TeamThrifty

£139.99 delivered from costco when it was in stock...

Excellent project choice! I love watching the live channel from boca chica on youtube - https://www.youtube.com/c/NASASpaceflightVideos - If anyone hasn't watched the live launches, then you really need to! Looking forward to updates on this project. (and the inevitable starship + superheavy that you'll build next! )

I meant in comparison to other sets and part counts, its not the disaster its being made out to be. Double the part count and done really well would be a potentially awesome set.. Potentially. However.... for me the whole concept of a lego display model seems odd. Likewise building sets and sticking them on a shelf. I'm 98% about mocs, have been since i was 8, so the 'display' culture makes zero sense to me to start with. I'd buy these tarty supercar sets if they offered them with no bodywork and £150 cheaper. So its not my bag, but i can see why its priced where it is. Might rebuild my BWE if nothing interesting turns up... that was a PROPER technic set!

Agreed. The price seems about right for the part count (+Licence).. and there's no space for anything else. I said previously that a proper 4k part count, ucs special f1 car would be exceptional. But this isn't that, and isn't meant to be. It'll be £130 when its on the shelves... and its probably worth that.

I wish they would do an F1 car at the same scale and part count as the ucs series.. with proper slick tyres and wider back tyres. Do it right. I think it could be a special set. They could go the whole hog and do a realistic gearbox to fit in the confined space at the back of the car... DRS, pushrod suspension, heave springs.. removeable body work.. It would be a car even none-car people would love.

I think it was very poor. We got new tyres.. but... No 4 wheel drive, unrealistic 3 points, no diff locks (obviously) and a tedious build. And i love tractors. But i'm not a fan of that set at all.

..just a warm up for the 4k piece proper flagship thats been the set of my dreams since i was 8. Thats 41 years TLG!!! Come on.... all these supercars getting released every couple of years, is one monster tractor too much to ask?!!! 🙈🤣 Imagine a 4k piece JCB fastrac? Wow.. it would be awesome.

If $600 proves to be correct then even buyers like myself that could just about justify £320 for the Cat won't be buying it... i really hope its an error in the leaked information, if not then TLG has definitely pushed it far to far. I live in hope that it turns out to be about half that price

I was 7 in 1979 but i still remember those sets... awesome!

Don't worry about B models.... Or other people's MOC's... Just find something cool, get your big pile of lego and try and build it! It will take 5, 10 probably a 1000 attempts, but thats the fun.... When i got 851 for my 8th birthday in 1980(!), i built it then immediately took it to bits and tried to make it better (my first mod was a pendula axle). I see lego as 99.9% a toy for me to build mocs. Instructions are an inconvenience!! Just another mans opinion. Take all your sets to bits, get a huge pile and then start building. Its designed to come to pieces for a reason, its not airfix to sit on a shelf, it for your imagination. I love tractors and lego are crap at releasing tractors... so i build tractors. No instructions, just pics from the internet and days/weeks/months of changes.. iteration after iteration.. but every one is total pleasure. If you're not moc-ing, you're not lego-ing... its just airfix otherwise!! Throw off the set-obsession shackles and live the true lego dream!

Your decision seems to be based around 'what new sets will tlg release' and the direction... If lego went bust tomorrow i wouldn't sell my collection because its something play with and build mocs from. Official sets are something i buy if they interest me. But if there was never another official set it wouldn't reduce my pleasure from lego one little bit.. ..keep it all and moc like the fury for the rest of your days. Believe me, there's a thousand times more pleasure in that than just building official sets to sit on a shelf.. I believe Lego is Mocs. Official sets are just a minor side distraction.

