Chilly

I'm going to rock the statistics: 8880 Supercar 8485 Control Centre II 8094 Control Centre I 8455 Backhoe Loader My final choice would be any GBC set that Lego made. Oh, they don't make any. Oh. In that case it's a toss-up between 8110 Unimog, 9398 Crawler and Sheepo's LandRover

Oh yes, Want. Wake up Lego, why don't you make sets like this? You know, without wheels.

I'm thinking of going to the Lego 2014 exhibition at Excel, London, UK, at the the end of this month. Does anyone know anything about it? Will there be much Technic stuff? Tickets are already sold out for Saturday and Sunday, only Thursday and Friday ones left, at £15.00. Overall I won't get much change out of £60 after paying for tickets and train fares, and that's a lot of lego I could buy instead !

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There's a really cute hovercraft in the Control Centre II 8485. It's one-wheel-drive, and has the most amazing movement, it kinda skates around, fun to play with.

Get the instructions for it's predecessor (is that spelled OK looks wrong every way I've tried) 8094 http://rebrickable.c...ilding-set-1990 It has some cool mechanisms, using gears, that do something then change to something else when the gears get to a certain point. I can sit and watch it run for ages, it fascinates me. The heli and dino are awesome models, but the pick and place robot and the x-y plotter are more playable. In my (adult) view.......

I've built some things from the 8888 Ideas Book, but that spreader was one that I wanted to make but had no idea where to start. Looking forward to seeing yours when it's done.

Brilliant Sariel, and I think you've just increased the price of the controllers. Might be time to sell one of mine

Oh wow. As the owner of an "embroidery/sewing" machine, I can only wonder in amazement. I had to replace the backlight in my machine and was absolutely fascinated by what goes on inside. I take my hat off to you, but think I'll stick with embroidery machine upstairs, Lego downstairs.

When we bought our first LandRover Defender we got a free half-day off-road course. The course started with looking at how the diffs work, using an 8880, but I had no idea what model it was at that time. Took me a while, but as soon as I'd worked it out I bought our first one. That's when I got back into Lego and bought more Technic sets. Then "he" wouldn't let me play with "his" 8880 so I had to buy another one for me. Since then I've learned lots, but diffs will always be the "biggest" thing I learned.

Yes, of course you can.

So, I was bored this morning after breakfast and picked a tiny set to build. Chose the B model of 8281 - Motorcycle and sidecar. While building I wasn't paying much attention, just mindlessly followed the instructions. When it was built I started to look at it properly, and it reminded me of an article on the radio a couple of days ago, where they were discussing driving "combinations" on the wrong side of the road, and how that would put the sidecar passenger out there with the traffic. (I think they mentioned some law that stopped the sale of them in the wrong "hand".) Anyway, that set me thinking as this B model is right-hand drive and therefore perfectly suited for me (UK), but my 8880 Supercar is left-hand drive - I've got a post-it stuck in it's IB reminding me to reverse the sides so it feels better. Did/do TLG produce different handed instructions for different sales regions? I'm now going to have a look at the other two-seaters and see what they are.

Same here, only time I go to frontpage is by accident, or if Technic forum/my link to it is "broken". But for anyone else who starts at frontpage, getting more technic stuff there has got to be a great idea. Good luck to Jim and Blakbird and ??. Hope it doesn't give you too much of a headache.......

Can't remember which one it is, but one of my old sets is described as "four-wheel-drive", when it isn't. So, yes, they've been doing this for years.

I think kids want more than just vehicles with wheels. They want crazy contraptions, things that throw bricks around, fling elastic bands, windmills, wheelbarrows, plotters, spirographs, dinosaurs, walking dogs, program card machines, things that go clang wizz, GBCs. Everything including vehicles, but not ONLY vehicles.

Hear hear. I love both old and new styles of building, but the Control Centres I and II have so much more variety than all of the recent stuff. The Spirograph MOC, the juge array of GBC modules and the recent competition's insects and non-wheeled items all show that anything is possible. So why don't TLG produce them? Beats me.

Hi Ricardo You can look up the parts on Rebrickable - http://rebrickable.com/sets/8880-1/super-car-traffic-1994

Love it. Sounds like a good idea for the next competition..... What can you build using the program card concept?

I also use a couple of other non-lego forums, and feel that a limited number of sub-forum/groups would be worth trying. Lounge (for social chats), WIP, MOC and Help Needed might be useful. I definately think it worth a poll to see how we all feel about this. Like a number of others have commented, I only lurk in Technic. Nothing else interests me. I tried the Ladies forum, but nothing there was for me. I don't even go to the front page, when I want "Lego on the internet" I go straight to the Technic page. Jim and Blakbird and doing a fantastic job keeping us all in check, and bringing things to our attention, but (don't kick me out for saying this), but I do miss DLuders who used to bring loads of interesting lego stuff to our attention, and put pictures into threads where original posters had only put links.

Iv'e got the Dinosar from Control Centre II (8485) part built at the mo, and all the pieces are sorted and stored in the yellow tray, which makes finding the next group of parts so much easier than if they are all in one mess in a cardboard box that has little hiding places where the corners are made. Bring back the storage trays I say, but find a more eco-friendly material to make them from - pressed cardboard/paper mache? maybe.

2 : 2 5 : 1 17 : 2 22 : 5 So hard to choose, they would all be great for kids to play with.

Dammn. And I thought I had all the Lego I'd ever want or need. Have to put this on my "wanted list".

I'm so pleased the "Team" has decided to make instructions. There's no way I could make something this complicated without. I don't want/need the new Lego method of one piece at a time, but I do need a bit more detail, and a paper copy is much easier to work from. Also, having it on ReBrickable with an inventory will tell me if I have enough parts to even think about it. This type of model is so interesting, and best of all, there are no wheels. So, well done to PG52 for the original design and everyone else involved. I second the request for a white background - saves ink.

It's happened to me too, got a couple of incomplete sets, and want to remove the missing parts. There are too many parts to add them individually, but no way to remove them. Adding/removing individual parts is tedious in both Rebrickable and Peeron, so I've given up........

Been away from home for most of the summer, only popping back to water the tomatoes - so thought I'd tell you what happened. While I was away I did have enough parts to build the hovercraft. It is such fun to play with, it got my dad laughing after a bad week of his hospital visits and mum going into care, so if you need therapy, start by building that one. Anyway, following some communication with the vendor, I received a partial refund. I've now spent about half that on most of the missing items, except for the large rubber (silicon) belts - in black they are rare, in other colours they are only in small quantities from each store or expensive. The rubber bands that come round spring onions work OK, they just don't last as long! So, I'm really happy, just waiting now for the nights to draw in and for the wet cold weather to make me light the woodburner and sit in front of it and play.......