Bartybum

I don't recall ever seeing a design change for large Technic sets, except for the Le Mans racer

I agree that the cabin's oversized. Compared to the real model, both the cabin and tipper are a few studs too tall. I do wonder how this wasn't noticed, and if it was, why it wasn't fixed. THAT BEING SAID, I'd say the designer did a top job with the panel work on the front. The yellow curved paneling fills its spot extremely well, and I'm thoroughly impressed at how clean and finished the model looks

Where’d you snag that? I’m waiting out to try find it $500 or under

I think it’s safe to assume we’re gonna get one in 2022, now that the pattern is repeating

@Ngoc Nguyen Ayy lmao so 2w did mean motorcycle

If there’s no sprung suspension I’m going to riot. TLG should have learned after the bs they tried to pull with 42070.

My guess would be none on the front, and pendular on the back

Well that’s just bs is what that is. Thanks TLG, take your C+ and licenses and stick them up

I do hope there’s at least one set with pneumatics here

I hadn’t actually factored in display space when considering which I’d prefer The frigate is a narrow ship, so display space should be no issue, whereas at a UCS scale the gunship’s footprint would likely be quite large because of its wings.

Lol, would people even agree with that? DS seems to be a pretty popular set, if only for its minifigs

Wouldn’t be much fun, having an overwhelmingly unanimous vote for the UCS Hoth Base lol

But then again, the point of UCS is the ship, not necessarily the figures.

The Venator Star Des—oh wait

Why are you so toxic? I’ve seen nothing but hostile comments from you.

I disagree that it was UCS in style. It had weird proportions typical of a minifig scale set.

I mean, two are old as balls and the latest one wasn't even UCS, so I dunno if your logic works here

Hell no, it's not for me to vote. I have zero desire to fuel the bonfire of people at each others’ throats over toy collectibles.

The only issue I could see would be gearing, but I’d happily accept a suspended fixed gear downhill mountain bike in the same/similar scale as previous motorcycles.

Honestly I think the voting selection is really lousy for PT set fans. The gunship is MUCH better suited to minifig scale. An ARC-170 or Venator would’ve been better choices. I’m not going to vote because I’m in no position to buy UCS, but if I were I’d probably vote for the Nebulon B, only because it’s the last fairly wide-appeal AFOL OT ship that hasn’t yet been made that could translate well into UCS scale (Mon Cals and GR-75 wouldn’t work very well IMO). The bomber doesn’t appeal to me at all because I’ve never been a TIE fan (take that, gatekeeper). That being said, it is well past time for Prequel, Sequel and Anthology UCS to be made.

@Jonas to be honest all I want is fossil fuel companies to start finally paying carbon taxes On the topic of Lego again though, having mulled over it for the day, I think I would like to continue seeing more futuristic/green designs, especially for heavy construction and forestry machinery. Type "concept heavy machinery" into a Google image search and see all the cool things that could be made. I dunno about that - the question was posed within the context of Technic, after all.

And yet still we don’t know what 2w is

Inb4 it’s an olive green Lamborghini Sian, just like the 42110 Defender I think I’m willing to accept both lists, and run with the assumption that there’s a little bit of accidental number fudging going around. Street work trucks and cement mixers are not mutually exclusive

I'm very interested as to what you disagree with, but yeah debating it here is just gonna be noisy, and it's past midnight, and I can't really be stuffed lol

