Phoxtane

I plan to use the V2 Receiver in conjunction with two XL motors for a thing. It's a secret thing for now.

I had about two hours of footage - however, I took breaks, and disassembly took place over four hours!

You wouldn't have liked how long it was originally - a hair under ten minutes! I got tired of waiting for it to upload and squashed it a bit more.

I filmed myself taking apart the 9398 Rock Crawler, then turned it into a time lapse. I'm rather pleased with how this one turned out, but I want to try again with the Unimog and a more consistent camera placement.

I'm currently watching Ashen's Lego Star Wars Advent Calendar review, where he does one box a day leading up to Christmas. From what I can tell, the current format of the Advent calendar boxes has 24 windows of the same size, which can just barely fit a micromodel or one minifigure. I think that either TLG would have to get rather creative with a new box layout and have to create a new, bigger box overall to fit some studless beams into a window.

I'm hoping for some PF Train rail packs, a set of PF lights, and a PF train motor. That, or a slip of paper that contains the words "Horizon Express" and "preorder" in the same sentence.

I'll second the question. I have quite a few old bricks from when I was younger that are all dinged up, and I'd love to see them restored.

Does this work on the tinted parts, such as the brownish-trans-clear and the dark-blue-trans-clear?

I think there's a fine line between attention to detail and obsession over detail. I do take the time to align the fiddly bits that never stay straight, however.

I've heard of similar issues when two transparent parts are put together. It's something about the different type of plastic used that actually causes them to start to bind together. Maybe I'm crazy, but my guess is that somehow Lego produced some parts with the wrong plastic, but the right color, and you just happened to get those parts. That, or glue.

Well, I've been playing around with a wheelset much like this setup, but with all three axles driven, and the whole thing has to be stuffed into a Maersk Train wheelset-sized package. I don't actually think it's possible to do so, unfortunately.

It looks like you smashed the Brooklyn Bridge into the Golden Gate Bridge I like the curved roadway section as well!

Now you have to build the two pilot trucks with the flashing lights and "oversized load" signs to go along with it! I see these sometimes on the highways around here. Passing them is... iffy at best.

Compared to more recent Lego train sets, this set certainly sends out the 'toy' vibe. It makes me think of Brio trains, in fact!

What sort of camera did you use to get the slow-motion shots? They're quite good.

It looks stunning! However, I think the joints on the base of the sprayer arms look a little weak to hold up them up when they would be fully extended.

I would bet that it's to create hype over the new sets. If I wasn't confident that I wanted two before, I most definitely want two now!

It's certainly interesting to see how clone brands attempt to ride off the success of Lego with near-direct copies of certain elements. I'm not planning on getting any clone brand sets [There's really only room in my budget for Lego ], but it's almost scary how they manage to create seemingly direct copies of certain Lego parts! I mean, that train baseplate looks just about exactly the same as a standard Lego one.

If it were me, I would leave in some sort of way for the user to correct the program and have it learn over time from that.

In fact, "The Nxt Step", a Lego NXT blog, put up a post recently on how to make heavy-duty differentials: http://thenxtstep.blogspot.com/2012/11/sometimes-ordinary-differential-just.html

I remember seeing those in the Lego catalog as a kid. Back then I was limited by my allowance, so I never got one One thing that bothers me now: Why fluorescent green for the train lamps? I would think that trans-clear would be a more realistic solution!

It's so tiny Nice parts usage with the conductor's baton!

Well, I know what I'll be picking up next! Thanks for the tip!

I saw akiyuky's brick sorter a while back, and I tossed the idea around with a friend about how we would go about creating one. It boiled down to a few key points: - The background against which the bricks are going to be examined must be a neutral color, and evenly lit. akiyuky was able to do this with a paper/vinyl final conveyor and some LEDs in an enclosure. - He looked at only one brick at a time, using two conveyor belts running at different speeds to spread out the bricks. Even then, the system took a while to find the part it was looking for out of the few hundred that were in the database. Something to keep in mind, I suppose. - A scale was used to check the brick's weight. This should help in the sorting process. And finally, we came to the issue of teaching the database to have a general idea of what the various bricks look like from different angles. It was quickly decided that taking a picture of the bricks we wanted to try out from quite a few angles, and then moving them to the computer for analysis would be overly time-consuming. That's why we decided we'd search for pictures of the bricks online for use in the teaching process, and create LDraw renders of the bricks that we would be unable to find online. Eventually, the idea was to be able to automate the entire teaching process by creating a script that would create renders of a brick from all of the required angles that the database needed, then feed those into the database. I'll admit it was overly ambitious, since no such device has been assembled by either of us.

I meant the large tires and rims that came with the 4x4 Crawler set. Considering the speed you're getting out of it already, I would imagine that the larger tires would make it go faster! I like the updated car body; the servo motor sticking out of the hood looks like an air intake!