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I hope so. Also hoping for something with a bit more movement than the haunted house which, aside from the small elevator, was a mostly static model. Something like a top spin or a big swinging pirate ship (ship about 12 studs wide minimum with an authentic mechanism to swing the ship, which is usually a car/truck tire that runs against the curved bottom of the ship) or a chair swing ride that's about the same size as the previous large carousel but rotates faster and lifts and tilts like a chair swing ride should

As much as I love new functional elements, I can't say I like these new piston/cam pieces. They aren't authentic to any real life mechanism that I know of.

Might be, but could also just be the battery. I guess the lipo would replace both the battery caddy and the lid. Even the "most powerful EVAR!" rumour wouldn't necessarily need a whole new hub, but they would need to upgrade the internal components to handle more amps. Pure speculation now, but I'm starting to lean towards PU having undergone (or is in the process of) a redesign, not a whole new system or look as it might not be needed, but a redesign of the internals of the hub, maybe some other changes (maybe to the overall architecture) that make things like better motors, easier and simpler PF style plug and play with default characteristics and a physical controller easier to introduce? The PU technic hub is in theory a PF battery box with 2 PF receivers built in. So they could in theory have default behaviours where you just plug things together and play just like you could with PF. But still we need physical controllers to make it on par. There could also be a new super powerful motor with its own integral motor driver chip, so it doesn't need the hub chip to be upgraded, only a direct feed from the battery and data signals.

Yup, from container truck to garbage truck, from garbage truck to container truck. It's the ciiiiircle of liiiiiife!!! Impressive work

I haven't felt much of a need to upgrade from my ender 3 v2. I did add a bltouch auto levelling upgrade and aluminium pinch roller arm but that's been fine for me.

Well how did I miss this? Very well done on this crazy dense build.

So we have two rumours, "most powerful yet" and "battery with USB c connection" I guess the simplest way to connect those two dots is that there's no new hub, just a new battery that plugs into the existing hub that has an 11.1v lipo rechargeable battery. I'm not convinced that 11.1v would actually equal more power in the real world, as the current motor driver chips are weak sauce and can cut out even with 9 volts, unless they have been upgraded to beefier driver chips. But this would also help with the question of "what happens when the lipo battery fails?". As there are already battery holders for the AA batteries, you can just swap out the lipo for a standard AA battery holder. It's not a perfect solution, I would still much rather have separate battery box, receivers (and a programmable physical remote!) and more powerful motors, and I'm still only speculating, but this hypothesis seems to make the most sense of these two rumours. Of course, it might be something else entirely, like the next system after PU/ control+ for all we know. Not likely I know, but given it's lack of love from fans from day one, expense, supposed difficulty adding support for physical remote and lack of development for both hardware and software, I really wouldn't be THAT surprised (and perhaps more that a bit relieved) to see the next system after PU/control+ introduced this year, or a soft reboot of it anyway.

I don't mind not having inverse kinematics. It's a novelty that wears off after a minute and I don't see real excavators using inverse kinematics.

Any time an axle is used to transmit torque, like in every Technic set, it will be under the same stress, and it will twist slightly. The only difference here is by how much and for how long. Under full articulation, with one wheel all the way up and the other all the way down, the anti roll bar will visibly twist but will also bend back as soon as the obstacle is cleared. As long as it's not twisted too far (within the bounds of elastic deformation), and as long as it's not held in that position for too long, it'll spring back like any other Technic axle being used to transmit torque. Just don't display your model in a fully articulated pose! I would be more concerned about the pieces used at the end of each axle. A pair of stacked thin lift arms will crack where as a full stud width cross hole (such as in the 2x4 L beam) will be fine. It'll likely not have any noticeable affect to someone pushing it over obstacles, but it would be nice to have for the sake of realism, if the real vehicle has anti roll bars if course.

We don't know the colour of the UCS car yet but I am not a fan of purple at all. But, if it comes with a new, much more realistic gearbox then it can be purple for all I care! I wonder if it would ever be possible to get a metallic colour again, like 8466 or the silver champion. A metallic deep green, metallic dark red, metallic dark blue or gun metal grey would be amazing! While a regular purple wouldn't look good IMHO, a metallic dark, like really dark purple could be very good. I guess that depends on if the real car has them, although didn't the real GT3RS have 4 wheel steering? We have still yet to see some good handling improvements, such as more realistic suspension geometry and good feeling steering. The much older technic cars from the 80's, with their 8 tooth pinion gears and longer steering arms with Ackermann geometry had great feeling steering even without a HOG, but all these newer cars have very heavy and spongy feeling steering, it feels like a wet noodle in comparison.

I'd also be surprised. It feels like they abandoned it a couple years ago TBH. But yeah, it would be nice to know where brick clicker heard this original claim before getting our hopes up.

