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    I like the idea for this project! By all accounts, this car is heaps of fun, cheap, reliable, and good on gas--kind of the ideal sports car. Despite this, I've never seen a large MOC of one, so it'll be good to see it. I also don't think I've seen those tires on a car MOC yet, so it'll be cool to see how they look.
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    Nice, that's much more natural!
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    I can't answer that question, but I rather suspect it will just the simple box, since the two-speed gearbox they seem to be describing would be useless if coupled with either a manual crank or the proportional control of the smart hub. Who really knows at this point, though?
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    Oh, I'm not suggesting that it would be a good idea to put that kind of engine in a set, just that it might be fun in a MOC with an operator who knows what's going on.
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    In the New Elementary review of the McLaren F1 car, (https://www.newelementary.com/2022/02/lego-technic-review-42141-mclaren.html) it was pointed out that the mini panel extender can be used to make a one-way ratcheting system. It also works with the 2x3 extender, though it's of course bigger, but the small one in particular seems like it could be used for some interesting micro piston engines. If these extenders were used instead of 2L beams on the crankshaft, the pistons falling down would lock the engine against reversing, which would be somewhat realistic, since real engines are (the vast majority of the time) irreversible. Of course, to actually make such a model playable, you'd need a reverse gear, but if you've already got a transmission with reverse, this could be a cool way to give you a reason to use it!
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    Nice job! The steering/piston engine combo is of course clever and compact, but I'm loving the looks, especially of the front end, as well. The way the three fender panels and the two seat panels come together on the front is so clean!
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    Again, this is a really cool project. I'm not sure how much you follow the Technic news, @Kdapt-Preacher, but there are some large structural parts coming out this year that may be handy in this project. The first of these is a 3x19 frame in a couple sets, seen in this picture from mostlytechnic's revies of 42140: and the second, while only a rumor at this point, is a 7x17 frame reportedly coming in the Liebherrr LR13000 this summer (or later if it's delayed, as has been rumored). It's probably not waiting on these parts, though, and I'm sure they'll be hard to get in the quantities you need for a long time!
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    Well, that's what I would have expected before I read this, but in the first paragraph I quoted, it was describing a control that would change the helicopters elevation, and in the second paragraph it was talking about changing direction of travel. In a real helicopter this would require both cyclic and collective, so if this release is a truly accurate description it should have both. Some sets have had descriptions that imply more functionality than that really have, though (take the new McLaren's alleged diff lock), so they could certainly take the easy way out and just do collective like the 9396.
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    Yeah, that makes sense. The wording is a little odd--not what I'd use to convey that message, but that's probably just in the translation to English on Promobricks. (I'm pretty sure it was translated!)
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    Also, the helicopter sounds really interesting! My reading of the article suggests that it would have a two-speed gearbox(? not realistic, but that's what it sounds like), and both collective and cyclical pitch elevation, using new parts. What do you folks make of this? Quote: The main and tail rotors can be rotated at two different speeds, the main rotor also consists of 5 rotor blades. These can even be adjusted in inclination, which in reality causes the helicopter to climb or sink. There are control sticks on both sides of the cockpit interior, which can actually be used to adjust the inclination of the main rotor in order to simulate flight forwards, backwards, left or right. A few new parts are said to have been designed for this.
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    Thanks, I'll give that a go!
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    I've got a Stud.io question, and it seems that this is as good a thread as any to ask it in: I recently learned how to set a video as my desktop background on my PC, and I'm thinking it would be pretty cool to set it to an animation of some cool Technic MOC being "put together" in a rendering, basically having the component parts slowly "fly" together to create the complete model. I've seen some similar animations in various YouTube videos, and I assume they were made in Stud.io, so what I'm wanting to know is whether there is a setting like that in Stud.io, and where to find it. Thanks!
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    So, I guess after this, the John Deere, and the CAT, we can assume that any color-locking rule on the O-frame has been overruled, and we can expect to get it in any color Lego happens to need. Also, I kind of want to get my hands on one of the DELL stickers from this set to put on my laptop!
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    Cool to see! Does that Mould King hub actually support two buggy motors well? I had never seen anybody try that before, so I assumed it wouldn't work well, but if it does, that's a huge additional value!
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    I'm pretty curious about this, but your image isn't seeming to work for me. I'm not sure if this is happening for everyone, but I'd love to see it!
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    This website here has heaps of scanned instructions: https://brickfactory.info/ It's definitely an older looking site, but seems to have been pretty well updated so far, and works fairly nicely. I haven't used it much lately, since I find the Lego PDF ones more convenient, but when I was a kid I spent hours just looking through the instruction books!
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    Just as a heads up for @whitepen, I've heard that they aren't making the proportional control ones anymore. It's hard to know for sure, but if you're counting on that feature, be careful!
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    Glad to hear it!
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    You know, thanks to the half-stud gaps between cylinders, you could probably get a realistic 120 degree offset on the crankshaft by putting the wedge belt wheels in the spaces between the pistons, and then having 1-2L beams attached to its pinholes. It might not run as smoothly though...
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    Nice job! I love how you went for that very uncommon front suspension design, and I like your solution for the front steering! I put one of these suspensions in a 1:10 Ford F-350 MOC a few months ago, so I can appreciate how hard they can be to design.
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    I just took a look at one of the old instructions websites I used to frequent, and it looks to me like they have the instructions for this Street Sensation--it's a low, street car, right? It doesn't look like this site lets me post links to a specific set of instructions, but if you go here: https://brickfactory.info/, click on the "All Scans: By Number" box, select 8400-8499 from the dropdown list, and scroll down to 8458, you should find them. Would it make sense that this model was built on the same chassis as the main model? Hopefully it was, because the instructions seem to start with the chassis already built.
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    Yeah, I'd agree that smoothness is likely more of a motivator then strength. After all, have any of us ever broken a tooth off of a 20T or 12T gear? I haven't, at least, and I tend to use stuff hard.
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    So, we do have new gears, but they're much less useful than they could have been... Still, they look cool! I suspect the best use of them will be to get a 1:2 gear ratio in flexible spacings using 12T and 24T gears--sometimes you need a specific ratio like this for something to work, and this should make it more convenient. 20:40 would also get us that ratio, but takes up a lot more space. I suppose it'll also open up some ratios that never really showed up before, like 12:16, but overall, I'd much prefer the 14/18 combo I was hoping for! I guess my old-school 14T gears ain't obsolete yet!
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    It is an unfortunate color, but it can't just be a standard 12T recolored, because it doesn't have the beveling. Hopefully whatever it is will only be used occasionally, like the 20T clutch gears, leaving the nice black 12T gears being used the majority of the time.
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    Well, I'm not so sure. Whatever this gear is, it can't be a simple recolor, because it seems to clearly have a circular lip right at the edge, rather than the + shaped ones that current 16T gears have. Based on that, it could be nothing but a new mold for the 16T gear, but I don't think they should be due for that already. As Zerobricks suggested, it could be a 16T variant that can slide on an axle, but from some angles it seriously looks like the gears are different sizes. I did a bunch of counting as well, and I'd agree that there are too many teeth for the near gear to be a 12T, but I think it would work nicely as the 14T gear of the 14T/18T gear combo that I'm really hoping this is. EDIT: Here's an image @R0Sch posted in the 42140 thread: It's got differently colored gears, which would likely indicate prototype parts in one of the pictures, and from this angle, especially the picture to the left, they really look like different sizes. Also, the different shades of blue would make sense to designate two different molds. I guess we won't know anything for certain until reviews come out, but I'm pretty hopeful that there's some new gears here.
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