Major_Ton

With the Snowspeeder already confirmed, I so very much would like to see the MF return. I had the original one for a couples of days and sold it (misb) because I was stupid.

This looks great! Something BMW could launch as a special edition concept car. But a BMW and a V6 engine? It should always and forever be a straight 6 ;-)

Porsche is still about to launch the 911 991 GT2. This will have a spoiler and turbo intakes. My guess the Lego version will resemble the new GT2 and will launch it together with the real deal.

Yes it grooved my truffles

Well for what it's worth I now appreciate the Ewok Village set even more. I'm surprised to see it's around after it's being released in 2h 2013! Might be the longest lasting SW set ever?

This set already showed up in the Dutch s@h store for €279,99. It will be available on April the 30th and will be the 4th UCS available at the same time if TLG doesn't discontinue any other set soon. And I didn't even the count the 10236 Ewok's Village with that, which is also still available. There's too much to choose from!

In 2009 we got no RC, 2010 RC, 2011 no RC, 2012 RC, 2013 no RC, 2014 RC, 2015 no RC, so there might be a surprise waiting for us in 2016...?

Dit you use an additional batterypack to power all those motors?

Now with this set introduced (I'm only interested in UCS display sets, so this is a pass for me), will the UCS Sandcrawler retire soon?

Well the crane was already finished on Sunday (I'll post some pictures later on). I made a few minor mistakes along the way, all solved very quickly (I put on a black front bumper which needed to be DBG. I found that out when I started making the boom and missed a black beam. And in the superstructure I mirrorred an axle with gears so at first it ended up on the wrong side). All functions work as they should, no cracking or slipping gears and the boom slides smoothly in and out. All my doubts were for nothing, since this is a wonderful set. It's a very fun build and ones built this crane is HUGE. I love it!

The build is coming along quite rapidly! I started yesterday with this: Sorting it into this: Preparing myself by just having a look at this pile of paper... At this stage I was shure the build was almost ready! Only to be greatly mistaken... By now I was really greatfull for the advice of you'll that this is a great build. And there you have it. The first part is done. I left the plates unlocked so I can have a look at the gears when I want to. Preparing myself for the superstructure now!

Well guys you'll convinced me into opening the box of this bad boy and guess what? I got the version where there is one BIG instruction book instead of 6 separate ones. And holy crapper-di-crap... There sure is alot of Lego in that cramped box! So no investments, I'm here to build! I once had a 10179 Millennium Falcon, 10134 Y-Wing, 10178 motorized AT-AT and a 10174 AT-ST and sold them for the regualr Retail price MISB. That was one stupid mistake. I take comfort in the fact that the sets where sold to children who actually built the sets instead of fortune seekers. But just in case... I do have some Star Wars UCS sets stored to gain back some of my Lego investments ;-) ;-) :-) No it's time to build me a Mobile Crane MKII. Back from the dark ages for sure!

Thanks for all the reactions so far! Although I need to make up my own mind about it, I appreciate your opinions very much. In the meanwhile I couldn't help myself and bought a secondhand 9398 4x4 crawler and modded it with some parts I ordered through Bricklink :-) Not very original, but great fun none the less. I guess I'll start building the 42009 next week! The 42042 and 42043 will follow shortly. The 42030 will be bought as an investment to earn some money back ;-) Thanks again!

Fellow brickers, A couple of weeks back I bought a 42009 Crane MKII new in box to bring me back to Lego Technic after no less than 19 years! A former flagship looked to be a nice way to get back into complex Lego constructions ;-) I haven't come by to build it yet and after reading a bit more here on the forums about this, I'm having doubts wether to build this set (the final result seems to be a bit of an anti climax considering the clunky functions and not being able to lift anything more than a few feathers?) or sell it and buy something else like the 42043 MB Arocs or maybe even the 42042 Crawler Crane, which somehow I found to be very appealing for a sweat price. Opinions vary ofcourse, but which set do you think is the most fun to build?

Prices might finally collapse on the first UCS MF if they release another one. Bursting the bubble!