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Especially if the outriggers lift the model AND it’s packed with useless, but weight-adding pieces...;)

I don't really agree. Outrigger speed of 42082 is not that bad. And the stabilizers in 42070 look nice and go pretty smooth, but are not completely aligned (front/back), which always results in LA-grinding... But I reserve my final judgment until I get my hands on this set.

Thanks Jim! Your reviews are always a pleasure to read, and in this case the "not so elaborate" doesn't hurt at all to me. With all that is said already about this model, you've made a nice balance between (beautiful) pics and (not too much) text. Plus I really appreciate the occasional old-school funny comments, probably best understood by boys in their early 40's... On a side note, this one is now a must-have for me. I've been on the fence for two years for the Porsche, finally got it for a nice price, so it would be odd to let this one pass...

I can confirm that my kids love playing with the BWE. Size must have something to do with it, but I think it’s mostly because of dropping bricks in buckets and watch them going all the way to the back, and then catching them with the mining truck. Had to buy a 42035 to keep them from fighting...;) 42070 was a favourite as well, but that would really have been a lot better if it was fully remote à la 8043. That would have justified the price tag better, too...

...associative thinking, but your comparison with 42043 gives it some pun, too...

After viewing 42082-B on a bigger screen I must say I like it, despite using the same undercarriage. I've never seen a model like this in Technic (or any Lego) before and the convoluted way the rope is used looks very interesting. I also suppose it has to be able to make some kind of sudden drop, I wonder if and how that will be done...

You have a point there!

It looks in fact like also the superstructure is the same, and just the boom is rebuilt. Which looks like a cheapo, though the functions seem pretty cool.

Because you’ve made your point perhaps? Dozens of times already?

When quoting a lengthy post with the purpose of asking critical/rhetorical questions, you'd better get your facts right. The box weighs around 6 kg, as mentioned in the Brickset review. Heavier than 42055, by a bit...

+1. I think we’ve seen more than enough for now. Patience is hard to come by these days...

Very nice, I wonder if Lego consulted him for the gearbox design of the Bugatti... And nice to see Alice Cooper is still alive and kicking

Perhaps this model as a whole is a teaser, because of the new pneumatic switches. I mean, TLG won’t develop a new switch to only use it in a medium sized model, so I suspect next year’s flagship will contain a lot more of them. Until then, that new switch might persuade a lot of people to buy this set, despite of only two pneumatic functions and other (debatable?) shortcomings.

+1

Looks like you’re right...thought I found something new, but alas. Although there still could be a cage between/behind the two laters of curved gear racks...

Could this part (looks like a bent axle/pin connector) be part of the bearing’s cage?

Make that one fifth, I know...?

On the one hand, yes. On the other hand, 8460's outriggers had no trouble at all lifting the machine...

Probably not. But with the right momentum, who knows? Would be very cool though...

Makes me wonder if they can lift the wheels from the ground. This set with all its features really looks like a great hommage to the good old 855

Well, 8070 is a supercar inname only. And for price-per-part ratio, 42083 seems to come pretty close...

So it’s more ‘DollarBricks’ for you then? That’s nice to know...;)

That’s something to consider, indeed. But looking at it, the distance between two black pins which are attached to the boom and the black pin attached to the LA seems bigger than one stud/hole. So it doesn’t look like a standard T-beam (which aren’t available in red I thought anyway)...

Yes I see, lol. But, how do you know there’s an optical illusion? All other things seem quite in proportion to me.

How would that not make sense? They’re pretty big parts. And the sticker on the boom is (almost) square. This fits perfectly on the center part of a 5x11 panel, and definitely not on a 3x11 panel. Which IMO adds another reason to believe the dog bones must be 3x7.