Blakbird

Go to "orders placed" Click "customize display" Check box that says "Items in Order on my Wanted List Icon" Click "Save Settings" Go back to "orders placed" and you will now see a scroll icon next to each order.

A small teaser on things to come concerning this model.....

I have been using Bricklink for 10 years and I never knew about that button! That will save me countless hours. The problem is that it does not show up by default. You have to go into your display settings and enable it.

This is really a great car. I love the unusual engine. I should also mention that it is really large. It is about 40% bigger than the other supercars in this thread. Something is wrong with the roof in your pictures though. The roof should meet the back window evenly. I have a CAD of the whole car if you need it.

Hey, my head is normal sized! I have just read through this whole thread, and I honestly don't have much to add that hasn't been said. Both of the large sets looks excellent to me. Hard to compare the crane to 8421 without having them side by side, but I will eventually do just that! I have personally been asking for a "UCS" Technic set for years that is more "geared" (pardon the pun) toward adults instead of children. I can't say that 42009 is just for adults, but I think it comes closer to this goal than any set has before. I've also been asking for more parts in rare colors and more pneumatics, and the tow truck comes through on both counts. So it seems TLG has been listening to me! But no, I am not an undercover man.

I've exceeded my bandwidth limit for the month, mostly due to hosting a bunch of pictures for some Eurobricks posts I made. It will work again Feb 1.

"Would I buy Mindstorms if it was cheaper?" Well sure, but I'd also buy a Ferrari if it was cheaper, and I'd buy a 747 if it was cheaper, and I'd buy a 50 room mansion if it was cheaper. Sadly for me, amazing things are not cheap and for good reason. The only way a product like Mindstorms could be cheap is if LEGO drastically reduced the quality and I don't think any of us really want that. The price is high and that is certainly a barrier to entry, but such is reality for something so cool. Personally, I don't buy Mindstorms because it is too good. If I were to get into Mindstorms I'd kill thousands of hours on it and I wouldn't have time for all my other hobbies. So I hope the cost stays up!

I didn't build the ultimate 8043, I built the Zorex excavator. Both it and the JS220 are really fun to use. I still prefer the realism of pneumatics though.. Cruel.

Wow, thanks for doing all this work to summarize the part collection process! My experiences were very similar. When building one of these MOCs, it can be quite important to realize where color matters and where it doesn't. You correctly noted that the colors for the controller don't really matter. Same goes for most of the rigid tubing. The yellow tubing running up the main boom needs to be yellow, but almost everything else is hidden so it doesn't matter. Same goes for color of pneumatic tubing. The tubing on the excavator boom should be black, but the umbilical could be any color. Plenty of people have used clear silicone tubing.

Those all are good motorized models, but all are trucks and relatively slow. Motorized cars are hard to find. Sariel has done a couple using buggy motors, but they don't have instructions. The Ford GT40 is my favorite.

About 1700 parts. For those of you thinking about making this model, EdmanZA has made a very detailed post in another thread discussing the process of acquiring the parts, how much they cost, and how easy or hard they were to find.

I think this thread proves that one man's garbage is another man's gold, and therefore you will get no agreement on worst sets. Seems that all the sets appealed to someone. The barcode set is my profile picture, as you can see, and is probably in my top 5 favorite sets ever, so I was surprised to hear anyone call it the worst. It was so innovative and worked so well. I can only assume the people who didn't like it got one that was damaged. My works fantastically in all the models. I haven't heard anyone chime in and say they loved the micro sets, but I actually see their value. There isn't really a polybag sized set in Technic, and honestly it would be hard to make anything better out of 20 parts. These were a good way to introduce younger builders to Technic who would otherwise not have been in right age group for several years. Once they are interested, they will buy more complex sets when they get older. I always considered Cybermaster to be a Mindstorms set rather than a Technic set, even though it came out too soon to technically be one.

855 is one of my very favorite sets. Yes it is very rectangular, but when you consider the parts that the designers had to work with at the time, that set is actually a miracle. True it would not be very good now, but you cannot make that comparison. They had only plates and bricks to work with. The functions they were able to make out of plates and bricks are pretty amazing. That's another example of a line that is not really Technic. As play sets, they are actually really fun to use and work very well. Of my whole collection, the Competition sets are those my kids like the most, so they obviously appeal to a younger audience. Same with the new pull back sets. My kids love them. I wouldn't call them Technic, but they are a good product.

Try Jurgen Krooshoop's Little Devil. It is the only MOC car I can think of which is full IR/C. Nico71's cars are not motorized, and neither are Crowkillers' or Nathanael Kuipers'. Turns out LEGO parts and motors are not particularly well suited to driving heavy cars, so you won't find very many. Crawlers and construction equipment which are very slow work better. A couple of RoscoPC's F1 cars are motorized, but the instructions are not available yet.

