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Cool! I love the way you combined the LAs in the boom.

Brickshelf is down for maintenance... let me compensate with a couple of new photos (more to come).

I guess vehicles are more popular among small boys to play with, I'm keen on them too... here's my wishlist: - a low-floor bus, or just any serious bus, there's never been one in the Technic line - 8855 prop plane remake, with realistic non-PF functions like in this Spitfire - an EV3 puppy that would walk, sit, scratch an ear, maybe pee - Terex RH400 as flagship model would rock too - Komatsu WA1200-6 minifig scale with the 42030 bucket - a fire truck... but I'd want one that can pump water and TLG would never do that As for RC/PF, what I'd REALLY love to see is a new generation of FAST motors, something like the RC Buggy motors but smaller and less power-hungry, and if they'd be faster and/or stronger even better, but power efficiency and size/weight would be more of a concern to me. I'm kinda expecting this will happen sooner from a crowd-funded project than from TLG. SBrick has set a good example on that. Also, non-Technic: - the International Space Stations, we need inspiration for the next generations!

THANK YOU!!! Greatest cleaning tip ever, now my 20+yo pieces are no longer sticky and disgusting, they're fresh and a pleasure to touch!

Great work! All the best in college and finding a good job to finance the hobbies

Welcome back! Sorting is a really hard problem, the best approach I know is: start with defining your priorities. I'm under the impression that most AFOL here don't have 0-2yo kids which might mean their systems are optimized from priorities far from yours For Duplo: quick'n'easy to get in and out. My 3yo has 3 IKEA VESSLA crates (with optional lid). I can highly recommend these crates, not so much the lids. The crates are big enough for her to rummage around and for me to easily put stuff back in them from 3-4 meters away. Their wheels often come in handy too. My wife insisted that lids were necessary to stack the crates, although I pointed out they'd stack nicely so long as they were reasonably full -- which they are, so they do For Techcnic, you should probably think of growth strategies. Try to make really easy to reclassify your parts as your collection grows. Other things I would/did consider in a similar situation to yours: keep your Technic parts out of children's reach and take as little space as possible. I've been reading several threads here in the last few days and found a few "x vs y" choices that repeat all the time: 1. Stanley organizers vs drawers: I went for drawers and highly recommend it for the priorities above (growth, children, space). The drawers system I use (see 3rd pic here) has a few 3x and 6x wide drawers, but most importantly: I can very easily move them around. Even just take the right-most drawer in a row and shift all the others at once, which I do every time I get a big set, to accommodate (a) too many parts of one group no longer fit one drawer, need to use 2 drawers and subdivide. With all Stanley organizers I've seen, you move parts from one compartment to another, rather than moving compartments. Also, when building, I only need to take out about a dozen drawers and keep them handy on my desk, while 80-90% of my stuff remains hanging on the wall, not taking space on my desk. 2. Vertical vs horizontal storage: Horizontal storage tends to take more space and maybe more dust. Vertical fits nicely along walls 3. on-the-ground vs on-the-wall: Here's the child safety part. My drawers are handing on the wall, so that by the time my child was able to reach to the lowest drawers she was already out of her grab-lick-suck-chew-and-maybe-swallow phase. news.lugnet.com/storage/?n=707 is a funny read, although I find it hard to believe than someone really derailed as bad as sort the obvious way: by color. Another priority I set up-front was precisely to make my system color-blind-friendly. Not because I'm color-blind, which I'm certainly not, but because discerning colors among pieces of the same shame is much much easier than discerning shapes in a pool of pieces of the same color. So I sorted mine by function, and then size. So far so good. The one big problem I still haven't figured out how to deal with is tyres. As you can see in my setup, I mostly just piled them up in a big unstable tower... not proud of that!

Nice review. Not only this is so far, and may well be, the only 2014 I bought... I got 2 of them, just for the new parts. Love specially the suspension arms, as compact as those in the 9392 but much stronger!

Great truck! I'm usually disappointed by Technic trucks without suspension, but not this time! I love the sync and how you mixed pneumatics with LAs as well as RC with manual controls. Very neat.

Impresive. Most Impresive. You should fill it with XL motors, put it on tracks and let it run through all Lego City trains at once. Please take a well-lit video at 120FPS or so

Suberb! I first saw this bike in , showed her to my wife (she's more of a Moto GP and F-1 fan than myself) and it took hear several long seconds to realize, then believe, this was a Lego creation. I also showed (on ideas.lego.com) to a former employee of Moto GP and the only thing he didn't "absolutely love" was the fact that he couldn't buy a whole bunch of them straight away

It was actually becoming a father that brought me back, as I started to really appreciate the highlights of my childhood. I wouldn't call those 20 years a "dark age" though, it actually contained the brightest years in my life, specially the 2nd half of it!

I'm another kid of the 80's and love both small models with compact, friendly, PF-less controls as well as bigger models with PF/RC. It's also a lot of fun to give the controller to your toddler kids and let them play (relatively) quietly for a while :)

I just got the 42021 snowmobile. Twice. I love it's new suspension arms, the other new pieces it introduced are nice too. I'm now much more into doing MOCs, even if that means building just one or two (or just half) things per year, I'm in no rush.

