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@ AndyCW: At least the Trial Truck has more traction than your other truck:

The Lego Rock Crawler MAN (raus) is BACK! I always admired your daring creations. I personally don't mind you using non-Lego parts, but this latest Crawler is great!

It looks interesting! I've seen some of the real Dodge 2500 4x4 Cummins Turbodiesels around the Pacific Northwest -- they are BEASTS. I own a Ford F250 diesel (for snowplowing), and it's a tad smaller than the Dodge. Both of them have lots of torque. Your "sneak peak" of the Lego model looks promising. Be sure to post your final model to join your other creations on BrickTruckTrial.com.

@ CopMike: Thanks for donating these WONDERFUL prizes! I'm sure that they will be put to good use. Hub piece (4610378) = x4 Portal Axle housing (4610377) = x4 94.3 x 38R tires (4610381) = x4 C-shaped pivot frame (4610379) = x2 Cup to fit on above pivot (4610380) = x2 x2 x2

Maybe it should be called "ArjanofskiBricks", and be done with it.

Mahjqa wrote on his Flickr photostream: "Limikoma! -- And there's another thousand! Thank you all for your support so far. The deal: 10.000 supporters, and Lego will consider making this a set. If you havent' voted yet, please do so here: Tachikoma page on Cuusoo. You can see the video : youtu.be/dargOslomMANow, there's a little bump in the road. As you may know, the Cuusoo Shaun of the Dead project didn't end well. Now, a Tachikoma by itself is pretty innocent, but Ghost in the Shell itself isn't exactly children's material. So for this project to succeed, the model may need some small changes. I wouldn't do this without Shirow Masamune's* blessing, though. But anyway. If the standard Tachikoma isn't possible, which model would you prefer? Which color? Tracked or wheeled? Any other changes? Let me know. *The original creator of 'Ghost in the Shell'

Now we see the details of the first two Lego Technic Unimog Prototypes shown in this TechnicBRICKS article: @ dokludi: The YouTube video is blocked in the USA due to copyright infringement (for the music you used).

On his Flickr photoset, Jeroen Ottens has added 9 additional pictures of his 1:14-Scale Lego Technic F-14 Tomcat aircraft:

- Derfel Cadarn - posted this picture on his Flickr photostream, and wrote: "Oh Yes! They fit!!" "I took the wheels off an old Tamiya RC Monster Beetle I had lying around. To my surprise, they have the same size axel hole is Lego wheels and the Technic axel fits like a glove. To top it off, a 8x8 dish fits perfectly on the front of the wheel and hides the gold rims. It amazing how perfect everything fits, its like they were built for Lego. "These are gonna look sweet on a huge space vehicle, or any other large vehicle for that matter. Now I gotta go and order some 8x8 dish plates in various colours!"

Nice! Have you seen Blakbird's GIF animations of various Lego Technic sets? His Brickshelf gallery is full of them (for his Technicopedia website), and he uses POVray too:

AVCampos81 used many posable Lego Technic Figures in his showing a "LEGO Technic desert race layout. Each buggy has rear solid axle suspension, differential connected to a V4 engine, steering and front pendular axle. The TV van has steering (Hand of God and at the driver's seat), rear differential, V6 engine, and tiltable/rotatable satellite dish."

Thanks for sharing your pictures, but it was a shame that these 2H2012 Lego Technic "flagship" sets were not displayed at the 2012 New York Toy Fair (like they were at the Nuremburg Toy Fair):

@ MinuteBot: Your explains your MinuteBot Bearing project quite well: I voted for your Boca Bearings 2012 Innovation Contest entry!

@ twofive: Welcome to Eurobricks! On your Brickshelf gallery, I saw your two modified 8081 Extreme Cruisers and your 8258B Pickup truck. Please note that your most recent addition there (the 8081 Lowrider) is "Not Yet Public" (i.e., not yet moderated by the Brickshelf administrators), so ONLY YOU can see those pictures. It may be another day before we can see them. Even if you had 10+ Eurobricks posts, you would not be able to link your HUGE pictures because they are larger than 800x600 pixels in size (the maximum for Eurobricks). You may want to get a Flickr.com account, whereby you can: 1) Link to your newest pictures immediately -- no waiting. 2) Post your regular (large) pictures there, but select the Medium 800-pixel size for linking to your Eurobricks posts. 3) Add captions and lengthy descriptions -- Brickshelf only allows for limited descriptions.

@ Paul B: Nice work!

@ EdmanZA: The link to your 8053 Mobile Crane SR 3D file is actually a JPG image. Could you repost the SR 3D file?

drakmin has 11 photos of his Lego Technic StarCraft 2 Siege Tank on this webpage:

They are over at the "Lego Friends" theme!

