JonathanM

Neat! Looks like sand blue, and I think “normal” blue. Really loving this smaller scale stuff. This and the plane are best of the bunch I reckon.

Love it!

NZ Brickstore.nz has it available now at 15% off, so I’m guessing AU retailers must have it pretty soon.

Yeah, you’re right, just one at the back I guess. Will be interesting to see the performance.

Interesting. Seems likely 4 L-motors? One in cab, two at back, and one for steering. Rear hubs the same as front (they look new to utilise the new cv-joints).

Looks like 3x19 frames in green after all. What is the small black part in the pinhole of the green panel behind the rear wheel?

Presumably the pin in the middle is just a frictionless 2L pin added to the pinhole in the part. Just like you’d do with 65489.

Good news! Rebrickable has downloads of it’s complete database. You can grab all this info from the inventory_parts.csv file: https://rebrickable.com/downloads/ You’ll need to join to the inventories.csv file to grab the set number, and the colors.csv for the colour names. Once you have that, just group by part number and colour id and summarise to find the maximum. Using something like dplyr In R: inventory_parts |> group_by(part_num, color_id) |> summarise(num_needed = max(quantity)) (Do a filter first to drop down to the sets you’re interested in - the themes.csv file might be useful for this if you’re interested only in technic). Jonathan

New suspension, or is it the one from the BMW?

The laser kiwi FTW. Love it!

Hmm, does this mean the infamous 42053 review will not happen? More seriously, have thoroughly enjoyed reading your reviews - the photography was always top-notch, and the reviews a pleasure to read. Enjoy building (of all kinds!)

Apologies if this has already been mentioned. My son just got the city stunt plane 60323, and it contains two of the frictionless 2L pin 3673 in yellow. The element ID is 6331822. Apparently this is not new - it's in 10 system sets now from 2021 and 2022. I wonder if we'll see it in Technic as well at some point. https://rebrickable.com/sets/60323-1/stunt-plane/?inventory=1#parts

Yeah, I think I would do that next time, though ATM having the studs is useful has Mr 4 still does a bunch of building with Duplo, which ofcourse doesn’t clutch tightly. Usability for a 4 year old is the key for now! The base plates are stuck down using carpet tape, so I can get them off again fairly easily. With the new city sets having fairly stable plate bases, and new road plates tying things together I agree that leaving it smooth would probably be more useful longer term. The best of both worlds is a baseplate with studs only every now and then (maybe ever 4-8 studs). That way things stay in place but can be easily moved about when needed. Could 3D print one maybe, or chamfer studs slightly to reduce clutch.

Yeah, I thought of that, but also thinking of a 4 year old using it who is unlikely to have as much forethought, unless I put enough 1x1 plates down to begin with :) Hmm, will experiment. I haven’t had much luck when they’re really stuck down, but maybe need to alter the technique. Thanks!

I’ve built Mr 4 a lego table for Christmas. It’s just two 48x48 base plates, so not huge. But, with all the city sets coming with lego road plates and other large (8x8 up to 16x16) plates as their building base, am wondering how I’m going to get them off it. Fairly sure brick separators work with 4xN plates, but 6xN, 8xN and 16xN are gonna be no-go. I tried and couldn’t get a road plate off without resorting to carefully using a knife to help get up a corner, and roadplates don’t have as much clutch power as a 16x16… Have been thinking of drilling holes through it every 8 studs or so (centered between 4 studs) for an axle to be poked up from underneath to help get large plates off. Thoughts?