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I saw the video on youtube, and i am astonished. Especially because the 8880 was the last Set i bought before my "Dark Ages" came until i came back to Lego-Technic in this year. There were >20 Years i missed, and "Technic" evolved a lot in that time. In my sight there is "old technic" like the 8880 which is made of technic-bricks and other bricks with classical studs, and there is "new technic" which mainly is made of studless parts like liftarms, panels, and some undescribable speical parts. Your "Tribute Model" is the perfect link between both eras. Your "8880 Evo" can´t deny its heritage, you see this model and clearly recognize the ancestor, but it is made with the new parts. And the best thing about it: There are a a bunch of functions. We are all complaining that new technic-sets lack of functions, and your model has all one can dream of. If Lego would have created something like this, that would have been a worthy set for the 40th Technic-Anniversary. A reminiscence to the old days, the legendary 8880 in a modern way, evolved on a new level. They didn´t, but you did. So i salute you. Great work!

I knew there aren't many funkctions in that set, but i hoped that those little functions left in that model would be a bit more sophisitcated, refined, elaborate, a little bit tricky, not as simple like the 42077. Ok, it´s still good looking, and if the price fits i´ll buy it. But surely not for 150 Euros, and i am not very eager to spend 120 Euros or more. Ok, 100 Euros aren't very relaisitic when it´s fresh released, so i´ll have to wait some time to eventually get a chance for ~110 Euros. Maybe....

Hmpf. I was in joyful anticipation as this model was announced. I was aware that this Porsche for half the price than the 42056 couldn´t be that gorgeous. It was often written in that thread that there wouldn´t be a gearbox, and i am not very fond of hog-steering. so my expectations wasn´t very high. But after what i've seen in the video above i came to the conclusion that - technically spoken - this model is a 42077 with a Porsche-silhouette. für twice the price. Sure, it looks way better than the 42077, but i doubt it will be avalable for a decent price anytime soon. I think round about 100 Euros should be appropriate.

The lowest prive i´ve had seen was 254 Euros at www.amazon.fr a few days ago. I decided to think about buying it when the price goes below 250 Euros.

Ok, i always thougt BT would work only in short distance. To be honest: No one is happy with a Lego car (MoC or Set) rollign slowly on the carpet. You want it to be fast, and drive it outside in the yard, drifting and wheels spinning. Yeah, i know, the Lego Motors aren´t fast,...

Ok, but bluetooth isn´t really RC, isn´t it? It would be a progress compared to IR though.

I hate to be the bad guy. Sorry for that. But, why on earth does Lego keep on hanging onto this infrared crap? Take a look at Cada, their models use 2,4GHZ RC. Why does Lego not? It´s 2018 now, not 1978 anymore. Aside from that, this model looks like it may be big fun to play with. There for i gladly give a

Great Moc! It looks very well, good job. I like the idea how you placed the serveomotor in the passenger compartment. So it doesn´t look as if it doesn´t belong there and still fulfill its function.

That´s what i said in the first place: It´s the wrong scale, make the Corvette great. Trash the effing Bugatti, give us a 1:8 Corvette.

I don´t know if i understood well. But you think Chevrolet denies some functions because they want a good looking car but doesn´t mind its uglyness? Ok, i admit in the video it looks a lot better than on the photos before, and i am surprised in a very positive way it has a steering. It´s not that bad at all, especially given the very small scale. But if Chevrolet cares anything about how the car looks, they wouldn´t give permission for this, so this can´t be the reason why there aren´t doors and hood to be opened. As mentioned before, the UVP is about 40€, and the real market price will be around 30-35€, so this is a very low cost modell, and that would be the reason for the lack of funktions and openable doors/hood. I think it´s not about the parts, the designer needs a lot more time if he puts more funkctions into the modell, and these engineering effort is it, what makes the better modells more expensive.

Hell Yeah! I´m very eager to hear the first reviews.

I imagine it sells the same way i bought my 42077 this spring: Someone without a clue stumbles over the product: "Oh look, a Lego car, lets buy it." I don´t want to make the 42077 much worser as ist is, it´s a nice set for the beginning, but it has nothing special like the 42082 crane or the 42056 Porsche. I bought it for roundabout 70 Euros, that´s ok.

Nah, no problem. There are some other sets on my list. Surely the "Porsche RSR", and from the "Speed Chamions" the camaro and the dodge charger/challenger hellcat sets. Aside from that i still have an 42056 to build.

In the 42093 thread was a discussion about the b-modell "Hot Rod" and how about to use some parts from the 42077 to refine it. Someone set a link to this topic, and i have to say: Great work! So, if i want a Hot Rod it makes more sense to rebuild my 42077 instead of buying the 42093 set...

Oops. I didn´t see this before. Well, under that circumstances it does make more sense to build the Hot Rod directly from the 42077 set, so that the 42093 is obsolete. Great work!

The Hot Rod isn´t that bad. Maybe it´s possible to use some parts from the 42077 to create a decent modell based on the Hot Rod. Wheels, suspension and steering from the 42077, body from the Hot rod. The wheels should fill the wheel arches, the V6 engine from the 42077 is too big für that Hot Rod, but if you use only 4 cylindres in V-shape and cover the open side with 4 plates on each side, it may look a lot better then the nailmachine. Since there is no gear box you don´t need moving pistons, and there should be room für a steerring. Well, the UVP is 40 Euros, if there is some deal about 30 euros i might buy a Hot Rod and give it a try.

That may be an explanation why this modell has no gearbox, since a sequential paddle shifting system like in the 911 GTR ist to much effort for a 150 Euro toy, and a simpler version would´nt be accurate enough compared to the real RSR.

Well, if you are happy with the corvette, have a lot fun with it. I understand that a smaller scale modell which isn´t that sophisticated is more affordable than the great scale models as the GTR3 or the Bugatti. That´s an important point for a lot of people. My thoughts were just that i already buyed a great Porsche, and if Lego brings another great modell and a smaller one, i would have preferred to get the Corvette as a detailed and sophisticated modell instead of yet another Porsche.

Thank you for the warm welcome. I already started posting a few comments in the "Technic Forum", but i see my grammar skill are a bit rusty. I understand well what is written, but forming a text by myself is another type of thing. So please forgive me my lack of language skills. :)

A few seconds ago i wrote that i don´t like the corvette. This Porsche looks fairly nice. Not so nice and not so ambitioned like the 42056 Porsche, but this one will do. Ok, it has less funktions than the 42056, and that doesn´t have a lot, but there are other sets with more funkctions, and maybe (i have to see this model on real life) there is a way to add some more or less senseful funktions.

Well, i don´t want my first post (or second after my "my name is...." post) to be a rant... But i don´t like that thing that lego calls a corvette. In my opinion the wheels are way to small, the motor is made out of the "nails" (the axles with a flat end) and the front doesn´t look particulary good. It´s a shame Lego didn´t bring the corvette as a1:8 scale model like the Porsche 911 GTR3 or the Bugatti. That would be really huge. But the upside to this matter: The B-Model "Hot Rod" doesn´t look to bad, compared with the corvette. I don´t have the urge to buy this corvette, but maybe i´ll buy the set to build the B-model.

Hello, my name is Tom. I come from a tiny little town in Germany. This year rediscovered "Lego Technics" after roundabout 20 years. In my cellar i found my 2 sets of 8880 (supercar) and took a look what had happened in the last 20 years. I bought some sets, watched some noce Youtube videos ans somehow found this forum. Although i alsobought the "Liberty Statue" from the "Architecture" series i´m mostly interested in the "Technic" series, and mostly the cars. Well, that´s it.