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This looks to be a pretty well done tuned Charger, even without the F&F license this set will sell like hot-cakes to car nuts, the same audience that loved the Porsche, the Mustang etc... Personally i enjoy F&F, they are mindless action movies with some decent car porn, good for two hours of zoning out. If i end up buying this set, it wont be because of the license, but because it is a cool muscle car.

Looks interesting, if the release date is late april we will probably see official pics in the next two weeks right? The smaller scale at least offers some budget for interesting internals, but given 42041s B-models, im not expecting a proper fake V8 in there if it uses those tyres.

I have mine set up in a billy as well, just without the doors. I had to mod 42083 with folding mirrors to make sure the tires dont hang over the edge of the shelf :P

Hmm, both the lambo and ducati in june, that will be an expensive month, but that means we should get more info soonish I was expecting august for the lambo

I thought the ducati was slated for april or may, could be wrong though

Given the price and license im skeptical about this set having cool features, but im happy we will be getting it this year, if it looks good ill get it

im absolutely loving the siccor lift and dyno, very cool! If you have some pneumatic stuff you could also build a compressed air system, a motor powered compressor with air tanks, some lines and perhaps pneumatic power for the siccor lift would be really cool as play features.

And in terms of parent companies, VAG produces a direct compeitior to pretty much anything Jaguar or Land Rover produces, Audi, Porsche and Bentley cover Jaguar, And anything not die-hard off-road LR produces is covered by Audi, Porsche, the Urus and the higher end soft roaders from VW. On another topic, i was sitting here looking at my Chiron, and remembered there is quite some chassis flex in it, the construction just isnt rigid enough to handle the total weight of the set.without being in the middle (this was already apparant halfway through construction), given that the Lambo will have a Chiron-esque part count, i wonder if the chassis will be rigid enough to handle the weight of the thing. (and on that tanget, wether the suspension will finally be strong enough)

Machinery has been getting huge technic sets for way longer though, 42009, 42030, 42043, 42055, 42082, 42100 are all huuuge sets with pricetags and partcounts to match, and personally i dont expect the ultimate car lineup to get bumped for machinery which is already well represented in technic.

The lambo is hybrid, that could make for some interesting stuff, and styling wise the lambo brings lots of new coolness to the table My main concern is the colour, i think going olive green would be huge mistake and cost them quite a lot of sales

How about blue?

Ah bugger.. i havent built the defender yet, so i havent seen the colour in real life yet, but im not happy about the prospect of an olive green ucs hypercar. Lets hope there are no rare or unique pieces and the stickers are clear backed so colour swapping is easy

Thats €20 per car, same as the single car sets, which is unusually good for a two car set, normally they have at least some small markup for the extra build (i think the Year 2 camaros were 40 as well, but singles were 15-18 back then, not 20) I think the price is right on target on the Jag set, i just happens to be two cars i dont care about, if the lambo set was 40 rather then stupidly overpriced at 60, id buy it in a heartbeat, but €30 per car is just waay too much for me. (especially given that i dont like the Urus)

500s are aircooled though, the only thing it can leak is oil and brake fluid. And i saw something on promobricks about march 1st as well, maybe its a VIP-only advance release thing though. Im looking forward to this set though, not sure if im gonna buy it for myself or try to enthuse my girlfriend for lego with it.

I agree with @I_Igor, excellent work, and looks better then the normal set. Excellent work @grohl (as always!)

Keep in mind they've just had chinese new year (which is a much bigger deal then new year for us westerners, it is a two week holiday basically), and the whole corronavirus thing is throwing a massive spanner into the chinese works. There are currently entire cities on lockdown, so it is quite possible that either the factory producing those bugatti rims is shut down, or the mail service in the area has been halted.

