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That is so cool to see! I love gearboxes in sets although I know that I'd fight so hard building them into my own MOCs. Great work and I also love the colour scheme.

I took the time and translated texts in the images thanks to DeepL: Probably the help to here is wrong. As I got confused myself, boot as trunk in AE. So nothing really unexpected, the classical marketing sentences. But I read through these images and couldn't live with not knowing what is the text. Kinda felt like in primary school, when we did a dictation, as I did it on my phone, constantly switching browser tabs.

One could also think of integrating it into the battery box instead. So a more complex PU battery by similar to the ones in Mindstorms NXT/EV3, which has different programs and ideally fetches a new program from the cloud when a new Lego set with that is released. Then you could select a program and the Hub knows what to do with inputs from the remote.

You're mixing up two things in your post: What PU can do with it's current components What PU could theoretically do And here lies my point: the current phone-dependent implementation of PU is not ideal. But to fix that, we don't need a new system, which would make PU outdated again. We can use PU for that purposes as well. PU is completely reliant on Bluetooth, so any remote control with an arbitrary amount of buttons, switches, etc. could easily be added into the system. Even remote controlled motors with their own batteries would be possible using the current system and of course, you might add a NFC sensor brick, which could replace the Smart Brick functionality. I'm not saying, that this is what Lego will do, that's just what is my opinion on another new system. Your evidence seems very logical, that Lego will make a new electronics system. But honestly, I can't see Smart Play being used in any Technic set, as it's base brick just doesn't have any connection possibilities with other parts in that system. They're more like their independent system like sirens in Duplo for example. And I very much doubt this'll be changed. Rather a completely new electronics system for motorized sets.

Oh, please. Not another system incompatible with all the others. Just stick with PU now, it has data and power transmission. But just why? Why do we need a new system? Power Functions was not ideal, as it didn't feature data transmission. But PU imo just had everything it needs to be a full electronics system.

It doesn't look terribly off, but making it smaller would probably increase it's realism. However, I fully agree that it's ok like it is currently and if the structure and/or mechanics are doable like this more easily, I would keep it like it is.

Sorry, I wouldn't be able to find time for this, but I hope you'll find someone! What I wanted to say is, that some of your images seem to be broken, as it just displays "postimage: Image not found or was removed". You probably want to take a look at it.

I literally just checked Rebrixkable and have 100% (without strict colours) without owning the set and this seems like a relatively quick build, so might do it soon™. What functions of it are pneumatic?

This model looks very great! In my opinion an improvement over the normal set. I also especially like the use of new pneumatics, as I don't have old pneumatics. So this is more buildable from my current parts than the original.

Ooh, that seems very well, maybe once it hits the used market I guess. I definitely won't be paying Lego's prive though.

Yes, I agree, that you can add a string to an Alt Build. I meant the "in the strictest sense" different, but don't care. Sorry about that, it's a good Alt Build like this.

Well, in this case it's not an alternate in the strictest sense. After all, you couldn't say "there's nothing wrong to use some more parts" or something like this. But I still think it counts as an Alternate and don't think it's bad at all.

I happen to have the real set (42082-1) lying around on my desk and I must say, that this bit it to the point. Amazing for a downscaled model which was built as an alternate!

Oh, didn't know you did the base for exactly that model. That is on my buold-list. Always be optimistic, maybe they will read this and do our ideas regardless. Or keep it for their 75 years anniversary.

Thanks for sharing that! For reference, this is the set entry for the exact idea: https://rebrickable.com/sets/8891-1-c7/ From what it seems like, the role needs to be tensioned yourself using non-Lego objects and then the chairlift has a motor in it and can propell itself on its own. Oddly specific, but I get your thought and 100% agree. There's this YT video I found after a quick search which shows a very simple model of it: