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I want to see the new minifigures photographed and not as perfect renders. I have a strong hunch that the print quality will not be that great, especially the leg printing.

Glad the LEGO shift drum + shift fork design (this is the correct technical term) turned out totally different to the CaDA version, otherwise we'd see the same patent dispute as was the case with the orange changeover catch. Hope both companies will file for patents individually. The 24 tooth spur gear is also cool. Now we only need 14T and 18T gears and it will be gearbox galore.

I'm a little late to the party and what a feast it is! So many cool new gearbox parts that I could cry. As a motorcycle rider a must have set for me. The price is a little steep, but new parts also cost money to develop. But I do wonder why the video reviews were not yet released if the official pictures are out. Anyway, here is one source that never cares about embargo's: P.S. The LEGO Model Designer of this set is Lars Thygesen: https://brickset.com/sets/list-41122

Yes, I am down to 9.1g now with the recessed half beams. Looks much better too. But I didn't add the 2 ugly spue marks at the ends of the diagonal supports. ;)

Thanks. I didn't have the video on hand where this can be seen. I'll fix it tomorrow.

Agree on the weight reduction on these 5x15 frames. I did a CAD mock-up and the part seems to weigh ~11,5g.

...or the instruction manual is telephone book sized

The set weight is 8.76kg according to amazon (compared to 42100 6.45kg or 42131 6kg). So yes, it's the heaviest and most expensive Technic set to date. A manual version of this set would not have the electronic load sensing and therefore have a higher risk of tipping over during play, something that TLG probably didn't want to risk. Global toy safety regulations are very strict when it comes to risk of harm.

But then you need to add pins and beams to achieve the same dimension, it will look worse and the strength will be also weaker. Maybe you'll end up with the same cost as just the lattice element in the end. Here's a quick CAD recreation of the weight element. If it's made of a denser plastic material than ABS, then it doesn't need to be solid. I agree that 8mm wall thickness is not recommended.

This info comes from Stonewars and their sources that have been to the toy fair in Nürnberg. You can also see from the video that the parts are made of lbg ABS and I even calculated the weight based on a solid part of that size. If you take out the 4 cutouts (1x1x1) on the sides you will get exactly the weight that is written on lego.com (38g).

Did a quick calculation regarding the weights. 7x11x1 studs = 40cm^3 = 40-41g of ABS 24 weights included so 960 - 984g total counterweight mass. Yep, and 6 in total, split as following: Drive including steering (2 motors) Rotation of superstructure (1 motor) Tilting the entire boom (1 motor) Luffing jib raising and lowering (1 motor) Lifting and lowering of the hook (1 motor) So total cost of PU components: 6x35 + 2x80 = 370€ (lego S@H) or more realistically on BL: 6x13 + 2x15 = 110€

Thanks for posting the link with the higher resolution images. From them we can see further new parts like larger white string reels, the weights being made of solid ABS (so most likely no metal insert needed), the superstructure supported by ball casters, 3 removable stoppers for the turntable, the hubs placement etc. https://cdn.shopify.com/videos/c/vp/07bfebb8db424e1fa585963d4d4498f7/07bfebb8db424e1fa585963d4d4498f7.HD-720p-4.5Mbps-15800908.mp4

@nerdsforprez I don't think it's a "design flaw" to use different cross sections for the boom and jibs. And I'm fairly confident the weakest link will be the motors and gears. Here are some examples of giant cranes made of LEGO from Fanwelt 2018 that also use variable cross-sections:

The good old days when black boxes looked cool and actually showed the functions and had a cool B-model. You could easily change between A and B-model thanks to the modular jibs. I'd rather buy a second 8288 and double it's length than to look at the monstrosity that TLG calls LR 13000. They didn't even bother to add a weight or cable in the set to lift something with it. P.S. 31.5 in = 80 cm, so only 100 cm for 42146 is ridiculously small. P.P.S 8288 contained 11.55 m of string. And they could have easily used these System pieces for boom and jib currently available in yellow thanks to 910008:

The counterweights are not brick-built but most likely overmoulded metal pieces.

Did anyone notice the whole rear superstructure and weights are supported by 2 thin beams (probably manually lowered), meaning the crane will not move/rotate while extending the boom. The derrick weights are supposed to touch the ground when the boom is lowered but the turntable ballast enables free movement/rotation ans supposed to balance a raised boom on it's own.

The 7L softer tracks would not hold the weight of this fat ugly duckling. They would just deform and make the parts useless afterwards. Therefore the hard plastic 5L tracks had to be used. Price is still too high for such an unimpressive height. I expected at least 1.5m boom. But guess TLG had bigger concerns over the lawsuits in case it fell on a child than to make an actual LR 13000. Might as well called it a no-name crawler crane and lower the price much more, because this chimera will do nobody justice.

Bricktastic.net has high res images of the castle and a sneak peak behind the GWP with nr. 40600.

Maybe because that was a free GWP and didn't cost over 200 bucks and contained for the first time the printed Forestmen shields and torsos that everyone wanted re-released, especially after having to apply stickers on the Castle in the Forest shields and the inclusion of generic minifigures.

I wonder if TLG came up with this idea last year only after seeing several great submissions of Eldorado Fortress on their Ideas contest 90th anniversary "Pirate Theme Celebrations". To me the black also looks bad. Should have at least been dark brown. Or did the Bluecoats carry ebony wood all the way from East-Africa to their island? It's also logical that from the 8 minifigures half of them had to be female like in 10305 to fulfill the diversity checkbox. Good thing they kept the yellow faces.

Labor costs are cheaper in Kladno where one of the factories and Model Builders are located. Or maybe they hired some interns for sorting the larger parts out and the rest was just recycled. Yes it did, see above link from Equilibrium. The set contained 2x 6112843 (aka 18945 in dbg), besides the two in orange. Bricklink simply denies the existence of the Osprey, luckily brickset and rebrickable don't.

Awesome work, man! You might have saved this sets existence, which means it will not go on sale for 50% off anymore like I was hoping, justifying more overpriced, ugly sculptures from The LEGO Greed.

Well the Osprey was technically a production model, otherwise I couldn't have bought the set after it was pulled off the shelves. I guess the only positive message is that they re-used the parts for this marketing gag.

Which ones? I only see the recolored 15x15 girder element 3250 in dbg. The turntable is the standard 60 tooth version.

Do you mean the larger turn tables? I assume those will come in the new Liebherr crane. Where else would TLG need that part otherwise. They won't make new parts just for an event, exclusive recolors yes, but not new elements. Never mind, those are regular z60 turn tables and the 15x15 Girders are just recolored to dbg.