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Great find Legomilk ther are some new sets on that link that I have not seen before Especially like the Technic Crawler Crane 8288 8288 Ive seen a lot of MOC's of this type of crane lego following the fans again :biggrin:

I dont think this offer is available in every store >:( I saw it in at Woolies in Rugby at the weekend but when I went to check it out at the Woolies where I work They did not have the offer on :(

That is amazing :ohmy: I looked at some of the other pics in the folder its virtuall all made from 2x1 plates it must have taken hours to build.

Today I was actually reading part of the article Jake refers to in Wired magazine and it features the development AFOLs have put into the Mindstorms sets. My wife works in market recearch and it is amazing the amount of money corporations spent trying to find out what their customers want and if Jake and other AFols like hime have made TLC realise that the customer is the person a company needs to connect with to be successful then we must congratulate him. Lego definitely seems to be going in the right direction lets hope the people who fill Jakes position carry on his good work.

I think the Tuner garage looks cool! the mini racers are a real fun theme the Kids love them. I was a bit disapointed with the Creator motorbike it looks very similar to some of the early technic bikes with a few standard bricks added. the other Creator sets look a lot better :biggrin:

I'm 38 *sick* I had to check through the list to see I was'nt the oldest before posting this though!

Just found this page on 1000steine that gives some more details on the new mindstorms Lego If you scroll down there are some Video's of the new kits in action :oD Link mindstorms

Truly amazing :oD that cat is so life like!! only joking :D I would be interested in how long it took to build

I found a moc of this on brickshelf here looks quite impressive. As for other ideas how about more space ideas I would like to see a lunar rover as used on the moon landings, lots of scope for robot arms

Ive seen some in a zoo there not as big as I thought they would be. The zoo was re-introducing them into the wild.

:oD I'm excited about this one I put off buying a mindstorms set recently because of the rumour of the new sets. The article says they are servo motors that would suggest rotation position control not just on or off rotation that opens up a whole lot of possibilities for robot designs. The other item that I noticed was that the software was powered by LabView, I used to work for a company that used Labview to control the machines we produced. It was a very powerful and extremely easy to use piece of software and that was several years ago and it cost considerably more than the 249usd that these sets will sell for so that has to be a great step forward for TLC. The only negative point would be that the connectors do not look like the standard technic connectors they look more like data connectors. Maybe they will produce an interface to control standard motors.

I was in the Lego shop in Birmingham on Friday and I noticed that they were putting out some of the new Hospital sets they also had some of the Ferrari sets. :-D They had alot of upacked boxes at the back of the shop and seemed to be rearranging all the shelves but my wife would not let me hang around to find out what was in them. :( they also had a sale of some Bionicle and knights kingdom sets.

Great review Xwing I have this set and I actually prefered the custom chopper model to the street bike, have you built it yet?

The sets on my wish list this year are: 1:8 Ferrari F1 car and the new mindstorms :oD

I have had this set since the summer and had no problems with it. there are clutch pieces to protect the gears as the arm raises and lowers. It even survived 2 seven year olds and a 4 year old playing with it without any damage. :'(

Merry Christmas & Happy New Year Can't wait for all the new sets in 2006

Welcome Its great to see another Technic fan. You will have a great christmas 8421 is an awsome set I got it earlier this year it takes a while to build :D

Try getting inspiration from things that interest you favorite film/book etc. Then just experiment with different ideas quite often I will start with an idea and it will evolve into somthing different.

I like the look of the new EXO force sets :-D but I can see why TLC are not issuing any big technic sets till later in the year these EXO sets have a lot of technic parts they must be using a big chunk of the technic production. Its a novel use for the mini excavator bucket as feet for the striking venom set *satis*

:oD great new technic to look forward to. needed a magnifing glass for the pictures though. :o the new truck remind me of the air claw rig that was available a few years ago

:-D can't wait has anyone got any pictures

The rarest set I have is 810 Town plan from 1963 :() Im not sure how complete it is as I have not been able to find an inventory for it. I'm sure some pieces have been lost and lots have been added, there are still some of the early dinky style cars in the set.

This is just typical of Ebay people just get carried away, if they just got of there lazy backsides and supported there local toy shop they would probably save money too. Ive seen several items on Ebay recently that are twice the price of the same set in TRU and that does not take into account the postage. what was that old saying about fools and money being easily parted :D

Im not a fan of these little technic sets the models they dont take long to build when you first get them and you can't make much else from them when you've taken them apart. :( There was instructions for a much better quad bike as the alternative model in the recent 4WD truck kit. Im hoping that they will use ther tie in with Ferrari to produce another super car it is a few years since they released the super street sensation and the recent Enzo was not quite there in terms of details.

I voted for City the construction series is great :-D Although my favorite set from this year is the technic mobile crane