1980SomethingSpaceGuy

Monster trucks it is! Good thing is it shouldn't be impossible to be more creative with our builds than with our theme selection, I guess. Won't be able to start with this right away, but I should be able to get something done by August 31. Nice to have a new TC and happy building everyone! I think Jim was pretty clear; no other restrictions. Lego sells boats with hulls and keels made to float on water; I think it's fair to assume they think people have access to water. I see no good reason why you should be prevented from putting water in pneumatic elements. I think it's rather creative. But I also see why Lego didn't do it themselves; should the system leak or one hose snap, then you have to re-bleed all elements, which are neither designed to hold a lot of pressure, nor being bled in the first place. I think this would yield low reliability and a poor end user experience. But since you're no ordinary user, you could build something reliable out of that idea I'm sure!

Animals, B-models, monster trucks; all good ideas! Let's have a new TC!

New image links since the previous ones got reset by OneDrive...

What a beautiful build! So much detail, I'd be gazing at it same as the kid..

Hi @gijutsu-san96! Sorry about the dead links; OneDrive has reset all shared links a couple years ago. Here's some updated ones:

My daughter is in the Friends target age range. She loves those minidolls. And she's not got into the cartoon episodes yet... Indeed the color palette is painfully big and flashy and the dolls lack versatility, but at least accessories are still compatible with minifigs. Altogether, I totally agree with you; once you get over the downsides, Friends is in fact quite an interesting theme.

Yup; cleaned my browser cache, your profile pictures still don't show. Must be server side and since it's been worked on (thanks, btw) I guess we'll have that solved soon.

Good job, looks awesome!

I'm very happy to get my first podium in a TC! This build has been quite a journey and I want to thank the admins for running these contests, all voters for their interest in our models and congrat all my fellow participants; the competition was tough! Long live the TCs, see you in the next one!

Now these are cute little tracks! Sorry you had to ditch the T-Rex, hope we'll see it one day. Kudos for switching to low gear and still deliver a build for this TC!

The Snow Horse - PF RC snowmobile Meant to use a PF servo, this ended relying on a quite creative solution to actuate the skis based on the differential speed of each of the double track propulsion system. Handling is one of a kind but works surprisingly well on low friction surfaces like ice, snow or just a plain hardwood floor. Features full independent suspension with 2-axis of freedom on the tracked sled, actuated handlebars, 2 PF L motors for propulsion and steering, PF receiver and battery box.

Thanks a lot! Your model is really nice and works well with the action figure. Alas, I only have Darth Vader in this collection and his armor happens to forbid the leg movement required to sit legs spread, so it doesn't work with my MOC. Shot some last photos today for the entry: I only have a piece of white background and my mobile phone as a photo studio; it's a pain to get enough light. Anyways, thanks for watching!

Really nice bodywork, well done!

Yep, I tried that too at first. It was bending where it shouldn't and not moving enough where I would have liked to. Moreover, I had no good solution for the torsion spring. I picked this pragmatic solution with acceptable cinematic and external looks so that I could move on. But as we said, this is most likely one of the reasons why we haven't seen an official TLG model of snowmobile yet.

I have this issue with Onedrive sometimes where images won't show correctly. Clearing browser data fixes the problem.