To be fair, I'm only going of a comment I heard in brick clickers video so I should probably wait to hear this claim from Lego myself, but to me, power is not just speed as power is equal to speed multiplied by torque. They'll need new motors for that, and a beefier power supply as the motor driver chips used in the current smart hubs are pretty weak. And the most powerful "yet" also implies most powerful of all time, not just control+ era. So the way it's worded in the brick clicker video makes this a very bold claim, more powerful than the twin buggy motor RCs of the early 2000s. Does anyone know where brick clicker might have got his information from so we can see for ourselves what Lego is actually claiming here?

Maybe it's a Dodge Ram or similar large American pickup truck, or the classic Defender?

Thanks for spotting that, I've ammended my post.

Yup, according to brick clicker... 42172 McLaren supercar 3893 pieces 450 dollars August It's a car. Hopefully will have the new Yamaha gearbox pieces, with a few more sizes of clutch gear that would be great! 42175 Volvo truck and electric excavator 2274 pieces 200 dollars No thoughts on this yet until we know more about it or see pictures A few 800ish piece cars 50 dollars They are more cars. 42182 NASA Apollo moon vehicle 1913 pieces 230 dollars Another car, might be interesting though. 42177 licensed 4x4 2891 pieces 250 dollars And another car sorted of. This could be fantastic but will have to wait and see. 42174 licensed water vehicle 962 pieces 120 dollars No thoughts yet. 42176 Porsche gt4 e-performance race car 838 pieces 170 dollars "promising to be the most powerful one yet" And another another car. Most powerful one yet? I mean, we had a buggy with 2 buggy motors, is it more powerful than that? More powerful than two buggy motors? Hey Lego, is it more powerful than 2 buggy motors?

Great contest, congratulations to the medal winners!

Yeah, not sure what a Technic ISS could actually do, unless it had the nifty Canadarm V2 that can move itself to various different docking points around the station, but that would be huge!

Front view of 42171 is in this video

Or maybe they want any possible JCB licence to be a nice big surprise, I mean, if we're talking about a JCB licence, I wouldn't say that a pull back is top of the wanted list, so maybe they're saving that for..... something else. Or I could just be dreamin!

Just cast my vote, some very good and creative entries, well done everyone! Also like the new voting system, it's easy to compare and put the vote in order, and I like that we can't see how the other voters are voting.

Nice MODs, though the original instructions shows 4M axles being used.

This is fantastic! Creative and fun, very nice job

Yeah but we do get a set list with prelim prices and piece counts about now don't we? Are they coming out for the other themes yet?

It's only my opinion but I'd say that's a good deal.

If I'm paying anywhere near full price then I don't want to have to expect some enterprising programmer to step in where Lego buggered off from! The old control centers from the early 90s are still just as functional and reprogrammable today as they were when they was first released, same with the code pilot from 1997. The programs of today might be comparatively more complicated and require a small screen to make, but small screens and a few buttons really aren't that expensive to incorporate into a new "control center +" type remote nowadays. The original control centers and code pilot haven't left anyone stranded at all. They have been discontinued for at least 2 or 3 decades at least but will never be useless landfill as they still work perfectly. They never needed support from third party devices, smart phones, computers, fan developers which can come and go or anything. You might have to clean the contacts for the wires but that's about it. The wires themselves unfortunately had a habit of degrading but even those can be replaced fairly easily, and modern wire coatings don't rot nearly as much if at all.The thing is, Lego is priced like quality, heirloom items that can be passed down through generations, the bricks made in the 50's still fit with the bricks of today. Longevity over many decades is very important FOR Lego but doesn't seem to be very important TO Lego anymore. But (to bring things back to the LR13000 for a moment), the quality of the rest of the set still seems very good and will last a lifetime. The rest of it is heirloom grade Lego as far as I can tell. The design and build is excellent and you get so many large frames and truss pieces that if you can find one for a price that's about what you would pay if it didn't have any PU components then it's a really good deal actually. It feels about as big and strong as a fairly large Meccano crane if anyone remembers Meccano! This thing has an enormous overhang from the front of the tracks to the hook, and most of the power from the hook winch motor is very efficiently directed right to that hook. So the fact that, given enough counterweight, you can stall the hook winch motor without breaking anything on the crane is a testament to how solidly and authentically engineered this set really is. The tracks could do with some D11 style tensioners but that's about it. I do think there are AFOLs out there that are willing to pay 700 euro for a truly spectacular set. This thing could have been it, if it wasn't for the afore mentioned PU issues and shortcomings. If it had a physical (maybe even fully programmable 90s control center size) remote with dual, twin axis joysticks and so on, then the value would have been much easier to see even if they couldn't actually afford to spend that on Lego. There's 20 dollar kids toys that come with some form of physical remote, for 700 dollars there's really no excuse to replace it with an app!