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See how much we moan about re-hashing of old stuff in latest years. Also - we're a bit limited in the types of vehicles that are Technic-worthy AND catch the eyes. Cars and other zoom-zooms work great there. Cranes will always have appeal for kids. So they'll always sell, and we'll always moan about - sheesh, another crane. Everything with ARM-LIKE-movements /diggers, excavators, bobcats, telehandlers/ will also sell. But after that - what can be scaled down and retain Technic features besides cars with engines and steering? Tell me you can impress 100 kids with the 42064 ship besides it's size... Military support vehicles like bridge laying tanks can be interesting, but we know the Osprey situation. Roadworks machinery can be interesting too, but would need a big scale. Airport support vehicles get a model a 5-7 years yet they too can be interesting. Parts budget gets undercut as we want sleeker models. The good and cheap sets with 100000 pneumatic parts are long gone anyways. To get good Technic experience you need lots of parts to make the mechanisms properly. Also add the mark-up of the need to cover EVERYTHING in panels these days and here we are. Great shells covering kinda outdated chassis and FFS no adjustable suspension in the recent 10 years. Why no adjustable suspension anywhere? It takes like 4 worm gears...

If you've played Carmageddon before - Otis Jivefunk drives this: It's a caddy, but not that far off from your car. Add some spikes and fins and it's a Carmageddon car :D Now - seriously, I'm stunned by your build. Great work.

And another 42133 alt-build is born. Instructions are on the way. IT's a SPRINT CAR. Yes, THOSE. I'm happy with the result, and I've even made it steer. It's for sale like all the previous ones. Proportions are okay-ish. The rest I leave to you.

Now make a trailer for it.

@tangers - thank you All 3 current 42133 alts are here, Youtube videos will follow later. Here you can see the forklift too.

Renders just finished rendering. Haven't built it yet from OG parts.

Thanks Thirdwigg! So I've made another alt-build from the 42133 - a Dump Truck or how we call it in Bulgaria - Самосвал /self-un-loader/. Finally got a real 42133 in my hands. I should go for 1 more... It's front looks like a skull so I'm still searching for a proper name for it, help me out...

I've made a forklift D model too and currently have 2+ ideas for other mocs. Still no supercars in sight but oh well - what can you do with a SINGLE panel... This is the first time I've assembled a MOC out of a set I don't physically own yet - most of the parts of my test mule are from 42096, 42061, 42102, 42047 and parts bins. I've stashed my 42118+42119 combo alt-build for some time, as well as 42096 ideas and 42061 F1 conversion before I finish the 42133 initiative.

Or maybe - use two controllers joined together physically AND both to be on the same channel so when you flip the vehicle - move your fingers to the left or right. So the orange controls are on the left controller and the blue controls are on the right. You can also flip one of the controllers physically to beam towards you, thus - the orientation of the tracks should remain the same I guess..

Am I wrong for thinking that the spur gears are for less friction and less jamming wherever you drive this? 20z gears in the land rover had a lot of friction for a manual model and the ones in 42075 even clicked at some points /they had like a 0.5mm extra bracing on both sides/. The L motor isn't slow so why not give it a lower resistance drivetrain. These are my 5 stotinki on the topic /1 Bulgarian Lev = 100 stotinki/

Hello there, I've started collecting Technic from around the 42046 times and I've owned many pre-42046 sets. PDF instructions are a godsend by LEGO and all praise goes to them for this. HOWEVER - 42000 and 42009 made my eyes bleed because of the lower resolution and bad contrast of the PDF pages. Black and DBG were a real pain there, also 2L pins on black beams - boooy did I edit some steps - contrast, colours - or watch speedbuilds on YT to see it better... As I own sets like 42037 and other - the PDFs online hurt my eyes every time I try to use them for reference. My topic has the following questions: 0. Is there any HD-topic/collection with such instructions? 1. Is it LEGAL to scan your instructions and upload them or TLG can sue you as they own the rights? 2. Is it LEGAL to re-do their instructions in Stud.io and upload them somewhere /like our LDD/LXF/IO topic? 3. Is there any point in doing so? 4. Are you happy with the old PDFs? If the topic isn't according to the rules you can safely delete it - I still have my instruction booklets for the sets I own.

Here I am, with my shovel, thread ressurection time. Finally the small tractor tire is available in stud. io. It only took like an year. Finally. Do whatever you wish with this knowledge.

After posting my other trains I've missed posting the "PAPA" one. It's goofy, and definitely not the last locomotive I'll make.

If the beams are parallel - you can copy the angle from one to another. Other than that - get an angle measure tool and type each one in. Or use the angled connectors for proximity. Sadly it doesn't allow transformative rotation yet. Only single pivot point rotation. use subassemblies for lets say opening hoods on a car.

So this is a smaller scale 42071 with a trailer. Woo.

Another goldie from 42101 - featuring front suspension too.

Apparently 42101 was my gold age of moc-ing - so a throwback to this. Little builds like this one are always started as a joke and feel very weird when people like them afterwards.

<3 One of my least performing youtube videos - the Power Puller Tractor from the 42103 Dragster. The rear wheels are small, but the front ones are on par. And it's got a suspension. Also I'm open to ideas on how to make my YT thumbnails more engaging and less black. Any tips are welcome.

