3 hours ago, Ngoc Nguyen said:

According to Timoonn's picture, 400-500 pieces are going into some sort of cave sides and rocks. The whole main machine just doesn't look big or dense enough to reach 4000 pieces.

Is it possible the grey 2x4 bricks in the picture are merely set dressing to show the average person that yes, this is actually Lego?

There's plenty of room for 4000 pieces if 2500 are black pins...

Edited April 14, 20195 yr by ukbajadave

1 minute ago, ukbajadave said:

Is it possible the grey 2x4 bricks in the picture are merely set dressing to show the average person that yes, this is actually Lego?

There's plenty of room for 4000 pieces if 2500 are black pins...

I also think there just for show and not in the set. 

12 minutes ago, Lh_Dredger said:

I also think there just for show and not in the set. 

Mm. Like the rock face that was shown in the 42055 demonstration video.

3 hours ago, Lh_Dredger said:

I also think there just for show and not in the set. 

If you look at the last hi-res pic, there are some bits in the bucket on the "BI"

yes there are some technic bricks in the bucket. But not that much, like 15-20 pieces. I just see it later, after the picture was new relinkt.

we just can hope that there are not that much useless pieces just for some „load“ in the bucket...

Edited April 14, 20195 yr by Lh_Dredger

I don't know if it already had been mentioned here, but those LA look like it's a new mold/design, and not just an extension of the current LA's, also the tracks have the new big sprocket wheels, all good things to modify cranes and track bases, just enough to modify the booms of 42009 and 42082 and to modify the tracks of 42042, the last 2 LA's I can use to modify 8043.

That liebherr excavator is reallyu a must buy for 2 boxes. I can hardly wait

Edited April 14, 20195 yr by gvo25

4 minutes ago, gvo25 said:

I don't know if it already had been mentioned here, but those LA look like it's a new mold/design, and not just an extension of the current LA's

They looks like elongated versions of the current model to me. But I suppose we'll see more soon.

Edited April 14, 20195 yr by Maaboo35

27 minutes ago, gvo25 said:

also the tracks have the new big sprocket wheels

Which come in 42095:


https://www.bricklink.com/v2/catalog/catalogitem.page?P=42529

11 minutes ago, M_longer said:

Which come in 42095:

The sprockets in 42100 look to be DBG.

The new LA's looks to be 17 studs long full retracted, including brackets. The current LA's are 13 studs retracted - 18 extended. 

I suppose the new LA's will be 24 studs when extended.

7 minutes ago, Maaboo35 said:

The sprockets in 42100 look to be DBG.

They have the mold now...

18 minutes ago, Maaboo35 said:

The sprockets in 42100 look to be DBG.

Yes they are  just hope we will get black ones very soon (next year)

I must say that all these bigger, longer, larger parts is an interesting development...
What giant sets can we expect in the future?

6 minutes ago, coinoperator said:

I must say that all these bigger, longer, larger parts is an interesting development...
What giant sets can we expect in the future?

Don't encourage TLG... 

Bigger motors like that new spike thing

10 hours ago, coinoperator said:

Bigger motors like that new spike thing

yes it would be nice to have those big sprockets in cheaper sets and not just in yellow...but dark bluish gray version is nice start...

10 hours ago, Maaboo35 said:

Don't encourage TLG... 

Well, the best way, by far, to encourage TLC, is to buy this set... 

10 hours ago, coinoperator said:

I must say that all these bigger, longer, larger parts is an interesting development...
What giant sets can we expect in the future?

We still lack many medium parts like flat triangle panels.

And I don't think it makes sense to create any parts longer than 15 studs. After all they must be stiff enough!

2 hours ago, Yevhen said:

And I don't think it makes sense to create any parts longer than 15 studs. After all they must be stiff enough!

Argee at 100%, the bigger parts requires much more additional triangle structures to support them that results in bigger parts count and so on...

I agre, this machine is in the limit of playability, we will see if it is too big to have a reasonable movement in the arm, the tracks will not be a problem the real machine is very slow.

On 4/14/2019 at 5:24 AM, Timoonn said:

Wake me up when July Ends... by Greenday...??

I guess nobody knows much about the motors yet? 

some People in Billund maybe

18 hours ago, coinoperator said:

I must say that all these bigger, longer, larger parts is an interesting development...
What giant sets can we expect in the future?

Maybe a new BWE, or a bulldozer or a Liebherr crane...