Maaboo the Witch

Ay-up mate, your rotor's gone floppy! Interesting use of ribbed hose, wouldn't want to get smacked in the face with that.

Have you driven a Technic Ford... lately? Oh way out man, it runs on the tyres from 42124! Cool beans.

Here's a fairly close real-world approximation of this thing. It'd be great if the set had a spare tyre tucked away somewhere as seen here.

It's not my favourite, but true. It's a good system as well - I think it'd work well with the Zetros.

The Unimog has one, though that admittedly doesn't have a powered drive.

Yeah, I highly doubt this thing is designed for outdoor use, especially given that it can be stopped by a pebble.

Looking closely at the app screen shown in the catalogue, it seems as if the Zetros will get a similar setup to the X-Treme off-roader, with steering on the left and accelerator on the right.

That's the coolest function in the real thing if you ask me, so yeah, it'd be great if the set had it as well. I think that's the sort of thing that would be illustrated in the box shot if it were present, though. From the image in the catalogue, it looks like the chassis is rigid.

I never imagined 8446 as having a conventional engine. Maybe it'd have something more along the lines of a compact cold-fusion reactor.

Oh look, and it has three seats in the cab as well! Regular partymobile, this thing.

I was being humorous.

It's 42082, but enshrinkened! Cool.

YouTube notifications suck at the moment, though.

Technically, this set is now the Mercedes-Benz Zetros 1833 due to its 4x4 configuration - the former 6x6 model is the 2733.

Ooh ICE BURN! I'm still interested in seeing how the D11T turns out, though. I don't see how it'll differ much from 8275, aside from the app features that add all of ten minutes' worth of play time.

This is an absolute ledge of a set, so I'll be observing this one closely. Eager to see how it goes.

I doubt it. There were no such delays last year, or even earlier this year. My local shops had everything in on time.

Oh cool! I remember getting the original set in 2001.

Wasn't the Defender more of a vague rumour and an actual surprise when it showed up? I mean, right until the photo reveal, wasn't it considered doubtful that it even existed? We know (hope?) that the CAT and 42136 are real.

I think it'll help the topic be more concise at least.

Even so, given the fact that this likely doesn't reflect the actual model, I'd continue it in the other topic. We probably need to get a moderator in on this, but that's how I'd do it.

There's a topic for that...

People, there's a topic for this sort of thing:

Looks cool!

That's probably why.