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Yeah, an example of that situation would be 2010, where the 8053 Mobile Crane had 1289 pieces, while the far more expensive (because of motorization) and far more legendary 8043 Motorized Excavator only had 1123 pieces, but was clearly the flagship despite the smaller part count. Yeah, I'd say since 2005, when Technic started getting back on its feet, there was a clear flagship every year from 2005 to 2021, with the possible exception of 2008's Off Roader, which wasn't that large or impressive. 2022 didn't have anything of the scale/price of other flagships from its time period, but the 42145 Airbus was big enough and good enough to be a flagship by old standards, at least. 2023 pretty clearly had the Liebherr crane, but 2024 didn't really have anything. If we exclude the McLaren, as we have in the past, the flagship does become the G-Wagen by default, but we've never had a large licensed car be the flagship before, and it doesn't feel like a classic flagship at all. I wonder if the traditional concept of "flagship" has been abandoned by Lego, leaving even-numbered years with UCS supercars at the top of the line, and odd-numbered years with large, motorized construction equipment at the top of the line?

I'd agree, the very wide variance in topic for the different models did make it challenging to vote, but the contest definitely produced a lot of super interesting models!

Except that, at least traditionally, we've ruled out the 1:8 supercar sets, such that the Porsche 911 GT3 RS was not 2016's flagship over the slightly cheaper Bucket Wheel Excavator. In recent years, the non-supercar flagship seems to have been disappearing, though, so the distinction gets tougher

That's a pretty fun idea!

Good thing we don't follow the maxim of "If you don't have anything nice to say, don't say anything at all!" That would probably kill the forum traffic pretty quick!

And willingness to wildly overvolt the motors! I'm not sure if that video clearly shows what he was running them at, but I think it was something like 28V on the bench testing, which is well over what the motors are rated for! Super cool that it works, but you have to wonder for how long

Really glad to see your progress! I'm glad you managed to get enough put together to get something entered here. Do you plan to continue work on it to add a tailstock, etc.? There's definitely a lot of complexity going on there!

Very impressive work! I'm surprised that it works as well as it does!

Oh, that's an interesting suspension! So I take it the suspension arms go past center and compress those center shocks? I don't think that's a solution I've seen before, at least not in combination with a more normal spring position!

That is pretty mean-looking!

Looks impressive as always! Good, clean looks, and an interesting suspension setup!

Ooh, that's quite good looking and functional, especially for the small scale!

Wow, that is really impressive! So is the idea that you'd plug a Geekservo into this adapter, and it could then be controlled by PF power supplies as if it were a PF servo motor?

That makes sense! When I started out with Technic, I mostly had access to Mindstorms NXT motors, so I built quite a bit of stuff with those. It was challenging to make space for them, but it's what I had!

Oh right, I remember hearing about that. Yeah, other sites (Flickr, etc.) should work fine!

Nice work! As far as images go, we have to upload our images to an external file-sharing website, and then copy the link from there to embed it here. Bricksafe is the most commonly used website for hosting Lego pictures on here

That's cool to be able to see the mechanisms in isolation like that!

Wow, seven differential locks! Would the real truck actually have three extra differentials in the chassis? Was there any particular reason you chose to use EV3 motors? Was it just what you had available? They're definitely fairly challenging to integrate into models!

Always nice to see people sharing instructions! That looks like a lot of work. To share a 3D model, I'd just upload your .io file to Bricksafe, and share that link here

Ooh, that looks very nice!

Wow, that's a long time building straight! It might be worth getting in the habit of taking screenshots to share on here. Win+Shift+S would be the go-to keyboard shortcut for that, and it could be easier and cleaner to do it that way!

I've had good experience with wheel hubs from Ali. The one thing you need to be aware of is that the ones I got weren't lubricated at all, but they also weren't glued together at all, so it was easy to lubricate them myself and superglue it shut! Since then I don't think there's any issues to speak of, and they're way cheaper!

Wow, that is super fun! So much complexity and functionality! I especially liked the servo (or is it antiservo?) tab on the rudder!

Looks like you had fun making that!

Wow, that's quite chaotic looking! I'm sure other setups could be more efficient, but if you enjoy that kind of environment, I guess it works for you! It certainly does have a fun "mad scientist" aesthetic to it, I think