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I just finished building it. The car looks awesome. I don't know if I messed something up when I was building the gearbox, but it's super tight, even though I tried to keep some gaps between all the rotating parts.

My biggest gripe, though, is that Book 1 completely came part and the worst thing about it is that I even took extra care not to open the pages too far and damage the spine. I literally just put my iPhone over the corner of the pages to keep the book from closing, but the spine of the book still broke in 2 places (under its own weight) so the middle of the book completely fell out. Does Lego replace manuals? :damn:

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Lego S@H in au has just changed back to available now after being OOS for the whole week. Hopefully mine comes next week sometime. 

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1 hour ago, boat2903 said:

I just finished building it. The car looks awesome. I don't know if I messed something up when I was building the gearbox, but it's super tight, even though I tried to keep some gaps between all the rotating parts.

My biggest gripe, though, is that Book 1 completely came part and the worst thing about it is that I even took extra care not to open the pages too far and damage the spine. I literally just put my iPhone over the corner of the pages to keep the book from closing, but the spine of the book still broke in 2 places (under its own weight) so the middle of the book completely fell out. Does Lego replace manuals? :damn:

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Oh crap;... that’s one of my biggest “pet peeve’s” I have, I hate it when these books fall apart while they smell like ink still.

And LEGO is really good at dealing with customer complaints about parts and bricks, but not as good about replacing stickers (had that happen to me when the sticker sheet stuck to the instruction booklet !),... so I’m worried for you that this might be even a harder feat. 
 

But I totally agree with you and they should replace it, but these are not plastic bricks, and I’m not sure if they print “replacement” instruction manuals in general, and for these UCS sets in particular ?

I mean; there is no section for “Pick-a-manual” on LEGO’s customer site ?... *oh2*

29 minutes ago, OnyyX said:

Lego S@H in au has just changed back to available now after being OOS for the whole week. Hopefully mine comes next week sometime. 

Jim doesn’t like us to talk about it. But the US site is now saying “will ship July 6”,... after being at “will ship in 60 days” in less than a day after release...

I guess that is great, almost cutting it in half ?...

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1 hour ago, boat2903 said:

I just finished building it. The car looks awesome. I don't know if I messed something up when I was building the gearbox, but it's super tight, even though I tried to keep some gaps between all the rotating parts.

My biggest gripe, though, is that Book 1 completely came part and the worst thing about it is that I even took extra care not to open the pages too far and damage the spine. I literally just put my iPhone over the corner of the pages to keep the book from closing, but the spine of the book still broke in 2 places (under its own weight) so the middle of the book completely fell out. Does Lego replace manuals? :damn:

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Had the gearbox problem as well! Change the tan double bevel gears to some older ones, which are smaller ever so slightly. Doesn't matter if they are grey, tan or black. Especially with the two differentials where 2 each are used, you will feel a difference.

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2 hours ago, boat2903 said:

Does Lego replace manuals? :damn:

They do.

You have to call Customer Service. If necessary, provide a couple of pictures as proof.

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2 hours ago, boat2903 said:

I just finished building it. The car looks awesome. I don't know if I messed something up when I was building the gearbox, but it's super tight, even though I tried to keep some gaps between all the rotating parts.

My biggest gripe, though, is that Book 1 completely came part and the worst thing about it is that I even took extra care not to open the pages too far and damage the spine. I literally just put my iPhone over the corner of the pages to keep the book from closing, but the spine of the book still broke in 2 places (under its own weight) so the middle of the book completely fell out. Does Lego replace manuals? :damn:

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I had a similar problem with another set a while ago, it had an instructions booklet that had some pages misaligned in the printing process so part of the pages were cut off and on the other end there were rough edges of the cutoff-portion of the original sheets. I contacted customer support about this (using the missing piece form) and they sent replacement manual with no problem. So go ahead and contact them and you'll get a new manual to replace your obviously defective one.

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Yeah baby!!

<<Imagine a lovely green set being looked over by a Billie Piper desktop image>>

Ian...

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7 hours ago, Wimmer said:

Jim doesn’t like us to talk about it. But the US site is now saying “will ship July 6”,... after being at “will ship in 60 days” in less than a day after release...

It's okay to talk about that, but we don't want every personal order and shipping confirmation posted in this topic.

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1 minute ago, Jim said:

It's okay to talk about that, but we don't want every personal order and shipping confirmation posted in this topic.

Oops  :wub:

I get it though :thumbup:

Ian...

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You're forgiven. The image doesn't work, but I reckon you received the set, or you will receive it shortly.

Enjoy the build!

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13 hours ago, Wimmer said:

I mean; there is no section for “Pick-a-manual” on LEGO’s customer site ?... *oh2*

That depends on whether you count the part where you can download them digitally for free.

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8 hours ago, Coolusername said:

The QR codes in the booklets don't work here? Anyone else the same?

Same with the Ducati... Still gives a 404. That wasn't a QR to a videocast though, but to a small video explaining how to join some parts. The Landrover has it as well, but that one did work.

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That's Box 3 done and about 2100 parts so far.  My mouse arm hurts.  The body is going to be a lot more work with all the strange angles, and some of the parts don't exist in LDraw yet.

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2 minutes ago, Blakbird said:

The body is going to be a lot more work with all the strange angles, and some of the parts don't exist in LDraw yet.

I was wondering how you were going to tackle those parts. Do you plan on modelling those?

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7 minutes ago, allanp said:

I was wondering how you were going to tackle those parts. Do you plan on modelling those?

I have no experience messing around inside LDraw part files or creating them from scratch.  I'll probably use substitute parts until the new ones are available.  Usually Philo comes to my rescue.

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47 minutes ago, scooper22 said:

Would you have preferred brown seats and interior?

I don't think that'd work well with the lime. Matching the body color and the interior accents is quite common, here's a lime Lamborghini example:

 

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7 minutes ago, FX6000 said:

One more color variation in Azure with 63 livery

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I love it... but I really would want 3 sets of four tires with that print on it !!!

Then I can put them on all three cars, because those tires make the car !!!  ?

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Just now, Wimmer said:

I love it... but I really would want 3 sets of four tires with that print in it !!!

Thrn I can put them on all three cars, because those tires make the car !!!  ?

Thanks! You can do it yourself. This'll be hard, but it's possible:) 800x518.jpg

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1 hour ago, Wimmer said:

I love it... but I really would want 3 sets of four tires with that print on it !!!

Then I can put them on all three cars, because those tires make the car !!!  ?

AFAIK they're bog old standard tires, so they shouldn't be too expensive.

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