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I just understood everything except all in that video. Please help me understand Danish.

Cool colours and builds but also names. Your black/green Venom snake is my favorite.

My translation would be this very straight forward version (I don't like the official one): ---------------- Det bedste er ikke for godt ------------------- The best is not too good ----------------- The problem is that this is not "correct" English as I see it, or at least not something anybody would say in English. I guess that's why somebody translated it into something you would normally say in English: "Only the best is good enough". ****Edit***** Ok, I see you suggest the same translation as me

Congratulations to the winners, but really also to all participants. I felt too busy at work and at home to contribute with mocs and even votings. 2011 will be a huge year for Hero Factory. I'm not sure I know when the sets appear, but I already have a villain and a hero

Your moc here is really nice, but there was some fierce competition. Your vehicle really fits nicely as a ground vehicle in 2010 HF.

Pretty cool, looks like a solid build. I love the gun on his back.

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This is 2003 sets.

Could it be the very light colour that was used for Thok's weapon: Thok on Brickset or Umbra: Umbra on Brickset Not sure you will find these in any 2007 sets ?

It is no secret that the stresses (force pr. unit area) or strain (relative elongation of the material) is greatest when a ball is inserted or pulled out of the ball cup. Actually anyone with a mechanical engineering degree should figure that out in half a minute. By the way stress and strain are more or less the same, as strain times the material stiffness factor E equals the stress. But the strain from being assembled in say a year are also important, as we are dealing with plastic and plastic tend to creep (elongate over time due to strain and dependent on temperature too). Saying that fracture happens at the thinnest place on a part is only half the truth, it would be more correct to say that it happens at the point of highest strain. But in many cases the strains are highest at a thin spot on a loaded piece. But making a thin ball cup thicker may not help. When you put in a ball you have a forced deformation and though a forced strain of the ball cup. Though a thicker piece will just as easy break, but will just require a larger force when inserting a ball. This is a very important lesson in mechanical engineering.

I was glad to see the Atlantis suit in white, used in the City line as a space suit. Now it's going to space. Mind you the piece was never engineered for zero gravity.

Ball Cups have always used the same material. When something looks glossy there is a good chance that the mould cavity has been High Speed Milled, while a more rough and textured surface indicates that spark eroding has produced the mould cavity.

The socket will not break. It is as simple as that.

Very cool interview Superkalle. Did you have the chance to do this interview the last time you were in Billund ? It was really cool to run into you there, quite unexpected.

The ball-cup is a new design that use ideas from the 2010 Ben 10 designed ball-cup. I've been responsible for getting this new ball-cup design implemented in our CAD system, so it's straight forward to add to new parts (creating new limbs etc.). And I've tweaked the ball cup to look more nice in the eyes of the designers. But the actual engineering of the ball cup, ensuring function and strength, has been the job of my colleagues. But they sit right next to me, so I've kept an eye on them, making sure they didn't screw it Erland, Part Design

Very nice and complex moc. Love the skull as part of the foot.

Anders works on other projects now, something that happened before the product 8043 was even released. Even though he is the designer of the product, a whole team of people has been behind the development of the product. You can't just blame a single designer for the less than optimum ( ) history that the product has gone through in its first few months. Erland, Part Design

Looks like the 4 and 5 module shells

R.I.P. Dan. His site is so great, he died young but achieved more than most.

It might be a bit hard to moc with 2011+ pieces, until it is recognised how to appreciate the new pieces. Then suddenly you can do stuff that was never possible with Bionicle/Technic. All the Bionicle stuff through the years (including HF 2010) has a lot of specialised pieces. A lot of, in my opinion, too specialised torsos and limbs. Welcome to the new world. You may like it or not. I love it. Get the parts/sets in your hand and let us know what you think. Only a big month left.

Check Tutorial index just above this thread :-)

I'm really not sure, but check the front of the box :-) Here's a good resource for building with NXT. A lot of free building projects with instructions etc. NXT Programs

I was very surprised when I saw the building instruction packed like shown here. It was a delight to open the set back when I "tested" a fresh 8043 set with improved LA. But please don't get your hopes too high. I've also seen how these manuals are packed, and we at LEGO need to figure out an inexpensive and automated way of doing it, before it will be the norm. Front aka Erland, Part Design.

The tubes are clearly the same colour as used in many Bionicle sets (called pearl light grey by Bricklink). This colour is replaced in 2010-2011 with the slightly darker and more metallic looking colour #315. Note that Bricklink has a lot of confusion and mistakes regarding these "pearl" colours, mostly used in Bionicle. The indent between the two Technic holes on the wheel is clearly to have the inlet point not interfering with the free running rotation function of the wheel. You can see the inlet point (from the mould) in the picture.

Yesterday I wondered (because of this thread) if it would be possible to make a decent brick built bucket that would fit the Excavator ? (or buckets in different sizes for our needs). Anyone had thoughts on that ?