That very discovery is what originally led me to do Technicopedia. In the old days the only reference I had of what the old sets were was some tiny pictures from the database at Lugnet. So when I started collecting old sets, all I had to go on was appearance. As it turns out, this is not a very good way to select and rate Technic sets. As I started buying sets, I found that many of the sets which were not very attractive were actually excellent functionally and some of them became my favorites. Therefore, the only way to judge a Technic set is based on technical function and that can only be judged after experiencing it. The web site was an attempt to give readers that experience. Now I will hang my head in shame for not updating it for so long and wait for the cacophony of posters telling me to get on with it.

Yes! It works great if the part in question happens to be made of the right plastic, and not at all if it isn't. For example, axles dye wonderfully, but axle pins do not. I don't know which material the gears are, so I can't predict whether it would work or not. The model would look OK with grey though.

Actually, my review of 8070 picks on those things you mentioned! In my view, it is not that I thought the powered hood was a bad feature per se, it is just that I like the old dampers better.

I didn't say I was one of those people! Actually I have all the Technic Star Wars models. They serve a very different purpose than regular Technic, but I still like them. They also provide parts in colors that you will never get anywhere else.

You are going to have a lot of disappointed readers in this thread. You called it "Lego Case Quadtrac Building Instructions" which will lead people to believe that you have posted some instructions, but you are actually looking for instructions. Next time you might want to title your thread a little differently, "Are instructions available for Case Quadtrac?". In most cases, if instructions exist you will find that they have already been thoroughly discussed on this forum and therefore you will find them by searching. If there is no such discussion, there probably aren't any instructions. Note that at least 95% of Technic MOCs never have instructions.

Interesting question. I tend to agree that when Technic ventured into areas that were not really Technic (Slizers, Robo-Riders), something had gone wrong. These are not bad play sets, they are just bad Technic sets. 8063 is not a bad tractor, it is just annoying that it is a duplicate of an older model with reduced functionality. Most models are so thoroughly tested before release that any definition of "worst" will be purely subjective. There is nothing really wrong with any of them. Personally, I never liked the 8414 Mountain Rambler. I don't know what it is supposed to be. The 8244 Convert-ables set was an interesting idea in modularity, but none of the combinations really made any sense so that's not my favorite either. It is not fair to call a model bad just because it is small, so I won't mention any of the smallest. I didn't like the 8433 Cool Movers because it didn't really do anything so doesn't count as a proper Technic set. I know there is a lot of hate out there for the 8454 fire truck just because of its strange appearance, but I like it because airport fire trucks actually look like that. On the other hand, the 8446 crane doesn't look like anything real. The claw mechanism is kind of cool though. Some people also don't like the 8462 tow truck because of the appearance, but this is one of my favorite models for functionality and color. 8465 is another strange one. Ignoring the color, this looks a bit like a rock crawler but not really. It was an odd design. Seemed like just an excuse to try to make another model to use the metallic green panels from 8466. Not everyone counts those Technic Star Wars models as Technic, but there are mixed opinions. Models like C3PO and the Stormtrooper cannot be considered Technic by any reasonable definition, but they are made of Technic parts. Turns out System builders don't really like Technic parts and Technic builders don't like models that don't do anything, so these didn't sell well. The Destroyer Droid was really cool though. I don't see how you could argue with that. That's it. Everything else is awesome.

For that particular model, it is not totally clear which is the B-model. In the USA, the buggy was on the cover and the tractor was the B-model. Everywhere else, the tractor was on the cover and the buggy was the B-model. Based on the number of parts used, it is obvious that the tractor was intended to be the main model. I have no idea why they made the buggy (which wasn't even very good) the main model in the USA. I'm sure there was a marketing reason, but this is the only time this has happened.

That question belongs in a different thread, but I don't know the answer. You'd have to ask Paul since he handles those.

My favorite B-models are 8880, 8480, 8862, and 8868. I have two copies of all these sets to make sure I can keep the B-models displayed. If you count universal sets, then 8094 and 8485 have amazing alternate models as well. If I had to choose only one it would be the 8480 submarine. You will note that all of these are old models prior to the switch to studless. This was not an intentional bias on my part; I just think these are great B-models. A lot of the bigger newer models don't really even have a B-model but just a variation of the main model. For example, the 8288 has a different version of the same crane. 8421 has the same carrier with a different superstructure. 9398 has the same chassis with a different body. My favorite B-models are those that use a large percentage of the original parts for something totally different than the original model.

Cool MOC! I love it when people choose unusual topics that have not been done before.

I hope my original review was not perceived as negative. I like this model very much. I did point out a couple of things that bother me about the model, but that's part of the reviewing process. Overall, it is a great model with a really useful parts selection. I've been waiting for more white availability, I like the new hubs, and the reissue of the 81.6x36ZR tires will make a lot of MOCing a lot easier. Comparisons with the older F1 cars like the Silver Champion are inevitable, and everyone will have their favorites. While I personally prefer the old dampers to open the body rather than the mini linear actuators, both are valid approaches and I'm happy to have some more mLAs. I also think it is inevitable to have lots of stickers on an F1 car because real F1 cars are so "decorated". Since this is not a licensed model they couldn't use any actual sponsors' logos, so what they did instead makes sense. And of course, you can just leave the stickers off. As for the price, I'll stay out of that discussion. LEGO has always been expensive. This is a big model.