JunkstyleGio

It's good advice, but i'll wait for the fix first. (That is less costly....)

Just photoshop... (And not a good one...) But this way i was able to show the possible differences between the old and the new LA!

Let's hope the new LA's will be recognizable. Maybe something like this?

Even with all the things going on the 8043 I still can say that this set is totally worth the money. (at least the € 132,00 I paid for it...)

Lego has made an notification on the 8043-issues on the technic site. (Except for the german site....)

I've been doodling with the 8051 chopper model. But i think there are to many parts missing in LDD. Looking for alternatives does spoil the fun of it to much for me!

So when can we expect the 4.0 version of LDD?

Today on TechnicBricks: Is this a good thing? Why does TLG advertise this issue to their ambassadors and not directly to their customers (on the homepage of lego.com? Restocking before Christmas Sales? When is that?

There are various issues with this model. Try to read this whole tread. It will take you some time, but you will learn a lot! Good luck!

In the days of the 8865 it WAS called a (super)Testcar.... It was an all technical "marvel" of LEGO!

I've taken the update on my adventures with the 2h2010 sets and TLC up to the TECHNIC set from 2010 thread.

The 8865 is imo by far the ugliest technic supercar ever. Giving an alltime favorite is so hard. You have to take so many variables into consideration,(30+ years of development, 200+ models, cuteness of models, and so on... ), so making that list is impossible for me.

In addition to many complaints/remarks i posted here on various 2h2010 sets: Yesterday i had a half-hour telephone call with a nice lady of LEGO-direct/Customer Service. It was a very friendly discussion about the 8051 Motorbike (and its redesigned link-chains), the 8052 container Truck (and my complaint about the missing of the clutch-gear), the 8043 (and all its flaws) and about AFOL’s in general. A small summary: 1) I could keep the “old” LA which i received a week ago. This was sent to me because TLC was under the impression that my complaint about it and the 8043 was “a single issue” and they weren’t aware about the massive amount of complaints they were getting about this model. 2) I’m registered for the “8043 fix-and upgrade-set” which TLC is shipping out at the end of October. What this set is all about couldn’t be answered. They “can and will not talk about that yet, but new parts (!!!) are in development." 3) For easing the pain of waiting so long for the “fix” they gave me € 15 S@H store-credit. 4) In answer to my complaint about the newly designed chain link in the 8051 Motorbike I’m getting 60 “old” parts to replace (and test) them. 5) The missing of the clutch-gear in the 8052 is due to the fact that “it’s a too expensive part to include in this set.” I kindly declined the offer of receiving such a part to replace the regular gear. All in all: TLC is kind of shocked about the great amount of complaints about the 8043 and they are working as fast as they can to fix all of our complaints and remarks to improve it. Massive amounts of kudos to TLC in general for their willingness to listen to their customers and thus acting in a swift and prompt way..

Don't give up yet! Maybe some of the people here can give you some help! Great work so far!

Then again Mr Kuipers might surprise us with a brilliant solution.

The best thing about this modulair concept is imo the easy way to rebuild/add modules to get another model. Hopefully Nanthanael gives us a PF-module to rc the modules!

This morning i got mobile-call from a representative from TLG. She wanted to talk to me about the 8043 (and about the 8051 and 8052 on which i made several complaints/remarks as well). But i was on the road in France (returning home from a short vacation)and i couldn't make any time to talk to her. She promised to call me back tomorrow. Let's see what they have to say... Update on that call will follow shortly...

I have to disappoint you all. It is still the old LA. We have to wait some more for the new LA!

On august 9th i made a email-complaint at the Lego-customerservice about the 2 LA's in the main arm of the 8043 excavator. This week i got 1 (ONE??....????) LA to replace them. Very strange. Guess i'll start wrinting to TLC again.

Whoa!!! Those renderings are really fantastic... Shamefully i must have overlooked them earlier! Well done jurgen! And well done Blackbird!

For now i would recommend to sit back for a while and "enjoy" the discussion! (Although some would say to get the model as soon as possible before its taken of the market....)

The fun part of LEGO is that there are always ways to work around a problem. But if you have to sand off the ABS-residue....... It's sad to see/hear/read that new (updated) parts are of lower quality!

I don't want a refund; i just want a fix or MOD from TLc so my set works. If that meas that TLC recalls my set for a upgraded version, so be it... I didn't get my set from S@H but from a Dutch webstore.

My problems are: Main Boom: Slow movement up, motor is getting warm and draining battery, Right track: Slow (and out of sinc with the left track, motor is getting warm and draining battery, and pushing gears off the axles. (And so i mentioned them in my email to TLC) Made some alterations as we all did. (Idle-gear change and rubberband solution as mentioned in Blackbird review-topic). But still it's a shame because it's such a great set.......

Sent a complaint myself on the 9th of augustus. Haven't had any reply to it at all. But i think i will get an answer soon (Good thing i have a batchnumber of the set, since it came in a original transportbox..) It's a good thing TLC takes it as a serious problem.... Let's hope for the best!