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Hard to say. It's unlikely he would have to start over again. Is it possible for you to provide links to pictures so we can have a look?

Well, there's 2 joysticks and 2 sliders. That makes 6 controls. But there are 7 functions. Maybe the yellow buttons or the two dials by the right joystick do something.

Interesting. According to the article the delay is due to some parts taking longer to produce. I wonder if it's the control+ elements, some of those are also in the 4x4 SUV thingy, but no mention of that being delayed also. Could it be the bucket or the LAs? Those seem like comparatively simple parts to make compared to the control+ elements. Anyway, better to delay and get it right than release it before it's ready.

My experience has been much the same as most others. I've had a few 3M and 4M half beams crack, but not one 2M or 5M. I notice it most when dismantling sets that have been left assembled for a long time. Just having an axle through it places it under some stress, or there would be no friction. Some crack, some don't. Maybe it's to do with how separate flows of plastic meet in the mould?

The rumoured new SUV planetary gear wheel drive hubs with bearings, larger CV joint and metal gears won't appear in the pictures or the description (for all I know they might not appear in the set either!). So I'm waiting for Jim and Sariels reviews. Hurry up lads!

It won't break it but another solution, if you have room for it, is to gear it down 2:1

I vote for the ones on the left.

I was thinking what their new name could be. They'll probably have to design their own branded minifigure. Here's one they can use.

Loser?

I can't think for a moment, cos I've already though about it But without trying to think too much more! Forklift: With 2 CONTROL+ hubs. New parts include a new 16 stud long pneumatic cylinder for the central piston to lift the forks via a chain and a pair of 32 stud long pneumatic cylinders to telescope the vertical side rails, giving a total lifting height of around 60 studs. Would also come with a new mini servo motor (about 5x3x2) with 10 steps of rotation totalling about 40 degrees either side of 0 (to give fine 4 degree steps), to mate perfectly with the new pneumatic valves. Other features include automatic compressor (by automatically turning on when any of the servos that control the valves are operated), tilting forks, sideways movement/adjustment of the forks, horn and steering. The fun of RC combined with real authentic mechanics. JCB 3CX. Non RC. Features new 81.6mm class type tyres for the front and 1 motor going to a 3 position gearbox (drive forward, drive reverse, multi pump compressor). Driving forward and reverse would be slow enough that you can still comfortably control the steering (like the barcode truck from 1997). Like the real thing it would also have 4 forward and 4 reverse gears, 4 wheel drive with planetary gear reduction and steering. Pneumatic functions include raising/lowering the front bucket, tilting the front bucket, opening/closing the front bucket, raising/lowering the rear stabilisers, Back hoe side shift, back hoe swing left/right, back hoe first section raise/lower, back hoe second section raise/lower, back hoe second section telescope in/out, back hoe bucket. So with about 15 cylinders powering 10 functions, 8455 is sent shaking in the corner! Classic Land Rover defender 110. Features new 94.3mm diameter authentic wheels and tires with deep offset wheels to allow the steering pivot inside the wheel. CONTROL+ with new powerful motor, similar to buggy motor performance. New metal suspension leafs, can be stacked to make harder or softer, authentic leaf spring suspension for trucks and all sorts of vehicles. No gear reduction at the wheels (because that's unrealistic) but instead has a new much stronger differential gear and CV joints. Ackermann steering geometry, live axles, realistic main gearbox with 5 forward and 1 reverse gear with more sizes of dog clutch gears (remote controlled via CONTROL+), realistic transfer gearbox with transmission break (remote controlled via CONTROL+) and fake engine and realistic drop link steering linkage. I know something similar is coming, and with 3 RC sets already this year there really isn't much room for yet another. I will take it as it comes but those considerations aside, this is how I would choose to take my Landrover! Classic American fire truck. Features lots of chrome and exterior detail, chrome wheels and leaf spring suspension. Striking red, white and chrome colour scheme with black or white pneumatic cylinders to raise the ladder, and the really long pneumatic cylinders from the above forklift idea, but in black or white to telescope the ladder up above one meter in height. New axle connector pieces enable the building of strong but authentic looking triangular lattice frame works as seen on the ladders of these fire trucks as well as tower cranes and so on. Also comes with lights as well as a new flashing light beacon, siren/horn, new tile piece with moulded checker plate texture in chrome, pneumatic stabilisers, fake engine, steering and roller shutter storage compartments (possibly made from Lego city garage doors?) containing the pneumatic valve controls and other details like gauges and fire hose reals and so on. I have lots more ideas, but a meter long pneumatic flying Scotsman or a massive working pirate ship ride would probably be better suited to the creator line and a Bell helicopter with a new swash plate allowing for authentic cyclic and collective control and tail rotor pitch control wouldn't need the 16+ age rating.

The Liebherr comes with a new system called CONTROL+, which isn't quite the same stuff as seen in the trains but it is controllable via smart phone. The powered up hub in trains has only 2 ports but the CONTROL+ hubs have 4 ports and possibly tilt sensors (1 CONTROL+ hub is found in the SUV and 2 hubs are found in the Liebherr). The spike hub is also different, having 6 ports.

