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As a local, I recommend you also go to Tibidabo amusement park. Its worth it only for the views.

Ok. This is quickly going from promising to no-buy. Guess I'll keep buying old sets on Bricklink for a while.

Finally something that looks good. Now we just have to wait to know the outrageous price.

I have mostly stopped buying legos because of a combination of cost and technic being mostly cars. In 2024 I bought a used 42043 MB Arocs. In 2025 I only bought the Temple Bounty for my son, since I found it with a huge discount and he really wanted it. This year, so far, I bought a used 8872 Forklift Transporter that I had always wanted. I'm waiting for it to arrive. I'll probably buy the Tintin rocket if I find it with a proper discount. Otherwise, I'm not buying anything else.

Good luck recouping the cost. They're already so expensive and the Technic lineup is so bad I've simply stopped buying Legos. Last I bought was Temple Bounty for my kid, and only because I found it at 120€. If I hadn't spent my whole childhood playing with Legos, I'd wish they go bankrupt by now.

Oh great! Another car, just what I was wishing for. I'm sorry, but at this point, Technic is dead for me.

Last year I bought a used 42043 Arocs since it was a set I always wanted and I didn't find anything interesting on the lineup. This year the lineup is even less interesting and I'm considering buying my first CADA set... probably the Remote Control Excavator C61082W. I have bought the Temple Bounty for my son though, but only because I found it with a 25% discount.

After messing with some lubricants, I dissassembled the turntable and "lubed" it with wax. 0 problems since then. It's really smooth and no longer gets stuck. That being said, the hoses routing is quite tricky and you have to be very careful that they don't interfere with the movement.

Of course they will. They'll conclude that heavy machinery doesn't sell well and will release more F1 cars.

Yes. But they're outriggers. You deploy them once, and then play with the crane at a decent speed. That isn't a playability problem. In 42215 everything is so slow it's not worth playing with it.

42043 was half the cost and included pneumatics, suspension, and its functions worked. 42082, again, was half the price (and almost dpuble the pieces), and its functions worked well. This has an exhorbitantly high price with few functions that you can't play with because you'll get to retirement age before you have managed to fully lift the arm. Frankly, lately lego, and especially technic, is a constant dissapointment, both on the type of sets released and pricing.

AliExpress and Temu are quite popular in Spain. There are some other brands like megablocks that are available in stores, but most of Lego clones are bought directly in China here.

I live in Spain, which to be honest, is not exactly the richest country in Europe, but I see more and more people buying lego clones to their kids instead of original legos. The value just isn't there anymore except for a very few specific sets.

It feels it's so slow it's unplayable. You're being generous. I wouldn't buy it at 200.

1. 42043 2. 42082 3. 8880 4. 8043 5. 42054

Oh wow, a proper Technic set, finally! OH WAIT!

At first sight it looks good and I was excited but: no RC. No motorized tracks or superstructure. Only one motor with gearbox. Only 2359 pieces. This looks like a 42082 made excavator instead of crane. Except that 42082 had 4057 pieces, motorized superstructure, 2 gearboxes instead of one, a piston engine and steering systems... and it cost almost half of what they're asking for this. Where's the value? This is almost what the Liebherr excavator cost at launch... Frankly, after the all-cars line-up and the dissappointing and way too expensive heavy machinery releases, I'm either going second-hand or looking to china.

At this point, I'll be happy with anything that is not an overexpensive car with a gearbox or worse: barely no functions.

The Defender does it to, and they didn't stop selling it.

I don't get what the problem with the Osprey was. They already had an "Osprey" in 8082: %7BfileStore.core_Attachment%7Dmonthly_2025_02/image.jpeg.02c57e5649657bc762469b2798300c60.jpeg

The thing is that a couple of years ago, when I rebuilt the car, the springs felt ok. I think that they got weaker because they're partly compressed when in the car even when there's no weight on the wheels. I previously had built the car twice when I was a kid, but it had never been assembled for more than a week or two.

They're the grey original ones. I have disassembled one and it extends to the original length, but it's definitely weaker than it was. I've disassembled one of them and they're clean. They feel definitely weaker than I remember them.

A couple of years ago I rebuilt my 8880 Supercar from when I was a kid to show it on a shelf in my office. The car has been "lifted" from the shelf using a stand (the wheels were not touching the ground, and the springs were as extended as the suspension arms allow). The car worked perfectly after the rebuild. I had barely touched it until today, and to my surprise I found that the suspension springs are barely able to return. If I push the car down it returns really slowly or doesn't return at all. I found it surprising because when I built it I felt that the suspension was way too hard, and I also remember this feeling from when I built it when I was a kid. I have always disliked the fact that with the suspension fully extended the springs are still partially compressed, and I'm not sure if this could be the cause of the "damage". Is this a possibility? I'm thinking about displaying it with the shocks lower pivots removed, so as the shocks are fully extended, and see if they recover... is that possible? or once they get weak there's no turning back? It's not a huge issue, since it's now a shelf queen, but it bothers me somewhat to have it not working as intended.

IMHO, if you just want to buy a set to build it, there's no reason to buy it sealed. If it's already open you can assess it's condition before buying, and it will be a lot cheaper to boot. Having said this, I think what you got is definitely not what you paid for.

I have not managed to open the turntable. How do you do it without breaking anything?