JimDude

Monk! I did have to LOL when I linked your user name to the topic at hand ;). I can't say anything about the quality of the bricks of Pantasy or how they compare to LEGO (I can say plenty about the recent prices of LEGO sets, OTOH! But that is for a different time and place), I just found it mindboggling they got VI and VIII right, but not VII.

Uhm, that's not how Roman numerals work

Well, that was quite the emotional rollercoaster

While those two aren't exactly Chirons, it is still quite the wierd criticism when the series was started with a mundane GT3. I'd say the Bugatti is the odd one out.

Well it can’t be a rotating stand for the car coz no hand would fit underneath the car to reliably operate the crank. That said, why is it so overengineered just to spin the logo? If it was to make it look cool, that failed I’d say, coz it looks ugly and out of proportion. In fact I think it doesn't even weigh enough to be able to spin the crank one-handed. You'd just shove the thing all over the place, so you'd have to hold it down with your other hand. I still think we’re missing a trick. (it's fake isn't it )

***How rumors start*** Aren't JCBs yellow?

You can’t please all of the people all of the time. I remember vividly when the 42009 crane came out, everyone (*) was bitching that the outriggers didn’t work (they did, you just had to take your time and put the set together properly) or were at best moving at glacial speeds (well, yes, they did, just like the real thing! Through the most amazing gearbox ever (*) ). So, what is TLG supposed to do? Release the – horrible – Liebherr with lotsa direct drive making stuff move way too fast - for better playability - compared to the real thing (let’s not get into how much it looks like the real thing shall we…)? And sure enough: more criticism ensues. (And yes, there were two noticeable cranes in between these two, both met with… more criticism) (*) I’m being hyperbolic, as should be evident.

The connector is behind the living quarters (which have a toilet that's cooler than the ones from City, but I digress). Which of course implies you can only attach something when the rover is stretched out. But this set does not look to have something that 'comes off' which you can then add to the other sets. Unless the entire living quarters can come off, but then I'd have expected them to show it on the box. I'm also totally convinced the City Space components will fit too. They use after all the same orangy connector. Has a - interconnectivity - crossover between themes ever been done before by LEGO? (BTW, as a kid, this lineup would have had me in ER, on oxygen supply, and attached to a heart monitor. As an adult evidently not as much because these really are playsets first and Technic sets second)

Top job (and great remote control performance, even with the "system brick weight penalty", on which your model scores heavy - ohhh, look, a pun!). As an aside, we could probably use a thread dedicated to the other machinery that was on the 'bean table' (at the end of the YT). I understand those are probably not made by you, but nevertheless I need to see them :D.

You know, TLG almost has me at the point where I'd like CADA (or was it MoldKing who released it first?) to patent the funky alternating hole beams.

Grohl as a kid:

W.r.t. the windscreen being tilted the wrong way. It looks "better" - albeit not yet perfect - on the box (look at the angle it makes compared to the orange safety barriers). In fact, even the slope of the engine cover seems to look better on the box. Surely the demo-unit wasn't incorrectly assembled?

Has anyone already tried to guestimate the hight - in bricks, d'Uh! - of this thing? Allow me to rephrase my own question: I'd be bitterly disappointed if this thing can't be loaded by a 42030 loader. Speaking of loading: I'm assuming the piece count will include 'payload', i.e. round bricks? I can't see them on the box, but then again, the all important bottom right corner of the box is obscured.

Except when its a cement pump truck, of course. Then again, 'cementmisher' is not up for alternate translations.

Never mind the car, Bottas is the Stig!?