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Ok. Let's wait for the first review. One wheel drive would be very unfortunate for a licensed race car model.

Front axle is reddish brown, back axle is lbg. The lifestyle pic is misleading.

And now we have cheaper, foggy transparent parts that get easily scratched. All for cost-saving and sustainability reasons. Source: promobricks.de

@VBBN You are not the only one who is pissed off about badly scratched transparent parts. I've sent LEGO customer service several complaints including pictures with scratched windshields or other new transparent panels with no reply. It gets more frequent due to the new material being softer than the PC (poly carbonate) material used before and because parts are loosely packed together with sharp ABS parts. My Fiat 500 and the 2020 printed Speed Champions windshields were scratched, my Haunted House windows, even smaller Super Heroes cockpit parts. I don't understand why LEGO doesn't pack them in a separate bag especially the huge front windows for display sets. This new material for transparent parts also makes them look foggy and cheap looking, but LEGO said they changed it to achieve their sustainability goals for 2030 and that sadly we won't get the old material back. It's probably much more a cost saving reason since the old PC material required higher injection temperature and pressure, a slightly different sized mould (than for the same opaque element made of ABS) and these would also wear out quicker because PC has a higher friction coefficient. That's why it's illegal to stick e.g. a light-saber bar into a transparent cone piece. A child won't have enough force to get them separated.

Did anyone notice TLG silently updated the instructions August 1st and next production batches to fix the engine crankshaft and pistons which caused jamming? I'm building my truck just now (136S0) and it contains the parts as shown in the picture. Runs super smoothly, but firing order is still unrealisticly 1-2-3-4.

Curious that Max Bersinger AG also leaked info/pictures of 2015 and 2017 LEGO sets and no license to sell was revoked then. Seeing the pictures, I am excited for the new parts and finally new tires in Technic sets. The only thing missing is a new tire for the bigger super cars with realistic thread pattern. And 2in1 is always welcome even if it's only applied to the smaller sets. So far the Osprey battery box will be missing from 1H2021 sets. Edit: Things I noticed: 1. The new Jeep 42122 tires will be used in the City tractor set 60287 as well. 2. The C+ Sand Buggy 42124 has 5x11x1 tapered panel in red or dark red. Maybe reused in Ferrari 3. The hovercraft has dbg 6x6 radar dishes not Toa Kopaka Mata shields at the back 4. 42123 McLaren Senna the hood has a new lbg fairing 2x7? similar to #21/22 fairing with pins and the Jeep has it in yellow. The 12L blue soft axle is nice and only been used in 1999 and 2001. Some sticker cover two 1x4 thin liftarms which is unfortunate. P.S. The blue Creator 3in1 Motorcycle has Spike Prime wheels.

Try on The Brothers Brick ;)

Don't think anyone posted this on EB yet, but there is a review already available for 75318 The Child (so far in German): https://www.stonewars.de/reviews/lego-star-wars-75318-the-child-review/

OK, this gearbox mod just seems to be as simple as can be. Just needs 3x z8 gears and taking out one of the dbg 3L beams. Credit goes to Huw who posted it today: https://brickset.com/article/52890/fixing-the-osprey Although this could theoretically happen so maybe not so effective:

Yes, it will fit. Someone could also try the use of a z8+z24 clutch gear (3:1) next to the motor. This is normally used in PF upgrades.

Yeah, in a rescue version torsion catapult or crossbow

Yes, because it's softer plastic. But it would not fit since it's 3L and you need the 2L length. Also the 8z gears are pretty soft compared to a 12 or 20 gear. Imagine if TLG would have used the old type 8z gear without the reinforcement. Instant failure for sure! Never mind, the type 2 gear has the same performance as the old gear. Fun fact: the 12/20 1st stage gearing means the first z8 gear takes up about 8.8 N⋅cm (max. torque of C+ L-Motor) *1.6 = 14.7 N⋅cm when it pretty much starts to slip. So no wonder it deforms at high loads over time. With a PF L-Motor you would only get max. 11 N⋅cm. So all the re-bricks with PF might just work fine. Luckily the PF-XL motor doesn't fit :)

I didn't even realize that there IS an overload fail safe for the blades in case they hit something, until I saw the video: https://www.brothers-brick.com/2020/07/30/lego-technic-42113-bell-boeing-v-22-osprey-review/#more-214584

It's not a bug, it's a feature. Yes, the blades cannot spin with horizontal engines at take-off and the LEGO ones are actually shorter than on the real aircraft. Max angle is about 45° for ground clearance.

The new rotor blades are 19 long so the 16 long cannot be too long. You can use 3x 62743 in combination with 32125 or 44374 and 2L axles.

Yes. Just search "osprey" on lepinworld.com

Lepin did a good job and already copied all files from @efferman and pictures of the Osprey and show a release date of October 2020. How stupid, they even stole the rendering pic I posted here with the half finished model. Not even bothering to change the colors to complete gray.

I don't understand either I just used auto-translate. Yes, there is a chance some axles can stick out too much and touch gears, but what he is saying is, that the tripple z8 gears are not intended for high torque which they get cause all functions run through them first. They probably got pre-damaged by allowing the end-stop clutches engage too long before shifting to neutral, nevertheless the motor has to struggle much more due to no gear reduction at the blades. They don't need to spin so fast for a safe play function anyway and previous Technic helicopters never had such fast spinning powered rotors.

The blades will spin almost 3 times slower. Just use a YT review video and adjust playback speed.

And another one bites the dust. Same issue with the rotor blade function. The gears can't handle the torque. Let's hope LEGO sees the reviews and brings out a properly functioning tilt rotor plane (this time w/o a license). YT Review by GooberReboot (RUS)

Yes, you are right. I miscalculated. The first mod makes the ratio 1.66:1 and both mods 2.77:1. So this will lead to more torque on the output and less on the input meaning no more damaged z8 gear as described by the reviews.

Cool, thanks for sharing. Could you also try my mod without the further reduction at the engines? Maybe it's enough to have 1:2.77 reduction instead of 1:4.63

I also read on another thread here that the new z12 and z20 gears have some friction issues due to rough edges (burrs). Could lead to additional strain. Please check the edges and if they rattle in manual mode. I also noticed this when modeling it in Studio. There is no room for error and axles tend to move over time.

How about this idea? The grey part is an L liftarm to offer some suport on the beam below it. The 2 red 3L pins with axle replaced by 2 blue 3L pins.

They would, but the connections have some free-play, the wings are heavy and the universal joints have very little clearance to the red connectors (at least in 3D from what I see). Maybe CV-Joints could be used instead of universal joints. Would have been preferred anyway for constant rotation speed.