technicfanatic
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My set is about to be shipped! I haven't been this excited since I was a little kid!
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Some review videos have given us the part list pages for this set - is someone creating a list to have available for stud.io? Or will LEGO give an official parts list that we can use?
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I thought that notch was very useful. It allowed me to chain wedge plates together to make a wing and to join wedges of different angles. I suppose they aren't strictly needed - all you need is the wedge to end pointily, rather than flat. It is possible to chain wedges and plates with a single 2 x N join plate to make a large wing when the notch is there, because the wedges overlap. Without the notch you need more join plates.
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I look forward to The large canopies The new computer tiles Getting four more spacemen. I have all of mine (I think, unless my daughter lost any. I lent her all my space stuff. Taking them back now that she has so much of her own lego.) Neutral about The 2 x 4 space tile Steering wheels for the controls Not so excited about The buckets instead of the original RCS thruster piece. If the buckets didn't have the dimples I'd be OK.
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https://jaysbrickblog.com/reviews/review-lego-10497-galaxy-explorer-2022/
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I made this model for a LEGO ideas contest: More images are here: https://ideas.lego.com/challenges/8f551f3c-0554-4b9b-a1a6-8dc61e9f9503/application/0dac05c0-efca-4ea4-ae7b-ce6080aa9be2 If anyone is interested in building it, I will clean up the stud.io instructions and post them on rebrickable after the contest is done. Thanks.
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Excellent work by RacingBrick to study the cyclic. Great idea putting the camera on the rotor. The collective is backwards re: the convention. In this model you would pull the lever up to go down, which is opposite of the helicopters I've studied. This also makes the cyclic wonky, I think. I realized that the blades on the model go clockwise, rather than counter-clockwise, because this is a French heli. In this case the collective action is correct. When I was building my educational model I found that if you reversed the collective, it would scramble your cyclic: the helicopter movement is no longer intuitively linked to the direction of the cyclic stick. I think they got the cyclic phase shift correct ignoring the scrambling.
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Adding a few more I found https://en.hothbricks.com/review-lego-icons-10497-galaxy-explorer/ (Slight negative tone in the review) http://bricksfanz.com/10497-galaxy-explorer-set-review/ https://www.brickbanter.com/post/lego-10497-galaxy-explorer-full-review
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Thanks for posting that review. It has a clear view of the pivot sleeve (I thought there wasn't one - there is). I guess the slop comes from two factors The square hole has play to allow the pivot sleeve to slide up and down the mast, but it has too much play The sleeve is designed to rotate with the mast, this prevents building in a constraining slot to prevent the non-rotating (black) swash plate from twisting. I would suggest a slightly different design Use an axle for the mast. Make the pivot sleeve (the ball) non-rotating. It will have a circular, frictionless, slot through which the axle can rotate and slide. Make a non-rotating platform for the ball that can be attached to the fuselage, allowing the ball to move up and down, but not twist. Make the non-rotating plate (black) the inner member and have a slot that keys it to the ball, preventing it from twisting. This design will mimic the bell 206 design without much alteration, and it seems like it can be injection molded at this scale, since it is close to what they already have.
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Thank you for posting @LvdH. I'm a bit underwhelmed by the swashplate. As @steph77 mentioned and I agree, and we can now actually see, the pivot sleeve for the swashplate is lacking, allowing it too much freedom, so it looks rather sloppy. It was very useful for me to get a good view of the swashplate mechanism in the video. The build looks to be fantastic however, and I can see this being an extremely popular and iconic set.
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Thank you @icm! I need something to tide me over till Aug 3rd (or beyond, if shipping is delayed)!
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@jodawill Very nice MOCs. I didn't look up the prices on brick link/brickowl but they must be high to make those sets worth it. My 1970s 1980s space sets (no galaxy explorer) are largely intact, except for some canopy pieces which cracked. Grown up me is not super fond of the lifting body design of the space ships and I will moc this perhaps with my old space parts and technic. It'll be fabulous.
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@jodawill Benny's space squad looks pricey at $15-20 for 68 pieces. I too like to build my own, though I'm ok building with whatever is at hand. My first set was the white and gray one, so I didn't imprint on the blue and gray scheme. Have you published any MOCs?
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I will now wait for reviews and some closeups before purchasing. My reaction is the same: the "scissor link" to keep the swash plate locked to the rotor is basically a key slot that slides on the link arm and still allows the plate to tilt. This is not optimal. Same, it seems, for the rest of the linkages. I will wait and see. Thanks for posting the video and for your analysis. Closest view I've had of the swashplate mechanism.
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Man, I did not know about the 852 with collective control! Very cool. I respect this a lot because it is build from more primitive (undifferentiated) pieces, which is more challenging and requires more ingenuity. Naturally they could not do the collective, but I wonder ...
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I was hoping they would create a pivot sleeve for the swash plate, like the one the Bell 206 has, for properly constraining the swash plate motion.
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I don't know if that is true of this particular example. We can do a precise comparison once the set actually gets into consumer hands, but looking at the parts list for the original explorer, I see plenty of small parts that are used in current sets. I think there are more specialized parts in modern sets.
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I'm nearing 50, and it feels ... forbidden ... to have pre-ordered this $100 toy and be waiting so anxiously for it to ship. Like many people here, the closest I got to the original Galaxy Explorer was by staring holes into the LEGO catalog. Sometimes, good things do come to those who wait. Also, I do have to say, LEGO seems to have gotten cheaper! The original was 338 pieces, and priced at $32. In today's dollars that is $128 = 37.9c/part The new one is 1254 pieces, and priced at $100 = 7.97c/part. That is mind boggling. My parents were right. It was a tad expensive (and hard to get, of course, where I lived)
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I preordered it. I see it as a second chance. First, like a lot of you, I absolutely love classic space. More importantly, I absolutely wanted 928, but it was too expensive, so my parents didn't get it for me (or it was not available in the country I was in, at that time). Looking forward to building it with my child.
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It does look like it has nice functions, and a realistic collective/cyclic mechanism, but it still could have been modeled on a different, even generic, helicopter that looks less like it got dented in the front.
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What do they use to constrain the swash plate motion, do you know? Is it a ball with a hole through it?
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That's really cool - it does look like an actual swash plate part. The helicopter is sadly not to my taste ...
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The helicopter its modeled on doesn't look exactly snazzy, but the LEGO model looks ponderous and ugly to me. I have liked all the previous helicopter LEGOs so I am a bit disappointed. I'm looking forward to what the swash plate mechanism looks like, though.
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Excellent. Only nit is that it would look better with the tail fins canted outwards. The fighter resembles an F35. Has anyone made an F35 with the swiveling engine exhaust? I recall a cool model someone made that had variable geometry exhaust.
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This is beautiful. Reminds me of pattspatt helicopter from the land Rover, but this is even more elaborate, I think. Well done.