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And there is the conflict. On one hand they said said it would be the first in a series, but a series of what? Sets aimed squarely at AFOLs? Supercars? IP cars or vehicles of any sort? But they also said in that interview regarding regular technic sets that they didn't want to release 2 similar things within only a couple years of each other, and having 2 1:8 scale supercars so close, perhaps even on shelves at the same time would be weird. Oh the anticipation!!! Hey, if anyone from TLG is reading this, ide be happy to have a look at it and give you an AFOLs perspective. Yes? No? @Cumulonimbus that's a very good point.

16+, collectors item, complex, the one set released so far was a supercar, none of these point to 42083 being a supercar, or any car. But the fact that the box is blank suggests it's based on an existing IP. I have a feeling it will be a car of some kind but really we have no evidence to support that yet.

42056 and 42083 are pretty much the same except the length of 42083 is 9 CMs longer. Though the box for 42056, although very nice, was smaller than I expected given the piece count and size of the finished model. And 42082 really doesn't look big enough to need a BWE sized box. It looks to me to be the same as 42009 except with the front half of the undercarriage missing and simpler stabilisers.

Hopefully there will be a rollercoaster that has lift hill, inversions, station, lots of track and nothing else (no pirate theming, no mountain etc) so that the whole budget can go towards the coaster itself.

Ide say that was most likely. I'm guessing it's gonna sell very well to younger Lego fans so it might be a proprietary controllable brick with an inbuilt steering front axle designed just for this set, but with the possibility of being used again in later sets. It almost looks too small for a boost brick.

I guess for me it comes down to weather or not the batmobile is built from separate components or on a single prebuilt block, like the RC cars released 1996.

IR requires a visible notch so that the receiver can see the IR signal. So wouldn't the lack thereof actually confirm that these trains are NOT IR controlled?

I can also see little nubs on the studs which would be a tactile thing to help rotate them and to help see what position they are in, if that's the case then it's not relative speed control like the current speed controllers (where rotating the knob one click will hopefully increase the speed one click), but absolute speed control (where setting it to speed X will make the thing move at speed X).

Hmmmm, looking again now I'm not so sure about the dog bones, could be just the 3x5 ones. But i'm quite confident it's not a 1x2 brick on the train box. In terms of the power functions shown on the technic boxes, we've seen before how they can change, they are just place holders and could be entirely different.

On the train box it looks to me like a 4x8 transmitter with a WiFi or BT signal coming out of it and two speed dials. So now I'm in the BT/WiFi transmitter, 7x3 dog bone and new valve camp!

So without asking I received 42069 and 42070 over Christmas. Lucky me!!! 42069 is good with its live axle suspension and Ackerman steering geometry, and I tried it with mockup axles to see how it would look with wheels that did not stick out from the arches, but it looked too narrow on the whole so went back to tracks. The issue I have is that the build felt comparatively long and tedious. The axles are ok but the main body of the car has too many parts for too little mechanical goodness for my taste. Winches and opening doors are nice detail functions when combined with other main functions, but they aren't enough to carry a set on their own. Still a good set but the build was dull. 42070, after building 42069 I really enjoyed building 42070. Not so many parts but way more going on mechanically. My view of the finished set is the same (not great), but I have to say the building experience was surprisingly good.

New parts and the new possibilities they create, either for new functionality or to make an existing functionality more mechanically authentic is by far the main thing that keeps me an AFOL year after year. Not every set I buy has to have this, as an AFOL I find myself wanting more sets even when I can't really justify it, I just want it, because I'm an AFOL. But if they was to stop releasing new parts and creating those new possibilities for new functionality and increased mechanical authenticity then how many years would it be before I lose interest in new sets all together? Ide be an adult fan of old Lego, AFOOL?!

Ah yes, the few small pins of 2015 and 2016, oh and the V2 pneumatics, new turn table, new telescopic pieces, Porsche wheels and tyres and wheel arches, class tyres and the BWE quarter ring gear thingy. Perhaps it's no surprise that 2017 only brought a piece of string, they spent all the new parts budget!

Check your differentials are installed in the same orientation as the instructions. Which side the large gear is on matters.

This may only be for the German toy fair, we have had picture bans from there before so had to wait for New York toy fair. I think I remember that being the case when waiting for pictures of the Arocs.

It could happen that the model in the picture we see has new dog bones (I'm firmly in the new dog bone camp!) However the final model may be different, so if the new model does have only the current dog bones, that does not prove that the model that was photographed has new ones!

Wasn't there images posted of a smart phone made with Lego pin connections on the side? Maybe that will come with the batmobile? I don't think it's too off topic as we're essentially talking about new technic(al) elements.

Phew! For a moment I thought you meant the 42083 was a sodding batmobile! That would have been disappointing, but if it's not taking the 42083 slot, keeping that free for something better suited to showing how good technic can be, then I wouldn't resent it so much!

42080 is definitely day one, probably multiple purchase for me depending on the valves

http://bricks.argz.com/ins/8422-1 check out the engine of the dragster b model for 8422 released in 1995.

You can see the knob on the other side, look closely between the middle post of the front windscreen and the lime panel.

It has a body roughly the same size as the current one, but in LBG, with an axle hole sticking out the side so that it can be driven by a lever you stick in the front or as in this case by using an axle sticking out the side, and instead of the mounting holes being on the back, they have been moved to to the top and bottom of the valve. Where the mounting holes used to be mounted on the back I think I can see hoses, so instead of the ports coming out the side, meaning you need to have at least a 2 or 3 stud gap between valves, they are now sticking out the back so that many of them can be mounted right next to each other. It's clearly a new piece, I can see it clear as day when zoomed in so the valve alone appears 3 inches tall on my screen, just hope it's as I've described, because that's exactly how I'de like it!

I can also make out a 20t double bevel gear sticking out the other side, where you would expect to see one if what I am seeing is a new valve. With the ability to be driven directly from an axle, which makes it easier to drive from a servo motor. IT'S A NEW VALVE TELLS YA! Nobody listens to me! Oh, and I still think it's a new 3x7 dog bone on 42082

Still don't see any valves in the back. I do see however a new grey piece in the front with a blue hose leading to it and a 20t double bevel gear sticking out the side, is this a new valve?

I actually do wonder