CastAStone

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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In Lego’s own marketing video you can see a ton of not-technic stuff, from the wheels to the shifter to the seat. It’s pretty obviously not 100% technic. In any case I don’t know why it’s not okay for a Lego ambassador to go to a Lego ambassador event and report what they saw with disclosures. The car websites who just copy pasted the press release into an article are the ones who actually got taken for a ride here. I'm sure non-LAN folks like Brick Building Dad or Clever Pig will have a review up in a few weeks and as a bonus compare it to the CaDA AMG GT3. Feel free to watch those.

Technic owns the #4, 5, 9, 10, 15, 16, 17, 19, and 24 spots on Rebrickable’s most owned sets list - it’s not niche. the issue with BDP now is there’s 500 submissions so you make a vote on a set in 3-10 seconds. A car that looks at a glance like something Lego already sells will suffer in that world. I think if someone submitted something with the visual impact of 42055 or 42009 it would have a good chance.

The whole car should have been Pearl dark gray.

It will probably have a 3 day insiders exclusive window (July 1-3).

You could certainly design a switch / gearbox to link and unlink the doors from the hood, trunk, and each other. At the expense of even more backlash, but still, it could be done. And it would be a very technic thing for them to do on what seems to be shaping up to be the most technic-y set they’ve produced since 42131. The drums sure look like new parts to me. I don’t remember a channel that straight for that distance as the one in the photo.

Yes. I don’t think it’s great as a display model, but I didn’t think the P1, Porsche, or Sian were either. I'm curious from reviewers if it’s different enough on the inside from the P1 to be worth an (eventual, discounted) purchase. I’m not optimistic, but it’s absolutely possible, we’ll see.

Desires: 1. A space shuttle jam packed with powered functions, like they did with set 8480 2. ⁠A construction site or scrapyard, with a poweredUP, immobile crane, with a powered gearbox capable of selecting several extension functions, and capable of lifting at least a 1:14 scale technic car. 3. ⁠A new iteration on the 8110 Mercedes Benz Unimog or its successor the 42043 Mercedes Benz Arcos. It always felt like there was one final boss to conquer in that series, that being full RC of all functions, drive and steering, a power controlled gearbox, and outriggers that lowered via power. Probably a $500 set but hold hell it would be incredible. Expectations: a 50th anniversary 1:14 scale car.

There was news earlier this year that “many” 2026 sets were being delayed by several months - but little in the way of specifics. The specific sets we did hear (some Pokemon, Sagrada Família) were the bigger ones. Might be the issue here too.

The car licenses are virtually never exclusive, or are exclusive to a very specific vehicle. It would be shocking if that was the issue. I’m guessing the reason 42215 is retiring early is because seemingly no one liked it.

The set retires July 31. Lego has an API with retirement dates they share with retailers and a few different folks how found ways to tap into that and publish dates. The last few years Lego has done nearly all retirements on Dec 31, this year they returned to their old way of also having a significant retirement of sets on July 31, and several other major sets are also retiring that day. Remember that Lego’s retirement dates are meant for retailers, not their own stores and website, and Lego shop from home may run out sooner than that.

The recent Aston Speed Champions sets have all been regular Green. This looks the same to my eyes. Aston’s actual color is much closer to Dark Turquoise or even Sand Green but obviously we’re not getting either of those in 40 different technic recolors.

Might be a Koenigsegg insistence then. Honestly the headlights could be the same. The designers usually can’t help themselves but to make a tiny comment at the reveals when the manufacturer insists on something they don’t agree with. When those videos come we may find out.