drdesignz

So, I thought I'd look into this just a little further and I am quite convinced manipulation is ongoing. I started noticing a pattern for the same "Small YELLOW" project. Below is my list of suspicious profiles, which all share the following things in common: All have a name that doesn't seem very unusual at a glance, which seems intentional since previously the false account names were very random and therefore very obvious All names start with a capital letter and all other letters are lowercase (a few have a number added to the end) All have a very random avatar having nothing to do with anything related to Lego None have created their own project All supported the project "Small YELLOW" within the last 24 hours All have supported one other random project (that's it, just these two projects) Check the activity feed for any of these profiles and it will be full of "Small YELLOW" supporters Not one has commented on the project "Small YELLOW" I could not find comments for any one of these profiles Profiles: http://lego.cuusoo.com/profile/Tobias905 http://lego.cuusoo.com/profile/Babette http://lego.cuusoo.com/profile/Onaona http://lego.cuusoo.com/profile/Kinsey718 http://lego.cuusoo.com/profile/Mandel http://lego.cuusoo.com/profile/Georgiy http://lego.cuusoo.com/profile/Xochitl http://lego.cuusoo.com/profile/Zorion http://lego.cuusoo.com/profile/Tangia http://lego.cuusoo.com/profile/Peony http://lego.cuusoo.com/profile/Giona http://lego.cuusoo.com/profile/Yasmin http://lego.cuusoo.com/profile/Dobry http://lego.cuusoo.com/profile/Razo http://lego.cuusoo.com/profile/Alena http://lego.cuusoo.com/profile/Zakiya http://lego.cuusoo.com/profile/Philemon http://lego.cuusoo.com/profile/Brent62 http://lego.cuusoo.com/profile/Esarosa http://lego.cuusoo.com/profile/Paola http://lego.cuusoo.com/profile/Lonnie http://lego.cuusoo.com/profile/Verdi http://lego.cuusoo.com/profile/Janice http://lego.cuusoo.com/profile/Filbert0628 http://lego.cuusoo.com/profile/Kaipo http://lego.cuusoo.com/profile/Neron http://lego.cuusoo.com/profile/Veronica94 http://lego.cuusoo.com/profile/Laleh http://lego.cuusoo.com/profile/Hibine http://lego.cuusoo.com/profile/Ramiro http://lego.cuusoo.com/profile/Axelle These are less suspect, but share the majority of the common things above: http://lego.cuusoo.com/profile/zdoepp11 http://lego.cuusoo.com/profile/Palila http://lego.cuusoo.com/profile/Tania http://lego.cuusoo.com/profile/Cantara http://lego.cuusoo.com/profile/Osbert http://lego.cuusoo.com/profile/c_nadine0829 http://lego.cuusoo.com/profile/Telly214 I think there may have been more similarities between these users, but it's way past my bedtime and I'm having a hard time thinking straight and staying awake. Also, I stopped searching for profiles after only about twenty minutes. It only took me that long to find these profiles. Who knows how many more there are. I'm going to email the admins and go straight to bed.

Cool hot rods!

Oh, no, I didn't build it. The picture I posted is the only picture I could find online of the model built. It's not mine. And when I said "1 of 1,000" I literally meant "one of..." not "number one". Sorry for the confusion. I should have been more clear.

Thanks for the support. 33 is pretty good for the first ~24 hours. I'm quite happy with that

I bought it via eBay. It was a bit expensive, at a little over double retail. But considering it's so rare I felt like it was worth it. For those who do not want to spend the money, it would be relatively easy to build one yourself. Instructions are available here: brickset.com/news/article/?ID=4159.

I found a view of the inside a while ago, if that helps you at all: www.technicbricks.com/2008/02/tbs-technugets-01-inside-technic-clutch.html

Wow, that's unfortunate. I'm glad the admins caught that and are able to prevent future voting manipulation.

Awesome work, as always. I've really been enjoying browsing your work on flickr. It's impressive stuff!

