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I want one of these when it’s released:
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Blimey!
https://rover.ebay.com/rover/0/0/0?mpre=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.ebay.co.uk%2Fulk%2Fitm%2F143360540060
Some nice discounts today in the Argos toy sale (most of which are automatically applied to Amazon as well!) such as the new blue-tooth off-roader 42099, down from £200 to £133. Still a fair chunk but it looks really cool, more torque than ever for a (official) rock-crawler due to the new in-hub planetary gearboxes (cue everyone complaining about "specialist" pieces 😂) Apparently the phone app is great fun also, massive improvement over the old infra-red remote control system.
Also Smyths have a promotion running, £10 off every £50 spent (in store only I think) which equates to about 20%, bringing the massive Millennium Falcon down to £520 which I think is the cheapest ever (new) price, and the only place currently you can get the Friends (TV show) set discounted AFAIK.
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Yeah, I've read a review that makes me want it, some clever stuff going on with the build. But it's enormous (a foot longer than the Falcon which is not exactly small itself!) and yet relative to the Falcon seems poorer value so I won't be investing (yet...)
The Star Destroyer apparently has nothing going on inside so apart from being massive is a bit dull compared to the Millenium Falcon.
Must admit seeing it in the flesh made the price more palatable, it is bulky. Apparently very sturdy as well unlike the Falcon which explodes if you look at it.
The Star Destroyer apparently has nothing going on inside so apart from being massive is a bit dull compared to the Millenium Falcon.
This is what’s putting me off, it’s essentially a display shell. That and I’ve nowhere to put it, unless we forego the the use of dining table...
@daffy where did you find that lepin destroyer for £70? ebay?
I've picked up quite a lot of sets for xmas in the current sales for 5 boys nothing too flash as all under 7. looking forward to building (and rebuilding again and again) the police hq picked it up for £35
Liebherr R 9800 Excavator was released yesterday, biggest ever Technic set, despite costing £400 the first batch sold out immediately and it's now on back-order for 2 weeks! Way cooler than the Star Destroyer IMO, not only is it pretty massive & impressive looking, it actually DOES something. Anyone snag one yet?!
It's controlled by a smartphone app rather than the fairly shitty IR controllers Lego have used in the past, apparently really well done, has a block-based programming language for stringing together moves, recordable macros, plus it's multi-touch so you can move ALL the motors independently at the same time rather than just moving one motor.
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I have the smartphone app for the X-treme offroader, it's really neat and works well. Real plus point for my 7 year old as he gets to play with a mobile phone and brings a gamification element to Lego. There are two ways of moving the car too - a standard RC controller layout and a 'follow my finger' layout.
Shame the vehicle is so slow and under-powered. I might look at changing the gear ratios so you can actually crawl over stuff. It needs partially rebuilding anyway as it fell off the slide... and the rear drive exploded.
I thought that was the whole point of the new hub gear piece! (To make it torquey so it can crawl, I guess it's never going to be fast as well unless you have a shifting gearbox). Seen a couple of other comments that say the same thing, shame.Shame the vehicle is so slow and under-powered.
You'd hope for either speed or torque. It doesn't really have either. It's a heavy truck. I do wonder if smaller tyres would help too.
And today's Lego want is...
The biggest Technics set ever...
Liebherr's R 9800 Excavator
https://www.lego.com/en-gb/product/liebherr-r-9800-excavator-42100
Saw that in the Lego shop. It’s errr BIG! And not cheap.
That's a monster!
Costco are doing it for £320 inc vat I've, err, heard...
The biggest Technics set ever…
And the dullest. The app control stuff looks cool but... it's kinda just a big grey box, isn't it.
It's like the Star Destroyer, cool and all and I'd love building it, but it's basically a two metre long monochrome door wedge.
And the dullest
Not if you really like diggers.
I like diggers.
Or if you really like Mk I star destroyers.
Yep. Want.
I only want it if it can deploy shields, like in the film.
Buy one, get one free.
^^^ that's what'll swing it for me I think 😂 The main set looks awesome, but is WAY too big. You need something Minifig scale so you can zoom it about & fight the Joker. So I might end up buying it mainly for the mini-version as that looks like being the only way to get it (bar buying it off eBay for an extortionate sum!!)
Finally got round to building this after receiving it for Christmas last year!
Reckon another few nights and it'll be done.
Anyone fancy swapping for a Caterham?
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I really want that Liehberr, I would keep it on my desk at work. Lego should do a 797 at the same scale to load.
I'd be up for a swap for my Caterham. I need to make sure it's complete as it's been sitting in a kid's room for a year or so but I found the box the other day so I think it's good to go.
PM me when you fancy swapping.
@Merak I'm a couple of stages ahead of you. Top tip - when you get to page 93 make sure you get the red and yellow female pieces are orientated correctly. I got to page 131 last night and realised the reds were Ok but the yellows were not. I was 3/4 through a bottle of red wine so decided retiring for the night was the best plan as it isn't an easy task to fix.
As above, if anyone wants to trade after Christmas let me know.
Rich that sounds great.
Shinton, salient points there much appreciated. I'll probably be three beers in and think these yellow and red pieces look fine then I'll remember this post 🙂
I have the Technic 42053 Volvo excavator if anyone fancies a swap
I've got no lego to swap but will happily buy complete kits.
My family bought the Saturn V for my birthday yesterday. Took my time building it up yesterday evening and this morning. Brilliant!
Saturn V is 2/3 done.
I got the Lunar Lander. It is excellent.
The Lunar Lander is brilliant. Have re-organised some shelves to put them together. Totally different scale - but it looks great to have them displayed as a pair.
I’ve just started on the land rover 🙂
Pretty decent haul over Xmas.
MrsTH got the Dino skelingtons
‘89 Batmobile (our present to us)
911 RSR (already got, guess now we have a team...)
And the Leibherr for me.
Start back at work on the 6th, so hoping to make a dent...
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I’ve just started on the land rover 🙂
I got a Land Rover (42110) too. I've finished the chassis, probably going to rebuild it as right hand drive (which will basically mean starting from the beginning again) before I build the bodywork. It's a great model.
@edd interesting I never even gave a thought to the fact all lego cars are lhd ? You now have me wanting to build mine rhd.
I mean how difficult can it be ? Guess just a case of reversing some of the chassis build ?
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The steering is controlled by both a "hand of God" (HOG) and the steering wheel. I think that removing the HOG and converting to RHD (steering wheel only) would be reasonable simple. Keeping the HOG, which I intend to do, will mean rebuilding most of the chassis/ gearboxes as the gearbox driveshafts run down one side of the chassis and the HOG on the other... I imagine that someone has already described a solution on the interweb, but part of the challenge is working it out myself.
Ok I’m gonna check it out before I commit 🙂
Lego obsessed no sir 🙂
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Clearly the green Porsche is a Chinese copy as it’s only available in orange.But can you guess which of the others are hooky ?
I have a 911 RSR if anybody fancies a trade...