brickpreviews Posted March 1, 2015 Posted March 1, 2015 Porsche 918 Spyder, not my favourite site but some may like it. I find the gray color boring and it is abit blocky compared to the real thing. Review: http://brickpreviews.com/lego-speed-champions-75910-porsche-918-spyder-review/ I'd like to encourage you both to write a full review for EB. Of course, if you're interested in reviewing, I can also recommend joining the Reviewers Academy, but that's no requirement to post reviews on EB. Is there a way to upload and post large amount of images on EB easily? I tend to have lots of pictures in my review so I am looking for a more efficient way to upload the images than uploading them all to imgur and then linking them one by one. I will do a full review of the Mclean P1 for EB next. Quote
RacerRabbit Posted March 2, 2015 Posted March 2, 2015 Just bought the entire range yesterday. I haven't built the Ferrari Truck yet but the other sets are complete. I also bought two of each of the first four sets and the Porsche 911 set so I could build my own cars with the new pieces. Quote
XAxles Posted March 2, 2015 Posted March 2, 2015 Just bought the entire range yesterday. I haven't built the Ferrari Truck yet but the other sets are complete. I also bought two of each of the first four sets and the Porsche 911 set so I could build my own cars with the new pieces. How are them all as a theme? You think this'd last for a very long time? Quote
Chimaninja454 Posted March 2, 2015 Posted March 2, 2015 Picked up 75908 and 75909. Two great sets which you should buy! Quote
RacerRabbit Posted March 2, 2015 Posted March 2, 2015 How are them all as a theme? You think this'd last for a very long time? @XAxles It's a pretty nice collection actually. 3 road cars, 3 race cars and a couple of F1s. And the new pieces like the new wheels, rim styles, windscreens and wheel arches could be really useful for minifig scale car MOCs. In fact, as soon as I built the sets, I used some pieces from the white car from the second Porsche 911 set I bought and some bricks I ordered from Bricklink to build a 6 wide version of the Mach 5 from the 2008 Speed Racer movie. I'm so proud of it! I'll post pics of it on MOCpages when I can. I see on this forum that some people would like to see some American cars in this theme. My suggestion for that would be the inclusion of Ford and Chevrolet. I mean, Ford has the new GT and Chevrolet has the new Corvette Z06. And what motorsport do both Ford and Chevrolet compete against eachother in?....... NASCAR... In conclusion, I really hope that Speed Champions gets more than 1 wave of products because I feel it has a lot of potential as a Racers reboot. Well, that and i'm a massive car fan! ^^ Quote
jimmynick Posted March 2, 2015 Posted March 2, 2015 Is there a way to upload and post large amount of images on EB easily? I tend to have lots of pictures in my review so I am looking for a more efficient way to upload the images than uploading them all to imgur and then linking them one by one. I will do a full review of the Mclean P1 for EB next. Not really, but there are other image hosts such as Flickr and Brickshelf that are more commonly used in the AFOL community than Imgur. Thanks for providing all your photos! Quote
XAxles Posted March 3, 2015 Posted March 3, 2015 (edited) Are we done with the reviews? Because I think it's now time for the news. Specifically, Porsche news. EB members, meet the 496hp, 4.0-liter, 198 mph Type 991 Porsche 911 GT3 RS. If the color is familiar, then that's because one of the cars in the big Porsche set, the orange 997 GT3-R hybrid, is also orange. It's easy to get the real one in brick if you have the whole set. Just peel the stickers off, scan the stickers, recolor the headlight details, modify the bumper a bit, and presto! Oh, and Koenigsegg's got a ONE THOUSAND FIVE HUNDRED HORSEPOWER, TWO HUNDRED FORTY-EIGHT MILE-PER-HOUR HYBRID HYPERCAR CALLED THE REGERA!!! AND IT'S GOT NO GEARBOX!!! And I was wrong about the wing. It is big, and IT'S HAND FOLDABLE!!! But wait. We're just mortals, and so the only thing we can have is the Honda Civic Type R. It's got 310 hp, 295 torques at 2500 revs, and most especially, front-wheel drive. Don't worry, though, everything is fine. Save for the front end. Edited March 3, 2015 by XAxles Quote
brickpreviews Posted March 3, 2015 Posted March 3, 2015 Just done building the Ferrari 458 Italia GT2. It has more stickers than any of the cars I built before and for some people it can be pretty annoying. I do love the huge rear wings though :) Review: http://brickpreviews.com/lego-speed-champions-75908-458-italia-gt2-review/ Quote
