1974 Posted January 20, 2015 Posted January 20, 2015 I hope those black squares under the wing are not passenger windows Quote
Ondra Posted January 20, 2015 Posted January 20, 2015 Some info from brickfanatics http://brickfanatics.co.uk/london-toy-fair-2015-report/ Price for arocs is 170 pounds. Quote
Omikron Posted January 20, 2015 Posted January 20, 2015 I hope those black squares under the wing are not passenger windows Some of them ARE Quote
Conor Hyland Posted January 20, 2015 Posted January 20, 2015 About the fire plane, what would its number be? 42040 cause it cant be 42041(thats the race truck) TLG missed out 42040 or did I miss something? According to brickset, they have it listed as 42040 yes. Quote
XAxles Posted January 20, 2015 Posted January 20, 2015 Would be so cool! Holy Hockanee, that.But will the real thing have a small bay for 1x1 studs to simulate water? Quote
andythenorth Posted January 20, 2015 Posted January 20, 2015 (edited) /me predicts future conversation with wife. "How much did that cost?" "£170" "I see, and what's special about it?" "Pneumatics 2.0. Longer cylinders" "How much longer?" "2 studs" "£170?" And in recent history, fire plane with bay for 1 stud water cylinders (is a great City set, kids love it): http://brickset.com/...09-1/Fire-Plane Edited January 20, 2015 by andythenorth Quote
Ondra Posted January 20, 2015 Posted January 20, 2015 /me predicts future conversation with wife. "How much did that cost?" "£170" "I see, and what's special about it?" "Pneumatics 2.0. Longer cylinders" "How much longer?" "2 studs" "£170?" And in recent history, fire plane with bay for 1 stud water cylinders (is a great City set, kids love it): http://brickset.com/...09-1/Fire-Plane First rule in lego hobby is-Dont tell real price for big set .It will be interesting how many pieces will arocs have, mobile crane have 2606 for price 150 pounds, Im expecting same piece count, because pneumatic can be pricey. Quote
1974 Posted January 20, 2015 Posted January 20, 2015 /me predicts future conversation with girlfriend. "How much did that cost?" "£170" "I see, and what's special about it?" "Pneumatics 3.0. Longer cylinders" "How much longer?" "2 studs" "£170?" "Yeah, but I sold the rest on BL and made +£100, here go get yourself something nice" "<kissing sound>" There, fixed it for ya Quote
Conor Hyland Posted January 20, 2015 Posted January 20, 2015 is the new crawler crane scale to the excavator 42006? The body seems to be more in size with 8043 (apart from the big boom), although it looks like it has a few more track links on each track. The cab however looks smaller when compared to the rest of the model, which suggests to me that the real thing is in fact a lot bigger than the average excavator size in the real world. At the minute we can only see what appears to be 1 L motor (although there is plenty of blank space for other stuff on the orange part of the box), which could mean a gearbox to switch between a few functions. Nobody knows what other functions they will add to that blank orange part of the box. 3: is the fire plane the third and final set of 2H set 2015 or are there others that haven't been leaked yet? Brickset have just the 3 models listed for 2015 2H, if that is anything to go by. Quote
Omikron Posted January 20, 2015 Posted January 20, 2015 (edited) /me predicts future conversation with wife. "How much did that cost?" "£170" "I see, and what's special about it?" "Pneumatics 2.0. Longer cylinders" "How much longer?" "2 studs" "£170?" And in recent history, fire plane with bay for 1 stud water cylinders (is a great City set, kids love it): http://brickset.com/...09-1/Fire-Plane Pssssst...pssssst *whispers* - at some point a divorce may seem as an option Edited January 20, 2015 by Omikron Quote
andythenorth Posted January 20, 2015 Posted January 20, 2015 (edited) which could mean a gearbox to switch between a few functions. Pure guessing, maybe adjustable track width? Sariel did this in one of his cranes. Tedious if a manually cranked feature, only needs one axle going through the turntable. Might be bad on carpet (tracks don't like sideways motion, drags them off the rollers). Motorised winch seems obvious, manual winches are boring. Motorised slew is a bit less common afaict in technic cranes. And eh, you could have someone's eye out with a rotating boom... Motorised boom up / down? Edited January 20, 2015 by andythenorth Quote
