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Actually, the large angular motor appeared in MINDSTORMS but was adopted by Technic in the Volvo hauler and the Cat bulldozer (albeit in thankfully more neutral colours). I don't doubt that, at the very least, we'll see the smallest motor appear in some future Technic set. This! 👆

Unfortunately the latter two have integrated, proprietary batteries.

Could a wheel tractor-scraper be called a "hauler" by LEGO, just like they called the 42006 an "excavator"?

If they simply adopted the small tractor tyres (those with the chevrons), that'd be already a good improvement.

☝️ What he said.

The organ donor market will be happy, though.

While I don't think a large-scale ambulance would be very novel from a mechanical perspective, it would definitely be a good excuse to introduce PU lighting elements more advance than the current pair of white LEDs.

https://brickset.com/sets/8047-1/Compact-Excavator

🤔 Yep, those!

When you have the control sticks vertical, is the swashplate tilted forwards instead of being horizontal? On mine it is, and I find it odd that no other reviews mentioned it. I checked carefully and could find no build errors from me.

... and people would be complaining that the instructions were confusing and that parts were too hard to tell apart from each other.

In the meanwhile, those of you that hate neon yellow can send the parts over to me: that'll help convince me to make a Technic M:Tron MOC.

Thread resurrection! Last week I used my GoPro and remote controller (Wi-Fi, 2.4 GHz) to film my RC boat MOC, and the camera lost connection as soon as I submerged it (about 1 metre of water between camera and controller), which illustrates how difficult it is to send wireless signals underwater. This got me thinking: if lower radio frequencies have better range and penetration in air, does the same happen in water, and, if so, would it be possible to adapt a cheap analogue 27 MHz transmitter/receiver to wirelessly control a LEGO submarine to decent swimming pool ranges? Has anyone done such a thing? I remember watching some videos some time ago about a guy building a LEGO submarine inside a plastic box and using magnets to transfer motion to outboard propellers, but I don't recall how it was controlled.

Space permitting, would the new large LEGO CV joints be a viable alternative?

Well, personally I find both models of that set repetitive (but still applaud the rare existence of a B-model) and the colour scheme bad for MOCing (another chapter in the Fifty Shades of Blue saga), and much prefer the motorcycle; but that doesn't mean I'm right and you're wrong, just that people have different tastes and it's impossible for TLG to please everyone.

People in this thread build sets that don't have colour coding, and sorely miss it. Anyway, if you want a challenge and don't want to feel your intelligence insulted, you can always try building without looking at the parts callout in each step...

Why not dark grey and olive green?

Perhaps because replacing white and neon yellow for regular yellow would make it too similar to the 9696?

From New Elementary, the same place those two photos were taken from: https://www.newelementary.com/2022/07/lego-technic-review-42145-airbus-h175.html

Hmm, I wonder where he got that "night shot" photo... [edit] Also the one at 1:43, which "unexplainably" has no stickers.

Hmm, that's a good idea. Albeit closing it back would become harder, even if meanwhile I managed to find a suitable screwdriver, and building with it might become a little bit harder, what with the broken and/or warped bits.

The box should also said "screwdriver not included".

Isn't the 30433 enough for you!?

I wanted to use that feature in a boat, to put it in reverse in case of loss of control and hopefully get back to me. But gave up, not because of Pybricks, but rather the short range of the controller-hub link... I ended up using a Chinese controller and receiver instead of official LEGO stuff.

I have always done it by short-pressing the button to stop the program, then long-pressing to turn the hub off. Doesn't that work for you? It's possible to detect a remote control disconnect by catching an exception (I don't remember which). Then it's a matter of existing a method that turns off the hub.