Brickmasta

cowabunga now I need to watch whole first season ... looking forward to some sets picking up those new mutants as minifigs :)

Thank you all! @TwentyLeggedHen: Hopefully you find one cheap on ebay, OVP ones sell pretty high...

Hi fellow Brickheads, this will be my first topic for you, presenting a classic Lego Model Team from 1997 - The 5561 4x4 Big Foot. I got this one as a child... now I discovered my passion for Lego again, emptied the attic of my grandparents were ALL my Lego was stored and started sorting and building 5561 - Lego Model Team - 4x4 Big Foot In the good old times, this was my second Model Team Lego kit I got, the first one being 5541, the Hot Rod in blue. I remember building this piece of art, it was amazing and great and I really enjoyed it. Now for the second time, better than ever! The Big Foot is quite a large model, including 761 pieces and some very cool chrome bricks. Lego Model Team 5561 by Brickmasta on Flickr Building the 4x4 Big Foot This Lego kit starts out with some Lego Technic basic stuff to get the core frame plus steering done. Unfortunately no suspension at all, that would have been cool. First Build by Brickmasta on Flickr You then get the build up the bottom and side panels plus interior including the small V4 engine. The engine is a bit very small for the car, and also just done by using basic bricks, nothing moving from Technic. Kind of fits the model team style but it would have been fun to use a bigger engine with moving parts. Small V4 placed! by Brickmasta on Flickr The interior is pretty fun and cool with custom built seats plus shifting, steering wheel and some control panels to go along with. I like that detail very much! Of course not fitting with any scale minifigure. Cockpit by Brickmasta on Flickr The building process overall is not very complicated but also not very simple. Constructing up the frame parts makes the whole car unstable in some parts. Moving it around during building process or gripping it at the wrong section can result in some braking apart. When you hit up the roof parts it gets better, much of the roof is holding everything from the side panel details together. The moving rear windows plus moving side doors are awesome, also featuring small doors at the cockpit. Steering works from the top of it, but due to the many moving parts and the slight unstable finished built it is not really recommended for playing with... Just for putting it on a shelve to look at it, a very nice add up to any collection In the last picture you can see that the front steering parts from Technic are having troubles supporting all the weight of the car... slightly bending under the pressure. Lets see how long this will hold up But overall an amazing Lego kit, building is great fun and it just looks so nice on my shelve. If you have the chance you should definitely grab one for your own collection! So far for my very first build up... will now get myself into more work for MAKTOBER :devil: Hope you enjoyed, visit my FLICKR for more and just add me

I will get it for sure just because of the cool parts and the huge amount of them in there in great colors... love it :D

Thx that helped a lot genecyst, still learning about all the bricks and possibilities :D

Hi dear fellow Brickheads I hope this is the fitting forum for this topic... I rediscovered my passion for Lego now that I turned 30 and collected all my old Lego stuff from the 90s I got as a child, and looking forward to expand the range of bricks now. I would love to get into building and designing sci-fi stuff, especially MECHs but I am now completely overwhelmed by all the parts and possibilities. I looked at some pictures on Flickr of good builders and don't even recognize most of the parts or how they all possibly fit the bricks together to hold up like they do... amazing! I would humbly ask for a little help and advice in regards of parts, especially how to do good and stable joints for legs and arms to get them moving properly. I would like to try out different forms, humanoid mechs, tall and slim like GUNDAM or EVA, but also something more unusual like from MECHWARRIOR or something of my own design... but I just lack the proper inspiration to get it going. I think I am just overwhelmed by the amount of bricks and possibilities I have. Is there maybe any source for learning how to build joints and posable / movable parts like legs and arms... ? Or bigger pictures with close ups of something like the cool mecha like this: The guy is a huge inspirational source but unfortunately only provides small pictures I would really appreciate any feedback, hint, tip etc... you can give me and look forward to my first MOC to provide you with hopefully cool and inspiring pictures

This is pure awesomeness... I had the first big Star Destroyer a few years back with over 3000 parts... unfortunately I was stupid enough to sell it because of some lack of space for it... biting myself in the rear for this now -.-

Pretty cool but I hope they bring also another, bigger kit... not just small vehicles :D

Just started with Ninjago and Chima, love the minifigs and Sets... the new ones look awesome!

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Great review, got one of those for myself by "accident" and now can't wait to build it :D

I think we may underestimate the popularity of THE SIMPSONS... maybe Lego is trying to reach a new kind of audience and get them interested / back to Lego again? I do not care about Simpsons, but I care about collecting as many minifigs as possible, so this is another great chance to get more ;)