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The electric wheel loader and that wacky rover are really tiny for 100$ too, seems technic got another 20-25% price increase across the board. It's getting quite hard to justify buying when the price i'd be willing to pay is nearly 50% off!

It’s an orange.

42174 Emirates Team New Zealand AC75 Wow, i'm amazed, i did not expect this to be so dull.

You mean 2012?

The last flatbed truck was back when the unimog released no? About time for a new one.

I don’t think it’s unusual for even (supercar 1:8) years, 2022’s flagship wasn’t a Control+ set either, only 2020’s was. I would expect 2025 to have 2 Control+ flagships though. I personally don’t like the up trend on the flagship price but i hope with the liebherr being a slow seller they’ll price the next one lower.

Small news: 42182 (lunar rover) is 18+. 42174 is 18+. At ~930 pieces is also the smallest 18+ technic set, likely not pneumatic (could be 42175). No clue what it could be at this price range, maybe a space set too? Not just 42182 but also 42174 and 42177 being 18+ space sets sounds a bit optimistic.

Honestly not much, in fact the only benefit i can imagine is being able to up the scale using much sturdier technic. It’s something fairly boring for technic but not unusual given the dozen or so car models released every year. I don’t think it is given the 18+ branding which is nowadays reserved for cars or flagships (with brand recognition). Technic has only done vehicles based on real things for 18+. Honestly why i am interested in 42177 is that this price and age rating is indicative of a control+ flagship, but given it’s a supercar flagship this year it’d be unusual if that was the case. The piece count if correct excludes all 1:10 scale cars out of the equation, so i think it might be a ~300€ non-RC non-supercar. It could also be an overpriced Tatra-like 6x6 trail truck, but considering the potential price of over 400€ after they struggled to get rid of the rest of their zetros stock in the last half year, i have doubts. A NASA branded set is an easy guess, it’s space year after all, why not go all out with a branded space flagship.

I would as well, but i doubt they’ll make another big standalone shuttle when the icons one is still on shelves. I think there is a good chance it is ISS though, but the end result would be absolutely massive. Roughly 3 times the pieces so about 2.5x larger than the ideas one, surplus can go to a small cargo rocket build.

Could 42177 be another NASA set? Something like a launch site sounds cool, but seems too much play focused for the age bracket. Or supersized ISS?

Honestly there really isn't much you can do with just the rover for 250$, the lunar rover is a barebones platform with motor, wheels, seats and instruments. It's similar price-tag to 42114 makes me think it's a Control+ set, but i fail to see where exactly they could fit 2 motors, steering and a technic battery box without looking strongly out of place. Granted 42114 if released today would be 300$, so the rover would have to be a fair bit smaller, which it should be, because it's almost just a frame on wheels. Monster Jam.

42174 is close parts count to audi RC from last year so the dream for control+ MJ is potentially still alive.

42172 is the hypercar, 42177 is the flagship. For a bit of speculation, LEGO likes to release one pneumatics set and multiple RC sets a year. Given not all names or prices were revealed it’s difficult to pin-point which is the RC set and which is pneumatic. Likely candidates are 42174 and 42177. 42175 would be really expensive and undesirable if it had either as it’s already a double pack. My guesses are: 42174 pneumatic, 42177 RC. 42174 RC, 42177 motorised (dumb box) pneumatic. I however don’t think 42177 is RC as it would cannibalise the liebherr’s already small market.

It is. 42177 seems intriguing but that piece count and 18+ tag seem to point at another super expensive controi+ set. Also the piece count of 42182 suggests the set is quite beefy for a control+ set, at least for current pricing.

42172 (18+) - 3893 pcs. 42173 “Grey Koenigsegg Jesko Absolut Hypercar” | 801 pcs. 42174 - 962 pcs. 42175 “Cargo. Volvo FMX and electric excavator EC230" | 2274 pcs. 42176 "Gonoch. Porsche GT4 E-Performance car" | 838 pcs. 42177 (18+) - 2891 pcs. 42182 "NASA Lunar Rover Apollo" | 1913 pcs. 42184 “White Koenigsegg Jesko Absolut Hypercar” | 801 pcs. 42196 "Orange Lamborghini Huracan" | 806 pcs. | $49.99 | April 1, 2024 Source: Brick Tap Discord

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Images out for january wave, looks a bit underwhelming after yesterday’s march previews. Edit: on second thought they are quite good besides the pullback.

LEGO nailed it with the new space sets, not realistic but how much i missed these kinds of builds, it’s like we are back to 2016 again. Except the prices.

I’m aware and i think that’s an easy fix, i’m more worried about the ballast assembly, it looks precarious with the extra weight and needs to be redesigned.

That mid-boom bend scares me a little, same for the weights at the back. Would be interesting to see how many extra modules the stock boom and jib can use without stressing the build too much.

Mars rover and deere harvester this year. However i think having 2 200€ and over sets release at the same time, besides the usual august 1st releases is a bit unusual, so i expect the supercar release to be staggered by a month or delayed to august.

The airbus is alright, just not very sturdy - it's as compact as it could possibly be with as many functions as they could fit, so it's kind of bendy. Mine has an issue with it's motor - either the motor is too weak to drive the rotor assembly by itself, or it's a dud. It only lasts one minute at full speed, and performs considerably worse as it heats up, until it completely stalls at around 5 minutes. Smells of heated plastic. The build is more difficult than other technic sets currently on the market, debugging / backtracking requires taking apart a significant portion of the craft. The mercedes truck tempts me but even at a highly discounted price of ~170 euro it is hard to justify buying such a lackluster set,

Yamaha is 25% worse in terms of weight and parts count than the BMW (same scale but it's thinner and less bulky), which was already overpriced when it released, before they bumped that one up by 25%. A handful of new gearbox parts (which should arrive in bricks and pieces in due time) does not make it compelling to buy.

How much would extra ballast help in this case? the 1kg seems too little for what this model is capable of.

Still got a link? With some effort and enough data across different themes you can make an “adjusted value” function in order to take weight and price out of the comparison.