Maaboo the Witch

Very nice! I like how you've used pneumatic tubing for detail.

Scut has it that the Osprey is black and orange. Don't look at me, though - I'm still waiting for news on a certain dark blue concrete mixer.

Yup. 42080's B-model has the same problem. The crane can barely turn, and that's with manual slewing.

Yeah, but we know what that looks like.

And the concrete mixer.

I have a problem with that as well. Same principle with B-models (although I'm not sure that applies with this set).

Sounds complicated.

Yeah, that.

42043.

Hard to believe the humble worm gear could trigger this much discussion. I'll add some trivia to the pot: The rarest colour for the standard worm gear is blue. It appeared only once in 8501 Ice Slizer in 1999.

Isn't that the essence of the supercar?

I'm not a car person by any means, but... woah.

Again, use Flickr or Brickshelf to host your photos. They still ain't coming out right.

Nice work! Definitely resembles a Liebherr 586.

Don't give me false dreams. 8295 was actually released twelve years ago, in 2008. Why did 42061 not gel with you, though? Was it 'coz you liked 8295 so much that no other telehandler could touch it? Or did it put you off telehandlers forever?

Same thing with 42061. Maybe it just didn't sell. Not surprising, since 42097 is not a commonly seen piece of equipment and thus wouldn't sell well with people who wouldn't know what the hell it is. 42061 still baffles me though, since telehandlers are pretty common.

Months in advance, good sir!

Nope.

Right. We've had next to nothing on it, but I'll sum up what we know: 1. It's dark blue. 2. It has four axles using the tyres from the Mack Anthem. 3. It has a drum element that uses an internal screw conveyor. 4. It's fifteen (15) studs wide. 5. It's made up of about a thousand (1000) parts.

It had better be a damn good concrete mixer after all this secrecy. And, uh, we've had no pictures of it. That was a mocked-up fake. The real one is blue.

Nice job! Looks just like a JCB Fastrac. Btw - try hosting photos from Flickr or Bricksafe. Other sources won't display right.

You mean Michael T. Jeppesen?

Thoughts, you say? Right now I'm thinking "genius".

It would be better than using no semblance of a windscreen at all, as seen on 42114.

Let me get this straight, are you disrespecting the box?