42205 Chevrolet Corvette Stingray

[Ngoc Nguyen]

5 hours ago, zoo said:

And I'm sorry, but can we please make these new "official lego set"-topics uniform with the older ones? I fear they will get lost in the feed otherwise.

@Auroralampinen

[2GodBDGlory]

On 11/27/2024 at 3:37 PM, NV Lego technic said:

I wonder how they made that sharp angle in the engine.

I strongly second this question! It would be really neat if they made a new acute angle connector for that--I don't see any simple way for them to make that angle otherwise, and I'm not sure if something complicated would be strong enough for the application.

14 hours ago, mpj said:

Nothing can be improved?

The wheels and rims for example! Stop using those old wheels and introduce a new mould of sporty wheel that can be used for the next 10 years! 

Wheels can improve the look of a car a lot.

I wonder if the issue is that these wheels are safely generic, while if they made something more realistic looking, people would start expecting it to be exactly realistic to the specific car, and would complain. In a way, these wheels are so bad that they're neither accurate nor inaccurate; they're just an abstract wheel. If they tried making something more specific, it would set expectations for accuracy unrealistically high.

6 hours ago, zoo said:

And I'm sorry, but can we please make these new "official lego set"-topics uniform with the older ones? I fear they will get lost in the feed otherwise.

@Auroralampinen, if you just want to copy-paste something,

42205 Chevrolet Corvette Stingray

should be fitting with the usual formatting standards.

Thanks!

[LabManager]

It's disappointing that TLG continues to use stickers instead of modelling headlights with trans-clear or at least white parts. In my opinion the way they did it in the initial 1:16 scale sets (the blue car from 42098 and the old 42093 Corvette) and even in 2022 (42138 Mustang) looked much better and it had the Technic's spirit then. The 2023 and 2024 1:16 cars started to use stickers, but they were smaller. Now this Corvette has a really big sticker and it will look totally incomplete if you prefer not to use stickers.

What I like about this new Corvette is that it seems to be very challenging to make a motorized version, since it has a very low profile in the rear part.

[mpj]

18 hours ago, 2GodBDGlory said:

I wonder if the issue is that these wheels are safely generic, while if they made something more realistic looking, people would start expecting it to be exactly realistic to the specific car, and would complain. In a way, these wheels are so bad that they're neither accurate nor inaccurate; they're just an abstract wheel. If they tried making something more specific, it would set expectations for accuracy unrealistically high.

I understand what you mean.

I just would like to see an updated design, more modern but still generic... with lower tyre profile and bigger rim.

Maybe with the possibility to see the disk brake.

[Stereo]

19 hours ago, 2GodBDGlory said:

I strongly second this question! It would be really neat if they made a new acute angle connector for that--I don't see any simple way for them to make that angle otherwise, and I'm not sure if something complicated would be strong enough for the application.

Yeah, with the new style pistons they can't offset the banks, otherwise I might try it with the 1/2 thickness perpendicular connectors, with a 1/2 bush between them.  I'm not sure what the actual angle is, if it's 45 degrees then #3 connectors would work but maybe not with the shape this is.

A new 45 or 67.5 connector would be nice to have.  Not sure if 45 overlaps the axles.  Or a 6-way one that alternates axles and axle holes.

Edited November 29, 2024 by Stereo

[2GodBDGlory]

18 hours ago, mpj said:

I understand what you mean.

I just would like to see an updated design, more modern but still generic... with lower tyre profile and bigger rim.

Maybe with the possibility to see the disk brake.

Yeah, I'd agree that there should be a good generic one; I just wonder if that's been TLG's rationale to not do it. Though I suppose they have the good-looking-yet-generic Defender rims at larger scale, so they should be able to get away with something like that for a smaller scale.

[BrickMonkeyMOCs]

5 hours ago, 2GodBDGlory said:

Yeah, I'd agree that there should be a good generic one; I just wonder if that's been TLG's rationale to not do it. Though I suppose they have the good-looking-yet-generic Defender rims at larger scale, so they should be able to get away with something like that for a smaller scale.

