allanp

No pictures or info has leaked yet. That usually happens within the first few days or weeks of the new year. Oh, and welcome to the site

I fully agree. My point was that if they release a supercar for example, then it's main focus should be on realistic suspension, transmission and releasing new parts to achieve that and so on, like I've said before. But if they must make it RC then I think it should only be after they have done that and that functional authenticity should in no way be compromised to make it RC, like they have done badly for every RC set ever released so far.

I'm all for RC as long as it's there just as an added bonus.

Should do ok, might not be the most efficient but with some good batteries those motors should do fine as they are. Hopefully those CV joints won't be a problem, I've found they tend to pop out the socket due to the socket itself being made of utterly butterly!

10 cylinders actually . From under 800 parts you built a model that boasts many authentic working functions to rival (and in many cases surpass) many much larger (bloated) sets.

I don't want re-issues, I want re-imaginings! The only reason why I would want a re-issue of classic sets like 8880 is because IMHO they haven't released a better or more innovative (in terms of new parts leading to higher levels of complexity and authenticity) car in the 19 years since it's release. I would rather they gave use the next level of awesomeness and mechanical authenticity.

:laugh: Isn't L for anything beginning with L!

Actually it's "M" or "m" which stands for module (the distance between the centre of two studs), although "L" is often used as well and means the same thing. Yeah, in England most of us like to do most things in metric (although I use both) but we like to buy our milk and beer in pints and drive using miles instead if kilometres.

Woooops! I didn't catch the last "at least 2h2014?" and there is always somebody who makes the comment "these sets look so small compared to last year", so yeah, my bad

These are just the first half sets. You have yet to see the second half.

This is the best lego rollercoaster yet! Only one thing......needs more cars to make a train. Awesome work though man

It depends what you are used to. Where I work there are machines from all over the world, including 'murica! Both systems have their advantages but I wish they wouldn't insist on using both systems within the same machine all the time .

Can't deeplink confidential images here. Go to youtube, search for "lego technic 2014 sets" and filter the results by date added.

The cargo plane is a good idea and I love all the white. Hopefully there will be some authentic wing and tail flap movements for pitch/yaw/roll and so on. The new suspension parts on the snow mobile are also very welcome . The rest does not appeal to me.

I could watch that work all day long! fantastic!

Oh wow, that is just wonderful! :wub:

That might have been me. I did get it to work well but I messed around with using different strengths and numbers of rubber bands in the shifting mechanism, as well as some other minor tweaks. The room for error was so small that somebody else could have used the exact same number of the same bands and it probably would not have worked. My copy was not build for very long but I fell had it have been left a while the bands would have weakened enough to cause problems. We really need new parts! As for insane complexity, is that an issue for non UCS sets? Todays instructions tell you exactly where and how to place every single piece. No matter how complex the final product you only ever place one piece at a time so maybe it's only a matter of attention span and personal budget, and also some specific combinations that kids find difficult to assemble, like when snapping two beams together with many pins at once.

Hence the need for new parts.

Technic is a different animal than regular bricks. With regular bricks, all you basically need to do is increase the size, detail and piece count and you have a set aimed for adults. 42009 had a size, piece count and price that makes it easily qualify as a UCS set if we were to use that standard but for technic, it's not that simple. Although smaller, the unimog feels more like a UCS set aimed at adults than the larger 42009. It would have to be something with huge ambition such as Sheepo's 110 landrover, and with a lot of new parts to make it more authentic, simpler (whilst retaining the same level of functionality) and reliable.

Exactly. It's doesn't have to keep getting more complex or harder to build, but a continual improvement with new parts. Some of the other 1h2014 sets have some new steering/suspension parts that allow for some functionality to be improved in some way, maybe to make it more compact, easier to fit into smaller models or more life like or even simpler, without making it harder for kids. So it may turn out that 1H2014 may yet bring something good. I know not all sets can bring such improvements but for now there's nothing to get excited about. It's just another function switching gearbox/LA set up. Wouldn't be so bad if that's how it's done in real life. As for the "it's for kids" argument, whilst that's obviously true and I can appreciate that, it still seems to be a cop out to me. Dora the explorer is for kids, and only kids, whereas the Pixar movie toy story is for kids, but has also been made more sophisticated, the challenges faced by the characters are fantasy at the surface, but they aren't as simplified or kiddified and deeper down they echo real life challenges which makes their struggles more relatable to real life situations, so that adults can also enjoy it. As such, toy story has a wider appeal and brought more success to Pixar and more universal approval that other things that are for kids. Dare I YET AGAIN mention some of the many new parts that would appease us as well as making the set builds (including this new skip truck) more varied, more functionally reliable and authentic, simpler and easier for kids to build and understand and so more intuitive for kids to make MOCs with? "OH PLEASE NO ALLANP, NOT AGAIN" I hear you cry .

It's an official Lego part found in some RC sets and one technic motorcycle set. http://www.peeron.com/inv/sets/8420-1

Still working on it!

That's correct. A Lego worm gear has one tooth. Use it with a 24t gear and you have a 24:1 ratio, with a 40t gear you have a 40:1 ratio and so on. In real life there are some worm gears that have more than one tooth.

Well, using my guessometers, erm, I mean digital calipers I got an inner hole measurement of 4.84mm with an outer hole measurement of 6.09mm with a depth of 0.80mm. The overall beam width was 7.80mm and the height was 7.45mm.

Non of the gears are nylon, I don't even think the gears inside the motors are nylon, to me it all seems like many different grades or types of ABS. The older gears were harder but more brittle ABS which is what gives you that classic sound. They held their shapes more rigidly which helped to make them harder to slide on axles but also more prone to cracking. The newer gears are softer ABS so you should hear a duller and quieter sound to them.