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I Kinda want to see the Porsche hub reused in sets; this way TLG will have more incentive to keep developing it and eventually make its software moddable for Pybricks.

Even though the photo is of the real thing, that bucket totally looks brick-built.

Yes, but not that close in time.

Wouldn't that be too similar to 42178 and/or 42180?

What do you mean by "force feedback" in this context? Specifically, in what situations during driving would you like rumble to function?

Is this improper? https://brickset.com/parts/6437967/shell-5x11x2-w-4-85-hole-no-1

That's that. Some people like System to add details and fill gaps, other dislike it to get a pure technic model. As with many other design choices, whatever the LEGO designers do someone will be displeased.

I'm in that camp. I'll wait for first images, or, better yet, reviews, to make up my opinion.

If the turntable ring is large enough and actuated from as far from its centre as possible, I think it's possible. Still hard, though.,

Well, it can join 32291, 32557 and 98989.

That price was for 2010. Converting to 2025 it's actually more than $290, but admittedly still less than the rumoured $400.

And here's another... only one more to go!

What about 3 Volvo cars?

Well, the 9V era lasted from 1986 to 2007, I don't think age can be used to extrapolate how long PU will last.

That's why I always complain about PU linear motors (originated in Technic) not having those marks, while angular motors (originated in MINDSTORMS) do.

I don't mean that PU's days are considered good now (I do, but that's just my personal opinion as someone also into robotics), but rather in the future, when PU's successor is the norm and PU is in the past. I'm drawing the comparison because, when PF appeared, fans were decrying it as awful for things like cumbersome connectors and wires instead of the neat conductive plates that integrate with System builds, large elements instead of the compact motors and battery boxes, non-detachable cables, and, especially for trains fans, the need to use batteries. When PU gets phased out, its positive aspects will surely come up more often than now.

Talking from experience seeing forums when PF replaced 9V, you guys will miss the "good old days" of PU when it eventually gets replaced...

Just buy more of it!

I can't wait for @Philo to take a look at the hub, and hopefully add it to his excellent motor comparison page, so that we can see how powerful (or not) it is.

Yes, 3 motors, and also 6 independent lights, of which the Porsche only uses 4 and in pairs. Which means the hub wasn't made specifically for this set and therefore we'll see it again in the future, be it in a car or not.

It should technically possible to replace the battery with a larger one, perhaps T-shaped, with 3 cells inside instead of just 1.

When I got my NXT, I found that motors with integrated positioning were a godsend compared with those from the RCX (which, I'd like to remind, are standard Technic 9V). And most PU motors having absolute positioning is even more of a godsend (goddersend?) to me. I just wish the linear motors had their zero position engraved in their cases like the angular motors do. But, uh... isn't this thread about 2025 sets?

Just like MINDSTORMS introduced a motor (angular large) that Technic later adopted, I think it's reasonable to assume that sooner or later a grey-coloured 68488 will appear in Technic as well.

PF lacks some "smartness" that allows for things like 42100's "tell the shovel where you want it to be and the arm's motors will do it" or 42140's controls reversal when it flips over.

I still see 42160 as available.