Conor Hyland Posted January 20, 2015 Posted January 20, 2015 Speaking of B model, do you think that Lego would ever do a rope excavator? The only other things I can think of would be a pipe layer, a bulldozer looking thing with a boom on one side, like so: The only other thing I can think of is a bucket wheel excavator, using the pieces from the grab as buckets. Some nice suggestions there. A bucket wheel excavator could be an option, although there wouldn't be much modification needed between the 2 models. The b model could be absolutely anything with tracks. Looking back at the b model for 42006, did anyone predict that it was going to be a tracked tractor with a fork on the front and a plough / ripper on the back? Sariel did this in one of his cranes. I love his videos with the hamster. Pure guessing, maybe adjustable track width? Tedious if a manually cranked feature, only needs one axle going through the turntable. Might be bad on carpet (tracks don't like sideways motion, drags them off the rollers). Motorised winch seems obvious, manual winches are boring. Motorised slew is a bit less common afaict in technic cranes. And eh, you could have someone's eye out with a rotating boom... Motorised boom up / down? With 42043 being the flagship for 2015 2H, I'd say we can probably assume that the crawler crane will only have a few functions motorised, but which ones? My guess would be the lifting of the grab and the up and down of the boom. That top pulley for the up and down of the boom doesn't appear to have any motor or gears attached, but the winch for lifting the boom could be below that in the body of the crane. Quote
Cumulonimbus Posted January 20, 2015 Posted January 20, 2015 The first association I have with a "fire plane" is the Canadair CL 215 or CL-415. This aircraft has been on my MOC list for a while, so I hope TLG has done a lot of the work for me . Not the prettiest of planes, but I like its though and rugged looks. Quote
1974 Posted January 20, 2015 Posted January 20, 2015 Looks a bit like the last helicopter ... and that white one looks like the last plane It's probably going to be a sub 300 piece 15cm mini model Quote
Boulderer Posted January 20, 2015 Posted January 20, 2015 The first association I have with a "fire plane" is the Canadair CL 215 or CL-415. This aircraft has been on my MOC list for a while, so I hope TLG has done a lot of the work for me . And a perfect fuselage shape to replicate with Lego. Quote
Ondra Posted January 20, 2015 Posted January 20, 2015 Info from brickset, arocs have 2700 pieces. Mobile crane is 110£ and boom is about 1 (!) meter long!seaplane is white and red. Quote
1974 Posted January 20, 2015 Posted January 20, 2015 What? The lattice boom is about 4-5x 15L liftarms Quote
AndroTech Posted January 20, 2015 Posted January 20, 2015 (edited) As HUW from Brickset stated: Truck is the flagship 170 pounds, 2700 pieces. Motor, 4 pneu, pneu pump, tipping back, grab arm, new scoop pieces. Cab is white. Merc logo printed on 2x2 boat stud. So ... we will get biggest (by pieces) Technic set ever ... can't wait ... . Edited January 20, 2015 by AndroTech Quote
1974 Posted January 20, 2015 Posted January 20, 2015 And he reports a new panel/"boom piece" sorta thing on the crane arm. Looks very specialized (that's the cool version of <insert that tiresome argument>, btw) Hey, pretty crappy that EB won't allow that word ; juni0rized Are there any Jack Stone reviews here? Quote
aminnich Posted January 20, 2015 Posted January 20, 2015 Whoa 170 pounds of technic!! haha A specialized piece sounds fun Quote
Cwetqo Posted January 20, 2015 Posted January 20, 2015 Well, they used trick. Boom is very long, so, if shown in full size, details would not be well visible, so they put one (or two) lattice sections out and picture the crane lifting that segment. Boom looks like it has 5-6x15L sections which is around 60-70 centimeters, but they are showing picture with height marked together with crane, which would make it close to 1 meter. Quote
1974 Posted January 20, 2015 Posted January 20, 2015 Mercedes logo is printed on a boatstud, great for 8110 owners! First boatstud print? Man, I'm gonna get loads of that truck and flog the useless parts of BL Free pneumatics + profit = ca-ching!! Well, they used trick. Boom is very long, so, if shown in full size, details would not be well visible, so they put one (or two) lattice sections out and picture the crane lifting that segment. Boom looks like it has 5-6x15L sections which is around 60-70 centimeters, but they are showing picture with height marked together with crane, which would make it close to 1 meter. I don't there's six 15L liftarms? 5 max. But with the extra lattice part on the hook shown on the box + crane body, yeah it *might* be one meter, but that's a rather poor way of measuring it and wouldn't fly in the real world at all Quote
m0dulo Posted January 20, 2015 Posted January 20, 2015 (edited) Crawler cranes on trucks Is that like Sariel's Mini on crawler tracks? I'm hoping Sariel will mod his 8-legged MINI Cooper by adding a rail gun on top of a crane that is mounted on the roof. Did he just say that! Oh no he di'int! Oh wait, yes he did. Seriously though, I'm looking forward to the crawler crane. I just hope it isn't yellow. (Edit: I just caught with with later posts and remembered rumors about blue and white.) Edited January 20, 2015 by m0dulo Quote
Saberwing40k Posted January 20, 2015 Posted January 20, 2015 Somebody said something about a new panel on the crane boom, is that maybe the end piece of the Arocs arm, or are they referring to the crawler crane? If that's the case, then the crawler crane in the preliminary image is very unfinished. I hope we do get a better lattice. Quote
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