I'm an Australian, so I'm going to weigh in here. I acknowledge that this comment will be extremely political in nature, but I feel it's SO important to the discussion at hand, because real people will read your comment, and some of them may just accept it. So while yours still exists, I must argue that this comment does too. Your accusation here could not be more incorrect. The rural fire service (RFS) in New South Wales was unable to perform enough hazard reduction burns during the off-season. Hazard reduction burning (or fuel reduction) is a very meticulous process that involves burning off excess dry bark and leaves on the forest floor, and the conditions must be just right for it to happen. If it's too wet you can't even start the burns. If it's too hot and windy, you can't risk not being able to put it out. Furthermore, once a bushfire is so bad that it reaches the tree canopies, no amount of hazard reduction or back burning will prevent areas from going up in flames. The fires got this bad because of drought, both natural and due to federal mismanagement of the Murray Darling Basin, a primary water source for Victoria and New South Wales. All those koalas that got burnt alive were in areas that should have never been dry enough to ignite. There's also suspicion over the RFS not adequately spending its budget on fire fighting equipment (trucks, gear, etc.), suspicion over cuts to the RFS budget, as well as suspicion for long term cuts to the National Parks and Wildlife Service. Regardless, things are very heated here, which wasn't helped by our prime minister saying volunteer fire fighters wanted to be there fighting fires (over Christmas, no less), refusing to compensate volunteers, then leaving for an unannounced family holiday in Hawaii after the fires already started, lying about coming back, and finally coming back only to be a total PR nightmare by offering a very shitty compensation with so many disqualifiers, trying to forcefully shake victims' hands (you can find footage on YouTube, it's hard to watch), as well as saying he was glad that nobody died in one of the bushfires, then being corrected that two people actually died, saying he meant firefighters, then again being corrected that that's what was meant. So as you can tell, there's a lot of bad juju and emotions running rampant. Whatever greenie blame you've been reading is almost guaranteed to be because of the majority conservative media owned by Darth Murdoch (who lives in the US), as well as other Australian media giants, who almost always have heavy ties to the fossil fuel industry, and as such will try paint greenies in a negative light because it maintains their power in the country, and diverts attention from climate change (our media laws truly are pathetic). There's also blame towards the Greens party going around, claiming that they're stopping hazard reduction burning and back burning (trying to burn ahead of the fire as to stall it). This is also false, as the Greens support both of these, as well as the Greens leader Richard Di Natale having donated a bunch of straw/hay/blah from his home farm to help with the relief effort. The Greens have never been in federal or state power, so do not have any political leverage to prevent hazard reduction burning. So while there have been occasional protests over certain areas in the past because of an endangered species of animal or plant, these are rare. Almost all of the hazard reduction burns that are cancelled are so due to unsafe/unsuitable conditions. As to the rest of your comment, I ask for the following to also not be removed, because this is not a political issue, but a humanitarian one: 99% of climate scientists (smart, educated, passionate people devoting their lives to studying and teaching, careers that don't even necessarily pay well) around the world are saying that climate change is due to CO2 emissions by humans. The professionals are all saying that climate change is VERY MUCH a human-caused problem. The climate has always been changing, yes, but what's happening now directly coincides with human industrialisation, and is only getting worse. Greta's message has always been "listen to the experts". Her disappointment towards world leaders is extremely well deserved, because there just hasn't been enough meaningful action to prevent human climate change. And if she's done anything else suss, then it's important to remember that she's just a 17 year old teenager. There are grown adults expressing utter vitriol towards a child because she demands a future hospitable to future generations (our children, grandchildren, etc). A few of my friends think she's not being helpful. Think about that for a second - a child has become the face of a movement to prevent suffering on a global scale, has raised awareness across the western hemisphere about preventing this suffering, doing countless talks about how things need to change and we need to listen to expert opinion, and in their eyes she's not doing enough. They sit there and mock her, one editing Hitler fringes and moustaches on photos of her. I can't speak much for Extinction Rebellion, but my experience with them was at university, when they staged a silent rally where they all lay down dead on the floor in the campus centre. Innocuous and yet difficult stuff to put yourself out like that, and yet many students berated them online, entirely ignoring the message. As to their disruptive protests, I say good - it's not a proper protest if you're not attracting attention. There need to be more people protesting, disrupting the flow of money so that the elite will finally listen. When we express distaste towards greenies, we have to remember that what they are fighting for is for a better world. They're our fellow humans, and as such they aren't perfect, and should not be expected to be. Their "arrogance" and "elitism" is a symptom of frustration. It's something we're all guilty of. Remember that when greenies do stupid stuff, the root cause is almost always just and noble - climate change, animal rights, body positivity, equal rights, etc. All that said and done, back to Lego I'm not too fussy about what models they put out, as long as they're functionally dense. The more complexity the better. I do like an RC mining shovel, but I also like forest harvesters and futuristic concept loaders. With cars, I don't really care, because imo they aren't as cool and don't offer as much visual technical complexity (I would gladly take a trophy truck with accurate suspension and a gearbox though!). I'm a huge fan of cranes and robot stuff, really anything that uses pneumatics or linear actuators.