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Just read your review @Milan and then jumped onto YouTube to watch RacingBricks review. This set is HUGE ! And although I prefer 4 wheels to 2 I just love this, definitely need it to go with the “ucs” supercars. I wonder how expensive those shocks are going to be with the fake blue springs as they’d look great on lots of models. 2022 might be an expensive year for Lego for me, with this and sets from other themes !

I hope someone can do some photos of it next to the Ducati or one of the UCS super cars for a size comparison

Has anyone worked out what the sticker is for on the black liftarm “4 413X” ?

I don’t think I’ll get the SLS Rocket but the Lunar Base and Rover would look great next to my Classic Space collection

Congrats … best Technic channel by far. As a Brit I can tell you I can perfectly understand what you’re saying.👍

Loving the progress. Your compromise on the rear lights looks ok to me if that’s all you can squeeze into what would be the overall area for the light cluster. I assume you’re going to fill the gap between the front fender and the bonnet somehow?

I think too many people are getting caught up in the other functions. I’m sure what the contest is after is a great transformation and the movement of either model should be secondary

Great competition @Jim but I’m going to sit this one out. We became puppy-parents 2 weeks ago and she’s taking all our time so Lego building has gone the same way as watching tv (out of the window). Also this year we plan to be away seeing family lots this Christmas after it wasn’t allowed last year for us. looking forward to seeing what you all come up with. For me it’ll be interesting to see how different you can make the before and after look.

We don’t normally get info on the UCS Supercar until close to its launch, so more like March-May

@Jeroen Ottens if you need any more images Autocar has just published this article … https://www.autocar.co.uk/car-news/new-cars/aston-martin-valkyrie-first-customer-car-ready

Yes it’s turning out to be a good movie year. But then most are basically what I should have seen last year. Dune is my favourite so far and then either Bond or Suicide Squad. Eternals is 2 weeks time and Ghostbusters will be 2 weeks after that here

Actually it’s the one from the new film that’s almost out. The “gun seat” and the remote controlled buggy trap are shown in the trailer but not been in the previous 2 films

Thanks found it. Think the Porsche front riches look odd. Mustang doesn’t look horrendous when you compare it to the corvette and McLaren

Thanks for the review @Jim. I do think it’s strange TLG have released this way before the film is out. The film got delayed till March 2022 in the U.K. so it seems odd to release this so early. don’t think I’ll buy the set as I’ve not bought any of the others at this scale and I don’t own any of the other batmobiles … the Burton Batmobile is “my” batmobile, but then it all depends on ages and association I guess. But I am looking forward to seeing “The Batman”. in terms of parts so is this a new smaller steering wheel? And do those black wheelarches work with the wheel arch extensions from the Raptor? I get confused with all the various arch sizes!

I think @Jurss is along the right lines. I think you’d end up with something built with skinning parts like ninjago swords mounted in some form of system built endplate. far too a fine detailed structure to be Technic built I think

Jim hasn’t discounted a GBC competition, he’s just said that him and Milan aren’t the right people to host the competition as they don’t have the knowledge. He’s repeatedly said if people want a GBC competition then someone from the GBC community should run it. If I was part of that community (but I’m not) I’d start a thread to gather interested names and see if anyone was willing to run a competition.

Any hints as to what I need to search for on insta? I’ve looked in my usual places but drawn a blank

That was launched this year, and trust me I should know 😉 if it is another VAG product I think it’s more likely to be Audi rather than Bentley … unfortunately.

Sorry, been off the forum for a while and didn’t read though all 11pages of this thread.

I’d guess the UCS car is still on the cards for next year, just being hidden from view like the previous ones. TLG normally do a pretty good job of hiding these till close to the date. I’m wondering what vehicle from the VAG Group will be next 🤣 … perhaps an Audi R8 or ETron GT?

@Jim so a transformers / transforming competition … as some have mentioned you’ll need to make sure the rules make it clear that you’re not after a M.A.S.K. transformation but something else instead. So I guess cars into planes like “AirCar” or as you say a vehicle into a robot. I’d love to take part in this but think my gears knowledge will let me down, along with my small collection one PF motors … although I do have an Sbrick. Also another limitation is we’re picking up a puppy next weekend, so my spare time will be disappearing ! But it still sounds like a cool competition and I’d love to see the results.

Loving following the progress both in the build and your thoughts on this. Also your final sentence made me smile, in English I’d use the phrase it “snowballs throughout …” but the use of cauliflower is great as you can immediately picture it. I might use it at some point as I love using quirky language

It depends on what I’m building. I often physically build small sub-models to test mechanisms. For TC20 a lot of it was done digitally, then going to physical to check it all hangs together properly. For some of the past competitions I’ve done pure physical build and then built digitally at the end so I have a record of what I made. But most of the builds I do now are definitely digital based. I find it allows me to position mechanisms or parts where I want them in space and then work out how to connect them after.

Great looking model. would you be able to share an image of the insides just to show the complex mess of gears. Just curious what 153 gears looks like

I don’t think that’s the case. All @Jim and @Milan are saying is that they don’t feel best placed to run that sort of competition so they’re after someone from the GBC community to pick up the baton and run the competition.