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  1. Stereo
    My optimist outlook is that the cars are easier to leak because people recognize them. The heavy equipment names don't mean as much and the sets look more "the same" (eg. if we get another Volvo, it'll likely be black and yellow).
  2. Stereo
    https://rebrickable.com/parts/6596/tyre-816-x-142-motorcycle-z-racing-tread/ Really looks like the same size as these tires (~10 stud * 2 stud), interesting. I wonder if they'll use them in black for a motorcycle. Windshield is I guess dual molded with bars at the end. Stuck into half-pins.
  3. Stereo
    Thanks! Probably it'll be a while before I pull it together but I'll try to remember to post pictures if I do.
  4. Stereo
    I used about 1/10 of the stickers on 42125. That's about the main upside of stickers that I see. Mix and match instead of going to fully 0 or everything that Lego decided needs a print.
  5. Stereo
    The boosters also swing out on an arc, they could be counterweighting it in the 'up' position.
  6. Stereo
    Slipped my notice until now, but 42678 Pet Accessories Van (Friends theme) is using a Technic shift drum to wag the van's tail in an uneven pattern, driven by the back wheels. Funny part usage.
  7. Stereo
    It does look good with black and white. I was curious about inverting options, white on top, dark on bottom, but that combination of white colour pieces is surprisingly hard to find overlap on for changing the colour, between the door piece (more classic colours) and 2x2 quarter dome (modern only). I'd like to see a version of it with white on top, dark red on the bottom.
  8. Stereo
    All the differentials should be about the same for wheels going opposite directions, since they use the same 12t bevels. The gears might not be slid into place properly inside it. I think when assembling it you want to drop all 5 in, have the one on the open side be floating loosely and centered, and then put the cap on. It has enough friction that a wheel won't spin indefinitely like it would if it was just an axle connected to nothing, but usually easier to turn the other wheel than to move the drivetrain.
  9. Stereo
    8 small sets in the same colour is interesting, would have thought they would make them look a bit more different. I guess it's good for people designing 8x combination MOCs. To me it looks like dump truck, cement mixer truck, bulldozer, wrecking ball crane, excavator, front loader, truck crane. I can't see the 8th one, maybe another truck like the dump truck.
  10. Stereo
    I think it's because of the red gears that float on the driveshaft, if you hold maximum steering, those are pressed against the axles and increase friction a lot. (both within the gear and the beams it passes through in front/behind) Zero Ackermann also contributes though, the front tires are scrubbing quite a bit if it's on a smooth floor.
  11. Stereo
    I believe the first one I possessed was the 6531 helicopter pilot. I have a couple early-helmet Classic Space figures that are older (blue and red), and a sticker-torso firefighter that I don't know the exact age of.
  12. Stereo
    The curve pieces also have a ~2 stud straight section on the ends, so that the plates that attach them together underneath have somewhere to connect. So it's probably more like radius 12 or 13 in terms of the actual corner.
  13. Stereo
    The 42093 and car that came on the Transporter both used small tires all around. I suppose not since then.
  14. Stereo
    Now it just needs a Banana for scale!
  15. Stereo
    Turning opposite ways will always be the easiest path, because the differential is open, but it should not take much force to have them go the same way. The usual advice is to check that each axle in the drivetrain has a bit of wiggle room, end to end and rotating - if one of them in particular is stiff, sliding the gears along it small amounts might free it up. I haven't had much experience with the new piston pieces yet but they could also be getting stuck in some way.
  16. Stereo
    The description I saw said locomotive, tender, passenger car, so pretty much in line with the 650-800 part Hogwarts Expresses. Maybe they got bored of redesigning it red every time. Though descriptions that leak do sometimes turn out to be completely incorrect on factual points.
  17. Stereo
    Ah, but what if it's the modern Dodge Chargers from Fast 5, that they used to move the bank vault? (I know, it's going to be Dom's from 1st movie)
  18. Stereo
    Ah, I didn't hear about that part of it. I've never even looked into making custom RFID tags, sounds like it would be a bit more specialized than printing custom barcodes. But they only store a few hundred bits of data so it can't be all that much to decode if you had a radio transmitter on the right wavelength.
  19. Stereo
    That particular part of the Code Pilot could be replicated with this brick, since it has light sensors, and that ran off the barcode reader. Just a question of whether they decide to. This can't power motors of course.
  20. Stereo
    Well, if it was car transporter scale, it should be wider than the car transporter, not transported on it. Since it's bigger than most cars. The previous minifig Tumbler was about 14 studs wide with 4 of the 3-stud wide truck tires (which I hadn't realized have a truck tire tread until the GT40 got car tread ones).
  21. Stereo
    I suppose you could look at real world examples too - late 30s up until the mid 60s, almost all cars used stamped steel wheels with round hubcaps. Then fancier/sportier cars had 4-10 spoke designs, while cheap ones retained the steel wheels, so hubcaps started imitating spoked designs by the 80s. So Lego switched from a stud in the middle to the 4-spoke small wheel design in the mid 80s just reflects real world cars. I guess Lego still uses that 4-spoke option essentially (though usually the next size up cause cars are bigger) but then Speed Champions get even more realistic wheels.
  22. Stereo
    Yeah 4's a tricky one huh. I end up with studs in all directions except up, to make something look nice. Surprisingly the neck bracket's available in Green. But not Blue or Yellow. Maybe the design could be reworked for 79389/73825 bracket, they just cause an extra stud.
  23. Stereo
    The Technic subforum's light theme broke for me today, a lot of white-on-white text. The Dark theme's text is too dark for me to comfortably read in a lot of spots, but I don't normally use it so I can't say whether it changed.
  24. Stereo
    So reading between the lines a bit, none of the bricks are programmable, they just have preset signals they broadcast and respond to? Sounds like it'd probably be possible to get PoweredUp hubs to control them, you'd just need to manually put the hub in a Coral "group" since it has no NFC reader.
  25. Stereo
    Hmm, maybe you could build it into the geartrain then. Like use 2L beams (axle+pin) with an elastic and towballs. So normally the towballs touch the other beam, but when the gear rack hits its end, the motor can keep turning about a quarter turn. Looks like you have ~7.5 teeth of sliding so a bit less than 360 degrees of output, so this does take up 3 studs of vertical space if it's geared 1:1 to the gear racks.
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