dan1el

Please provide some link which demonstrates this. I just searched youtube for "pneumatic lego excavator" and I haven't seen anything which is self contained (not tethered with pneumatic hoses) and which objectively outperforms 8043. That is to say: from all such excavators that I've seen on youtube, none of them can consistently raise the boom faster than 8043, and that is saying something because 8043 is slow. Of course, there are some which are faster when you leave them to build up pressure for 30s, but that is not very meaningful. I suppose the crane posted here with 16 cylinders is an example of something that is more powerful than what would be sensibly possible with LAs, but that is more because of the fact that it is easier to combine 16 pneumatic cylinders than 16 LAs, not because pneumatics are more powerful than LAs in models of the same scale.

You can download Blender for free. In terms of render quality, the cycles renderer can easily produce renders as good as this video or better (the limiting factor tends to be the amount of detail on the bricks). Blender is definitely also capable of the physics in this video, but I don't know how easy it is in Blender vs in 3ds max. Here is an example cycles render: http://www.blenderna...o_Bulldozer.jpg

I don't think there are pneumatics. In the new video the bottom left text looks more like "2 in 1".

I wonder what that white text says on the bottom left of the box. It does not look like "2 in 1", but that could be because of camera movement or compression artifacts. Hopefully it says "pneumatics".