About 20 years, between the 1991 8838 Shock Cycle and the 2011 8070 Super Car, or between when I gave all my Lego to my cousin before entering high school (1993, and got it back just now) and when I finally built the 8070 (2013). I'm now building with parts from the new sets. Yeah, the new sets are not as interesting, but the new parts are :)

Love this thread, many comments remind me of very-close equivalents about writing software, something I see somewhat similar to doing MOCs. Totally second "I never use teeth to dismantle", even though it's much much easier to not use teeth nowadays than 20-25 years ago. Mine for today would be: "I never check eurobricks.com when I've got more urgent things to do." (e.g. study for my A2 German exam this Saturday)

Luv it! I need to get budget approval for 2 RC motors

Wow, really serious collectors and/or builders here! What I envy from most of you is not so much your sets and pieces, but the amount of time and space your photos show off My collection and setup are far from impressive, but may be fun for "mere mortals" to consider that it doesn't take that much to enjoy this hobby... I'm slightly the opposite of a hoarder, so I was happy to let go of all my Lego when I went into high school. My cousin enjoyed them for several years and added a few set of then-new themes like medieval and space patrol. When he grew out of them, his mom put them away in a big box. Thanks to my hoarder aunt, I got them back just this year. As I was taking this photo this morning, my 3.5yo girl step in... I explained her there's an excavator there, and 2 Model Team vehicles, and the greater part of a really old car (8865)... half way through my mental inventory she screamed DRAAAGOOOOON!!!! ah, yes, that too. The little wingless dragon is now missing his tail. My mom got me these back because I returned to this hobby recently and bought 2 of the old sets I used to have in eBay (didn't know BL back then). My wife's own super-sweet response to my return to Lego was getting me the new R2-D2, which I'll probably take apart some day to do something Model Team style... But apart from these 3 sets on my office desk, I don't keep official sets assembled for longer than a few days, right now the only things assembled are my BMW R-12 with sidecar (my 1st MOC ever) and a crude chassis for a Volvo 7700 bus (my 1st MOC idea, from 1-2 years ago). All I have to build with is crammed in a corner, out of reach from kids under 3. The green thing in the corner is a woolen mat meant for puzzles (e.g. Ravensburger) so avoid pieces bouncing around, it drives me nuts when they do! At this point my daughter has more Lego sets assembled than myself: all these are officially hers (plus a missing Han Solo that must be hiding somewhere). Her spare parts are stored separately, in the white'n'pink box above. Yes, that's a lady supervising the mine. Since Lego City has too few girls, I plan on swapping in female heads in my kids sets.

I'm unsure I'll get around to modify the engine now, I tried to make just 1 piston 2x3 on each side, couldn't find a way to make it "work" as a piston and it'd looks a bit too small according to ruler-on-paper measurements I took on the blueprint. Also, I took Sariel's advice of making characteristic features rather bigger than smaller

Cool! You managed to keep the frame width in check and crammed lots of nice details in there. Indeed, the headlight would be better tilted down to aim at the road.

A beauty from another galaxy :)

Thanks! Maybe I should ask a biker friend share this among older bikers... BTW the seat suspensions looks better now :)

Yeah, I imagined the spring is the same as in the gray shock absorbers, I was just hoping I could find the springs by themselves in BL so that I wouldn't have to take shock absorbers apart -- ah well, I just did :D

Thanks! I reckon I should've deep-linked a few pics of real R12s, so here are some: Source (and more pics): http://allbikesnz.blogspot.ch/2013/05/1935-bmw-r12.html Source (and more pics): http://www.motomaniastore.com/motors/details/bmw-r12-sold-to-usa--127 Source (and more pics): http://www.carpictures.com/vehicle/07LSC503022043/BMW-R12-1938 And this is the blueprint I used as a reference: http://www.the-blueprints.com/blueprints/motorcycles/bmwmotor/41843/view/bmw_r12_(1939)/ @piterx: I'd like to try replace the gray shock absorbers with the springs you used in your Ford Fiesta WRC but couldn't find them, could you please point me to their BL catalog entry? (or add the link in your blog post)

Thanks! I do have several pics of real R12s in a folder, but rather than re-uploading them let me just suggest a Google Image Search for BMW R12

Hi, I'm new here, 33yo AFOL and looking for feedback on my very first MOC. It's finally at the point where I'm not considering adding much more :) The motorbike has hopefully realistic frame no rear suspension, straight drive shaft (no chain) instead, the seat is suspended (I'm looking for smaller springs) PF lights only work with the battery pack in the side car front mudguard allows wheel to rotate with shock absorbers fully compressed 2 pistons per side to mimic R12's really big pistons, couldn't find a way to make a single piston the right size (~3x3.5 studs) hopefully discrete knob wheel you haven't yet noticed, for the motorized sidecar to input drive kickstarter lever and some stuff to fill in the and lacks speed-o-meter, couldn't find a way to fit it in, even without the PF light license plates what else? The sidecar has 2 PF XL motors for drive 1 servo motor for steering 1 IR receiver AAA battery box openable trunk with spare wheel several pieces in the wrong color (i.e. not black) or with stickers (I'll get clean ones from BL or just remove the stickers) several pins that go into the motorbike frame, plus the steering link and a couple more points to secure it, all easy to detach and lacks mudguard, I'm not sure it'd improve appearance enough to be worth the extra weight (already funded 1) SBrick so that the spare wheel doesn't make me lose control of the thing so easily More photos in BS. Apologies for their poor quality, I only get to my MOC/s late in the night and don't even have a proper white backdrop yet. Thanks!