Recreated the MACK's fifth wheel as an attachable dolly with two axles. Track width is adjustable and fifth wheel positioning too. Also the trailer hitch is articulated so it can vary in height. I know it's very thrilling to see such an epic scale alt build of 42061. After all it's not a supercar and no doors open. Yet I'm happy I've made it.

After looking up 8880 in Technicopaedia - it's got a lot more specialized parts than the current sets - the cv joint-axle-ring-wheel assembly seems way too realistic compared to the 42037's small CV joints and hubs. Structurally they do the same work, but 8880's ball end looks way more impressive and "real" than the two tiny rods sticking out of the "new" CV joint. Let's see what other people will list, I'm still very curious.

I believe I've mixed them both and it is about the whole experience of owning it too after building. I've bought the Claas Xerion assembled and never built it myself, yet it brought me joy as a finished set too. As I didn't build it myself - I'm not putting it in top spots. There are some sets that are simply meh once you're done building, but are entertaining while you build them. - some of the old pullbacks are an example of this. And the bigger shelf queens too. I've not built any supercar of the 3, and I'm still justifying why should I bother - I've done the gearbox of 42082, 42070 and 42009 - it was good. The Porsche is the only one of the 3 cars that interests me - I'd like to see the shifting mechanism without the Chiron wave selector. But I don't have the space to display it afterwards. So skip. Also - nobody gives a crap about 42070's gearbox which in my opinion is quite clever too. Price aside and some ugly gaps aside too - it was quite a model. But 42110 dwarfs it mechanically.

Topic name is weird but I'll explain down below. I want to ask you actually two things. There are the "legendary" sets which we all know like 42009, 9398, 42082/Big Red/, Mack 42078, Car Transporter /42098/ and so on. /Choose a better word if "legendary" is a clumsy one, English is not my first language./ I've started in 2016 and since I've checked out: 9398, 42000, 42009, 42039, 42054, 42069, 42070, 42078, 42082, 42098, 42099, 42110. As you know - with the growth of LEGO piece count in sets - the "midrange" also gets "legendary" at least in scale - 42009 and 42078 had almost the same amount of pieces. But also - every year we get some "slots" for sets - like the 42039, 42111, 42077 1:10 cars, the bikes and so on and so on. First question: Do you get tired of the same "slots/vehicle types" and only build one of each? example: 42077 and 42096 being an glorious upgrade on the same chassis Second question: Which are your top 5 /or 10/ sets that everybody should build through their journey with LEGO Technic? And share why is that so. First question - my answer: I've built enough 1:10 cars to not be amused by them anymore. After 42037 as my first set - most feel like a good shell over the same front / rear axle combo. I'll still MOC one out, but not buy to build a new one soon. I'm a bit overcooked on bikes too. Did the old BMW, it was nice and that's it. I do acknowledge that for somebody a new 1:10 car will be their first Technic set - like 42037 was for me. Small cars for the transporter scale are somewhat still unique enough to be interesting to build as it's a 2-3hr build. Big trucks too are getting a bit boring, but I'm looking at MOCs all day, so it's not TLG's fault for this. Still waiting to build my 42128 tho. Second question - my answer /common theme is BIG/: 1. 42009 - a must-build experience - the multi-axle steering, the outriggers design, the sheer heft of the model and the two-stage boom are something to be experienced. 2. 42082 - while a bit annoying - it was a blast to build. Also great fun to display in my home. I've used it as a camera boom once too. It felt a bit like the Xerion crossed with the 42009 in a very nice way. 3. 42000 - it's a big build and the suspension work was great there. Prone to breaking, but very, very interesting to build. And the car is like 60cm long. 4. 9398 - The way each axle is built and the way the instructions make you build tools to center and align the build was awesome. And I miss the little building books. Now we get part phases /great!/ instead and a big book /meh/ - I just use the PDFs now. Less space. 5. 42065 - Very skeletal build, yet the tank threads and the lightweight nature of it make you happy without reason. It's fast and it's a tank propulsion, while being cheap. /looking at you CAT 111/. 6. 42069 and 42110 - these share the space as being a big a** builds by grohl. Both have some very unconventional techniques inside, Nowdays I'd only build one of them, not both. 42110 for the gearbox, 42069 looks cooler., also has better axles. 7. 42099 - as an early adopter of the C+ family - this one is a good intro to the system. And the Rocky alt-build makes it a beast. 8. 42078 and 42098 - these too share a place. Big trucks, that go "modular" on a bigger scale. You can re-build the trailers and get a fresh thing out of them every day if you want. Good MOC packs, good MOD packs, good to daisy-chain and make road-trains. Sets assembling larger sets. INCEPTION <BWAAAAAAAARGH siren> 9. 42050 and 42103 - they just look cool however you pose them. I've even imported 42050. My other sets I buy from Bulgaria new or used. 10. 42106 - as my first big and original MOC was made from it. Also - for such a small set you get quite good parts /again - for MOC-ing/. bonus round: 11. 42037 and 42039B model - both using the same chassis. Both are a great off-road build. Your turn.

What is the resolution of each page? And how do you apply white edges on the dark parts?

And the video is finally here. Even a 5 second speedbuild is included.I hope you like it.

It's finally out. 2in1 on rebrick made me think about making a train out of every little set at my home. Sadly I've sold my 42031's and 42084 too. In the previous post you can see the train bros I've made. 42102 is coming too. Pistons DO work :)