True true. It's great to he him browsing the site

Sorry It's mostly stuff I've said here before anyway

2019 will have 3 RC sets (that I know of) which I think is a record number of RC sets in one year. As an asset that can be added to a set, I don't have a problem with RC itself. And yet whenever I see a new RC set I know it's probably not for me (besides the summer 2019 "SUV" due to rumours of planetary gear drive!). This is because I prize mechanical authenticity above all. This is what can elevate a Technic set from being just a toy to being a miniature version of the real thing while still being a toy. It doesn't have to be difficult or complex. In fact real life gearboxes are mechanically far simpler and more intuitive that what you find in the Porsche or the Chiron especially. So if you miss a gear out in building a real gearbox you would see it immediately and you would know where it's supposed to be, even though they are all the same colour. But with the Lego gearboxes, all the colour vomit in the world won't make it any easier or more intuitive. Mechanical authenticity makes things appeal to kids of all ages with no upper limit while making it easier and more initiative in a way that colour coding could only dream of. And yet not one single RC set to ever have been released has been remotely mechanically authentic. You either get something that's got some nice complexity but is completely mechanically inauthentic, like 8043 excavator or 42070, or more often you get something that's not only mechanically inauthentic but also mechanically boring, with a motor coupled almost directly to it's function through a linear actuator. This is true for all larger RC sets. I think this is because to have a mechanically authentic RC set you have to have two sets crammed into one, with a mechanically authentic base model crammed with a whole bunch of servo motors to interface with the controls, which would be expensive. Far cheaper to do away with the authentic mechanics between the RC components and the functions they are powering, and have the RC components coupled as simply and directly to the functions as possible. This is why I personally don't like RC sets. Not because RC is bad in itself, but because of all the compromises in mechanical authenticity they make in order to include it. I did have some hope for 42100, with it's size and piece count and the new pneumatic valves being designed to seeming mesh perfectly with some new servo motor. But alas it's not to be, it turned out to be another linear actuator driven monster. RC has the potential to be a great asset to any set. There are even some real life vehicles that are remote controlled, obviously combining RC control with the cool mechanics you see in real vehicles using servo motors to interface between the two. But Lego just haven't done it yet.

Nerdsforprez is saying there is no time restraints on those other threads. You can ask there if any new sets have come along since the last post that take the top spot for either complexity or challenging building. But we're mini modding now so let's leave it there.

I would think that having two vital gears missing completely is more likely to be the cause of the problem!

I believe the new defender coming out has dropped the live axles in favour of independent suspension, which is a shame. Hopefully if it's not based on the classic icon there will be a B model that's based on the classic icon! Kinda like the creator Mustang that allows you to build different versions of it. But this would be a totally different build so a B model. But as always, it's just an idea and I'll be careful not to place unrealistically high hopes for such things.

With a part number of 42110 some have speculated that it'll be a 110 (long wheel base) Landrover. At 2.5k parts use say it was 1:10 scale. Let's hope it offers more than the usual 1:10 scale functionality. People often complain that supercars have little functionality to transfer into a Technic set. I'm not sure I agree, however a Landrover should offer more than a supercar with its transfer case offering multiple options. I don't know what the new defender has but hi and lo ranges (which are in addition to the usual gearbox ratios), diff locks and the ability to switch between 2 and 4 wheel drive are all possibilities. Though I'm not sure if the previous defenders had that last option within the transfer case. But I'm just gonna wait and see.

The most interesting or intriguing stuff so far is a new land rover defender coming in October and is rumoured to be in some shade of green (dark or olive or something) and with a price below what you would expect if it was part of the same line as the Bugatti, and so is likely not to be part of that "UCS" line of Technic sets. The SUV is rumoured to come with a new wheel bearing, which are actual bearings and equipped with planetary gear reduction that may be made of metal, and incorporate new larger possible CV joints, similar in size to the bionicle ball joints (sounds like the 8880 CV joints to me) The control+ hubs are said to have 4 ports each, not the same as the spike hub, 2 are contained in the excavator and 1 is coming in the SUV. Apart from the Land Rover, these are based on observations made at toy fairs. Is there anything I missed? Is there anything there that's new to you? For me, the interest in the summer 2019 sets is coming mostly from these rumoured new parts, which I am very excited for. The Land Rover could be really really fantastic, but we know nothing about it which tells us how much of that potential to be fantastic is being met.

Yes, functionality counts. But remember the whole functionality, authenticity and challenging building thing? For me authenticity is right up there with functionality. I like to feel like I am building a miniature version of the real thing, not a toy version. Yeah, I know it is a toy but that's a whole other discussion about weather or not it is ONLY a toy. The colour barf during the build, regardless of weather or not you see it in the finished build, spoils the illusion of "build for real". But as these motors are purely for educational purposes, it doesn't really matter.

I don't think these are the control+ electronics. Only for spike and perhaps the next generation of mindstorms (if that isn't what spike already is!)

Double amen to that!

Forget the office supply store I'm gonna smash the printer with a base ball bat! Dambed sexist colour tones lol! Seriously though my comment was made in the context of other comments talking about the colour choices and how it may have something to do with not excluding girls. But I don't buy that as I don't believe either gender to be so weak minded. As I said it's an education set so the colours don't really matter. So if that was indeed TLGs reason for such an eyesore of a colour scheme it's not a very good one, but I don't think it is. I don't think it's anything to do with gender, just bad taste. Of course this is only my subjective opinion on a colour scheme, which is always right of course!

Well it's an education set so the colour scheme really doesn't matter I guess, although it would be nice to have these new parts available in useful colours. But I also don't get the reasoning behind it. Is it really exclusionary to have "male colours"? Isn't it more sexist to assume women are so weak minded as to turn away from a profession in STEM because the Lego sets used to teach it weren't girly colours?! I dunno. But I do know the colours look freaking awful, as if they had a competition to decide how to make it as tasteless and uninviting to anyone blessed with the gift of sight as possible!

YAY!