JesseNight

Did you ever get the chance to look into a donation system for an ad-free experience?

I am somewhat impressed there's no parts flying off. Have you seen how much that rear wing moves from the wind hitting it? Shock the world once doing it right, then smooth sailing the easy way on the hype it created. I don't like it either but it's how it seems to work for many big hypes. I honestly don't care much about these 1:1 models at all.

Because many find it ugly, chaotic, even distracting on the finished model. And we don't understand why 18+ people would struggle so much without it, while a few decades ago even kids didn't know any better. Anyway there's already been plenty of topics about this.

Now imagine what this would look like if... All the blue friction pins were black (43093 & 6558/42924) The yellow frictionless pins were lbg (3673) The red bushes in the gray construction in the center were lbg, and the one behind the steering wheel were black (3713) The yellow 1/2 bushes were lbg or black as well depending on their placement (4265c/32123b) The red 1L axle to 2L pin connectors were dbg (11214) The yellow gear knob wheel at the doors were either lbg or black (32072) All colored axles were all either black or grey Now the orange interior itself pops, with a lot less disturbing chaos. And I didn't even clean up everything, leaving the colored gears in the center as they are. But all the blue chicken pox are gone. Also note that I only used colors that already exist for these parts from LEGO. This looks so much better. Sadly if LEGO did this, people would complain that it's too hard to build. Back in the 80s even kids sets were like this. No speed building on camera, but actually paying attention.

Blue pins aside, I'm spotting a couple of (bright) yellow pins too. I wonder what pin type they're using that color for (but obviously not very happy about it). [Edit] Considering their placement I am guessing they are regular pins without friction. Why they would go yellow instead of the more neutral lbg this time is beyond me.

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Luckily there are places to get exactly that

Me too, since it would require a license, and 1:8 cars is something they already do on their own every other year. It's a beautiful MOC for sure and you have my support.

I can only advice a good adblocker (using uBlock Origin myself). Sorry if that's inappropriate to say, and yes I feel kinda bad for Eurobricks... But ads are just a horrible experience, and once again I wouldn't mind donating something directly.

Sure, but I would actually test it first instead of blindly trusting AI. It's plenty of times wrong. Currently not having it in use myself but I can easily find a lot of reports from 2022 from people saying raw=1 is no longer working. Why people assume AI is always right these days is beyond me...

It has to do with the "Koenigsegg ghost", an easter egg found on each of their cars. It's a tribute to the Ghost Squadron, which has roots in the Swedish Air Force. The reason that Koenigsegg carries the Ghost is because after one of the Koenigsegg factories burned down, and they acquired the abandoned airfield of the Ghost Squadron as their new facility.

Nice to see a whole new gearbox and a functional gear dial telling which gear we are in. They should have given the 1:1 car printed headlights too, for consistency sake After looking at the inside of the 1:1 model at 6:29 in RacingBrick's video... I won't complain about blue pins anymore in our 1:8 version They did the same thing at the left and right ends of the spoiler, visible in the same top view picture...

The thing is many of the franchisees and employees are just victims in the matter too. If the Mansells get their LEGO back or a fair compensation, that's good. If Ben stays out of jail, that's good too. But the spotlight is only on these 2 parties and B&M Corporate and the directly involved franchisees with this particular takeover. But the problem for all other franchisees and employees won't be ending there, they suffer in silence and may be paying a price that remains uncompensated (losing their business, losing their jobs).

I know that article and method from before. Somewhere in 2019-2021 it wasn't working anymore and the direct links would be only temporary ones that constantly changed. I remember well because before that I've used it a lot. Not sure if that was reverted again...

Yeah, how the police handled the situation and refused to serve the man after verifying the case being real was bad. Probably a case on its own.

Me too I'm still a long way off, plenty of orders left to go. Meanwhile messing in Studio with the headlights (unsuccessfully so far) and in Photoshop recoloring the interior of other people's builds trying to decide what final build to go for. I should probably check if ordering a few different color settings for the interior is doable. I probably wanna keep all accents (and luggage) in the same color, including the engine pistons and the shock absorber springs. Luckily all of it is available in both red and blue.

That's why it's complex case and not so black & white as to just blame B&M Corporate and be done with it. They'll just point fingers to someone else and unless you have solid evidence who has your property, you won't be getting anywhere in a lawsuit. I'm not familiar enough with this kinda business structure and I don't know how much liability is with B&M Corporate for the actions of their independent franchisees. It's easy to say they work for B&M and B&M should fix this, but that's not how things work in the legal system. And when it finally gets to court... Anything you've said or done can and will be used against you by the opponent. And that's where Ben may run into trouble with his past shenanigans. Because a judge will not just laugh it off.

