LEGO Technic Dinosaur at The LEGO House

[Bublehead]

25 minutes ago, Maaboo35 said:

disassemble my way out of its stomach

You mean it wasn’t form locked? Wow!

[Jim]

2 hours ago, agrof said:

Do You happen to know how many pieces does it include?

Does it have a steel frame as the usual big LEGO sculptures, or do the Technic pieces actually do the job? In second case I am super impressed.

I don't know the part count. It might have been mentioned last year, but I don't recall.

I am pretty sure it indeed has a metal frame.

2 hours ago, grum64 said:

When can we expect Jim’s build & review? 

In 2027 when I am done building 

This is what I had in mind for my Mindstorms Robot project 

[Bublehead]

298,431 parts according to google

[lcvisser]

I love how it's V8 powered... multiple times... Dinosaur burning dinosaur bones 

[grum64]

49 minutes ago, Jim said:

In 2027 when I am done building 

This is what I had in mind for my Mindstorms Robot project 

  

[Jurss]

9 hours ago, Bublehead said:

298,431 parts according to google

So just some 30 000 EUR price tag for next Technic ultimate set :D

[Victor Imaginator]

Photos are much more detailed than what i've seen before. Thanks for sharing) Looks like some weird fractal, but it's not

[Jim]

37 minutes ago, Victor Imaginator said:

Photos are much more detailed than what i've seen before. Thanks for sharing) Looks like some weird fractal, but it's not

Indeed not real fractals, but I absolutely agree that these sub-assemblies are very similar.

[agrof]

Thanks for the answers guys! 

Maybe this topic is good to be linked here:

 

[Jim]

9 minutes ago, agrof said:

Thanks for the answers guys! 

Maybe this topic is good to be linked here:

Thanks. Merged the topics.

[Aleh]

Wow! Hi-res pictures rulez!! So beautiful! I wonder how many hours were spent to design and build it.

Lego factory was producing parts for it 24/7  I bet 

[Jim]

Fun fact: at some point TLG informed if we had members who were skilled in building in multiple systems, so Duplo, System and Technic. I reckon they informed because of this project.

We relayed some names, but I never heard the outcome. Maybe @Milan can shed a light.

[doggo]

In one of @Jim's images there's a bit of visible studded beams. Maybe the structure is made of those?

[RohanBeckett]

anyone got instructions? or LDD?

[Zerobricks]

On 6/6/2018 at 10:47 AM, Jim said:

Fun fact: at some point TLG informed if we had members who were skilled in building in multiple systems, so Duplo, System and Technic. I reckon they informed because of this project.

We relayed some names, but I never heard the outcome. Maybe @Milan can shed a light.

 

On 6/7/2018 at 2:20 AM, RohanBeckett said:

anyone got instructions? or LDD?

Bit of a bump, was just browsing my old models and actually found the LDD files of the eyes and claws, which didn't change much from my original idea to the finished model. That's about it for my contribution.

[blutzmeister]

Hey,

I am guy from Belgium.  I'm looking for the building plan from one of the three dino's from Lego House in Denmark.  Is there someone that can help me, to get these so I can build it at home.

Thanks

Gauthier Dupont

 

 

 

[Jim]

Are you talking about the big dinosaurs?!

[blutzmeister]

Yes, the one that in Legohouse stands.  I want to built the red one. I love that one.

Greetz

Gauthier Dupont 

[Jim]

Lol, okay. They are custom built and don’t come with instructions. And probably half a million parts or so. I think set 40366 is more feasible  

[HydroWorld Outlook]

Dang, that dinosaur is pretty cool. I didn't know it had piston engines and buckets and banana gears and all those other pieces.
Realistically, though, for a model of this size, there's no possible way that thing is entirely built from just LEGO Technic pieces. Most likely, the dinosaur is built from parts on the outside to make it look like its built from just LEGO pieces, but in reality, its probably hollow with some giant pole or structure hidden inside of it to keep it stable. Yes, its only a static structure, but still, plastic alone isn't strong enough to support all that weight, because that would be way too good to be true.

[Jim]

Yup. Most of the big models have a metal interior structure.

[aeh5040]

You can also see a solid brick-built internal structure behind the Technic skin. (There is a good view inside the mouth). I'm guessing this is solid and glued, built around the steel frame.

[Aleh]

Dinosaur aged topic about dinosaur was bumped :)
I was lucky to observe then last spring in Lego House :)

 

About instructions - I wonder how many pages/Gigabytes the file would take theoretically.

And which BL shop sells metal frames for it?)
 

[Aurorasaurus]

14 minutes ago, Aleh said:

About instructions - I wonder how many pages/Gigabytes the file would take theoretically.

And which BL shop sells metal frames for it?)
 

We could probably make a reasonably accurate estimate based on the repeated subassemblies and such. If anyone knew the part count (I havent read the whole thread) that would help too. As for the metal frame, I'm sure with enough budget anything is possible- maybe a whole metal dinosaur! Where would you put it...