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So, with this year's Modular having been released, I wonder what what next years - 20th anniversary Modular - will be. What type of building do you expect? What businesses could be in it? Who's responsible for the design? We've had so many businesses over the past 19 years (see first page of this thread), so what is still missing and could be expected? For example, we are still missing a hospital and a supermarket; however, I doubt the 20th anniversary set would be a hospital. My dream would be if Jamie Berard (the godfather of Modulars), Mike Psiaki (my alltime favourite designer) and Francois Zapf (the designer of the Tudor Corner) worked together on this one. Jamie is most definitely involved, as he remains the creative lead of the Modular series. I think we can safely assume that it will be on at least 1,5 baseplates. The anniversary would be the perfect occasion to step up the game and finally include lighting in a Modular, but I doubt we will get it.

An excellent midrange set, function-packed, dense, full of gears. My only complaint would be the poor playability, since the gear ratio for the bucket and arm operation seem pretty bad, you have to do some heavy knob-turning to work the functions. My go-to wheel loader in this size is still my trusty old 8853, which had excellent playability, the movements can be operated with very few knob rotations. Curious whether someone will come up with a mod improve the movement speed of arm and bucket.

Fantastic model, fantastic write-ups on your progress. This is a joy to follow.

Fantastic build, fantastic presentation!

Good to have you back, Grum. May you recover swiftly!

It looks like two in that First picture, while it looks like one in the second picture. I'm pretty sure the second one was photoshopped. This is a really bad design decision for an official Set.

I don't think it's a double bucket.

They manage to recolour such a special piece for such an occasion, but still fail to replace visible blue 3L pins with black ones in the expensive 18+ sets...

Fantastic looks, great functions and superb presentation! I especially like the parking brake here. You nailed the cab really well, and I especially like the obligatory cup in there, just like in City trucks ;)

8865. Because nostalgia ;)

From all images available so far, it seems that the dark blue stripe is missing on the helmet. Lego, seriously?! The most iconic helmet in racing history and they just leave one of the two stripes off?!

It's totally possible. @technicprojects ' MAN TGX dump truck (42098 alternate) has 1032 parts. My bet is that it will be in 1:21 scale, similar to 42078 and 42098, which raises the hopes of another great truck set, especially for alternates. In view of the total parts count, I think the FMX truck will be a dump truck, rather than a tractor unit with additional low loader trailer for the excavator.

It's gorgeous. And you manage to capture this 80's retro vibe in spite of the modern parts.

Such a fantastic build. First the awesome Camper - I love all the details inside, and the many functions. It's gorgeous! Then the U5000 Fire: Finally a Fire Unimog in 1:21 scale, what a great model! I already started with the chassis and am waiting for parts to arrive in order to continue the build, but I'm always amazed by the efficiency and density of your builds. The chassis is Lego perfection.

So creative and fun! And "penguin release mechanism" has to be the coolest Technic function ever.