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Welcome Elke and enjoy building . I get some strange looks from colleagues being a 26 year old man saying he is going home to "build something out of lego", but I do not care , I find it fun and I enjoy my hobby.

I almost agree with you Plastic Nurak entirely, it really needs transmission but a 5 or 6 speed gearbox with reverse.

I only have the monorail and a few small sets, but I am hoping to build on that. I also think the Futuron minifigs look the best

I feel quite sad 9V track and train system has gone, but I think only offering flexi track and straight track pieces (all I can find on the lego site) is a huge mistake. Surely packs of straight track, curves and flexi are the obvious choice to keep everyone happy. I quite fancy the cargo train, but I will then have plastic track which is not really going to work with my 9V locos

Hi and thanks for the welcome. Your MOC is very impressive but I still find studless (for me anyway) less intuitive . I would hate to think how much that cost, but it really is awesome Traditional technic was fairly easy to keep track of spacing on all dimensions (basically beam, two plates, beam and you could not go wrong). I feel as if with studless you have to design a geartrain first, and design the frame around it which for someone that entered their dark ages before studless really came out is quite a change. I feel its a change from bottom up design to inside out design. I guess my other reasoning is I have yet to build an off the shelf Lego set that has had me awe inspired like the 8880 or 8480 . Perhaps I will get used to the studless as time goes on

Hi everyone, Just wondering if there is any Futuron fans about on here? Very rarely see Futuron mentioned so far on here . As a kid I had a leaflet with the Futuron Monorail (transport base 6990) going around a Mega Core magnatizer 6989 (I know this is not Futuron but its still an ace set!). Unfortunately by the time I wanted the monorail, it had already gone out of the shops. Finally got one of these monorails a couple of years ago, catching up on some of the sets i missed - it really is a great set.

Cheers everyone, uploaded a avatar now its a photo of the 6396 International Jetport control tower.

Weclome Mr Lestrange

Welcome Jade-Sabre - I am also new.

Ah i was thinking in terms of lifting ability and not speed. I do wish TLG would offer motors with or without gearing. I liked doing the gearing down myself.

Really looking forward to the Unimog set!

I will not comment properly until I have the set in my collection, but surely the best techinic car for real life functionality would go to the 8880, 8466, 8865, or the 8448? I love the look of the 8880 set. I will probably get this to extend my stock of powerfunctions stuff and new style liftarm technic though.

I dont think the problems is the motors Out of Sight, its the LA's themselves. They have clutches inbuilt to protect them from damage. I have just brought the 8043 today in the Argos sale (£99.99 if you can find one!). Yet to build to build it but the gearbox to select the functions looks quite fun - plus I have finally got some synchromesh extender collet thingies so I can build gearboxes with reverse. Yet to build it - I expected a bigger box when it came down the Argos rollers of almighty goodness .

Cheers everyone , off to do some building now.

After some reading I have doubts on this model . Some people have translated to whether it has 4 functions or a 4 speed gearbox, and the consensus seems to be that the switches inbetween the seats select functions within the car - i.e. it does not have a proper transmission gearbox. As a great fan of the 8880 I find it quite saddening that opening doors, bonnets, spoiler and boot are listed on the box as features and the consensus is that these are the functions. Improve on the daytona, make a 4WD, 4 wheel steering supercar with independant suspension and a 5 speed box with reverse , and have the possibility of modding it with powerfunctions with a motor set - like lego used to do (anyone remember motorisation instructions on the last few pages? ) and I would be a very very happy afol

Hi everybody! My names Rich, and I am a returning Lego fan / builder. I mainly like Technic (studded stuff, I am too ham-fisted to use the studless/liftarm stuff well , it just seems less intuitive to me...) but I also like Town and Futuron. I entered my dark ages in 1998, after some truly great sets I found the Barcode truck very disappointing. The sets released in 98 and the thought of lego not being "cool" anymore (I realise that is complete nonsense now ) pushed me into the dark ages. Competition sets such as 8266, and other sets such as 8428, and 8462 really put me off to be quite honest! - apologies to any fans of those sets I returned when I brought the Mindstorms NXT set in 2007, and the 8275 bulldozer in an Argos sale. Hope to get active in the lego community. I have a few project ideas I wish to build. I also wish everyone a Happy New Year.

Cheers Alasdair My point is I don’t really want to play with the model to use it to scoop up my lego . I enjoy building models of real life objects rather than toys. LA’s just do not cut it for me for that very reason – they do not exist on real life excavators. I would rather have a close technical representation of a real life device which may not move 'perfectly' than a toy which does move perfectly. Allanp has already suggested a solution to the "free falling" problem. On a side note I have no problems controlling my air tech claw rig! Pneumatics are begging for more innovation on Lego’s part.

Hi, first post here! I am a PhD student (in engineering) and a long time lego fan. When I was younger I always felt Lego Technic sets was crudely modelling real life machinery, the test car and Daytona super car being two perfect examples of this. Lego has shifted away from this in my personal opinion and this is what is driving this argument. For example I did see at one point people reviewing the 8275 Bulldozer better than the 8880 Supercar. In my opinion the Bulldozer is just a toy, it makes no attempt at all to model real life (A motor for every function, and an engine which only turns over when one of the tracks is powered!) I could go to the local toy shop and buy a remote control one – I have learned NOTHING about real life machinery . The excavator here is a similar thing. I have drove past the JCB factory/and seen a few excavators. I have yet to see one powered by LA’s in real life oddly enough. None of the real life ones have UJ’s and prop shafts going up the booms. They have hydraulics, and pneumatics are a lot closer to hydraulics than LA’s ever will be. Real life excavators have hydraulic hoses, so I don’t buy the argument of it looking ‘ugly’ either At the end of the day pneumatics could work just as well, if not better (at least it would be a bit quicker) with a correctly designed excavator. And as a side note, after my dark ages – I almost swore when I opened my first modern set (the bulldozer). The boxes are like cereal boxes now, large, weak (it collapsed instantly pretty much) and have just have bags with the stuff in and no trays .