Bluetooth isn't going anywhere so i don't see a dependency on that protocol as an issue, smartphones? 96% of under 25's in the UK have one, 78% of over 55's... (88% overall) Lego have targeted 88% of the population.... Its difficult to pick fault with that strategy. ...unless you're in the 12% that hasn't got one. But 88% is rock solid business strategy and hardly a minority. No point moaning! (obviously other countries have different percentage of ownership) I honestly think you'll love it. You know how some builds feel fiddley and disjointed? (claas..) and some just flow with beams and structural things that make sense and you get a real feel for the thing you're building? (bwe...).. This is the latter. Its just really enjoyable to build and feels like its lego and made of bricks, not trying to be a diecast model... I'm no wordsmith(!), so not sure if i've explained it very well, but it feels like sets did when i was 10 yrs old (just massively more sophisticated), and i want lego to make me feel 10 again. I feel 49 the rest of year!!! So faffing around with a 1000 tiny bricks to make my lego look like a tamiya kit just never makes sense to me. Give me beams and more beams and cogs and UJ's and make something big and awesome...just like 8860 did when really was 10... ..maybe i'm just being nostalgic and feeling my age!!! Either way, i love this set.

I bought myself this for xmas... I paid £329 which is a little more than i would like, but sometimes you do these things. I've just finished it and i have absolutely loved the build. @Jim review a few months back resonated with me, the way he described the build itself and the speed builds online all screamed one thing - Proper Technic. No obsession with filling gaps or a 1000 bricks just to make it look good on a shelf, this felt like the modern day equivalent to my very early technic sets (8860, 850, 851 etc). The finished model is a chunky little fella! And i also love that.. its size suits it, the building style suits it. I'm not sure how else to say it, but its Proper technic. A few pounds more than i'd ideally like to pay but overall this i think this set is exceptional. I know for others the price is a major issue, and i get that, but i tend to only buy 1 or 2 sets a year, so other a 12 month period my total spend is probably lower than a lot of people... but pleasure per pound spent? This set surely wins!! It really is magnificent!!

@efferman I'm not really sure who to ask or where to start with this query - i'd really like some bigger sprocket wheels. The new ones are 7L which is great, but 9L and 11L would really useful for a couple of mocs i have in mind. Have these been created by anyone already, or would anyone be able to produce some? Any advice would be very welcome..!

You mean thats not what happened?!!🤣 Next you'll be telling Marylin Monroe really did commit suicide and was murdered by the Kennedy's!!🙄🙊

Seems a perfectly reasonable reason to me.... not sure why the narky comment on the end was needed though?

Whats with the black latex gloves...?

Thats not bad in fairness. I love the forks and rear shock. Front mudguard isn't great... but overall, especially without the fairing on, its pretty good. As a bike owner its easy to be overly critical, but i suspect bulldozer owners feel the same about other sets! It deserves a thumbs up - the bike community has been under represented with sets, these wheels suggest we'll get more of these which can only be a positive.

its massive... surely there's some hidden functions in it? I can accept a 3 speed gearbox due to space issues, but a model that size needs to either look the dogs bollox or pack a technical punch. Unless commercial restrictions intervened. It needs to sell, and my geeky needs as a bike owner are in the minority.

+1 The scale would surely make it possible. The suspension interests me. I'm hoping for something decent.. new parts maybe that allow damping adjustment, its easy to make your own with existing parts, but new bricks and new solutions are always good

technic doesn't bore me as i think of technic as mocs.. official sets are just the occasional cherry on the cake, but nothing more. They represent 5% of my pleasure from technic, for me its a moc tool

R1 is an excellent choice - both in real life and for lego - as you rightly point out, the cross-plane crank would be an interesting feature. I'd welcome an R1M, even though i'm a zx10r owner, the R1 is a beautiful bike with an interesting engine concept

...build quality looks very similar to the real thing!! Poor. Keeps the dealers busy fixing them, and makes it easier to replicate in lego! Hoping better pics from a proper review show a better model than the leaks. Looks scrappy. And the rear tyres aspect ratio is wrong. Makes it look like a bicycle tyre. On the plus side, the kawasaki they release in a couple of years will benefit from the learning curve!!

I've got zx10r and i love it ❤.. bikes are my thing so i'm hopeful that this set really hits the bike-geek spot. The Ducati really didn't at all, i had zero interest. I'd love to see mechanical authenticity, something a mechnically minded bike owner can embrace. ...and then maybe in a couple of years we'll get a proper model! Not of this bmw nonsense, a Kawasaki zx10r!!🤣

Suspected scam site... 'selling' the Cat at £247.. the domain lookup isn't right. Approach with extreme caution.