Thanks for the feedback, I appreciate it. I've been considering redesigning the seats lately, actually. I was a bit lazy with the idea, I'll admit. I am thinking I could work on a fancier bucket seat concept and do another round of Bricklink orders. The final round of orders took a little over three weeks for everything to arrive though, and I just couldn't wait another month to put this on Cuusoo. I think the current black and dark grey design works well for now. It's clean, simple, and a good concept for a better design. There seems to be enough detail in the rest of the car that the simplicity and unoriginality of the seats is not very noticeable. But I knew somebody would point that out soon enough :P

Thanks again for the compliments and support everybody! That hot rod design is awesome! I see some similarites with my design, too. The front grill is especially similar. My grey grill pieces are turned though, so that the vertical lines face front, and I set mine back 1/2 a stud. The front suspension is similar and so are the headlights. I like the amber signal lights on the front. That's a good idea. I have none. Your front wheels are what I had originally started with. But the model became too big for them and I switched to the 8070 supercar wheels/tires. I also used them for the rear, but that looked silly by the time I had the body designed, so I switched those to the Unimog ones. I didn't like that 100% at first, because the tires are a bit too knobby for a street car. But now that the car is finished I'm satisfied. I do agree that wider tires would be better. I only recently became aware of the rear tires you used. But I think they might still be too short, I'm not really sure... Either way, I would like to have a more appropriate set of wheels and tires for both the front and rear. When I joined flickr I browsed many Lego car creations and noticed lots of chrome. I found a good source on bricklink and have entertained the idea of going all chrome. But that's quite expensive. One of these days I'll see what the final cost would be and consider it. Another issue I'm not sure about is chroming the supercharger (E-motor). I think I might have to take that apart somehow, which I don't know is possible. I also wondered about how chrome plating affects the connections. Lego is designed with such a slight tolerance, it would seem that the chrome would make connections too tight. But I've seen enough creations now that it somehow must not be a problem. Actually, I'm a Chevrolet fan :P But, either way, the whole car is meant to be generic, not specific to any brand. I originally had a small block Chevy design, with a carburetor and distributor. Also, no supercharger. For the distributor I used pneumatic lines for the wires. The finished design didn't look right though, since the wires were too fat. I then tried different things and eventually it evolved to a system very similar to a Hemi. There was just no way I could come up with to route the spark plug wires to the side of the cylinder heads, nor could I figure out a good distributor design. That's when I went with a modern fuel injection system. The distributor then became a set of coil packs and the carburetor switched to a throttle body with fuel rails. I found a pair of Lego hoses randomly on eBay, which turned out to work very well for the fuel lines. The fan was originally on the motor and that was moved to the radiator to be an electric fan. Also, while browsing Lego Education's website, I noticed the E-motor which had studs on top and immediately realized that would be perfect for a supercharger.

Awesome, thanks for the compliments and support!

Weeell, it does, sort of, but it's minimal. Maybe a millimeter? Haha... it had more, when I first designed it. I built the car from front to back. It became heavier than I intended, so now the front end just barely hovers over the surface. I thought about raising the front height by adjusting the shock position. But then the steering geometry and other parts had to be adjusted too, so I decided that was too much work. Besides, the car's stance looks pretty mean the way it is now. One day I may decided to rebuild the whole car from scratch, to resolve these minor issues it has. Thanks much! It just got a approved a few seconds ago: lego.cuusoo.com/ideas/view/25263

