GoldVillage

Nice idea, but we need draw a line between whats RC and whats lego... in talk of hoping for something new, a pneumatic driven motor would be nice (like a hydrostatic motor, but is driven from air flow) this could be useful to drive such vehicles theres no way to route axles and gears to the tires.

Kinda never... they plugged the leak this time

Awesome forklift! Great job man!

Having no problems to open larger builds (i.e Volvo L350) and no lag what so ever, but after importing some models i found, for parts, (who was not big, but still loaded a bit slow) everything has getting slow now, - every build involved with this has all the suddenly getting slow to both open AND use. Is there a way to get rid of this?

Could be true... even if the bucket wheel excavator will be more in the same league as the blue crawler crane. And then we have 2 licensed sets, and none of them is a flagship! strange year to come!

In piece count? no. In terms of mass? yes absolutely, it could be very big even bigger than the blue crawler crane and probably very similar to it with both PF and wirings.

Theres still a chance that it will be the 1H flagship, but the helicopter is still the best bet for that. Even if the volvo excavator is the first 2H set it will indeed only be midsize, but with pneumatic included it doesnt need to be bigger than 600-700 pcs. On the other hand 2016 is not a normal year....

So they using timber in the mines these days?

Where you gettin the torque data from when it comes to the lego motors?

Would not recomend regular RC motors for lego... even regular mabuchi and johnson 540 is about 16,000-18,000 rpm and 250-300 g-cm (at max eff) compared to 200-400 rpm and about 3,6 and 14 g-cm - which is the supposed torque for the m,l and xl motor (yes their listed data is probably wrong, it should be g-cm... not n-cm)

The leak is plugged this year ;(

First we dont have a clue how big the other sets will be, and the ultimate car can have "only" 2000 pieces and still be the flagship, because whats stands out and cost alot is when its RC, and this time maybe we will have some new electronic stuffs (like a esc) but still i doubt it will be as expensive as 300...

Ultimate car (flagship) and atleast one of the licensed sets are the €300, 220, 150 most likely. Its the €50 set that i find strange, because its cannot be the Ultimate car and it cannot be the Volvo excavator (because of all the pneumatics) so it will be either the Claas or the bucket wheel excavator... you can confirm that?

Basically every thin liftarm xoox and xox are cracked, I bet they make these as weak as they can just to sell more of them.

With that price tag it need to have something new and special... maybe a electronic speed controller?

So is 42009, the entire crane section is mounted...

Is something like this allowed? it has a crane for lifting timber but can also haul the timber on its own...

They should, and this time a flex axle that can ROTATE would be very useful ;)

Interesting! the chassi on that ultimate car was probably already done since a while back, so now they just got the licensed deal they was waiting for... but from who? my guess is Lamborghini.

Hope your right! thats just someone was trolling ;)

Nah, if any set will be RC then its the ultimate car! 100% sure. Because if its not, it will just be another lemans 24h look alike car with a couple of simple manually functions, and with that in mind it will not live up to the expectations for a flagship so it must be remote controlled for that simple reason, and its gonna to be huge and complex. The volvo excavator will most likely be smaller than the 8043, but still kinda big because it needs to hold alot of pneumatics, hoses, and switches. And exacly like you said, the bucket wheel excavator may only be mid-sized but the claas tractor most likely will be very big. Its actually really difficult to speculating about this... ;)

4 sets that each and one of them could get away as flagships - in the one and same year, so what if the rumors is true... that Technic will end after 2016. So now they bringing up everything they have for the very last year?

That is indeed true by going with the numbers from earlier years. On the other hand this wont be any normal year since we getting two licensed sets, and history tells us that licensed sets are big so if any of the 2H sets will be smaller and costs only about £50 or so, then my 2 cents is on the bucket wheel excavator (very unsafe bet) But something tells me that the bucket wheel excavator going be something similar to the crawler crane we had this year - another big blue motorized set who using wiring for the arm, but this time even bigger... so maybe we getting 3 big sets for the 2H 2016? (earlier years for the 2H we have had 1 medium, 1 big and 1 very big sets)

lets continue http://shop.lego.com/en-US/mine-loader-42049 ;) Really?! I was expecting something more like this

Isnt it a bit strange that we are said to get 2 or even 3 licensed set for the same year!? its more logical that this leak, if its true, includes 2017 or even 2018.