CastAStone

Thank you this is extremely helpful. These are for the PF compatible boxes I assume? i guess where I'm confused is that the black top battery box I have is the JV1079, that came with @eric trax’s CLAAS Dominator. It IS rechargeable and connects to my phone. But it uses the proprietary plugs. I thought CaDA was using colors to differentiate functionality and it would be the same for both lines, but clearly that’s not the case.

Can anyone help me understand the utilitarian differences between the grey top, white top, and black top battery boxes? Is it as simple as wireless connectivity or are there additional functional differences?

Should be within a few weeks for January 1 releases, and November-ish for March 1 releases; March can often be the better Technic date.

I couldn’t possibly care less if the 50th set is licensed if we get something as good as the Mercedes Benz Arocs or the 8110 Mercedes Benz Unimog or the Liebherr Excavator. I honestly don’t see what licensing has to do with it. The issue with a set like the 2025 Volvo Excavator is that it was bad, not that it was licensed.

In the US at least you can watch the store employees build them at the store entrance. My store put theirs behind plexiglass but the Arcade Pinball Machine was out and I can, um, personally verify that you can break the demo model.

You can do that, you’ll pay a 15% tariff and a brokerage fee to whoever ships it (in essence you’re paying them to pay the tariff) UPS is charging $20-$60 depending on, well, it’s not clear, because they’re not transparent about it. Maybe that will change in January. Maybe not until 2029. Hard to say. But for now, that will eat any savings.

Those were $85 and $80 though. This is $50. It’s much more intended as a kids toy IMO.

On sale or discounted? It will most likely be available from the websites of Best Buy, Barnes and Noble, and Target for a while (but probably not for its entire lifespan), plus regional department stores like Scheels will probably stock it. The 1:8 cars rarely go on discount here. The Sian had a few discounts near the end, I haven’t seen the Ferrari on discount recently at all despite its looming (and now final) retirement. I bought both the Sian from a liquidator and the P1 from an importer and paid about $280 each, those deals take a LOT of legwork to find. Meanwhile in Europe it will be 20-30% off by October 😭

This does not seem $40 better than the $10 42225. I assume we’re at Batcycle scale?

In the US and Canada, the blue one was a Costco exclusive, available only at Lego or Costco. They’ve done the exclusive recolor thing here a few times, the Jesko recolor was exclusive to Barnes and Noble, the Huracan recolor was initially exclusive to Costco (but opened up later), and the Green Bugatti seems to be currently only at Scheels here.

It’s available for preorder on Lego dot com, 89.99 is confirmed.

Well yes, he was speaking in the sense of other production models. The dark tan recolors I’m sure will be popular with a certain set of builders as well, both MOCers and GBCers.

While the parts are new, the designer went out of his way to note that all of the new parts except for the rims are designed and intended to be reused.

July set new parts will be on PAB 1st week of November

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