The BOSS Crawler. Technic challenge entry.

[legotechnicblue]

Blue and pink would make a good combination

[legomuppet9]

British Racing Green (basically dark green...)

[rm8]

We have not much time, but your cool ideas about particular elements of body can be heard, and don't forget about stickers.

Sad, but we cant change chassis color schema, cause of some internal processes at TLG. May be it is because if automatized sorting and packing of details.

[DLuders]

@ rm8: That's OK -- a black-and-yellow "The Boss" Crawler looks pretty good as-is!

[jadedomg]

Purple would have been kind of neat

[Gene]

Sample colours are very subjective unless we are referring to Pantone charts. All 4 colour presented by rm8 were consider good for me. For Stickers:

Logos & Name:

- Letro (Oil)

- rm8 (Car model, can we get a technic figure driver name rm8?)

- 8 (Racing number)

- BOSS (Car name)

Elements:

- Stripes (For deco)

- Flame (For deco)

Edited February 10, 2013 by Gene

[Splat]

I think rm8 should at least get his name/initials immortalized somewhere on the model. Perhaps as a printed tile with his name/initials on the number plate, or as a sticker for the doors, or even on the hood or roof.

Edited February 10, 2013 by Splat

[Edwin Korstanje]

I think rm8 should at least get his name/initials immortalized somewhere on the model. Perhaps as a printed tile with his name/initials on the number plate, or as a sticker for the doors, or even on the hood or roof.

I am agree whit that comment

[efferman]

I think rm8 should at least get his name/initials immortalized somewhere on the model. Perhaps as a printed tile with his name/initials on the number plate, or as a sticker for the doors, or even on the hood or roof.

i aggree with splat

[crazy_1993]

I asked questions to TLG and received an answers:

Questions:

1. Will it be a full set with chassis or just expansion pack for 9398 owners?

2. Will the top 100 voted entries receive winning set as it was announced at lego.com designers blog?

3. Will it be at Russian official catalogue and official retail shops of Russia (for example 8110 and 8081 was not). Russian fans waiting for that.

Answers

1) It will be a full set including the chassis of the 4X4 Crawler.

2) Yes the top 100 entries will all receive a set.

3) The set will be sold in all LEGO Brand Retail Stores and in our online shop www.shop.lego.com – but it will in both cases be in a limited number as this is an exclusive item, so I can’t promise you for how long they will be on the shelves!

I am sceptical as to whether they actually will give the top 100 a copy of the Boss crawler, it seems like a very expensive thing to do seeing as the top 100 is the majority of entries! Maybe they expected more entries when the blog was written. I am not going to lie though, I would love a Boss crawler, even if many people would consider it my arch nemesis!

[rm8]

I am sceptical as to whether they actually will give the top 100 a copy of the Boss crawler, it seems like a very expensive thing to do seeing as the top 100 is the majority of entries! Maybe they expected more entries when the blog was written. I am not going to lie though, I would love a Boss crawler, even if many people would consider it my arch nemesis!

About top100 - information directly from TLG technic team. Thats true. Another question: If I have 2,3 or more models at top100 - how many prizes I will receive:1 or according to quantity of my top100 models?

100 crawlers is small summ in comparison to its year revenue - 3,5 billion $, production cost about 1 billion and another 1 billion for sales and distribution expenses. That is official financial information from lego.com.

Using that logic I guess that Boss crawler with retail price for example 250$ will cost in production not more than 100$. So 100$x100pcs = 10 000 $. Thats very small price for such effective marketing campaign. One issue of 20 second Video advertising at any top Tv channel can be much expensive than those 100 crawlers:)

Hope you will like our final result

Edited March 3, 2013 by rm8

[crazy_1993]

About top100 - information directly from TLG technic team. Thats true. Another question: If I have 2,3 or more models at top100 - how many prizes I will receive:1 or according to quantity of my top100 models?

100 crawlers is small summ in comparison to its year revenue - 3,5 billion $, production cost about 1 billion and another 1 billion for sales and distribution expenses.

Boss crawler with retail price for example 250$ will cost in production not more than 100$. So 100$x100pcs = 10 000 $. Thats very small price for such effective marketing campaign. One issue of 20 second Video advertising at any top Tv channel can be much expensive than those 100 crawler:)

Hope you will like our final result

I can imagine the final result being awesome. I am actually quite excited about it!

[Edwin Korstanje]

I hope that i olso one of the top 100 a get one of your improved Boss

[crazy_1993]

Hope you will like our final result

Do you have any idea when the final version will be presented? Is it still March 22nd as mentioned by TLC ages ago? I can't wait to see the final model, I hope there are some cool surprises!

Edited February 16, 2013 by crazy_1993

[legotechnicblue]

I also can't wait until the final set comes out. It will be awesome.

[DLuders]

@ rm8: In your interaction with The Lego Group about the final design of "The Boss", is there any chance that they would produce the set in a DARK BLUE color? Reference the results of the TechnicBRICKS poll topic:

Edited February 22, 2013 by DLuders

[rm8]

@ rm8: In your interaction with The Lego Group about the final design of "The Boss", is there any chance that they would produce the set in a DARK BLUE color? Reference the results of the TechnicBRICKS poll topic:

Model is going to comitee next week. It is almost ready. I dont think we can change something. Hope they'll listen the voice of community.

I saw many color variants of Boss during our work. I can tell that yellow is very cool. But we choose another color.

Mates, I am going to make civil chassis from existing 9398 chassis with the same mounting points for body to make civil version of Boss muscle car.

Edited February 22, 2013 by rm8

[colinrichardson]

I really like this model. I was not so into the original 9398, but I'll definitely be getting this when it comes out.

[Edwin Korstanje]

I hope that TLG consider to bring Dark blue back in technic and i have now a lots off it, i think your Boss will look stunning in dark blue with white stripes

[legotechnicblue]

So when will this set actually come out?

[rm8]

Hi,

We passed model committee two days ago. Everything is going fine. Now I cant say the date when it will be presented. But as Remember 20-23 of march is real. The 22 of february was a mistake...

[dhc6twinotter]

Awesome! Can you tell us what the final color(s) will be?

[rm8]

Awesome! Can you tell us what the final color(s) will be?

No:)

[TechnicMati]

I suppose it's gonna be orange or some variants of orange and black. I hope for some orange parts, panels - these would be nice for my collection and for my offroader I'm just working on. I wonder if body changes that TLG with Rm8 have done are just cosmetic or they do really change a look and appearance of the Boss?

[legotechnicblue]

I wouldn't enjoy the orange because of the Unimog but it would look cool