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Thanks, I see it on facebook now. How can LEGO not recognize that this kind of package design artwork is 100x times cooler than the plain, black one?

Are you sure? Who confirmed it? Cause the duck reminds me of the teddy bear from 42070, which was Uwe's.

Now this is a proper Technic set! Finally something worthy of the name. But first thing I'm gonna do is replace those fake gas tanks with two air tanks like in the good old days.

Yep. Could be another design by Samuel Tacchi, as each designer is responsible for similar target price and category.

Rake angle is a little too much compared to RL and the lack of a gearbox or functions makes it another "Racers" licensed set, but at least it's slightly cheaper than the Ferrari. Must be due to the fewer stickers.

I think the tow truck will be the highlight from the summer wave. An all manual, stuffed with functions, medium budget set with very cool parts... Technic sets don't need to have >3000 parts, only function with an app and cost a fortune to be great. In case you didn't see it the JP LEGO catalogue is online again: Link

He should have been, as he is the creator of the first Motorized Bulldozer 8275. Who'd be better for the job?

Yes, this part was confirmed by brick-a-brac. And another thing he mentioned was a manual pre-tensioning system for the tracks. So with all black actuators it will pretty much be spot on to the real thing. Hope Kossi outdone himself again with this 3800+ piece behemoth and it will have enough torque to push some furniture around.

Yes, I mean the normal cylinders, not the small axle-bushing engine we got in the Volvo Dumper. Bric-a-brac/promobricks probably got the retail catalogue pictures on hand, so yes, it must be reliable. Otherwise they couldn't check during live stream the exact width upon viewer request.

+ motorized (raisable) ripper. + V12 fake engine with large cylinders The number of functions and 450€ price tag suggests 2x C+ hubs, same as the Liebherr. The blade is supposed to be 50 stud wide, that's 40cm!!!! Lessons learned: Never trust preliminary pictures and early leaks. Must be a new tactic from TLG to let copycats follow a false lead. Yes, the swinging movement was also confirmed.

It's actually bad news. Because then all the set numbers for this year are taken up and none will be a train. Why does TLG release 2 Creator Expert cars this year and no train? Because VW and Porsche are big cash cows and trains are just a niche thing in TLG's eyes. As others also mentioned, not releasing some waggons with the Crocodile in the same year, let alone this year is another sign that trains are way down on the priority list. LEGO is all about licenses now and an old train is not trending in the current market research. I think the Croc was constantly sold out because of few production quantaties and resellers buying them up, and not because of popularity, or else we would have seen another set this year for sure.

I think 10279 might be a new Creator Expert train set. Sariel published the embargo dates on his upcoming reviews and there are two Creator sets mentioned, one of them is the DeLorean, but 10279 was never mentioned in any previous leaks and is set for July 1st. Pretty close to last year's Crocodile. So far I gathered this: 10282 Adidas Superstar 10284 Camp Nou stadium 10288 Winter Village Collection? 10290 DeLorean 10291 Queer Eye 10293 Fairground Collection? 10294 World Building / Titanic So a new train/locomotive would be my best guess for 10279.

Yeah, saw the Bronco review too now. That's a wasted potential then. So just another lipstick piece in ABS... :(

New bigfig Wilson Fisk (aka Kingpin) leak.

New part in 76193. Can be also used for connecting and extending technic hoses. Finally! Seems Megablox had this for a long time.

New Technic part in 2 upcoming Friends set... That's a first.

Castle looks good, but that dragon was unnecessary. Now it's just another fantasy castle.

I wonder what the winch below the cabin is supposed to be used for. The 350€ price range and <2500 parts are more likely seeing the pic. Remember the initial prices and part count are leaked by retailers before the final model is available and even the preliminary images can still change a little. Maybe Zetros and CAT will finally have a rechargeable battery pack to justify a higher price, although I expect LEGO to release such a product as a standalone thing for 100€.

@eric trax Thanks, I guess you were right about the Xerion tires. The smaller rims don't scale up correctly

Just try not to post the .io file after you are done avoiding to feed the copycats from CN.

Browsing for RL pics I found this cool 3D model: https://www.3dcadbrowser.com/3d-model/mercedes-benz-zetros-6x6-truck

Should be around 75 mm like the new spiky tires since they also use the 43.2 mm rims. Edit: I did a small downscaling in Studio. The new tire should be 78% of Xerion tire so around 83 x 34 mm to fit 43.2 rims.

It's not so small with around 45 stud length and 20 wide. And hey, finally a trial truck after so many years!

You are right. New type of tires smaller than Xerion. Similar to this with side pockets:

Yep, it's a 75t rotator. Something like this: