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    Thanks! I've only gotten to use those big curved slopes on 2 cars so far, but they work really well for their purpose. 1985 Toyota Hilux 4 x 4 Marty's truck from Back To The Future! I started with the fenders and sculpted everything else out around those. This build uses 51 SNOT bricks and brackets, nearly 1/5 of all of its pieces. The wheels have independent suspension, though the large tires prevent much travel.
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    You're quite welcome! Here's a little something else: 1999 Mercury Cougar I mainly built this because it was my partner's very first car, but it was fun tackling a car shaped so differently than what I usually build. Plus, I finally got to do something in dark green! I'm especially pleased with how the headlights and taillights turned out on this one.
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    Kinda wanna just buy that set and spend an afternoon doing all your alternate builds.
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    Oh, gotcha. Sure, I have a RB page most of these get posted on. The Daytona's instructions are free due to the strangeness of the techniques used - I don't like to charge people if I feel it's anything less than a smooth building experience: https://rebrickable.com/mocs/MOC-78585/Carbohydrates/1969-dodge-daytona/#details
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    Hm... I couldn't possibly believe a leak or anything. It has graphics across multiple pieces, which LEGO will not do in a modern production set. Not saying they couldn't make a set BASED on that model, but this reminds me more of when LEGO built a Hoonicorn as a gift for Ken Block - it was sadly never made into a set.
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    Personally, I'd also swap out the Dodge Demon. We just had Challengers in 2019 and 2021, so some variety from that may be nice. We've kind of run through the modern muscle options, but there's an enormous pool of classic stuff to explore! I'd imagine 2022 is going to be fairly non-US-centric though, and we sure don't need another Dodge set so soon anyway.
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    Make it a 2-pack with a 240Z and I'm sold.
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    Thanks! I appreciate your kind words. The hood and spoiler both took a lot of work and multiple rebuilds before I was finally happy with them. Here's another new build finished: 1965 Ford Mustang Station Wagon These are so goofy, I couldn't help but want to build one! I chose a pretty classic Mustang color scheme that allowed me to use a lot of pearl gold, which is really striking in person. The interior is 2-tone medium nougat and dark orange, too. Sculpting the recessed sides / intakes was a really fun challenge.
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    It almost certainly will be. The Speed Champions team deliberately diversifies the lineup from year to year, and this year's was US-centric mainly because 2020 had no American cars at all. They keep a good balance when you consider the big picture.
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    Hey, thanks! I don't know what that means, though.
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    1969 Dodge Daytona This has been one of my most requested builds, so I've finally built one. I re-built the nose several times, trying different techniques, before I settled on this: a subtle, angled hood, capped with a combination of 45 degree double slopes and curved wedges. The rear is pretty intricate and fragile, making this one very much a "display only" model.
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    It's printed in that set:
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    Thank you! I like them as well, for exactly the same reason. Most of these are bound for a LUG city display, where 8-wide just wouldn't fit. And don't worry, plenty more a-comin'. I'm backlogged by... 6 more cars, I think, that I have completed designs for but I haven't finished physically building yet.
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    1977 Pontiac Trans Am I've actually been wanting to do this car for over a year now, I just never got around to finishing up a design. But here it is! Like some of my previous models, the roof of the cabin is raked back to give it clean lines, but that was much more difficult to achieve on this one. I'm most happy with the simplest elements here, such as the taillights and exhaust pipes. And as a bonus, here's a group photo of all of the original Speed Champions MOCs I've made (not the set mods, nor mods of other peoples' MOCs that I've done - only originals), but unfortunately I photographed this before I completed the Trans Am, so it's not pictured!
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    There's so much to take in, it's almost overwhelming. You've really made it your own, and it's outstanding! I love that little strip of roof made of handlebars. The use of a die/dice tile under the drill press is really clever. The new interiors you've added like the fishery and machine shop are just really excellent - they look as if they match and belong perfectly with the sets' original aesthetics. Really great stuff here!