George Staples recently added a second Lego Technic Suspension Tutorial on MOCpages. His displays them well. He wrote that "After receiving lots of positive feedback from my first tutorial, I present my second suspension tutorial. If you have not seen my first one I would sugest you check it out, here. This tutorial features 6 different and new suspension types 4 of which are built for tracks. I also have a video at the end, and a LDD file containing all the systems. So with out further adieu lets get started. Types of suspension covered in this tutorial: * Rubberband pull up * Torsion bar * Solid track frame * Inside track dual bar * Independent roller * Sideways independent 1: Rubberband Pull Up "Basically it does what the name implies. The tire pulls down on the rubberband, and it springs the wheel back up. Very easy to build. Pros: Simple, compact design; Can be built on very small vehicles; Rubberband and arm can be adjusted to get the right squish. Cons: Not good for larger vehicles; Have to add stops on the arm; Not intended for steering axles. "This design can be used as a sort of independent suspension, with each wheel having it's own arm and rubberband. "If you were to add a drive, I would sugest hooking the arms together as to make a more efficient drive, and so your axles don't twist as much." 2: Torsion Bar "I would not recommend this suspension, but I received a comment on my last tutorial stating I had not done this type, so here it is. It's more of a joke than a actual viable suspension. Now you maybe thinking, where are the rubberbands, shocks, something to provide the spring. No, it's not a unfinished build. The black axle provides the spring to this one. A torsion bar is a bar that is fixed to the frame at one end, and twists to provide spring. I have fixed this one by two ends, so that it is a little stiffer. This is susposed to be for a roller on a tracked system. Pros: Requires only Technic pieces, no rubberbands, springs etc.; Can be built for small creations; Very stiff design for heavy vehicles. Cons: Can be hard on your pieces, especially the axles; Hard to make torsion rods twist." 3: Solid Track Frame "I'm not too creative with the names of these systems. This one features a solid undercarriage system. This means that the tracks don't expand and contract according to the suspension. The gray rods in the center must be added, or else the frame will pivot around the shocks, and fall down. Pros: Tracks are solid; Can be built for a variety of tracks -- High tracks, tank tracks, straight tracks. Cons: Have to make frame to account for springs; Tracks don't contour to terrain, providing less traction." 4: Inside Track Dual Bar "I'm very pleased with this one. My friend wants me to make a half track with the suspension that follows this one, but I found a picture of a half track with suspension similar to this one, and I will be making a halftrack featuring this suspension. It is a simple concept of putting the shocks on the inside of the track from the top main bar to bars below that move. Having two bars gives it an independent feel. Pros: Lots of suspension travel; 4 way independent feel. Cons: Track moves a lot around sprockets, and can slip; Requires space for springs." 5: Independent Roller "I wish I could say I came up with this idea, but I did not. It came from Zackhariah Macasaet, who in my opinion is a professional tank builder. He has some awesome tanks, and this very cool suspension design. An important note, he uses the smaller black tracks for his tanks, and I have found out, these bigger tracks don't work as good as those for this suspension system. The reason being, the bigger tracks don't have very much bending backwards motion. "I modified it a little, changing the position of the rubberband. Pros: Very independent track suspension; Excellent design for tanks. Cons: Doesn't work well with larger tracks; Requires quite a few rubberbands; Limited to spacing such that the rollers don't collide. "Anybody building a tank, I would recommend trying this system out, and seeing how it works." 6: Sideways Independent "I saved the best for last. My friend sent me a picture of a suspension in which the springs were mounted parallel to the frame. This was for a model RC car. He wanted me to build it for my raptor, but it is too wide. "From the photo I found out, the springs were attached to rockers, which were in turn attached to bars attached to the A arms. Lots of attaching. The main benefit of building it this way is that you don't have shock sticking up from your frame, and you don't have to build your frame around them, etc. "An added bonus is that the lever action of all these parts combined produces high amounts of travel, with very little shock travel. I have equipped this on my Barracuda, a rugged off road vehicle. Pros: Great suspension travel; No shocks perpendicular to frame; Can be used for steering or drive axles. Cons: Hard to add steering and keep wheels from towing in or out; Limits width of vehicle; Lever action makes spring power weaker, must use double shocks, or different levers for larger vehicles. "I would sugest this suspension system for medium to large vehicles. Some examples being race cars, jeeps, ect. If you want to make this for a heavy duty vehicle, I would suggest repositioning the spring and bars so that you have stiffer suspension. I found out that when dealing with independent suspension systems, it is best to move the steering rods as close to the A arms as possible, this gets rid of the towing when the suspension is pushed down and up. "Check out the travel on this thing -- it's simply amazing!" "The [Lego Digital Designer] LDD file contains [building Instructions for] all the suspension systems. I did not add the A arms to the Sideways independent, because I could not find the right ones. I think that they are the only part missing. If you use these suspension systems, credit would be appreciated. Thanks for looking, I put a lot of time into these tutorials, feed back is greatly appreciated!"

Jason Allemann's Lego Hoberman Sphere has been added to Rebrickable.com .

@ Jeroen Ottens: Could you give an estimate on how much it would cost to replicate your HUGE Zeppelin? When we support a Lego Cuusoo project, we have to indicate how much we're willing to pay for it, and how many we want to buy....

@ nielsvdv: That Lego Technic Tatra 6x6 can sure climb! It looks like it can handle a ~50-degree slope. I like how it can "crab steer" in place. Have you ever driven it at a Lego Truck Trial?

smartlego posted this image on his Flickr photostream. From left to right, the figures are "duplo, minifig, duplo bricks, fabuland, Jack Stone, technic, very old bricks, knight and bionicle": dannyboysd40 has them all almost all of them! See his Brickshelf gallery for pictures of each individual one.

@ BasOne: You can create a Poll when you do an original topic. It's too late now that you've started this topic, but you can try next time. This Building Bricks Compared webpage has some interesting groupings of Lego figures: "From left: Life on Mars (y2000), standard minifig, Fabuland (c.1980), Jack Stone (y2001), Technic fig; Young Apatosaurus in back":

@ sama: Your "2012" pictures on your Brickshelf gallery are "Not Yet Public", so nobody except yourself can see them. Could you "Deeplink" your pictures (using the procedures here), so that we may see them? Weekends are bad for Brickshelf updates -- it may be several days before your pictures are moderated and become "Public"....