This is my first Cuusoo submission, a fully detailed, functional, remote controlled, large scale, classic American hot rod. Includes a detailed V8 engine. The supercharger is a Lego E-motor, which actually turns the engine. The "transmission" is also functional. The body is 16 studs wide, not including the fenders, door handles, mirrors, etc. The whole car is about 20 inches long. I'm not sure how many studs that translates to. Suicide doors open by turning the engine and shifting gears. The trunk opens manually to access the battery box, which can easily be removed to replace the batteries. The interior is fully detailed. I photoshopped a few gauges in this image: Underside of the car: Interior view of the mechanics: Here you can see how the doors open, simple and effective: Here I photoshopped a license plate: The design, building, and buying of parts has taken me about a half a year to complete. Ideas changed over time, and eventually I ended up with what you see here. It is meant to be a generic design, but it does share some resemblance with a commonly customized 1932 Ford roadster. Yellow seemed to be the best color for a Lego hot rod and I am quite happy with the result. I originally intended to build a fully remote controlled car, that could be driven. But I started on this project long before I became aware of Lego's new servo and decided on other remote control Power Functions. I tried to make the car as functional as possible. I chose a convertible version instead of a coupe, so that the IR receiver would be clearly visible. Although not necessarily immediately noticeable, it's right there sticking up between the seats: It's more or less a body on frame design with a chassis similar to the real thing. A modern upgrade includes independent front and rear suspension. Of course, it includes a true V8, which is a must-have for an American hot rod, and it is supercharged too. For the supercharger I used a Lego E-motor, which turns the motor and connects to a functional gear box. The gear shifter has three positions, center being neutral. Forward opens the passenger door and pulling it back opens the driver's side door. Another Lego Power Function includes a second electric motor in the trunk, which turns an actuator that adjusts the rear suspension height. The battery box is also located in the rear, which is easily removed by opening the trunk (see flickr album). Another function includes the steering wheel, which does turn the front wheels. The steering geometry is not technically an Ackermann arrangement, but the result is very similar. The entire model is 100% Lego. There are no "illegal" connections, to the best of my knowledge. All pieces are currently or recently available, except for maybe the exhaust manifold (which I happened to get from the only somewhat large Lego hot rod model produced: set 5541). I originally had a full exhaust designed with more traditional headers, which you can also see here: With headers: I recently bought the new 4x4 crawler, which came with black wheels, so I thought I'd see what the car would look like with them: I also thought about a hood scoop instead of the triple air filter design: So there you go, a fully detailed, functional, large scale classic American hot rod, which has never been done before. The closest set previously produced by Lego was the Model Team hot rod 5541 produced in 1995 and re-released in 2004. The only other hot rods I'm familiar with are small scale cars, such as city themed hot rods (e.g.: 6561), and alternate designs for a couple Technic models (e.g.: 8070). This is the set I would love to see Lego produce and I have no doubt they can improve on my concept. I hope you've enjoyed viewing my model, and if you have I would certainly appreciate it if you supported the project. Thanks, and have fun! Here is a link to the Cuusoo page, by the way: lego.cuusoo.com/ideas/view/25263 It is currently in the approval stage, but I hope it will be up within the next few hours.

Awesome, I'm getting a new 9398 Crawler delivered tomorrow. Good timing.

That's pretty cool. This was also my first big Technic set in about two decades. Actually, the first Lego set of any sort in 20 years.

I'm sorry to hear that. I was at Brickfair and saw this model. I knew I had seen that design before, somewhere. I didn't occur to me that it wasn't that person's original creation. Hopefully you'll get some sort of official credit for it. It's a really nice design.

Last night I ordered the complete first planet series. Heck yeah, that's a good deal! I got lucky too recently and picked it up on sale for $80 myself.

Star Wars Celebration Slave 1 - Limited Edition - 1 of 1,000 http://i.imgur.com/bSovY.jpg http://i.imgur.com/FScCl.jpg

Thanks for the info and links guys.

Which Lego model did those wheels and tires come from? I like them and would like to own a set myself. Also, what is a buggy motor? I'm not familiar with this. Can you tell me the part number, or which model it came from, or perhaps a link to where I may buy one? Thanks much. This is an awesome design, by the way.

Haha, yeah me too. I didn't have the 1x2 Technic bricks with two holes at the time. Four of those would've made that work well. The big MOC I'm working on now has a true V8 at least.

I recently got back into Lego after about 20 years and built my first MOC. It's a top fuel dragster meant to be minifigure scale (I didn't put a minifig in it, since I only have Star Wars characters). I am now building a large scale MOC and hope to finish soon. I'm just waiting on a few final pieces to come in the mail.

I just got back into Lego about a year ago and kinda went a bit nuts with the buying. I already have all of these: Imperial Shuttle Obi-Wan’s Jedi Starfighter Super Star Destroyer UCS R2-D2 Sith Fury-class Interceptor Saesee Tiin’s Jedi Starfighter Republic Striker-class Starfighter Gold Leader's Y-wing Starfighter X-wing Starfighter TIE Fighter Clone Trooper Battle Pack Mandalorian Battle Pack Elite Clone Trooper & Commando Droid Battle Pack Endor Rebel Trooper & Imperial Trooper Battle Pack Imperial V-wing Starfighter Bounty Hunter Assault Gunship T-6 Jedi Shuttle Geonosian Starfighter Darth Maul's Sith Infiltrator Anakin Skywalker and Sebulba's Podracers Republic Frigate Millennium Falcon TIE Defender ARC-170 Starfighter Luke's Landspeeder General Grievous' Starfighter My latest is purchase is one of my smallest, but also luckiest, the Star Wars Celebration Slave 1.

Thanks! I'm finishing up my first large scale MOC. It should be ready within the next week or two, depending on when I get the final pieces in the mail.

That's pretty cool, and the smallest I've ever seen. I recently saw a couple other small RC trucks that are well designed too, and one is only four studs wide: http://lego.cuusoo.com/ideas/view/21319