Paul B Technic

I have been following this, you have done a great job with it, the level of detail is amazing...

The whole point of Technic is to be "technical", I much prefer the technical features of the late 1980s and early 1990s over the "looks good but lacks features" that we are getting now. The new Unimog gives me some hope.

I have now had a good look at all the new sets, from my reading, only 42242 really appeals to me. I am thinking I will get two copies, one for the A model, one to MOD. I would love to see more sets like this, maybe 1H 2027 ;)

Sadly, the world is moving on and forums such as EB are dying out. I am glad we still have this site.

I found this today on FaceBook, which makes a lot of sense and does not paint a good picture for the future... By https://www.facebook.com/andytgeezer?__cft__[0]=AZa79moYgYDNdocuZWy8NOJqvhDgD0Vp8ueINOx8JmfPxlNHQEI_-J99_-BuW78puAGKO13-rNz_xgltBd7iRalQ5erjjv8lAUaCPq4jvb6ea9DlRvKOTTMiC_zoUqNr68M52hrsgID-aQjekMEXCnOchBsFGoYOFIXhVxIaEk81kqoyu-dAWiF3cFRPorT26QYQsxurM6vPbPh62VvRbWuAOogPRzM_6kBFHSOoGoFMpQ&__tn__=-UC*F Has LEGO turned its back on curiosity? Following my last two posts on FIRST LEGO League I've been thinking a lot about what I have always loved about LEGO and why what they're doing right now that makes me so uneasy and I finally put my finger on it. There's a much bigger thing happening here than LEGO losing interest in robotics. The more I look at the direction LEGO has taken over the past few years, the more it feels like the company has been slowly shifting away from encouraging active curiosity and more towards passive consumption. For many of us, and for a huge number of engineers I’ve spoken to, LEGO lit a fire in us. It spoke to us and became our language giving form to the ideas in our head. If we could envisage mechanisms, linkages, ridiculous contraptions, LEGO could actually bring them to life. You could see it working. You could feel how it moved. There’s something magical about that. Watching gears turn. Understanding cause and effect. Tweaking something and seeing the result. For some young people, like me, that moment casts a spell they never quite recover from, and it sets them on a path towards engineering. But I’m starting to worry those experiences are becoming harder to find if you're a LEGO fan. These days I often hear kids saying, "I've built this set and that set" rather than “I invented this from random parts" and from experience I find that children who only build from the instructions in sets really struggle to create anything new. Anyone can follow instructions. That’s not the same as thinking. By training children to follow steps, not to solve problems, we are creating a generation of consumers. To become a creator you really have to take things apart, to see how it works, improve and put it back together again differently. But LEGO don't make many kits like this any more, but instead are selling a lot more high tag, licensed partnerships instead. Think Star Wars, Marvel, Disney. The thing about these partnerships is they come with very distinctive characters, logos and IP. The last thing that these companies want you to do with their characters is put them in some other universe outside of their control, (which most creative imaginative play ends up doing) so most of these sets only come with a single set of instructions and you're not encouraged to take them apart and put them with anything else. When you look at the Technic range over the last few years, instead of highly mechanical, complex models, it's been a steady stream of licensed race cars. Bugatti, Maclaren, Ferrari. All cars and all licensed IP. And again each model usually had instructions for only one model. They don't want you turning their beautiful car into a helicopter with a BMW logo on it, the company just want you to make their vehicle and admire it. There's a picture on the box and that's what they want you to make. But that's the problem. It’s not just about what they’re selling. It’s about what they’re encouraging. By moving towards models where you build only one thing and are only shown a single way to put the bricks together, LEGO is creating a generation of consumers rather than nurturing the creators of the future. This is no doubt great for the bottom line, but as parents and Educators we should be concerned.

I could see some good use for both of these in some of my builds.

TLG almost needs to have two seperate "lines": - Classic sets that suit those who want this building experiance. I recently built 42218 and this was almost as simple as one piece per page :( I miss the older building guides and process that required some thinking.... One the technic side, this needs to be about the features, not the looks. - The "new" way, where it is more about the looks and having a bunch of parts which serve little purpose outside their intended use. The above won't ever happen, but I can only hope.

All the best with the move and joining TLG :)

Great job, I love it.

I recently came across this C Model, it was worth building and writing a short review of it: https://paulbtechnic.blogspot.com/2026/03/review-lego-technic-42173-c-model-old.html

Latest Update: Mobile LEGO Building Station From Sewing Cabinet to Mobile LEGO Building Station. "Sometimes the best LEGO solutions don’t start in the LEGO aisle." https://paulbtechnic.blogspot.com/2025/12/mobile-lego-building-station.html

Mobile LEGO Building Station From Sewing Cabinet to Mobile LEGO Building Station "Sometimes the best LEGO solutions don’t start in the LEGO aisle." https://paulbtechnic.blogspot.com/2025/12/mobile-lego-building-station.html

Review of the 8865 C Model. https://paulbtechnic.blogspot.com/2025/12/lego-technic-42213-c-model-8865.html

No, it was the whole Technic forum had a theme applied, I could not see any text, even my own posts from the past.

Yes, same here. Looks like a theme has been. Applied that has not worked...