As much as i love the big cars, i think the small-ish sets is where technic really shines. I had a lot of fun modifying 42075 (which i consider to be one of the best sets of the past few years), ditto for 42093-B and the recent motorcycles. If i go purely wishlist mode, i just want more of those sets, every wave could have a ~500-700 car-ish thing for ~$40-60, and id buy and modify all of them.

yep, and i think i spy two turbos, that is one insane car. Sad as it is to come to this conclusion, if we assume a limited scale ($99 licensed set, so smaller then 42077), squeezing a V8 between the front suspension seems very unlikely using current technic parts/methods, so a mid engined charger would be much easier for the designers to make, just take the basic 42039/77/96 platform, make it two studs narrower and throw some charger bodywork over it. Aw crap... if it ends up mid engined without an easy way to put the engine in the right place, ill skip it.. i really hope im waaaaay off course here.

The 70s charger also features in the trailer, so im sure it will be there in the movie at some stage, even if it doesnt take center stage during the huge action sequence near the end, itll be there. As for mid engine chargers, i cant really find anything about the engine position in the link, is this a case of "engine just behind the front axle, so technically mid engined", or have they put it in the back seat behind the driver? Either way, i think the modern charger is just the wrong choice for a cool set, it might have the name, but a 4-door is just wrong for a muscle car, 70s charger all day long!

Hmm, just a car with some grey box connected to the wheels (wouldnt even need a diff if you have a per-wheel motor setup) would be terribly boring. Thankfully, i think combustion engines arent dead yet, and even once they stop being made, there are plenty of iconic cars to replicate.

Not really fiber optics, just an integrated dynamo/led unit, spin the input, get a blue glow/spark effect through the transparent plastic to signify a connection between movement and electricity. I dont see it happening either, as im not sure if it is possible to do this low-resistance enough, or durable enough for lego sets, but it is the first and most obvious way i can think off to simulate an electric motor in a technic set, in the same way that the cylinder/piston parts simulate a combustion engine. I dont think lego motors are up the task of actually moving a 1:8 sized car very well, and chucking disposable batteries at a set like that seems a bit meh anyway.

This would obviously be more expensive, but if they could build a very low resistance (low current) dynamo into such a unit with some blue leds or perhaps some spark points, then rotating the fake electric motor would yield some blue light effects, which should get the "hey, this thing uses electricity" point acros. That said, im affraid such a part would be quite expensive. Still, im interested to see how they will incorporate the hybrid concept into the Sian set. Ive contemplated building LMP style hybrid systems with a pullback motor and some complex clutch setup to switch from brake/"charge, to blocking and decoupling the motor, to re-engaging it with flipped rotation to put the power back into the wheels, but i dont see Lego doing something like that.

Hi guys, i wanted to show you the result of an evening of messing around with the 42093-B hotrod. I bought the set on a whim, and while at first i rather liked it, the mini-V8, and the poor details on the corvette really didnt sit well with me. The B-model is better, but still that mini-v8 remains, so i did the one thing any reasonable AFOL would do when faced with an orange technic car, take an example from 42056 and drop in a flat-6 As you can see, it features an air cooled porsche Flat-6 with individual throttle bodies/carbs and some very direct exhaust. The steering setup and overall length of the chassis is the same, the headlights stand further apart, and draw from the porsche/hotrod heritage with the round shapes. Personally im quite pleased with how well the Flat-6 fits in there, and how the details (ITBs, exhaust) ended up looking, the headlights and small panels also add a splash of orange around the front. The final change is some bigger rear wheels, both in terms of width and diameter, these 49.5x20 wheels look much better on the rear. I might try and change the HOG steering to a wheel on top of the cab, where it should be.

Not to mention the new Supra being in the FF9 trailer (shame its such an ugly car...) Either way, the "old, american and black" thing someone reported from a toyshow ties in with Doms charger most, so that is what im going by personally, the old charger is also seen in the trailer, and has been in pretty much any FF movie (save for 2 and TD i think) I just saw the trailer by the way, honestly this franchise just keeps getting more and more ridiculous, and less about car-culture, which really started it all. Somehow it makes me want to rewatch the old FF movies.

@Wimmer The price of the SC lambo set confuses me as well, im guessing the lambo license indeed isnt cheap. (or Lego realised that Formula-E has all the marketing appeal of a potato, and the Jag set needed a low price to sell) Lime green for the big technic car would be awesome, would make for a very nice pairing with the GT3RS and Chiron.