Bublehead

We could move the new parts discussion to that thread and close this one. We need somewhere to discuss the parts we have seen, if not the actual Chiron or anymore about it. IMHO

Actually, I think a Steam locomotive in Technic would look awesome and have a lot of functions like automatic coal stoking using 1x1 black round plates as coal, drivers and pistons and escapements, working tender water scoop, working brakes, sound brick that makes chug chug sounds, whistle (Morse code “Q”) and bell sounds as it enters the station. Of course PF M motor to run the drivers. Loving your take on a big scale rolling stock in Technic... keep up the good work.

Some people must not read English well...

Not exactly what I was meaning, @Leonardo da Bricki. Although it is a thin line of difference, it’s not a specialized piece that does THIS or THAT, but a part that does a specific type of connection, or coupling between it and other parts, like the custom part efferman is posting soon that is a combination of a 2L pin and this part https://www.bricklink.com/v2/catalog/catalogitem.page?P=15100&idColor=11 Like saying “I wish I had 4L pins”, or “a 2L version of https://www.bricklink.com/v2/catalog/catalogitem.page?P=32054&idColor=11” not I wish I had a piece that performs a very specific function like this new orange rotary catch for gearboxes in the Chiron. I mean, who else would have asked for that specific of a part but the designers with an idea of how they wanted to use it to begin with? It has limited use in any other application but moving the drive ring (until we get our hands on it and repurpose it for greeblies, texturizer, or some technical function OTHER than a drive ring catch ) I love a challenge, but sometimes I feel like TLG can do anything they want by just molding a new part. We have to use those parts and unless you are on Team Heritic and use custom non Lego parts, only the ones they give us. That is the joy of “making it work” within a limited set of parameters, and in this case, that is the catalog of legal parts from TLG. We can wish and dream however

The great deals happen when somebody gets out of the hobby for another quickly. A lot of them came from a single guy who liked Technic, but had moved on to bigger RC toys and wanted to quickly convert his Technic collection into spendable cash to purchase them. He wasn’t looking to make money, so he was selling them for what he had in them or original retail because he knew I wasn’t buying to resell, my own collection being my proof. Some came from TRU at discount, or by their own incompetence. They screwed up the price online and put Arocs on discount at the Claas Tractor sale price of $126. The Toys R Us retail stores honor their online prices, so off to the store I went, showed them their own website and the screwed up price. The manager begrudgingly gave me the Arocs for $126 plus tax. Saddly, I think I have cleared the market in Phoenix Az... the deals are few and far between now on Craigslist here. I think the 42070 and one copy of the BWE came from somebody who works for the local Lego store, who was buying at employee discount prices when they liquidated 2017 sets at the store and was reselling on CL. Our Lego store here only keeps current year Technic in stock, 2017 sets are “available online” is their tune when you ask for a set that has yet to retire, but is not a current year set.

Used or new? Here are some of my bargains over the last year- you got to love Craigslist. miob Porsche 911 42056 $180 misb Wheeled loader 42030 $200 2 misb BWE 42055 $140 and $199 misb All-terrain Tow Truck 42070 $150 misb LE Crawler 41999 $250 misb Unimog 8110 $200 used Cargo Plane 42025 $80 misb Arocs 42043 $136 misb Claas 42054 $90 misb Extreme Adventure 42069 $126 misb Airport Fire Truck 42068 $70 Used Drag Racer 42050, 24 Hour Race Car 42039, Race Truck 42041 - 3 set lot $200 Used Fire Plane 42040, misb Heavy lift Helicopter 42052, misb Helicopter 9396 - 3 set lot $220 used Crawler Crane, Mining Truck, Bulldozer, Mining Hauler - 4 set lot $200 plus a bunch more... it reminds me of a quote from Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas by Hunter S. Thompson - “once you get locked into a serious drug collection, the tendency is to push it as far as you can.”

Link is already taken down for box insides

Like I’ve said, this is now a day one purchase if only for the new gearbox parts. I am already thinking about how to use them in non gearbox ways.

Momma always said I was the most interesting person in the room, unfortunately I was the only person in the room.

No, 8880 had way more single use exclusive parts and new molds than any other at the time. Not sure this tops that yet.

