes total sense to me now. Sariel might need to come out with a new edition to his book... Maybe he can find a way to have whomever buys a hardcopy will also have access to all future digital editions.
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    I hate asking this, but, I’m not understanding the significance of the new blue gear. Is their an explanation for us newbies?
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    Oh, wow, what an anemic sticker. I probably wouldn't even read it and get in trouble, because, thats exactly what I did as a teenager. I've since seen some stickers that were much bigger and slapped over the tape so you had to cut through it. Also, sometimes the boxing tape itself was a big, wide, yellow tape with huge red lettering. Perhaps Lego employees are not used to such things and don't look for it?
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    I'm not being snarky with this quote from the guidelines. It's important to have a catch-all in any policy, and this is it. "Do not debate staff issues with them. Feel free to make suggestions as we are happy to hear them, but if you are told that something is against policy, the discussion is over." Since a mod said no early pics many, many times in this thread, then... it's practically a policy as if it was written down.
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    Some may be forgetting about shipping logistics. To have a true full reveal and that item be sold starting that same day, product needs to be at the store only a day or two prior but no more to avoid leaks. That’s amazingly hard to coordinate which store (and special cases like Jim, etc) will get the boxes all on a particular day since shipping times vary store to store, country to country. Typically things are shipped out the same day instead of going through the major hassle of estimating ship time for every single destination. Things like video games come in a box with massive warning stickers or tape that has the reveal date so maybe Lego hasn’t done that.
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    I don’t consider what we have seen of the Chiron to be color vomit. The green lift arm appears to be solid reference to attach the gearbox and suspension to a completed build of the body. The blue cross blocks are simply using the same pieces that are to be used on the exterior. Most of the colors of the gearbox are existing colored pieces for easy identification and to visually separate functions. Im all about that last part because I’m not a advanced builder, or even mediocre, but I still like discovering all the cleverness and thought processes that goes into advanced builds. Look at it this way... the official sets are paint-by-numbers for those of us who can’t create but want to recreate.
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    Looked into it, but didn’t try it since they don’t work for all situations and didn’t really need them for daily life or work. Plus, I’m married, not allowed to make color decisions anyway.
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    Yeah, the smaller the pieces the more difficult it is. In college I had to drop out of a electronics class because I couldn’t read the little color coding stripes on resisters, mostly due to blues and I completely couldn’t tell the difference between orange and red. All the different orange and red 1x1 lights give me hell.
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    I’m what’s called borderline colorblind which means deficient in just certain colors/shades of colors. In your pics the red/beige is obvious to me but I dont see a difference in the yellow. When we are talking specifically about LEGO pieces I always had a hard time with old Instructions that didn’t print in vibrant enough colors. I got good at guessing what was needed but often made mistakes. Modern print and the color scheme to differentiate pieces is a big deal to me and I suspect to my son, too. Btw not only are men much more likely to be color deficient than women but the average woman can see more color than the average man.
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    Going back to color vomit... could this also have the benefit of making things more difficult for the Chinese knock-offs to mass produce every Lego set? If there is, say, I dunno, 500 different Lego colored pieces to manufacturer this season compared to the previous season then thats more factory set-up time, piece storage, etc. Perhaps it makes it difficult to copy every single set.
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    This is 100% my experience when I started my son on Legos. He can do modern City and Creator sets quite confidently, but when I share my 30 year old City and Space sets (all PAINSTAKINGLY sorted into bags by set with original instruction manuals) he tends to get frustrated and may abandon the set. I figured out it was not just due to physically sorting through the sea of same colored pieces but it was also the old instructions. Since they didn't have a picture showing what pieces were needed for each step he had a hard time figuring out what is new and knowing if he finished that step sufficiently or not.
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    I'm guessing you're just making a joke, but in case someone doesn't get it, that EB logo is the company logo to honor the founder Ettore Bugatti.
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    Since you are happy with the standard parts you have, price the individual RC parts at the Lego Shop at Home site. Buying from Bricklink is another option.
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    It DOES look good. I just may get the BWE and try my first GBC.
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    Knowledgeable responses like these is why I enjoy reading this forum so much more than other lego forums. Just felt right to say it in this post.
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    As a new AFOL I want to sink my teeth into a mechanically and technically advanced set. I would love to build something like the 8880 but since I do not have any studded pieces or its special parts the cost of building that set would be very high. Is there an advanced, studless, and non-RC MOC out there that has instructions?
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    Yes! Thats awesome, just what I was hoping for. Yeesss! The Terex is fantastic! Even though it's RC I am glad you suggested it. I am looking forward to building that some day. The two cars look great, too. Loving these suggestions, too, especially the kinetic sculptures.
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    Absolutely, Ive been pouring over that site for a few days now. The problem is I cannot tell which of those MOCs are full of ingenious wizardry or which are simply rehashing tired conventions. For example, I have avoided buying 42056 because the elite here have criticized it as a letdown technically, especially compared to 8880. So... is there something out there from the MOC elite I can learn from?
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    Very, very appealing shapes! Love the rear, power bulges, defined side skirts and that side profile is just fantastic! The grill seems a little odd, like I don't know how to feel about it. It looks like the shape of it works but the actual finished look doesn't mesh with the rest of the car. Polarizing may be the word. i couldn't build what you did so don't even consider that an informed critique.
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    At first I just wanted my kid to get exposed to Legos and see where it took us but I ended up fascinated at all the little things he developed. Reading the instructions left-to-right helped reinforced our teachings in reading words, learning to read the number count of a piece and then counting them out, eye-hand coordination on putting pieces together, etc. There is a lot of positive stuff going on I had not considered before. My hope is all this will eventually lead to him to be mechanically inclined enough for complex Technic builds and then on to more practical things like working on household items, cars, etc. Long term plan, you see.
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    For those not all that familiar with executive function, if pushed, it can cause frustration and rejection with those younger than 10-12 because the frontal lobe/executive function just hasn't developed enough yet (source: the neuroscientist wife). This is why kids always want instant gratification (i.e. small sets) and cannot plan well (i.e. visualize a MOC and find a starting point, saving money for a big toy instead of a small one). Kids tend to figure things out as they build instead of step-by-step progressing to a finished image in their head. The point is, in kids it's less about practice and teaching than it is about having the right brain matter in play. Nothing wrong with a little exposure, though. As I typed this the wife kept talking about brain development and fun fact: the frontal lobe in males doesn't fully develop until about age 25 and women about age 19. Thanks dear.
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    Sage wisdom. Those moments are just as gold as watching your kid finally tie his shoes on his own.