Which do you think is the most complex/hardest Technic Set?

[Pato Sentado]

On 4/25/2019 at 1:13 PM, Erik Leppen said:

A lot depends on what exactly is meant by "hard". I mean, every set comes with instructions that tell you exactly how to build them. Therefore, there can be 2 difficulties: 1. interpreting the instructions, and 2. actually assembling the parts.

For 1. old sets usually win, because they take much bigger steps, and don't split the model into sensible sub-assemblies, so there's no "sense" in what you're doing. In new sets, you usually work at one thing at a time. In many old studded sets, you build many mechanisms in parallel, depending on how they happen to come up in the model. I fondly remember how 8448 broke with this habit and took the modular approach. Another thing about instructions is that I often find instructions about routing pneumatic hoses and electric wires, relatively hard to decipher.

For 2. what is hard, depends on motor skills (and finger size). The only things I personally find hard to do is tying knots in strings, and applying stickers. Also, the new pneumatic hoses are stiffer than the old ones, and I read that the crane of 42043 was a particularly hard-to-build sub-assembly. I never built 8455, but 8868 had a lot of pneumatics in a tight space too.

I agree, in vintage sets instructions get a lot of pieces by step, and you must carefully lot at the draw to find the differences.

I found the modern instructions "too easy" after that.

[Bublehead]

To be honest, the hardest set to put together is the one where you made a mistake on Step 37 but don’t figure it out until step 1092...   and to top it off, you used a part in Step 37 that was 5 studs long when it should have been 7 studs long, and now on this step 1092, you are short a 5 length black beam and are wondering if TLG screwed up or if I did?  Yes it happened to me on the Lamborghini so it can happen to anyone.

[dr_spock]

I think the hardest set could be the 42114 Volvo hauler based on the number of help request threads on this forum. 

 

[Zerobricks]

2 hours ago, dr_spock said:

I think the hardest set could be the 42114 Volvo hauler based on the number of help request threads on this forum. 

 

Was about to comment something in that manner, the Volvo and the 42070...or anything else that uses 2 or more diffs.

[jorgeopesi]

8848 because it was my first Technic set while I normally played with Lego city and space, there was no going back since then almost everything was Technic. I do not remember what was my age but around 8 or less.