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Here's a post about different tires that will fit the Lego 44772 Wheels, the same ones that come with the 9398: http://www.eurobrick...75#entry1339109

Yea Mahjqa has some pretty sweet MOCS. I wanna try and create the Ghost in the Shell one myself: http://rebrickable.com/mocs/mahjqa/tachikoma

I can only speak for Seattle, WA area. Right now it's $119 at TRU (with this weeks $20 off LEGO in stores).

Looks like it would be pretty fun making small movies with Lego Technic sets :-) I want to see them re-shoot that with a PFed 42000 set, although not sure it could get up to enough speed to do all those sweet flips.

Hmm, I think you might be on to something with the "buy originals" to get the high quality A Models instructions Since if they just cared about space they would have did the minimum size possible while keeping some sort of details, like the one I created using my scans and massive compression in photoshop. But it's all a moot point, I just need to get my hands on more originals so I can remedy this Official TLG PDF: 9.5MB Personal Scanned PDF: 33MB Super Compressed Personal Scan (below): 4.4MB

TRU is having a $20 off on $75+ Lego Purchase, excludes Ninjago sets. In Store ONLY - Ends March 2nd 2013 Might be area specific, I'm in the Seattle, WA Area.

I just happened to go to TRU today to pickup the 9396 Helicopter and noticed that I got $20 off on my receipt. Thought I'd check this out and noticed they are offering $20 off for any Lego set $75+. The only exception is on Ninjago sets. I'm sure this is area specific, I'm in the Great Seattle, WA area. Might be a way to get a little discount on the 42000 set.

It's like those gasoline paint jobs, different angles show different colors. In this case a certain angle and the seat will change shape, very impressive.

Regarding those PDF instructions, I've found a bunch of the A Models (the instructions that come in the box) are usually the worst. It baffles me that they can't turn their digital copies of the instructions into PDFs with higher quality images (aka, being able to see the holes on black pieces). I've personally started cutting up some of my own instructions, scanning them, and will put them online when I find a good place to do so. TLG vs Personal Scan

I just got back into legos as well, and I recently purchased just about all the ones that Tom (TBS) had outlined in his post, just missing the 9396 set. I'm also going to pickup all the sets from this year, then maybe start picking and choosing after that. Just got my 42000 in the mail today, so going straight to building the B Model for that one (Race Truck).

Looking pretty good, can't wait to get mine delivered in a few days. Although I think I'm gonna build the B-Model first.

That's pretty awesome. I love how fluid those wings move. Thanks for sharing.

Besides building the A & B Models for each of them and learning different techniques. I'm also interested in combining the brains of the NXT brick to the awesomeness of these sets. For example I wanted to add some brains to the 8043 - Motorized Excavator for something as simple as automatically choose which actuator to turn to pickup a item in front of it. But before that I'm gonna start with a simple PF controlled SUGV.

Hello my name is John Sanford and I'm originally from a little island in Alaska, now live in the Seattle, WA area. I remember playing with legos with my cousins, I only had a few myself but they had a TON of them. Being from a native fishing village we created a ton of the different types of boats everyone owned on the island, seine boats, bow pickers, etc. Recently bought the Lego Mindstorm set and that sparked my interest in all things Technic. Picked up a few of the larger sets, some small ones, and a bit of random bricks here and there; which I have on my Rebrickable Profile. Well, that's it for now.

Update: See previous post, it was moved from General Discussion.