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    kbalage, just watched your video on the C3 and C8 and I feel so vindicated that I'm not the only person so disappointed by the C3! I have seen so many people excited by the C3, and I don't wish to detract from peoples' satisfaction, but I felt so odd sitting here wondering... are we looking at the same car? That roofline and rear deck are just completely wrong.
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    Oh yeah, I'd love a flush fender. That would look much more appropriate on many of these cars! The gaps left behind by the use of the City fender are the designer's fault, not the piece's fault, though. There are many, many ways of filling those gaps. Permit me to use some of my own MOCs as examples: inverted slopes, quarter circle tiles, sideways cheese slopes, 1/2 stud offsetting, brackets (especially the 1 x 1 - 1 x 1 inverted), sideways tiles, or upside-down cheese slopes. The gaps left on the front of the GT, for instance, could easily be filled with the upside-down cheese slope method. I checked when I did my little Studio build-along. Haven't seen how the Corvette goes together yet, but I'm sure one of the numerous solutions would fit. edit: I don't mean to come down on the set designers, by the way! I think they did a marvelous job on that GT. This is intended to be a defense of the 98282 mudguard piece.
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    To each their own! The "skeletonized" nature of this part enables a lot of connections that are otherwise impossible. I prefer the form factor of the newest Speed Champions fenders, but there's no substitute for the versatility of the 98282.
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    Indeed it is! I used Studio to follow along to someone's sped-up build footage on YouTube in order to (digitally) build it, mostly because I was curious about a couple build techniques, and found that it has 5 pieces appearing for the first time in medium azure: 2x 98282: Vehicle, Mudguard 4 x 2 1/2 x 1 with Arch Round 3x 11211: Brick, Modified 1 x 2 with Studs on 1 Side 2x 26603: Tile 2 x 3 2x 27263: Tile, Modified Facet 2 x 2 Corner with Cut Corner 2x 25787: Tile, Modified 2 x 2 Triangular Its windscreen and headlights are new prints, and of course the wheels/tires and wheel covers are the new 2021 ones as well.
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    Brickset has a review of the Ford 2-pack up: https://brickset.com/article/59273/review-76905-ford-gt-heritage-edition-and-bronco-r Honestly, the first thing that jumped out to me was the minifigs - is 2021 the year LEGO figures out how to do light printing on dark torsos? The light bluish gray accents on the Bronco driver actually look amazing!
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    Hey, that's very well done. Good job!
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    I think I agree with your takes here, although I do still like the Elva slightly more than the Jesko. And to answer your fun question, the other usage of the meat cleaver was ofc in black on the Mini Cooper! Such a great little build.
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    That's fascinating. For anyone who wants the summary: it's a dual molded wheel/tire combo, in black/black and silver/black, made of plastic and rubber dual molded together. There's also a new family of wheel covers that connect with the "goblet connection" - where the wheel's connection point will connect around the outside of a tube. It sounds as if the old wheel covers should work with the new wheels/tires, though there may be some kind of issue? Perhaps a gap? That's speculation based on this quote: "...the old wheel trim in the new wheel wouldn’t make much sense. This is meant to be a new family, not a not a mix-and-match." Really interesting that we had a brand new Speed Champions wheel for 2020, with the pin connection instead of the old axle one and the updated rotor molding, and now we have an entirely new one for 2021 as well.
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    Well thank you for your kind words! Here, have another! 1963 Chevrolet Nova SS Well, I didn't want the '64 Fairlane gasser to get lonely, so I built it something to race against. This is a drag racing Nova with a lot of modifications, and one killer feature: the front bodywork hinges open to access the engine bay! Despite this, I'm proud to say it's a very sturdy, strong model.
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    I've never done a Brickheadz-style build before this, but my partner enjoys them as well as the game Animal Crossing, so I designed them a model of their favorite character: Marshal! It was heavily inspired by the new Dots Series 4 tiles, which looked just about perfect for his facial expressions.
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