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I would tend to argue the opposite is true. When you lift a car off the ground, the wheels move alot, then when you place the car back down again, the wheels move back up into the arches quite alot. The cars own weight is enought to compress the springs about 25% at a guess. That's what I usually aim for, so the suspention springs compress about half a stud in length just when placed on the ground and it feels and looks great and very authentic when going along the floor! Most lego suspentions don't compress at all when under their own weight, with the exception of 8466 which was too soft. The test car from 1988 got it just right.

IMHO the grand prix racer is better than the silver champion anyway!

This is awesome!

Well Grohl, seeing as you are still allowed to post here i'll just get this out of the way. ---clears throat--- longer pneumatics. Thankyou I don't want you to get into any trouble by replying to me here or by personal message with "watch this space" or anything like that, was just putting it out there ya know . I am really happy for you but of course you realize that now comes the hard part, staying there. Your MOCs are some of the best around but now you have so much more time and recources (like the ability to design and make new parts) most of us AFOLs could only dream of, so now you're gonna have to take it to the next level of awesomeness. I wish you all the best of luck and if you ever get stumped for ideas, i'm sure we're all happy to help! Ha, i'm just really excited for you, it's like being a kid and another kid in the same school is becoming a movie star and we're all like "that lucky bastard!"

I love having suspention and gearboxes and all that stuff, it just makes the car seem more real, like it's a real car only smaller. That's what technic does and only technic can do that. It's way better than having it just steer or just be RC, which a million other toys do! If you want to build a large scale supercar without suspention then it's gonna be seen as more of a racers type set than a technic set. On real supercars the wheel arches are wider than the wheels so the wheel moves up and behind them when the suspension is under full compression. Getting that to both look and work right requires some sweet geometry the likes of which nicjasno would be proud of! But suspention isn't just about functionality it can also be aesthetic. The look of the whole vehicle, from the way the wheels are moving up and down seprate from the body, to the way the whole car is absorbing the bumps, is greatly improved. I liken it to CGI effects in the movies. The computer model can look great when it's still, but if it's animated badly the illusion is ruined. The car not only have to look right, it has to move right for it to look it's best. So far the best suspention and steering belongs to the test car from 1988!

Hey, did nobody see this?! http://www.brickshelf.com/cgi-bin/gallery.cgi?f=473387 Well, it doesn't cound as it was never finished, I couldn't be bothered to finish the body work but it worked great! Excellent work on the first working, complete hurricane!

You can talk weight lifting with me as well if you like, tho i'm fairly clueless about it still. I just sweat at it until I can't move anymore, seems to work!

I wish you a speedy recovery from your operation, least of all because I want to see your review but I still can't wait to read it. Your reviews are great and 8455 is one of my all time favorite sets.

OUCH! That's painfully good looking :wub:

SWEEEEEEEET! Nice one Grohl! He could make some awesome universal sets

Hey Alasdair, wasn't you making a bark stripper that would go great with this?

Well I would probably argue that throwbots and roboriders were not technic, despite having the technic name on them, because authentic mechanisms wern't their top priority as far as reasonally practical (it would not be practical for 8480 to have authentic rocket engines!) and was of a much lower price point as was 8433. However a can't argue with 8277. That's the very set that came to mind when writing my last comment which is why I wrote probably the worst set of all time. It was good for those parts you mentioned at the time tho.

I would say i'm better at building MOCs than I am at mechanical puzzles. I suck at those! But I tend to like doing anything creative from writing/recording music, drawing, 3d modelling, welding and most other forms of fabricating my own designs and so on. I've even had a go at writing movie scripts that will probably never be seen just because I enjoy using my imagination. I guess having a good imagination is more important than being good at mechanical puzzles. I just imagine what the greatest technic car or helicopter or whatever of all time would be, then try to build it!

No disrespect to the designer of this set, i'm sure he had many restraints to work to and so on, but this set is quite possibly the worst technic set of all time! For £50 you got two gears worth of mechanical complexity and that's it! Using technic (as great as it is) to make this model was like using chocolate (as great as it is) to make a tea pot, completely pointless!

TBH, it looks, erm, not very good! Kinda modern for the sake of looking modern at the expence of strength (look at how some of the tiny hydraulics are mounted) and ruggedness (that wide front bucket on the end of a single beam can't be good!)

Yup! According to Philos updated measurements the buggy motor produces about twice as much mechanical power as the XL motor. http://philohome.com...s/motorcomp.htm

If you really want some power go for the buggy motor, way more powerful than the XL motor.

I have seen videos on youtube of working lego rc bikes. This one is NOT 100% lego and uses a modified m-motor. It seems the trick is to locate the pivot axis of the steering forward of the axis the front suspention is aligned to when looking at it from the side. Apparently this will make it lean when it goes round a corner, and the gyroscopic force of the front wheel does the rest.

Very nice!

The unimog has a ton of pieces as well as a motor, pneumatics, gearbox parts, lots of gears in general, great wheels, suspention, fake engine parts and more. For what you get it's excellent value even at full price. It has alot of complexity and more interestingly, different types of complexity (not just gear trains) and is an enjoyable build. I highly recommend it.

Usually within the first weeks or month of next year we get some tiny blurry pictures with a list of set names/numbers before the end of this year.

I tried making one when I was alot younger using some actual weigth lifting weights. I think I used too much as a few beams broke and the weight just made a huge bang on the floor! The real things are amazing! I sence a friendly competition coming on

Awwwww wow, i've been looking for these! Thankyou so much!

I would say it's modelled after a different class of race truck. It remains to be seen if the new truck has a working steering wheel like the old one does.

I don't normally pay too much attention to the b-model but I like the truck for some reason.