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New wider tires from Charger will be reused in a 2027 mid-sized Crane model.

Me too. Same for the 42231 Charger in this Topic. Horrible model, but very good parts.

At the moment, I'm only following Technic to collect the small vehicles. I also have rebuilt the small 42241 and 42222 models, but that’s all. The future doesn't look bright.

Thanks. I no longer take care about this set and Technic :)

We are still missing RB review of boring 42231 Dodge Charger from June.

Cool, thanks for building in own colors and for sharing. The small Groomer is from 2020, when parts originally intended to be lime-green could be utilized following the release of the 42215 Sián. Nowadays, it could simply be replaced with newer parts and Styles.

BritishRACINGgreen. Nice teaser for a big green model though.

F1 Williams and F1 BMW is very likely in 2027 to extend the 1:8 Bolide series.

Cool surprising set and a great boxdesign too.

Ole Kirk Christiansen appeared to me personally in a dream to convey this. Naah it is still listed. We will see.

Sorry for beeing offtopic, but does anyone know a list or website where alle 15-stud Car-Transporter-Gang members are listed since the beginning in 2019?

Interesting. Maybe the sets are for selected stores only. Here in germany they are not available for retailers.

I am not sure if this was mentioned before, but the blue version is exclusive to LEGO and not available in store. Same for the green Bugatti (42241). Looks like a new trend, bring a model in january in ugly color, recolor them for summer and make it exklusive in a better looking color. However, I got both.

@Auroralampinen I don't want to sound nitpicky, but it would be nice if the list at the beginning of this topic were properly maintained. These cars are all August Sets (not yet released) 10+ 42236 Custom Garage Ford Mustang 973pcs Old rumored price 64.99€. New rumored price 89.99€ 10+ 42234 Viper GTS R Technic Dodge 805pcs 64.99€ 9+ 42235 Ferrari 488 PISTA 882pcs 64.99€ Aston Martin 42240 is coming in July, not August. The small Motorbike kann be canceled. Then the entire 2026 lineup should be correct.

Nice to now. I really like it in green, shame that is is just a recolor. The 42240 Astin Martin is also bright green, together with Rexy Porsche a massive bright green year.

Lego only thinks of itself; the rims are reused by MOC builders. Unfortunately, the models are designed to end up on a shelf. The days when Lego was a generic building system are long gone.

you mean this right? Yes with the new 14z gear this solution is now finally possible.

The new 14 gear 18 gear combo could also be a last minute addition. During gearbox development they realized that some ratios don't match. To hold its own in the world of Technic, the orange clutch gear will eventually have to be offered without the clutch mechanism as well (a normal gear with crossaxle). So a third gear is needed yet in another color. It is questionable whether all of that is really so efficient.

The gearbox is indeed a nice solution and people are hyped now for getting something "new" to build. But to be fair, the P1 gearbox is much more difficult to build and much harder to understand. Using one drum for 4 positions with 45 degrees offset represents the pinnacle of engineering excellence. And by the way the Koenigsegg largest Technic set ever has only half the number of gears included compared to the P1 inventory. The whole inventory feels very custom-made to fulfill only the purpose of this model. What bothers me personally is the extremely high number of system parts used, while there are too few gears for such a gigantic set (P1 has double the amount).

One serious question. The inventory does not contain any Cardan-Joint for the steering, so the steering is made with gear transition only. Is the steering wheel proberly aligned/centered?

Other than in the next 1:8 car, I can't see any useful case for this new drums, except for using it in a 9 position gearbox. That doesn't necessarily mean that the transmission has to have 9 gears. 7-Speed TREMEC is for example possible, with an extra neutral gear and reverser gear directly implemented in the gearbox setup. The next Supercar can also use this setup with 8 gears + neutral. There are possibilities, but the parts feel very much like custom-made.

Compared to the gearbox from the P1 with 4-position drums, this one is made pretty simply. The new drums are simple on/off switches - zero and one. You can see that they can only move in one direction, instead of two like the "older" drums. Yellow ABC switches only to left side, where red 123 switches only to the right side. It's a simple on-off switch with multiplier. A1 | A2 | A3 | B1 | B2 | B3 | C1 | C2 | C3. The whole thing only works because, luckily, 9 is evenly divisible by 360. The drums are made very specifically for the model. It's very questionable whether you can use it in other models. You can clearly see how the drums are engraved. Yellow ones kicks in at 3/9 (only one direction) and remains neutral at 6/9. The red ones for multiplication alternate every 3/9.

Nice review about the underrated but overcoloured Dodge:

I think the set offers the greatest variety of suspension parts of all time with atleast 3 different kinds.

Retailers are listing the set with a discount only for September. It looks like the Koenigsegg is LEGO exclusive until September.