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The new boxes have absolutely no collecting value sadly :(

Raul Oaida said to me, that in romania, the car went closer to 25mph, but that during the transport to australia the engine was collapsed and warped. So he had to rebuild it there a bit and after the rebuild it didn't run as well. Whoever thinks that pneumatic engines are not strong, has never expirienced how powerfull the lpepower i4 actually is :)

Loctite super glue.

The engine is the real star of this car.

It was usually the "special" parts for that model. Like pneumatic parts, or differentials, or springs or suspension components that were in the transparent tray. I understand that they can't get the old way back, but can we then at least get smaller boxes with a smooth inner surface (maybe double thick cardboard on the edges like in the 90s, to give the boxes a bit more stability?

Car has a steel frame and parts of drivetrain are made of metal. The engines are based on the LPEpower i4 engine, but adapted by the builder to fit the special drivetrain.

True, but i judge sets by the main model :) Because the designers designed the main model, and then thought how they could use the bricks in a second model. That second model had to make due with the parts used and selected especially for the main model. That said, some B models are indeed awesome. And what i miss these days is the lack of the old "universal" sets, where you had 4-6 different models in the building instructions, and often some more pictured on the box, for which there were no instructions. And yes, the 8868 B model was pretty damn awesome and could have been an A model.

I always wanted to have a go at fischer technik :)

I prefer smaller boxes. The unimog box was also gigantic. The volume of parts inside did not warrant the size at all.

Jovel: The LPEpower wheel hub is a custom part. They use the small turntable black part and then the grey part gets modified (cut off pin connectors, sanded down) and then a modified wheel hub rotor (slimmed down stem) is glued onto it. This is done to eliminate 2 key weakneses of the lego hub: - the huge amount of slack - the inability to mount the hub directly to a liftarm, because of the thicker wall of the stator at the middle point

I started collecting the technic sets from the past that i cherished most, and i was reminded how well those sets were packaged for collecting and display. When you opened the cover you had an overview of the main parts, usually in a plastic tray and the bags containing the other bits. So even when the model wasn't build, you could neatly put the parts back into the packaging, protected from dust and excellent for storage. Nowdays all you get is a cardboard box, and when you disasemble the model, all parts are loose in the big box. And are more likely to get scratched on the cardboard and are not presentable. :( I understand that this makes it all much cheaper for lego of course. But from a collectors point of view it is not very nice.

Sure, you can fix it yourself, but out of the box, that set was a dud. Looks promised more than the set could deliver.

All my childhood i lusted for the 8848 and 8859 sets. And imho it's a good thing i never had them at the time. This fueled my passion for lego and made me the person i am today. :)

From the sets i had the pleasure expiriencing, the 8466 offroader was the worst. The suspension and steering were so flimsy that it was not even funny anymore :(

Only - 8848 (power truck) - 8859 (tractor) - 8860 (car chassis) :)

When i was a boy, every set went to the parts bin of course. But this year i started to collect the old sets from the 80s, and those will be kept well ordered in boxes and built every now and then for pure enjoyment.

It is a set i have always wanted, but it was not sold anymore, so in an age before the internet, i could not have it. So i decided i need to collect all the classic 80s lego sets, before they become too rare and expensive. Started with the big trio first (8848, 8859 and 8860)

By MT type wheels, which ones do you mean precisely?

They may be a tad too small. And i don't want a low profile tire on a van.

You can take apart stuff with precision pliers. Just need to carefully fish those axles out.

Well, i dislike the hubs, but if i want to make a model to propose to lego, i can't use modified stuff, can i?

You can see on the brick that he used force, because its damaged above every axle.

Depends. Some of those 5.5 axles are made of a very soft and bendable plastic.

Well, i plan to make a transverse engined front wheel driven van with macpherson suspension in the front. The van could be made r/c with the new servo and a pf motor and you would be able to modify it heavily. The cab would stay the same untill the B pillar, then you could make a flatbed, a car transporter, a double axle in the back, a camper.... Completly modular, thanks to the fwd concept. Most of it would be done with panels and the boxed liftarms + new dogbone. I have something in the style of the VW T5, Ford Transit, Fiat ducato in mind...

Hm... ok. They will do i suppose. Would be interesting to see the comparison in wheels ize between 8421 and 42009.