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  1. XAxles
    So... has anyone had this thought of a LEGO on life support while suffering from a Dark Age?
  2. XAxles
    Huzzah! Now I have a fearsome office warfare weapon that's better than other office weapons!
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    Judging from the breadth of activity on the forums both fawning and flaming sets... nope.
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    Actually, I've seen some actually HD instructions PDF's, though I forgot what sets exactly. But if I find one, either it will be either on Technic or Creator. I shall now scour Brickset's database. Yeah, actually. See, I have this 90%-completed crane boom: and I wonder where and how I can attach that turntable to a System chassis, which is, for me, the only turntable that can take the boom's weight. Basically, I just got the instructions for 9391 because it was in around the same size with my build (let's just say that this is going in the record books as the biggest mobile crane ever) and is mounted in a much simpler way, but I'm afraid that I'm not gonna be able to make it work, so I went with the simpler 4x4 System turntable shown in the picture. But then the quality of the PDF instructions plain struck me broadside. Then again, I think there are instructions that are the same quality as this. And that there are many of them. I think there's another two or three in the polybag Creator sets.
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    You just typed what I lazed about typing.I am now seeing the WEC as the hotter racing series, so I think it's time that TLG go talk to the boffins running the tournament (Automobile Club d'I Quest) as well as the makes (well, except Porsche, of course) to get the series up and heard and seen some more. Actually, I think that this year's lineup for the main manufacturers' class (LMP1-Hybrid) can make for some amazing UCS sets. Then again, though, I'd rather see a UCS Mazda 787B, because 4-rotor Wankel engine mold.
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    Those new-part illustrations over at the Arocs topic. Can I post them over here?
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    Oh, yes, race cars. I forgot the most important new race car this year: Blokes, meet the Nissan GT-R LM Nismo, and it's front-engine, front-wheel drive. The infographic above will tell everything else I'm too lazy to type. But what I'm going to put here is this bit from the Gizmag article, on the second link. Yeah, that's about it. If you can comprehend the whole car and what it's trying to be, ring me a line.
  8. XAxles
    I am not a member of any local LUG, but tell me what and where.
  9. XAxles
    Well, I say this is brilliantly-done. Very, shockingly, terrifyingly, incredibly brilliant spider you made. So, if we were to choose what nightmare to have, this or Sariel's Walking Leyland Mini? I'd have both, please.
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    Uh... ah. Aye, captain.
  11. XAxles
    You know, TLG is sorely missing out on the good opportunity to bring in a Technic WRC-class rally car. Or something along the lines of Group B like the Lancia 037 or Audi quattro S1. No, seriously. the next Super Car has got to be a rally car.
  12. XAxles
    I mean those skinny pneumatic cylinders would really work well with this set's B-model:
  13. XAxles
    The compactor. I WANNA KNOW ABOUT THE BLOODY COMPACTOR!!!
  14. XAxles
    That 1W pneumatic cylinders... yeah, those can be effective in micro-scale stuff.
  15. XAxles
    Wait. Anyone seen if this model's got a driveshaft?
  16. XAxles
    So, treads, claws, movable eyes and neck, that small compactor inside him (wait is that gonna actually work?), chance to get it actually motorized... well, the only thing that can make this an actually winning set (and I mean better than DW) is Mindstorms compatibility.
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    I think TLG might just go nuts and get the Piano as a polybag (or paper pouch), and the Labyrinth maze becomes one of the other two main sets, and the UCS Hubble ends up becoming a surprise wildcard!
  18. XAxles
    But the extra 40 pieces would eventually be the pieces that matter the most. Like, say, a new, actually working plane engine set-up.
  19. XAxles
    I need those hype thrusters, Ayliffe. Well, the Speed Champs theme, anyway. While WALL-E's actually brilliant, I think the UCS Hubble would have been a tad nicer. For me, the Piano might pass, but man that's gonna have a small box. Unless we get not one, but TWO pianos. My money's on Labyrinth Marble Maze and Natural History Museum.
  20. XAxles
    Oh, yes. Make that little red car.
  21. XAxles
    Hmmm... since many of you have ninja'd me on suggestions, here's mine, and it involves the number four thousand and forty. Have a 1H flagship being a 14-axle Mobile Crane Mk IV clocking in at exactly 4040 pieces and another, bigger, wilder, packed-and-stacked and absolutely gorgeous 2H flagship, also at 4040 pieces dead. That 2H flagship will be the one that gets designed by the best of the best, and I mean only the best of the best. It will be clad smooth with both panel and System, not like the rest of the Technic sets before, and for an added challenge, NO CONSTRUCTION EQUIPMENT. And again, the constraints of the 4040 piece count. The rest of the Technic sets accompanying the flagships per half. The sum of parts count of the smaller Technic sets to go with the flagships has to total 4040. A 40-minute speed-build-a-Technic-set tournament! Double-elimination format, one for singles and teams of max. 3, with a first-to-3 wins final. Grand prize? $40,000.00 and $40,000.00 worth of Technic sets. And finally, while having no 40, the ultimate fusion of Mindstorms and Technic in one ultimate set. Go as far as piece count is concerned, as long as it can use the Mindstorms and PF together in perfect harmony. And there. And for my suggestion for my 2nd point, I am suggesting the Airbus A380.
  22. XAxles
    You're right, Rick. Now onto shark news...
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    And wicked. Seb's running the show like the old times, and Sauber, which is on Ferrari power, looked good on Jerez testing day 3. And it looks like all teams have redone the exhaust so the sound's proper schtuff again.Now, what big auto show usually drops every fall? Was it Paris?
  24. XAxles
    Alright, then. the 2015 F1 grid, beginning with the car from the defending champion, the Mercedes W06: From Red Bull, the RB11, in camo: Then Williams-Martini FW37: Then the Ferrari S15-T, which has an Alfa Romeo logo on it, for some reason, and is shaping up to put Seb back on the top part of the podium: Now, the Lotus E23, on Mercedes power: Doing a throwback is Mclaren-Honda (!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!) and their MP4-30: Force India VJM08 Sauber C34, which is just a white paintbrush away to becoming Old Williams and looks like just about them. I think.
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    Because of me, of course . When no one talks about the sets, I turn to what automakers are dropping. It's a way to get the this topic some more life, as well as keep the speculation train up and running, and because wallpapers. Besides, surely TLG is not limiting itself to just three automakers, and that there are many supercars that can become 6W cars. Give it time, at least until fall, when negotiations are done, Le Mans 2015 is over, and the F1 season is in full chat with what is shaping up to be a competitive grid.WAIT!!! The 2015-spec F1 cars! I haven't posted them! Oh, my negligence.
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