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  1. andythenorth
    Oh Please tell me that was an intentional reference to this? https://www.lugnet.com/general/~1285/traumaticevents Also someone ^ should update that for 2020 :P It's a community classic.
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    Pandemic brains making poor choices? Nah, surely it was earlier than that? But lol, doing a licensed model for a weapons system that has ongoing (or very recent) active combat duty and is in front-line readiness? How did they think was going to go?
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    Yeah, sorry if it's lost in translation. Looks like you're confused between "opinions of random people on the internet", and "what Lego said about this in 2010" https://www.zmescience.com/other/did-you-know/lego-military-toys/ The report is here, you'll want page 26. https://www.lego.com/cdn/cs/aboutus/assets/blt84b740e1347b33e0/Progress_report2010.pdf Good luck
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    Wow. Some here confuse two things. 1. Cancel-culture (a bad thing, small mobs terrorising free speech and free actions). 2. Companies having principles they won't deviate from. Then some go looking for facts to support their argument either way. Happy days. Knock yourselves out. Bollocks to that. TLG have a principle not to represent contemporary military hardware. The V-22 Osprey represents contemporary military hardware. This is an officially licensed model of a V-22 Osprey. Dressing it up as a rescue device AND selling it as a licensed set puts 2 acceptable things together and arrives at unacceptable. The company has a rule. Sometimes rules get bent a bit. This rule was bent by TLG staff beyond breaking point. TLG acted. Rules are rules. Stop crying over plastic toys like baby men. The bad scary nasty liberals have not taken your toys away.
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    I've built trucks with 8 separate L motors (1 per wheel). It's all fine. No harm to the motors. Major battery drain with 8 L motors, but eh :)
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    Blah blah blah blah...have most posters actually read the 4DBrix announcement? Or is it the usual AFOL dribble? They're not exiting, they're transitioning to a model where they release the IP and stop the manufacturing / shipping side. If they *can* find local 3D print operators, then shipping costs etc are local. So the 'US = high prices' issue vanishes. If they can't, then clearly no demand. Lot of blather about IP and markets and competition and all this crap. It's a micro business. All AFOL train stuff is a hill of beans. Nobody gets rich on it.
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    That's a nostalgia trip, I have an OM2 in my cupboard. Well played
  8. andythenorth
    What, the keyboard doesn't work for 3 years in a row? Sent from my Macbook Pro.
  9. andythenorth
    Wow, you've all been on forums how long? And you fell for this 'promote my brand' I-have-1-post shitposting? You must all be bored on lockdown.
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    Not really a poll eh, more a speak-your-brains. Wonder how well that's going to work :D
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    Or this?
  12. andythenorth
    "You end up with a vehicle that is not sporty, but more sporty than a pickup." We have Sport Transits. They're rad though :) https://www.ms-rt.co.uk/new-model-ms-rt-transit-custom/
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    It's two parts, the top cap is separate, but they are glued and not easy to remove. I did it many years ago, but can't remember how. There was an unsuccessful attempt, which sliced the top cap off permanently. There was a partly successful attempt, which might have used something to soften the glue, but I can't remember what (solvent, heat, hot water, can't remember). At minimum, the part ends up heavily marked, and can't be reassembled perfectly . The starting point is the line between the top cap and the cylinder, patiently use a scalpel (x-axcto knife) to open up the gap and try to break the glue connection, then lever the cap upwards patiently. It's not easy.
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    The rest of it looks rad to me. Just the windscreen rake is so weirdly wrong. Anyway, it's not causing the sky to fall imho, Lego is changeable. Just weird. Unrelated, did I miss the introduction of a new stronger universal joint somewhere? Or is there a stronger CV now? There'll be at least one carrying drivetrain through the center articulation joint. Standard universal won't last long, even if the hub reduction is high.
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    I tend to agree, I just find it weird as there's no rationale for producing something so ugly. The simpler explanation really would be assembly error, rather than assuming a bad design no? Or is this just now standard AFOL opinion on Lego? Pretty much everything Lego produce is now hated here. Anyway, the 42030 B model had a much more sophisticated cab shape, with the correct backwards-sloping rake to the windshield.
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    That page 1 image, the actual assembled truck, that cab can't have been built right. That does happen for toy show demo models sometimes. It just looks wrong, whatever the realistic proportions, that cab is plain ugly. Not going to pile on about the rest of it. Will wait reviews. It's a big RC dumper, probably pretty playable imho. FWIW, 42070, which I think is 50% lame (too big, too empty, too much ££)...my kids love. But eh, I don't really buy Lego any more, it's all been done before and I've got cupboards full of the stuff. Where's the lolz eh?
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    This will be interesting. Are you building a bench test rig first, or going straight to the final train?
  18. andythenorth
    Can we keep the politics crap out of Eurobricks? Thanks.
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    Correct, they will move when a load is applied, but they won't flop around freely like a simple pivot. I don't know if they're really strong enough for a torsion bar / trailing arm type suspension, didn't try that
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    The spike connectors 45573 and 45574 are absolutely usable as a form of solid suspension. https://www.bricklink.com/v2/catalog/catalogitem.page?P=45573&name=Technic, Spike Connector Flexible with Four Holes, Raised Center&category=[Technic, Connector]#T=C&C=85 I used them in a walking beam suspension, as the pivot points for the walking beams. Downsides for that use they tend to drift laterally, which could be solved with side-control linkages (like sway / panhard rods) they don't offer any real benefit over a simple pivot with a pin or axle
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    Eh what? This is trolling how? The 'traumatic events' post is a community classic. Join in, have fun. Enjoy your hobby.
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    Congrats, might be time for updating of a classic :) https://www.lugnet.com/general/~1285/traumaticevents
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    Because public internet forums attract more extreme opinions? I am +1 (agree) to the rest you wrote also.
  24. andythenorth
    Data mine what already? BL sales data is already public. https://www.bricklink.com/v2/catalog/catalogitem.page?S=8158-1#T=P BL seller inventories are public. BL wanted list data is somewhat public. One might say this is....useful? Finding out what people are actually buying? For the record, I think TLG will screw up BL, but only by accident. TLG have no obvious good record in running online platforms. I also suspect it was a distress sale, the previous owner of BL had possibly lost interest (more interested in BTC-type crypto currency and giving away his fortune). TLG have probably re-homed it with good intentions, or to keep it out of the hands of others. Stuff like this happens. People who haven't bought, sold, or crashed a business see weird motives to business decisions, where business mostly just runs on well-intentioned mistakes.
  25. andythenorth
    How long have you been around AFOLs? 'Freak out' is like the default response. Love of a small plastic world and fear of real life seem to go nicely together
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