42139 - All-terrain Vehicle

[Maaboo the Witch]

32 minutes ago, kbalage said:

Based on his comment on my Instagram post the set was apparently designed by Samuel Tacchi, he seems to be the hero who managed to push this gearbox numbering through TLG's approval system :D 

Guess that's where the "Taki" branding comes from. Dammit, it's never Soul Calibur...

[R0Sch]

1 hour ago, kbalage said:

Based on his comment on my Instagram post the set was apparently designed by Samuel Tacchi, he seems to be the hero who managed to push this gearbox numbering through TLG's approval system :D 

Thanks, I could therefore update my bricklist. Wish we knew the designers from all Technic sets.
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31 minutes ago, Maaboo35 said:

Guess that's where the "Taki" branding comes from. Dammit, it's never Soul Calibur...

Yes, there is most of the times a hidden Easter egg in the sticker to show the designer. Like "UW" for Uwe Wabra, "MK" for Markus Kossmann etc.

[Maaboo the Witch]

57 minutes ago, R0Sch said:

Yes, there is most of the times a hidden Easter egg in the sticker to show the designer. Like "UW" for Uwe Wabra, "MK" for Markus Kossmann etc.

I'm aware of Uwe and Markus's trademarks; Milan uses the Czech registration OK- for some of his sets and other sets use his initials and birth year - MR80. Michael has MT/MJ and Olav has OK420. Other designers use similar conventions.

And now we have "Taki" for Sam Tacchi.

[Milan]

A new Mods and Improvements mod has been created.

Feel free to post your mods there.

[Maaboo the Witch]

Brickset's review is in. Major negs are the colour scheme and the stickers being responsible for the look.

[thekoRngear]

14 hours ago, Maaboo35 said:

Brickset's review is in. Major negs are the colour scheme and the stickers being responsible for the look.

So, it is seriously a (almost?) flawless set. 👍

Edited March 7, 2022 by thekoRngear

[thekoRngear]

According to this guy from YT the 42139 paper manual has this yellow tint on some pages:

Has anybody here encountered this? 

[allanp]

7 minutes ago, thekoRngear said:

According to this guy from YT the 42139 paper manual has this yellow tint on some pages:

Has anybody here encountered this? 

Never seen that before. In a previous job I was a maintenance engineer at a printing factory with massive 6 colour Heidelberg's and such. I doubt there are many like that.

[howitzer]

Printing errors can happen, one set I have had instructions with some pages misaligned pages so that part of the page was missing. I got new instructions booklet without issue from customer service though.

[Stuartn]

Just finished building mine, I have to say, it is a great little set, to be honest I didn't have the greatest expectations for it but it is quite a nice model and is aesthetically better than I expected, and slightly bigger too. I am going to do some of the modifications proposed in this thread, especially to the chainsaw component.

[R0Sch]

On 3/6/2022 at 7:06 PM, Maaboo35 said:

Brickset's review is in. Major negs are the colour scheme and the stickers being responsible for the look.

No one complained about the looks of 9398 which had the same cool color scheme. Some people forget it's supposed to be a kids toy not a display set for adults. In fact this color combination works so well that it can be seen in our fauna too with monarch butterflies, tigers, Calico cats, koi fish etc.

[Maaboo the Witch]

1 hour ago, R0Sch said:

No one complained about the looks of 9398 which had the same cool color scheme. Some people forget it's supposed to be a kids toy not a display set for adults. In fact this color combination works so well that it can be seen in our fauna too with monarch butterflies, tigers, Calico cats, koi fish etc.

I doubt anyone looks at this thing and thinks "koi", but point taken.

Brickset did do a feature on how this set would look with a more cohesive blue scheme, and it does look better. Plus, it really needs a big Technic figure to top it off.

[R4ph]

I received an assembled mine this week (I snatched it for £45 on amazon uk)

It's seating nicely next to my defender for now, but I think it will receive a couple of mods. I might try a camo version, as ut doesn't need many pieces.

[thekoRngear]

First the quadbike and then this! 

 

[The01]

9 minutes ago, thekoRngear said:

this

Very unique alt. This really is the best technic set so far this year.

[Jundis]

34 minutes ago, thekoRngear said:

First the quadbike and then this! 

Great idea :D

[Maaboo the Witch]

Sariel's long-awaited review has landed.