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If that was the case wouldn't they just make a 1:1 recolor of Rexy, like the Chiron, Bolide or Corvette? 42252 has 102 pieces more.

Buy now prices yes, some prices are outrageous and will probably never sell. But given enough time and a desperate enough buyer, you might get lucky. Auctions are in most cases more realistic and can often go well below “market value” (although it is arguable that the winning bid should be called the actual market value). @Seasider if you’re in the UK, give Vinted a try. If you’re not currently using it you might know it as a platform used mainly for selling used clothes, but by now it’s transformed into a “generic” marketplace for basically anything. You don’t need to bother with creating any shipping labels (that is done automatically) and the buyer and seller are both protected to an extent. Sell sets one by one. Unfortunately for you, I believe you’ll only attract buyers in the UK. But it’s easy to use, and if you don’t need top dollar for every set you might sell them relatively quickly.

Lego has always been expensive and I don't think a license is as big of a factor as people are making it out to be. It's simply the case that there are more big sets releasing every year, and almost every big set is licensed and naturally will be expensive. A new "most expensive Lego set ever" of course will reach headlines, but these sets are also getting much bigger. It's quite fascinating to go through the list of sets and adjust the prices for inflation. Because based on those findings, newer sets seem to be no more expensive or even cheaper than old sets. To give a few examples: A true classic set, the 8485 control center II is the number 4 most expensive Technic set of all time when adjusted for inflation: over €400 for only 1079 pieces (only beaten by the two Liebherrs and the CAT). A non motorised example with recent comparable sets, the 8458 silver champion car would be more expensive than the current F1 car offerings. Two well beloved motorised and pneumatic trucks: 8868 air tech claw rig would be about the same price as the 42043 Mercedes Arocs, but it has almost a third of the amount of pieces and I would say the Arocs is the far superior set. That's not to say every modern Technic set is good value (I barely buy any modern sets at all). But the idea that licensing alone has made Technic dramatically more expensive doesn't really hold up that well once you compare equivalent purchasing power. Whether sets being licensed is a good thing or not is a different discussion which I'm sure everyone has an opinion about.

Maybe it has been pointed out already, but after 15 years the red toggle joints finally reappear in a set: the 42235 Ferrari 488. I remember when these were basically gold. https://www.bricklink.com/v2/catalog/catalogitem.page?P=44#T=P&C=5

In case someone was wondering what a chassis looks like without most of the yellow and red color coding: No other changes were made. See my earlier post in this thread with the parts I replaced. I have to say I don't like the suspension. The center shock is a little too short, so the smaller shocks are slightly precompressed. The result is that the car can tilt side to side. Also, the steering links are technically too short for the wishbones. The suspension travel is probably not big enough to matter, but the wheels turn slightly inwards when compressing the suspension.

Backorder until August 6th for me.

The proportions may be wrong, but I assume you understand that a photo taken from the side isn’t an exact representation of the proportions because photos have perspective, whereas a render is completely flat.

I strongly doubt that is the case. Even on the official marketing videos the doors don't open all the way if you don't open the trunk fast enough. https://www.instagram.com/p/DaPkMjjlUxC/ Balasz from Racingbrick also mentioned this in his review.

It looks like they listened to the feedback and came with a day 1 solution to the printed headlights.

To replace the 'color vomit' this is what I would change: Red parts to black (except 11214 and 89678, those would be DBG) Yellow parts to LBG (except 32072, because it would create confusion with the 5405) This would I believe be a great middleground between 'acceptable' color coding and esthetics. This should leave the chassis mostly black and gray. If the set was released 20 years ago this is how it would probably have been. The colorful gears and shifting drums are fine as they are. They are never seen, and with the amount of slightly different size gears it's probably quite helpful with building. You don't even really need to change all the black 2L axles to black. The vast majority will never be seen so they can just stay red. All of these parts are (I'm pretty sure) currently in production as well.

I believe it's quite simple why Technic doesn't succeed in these projects. Technic is its own system that is extremely popular by itself. But compared to everything else that is system based, it gets completely dwarfed. To give an analogy: It may be the largest slice of a pie, but the rest of the pie combined is still far larger.

Are those orange CV joints new?

There is even part of the gearbox behind the rear axle. I count at minimum 8 driving rings in this car. I’m curious as to whether all of these are required, I believe fans simplified the prior gearboxes within the first weeks of the set’s release.

I am guessing the engine cover opens the doors via a one-way linkage system. It does mention the doors can be opened separately. The video from RacingBrick shows this (timestamped around 4:00):

So the engine cover does open everything at once, but as I said: way too much backlash, they even have to help the doors open further

I've actually built this one. Honestly, it looks worse, the proportions are not right and while all the functions are very impressive from an engineering standpoint, not all of them work. Check the CaDA topic, I did a sort of review in there. These kinds of cars can be made and delivered in any color combination you can put your mind to, as long as you pay https://www.autoevolution.com/news/mind-blowing-koenigsegg-jesko-attack-odin-sports-24-carat-gold-it-belongs-in-a-safe-231679.html If you ask me it's not really about what the real car looks like, gold panels would have given this car a much more premium look. And honestly I just associate dark tan with a car interior.

I think there would be way too much mechanical backlash for this. I think the engine cover opens manually and that exposes three levers; two for the doors and one for the frunk. Basically the same as the previous three but with the frunk added. Also, the box picture shows just the doors opened so I really doubt they would be connected to the engine cover and/or frunk. I have built mocs before where everything opens at once (coincidentally also a Koenigsegg) and the weight of the clamshells was just too much to reliably and efficiently open all at once.

I don’t think everything will open at once by opening the hood. I think, and the translated description implies it, opening the rear clamshell gives access to levers to open the doors (like the predecessors) and the frunk. It sounds like they are taking this from a mechanical/function perspective to a new level, rather than essentially just reskinning yet another Sian. Besides the P1 using the new gearbox elements they really have not made any significant changes.

Probably this.

There appear to be three gear shift drums and they are once again a different color: yellow. I hope this means they made a 9 speed gearbox.

Overall I like it. I'm just not sure if I feel this looks better than the predecessors. But I feel in person it will definitely have a much nicer presence. It looks like the mirrors also fold in when opening the doors. I think the doors will definitely be one of the highlights. Unfortunately besides the blue pins they also decide to use red 2L axles in places where they are exposed. They already make black ones. Why not use them? Also, after 5 of these cars plus countless smaller ones, how come they have still not learned how to angle the steering wheel yet? In general I don't feel like the interior has ever been given any thought since the Chiron.

I just got these from someone else. Honestly couldn't tell you where they got it from. Anyway I don't think there is or can be any question about the legitimacy of any of these leaks. Even the rear end matches that from the picture which you shared one page back (which someone was very sure was fake). I will definitely be buying it day 1 and sharing my thoughts and experience as I go. I don't have that many hard feelings about the blue pins, but I have whole bags of a black pins and axle pins (both original) so I will be swapping them.

Dark tan is a little bit disappointing. Gold would have transformed the look massively in its favor. If they actually replicated the multi-clutch 9 speed transmission of the real car and it all opens up as it should, I can probably look past the printed headlights. I’m sure it’s not the solution everyone is looking for but with the low profile of the front end I don’t know how it can be done differently.

Notice that the colors are consistent with the leaked model? I don’t think there is a better confirmation about the legitimacy than that without directly showing the model. It looks like that there are is least a play function in this. I think it will have “working” paddle shifters that move the gear indicator.