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  1. J159753
    I did love some of those classic Technic sets where the direction of the motor would chose the function selected, via a floating cog. Inappropriate in a set this vast, but a marvel of elegant, efficient design in those resource-constrained sets of old...
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    Arghh! I understand the motivations, but how frustrating! Why didn't I buy it when I first saw it, rather than saying 'I'll get round to buying it'. Curses! And allowing for public voting and then TLG deliberations on Ideas, presumably that means that it could be 2 years before it's back up on rebrickable - if at all? Well, best of luck to RJ on Lego Ideas, but nonetheless how very, very frustrating! Has this happened before with other popular rebrickable models?
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    Hi, I'm looking for this on rebrickable and can't find it. I can't see it under 42100 'alt builds'. What obviousness have I missed? Thanks!
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    My 4- and 6-year old spent a happy afternoon today setting tasks and competing with each other using 9398 and an in-progress 4x4 MOC around the garden. it's not going to be too many years before they're building them as well... (6 year old is getting quite proficient and slipping cogs back into my MOC's differential! I've got some more bracing to do there...)
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    Oh wow, the Liebherr powered as if it were 8043. Now that would be fun. Oh I hope someone takes up that challenge!
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    Thoroughly understood! :-) I just hope the videos continue to be worth your while to create for a long time to come...
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    Glorious - and, yes, just plain cute!
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    Sariel - your review videos are a gold standard. Thanks! Have you ever considered adding occasional subtitled commentary during the speed build? E.g. 'note the unusual use of piece *** to hold the 24t gear in place', 'an unusually tricky sequence as the outrigger is very fragile until mated with the chassis', etc. ?
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    I always liked the approach when they released a manual model that had been intelligently designed for user to add a motor & battery box if they wished. In 4.5V, 9V and PF days this made sense. But right now noone has or is likely to want to buy appropriate PU components. What do people think a fair price for a 'DIY motor set' containing PU dumb battery box and large WeDo dumb motor would be? 8720 RRP was $36 back in 1990. Hey, that's $75 now (https://www.usinflationcalculator.com/). My immediate reaction is that that's extortionate, and above PU pricing! [yes, I know that PF was was distinctly cheaper, and largely way more functional/versatile, than previous technic motorisation options.]
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    Agreed so cool... Can't wait to build it - and made me want to go and find pieces to relive childhood and rebuild original. :-) As a recreation in studless this just feels dead on...
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    It might help perceptions if they released the odd set with a single dumb motor and PU battery box (i.e. equivalent to the majority of PF sets) with only modest markup for the electrical components. Current pricing for 88015 certainly leaves a bad taste in the mouth compared to PF.
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    I realise the three-axle part isn't a general-purpose substitute for a single/double axle-with-axlehole, but as a general trend I rather like the way in Technic a single-use-case part such as this steering arm is gradually supplanted by a bulkier part with many possible uses replaced by
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    Please Lego, please! Or some MOCcer far more talented than I. All my attempts have been dismal failures, but it's one of the challenges I return to most regularly...
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    I've seen third-party sites advertising carbon-fibre and steel axles. I assume these are far more resistant to torsion and bending than ABS plastic. Would they solve some of these problems?
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    Utterly in mod/MOC territory now, not original set... Why not have two compressors (or even 4, mounted 90° apart), geared down, to even out the resistance? [this could even be a teaching point for why ICE have multiple cylinders!] [And driving this from the raised axle sounds an elegant implementation.]
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    How about this? More wishful thinking than genuine expectation... Wheels are connected to a compressor pump. So you push it back & forth a few times, and pressure builds up in twin air tanks (one each side, like ancient studded rescue truck). Then the trick is to be accurate enough operating it that you can do a rescue without needing to repressurise the tanks. ?
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    That's brilliant! Redoing this set has been on my to-do list for ages, but I hadn't planned anything quite so slick! Please do a photo tear-down when you take it apart...
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    When I was first building mine the CaDA differential spun really roughly, so I replaced it with a Lego one before I went any further. All the other CaDA gears meshed fine, but that differential was horrible.
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    Is it at all that they're aggressively pushing more bio-friendly plastic variants that are simply much more difficult to work with, or have a whole new learning curve?
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    As a child I tried to create a functional Schienenzeppelin (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Schienenzeppelin) using https://www.bricklink.com/v2/catalog/catalogitem.page?P=2740c01#T=C, and several 4x5 9V technic motors. It went beautifully along a stretch of straight track once, but when I tried a second time I found the propeller had melted part of the 1x4 technic beam that held it.
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    is it too soon to suggest a contest to show off the possibilities Powered Up has opened up? Contest to include innovative Powered Up programme as well as model hardware?
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    Genius... TLG, are you paying attention?
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    Seconded... That's my activity this weekend with my kids sorted! They (and I) will love it... Thanks!
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    I am a designer working for a global billion-dollar company that employs many other designers and successfully competes at the top-end of its market. And I've been a solo freelancer, and have worked in smaller companies. I had incomparably more freedom when working solo - in so many respects - but after almost a decade in my current job I continue to be amazed at the depth and breadth of design talent in my current job. I meet people working in quite different product areas who awe, inspire and help me - and occasionally, perhaps, I help them. In short, the stimulation I get from working in a vast company outweighs the constraints, and the inevitable corporate baggage.
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    I just love the idea that for the first year of Technic(al) sets, Lego just provided a single blueprint showing side/front/top views. Traditional instructions for at all for these sets came after trial and much error. I wouldn't fancy building 853 - with no experience of Technic - from just a blueprint (actually, I would - what a wonderful challenge to a budding engineer!) At least, that what I was once told. Now I can't work out whether it was true, or someone was successfully fooling me...
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