kevinb120

I don't usually buy Star Wars as I go big AFOL with all the usual old man (51yo) 'big stuff', HP(anything 'grown up'), all the larger Ninjago City items and dragons, modulars, whatever the latest 'Titanic' is, creator expert everything, Ideas, etc. The kids get the Friends or MCU wish list items destined for the eventual bin of stor-age(my 13yo has ZERO interest in SW except the Mandalorian). My 7yo daughter and I started playing Lego Skywalker Saga recently so I was feeling froggy and got some system scale sets and her and I LOVE them. I'm not going down the very grey rabbit hole of UCS stuff, I just have the Y-Wing as my only SW set previously. I know people complain about the new smaller TIE and XWing but I got those and think they're fantastic, and we're definitely getting swooshy with em. Just got the latest Falcon, Shuttle, and tracked down the Speeder and Y-wing on evilbay, and just ordered the AT-AT. Say what you will but I will say it's darn fun with the new batch and they're quite durable. Looks like I have a New Hope with an interested young Jedi. Sure beats having to stop to put the fancier Ninjago dragons back together every 3 minutes(NO THE BONE DRAGON'S WINGS DON'T FLAP!). Really like the return to basics balance of this round. So just this month: -Falcon -2x X-wings -2x TIE -Shuttle From the 'bay -Land Speeder -Y-Wing on the way: -AT-AT -Vader's TIE vs A-wing Fun times, don't think I've even spent nearly as much as even one of the current UCS monster dust collectors. And definitely more fun than installing the light sets in Modulars/Disney and HP castles. I just have to remember to not kneel on the floor for so long! Good times. Apparently Benny is part of the Alliance now too. That game coming out on GamePass got me buying just like it was supposed to do, but whateva, I still kept the boxes as per protocol... Lego turns cash into fun and is worth more anyway as long as you don't loose parts and put the stickers on straight.

42042 is pretty cheap right now for sure. 42039 is also easy to find on discount, and gives a lot of white panels. There are also half a dozen builds out there right now for '39, if you want to get some practice it's a lot of kit for ~$100. 42037 can also be had for under $40. It's not a great set by itself, but yields more tires, panels , and suspension goodies. You can get 37/39 for under $150 now and get a pretty good base of parts for r/c car/truck builds and add from there, rather then paying stupid money for an older "collectable" kit with older parts. And 42 on sale yields some power functions and a ton of gears and tracks for less then 10 cents a piece. Having ordered 30 already, combined with just 42 that's a heck of a lot of goodies to get started if you can live with the colors for moc projects.

Just fantastic that they went with this one, loved the look the second I saw it

I didn't put it together from the thread title, glad I clicked on it! Awesome build! I need to start going through my grey parts inventory asap!

I would imagine it would be around as long as wall e, maze, ecto 1, or bb theory. I sure hope this sets a precedent for brakes being modeled on future cars.

The adventure bike is bmw's most 'naked' model. Otherwise they must surely have a full set of extra blue fairings for any modern b model version. Most of their bikes are fully clad in bodywork.

Well I suspect it won't be a bmw chopper... hopefully a classic model.

I was in the Lego shop yesterday with no intention to get one but they had two. I saw it and snatched it like a 4yo snatches a stuffed toy.. they need brake discs like this for the bike models!

I love it when a MOC comes together.... Great work!

I'll give you that, the tracked racer looks to be a good kit. I'm not big on the rc Lego(outside of construction equipment)with brushless 1/10 trucks and 600 size helis in the other hobby room... I would say the tracked racer is the only thing so far that seems like a proper follow up to this year, unless that ship looks a LOT better without all the cumbersome faux effects in the pic. I'm getting the BMW regardless because technic motorcycle. I may pop for the tracked racer if it looks like it could parlay into rc tanks

This moc should be a creator/ideas set in pale green or blue yesterday! Outstanding use of parts to get these beautiful curves. New tires(tlc would never kit this genius solution) and chrome headlight/mirror parts and call it done. Fantastic!

I'm sorry but even if they are tweaking these a little bit, this new collection for 2017 is rubbish. I'll buy the BMW because I love technic bikes and there's usually quite a few moc alternatives to build, hopefully the b model is better(like a classic bike!?). Plus most bikes are at the same 'scale' with the wheels and they can be easily mixed and matched. The jet is horrible. Good news is I can focus on getting all of the top 2015/2016 sets as this seems to be the pinnacle of technic, with such lovely models like like the claas, and the bargain price champion fire plane.

Like a delta wing, but with twin vertical stabilizers? Hard to imagine without canards

May want to consider the 365gtb Daytona as it would be an even more Lego friendly shape for a classic front engine Ferrari. Early versions had a clear acrylic band on the nose before later models got pop up headlights,could make a neat detail doable in lego.

We call it neo-eclectic here as it is just throwing everything at one house to make it look 'fancy' to others. With no regard to a specific theme or style(other then wealthy builders laughing all the way to the bank). The county I live in here in the US is very wealthy, and there are hordes of these newer mcmansion neighborhoods with 4000+ square foot homes, usually around around a golf course with a 'gated' community, where the 'gated' part only extends at the front road entrance to the sidewalks, half the time they don't even pay for an actual guard to man it. Most communities are completely cleared before building, so they tend to be grass islands in the middle of what was a forest or farm, 'Over the Hedge' covers this pretty accurately in the kid's movie :) You will see nods to Victorian homes, combined with stone houses, colonial elements, and attempts at post-modern elements in the rear all mish-mashed into the same house; and made out of chipboard OSB with minimum materials-and people can't get enough of them apparently. Most feature the same unused theater rooms and home gyms. With their vast square footage, rarely do you see one properly furnished and decorated, with virtually empty 1500 sf finished basements common. When it comes time to decorate, very few wish to spend the costs to re-do thousands of square feet properly. $1m 5000 square foot home decorated from lumber liquidators and target. But hey, government jobs abound and 4% interest, why not go big? Buy a mcmansion and lease a mercedes and figure out how to afford the rest later. Here they run from $650k-$1.5M+ and are everywhere. Having worked in a few thousand of these homes, even with unlimited wealth I would never even consider one a 'home', I'm more of a Frank Loyd Wright kinda-guy with a properly done post-modern one of a kind home that incorporates the existing landscape/wild life, and much of the decorating clearly built into the home, let alone actually owning some sizable property along with house itself. Amazing how many of these properly done homes reside just a few hundred yards from the latest and greatest 'drop a BLU82 daisy cutter and break out the cardboard' neighborhoods. Most with names like STONERIDGE ESTATES or the likes on a huge road sign containing the only real architectural stone in the neighborhood. Doubtful you'll ever see this stuff in the EU. Although it is also trending now to have planned-neighborhood 'euro' style condo/shopping complexes here randomly scattered about. They attempt the instant 'town center' approach with the hopes of mom and pop niche retailers simply showing up suddenly to fill the stores with an organic wonderland. Apparently there isn't much thought given to locations as most of the entry level storefronts sit vacant for years other then the obligatory starbucks and cell phone retailers, as there's usually a mega-mall somewhere nearby. So you enter your trendy million dollar condo every day between a couple empty stores with faded NOW LEASING signs.