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How do the “ramps” work for rolling the tram on and off the tracks? Those are some interesting pieces and I wonder how they’d play.

Phenomenal! Now you need to surround the whole table !

If it's set 4 years later, it would make sense that everything's a wasteland (Finn's stopped playing with LEGO), and the ship scene could be his sister coming to play with his old toys. In which case the trailer has only shown us things from the first few minutes of the movie.

You all do realize we’re on a forum dedicated to snap-together plastic models, right?

Team "It's not powerful enough unless you're stripping gears and snapping pieces" for me, I guess.

Interesting quote from the Technic interview in the latest Hispabrick magazine (#030), page 59++: In the past LEGO (and other toys, even old video games) didn't have much "competition" so children were more dedicated to figuring it out; I suspect that's not the case anymore (at least before they become fans of the toy itself), so "first time experiences" have to be good.

If it were near the engine it'd be the nitrous boost; perhaps it's a tank for air-assisted braking or something?

If I were a suspicious man I'd suspect LEGO of intentionally avoiding their tractor-like equipment from looking too Deer Johnny. I know in the old days, gray pins rotated and black were friction; but with new colors of pins I don't know how to sort them anymore, and I agree it would be nice if they at least made the pins match the general color scheme (or went back to neutral colors). Of course, I long for the days of 8880, back before we had panels covering everything (and even it has the blue arms).

I must not be seeing it then - the only color that really looks out of place on 42080 is the white on the crane arm.

Some real harvesters seem to be pretty vomity: http://www.threefff.com/?page_id=30

What's color vomit? If it's referring to the multiple colors found inside models (not visible from the outside) it doesn't bother me - HOWEVER I would really like it if LEGO used those parts to make parts available in colors not used before. (I don't know how much it "costs" LEGO to switch colors, but I know there are a number of pieces I'd like to see in alternate colors.)

True, I realized you’d probably have to have reverse minecarts to allow the balls to still roll out.

I like it - nice mechanism - but it would make more sense to me if the minecarts took the balls uphill instead of downhill. Would that be possible?

Given the cost of molds and how many pieces they can produce, non production parts amaze me. (Production parts in other colors are reasonably boring, changing color isn’t expensive.) I’d expect either non-production parts are made from less tolerant molds, or perhaps LEGO stores the molds for future use - I can’t see spending the amount a mold costs just to melt it down (unless some major structural problem were discovered). Heck, for some of these parts they could recover the cost of the mold by just selling the pieces directly. Then again, maybe I’m off. Maybe a single piece in a single set requires many tens of molds, and so the cost of a one-off is not that high. Or maybe the non-production parts are from a bygone era. Anyone able to measure the tolerances on the non-production parts?

Really liking the ground detailing outside - tremendous, as is the rest! Your plate-built doors: how are they done?

Watch for clearance sales at Target, Walmart, and other places that sell LEGO- the best clearance sales seem to be at stores that don’t dedicate tons of effort to the toy section.

Just so you know, the cost will WAY exceed what you probably expect - think more “commissioning an artist” and less “buying a set/pieces” - after all the builder will buy peices on BrickLink, spend 20-100 hours on the model, as sell it to you still having to earn a profit. However, if you find a MOC’r who has already built a similar vehicle, they may be willing to modify/sell it for not much over the piece-price.

The Galidor contest, for all its insanity, has produced some amazing MOCs that never would have seen the light of day without the contest. I don't mind it - in fact this is exactly the time of content you cannot find anywhere else in the world! One type of thread I miss from the old days is the detailed "how to build this style" - there was a very detailed post on making medieval buildings that was phenomenal - but the pictures are probably broken now, and video might replace this format. I do love reading, however, as I can do it while doing other things, whereas video demands my whole attention. As an aside, I've noticed an uptick in spam (that I've been the reporter on), perhaps we should be all reporting spam more quickly? It shouldn't last 60+ minutes in the "new topics" list on the front page.

Ah yes, I see. Wowza. I guess that's comparable, but you can get a 9AH Milwaukee battery at 18 volts for a similar price; specialized parts I guess. I'd love to see something like that in the default kit, but if it costs that much I see why they avoid it.

Nicely done! Really looks old Western.

Huh - my EV3 takes AA. Is there a separate rechargeable brick available?

Ask about rechargeable versions (built-in batteries similar to cell phone?) - is it cost/shipping restrictions, etc? Buying batteries adds up! I’d also ask about WiFi connections instead of just Bluetooth.

Amazingly well done! Captured it quite well.

Nice! Hardly a stud showing - reminiscent of the A-wing but with a sporty-Corvette look.