Wheel #42716 from the Mustang and Porsche sets arguably already is a better generic wheel at this smaller scale - it just doesn't have a matching thinner version like the #56904/56145 combo used here. I suppose the #42716 rim is also more of a generic muscle car rim than a modern sports car rim, but it shows that it can be done. I think we also need a more sporty alternative to the #49294 Defender/488 rim with the same hollow design. I'd love to see something like what CaDA have done for 1:10 rims at this smaller scale.

[Erik Leppen]

I really don't get these sets.

The scale is too small to make any car look like its real-life counterpart. To me, all these sets look exactly the same. Sure, I can see "differences" if I search for them, but from a glance, they all look exactly the same. I couldn't tell any of these sets apart, except maybe the Koenigsegg because that has a quite different shape. The 1:16 System sets like 10295 Porsche or the Countach actually look like the car they're supposed to be, and I can recognize the brands even though I'm not a real gearhead.

The best recent Technic car, I would say, is the dark-blue Ford GT. That actually looked like a recognizable brand car, thanks to the slightly bigger scale, which is also big enough to fit some decent functions without creating huge empty spaces and without making sets unwieldy large or expensive.

Really, if TLC want 1:16 cars, they should just stick with the System builds. For Technic, 1:16 is just too small to make any result look good IMO.

Also, as someone else said, these cars take the slot of what could have been a really cool functional Technic machinery set. 42049, for example, is exactly the type of set I'd like to see from Technic 50 euro range sets.

[Ngoc Nguyen]

@Auroralampinen  This one too.

[Danil]

On 11/30/2024 at 1:15 AM, LabManager said:

It's disappointing that TLG continues to use stickers instead of modelling headlights with trans-clear or at least white parts. In my opinion the way they did it in the initial 1:16 scale sets (the blue car from 42098 and the old 42093 Corvette) and even in 2022 (42138 Mustang) looked much better and it had the Technic's spirit then. The 2023 and 2024 1:16 cars started to use stickers, but they were smaller. Now this Corvette has a really big sticker and it will look totally incomplete if you prefer not to use stickers.

What I like about this new Corvette is that it seems to be very challenging to make a motorized version, since it has a very low profile in the rear part.

Lately, if I may say so, I was upset that the headlights became stickers. I approached the problem thoroughly, having collected a basket of parts that in most cases are able to cover this problem not only in moc.

https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/151AUVe5F6R43565MxKhqODkSjzjZuejB

[Timorzelorzworz]

They are using yellow non-friction pins here for the look, which is great especially above the logo. Imagine how awful it would look with a black pin.

The designer who decided this deserves some extra bonus. For me this set is one winner for the 1H2025 wave.

 

[msk6003]

I'm already scared of how much the front V-shaped panel assembly will shake. Considering it is connected using just one frictionless pin.

Edited December 2, 2024 by msk6003

[bruh]

Oh, for real. Unless, they are making yellow friction pins 

[gyenesvi]

8 hours ago, msk6003 said:

I'm already scared of how much the front V-shaped panel assembly will shake. Considering it is connected using just one frictionless pin.

And what about the connections on the side? Those small parts that look like plates? Do you think that's only a gap filler?

Edited December 2, 2024 by gyenesvi

[SNIPE]

I wonder if we get 22961 pinhole with 1L axle in yellow, the submarine has 1x1 beam in yellow (FINALLY!) 😃

[HorcikDesigns]

By the way, have somebody already spotted the 5L "comma-shaped" panel above the front bumper? 

 

Edit: Already have, one page before. Sorry for spam. 

 

Edited December 3, 2024 by HorcikDesigns

[msk6003]

14 hours ago, gyenesvi said:

And what about the connections on the side? Those small parts that look like plates? Do you think that's only a gap filler?

Yes. In my eyes it looks like just 1x1 tile.