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Perhaps "clean" is not the best way to put it but I like the comparison. What I am talking about is MOC supercars that don't have PF motors etc. There have been a lot of great MOCs put out there lately, impossible to list everyone's, but perhaps some that are popular are @brunojj1's M1 and recent Laferrari hypercar, Madoca's ICARUS Supercar, the Koenigsegg one:1 by Pvdb. Many like to reproduce them. I have not built many MOCs by others, I mostly like to do my own stuff, but I have done Paul Boratko's Vampire GT and Sheepo's Mustang. These were both great builds and it was fun to learn some of the techniques used by some of the more popular builders. In fact this post was inspired by my latest desire to take a break from MOCing (after I wrap up all current projects) and build the four cars listed above. However, aside from the challenges of building MOCs with PF functions, I don't see the point of adding motors etc. The drivetrain, gearbox, etc. everything else - YES! But motors I struggle with. I play with RC quite a bit and I will therefore never drive a Lego car/truck/crawler for the fun of it. Never. LEGO PF cars, compared to driving RC it is like being given your favorite supercar to drive for an evening and then having to go back to your Hyundai Sonota the next morning (if this seems like an all-to-real scenario, trust you intuition when I say this is NOT recommended). Now, I understand that RC and Lego are entirely different things. and that Lego was not meant to be RC. Not raising that argument. What I am saying is that for me, once I have completed a MOC from someone else I like to display it... but I don't want to pay the $ for the PF functions to just have it sit around. I get why the builders build with all the pf motors and such. When I am MOCing, I do the same thing..... that is the fun of building it. But if I am just building a MOC supercar just for display, and I know I will likely never drive, and I am just reproducing the work of others, I am inclined to just build the model sans motors, battery boxes, etc. When building something that someone else has done I don't really get the joy of creating something b/c I am not creating it. I get the joy of trying to think like the great mind that produced whatever I am building. But if (and this is a personal "if") the only joy that comes from adding PF is the challenge, and you are only doing the work of others (therefore this "challenge" is kinda gone or at least grossly minimalized) what really is the purpose of adding all the motors? Anyone feel the same?