Bartybum

Yeah, unless it's making a prominent return in next year's movie then I don't really see how the leak could be possible. That being said if it turns out to be true I'll eat my words.

Lol I would be very doubtful that the F&F license fits within TLC's values.

But historically it basically has.

If nothing was damaged then I don't think they'd send him a new bucket

It'd be interesting to see if your case was just a freak accident or if it's more frequent.

Could it not just be that the designer wasn't informed that a v6 engine variant existed?

I thought that stores buy sets from Lego, and then resell at their own decided price, with TLC completely out of the equation because they've already been paid.

Anyone else find the back a bit empty? The rear window seems huge and empty without some sort of frame around the glass on the boot door

Ooh nice, I am now satisfied that the bucket slam is real Whats up with the censoring behind the cabin towards the end?

Ah, I see carry on then

I’m having the same issues. I’ve taken a look at the drivetrain spooling up as I move the car and it’s just slack building up because of the amount of gears. It’s a bit of a shame, I’ll admit. A smooth gearbox would’ve been nicer. Meanwhile, I’ve taken my attention to other things like endlessly bouncing the car up and down like a basketball. The suspension is SO BOUNCY

I'm not sure I agree here, since this conflicts with PF having been released as individual components.

Selling the motors individually would mean less profit for TLC, because some people won't be buying the thousand+ part sets that the motors would otherwise come with. If you want to make money, don't sell something individually if you can force anyone who wants it to buy something they otherwise wouldn't get. Personally, for me this isn't an issue as I'll be be getting 42100 in the near future, so I'll have a large supply of hubs and motors for the future, as well as my current PF collection. However, for people who want a smart hub, but can't afford 42099 or 42100 it'd be an especially dick move on TLC's behalf to not sell these C+ components individually. Regarding the generic application, it would be free and wouldn't be profitable.

The royal starships? Dunno what others think but I've never looked at a MOC (even the chrome ones) and thought hell yeah that looks good.

Great to hear, thank you :)

Ah man this is so cool, great job I hate to be impolite, but is there any chance at instructions or some more detailed photos in the near future? The breakaway view helped greatly, but there’s still bits scattered around I haven’t been able to figure out.

While true, I feel like that’s besides the point, because they’re always gonna do that.

The Nebulon-B and GR-75 would like to have a word with you (so would all of the Royal Naboo Starships, but they're chrome and curvy and impossible). A bunch of prequel-era transports and some Old Republic ships might as well.

I remember that while watching Sariel's interview with Markus Kossman (42100's designer), Markus briefly commented that 42100 was taking Technic close to its limits, whereas 42055 perhaps went over those limits. If that's anything to go by then it's possible that the Technic team might not want to go larger than 4K any time soon (totally fine by me, 4K is an appropriate ceiling imo).

Oof, definitely not a fan of that colour match-up. White/LBG would only work for steel wheels imo, but we don't have any unfortunately. Someone could design some and upload to Thingiverse :P

Do the stick pistons really bounce around that much? That's pretty much the only reason I thought it was CGI/some sort of physics simulation. That and the colour palette suddenly changing.

Nice, any idea if there'll be any more extended footage later? It'd be awesome to see the full mechanism. Also, lol at that CGI at 1:36

Looks really nice. Any chance at a video of it? I might end up wanting to build it this way once I get it. I'd also be really interested to see if someone can come up with the normal facing shovel variant as a B-model, or even with extra parts.

Since there's only two data points, I wouldn't be so comfortable asserting there's a pattern here just yet. So far all this just seems like wishful thinking.

There's some key steps needed for C+ to make both SBrick and BuWizz obsolete imo: Custom control profiles - pretty sure they're already coming, but I did hear something about the PU app being the place for that, so I'm not sure what to think yet. A much smaller hub - a large draw towards SBrick is its compact size and easy integration into PF. It allows you to use the LiPo/train battery box, which is pretty much universally loved by AFOLs. Once C+ has been going for long enough that MOCcers have moved on from PF (yes yes I'm aware a bunch of you won't), then I think we'll see it beginning to kill SBrick. BuWizz is even better because it's more compact than even the SBrick/LiPo combination. The generally unwieldy size of the C+ hub makes it unsuitable for smaller MOCs. I've heard they want to introduce a smaller hub in the future though, so this could be on the horizon. More accessible C+ motors, through smaller motorised sets - done with a much smaller hub and/or a dumb battery box. C+ will likely never make BuWizz obsolete though, solely because BuWizz has different power output levels, some of which are very high. Lego likely won't go this way, since higher power and speeds introduce more part wear.