Jetro

Love the review... and couldn't agree more! I built it yesterday but I'm still trying to find everything I took to the Hispabrick in December and can barely move in my LEGO corner so no pics either. The Pneumatic elements are the same as before. No quality issues... although the cylinders and pumps do not differ, but the valves are stiffer (or is that just because they are new?). Some people complained the tubes are already cut to the right length. Personally I found this a plus. I agree that it is near impossible to find good lengths of pneumatic tubing, unless you don't mind using non-official tubes in which case it is no problem at all. I'm not happy about the stiffness of the tubes. I imagine that for a ten-year-old it must be near impossible to get the hoses on the T-piece. But those hoses have been used before so nothing new there.

@Noworries: thanks for the pics!!

Could you explain why?

I've already seen all of the new sets in shop in Holland

The limitation is in the battery pack (but not in the RC battery pack) and in the PF IR-receivers.

Just keep in mind that you cannot run more than 2 XL motors from a single battery box. If you run 2XL plus anything else the safety will kick in and the thing won't move.

we'll end up having to use cascading IR-Receicers to be able to control the lot without interferences

really smooth and slick. I love the way you have left easy access to the battery!

Looking great. Held my breath when I saw those long leads nearly touch the snow though. Not sure how well the PF system would respond to it causing a short circuit...

8294 is still for sale. Actually, at this very moment it is on sale at LEGO

Thansk for making these aailable. Using the CD was a pain and if I remember correctly you had to win some sort of racing game before you got access to all of them. In short - much better like this!

I've opened several pistons and it is quite easy to do. The top part (black) is a lot more flexible then might seem at first sight and if you use a pair of thin flat screwdrivers it can be pried apart without breaking it.

Hadn't seen that one yet. Thanks for the link!

You can also get them in PDF format from Han's site: http://www.designer-han.nl/lego/original%20modifications.htm

Thanks you for not taking this personally ;)

I believe it's perfectly allright to sell the instructions. I know how much time goes into making them and on more than one occasion I would almost have paid to have someone do some of mine for me. As for selling for a time and then after you get you return 'donating' them to the world at large, I very strongly believe you shouldn't. In my experience people who propose this kind of things are the ones who will wait until they are available for free or try to get them through emule or similar. They don't mind any artist making money as long as they are not doing the paying but have access to the work itself.

I have and it looks perfect! (nothing serious, lot of fun with the driver!)

ayay captain. I'd love to give it a spin!

They will fit PF all-right, but it remains to be seen if they are any use for a Technic MOC or just good classroom tools.

Do you mean this one? http://photos.freelug.org/main.php/v/6studs/docs/SB/SBv1.pdf

Although both are visual programming languages that use blocks, there is a huge difference between RIS and NXT-G. NXT-G is very much more powerful, although it will take someone used to programming in a text language some time to get the gang of it... the oder in which you need to do certain things and the way the program is built up are quite different in some aspects. On the other hand, the MyBlock capability of NXT-G allows you to create reusable code blocks that can be called several times inside the same program. You can also have parallel tasks which was impossible in RIS. NXT-G compares a lot better to RoboLab since you can pass data through wires between blocks, but in NXT-G you only need wires if you go beyond basic use because all the blocks are immediately connected to a beam. At the same time it is a little harder to see the configuration of each block as you need to click on it before you can see that data.

Interesting opinion given the fact that you haven't really checked. And when you do, please bear in mind that this is a piece of software that was designed to be use by kids aged 10-16 with the aim to make it as accessible and non-breakable as possible. If after that you still believe it could be improved you may well be right, but it's a lot more powerful that the previous LEGO Programming Environment, RIS.

Oh and I completely agree with you. Pneumatics anytime. As for air supply, what about this

Actually, the friction ridges you show in the picture are a pain in the royal behind. Fortunately they were removed and a much smaller friction ridges were used instead. The old pins with friction ridges are devilishly hard to take out of a pin hole. compare old Technic, Pin with Friction Ridges Lengthwise and NO Center Slots with new type Technic, Pin with Friction Ridges Lengthwise

Really like the flames and the grille.. Not sure about the windscreen though...