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I was looking at buying them but my lack of parts and to buy the needed parts on bricklink being almost $500CDN between parts/shipping kinda put a damper on it. It is an amazing model I would love to build. I did leave all the parts in my bricklink wanted list and when I buy other parts I will be buying what I can for this set as well while I am shopping. Eventually! I am sad to see no canada on that list as well, but it is hard to find technic sets in stores here as it is so they are definitely underpromoted/lack of interest.

I remember seeing a photo of a set that had a knock off of the buggy motor but never actually saw the insides of the box, I am wondering if there is knock off power functions/buggy motors out there? If there is and anyone has come across them how do they perform next to the lego electronics?

I was gifted the 9398 crawler :) I just need to have a day where I can start getting into it. The new motors are the main draw.

Those are all great and I am jealous! I wish I had the disposable income to make the bricklink orders to make even 1/4 of those.

I didn't even notice the one ring before. Even better!

This is amazing, the chrome really works well and there is so much of it. I doubt I could afford/be patient enough to have that many bricks chromed That sucks, have you tried plasti dip? maybe its a north american thing but where I used to live there was a older man who sanded his car's tires then used the plasti dip aerosol spray and they looked pretty good.

Ordered the book today really looking forward to reading it :)

Count me as another one waiting to buy the book when I can get it at the end of the month :) I might have to make a few bricklink orders if I am lacking on parts to try some of the stuff you show how to do in the book. I haven't really made my own MOC's yet but this may be a start.

Put this set together over the past 2 days, it is bigger than I thought it would be the blades are very long. Since I only have the red and white helicopter from last year it seemed a no brainer for me to get to expand my collection :) The biggest minus for me is it doesn't look that great without the stickers and I am tempted to make it a solid colour because I tend to dislike using stickers. Overall a really great set and one that will probably stay together for a while.

I loved this car so I had to get the instructions and build it. I went with red instead of yellow because I didn't want to wait a week for bricklink orders :p

I am excited for the F1 car because it is new to me as I don't have a technic F1 car and the parts should be different from what I have. The claw machine should be interesting as well.

It probably saved them a fair bit of money on the restoration as to find something custom built that would do the same thing as $20 worth of lego would cost hundreds at the very least. Really cool when people do things like this :)

Looks great, and getting the blue in there really makes it. Don't see enough blue technic.

I envy all the studded parts you have and that tool box filled with gears! I just imagine how long it would take me to get that much.

I put this model together last month and really enjoyed it. I liked the boom/crane as a alternative to the way the unimog crane was done with the pneumatics. More pneumatics would of been nice but I liked the way it functioned and it was the more interesting part of the build for me. I also love the tires they use on this set, they look to me the most realistic out of all the technic tires and the other set I have with them they just look good. My only real complaint is the front hood doesn't have a stop on it but I saw another thread here on EB where someone fixed that issue with a few parts. When I sit down with it again I will try to do the same thing. If I had as many spare tires as you guys, I defiantly would make the rear tires double stacked too!

All of your collections are really nice, I love seeing your workplaces as well. How long have most of you been collecting technic? It has only been about a year and a half for myself so my collection isn't close to as diverse as most of what I see or as many spare parts.

This looks really great. The decoupler works great too!

Your mocs look great, the version 2 of the claw track is excellent.

The tumbler is neat but the bat is wow! You did a great job on the video too.

This is a excellent buggy and it speeds around really well and looks great with how you used the colours from what was available from 9398.

Best price orders things by the lowest price for colour until the next colour. Lowest price ignores colours and shows you the lowest price for the part.

This is great. The amount of parts and its size are crazy and on top of it you can now sit on lego and zoom around!

This is a really nice crawler, you did a excellent job in keeping it close to the original.

I would still like one of those too! It is hard to think of vehicles that haven't been done and would still work under the rules lego uses for its sets. Another set with pneumatics would be nice as right now the unimog is the only set I have them in and it would be nice to see more of them in upcoming sets. If Lego really loved me, They would put out a mobile crane, bulldozer, cement mixer, front end loader and a excavator all in lime green and purple. Just imagine what would happen when you combine them.

I would like to see a garbage/recycling truck. You could have functions such as a fork lift on the front to pick up the bins and put them in the back end, then a blade to compress the trash. You could also have a lift on the side. It might be interesting. For a non vehicle, a kangaroo crane would be very interesting as it could literally build itself up.