Nor do I for a set that will sit on the shelf. No one is going to see the Technicolor (my new term for the V word.) New Technic Lego, Now in Technicolor!

On the topic of scale, what was the limiting element that set the size of your MOC? I used a Technic Figure as my basis for the ride cars and the tires of the semi tractor. It went oversize on height but that was dictated by the ride gantry, the required room under the platform for all the power distribution shafts and gears, and the rotating and collapsing ride heads that support the cars and the stroke of the pneumatic cylinders to open and close them. Did your central hub mechanics (lift and rotate independent) set the size, or was the arms using the 1/4 yellow rack from BWE what dictated everything else?

@pagicence, +1 for this part... needed it 20 times over

Ok, damn it, this may be a day 1 purchase just for the new parts. I did say my wish list was parts parts parts. Now I get my wish and suddenly my wallet jumped into the swimming pool and tried to drown itself.

@Lipko, exactly how I picked up my Porsche for $180, which is what it was really worth to me. The “fresh out of the box” experience wasn’t worth the extra $120. And the thing came pre-built, so I followed the instructions backward, put the parts back into their bags and boxes, waited 2 weeks, then built it like it was fresh out of the box. And I didn’t have to put on the stickers, the guy did a bang up job putting them on for me

You mean like this?

My wish list is parts... parts, parts , parts, parts. Give us more pins and stops and connectors. More hubs, CV joints, bushes. More panels in more colors, more PF options, pneumatic parts, tires, flex axles in all lengths and colors. How many times have you said “If they only made a part that does THIS”?

Unless the medium is SLS nylon like efferman uses. Those printers start a $6000 for a desktop model. So $5 to $7 ain’t bad per part. I own an abs 3D printer but strength of parts are no where near SLS nylon or IM ABS. They are good for low strength applications or greeblies.

Two stage squisher... one overfills the second which is at 90 degrees with first... second squisher then squishes it into baler... using shredded paper as your squishing medium?

@aminnich, start looking at machines and vehicles around you for inspiration, that’s what the designers at TLG do, they collect pictures of neat things and then sit around and bounce ideas off each other. We are your bouncees, so keep an eye out. Before you know it you are stalking farm equipment or construction equipment as it tools down the highway next to you. Having too many bricks is kind of the problem, because you haven’t seen anything you think would test the limits of your collection. Start thinking bigger. Look at my MOC, everyone said why is it so big!?! Well, because it challenged me. And on the subject of 3d printed parts, look at the parts @efferman has available online... maybe start designing your own and having them printed. They are pretty cheap at 5 to 7 bucks for a specialized part.

So I guess I should tell my brother to not get rid of the 6 that he has inherited? He actually might have 8, I bought like every one of those sets I could get my hands on in the discount bins here in the USA when they were originally on the shelves for their transparent engine cylinders. Who knew at the time I was buying Vibranium in rubber tires? Also, I have at least 4 yellow Technic figures, with helmet, and visor too. They go for $40 to $60 a pop. Not to mention all the black 3L friction pins he has and solid 2L black pins as well. When I was cleaning up my 8880 for pictures, I needed a 3L friction pin and asked him to get one from the collective. I had to look at it twice because it wasn’t blue

My last dark age I purposefully stayed away and didn’t keep track because I know it can suck me in and I was trying to keep from getting carpal tunnel, so it was cold turkey. I moved to AZ, left my entire collection to my brother in Ohio with the exception of my favorite SW’s UCS’s and it was unearthing them and a visit to the doctor (who said my numbness in my left hand was due to a nerve in my elbow, not my wrist) that put me back on track. I assembled my UCS sets, then checked craigslist for Star Wars UCS sets I might have missed and my journey from the dark side back to the light was complete. And yes my left hand ring and pinky fingers still tingle but they are not getting worse.

Almost every BL order has some connector, axle, pin, bushes, or other common part I am running low on. I try and keep 16 of everything in my bins, except parts that’s cost $15 each just because, well, they can get $15 bucks a piece for them . anyone else done a “Buy all” on a wishlist and end up with a $$$ total bill and then have to figure out what solid gold connector #3 found its way onto the list?

I have a huge Lego collection that I keep on other peoples shelves.

@Omikron, I would love to see the classics in studless too.