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Mine is also tilted too far forwards. When you push the cyclic all the way forwards the mechanism begins to bind. Is it confirmed that this is an error (either on TLGs part or my own) or a "feature"?

You had to know this was coming, pneumatic patient launcher perhaps? Seriously though, an ambulance or UK police care (in neon and blue) might be cool if they came with some new light elements, like maybe 8 LEDs on individual wires, connected to a single port for the smart hub, and a new programmable light sequencer code block so you can make cool emergency flashing lights, fairground lighting or have 4 pairs that can go into a pair of 2x2 trans yellow round bricks in a way that mimics a rotating beacon. Another set of 8 could be used for front/rear indicators, brake lights and headlight. That's two ports used for 16 lights, leaving the remaining 2 ports for drive and steer. EVEN BETTER (dunno if possible) would be if the place where the port spits into the 8 individual wires for the light would incorporate a speaker making it a light and sound module, so the sounds can come from the model itself instead of weirdly coming from the phone!

And the argument rages on! There's a difference between colour coding and colour vomit. Colour coding: Tasteful use of colours that would be seen in real life (black, dark bley, like bley, metallic greys, even brown might look like oil or some brass colour), and the main colour of the model itself (eg red for the Ferrari) Used sensibly (a brightly coloured part does not stand out in a sea of brightly coloured parts) Makes logical sense in helping to identify the function/type of part (friction pins being black, not friction pins being bley for example) Understands that the inside of a technic model is where the mechanics (the heart) is, and should look as authentic as the outside. Authenticity that's only skin deep is not authentic at all for Technic. Colour vomit: Not tasteful use of colours (gears are bright red, blue, green, yellow, and so on) Not used sensibly Cares not for the authenticity of the mechanical insides of a model Treats sets aimed at older builders like they were aimed at toddlers Isn't even the best answer as mistakes still happen. Having bag numbers go much higher for technic sets (like they do for larger sets in others themes) has been much more effective for me when building those other sets, like the 89 batmobile whose bag numbers went to 22 I think. I also noticed that the new helicopter upper swash plate element has an arrow moulded into the part which is directly called out in the instructions. This is much better than if they had coloured the part purple (which I think puts into perspective how silly the bright colouring of parts actually is in terms of being helpful).

That part reminded me of this for some reason....

So if the crane does come in 2023, will it be an additional flagship or will it replace the original 2023 flagship? Of course we don't know but it's fun to speculate!

I mean, of course the Arocs is perfect in every way! I'm not going to argue with that but there are some that liked every set having their seats and steering wishbones coloured blue as that was the usual Technic tradition. Maybe it'll take a bit of getting used to. But TBF I still miss my studded technic and motors with no internal gearing

Or a titanic sized pneumatic flying Scotsman?

I think much of that might be the heavy use of frictionless pins, which have a lot of slop. Some carefully chosen friction pins thrown in here and there might help a lot with that, which I'm definitely going to try. But yeah, it would be great to not only see much of the sloppyness removed, but also functional tail rotor pitch control in the next big helicopter.

@grohl has a YouTube channel where he recently did a live stream. During the QnA he was asked about a backhoe. Of course he can't confirm or deny anything about future product development, he could only share his own enthusiasm for a big back hoe, and he certainly seemed very enthusiastic about it.

I think basically any model that's not yellow. Even yellow JCBs have mostly black hydraulic cylinders. In real life the hydraulics are usually colour matched to the vehicle or black/dark grey.

4CX would be better from our perspective but I think the 3CX, with the smaller front wheels is the more recognisable icon. But yeah I'd be VERY happy with a 4CX also! But I wonder if they are testing some waters with this. Pneumatic sets still aren't that common, how long has it been since we had a pneumatic set two years in a row? It's been way longer since they recoloured pneumatics. Do we know the prices for other countries yet? Without knowing the US price I'd have expected it to be around £80 in the UK, maybe £100 after the company wide price hikes.

Oh yeah!

