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I don't have time to look for the magazine in shops just before Christmas, but I've ordered it. It should arrive sometime next week.

No worries, I could easily be wrong, but time will tell. And you're right, the absence of purple since 42069 still hurts a lot :)

That is true, it is still speculation. But I don't recall seeing a small Technic set with so many recolored elements recently, especially to a color that was virtually absent from the theme before. We know the recolor slots are valuable to the teams/designers, so using them in an unlicensed set that could have any existing colors doesn't make sense unless those parts are planned to be used elsewhere.

He's younger and clearly has more free time than me, as he records the videos in both Hungarian and English :D My reviews are coming, a bit slowly but surely, have a lot of things on my plate nowadays.

The guy's main channel is in Hungarian with ~70k followers, recently he started to make English reviews as well.

I don't think they only do exclusive licensing deals, because other toymakers can have similar licensed products. CaDA released licensed F1 sets this year, TLG will most likely release the same soon. They both released cars with Pirelli tires at the same time, and both have Mercedes-AMG licensed vehicles.

How do you know they "lost" the license?

I wanted to look at some of your parts for 3D printing and to my surprise Shapeways has apparently gone out of business and the website is down. Do you happen to have another repository for the designs or are you planning to sell them on another platform?

39 pieces :D

I assume that they are not yet installed in the chassis at this point. They are supposed to be stacked in 8 groups like the V8, so I guess they are mounted where the engine supposed to be.

All the earlier life-size Technic cars had a metal frame for the chassis, had car wheels etc. The drivable ones like the Bugatti also had proper automotive parts in the drivetrain. Here's a screenshot from one of the videos shared by LEGO, this is underneath the LEGO skin. I guess we can see the non-LEGO battery and engine here too:

Nah, they say "Power function motors". Honestly, I think this was written by PR people and they don't really know Technic, these can be easily Powered Up motors. Here you can read the whole press release if you are interested. Unfortunately there's no video or photo evidence of the exact LEGO parts used, I try to get some clarification but can't promise much.

This is what they have in the press release: The build features an electric motor consisting of LEGO Technic Function batteries and an electric car battery, allowing it to travel further than any other LEGO model before it. The LEGO Technic engine consists of 8 motor packs, each consisting of 96 LEGO Power function motors, which means the car features a total of 768 LEGO motors. The 8 motor packs imitate the V8 seen in the original McLaren P1™. I reached out for clarification but didn't succeed yet, they practically repeated the same thing. I have no idea what "LEGO Technic Function batteries" are supposed to be, but I think besides the 768 Technic motors they used a proper electric motor, and also an EV battery, so the heavy lifting should be done by real automotive parts. I highly doubt the top speed of 40 mph was achieved by LEGO motors only, the Chiron could only do 20 km/h and that had 2304 LEGO motors.

You mean this moment? :)

TLG is gradually converting its factories to the new packaging method, the plan is to complete the changeover by 2025. There could be 2 factors - the first is the resistance, the faster the engine, the higher the resistance will be in the drivetrain, and we've already seen the consequences of that with the Defender. The other could be a simple perception thing, as you can easily distinguish between slow and moderately fast than between fast and super fast :)