Dropbox was once supported for hotlinking but not anymore for a while now. Another good free image host that doesn't require registering is ImgBB.

Because the case in its entirety is more complex than that. The business model, the franchisees, and who even has the LEGO in the end? A lawsuit only works out if you know who is guilty and serve the right person with the right accusations (and evidence obviously). If nobody knows where the LEGO is, and franchisees, ex-franchisees, and overlapping B&M Corporate all start pointing fingers at each other it becomes a difficult story. Wish it were simpler... (ftr I'm not defending B&M but also not blindly pointing at one single party) I haven't watched it yet, but I'm already lmao that another is joining the YT "fame" and using the long proven false $200k number [Edit] Thought it was serious LOL

I remember Jim saying 1.5 year ago that they were looking into an ad-free option with donations, did something ever come out of that?

Gold's not an easy color to accurately display on a piece of plastic, and a few visible scratches can already ruin the look of it big time. Still LEGO does have 5 or 6 tints of gold so there would have been possibilities, if they had chosen to pursue them. I don't know if all the tan is individual parts or if some of it is printed, in case of the first I may still opt to replace it by another color.

For that price it's not unreasonable to expect it to be custom made to our wishes I'm not a fan of gold accents on car exteriors myself, I'll take silver over it anytime.

@langko I'm probably not the first trying my hands on the headlights, nor am I the most experienced with modern Technic, so I don't keep my hopes up. So far most attempts had a dead end. I keep forgetting RB has a photos section, didn't realize so many more had already been built. I see more people added that third speaker between the seats too. There's so many choices to make (one of the disadvantages of freedom I guess), there's no 1 guideline what a Pagani interior should look like. Each car is unique. I just know for now I'm keeping the amount of colors to a minimum. For the outside: either full black or white & black. For inside: black with 1 bright color, nothing else. For shiny accents: mostly silver, getting rid of all the visible gold on the outside. I might just keep the engine cover in gold, tbd. I've always stayed away from red cars irl. When they get older, they seem to suffer from the same problem as white LEGO... discoloration!

@langko Nice mods you did! Love the wheels too, still not entirely sure which wheels I'm going for. I saw some wheels close to the actual car's wheels (sadly 8x 2 spoke instead of 7x 2 but still close enough), unfortunately they were rather on the pricy side. I've always loved your black with blue & silver accents car the most in this entire topic (I'm no fan of using gold at all), and I agree about neutral exterior colors with bright interiors being great! Every irl car I've had was either black or white too, I'm staying away from grays though (boring!). The choice between black and white will likely depend on available mats (and I'm not dirty using 3rd party if they're good and help a bit cut the cost). I like this white version a lot too: I'm still hesitating heavily between red and blue accents & interior. I think red looks really nice with a white & black car but now that I've seen the Koenigsegg with the orange interior I'm leaning more towards blue considering they might have to share a shelf at some point. Still not entirely happy with the headlights either. I understand why there's 2 versions and both are nice in their own way. Your version feels more accurate on the light sources themselves being round, while Astyanax's version shows off the signature oval shapes that we'd instantly recognize. Yet neither feels completely right so I'm messing a bit in Studio to see if I can do something about that. Think I got that figured out too now. Since the 3L perpendicular axle-pin connector from step 34 is only connected to a single pin at that point, I should be able to hinge it out of the way to allow using a long bar to push the bars from step 40 out. I feel old, not seeing that right away lol.

It's gonna happen, I'm gonna build this. Eventually. (wow, almost 3 years already since I first came across this build) First of all amazing job to everyone involved, the instructions are very well made. So far I have only one question. On steps 41 and 51 after the bars have been pushed all the way in, can these constructions ever be dismantled again? I've noticed 1 optical mistake. Call me a nitpick if you want, but the luggage color is wrong! On the real Pagani, they seem to always match the interior colors. Meaning the luggage should be blue/black on the black model and dark gray on the red one. Just a detail we can easily fix ourselves, but I had to mention it Speaking of colors, I can't make up my mind yet what interior colors I'm going for. I started liking LvdH's white/black exterior, and I may have found some good wheels. If I go for neutral exterior color, I want some color in the interior though. Most likely a mix of either red & black or blue & black. Experimenting a bit in Studio with it now.