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They should be about the same I think. Are all your 6L pumps the same?

Looking forward to this one Grum. It's definitely a spiritual form of model team.

Well, I didn't know that!

How's this for an unpopular opinion. 2026 can still turn out to be a great year IF the remaining unknown 3 models are great. That's all it really takes, just 3 great models. But at only three, they would have to be really good to call the whole year great. Nothing in the past couple years has reached that benchmark. The SLS rocket is good and the 1:5 Ducati is very good, but it's no improvement on the previous 1:5 scale Yamaha (actually it's worse due to the cam style engine, it's redeemed only by a sweet gearbox). They need to up their game if they want to rescue 2026. I STILL have hope.

You can imagine a million bugs will be inside the combine after a successful harvest

The only problem I have with this set is the whole control+/pu side of things (needing a smart device, no included physical remote and all that). But for the crane itself I agree with you. Unlike the majority of RC Technic sets, this is one of the very few RC sets that retains any semblance of mechanical realism, which I think is why it still works! The issues with other sets you mentioned come from gearboxes that are far more complex in their basic mechanical layout than their real life counterparts. To make the crane more mechanically authentic would have required hydraulics and hydraulic motors for all of the drives which isn't likely to happen in Lego. This set shows that it's possible to be both RC and authentic (as authenticity is never just about the looks in literally every other context of the word authentic!) I also agree that the build experience was great. In other themes that are not Technic, having such large pieces (like the many 3x19 frames and large truss pieces) would be seen as a negative. But even as a huge lifelong fan of (what) Technic (should be), I've never felt endless beam stacking and placing half a thousand pins to be as satisfying as placing bricks. It's the mechanisms that are fun to build, not so much their surrounding structures and definitely not bodywork (probably why cars aren't so much fun to build). It's easy to imagine having to build all those trusses from regular technic beams, and how tedious that would be. So I think the large amount of what some might call j u n i o r i s e d pieces can actually be a good thing in Technic, so long as it's not the mechanisms that are being j u n i o r i s e d. This crane is a great example of that. Yes, it is expensive, especially for something that doesn't even include a physical remote. But as I said, I think all of the negatives of this set are rooted in the design philosophy of control+/powered up. Had this set came with a large programmable control centre 3 style physical remote then the price would have been easier to understand, even if it was higher. The RRP is not the RRP anymore so getting such a thing at the correctly discounted price would be much more appealing. Personally I think such a thing would have also looked way cooler on the box for the kids than saying you can use it with a smart phone, something that really isn't available to EVERY child and doesn't hold much novelty for the kids that do have them. So yeah, the crane itself is great. I guess time will tell if all those fancy electronics will still be usable without any workarounds in ten or twenty years.

I'm not sure how useful this comment is, but reading this topic reminded me of how air is itself used as a sort of lubricant in some applications. I'm thinking of grinding machine spindles that run on a cussion of air to prevent metal on metal contact. The precision required to use air as a lubricant in this manner is much higher than is possible in Lego. However, doesn't a hovercraft work the same way? With enough air flow and the proper design, the mating surfaces can be as imprecise as a rubber skirt on a grass field. I wonder if a flow of air could be allowed to pass from the high (atmospheric) pressure side of the piston through channels that exit through ports on the side walls of the piston itself, creating a cussion of air between the piston and the bore in which it slides. It could be true that the small bypass air around the piston is already at atmospheric pressure and thus no air flow will come from the jets. However, when air is forced to speed up through a small opening (such as air that is forced to blow by the piston), its pressure actually drops. The smaller the opening, the greater the pressure drops (Bernoulli's principal), and so I imagine the piston gets sucked towards the side walls increasing friction. So (in my head anyway!) maybe allowing a small cussion of air to exist via ports on the sides of the piston would not only act as a lubricant but also help prevent a drop in pressure that can suck the piston against the side walls? All this is purely speculation. I'll leave you the fun of testing it

Big congratulations on your 30th official release. I must admit however, and I hate to be "that guy", but the "correct firing order" comment is puzzling. There are of course no spark plugs and nothing to fire. I believe the correct firing order would be shown as the red blinking dots in this video: So we will assume that it actually refers to the layout of the crank/pistons. However the Lego Rexy appears to have a 180 degree V6 with a flat plane cam/crank. However I believe the real Porsche uses a boxer arrangement (opposite pistons move opposite, 6 pistons on 6 crank journals) with 120 degree offsets like as shown in the above video. I must also admit that the displacement of the older style regular pistons is much closer to a 1:10 (edit: or 1:12) scale than the newer cam style pistons which are too small. Having whined about the engine I want to leave with something nice. The outside of the car definitely looks like the real thing. I appreciate the use of fewer larger panels because building bodywork isn't as fun to me as building working mechanisms, so the larger panels get it done faster and with a cleaner look.

Merry Christmas everyone!!! Hope you all have a great 2026!!!

Merry Christmas my friend! Hope you and yours have a great Christmas and a wonderful 2026

@Plumber looks great. And yes the P1S is great.

Thanks Paul. It's going to take some time to print all the boxes. But it'll be so much better when it comes to finding and sorting pieces. Opening a single drawer will let me see so many different bins at once.

Enjoy https://youtu.be/49IdVEeq7WM?si=mOdZyWgYDkZmAg1r

Ah okay, just found the inventory on brick owl. Didn't realise it was published yet. Disappointed it uses the cam pieces. Normal engine would easily fit. Are these less authentic engines the norm now? As If we need more evidence that Technic has become about as technical as City! If it's true that there's only 3 cams is a realistic firing order still possible?

I think it would be counterproductive to increase realism with the firing order by using the much less realistic cam pieces instead of a proper crank shaft.