TeamThrifty

Not in my house! Never on a shelf, always taken to bits and used in mocs... Keeping the Faith.

No actually - everyone is sick to death of these adult babies that are offended by everything. Crying that someone made a lego model? If they don't like it, don't look and certainly don't comment..no one's interested. If plastic bricks 'trigger' these bedwetters they need telling otherwise they think they're entitled to try and stop people doing things they don't like - They need to grow up.

What the hell is wrong with people?! "Ooooo its a war machine" - NO. It a lego model, get a grip you wokey snowflakes. If, as an adult, you can't differentiate between a plastic model and a real world war then you are immature to say the least. Grow up and stop trying to hi-jack the thread for your own bed-wetting agenda. Excellent model by the way, loving the belly shot and would like to see some more detail around the drive and steering functions. Well said. Thats a bloody disgrace. Admin need to grow a pair and realise that rolling over for these shouty bed wetters is foolish and weak. These are plastic models for gods sake.

Mega model this. Pure technic as well, not a million system parts. I'm veery familiar with the claas axions and you've captured this really well!

You are achieving this very well.. It captures the real machine. I love it. Its inspiring me to progress my optum 440. All the chassis, gearbox, steering and diff locks are done. Time to move on to the 3-point and the cab/bonnet. Feeling motivated! May even start a new thread with pics

Bigger Wheels = Less Tight

A shorter, full width linear actuator. Not like the mini ones that are 1L diameter and weak, 2L full power but shorter - 2 or 3L's less. I want LA powered steering on bigger mocs to replicate the position and use of hydraulics in real life. I'm sure they'd be useful in many situations...

Agree 100%

I'm in love with this build. I've wanted to do a tracked tractor for a while but small scale isn't my thing - what you've done here is excellent! (maybe a quadtrac is next on my list...) I'm currently building a Case Optum 440 using third party tyres - 150mm rears, 130mm front. I like big!! Awesome what you're doing here. Tractors are a sub-niche it seems but they're ideal for technic. No idea why car-coma is so popular.

There's less mocs on display here than there used to be, which i find strange. I'm 99% mocs, have been since i was 8 in 1980... ...I mainly look on here for news of new sets and the rare good moc. But its getting rarer,

me neither - BWE is an excellent example. Its theoretically not my kind of thing, but i saw builds of it, liked it, bought it and built it and absolutely loved it! Its one of my favourite sets. Niche is meaningless, these sets need to be released and people will actually love them regardless of preconceived ideas. Unfortunately we're in era that totally the opposite, no variety just car-coma play it safe sets.

I own 3 bikes, all japanese sports bikes so i'm not a harley fan but i am a lego fan - This bike captures the real thing very well indeed. (I've ridden one once and i suspect that this lego version is better built and probably handles better! The real thing was awful...) Lego can't offer the forked conrod (terrible engineering solution to a problem that doesn't exist) that allows HD's to have both cylinders on the central axis... But does have staggered bigends instead, so looks authentic! The difficulty with bikes is capturing the stance and you've achieved it wonderfully. This is why mocs are better!

On the robotic arm thread i questioned why TLG didn't produce one.... Same question for this excellent engineering example. Awesome. Perfect wake-up from the car-coma. I love to see a build that i can't understand - as the saying goes, if you're the smartest person in the room, you're in the wrong room - i love this moc. It begs to be used, the opposite of the shelf-megablocks-mentality. I'm a big fan!

This is the reason lego exists my friend If it was meant to stay together forever it would come with glue!

Why doesn't TLG do something like this at full flagship scale? For those of us that couldn't give a sh!t about shelf-queen display models and actually want to engage in clever engineering, it would be excellent 1000 times more interesting than car-coma.

No there wouldn't. If Cars made up 70% of sets, but the remaining 30% were excellent i wouldn't mind at all. But what are the big-set, none-car options this year? Little sets don't float my boat... the cars are 3 or 4k pieces. Give us a comparable big set.

Yes we do. If we're expected to like sooo many car sets, expect to get soo many moans. The majority being silent just for the sake of it is the wrong approach

Maybe... but i love opening a big flagship box. Its still a thrill. We used to get some variety though, something for everyone. And if we're honest, heavy equipment has more variety and lends itself to lego better than supercars - they're all about thousands of pieces to make a pretty looking car, they're totally formulaic and repetitive. BWE/Arocs/Cat D9 are proper technic. Not pretty but functional and have huge variation in functions. True technic sets. I accept people enjoy building cars, but that shouldn't be at the virtual exclusion of other sectors - And i know there's an excavator this year, but its a joke for all the reasons previously discussed. What about licensed JCB sets? So many great options there.... A flagship backhoe is the most obvious, but there's also the fasttrac - a machine unique to jcb. Both of those are rich in functionality and make wonderful 'genuine' technic flagships. A 4k piece licenced backhoe?! Wow.. Instead we getting the eleventy-third car in the last 2 years alone.

It does feel like a a TLG induced dark age In many ways i'm fortunate, i spend 99% of my time building mocs. To me thats the point of lego, BUT, i enjoy a shiny new set with new pieces for xmas. I've had cada sets recently but they're 95% cars this year. I'm now 100% mocs with specific new parts bought directly from lego, but not sets. ...And the BWE rebuild will be awesome. Such an underrated set!!

2025? What the hell has gone wrong. Car, car, car, car, yawn, car, car, £350 for a 2500 piece p**s poor copy of 8043?!!, Car, car, car.... Coma. I've downloaded new instructions for the BWE and i'm rebuilding it this xmas. 10 times the set of anything available this year. Is this TLG's bright idea of the future or is the fault of the put-it-on-a-shelf demographic. I neither know nor care. Whoever it is is wrong.

Excellent model of the best looking F1 car ever from an era when they had 1500bhp in qualifying trim and NO driver aids - real men with big balls driving hand grenades. Lewis Hamilton? Never heard of her....

The issue as i see it is that TLG are playing safe... Car after car because they sell. We need some variety back in the line-up. BWE was very left-field but was awesome, a Grader has the potential to be the same. Unfortunately we'll get more cars because they sell. Playing it safe has its place, consolidate your market share etc. But TLG is under attack from Cada etc and playing it safe will see them LOSE market share. (as will flagships with £500+ price tags...) They need to let the designers loose, use less expensive motors and hubs and innovate. Give us 3000+ piece graders and tractors and all the other niche options, because guess what? Another supercar excites no one. ...then we can speculate as the title suggests. At the moment the limit of the speculation is a dream set that will never happen, or which car will they release. Stagnate and die or innovate 100%

I didn't know that.. thats interesting! Hopefully he's got something for 2025, looks poor so far.

42043 Arocs.. Technic through and through. Zero faff, feels modular and makes sense as you build. Close to perfect. Where's the love for 42055 BWE. Pure technic as it was meant to be. Massive, Majestic and full of functions. Sprockets and UJ and axles and gearboxes everywhere.. In many ways this Technics finest hour. Doesn't get the love it deserves. 42131 Cat D11.. Another perfect technic building experience. No repetition, faff or fiddle. 8258 Crane truck, first set after the dark ages. 8110 unimog, again, no faff or fiddle, solid technic build. Honourable mention, 851.. Where it all started for me. Biggest disappointment, 42054 Claas. Endless faff and fiddle building meaningless section that were just random pieces. I'm a massive tractor fan and this failed on so many levels. One trick pony - steering. Such a shame.

So in summary, this is a poor version of 8043 with less functions? Nothing more, nothing less. Several years of 'improvements' have led to a backwards step...? Or am i missing something?