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I think there is too much cargo stuff here. all of that takes up almost half of the parts count. I would rather the other half of the parts count be used to make the rover better, like putting gears in the portal hubs, addding an engine with differenials, adding pendular axles with springs on all wheels, etc - basically more functional stuff in general. I say this because I find building cargo in technic very boring, id rather be building mechanisms. Just my personal preference, I know that its intended to be a play toy hence the cargo but can't we just make our own cargo anyhow?. The mack anthem had 2595 pieces, and a very good B model (its the only set where I actually prefer the B model), even the 42052 was good. I thought LEGO would make models even more functionally impressive since they have so many new parts they can use now, but technic models of the newer era seem to be getting less and less impressive.. I like this models functions, in particular the body elongation mechanism which I originally thought was to help drive over different sides boulders, etc And I suppose it could still be used for that. the rear ramp thing is very basic but at least its there, steering is fine I suppose.. crane is very basic again but at least it has one and it has 3 functions (turntable, boom, string reel) I'll still pick this set up of course and MOD it with the above features. I also am yet to see any new functional/structural elements aside from the new knob wheel with a 45 degree axle hole. But maybe some stuff will actually be there once more info is released., its just early days yet.

Only thing missing with this model is either: Small micro scale engine driven by a pair of bevel gears on the rear axle OR A compactor in addition to the tipper to empty the truck. And since its an "electric" truck , no engine :) Other than that, its a good model

there's this but its got an extra pinhole, and the other hole is an axle hole where as on my design, everything is a pinhole:

After thinking for weeks and building stuff, the most common part that I wish I had is basically this: because I always reach for this part but then I remember that it isnt quite the same thing:

I *might* forgive you

Surley you mean 15L or 11L flip flop beams?

TBH, these shocks bend too much anyhow, even with the soft springs in them. since they are easy to take apart you could, just replace the spring with an off the shelf hard small spring..

So then why buy it 🤔

yeah I was just thinking why they didn't use the new gearbox parts to at least have 3+N Anyway, Ill try to MOD it when I get my hands on it 😊

Can't wait for the 787b as well as efferman's mobile crane!

I actually was using your instructions , to get the extra 2 actuators in the right place I actually built a little too much of the PF version and wasted an hour and a half but oh well 🙂 I still wanted 4 motors for the two front shovel functions and had already built the 4 - motor rear axle

I Finally got around to modding this set, though I built it from parts that I already owned, parts that I don't own are in a pick a brick order that is being shipped. So, for now some parts are substituted. Originally I only wanted to make this set just have a single motor per function, But I figured that its better in this case to just put a motor per side for everything and then leave room in the middle for the driveshaft. So now: The ripper blade up/down has 2 C+ L motors The ripper blade forward/backward has 2 C+ L motors Then everything else is as planned, with: 2 C+ L motors for the front shovel up/down 2 C+ L motors for the shovel angle adjustment 1 C+ L motor for the Left track tensioner 1 C+ R motor for the Left track tensioner 1 powered up M motor for the ladder and since I only had 1 C+ L angular motor (from set 42114) and not 2, I used 4 robot inventor medium angular motors linked together with knob wheels. So in total 15 motors! 😮 Here is the WIP so far: I intend to power this whole thing via 3 or 4 buwizz 3.0, which I also need to purchase, the model has space for them already as well as space for the v12 engine, so for now i'm using 2 C+ hubs and then I ran out of AA batteries so I used a robot inventor hub (but i've still ran out of ports because there are 15 motors 😮. I couldn't find a way to simply control all of these hubs from one app (thanks a lot lego you morons) And pybricks just plain sucked so making a video of the functions, without buwizz is going to be almost impossible, you can't even have motors running and then switch to another app (e.g, the camera) with lego's stupid powered up app, and that app also does not recognize the robot inventor hub. Regards, Snipe

My 9v motor is very quiet but it has very low torque it's 4x5x3L I belive

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oof I just spent £500 on a pick a brick order :D Unboxing video coming soon

Anyone know of any off road tires or road tires that are less low profile than the ferrari saytona sp3 tires In other words tires that would fit on the daytona SP3 rims.

Sure: The left one wont work very well in real life, but the right one works fine, because the right one has a hair more spacing. Maybe you can use this trick to get slightly more spacing so that the green 20 tooth gear doesn't touch the 8 tooth gear.

if you put cross blocks that are spaced apart by say, half beams, it might help. This is because if you just use pinhole beams as spacers, then the cross blocks have slight protrusions which go inside of the recessed part of the pinholes , and so the spacing is actually slightly shorter than if you spaced them with half beams At least now you can, even with 7L half beam(s), space two cross blocks apart and the new 20T and 12T straight gears fit just fine, whereas you had to use say, half-bushes as spacers with the 12 and 20 tooth double bevel gears.

Can you import more modern Lego pieces that are not in the game normally? Also can you do SNOT building and other advanced stuff like diagonal building? If so then I'd like to try and get this game working again because LEGO WORLDS only has a small selection of parts and it can't do SNOT/diagonal building

The only tire that I could make fit on that wheel was the tyres from the 42043 mercadees arocs what tire do you plan to use?

pin block with 2 pins comes in black in the 10327 Dune Ornithopter in this set we also get part 80910 for the fist time in a technic set and we also get the 1x6x1B slopes ( 4569 ) that came in the concorde, but in dark bluish gray. and in the lego pot plants set we get Wheel 41 x 15 in Dark Orange (6462460 | 68327)

From what I can tell, the train is 8 wide (for definite) the track sections are 16L each, but it's not clear if they are normal Lego 16x8 track or the 1x16 toothed single rail track. If it's the toothed track we'll then it's anyone's guess as to what the spacing is, but I hope it's standard Lego train scale (i.e the rails themselves are 6L apart. If the rails are 8 wide apart like on the ucs Hogwarts express then bummer, but I don't think it is. I suspect they just included some single rail 1x16 straights to save cost since they're cheaper than the 16x8 straight train tracks, but also so that if you don't own any track you can at least push it along a bit. or, it doesn't come with track and the track was only included in the photos so that it doesn't look out of place (but I doubt it) I really hope this comes with a motor and battery box or at least has official instructions on how to add the powered up expansion pack to it. So in conclusion, I'm 95% sure that this is standard Lego scale because the UCS Hogwarts express is 12 wide and has like twice as many pieces. But either way, I LOVE this set and am buying it on day 1!

Basically to make hybrid connectors by using the bars to hold pins or to hold axleholes, you could of course do it with the crosshole version of this part but the crosshole wasn't as useful. Also this could be used as a small wheel hub steered or unsteered.

I'VE BEEN WAITING SO LONG FOR THIS PART https://www.bricklink.com/v2/catalog/catalogitem.page?P=3803#T=C

yeah, I can't wait to build jb70's modded 42145 airbus helicopter, but add my own mods to it, including the new blades from the LEGO Icons Dune Ornithopter! they are 40L long and very lightweight but also very thin. I may have to slightly upscale the entire model if the new blades look too long, but heh who cares, that just gives me more room t play with :) I would like to drive the blades via a buwizz motor and buwizz 3.0.