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It was so dissapointing when I got it... I just expected more. A Ferrari sticker is not enougth to make a model compelling. Well most cars after 8080 have been dissappointing to be honest. Edit: Your own mod shows how a model can be made compelling....

Artificial light wont make any damage. UV rays from sunlight can trigger a chemical reaction with the fire retardant in the abs causing decoloration and in the long term the abs itself may become brittle.

Well in this video 8070 looks awesome and sure 8070 isn't as hateful as 8653.

Is there any reason for the total absence of bulldozer pictures when it was side by side with the other models?

I guess the glass is just tinted however a vinyl film could help with the sunlight. Some act as UV filters.

LAs are challenging, but not in a good way. I am not impressend by the usually cumbersome result of driving those power drive lines throught the model, creating friction and slack all the way. It Is like using an abacus because it is way more challenging than a calculator. I better use the calculator, as it is a mean and not an end. Using pneumatics does not make a model less challeging it simple makes possible to put all the hard work on other parts, like adding more functions. I like LAs but Is a concept to be expanded and improved and pneumatics look better no matter what. IMHO any solution that improves on the weakness on any of the systems is welcome. Be it powered LA's, autovalves... whatever.

One friend of mine had a dog that was very happy letting guests get in the room, however it was very very dangerous to leave the room. I see that as a better policy, ransom guests until they pay the brick rescue. Enter, hear the alarm, and see that thing aimed at you... No, I wouldn't be going anywhere.

Some models can't support its own weight. I recently rebuilt my Imperial Star Destroyer and had to move one of the support pillars 16 studs to achieve better weight balance because some beams were bent. Most models don't suffer that problem, so sunlight is the other damaging factor. Dust is an annoyance, but can be washed if neccessary. On the other hand I guess a model exposed for a few years to cigarrette smoke could become something really gross.

The problem is not the LA itself, but the lack of a micro motor that can be attached directly to the LA, something very compact while powerful even if that means relatively high current draw. LA's could suddenly become way more useful.

So is this only Technic? Or model team and mindstorms? What about http://www.eurobrick...topic=85102&hl= ?

Well I guess a new topic about this every now and then is welcome since new members did not have the chance to participate in those old flame wars. And I am pretty sure some old members are really happy at any chance to bash those pesky LA's.

Silicon oil/grease work best with ABS if I remember right.

I agree with some comments made here. Good rear/ugly front. and those tyres look a bit small. And after Unimog steering problems.... this weird steering? really? IMHO old front loader 8265 manages to look better but this is not a total failure, 8258 or 8043 are way better and 8110 is more interesting. So not impressed. Also a bit deceiving after a fresher 42025 I expect some nice mods with 3rd party tyres.

First I learnt that going barefoot.is dangerous, then I understood several mechanical solutions (diffs were the most impressive when I was a child) and by extension that Da Vinci was a genius. I finally concluded that too much Lego is an oxymoron But the greatest Lego lesson was spatial reasoning.

Any idea on price range?

Nylon is strong and low friction, I am eager to see the results

/Off topic: Is a 350L ¿92G? freshwater. it was an african cichlid tank with tropheus duboisi happily breeding but in my previous moving I had some problems and most of my fish died. Now there are just a few SAE, and loachs. Missing my mouth breeders so not sure what I will do, but I am not ready yet to make the jump to saltwater .

I was looking at your -huge- collections in the Photos of your Technic collection / setup thread and I was wondering how do your sets endure the years on display? I no longer have any Technic on display as recently I recycled my quite dusty Technic and put back most of my Star Wars back on display after a couple years on storage -most of it stored built-. There is some serious washing to be done, currently my Death Star parts are drying over the moderate heat of the aquarium lights. Shuttle, Millenium Falcon and Imperial Star Destroyer still in parts waiting for a wash. ISD gathered some serious dust after beign on display for more than a decade and Rebel blockade runner is not only dusty, stickers and rubber bands desintegrated. Decoloration does not seem to be a problem thougth. The Technic beams structure of ISD is somehow defective. Over the years the beams proved to be unable to support the weight and those in the front are bent. I did nto find any problems with my Technic sets besides dust, but I do not apply stickers on those, Mindstorms cables on the other hand were rotten and the copper exposed. So what about your sets?

I don't understand why they don't do frames and hubs in black...

Yes sorry.I forgot that january sets are the plane and such, I was expecting Nuremberg fair pictures as if those were releases for january instead of summer. That and the summer/trench digger mention confused me. I always forget our Lego reality is 6 months in the past of this thread

A giant Volvo chainsaw on tracks? RC and pneumatic I hope. Any picture of a Volvo trencher? I can't find one.

It Is amazing that the stering works! Never seen it before.

Not asking about the soft, asking if you will upload the models to http://www.shapeways.com/ That way we could get 3d printed in plastic or even steel.

Great job Hmm Shapeways?

Well It is hard to put stickers over studs, isnt it?