XAxles Posted March 3, 2015 Posted March 3, 2015 Just done building the Ferrari 458 Italia GT2. It has more stickers than any of the cars I built before and for some people it can be pretty annoying. I do love the huge rear wings though :) Review: http://brickpreviews...lia-gt2-review/ Didn't dig this model because the front end isn't too 458-y.I mean, here's one shot of the AF Corse 458: I think the gap below the 2x6 curved plate is enough, with an offset 1x1 plate. Quote
P3_Super_Bee Posted March 3, 2015 Posted March 3, 2015 Didn't dig this model because the front end isn't too 458-y. I mean, here's one shot of the AF Corse 458: I think the gap below the 2x6 curved plate is enough, with an offset 1x1 plate. TLG missed the mark with the wheels too. Should have been gray/silver not black... Quote
Rick Posted March 3, 2015 Posted March 3, 2015 Are we done with the reviews? Because I think it's now time for the news. Please stick to discussing the LEGO Speed Champions line in this thread. There are dedicated fora for discussing car news. Thanks. Quote
XAxles Posted March 4, 2015 Posted March 4, 2015 (edited) Okay, Rick. GREAT NEWS!!! I have seen " "---wait. I am actually just waiting for a Speed Champions polybag. Something like the old Tiny Turbo sub-theme from Racers... though as to how they're gonna make the 918 in 4-wide is anyone's guess. My guess is that they're gonna follow the procedures and do something like the Shell-Ferrari promos. They can introduce some new front end, fender, canopy and rear end moulds (I think it's time for a curved version of this part) like the 250 GTO's front end from the Series 2 of the promo, but they better come with printed details! Oh, and new TT-scale wheel designs, too. Edited March 4, 2015 by XAxles Quote
brickpreviews Posted March 4, 2015 Posted March 4, 2015 Finished building the McLaren Mercedes Pit Stop set last night. This is a medium priced set so it comes with 3 minifigures, one of which is a female. Lots of play values but not that great for display I find. Review: http://brickpreviews.com/lego-speed-champions-75911-mclaren-mercedes-pit-stop-review/ Quote
Faefrost Posted March 5, 2015 Posted March 5, 2015 I know how some feel about stickers, but I gotta say this line is probably the best argument there is in support of them. They so make the cars pop. And the cars are great. Good clean representations of some uber cars in 6 wide. I did not expect to fall in love with this line. But these things are adorable. And I think the little baggies of new hub caps may be the years coolest most useful new parts. The greebly possibilities are endless. Fans, ducts, engines. Heck I hope for some scifi set they do those new disk brake wheels in trans clear or trans blue with the black or grey hub caps to give some space engines some depth and flair. Of the other new parts? I'm not yet sold on the new wheel arches. They look good and do seem to add some structural stability to the cars, but they seem more awkward to work with, and they seem less generically useful in non car projects. The classic fenders have established themselves are great tools for architectural build etc. Quote
lightningtiger Posted March 5, 2015 Posted March 5, 2015 I agree the stickers make these cars pop.....and sells the era they come from......a piece of history.....in brick. Quote
XAxles Posted March 5, 2015 Posted March 5, 2015 I know how some feel about stickers, but I gotta say this line is probably the best argument there is in support of them. They so make the cars pop. And the cars are great. Good clean representations of some uber cars in 6 wide. I did not expect to fall in love with this line. But these things are adorable. And I think the little baggies of new hub caps may be the year's coolest, most useful new parts. The greebly possibilities are endless. Fans, ducts, engines. Heck I hope for some scifi set they do those new disk brake wheels in trans clear or trans blue with the black or grey hub caps to give some space engines some depth and flair. Of the other new parts? I'm not yet sold on the new wheel arches. They look good and do seem to add some structural stability to the cars, but they seem more awkward to work with, and they seem less generically useful in non car projects. The classic fenders have established themselves are great tools for architectural build etc. These are for the highlighted