Paul Boratko

A few have sold for those prices in the past(you can check the sold history for them) but once they start getting back out there, the prices will drop significantly... Bummer.... I had my fingers crossed these were new flex axles... It is really hard to tell from the picture... That is a good point... As someone mentioned earlier, I don't quite understand the intermixing of the Animals here with the other parts... What exactly are these training kits for..?

Not only that, but there is orange there... There has never been a flex axle in orange...

Are they what I think they are..? This is one of the new(and very expensive) Serious Sets...

I actually have one of that chassis right here in front of me and everything lines up perfectly... There is no stress on the axle or the U-Joints.. Everything moves very freely... Have you built this chassis..? I am not sure why you think it would be either stressed or loose... Nothing is touching or rubbing anywhere... When you remove the steering wheel axle and 1/2 bushing, the universal joint lines up directly with the hole for the steering wheel axle... I am not quite sure what you mean by the angle making is too loose or stressed... What do you mean how does it fit in..? The 9L axle..? The key piece for everything lining up properly is the 5.5L axle with stop being used with the second black 12 tooth bevel gear and universal joint(The one on what would be the bottom gear on the front in the picture you posted)

The 8272 Technic snowmobile required the cutting of a ribbed flex tube in half... http://instructions....wmobile#Page:63

What sucks is that I gave my wife a TON of blue parts when she started up her bricklink store.. Including twelve 19L blue flex axles....

It is this <--- with the last 1L of the pin with an axle on it in Dark Bluish Gray... Going to be a very useful part... The nice thing is that these will also hold liftarms together tighter than just running a 3L axle with stop through them...

New Micro Panels in black... Awesome.. Been waiting(and hoping) for these...

Just watched the youtube vid of the new sets... The box art on some of them is still old.. I remember reading that other parts had been replaced... Lots of new parts and new colors... The 3 piece constructions crew looks pretty good.. The Offroad pullback looks like it was sponsored by Mt. Dew... After no sets having them in 2013, the flex axles return..!

I really didn't mean advanced as "overly complex" but more so advanced in the ways of the new techniques and methods used in the developement of the product.... I also always consider the appearance of the models just as important as the functions within...

I have no problem with similar models coming out as long as the build gets more advanced and new parts are introduced...

Minecraft translated well to Lego because the entire point in Minecraft is beased upon the same thing in Lego, which is building... Minecraft actually made sense as a Lego project from the start... And really, it's not like those sets required any advanced developement... Minecraft also being an independent company rather than a huge one like Nintendo most likely also made things a bit easier to work with...

Thanks for the info.. I googled them before I made the thread and actually found that as well... In the message that I had received from Ebay, it had their contact email address, but I blocked it out from the screen capture picture that I posted(it actually looked like someone's personal email rather than a company's)... I sent them 2 emails on the 19th before I made this thread here and didn't hear anything back which was why I made the thread... I then sent 3 more messages in the time since then and still nothing... If I can't even get a simple reply back via email, I am not going to waste my time and money attempting to contact anyone from there... I have a feeling that I am just going to get the run-around... I appreciate everyone's help in this matter...!

Been a few days and still have not heard anything back from Lego Juris A/S... Perhaps it was just someone randomly throwing their weight around to make a monthly quota and I happened to be the victim this time... Or maybe there is in fact more to this...

This certainly is something that one would think, but there are almost 5,000 custom minifigures on Ebay that didn't come from Lego, not to mention a guy that was recently selling leaked Simpsons minifigure heads that Lego HAD to know about...

I wonder what would happen if I reworded the listing to this by adding it to the end... Crowkillers Custom Porsche 997 GT3 166 Page Instruction Download Lego Technic There are 1000's of people using LEGO in their description that are not even selling Lego including many knock offs... This is something that I had originally suspected as well... But then again, so is the Vampire GT, which is still on Ebay.. Why pick one and not the other...? And more so, why pick one that sells less than the other..? Looks like it's time to start deleting these dead Cuusoo projects...

Yes, that is fine... I would like to get some type of response on this... The thing is that there are 100's of Lego listings on Ebay right now that are using Lego in the title for custom instructions.. What I don't understand is 1.) Why would this particular one get singled out from them and 2.) why would it get singled out from my other 2..??? I could easily change up the listing and remove both names, but why would anyone really have an issue..? I mean I am promoting one product in Porsche and helping to sell another in Lego... Perhaps I should add the ® symbol to the Lego name and Porsche name..? Which ones were pulled..?

No, 3 differemt ones... Transmission Instructions, Vampire GT instructions, and the Porsche Instructions... I've been selling the Porsche instructions for about 8 months now... They are the ones that are supposedly in violation... Other than "Custom Lego Porsche Instructions" in the auction title, I am not using their Logo or anything... Here is one of the older listings...

Since I am receiving No responses from them in this matter as I should have been contacted first before there was any action taken, I will take it public to see if anyone has any insight into what was being violated here... LEGO Juris A/S is the owner of all of the Major Lego domains... What I would like to know is why out of the 3 instructions that I am selling on Ebay did this particular one get reported and pulled..??? Does it have something to do with Cuusoo maybe..???

My wife just sold four of the LBG #4 connectors to someone from Australia today...

Yes, I know... DrJB mentioned that use in his initial post.. I was just adding some other uses for the shape of that bushing...

When I was a senior in high school(back in 92) in drafting class we had to build mouse trap cars that traveled at least 10 feet(3 meters) I built mine out of Lego Technic parts and using the advantage of Gear ratios, mine went the furthest at 42 feet... I had heard that they still have my car on display at the school..

That bushing was also used to engage the rear wheels(8880 wheels) to the axle on the 8857 Street Chopper as well... I think that octagonal end also fits into the space on a driving ring too...

That is interesting.. Wonder why they left off the 2L axle and 2L and 3L Liftarm along with the thin ones..

The main(and mostly only function) in Model Team models is steering... Many Builders(Like Paul Kmiec LINK) have built some amazing models combining far more Technic functions and features into their highly detailed system built models...