The waste handler looks slightly bigger than expected. The claw mechanism seems to work better than expected also. I'm surprised it's the same price as the tow truck though, this seems like way less value in comparison. But then the tow truck was incredibly good value sooo.....still a day one purchase for this pneumatic fan boy of course! But I can see that price hurting sales. As Jang would say "Is there 150 dollars worth of stuff?!". Maybe it will be more reasonably priced in other parts of the world. For me the fun and authenticity of pneumatics is worth it but we know from previous pneumatic sets that they don't increase sets prices this much. And I remember as a kid that, while I always thought they were cool, it was only after I got my own pneumatic set that I realised just how great they were. This makes me think they need a very small, very cheap single cylinder first half pneumatic set to get customers wanting more! And of course the long awaited pneumatic flagship coughJCB3CXcough!

Yup! Definitely day one purchase for, I'm glad to see from Sariels review there's no major issues so overall very happy. Of the minor issue he mentioned the biggest for me is the wobblyness. The main rotor shaft in particular is very wobbly. I wonder if the vertical beam that is used for the shaft could be extended down through the turntable and secured at a second point below the turntable. This would make it much better but I wonder if there's room below the turntable for that.

I don't think so. @kbalage replaced all the double bevel gears he could in the land rover with the newer gears and it made little to no difference. The main problem is the sheer complexity of Lego gearboxes with all those axles and gear meshes and so on. They really need something much closer to my custom gearbox parts to properly fix the problem.

How would you feel about a using 3 small self tapping wood screws in the grey pins, basically holding each wheel in place with 3 wood screws. They would have to be quite small of course, with probably about a 2.5mm thread only 7 or 8 mm long at a guess.

@gyenesvi It might be possible without a latch type thing. I guess you could leave the top open so the axle can be pushed in from the top but still in the same orientation, with the axles still having the notches to prevent them pulling out, kind of like how the first generation of flex axles worked but much sturdier. Or maybe make it so you insert the axle into the end then give it a 45 degree twist to lock it in place. Or some solution that locks the connector onto the axle by inserting the towball......somehow! Whatever the solution I think it should be only 1x1 axially. It can be 2 studs long but only 1x1 when looking at it from the front, so 1 wide x 1 tall x 2 long in total.

Those are good in tension but not that good in compression. They are good enough for steering links on a small car but not for a heavy 1:8 car, or for the links holding a live axle in place for example. But I think you're right about a similar latch system being sturdy enough for the suggested new part, maybe some slight tweeking could make it stronger.

The notches at the ends of the axles would prevent them from sliding out though, no?

Sounds like what barman rendered on brickshelf: It's highly worth looking through his brickshelf gallery, one of my favourites is this idea: If they put he notches at the ends of every axle length you could have links like this any length and orientation you want. Although it would look pretty terrible with the current colour coding of axles.

Maybe there's a one way drive mechanism, which would both prevent driving in reverse and prevent gears cracking from the momentum of the blades spinning when you turn it off.

No complaints from me. Also has an old school vibe which I like!

Won't you need two motors for cyclic? If you're using a buwizz 3.0, could you use a buggy motor (or 2!) for the blade rotation?

Oh yeah baby! Thrilled to see it in action and I love that you can slide open the top to see the mechanics. I wouldn't say I'm "into" helicopters any more or less than any other kind of vehicle. What I'm into is miniature working versions of the real thing. It's not a toy helicopter, it's a real helicopter only smaller that I built myself, or as close to that as is reasonably possible. This is easily the closest helicopter they have come to "build for real" they have ever made and for me, that makes it the best helicopter they have ever made and an instant purchase. Could they get closer to a real helicopter? Sure they could, but for now this is the best heli yet. But is it an 8480 beater? Now 8480 is an all time legend so the bar to reach is much higher and I mean....with this new helicopter there's still all that colour coding that 8480 didn't have anywhere near as much of, and the tail prop doesn't have working pitch control, and the proportions are quite off.... but..... Whilst it may not be totally fair to compare two sets from two completely different eras, the Arocs did prove 8868 was beatable and now I think 8480 is no longer the undisputed king of flying vehicles. 8480 is still a legend, but it feels so good that the best Technic flying vehicle ever is no longer in the past but the very near future. I just really hope it sells well.

Thanks for sharing. I knew the power puller tyres would do well but there are some surprising results here also. And gotta love those planetary reduction hubs for endless, non jerky torque! I've always found Lego tyres to be grippy enough for my uses though, it's always been the actual wheel dimensions that I battle with (truck tyres too wide to double up, not enough room inside the wheel etc. They seem to have made great progress with cars and motorbikes, especially the Ferrari wheels. But we're still missing good truck wheels.