bits, in order that you see in the paragraph: "They so make the cars pop". Aye. chief. And here's the other thing: It is too hard to nail all of the angles and holes that the cars have with the scale and the amount of details, so the designers had to do quite a load of sacrifices. I mean, the only set I have beef with is the P1, and even that hits majority of the marks when you overlap a picture of the model with an image of the real thing, and the 458, which is admittedly , bluntly, rubbish coming from a fan of the real 458. In fact, I think one can run pictures of the models in comparable angles to those of the real thing and the guy will be astounded with the accuracy. "The cars are great" Whether in real life or in brick, I agree with that. Except the McLaren F1 car. Ugh, that nose. "new hub caps may be the year's coolest, most useful new parts" All of this. It comes with the right colors to be used everywhere else, like you said, but I can't help but think of another thing: will those hubcaps fit flush in a round space made by joining 2x2 macaroni bricks? If it does, HHHNNGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGG!!! Ventilation fans rejoice! Quote
just2good Posted March 6, 2015 Posted March 6, 2015 (edited) Looks like this theme is exclusive to Toys"R"Us, in the United States. I know many people were worried that these sets wouldn't sell well in the American market, so I guess this makes sense. Edited March 6, 2015 by just2good Quote
lightningtiger Posted March 7, 2015 Posted March 7, 2015 So it's an exclusive in the USA at TRU ......ouch, that might mean a TRU tax ? Fingers crossed that it's not an exclusive else where in the world. Quote
adik_sa_lego Posted March 7, 2015 Posted March 7, 2015 i notice most builds of the 458 Italia have the rear wing extended. is it just me or is are the "arms" supposed to be folded in? Quote
P3_Super_Bee Posted March 7, 2015 Posted March 7, 2015 Don't think I seen this mentioned. Kind of new getting back into Lego. But I was doing up an inventory of my sets. And this kind of peaked my interest. Could there be EIGHT more cars coming??? I say this because of the set numbers.... The LaFarrari is 75899, then the 458 Italia GT2, McLaren P1, and the Porsche 918 Spyder are 75908. 75909 and 75910 respectively. So where are 75900 through 75907??? Could there be more on the way in the future? Or simply TLG don't adhere to sequential numbering??? Quote
Rick Posted March 7, 2015 Posted March 7, 2015 Don't think I seen this mentioned. Kind of new getting back into Lego. But I was doing up an inventory of my sets. And this kind of peaked my interest. Could there be EIGHT more cars coming??? I say this because of the set numbers.... The LaFarrari is 75899, then the 458 Italia GT2, McLaren P1, and the Porsche 918 Spyder are 75908. 75909 and 75910 respectively. So where are 75900 through 75907??? Could there be more on the way in the future? Or simply TLG don't adhere to sequential numbering??? 75900 - 75904 are Scooby Doo sets and I expect that 75905 - 75907 are reserved for more sets in this theme. Someone floated the theory that the LaFerrari was a last-minute addition to the line and therefore got the 75899 set number, because 75915 - 75920 are used for the Jurassic World sets. Quote
Brickprawn Posted March 7, 2015 Posted March 7, 2015 i notice most builds of the 458 Italia have the rear wing extended. is it just me or is are the "arms" supposed to be folded in? I think they are meant to be folded in, it looks wrong and out of proportion with it raised up like that. Quote
XAxles Posted March 7, 2015 Posted March 7, 2015 I think they are meant to be folded in, it looks wrong and out of proportion with it raised up like that. And builds up a bit too much downforce than needed. Quote
TheOneVeyronian Posted March 7, 2015 Posted March 7, 2015 I bought the McLaren P1 a week ago (waiting for double VIP in order to pick up the rest of the theme), and despite my fears that the car would look too skinny (from Brickset's review, and no I don't know why Huw decided to not apply the headlight stickers either, because the car looks really stupid without them), it has turned out to be one of my favourite sets so far this year. But... did anyone else have trouble aligning the headlight stickers? I just couldn't get it right and it's very difficut to line them up despite trying for quite some time taking care to do so. Even now I'm not sure whether I got it right Quote
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