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Sweet builds! I like the one in the first picture the most. I guess the reason being that it's the most LEGO Technic looking to me. The small Isuzu in the third picture is a close second.

Well, you could have written Mercedes and Volvo then. ;)

I'm guessing that a lot of the cost of the 42056 GT3 RS for example, is due to the design of the extra packaging as well as the extra time needed to assemble the product and get it ready for shipping out of the factory.

The LEGO world needs more pneumatics. Good parts pack. Large pump. Also, I gave one of my two sets to my father.

If this is indeed the real 1H2019 list, it gets a big yawn from me. Good thing for the wallet like you said. Regret even more that I didn't buy a third copy of the 42053 Volvo EW160E. That said, there might be one or more sets missing from this list.

Hehe oops. Not sure what happened there. Lack of sleep? Thanks anyway. :)

What I find more frustrating is that 42082 contains an uneven amount of right and left panels. I might need to buy two copies of it just because of that fact. :) Now, in an unrelated note. Since the 42078 Mack truck contains quite a few parts in green without there having been any models with regular green as the major part colour in quite a while. Could this point to the fact that we will be getting a green coloured set in the near future? In my opinion there have been too many different shades of blue and not enough of the classic but rare LEGO colours in this new era of "new colour experimentation". I'd love to see technic beams and panels in brown for example.

For a supercar, I'd like to see a Aston Martin Vulcan or whatever is the follow-up model of it. The Vulcan is a beast with some really cool design features. Then again, I don't know how well it caters to the overall LEGO public since it is a track car only.

Not sure of the exact measurements, but the cross section of a studded beam is a lot stronger than that of a non studded beam. This makes it a lot more resistant to bending among other things. I think this is the main reason to why it is used in a crane boom specificly. The fan on various Volvo 140 series cars is yellow. Old car, I know, but still. :)

I didn't mean the material was the problem. The shape of the element is a lot more important than the actual material used in regards bending resistance and so on. You say "If there were larger steering arms" and that is just the thing. The basis of my comment was that with the current parts catalogue, the largest models I see around here simply are too big. However, every new brick that LEGO designs has the potential to increase the possibilities of creating even larger models than what we see today. That is the future though, who knows what will happen? I'll put it this way. What good is a crane if it struggles to lift its own boom?

The main problem I see with very large technic creations (both official sets and MOCs) is the stress on the plastic parts that make up the models. Making the model too heavy will stress parts beyond their limit. Parts added purely for looks increase the weight without adding much to function. Having said that, I usually feel very strongly for the aesthetics of a model and want it to function well while looking good. At the same time I want all parts to be technic bricks. I don't like it when I have to pay for parts like the chainsaw and logs in the 42080 Forest Harvester for example.

Great, thorough review, while still keeping the word count low. Very impressive. And also, the pictures! You just want to buy one and get to fixing that suspension. :) Sadly, I can't even make myself buy the 42056 Porsche, which I want more than the Bugatti. :( One thing I thought about when reading your review was the text explaining the picures are located above the picture and not below it, it felt awkward to me.

Nice profile shot! I really like the proportions on this thing. Wheels, bucket, linkage. Every time I've seen a new video on the 42081 I want it even more. Too bad I will most likely need to wait to next year to get the 2018 sets. Priorities. :(

You've got a point. I guess I have to think of a way to combine the two sets into one creation to free up space. :) I realy like the shape of the linkage here. Looks way better than on the 42030 L350F.

Oh, I fully agree with you that it's an awesome model with a very interesting design. Best LEGO Technic model for this year I dare say. Though I will probably also be buying the 42082.

Haha, I don't even own a smartphone, but a computer screen helps. :)

Not sure how you arrive at the scale figure 1:13,5. When comparing width and length I arrive at the numbers ~1:12 for length (6100/510) and ~1:11,4 for width (2500/220). I do not know the wheelbase for the lego model. Not sure from where you get 20cm in width. Assuming the picture posted above is the official lego measurements, the width is 22cm.

Sorry about the slight off topic talk but this is what growing up on a farm with tractors left and right does to you. :) I think I'm done now though, for this time anyway.

I get your point and I too will be very happy when LEGO decides to produce smaller tractor tires. 1:18 scale sounds like a good scale if one where to use the same scale for all their MOCs. I just think that the future tires would be more useful if they were a bit smaller than 95, say 84-88mm. I built a few tractors (without any regard to scale) back when I was a kid in the early 90:s, using the old 82 and 63 diameter tires and think that is a good size for a lego model. I see many MOCs around here that are way too large and heavy to be fully functional.

They say it can be made, yes, but it doesn't exist yet. Who knows that the final specifications would be. You seem to be very focused on correct scales on models. How many real life combine harvesters have larger front tires than those on the Claas Xerion? I see another problem with smaller tractor tires and that is what wheel to put them on. The only ones I can think of that has somewhat the right dimensions are the wheels used on the 8880 Super Car and I'm not sure if they are properly constructed to be up to the task. So, in my world they would have to introduce a new wheel as well for these tires to happen. Sure, you could put slightly smaller tires on the Claas wheels but if used together with the 107 diameter tires on the same model, it would look a bit weird. Sorry for the rather lengthy post, but I felt I wanted to elaborate on the topic a little. :)

Is there a real thing though? I'm not so sure. Also, it makes absolutely no sense for LEGO to design and produce new tires that are only 10% smaller than those used on the 42054 Claas. Seeing the concept video made me even more interested in this LEGO set. Feels like a definite buy for me, especially since I don't own the Volvo 350F. Only thing I'm missing is a green volvo straight-six engine.

At the age of 9 I was building my 8868 Claw Rig and a year or so before I had built both the 8849 Tractor and 8862 Backhoe Grader. Sure, I could see the studless building techniques have added some difficulty but I still think the abilites of children of the Technic demographic are often underestimated.

As much as I want tractor tires smaller than those on the Claas, for this set they would have to be so small that the use for them in other machinery would be too limited. I could see them used for a wheeled excavator but other than that, I'm not so sure where I would want to see them used. Edit: Though I guess they could have increased the diameter with ~10mm to match the size of the 63mm diameter wheels used in the 8849 Tractor.

Functions that do not work properly seem to be a hot topic at the moment, and I can understand why. Now, I do not own the 42083 Chiron, hence I have no first hand experience with the suspension. However, I can easily imagine a scenario where the suspension is designed in an early state, before the body work is finalized. A few months, half a year or whatever later, the body work is done after countless of iterations and all of a sudden the car has gained 0,5-1kg extra weight making the suspension struggle to keep the front up. Next thing you know, launch date is approaching and with that the need to start finalizing packaging and all of the other stuff that have to be done to prepare for launch of the set. I believe it takes a lot more time to engineer these large LEGO Techinc sets than many here seem to realize. Still, I feel it is very reasonable to expect the official LEGO Technic sets to work properly right out of the box without the need for modification. I know I do. Many things have changed drasticly since I first started playing with LEGO Technic in the late 1980:s but some things that I longed for then still haven't become reality. For example, TLG have yet to design a proper, reasonably slim, steered, driven axle. The best attempt so far is the system used in the 8880 Supercar introduced back in 1994. Also, all black pneumatic cylinders. What's taking so long? Seriously.

Wheel arches in white please! Also, pneumatic cylinders in all black.