Timorzelorzworz

This is absolutely true. But on the other side, people complaining about too much cars in the lineup for every year over and over again. It is an endless story.

Thank you for making and sharing your creation. You can try to use https://rebrickable.com as hosting platform for your instructions that can be seen by a wider range of people.

It's just my opinion with some experience from the past years. For decades, people in this forum are screaming for a Technic JCB model. Was any JCB model released since there? No. I don't believe that TLG invests time and resources in reading forums to collect statistical data. The past has shown that they are not interested in community opinions and wishes and that they won't be either. They design and produce models that the market regulates. TLG shows several patterns from the late '90s, but compared to the past they won't change things and stick to what is working well. Cars are selling good, especially the smaller 15 stud wides for pocket money. They are an addition to the lineup, not a replacement for other models. Since we have these many cars, each lineup has grown significantly per year. If TLG were doing badly, they would look for a change, but obviously they don't. Personally, I'm not a big fan of this trend either, but as long as there is demand for the models, nothing will change. The small 15 stud cars are quick money for TLG, even the ones with the color swaps. Try it in stud.io, make a model with a good 200 pages instructions and then change the models color. The instructions remains, the color has been changed. Zero effort for a complete new model that sales. As long as people support this laziness of overpaid danish employee by purchasing these models, nothing will change.

Agreed. So far, no one has complained about my instructions yet.

No why? I use many arrows for parts in a new step and custom frames for highlighting parts that can be hard to see. Outlining is very useless for callout steps or for subparts. Stud.io highlights the complete group of parts if it is a callout step.

They don't care about this forum at all. They produce and make things they trained in and what sells, not what a very small range of people in a forum want.

In Stud.io instructions maker it is a global setting for all the parts of the model with the same thickness and color for the outline. Seems to be a matter of taste, but personally I don't like outlined (highlighted) parts and disabled it for all of my instructions.

I got only the 42141 McLaren in 2022 and rebuilded it into a FunKart which was totally useless. After that I lost interest in the f1 models.

The F1 cars since 2022 in Technic theme are the most boring sets ever. I personally can't understand why people spend 230$ for those display pieces for nothing. But they seem to sell themselves, so the series continues every year.

The r/ topic is one year old, the set from Lepin. Luckily enough it is ugly and not the 42224. Lego would never print tires for a small car not in 18+ league.

I expect the Jeep Wrangler Rubicon to be regular blue. The 42228 is the boring 1:8 Formula 1 car

True that. Going away from traditional stuff more into digital world happend for TLG in the end of the 90s to the beginning of 2000. We know how this story ended.

It is highlighted much in every description. I've a strange feeling that Lego starts to skip physical printed instructions and goes for digital building only, starting with the smaller sets.

FXX K..sounds more like a porn title than official Lego set.

We got the 42130 BMW Motorcycle in january 2022, then the 42159 Yamaha in summer 2023 and now the 42202 Ducati in january 2025. If the series continues, we see the 4th 1:5 Motorcycle in summer 2026. Launch for 2026 looks very similar to 2022, with 1:8 Formula 1 (42228 for march) + probably new 1:5 Motorcycle + 1:8 Hypercar. 2022 was the only year where there was all these 3 kind of models launched together. Launch cycle for the 1:5 bikes is 18 months, for the 1:8 Hypercars 24 months. 2022 and 2026 are the only years where both models are possibly launched together.

I was thinking exactly the same while building the 42210 Skyline yesterday with the wheel caps in hand.

Except for the instructions there is no single image showing Uwe Wabra, the designer behind this set. The model is great and totally underrated. After nearly a year no one made a B-model for this beauty.

BMW E30 taken outside to nature. Built only from parts 42210 2 Fast 2 Furious Nissan Skyline GT-R as B-model.

Spoiler alert: It's not getting better :)

Thats pretty nice

Why your "o" is a 9? Maybe some glitch in the Matrix happend.

You does not necessarily need a dedicated graphics card for raytracing. Funny enough I have basically the same setup: Intel I3 (Skylake) from 2016 with integrated GPU only. Nearly 10 years old but still does the job. You are right the PC ist so busy then that you can't do other tasks.

Pneumatic models and tubes in Stud.io are really a hard pain. You can try to use flex rods/hoses in different lenghts as a workauround and fix the endpoints with some Pins (or other parts) before bending. The tubes can than become "rubber" colors for improved render quality. The instructions here with Pneumatics was made in stud.io:

A good advice after many projects my friend: never update the Stud.io version during a build. It can crash the entiry project and instructions. For every "Bugfix" in Stud.io there are two new Bugs coming.

You're welcome. Feels free to construct.