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Yeah, that is mechanically impressive! Nice work!

Engineering is all about balancing and compromising between large numbers of variables, isn't it! Good work!

Yep! Though I feel like we're usually all disappointed and bored with the winter wave, and even if we're disappointed, the summer wave is usually more interesting

Looks like a lot of fun!

I don't know about the British, but I'm pretty sure Canadian/American English would go with "dump truck"

Great choice with the Arocs! That was my first real Technic set, and even apart from nostalgia, it's just so good for the money. I'd definitely agree that the new lineup isn't compelling, but the great thing is that Technic doesn't generally have great resale value, so you can pick up the greatest hits from years past, often under MSRP

Those rims will look nice on some MOCs!

Wow! Interesting to see what appears to be a new product launch, without any marketing or mention of it anywhere I've been looking! Looks like a clever form factor

Awesome! So they're not going to keep it to just 4N-1 increments. Hopefully we'll see 13L and 5L eventually. Ironically, I was about 95% sure that the black one on the tail was a 9L, and I was getting all excited! Then I scroll down, see better pictures, and realize that it's an 11, but then I see that there's actually still a 9L in it, just in white!

Well, this gives me old Racers (well, Technic Racers) vibes! 8146, etc. Probably not in a good way, though

Yeah, I'd agree that there should be a good generic one; I just wonder if that's been TLG's rationale to not do it. Though I suppose they have the good-looking-yet-generic Defender rims at larger scale, so they should be able to get away with something like that for a smaller scale.

Very cool! I'm mostly familiar with these kinematics from Delta 3D printers, and they're just amazing to watch!

You sure are fast at finding info on new sets! Thanks for sharing

Very impressive!

I strongly second this question! It would be really neat if they made a new acute angle connector for that--I don't see any simple way for them to make that angle otherwise, and I'm not sure if something complicated would be strong enough for the application. I wonder if the issue is that these wheels are safely generic, while if they made something more realistic looking, people would start expecting it to be exactly realistic to the specific car, and would complain. In a way, these wheels are so bad that they're neither accurate nor inaccurate; they're just an abstract wheel. If they tried making something more specific, it would set expectations for accuracy unrealistically high. @Auroralampinen, if you just want to copy-paste something, 42205 Chevrolet Corvette Stingray should be fitting with the usual formatting standards. Thanks!

Nice, thanks!

Yeah, that'd be good if you could do that, @Auroralampinen. You'll just need to edit the first post and change the name. Thanks!

I don't see any problem with doing that--I reverse-engineered a model myself recently. Obviously, you can't claim the model as your own, but in my mind, the cost of buying instructions is to compensate for the work that went into creating the instructions, not for the right to enjoy the model itself. Plus, I doubt builders would care, since it's such a small minority who would go to that effort. And has been mentioned, it's totally unenforceable--once you post pictures of something online, you don't really have any say over what people build based off them.

That's fun to do an engine like that! Though I'd argue it might be a W9 variant, similar to these historical W18s? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/W18_engine (These Ws had only three banks of cylinders, as opposed to the four-bank ones that modern Bugattis had. I'm not sure why they get the same letter!)

Cool model! I like the brick-built body, and it's cool to see someone using the RC unit. I can't say I've seen that since Buwizz came to popularity, so it's neat to see it here!

Wow, lots of pretty cars! Almost too much to digest. I really like the mechanicals on the Citroen Ami 6, with the unique suspension, and the neat shift linkage!

I think this image here has the clearest view of these new suspension arms. It's hard to tell if there's anything weird attached to it on other sides, but I'd say there's basically just a 3L beam with a towball socket on the end, which should be super useful!

So it's probably only off by 1/16th of a rotation, or a half-tooth

That's a nice LBG parts pack! Not too many new parts, but it's nice for those panels to be more accessible. I actually haven't gotten any of those tractor tires yet, so that could be a good parts pack to pick up sometime!

Hmm, interesting! One one level, this looks rather uninspired (unless there's impressive mechanics inside), but at the same time, it's less stickered than the BMW, and less weird-looking than the Yamaha, so I'd consider this to be possibly the most attractive one yet. It is at least mildly interesting for it to have a V engine, with (maybe?) longer connecting rods and scale?