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  1. amorti
    This is a very prejudiced and out of date view. Find me the MOCs or Lego sets these are stolen from? Sembo f1 701000 Sembo Audi 701023 CaDA supercar c61018 CaDA Jeep c61006 Not all Chinese makers are the same company, and they don't all have the same lack of respect for TLG or MOCer copyright (or lack of a design department/ tame MOCer of their own). MouldKing has also been looking to pay MOCers for their designs more recently. Maybe they're looking for respectability (which would lead to more sales in Europe). There are good designs made with good bricks in China, but L*n spoiled the party for them by copying TLG kits with crappy bricks. You're robbing yourself of some good kits if you're only looking at TLG.
  2. amorti
    Make it so!
  3. amorti
    It gets hard to defend the pricing when you see the MK costs well under half, that's over 200€ back in your pocket. For that it has the same piece count, plus a Bluetooth battery box with physical remote, 2* XL motors, 1* L motor and a (admittedly only 3 position) servo. Those licensed rims are very nice, but they're not 200€ nice.
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    I reckon a buggy motor could work. I saw a comment somewhere that the bike would be unbalanced because the buggy motor is asymmetrical, but it seems to me that starting the steering weight a tooth or two over on its gear rack, or balancing the buwizz half or a whole stud over in the chassis, could fix that. You'd probably still be doing well to fit it all within the same panelling TLG has used, but I'd be willing to make compromises on scale if I could have an RC Lego Ducati.
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    It'll be perfect for a model of a Mustang ?
  6. amorti
    Thank you
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    As you say though, TLG isn't bound by rare parts being expensive. For us, unimog shocks are 15€ a piece while soft motorbike shocks are 2.50€. they cost the same for TLG to make.
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    Idk, there's not much panelling there (as far as I can see on low red) so if the whole bodywork is beams not panels it could hit 3k pieces, maybe. Bricksafe is good for hosting pictures, then link the 800* ok maybe here.
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    This should give you some ideas. Won't be easy to keep it looking like a panigale though, and you'd best buy a second one if you want it shiny for the display cabinet! If anyone can do it, @Green Gecko can (these are their videos). Fwiw I'd definitely pay money for instruction on how to motorise this kit.
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    I guess that's the sort of mod a street racer would do to his wobbly 70s muscle car, makes more sense and didn't need any unusual pieces Edit: actually he'd probably cut the springs, guess you could also do it with Lego shocks!
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    I'm not so sure improving the stance is worth deleting the front suspension.
  12. amorti
    Maybe you could use this for a shipping container stacking equipment? Otherwise I'm not sure what it's for except a technical demonstration.
  13. amorti
    Looking good! Nice solid engagement in each gear
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    The supercar after 8880 just had a single cross axle through the wheel to hold it on, so sometimes technology declines. Although as you pointed out, this new piece allows simpler (cheaper) construction of sequential gearboxes which are the current flavour of the month, so no reason for it to fall out of favour.
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    Who's to say that new gearbox catch won't disappear from all future sets? Would that be a greater loss than the wheel retention and CV joint system of 8880?
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    True there's copies out there. Considering even original Danish cogs and U joints struggle with the gearbox there's no way I'd buy a copy of the landy. Just making the point that MouldKing didn't take Lego's design directly, rather they took a moc that was (very!) closely based on it.
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    In every model and alternative model, it works and it is efficient for space. But it always binds just a little bit and doesn't feel 'nice'. Meh, maybe I'm barking up the wrong tree.
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    :) The small stuff also bothers me. I'll get over it not having a gearbox or suspension as a matter of budget and scale, but why does the Corvette have a strange steering pivot that doesn't really work nice when the real car has a rack and pinion? All Lego cars since forever had a rack and pinion, why swap away from that on a car which has one?
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    I'm not sure LA's are better than pneumatics. At least with those cylinders you could pretend it was hydraulic and learn something about how the real life technology works. PF/PU, ok the technology of bluetooth and accelerometers came along, but it didn't get faster or more powerful. Maybe so with my comparison. But even if they create licensed sets, why couldn't they make: a boxer engine for the Porsche double wishbone suspension with realistic geometry The Bugatti could've had a real W16. The land rover could've had really interesting suspension; it got an 8 speed gearbox that by all accounts "kinda" works. I feel Technic should teach us something about how the real technology works rather than what it looks like, and it hasn't done that (in a car anyways) in a while.
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    It's not that the Porsche is bad, but it also doesn't seem like 20 years of evolution on from 8880. What blows my mind is they designed and released a really good set of wishbones and CV joints... then never used them again!
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    Let's compare 8880 with the Porsche 42056 Bodywork with lots of gaps vs. Bodywork with lots of gaps B model vs. none v8 engine vs. v6 engine when it should've been a boxer 6 in-scale tyres vs. the other type. CV joints vs. weaker CV joints suspension which visibly worked vs. short travel nonsense 4 wheel steering vs. two wheel steering opening trunk vs. opening trunk and wobbly doors flip up headlights vs. no other mechanisms 4 speed gearbox that worked nicely vs the other kind Starting to think the OP may have a point. Where's the camber and caster angles on the suspension?
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    What can I say? The land rover looks great, but I like generalised vehicles better than licensed sets, and I don't need an 8 speed gearbox. As for 30%? I'm tight
  23. amorti
    Seems Acura'te :)
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    Thought it will be the case, and fair enough. I've been battling my conscience with this: https://www.bricklink.com/v2/catalog/catalogitem.page?P=32251#T=S&O={"iconly":0} You could hack it into a 7L liftarm with cross holes at each end to mount the ball joints. I never felt Lego bricks are in any way holy and I wouldn't mind polishing, but I'm not quite there to totally hack them up.
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    I built the A and B models, and the LMP2 car so far. I think I'll do the WRC next! Your stadium truck took the Land Rover from "meh" to "I'll get that when it hits 30% off".
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