On 1/29/2015 at 1:04 PM, Emmi said:

Lots of pictures??? So where's the coverage for the Fire Plane???

We don't know*. Really. It would be posted here if it was known. If it's not in this thread, or on http://www.technicbricks.com, then in most cases, it's not known yet for English-speaking Lego fans. Occasionally something comes up in a non-English community and takes a few days to be posted here, but it pretty much always gets posted here in the end. Asking doesn't make it arrive any faster.

* except some of us are in a secret club that does know, but we're not letting you in. Ha ha ha ha etc.

So, where are the pictures of the 1H 2016 sets??? I hope we get more pneumatics!!!! I can't wait!

</fanboi mode>

  On 1/29/2015 at 1:22 PM, jantjeuh said:

So, where are the pictures of the 1H 2016 sets??? I hope we get more pneumatics!!!! I can't wait!

I can't believe that TLG have neglected their fans customers like this!!!! They're surely going out of business soon!!!!

They are not going out of business thanks to abandoning the Technic line and keeping the profitable ones.

By the way didn't anyone some weeks ago say anything about new PF parts?

  On 1/29/2015 at 1:29 PM, aol000xw said:

By the way didn't anyone some weeks ago say anything about new PF parts?

I have heard that there is a PF unicorn and a PF rainbow. There was going to be a PF unikitty, but the part was too unreliable for mass production.

Edited January 29, 201510 yr by andythenorth

Okay guys, we had some fun, we've made our points. Let's get back on topic.

I don't know. I've run out of stuff to talk about. Except if the Fire Plane actually has a bay where "water" (1x1 round tiles in trans-blue) can be stored. And if that bay is big enough to store 100. As a Tiny Turbo builder, I'm gonna need more projector headlamps. Or that laser headlamp thing Audi is toting.

About the Fire plane I read somewhere the water are indeed 2x2 round tiles but I am a little skeptic.

  On 1/29/2015 at 1:29 PM, aol000xw said:

They are not going out of business thanks to abandoning the Technic line and keeping the profitable ones.

By the way didn't anyone some weeks ago say anything about new PF parts?

Yes, but it was clear that is trolling.Some internals say this is BS.

I count at least three cameramans in promobricks video, so Im expecting at least one video with functions.It takes some time to make proper videos of all toy fair things.

  On 1/29/2015 at 1:22 PM, jantjeuh said:

So, where are the pictures of the 1H 2016 sets??? I hope we get more pneumatics!!!! I can't wait!

</fanboi mode>

People don't really care about the fire plane it's small and less interesting. But three should be pictures up any day now.

  On 1/29/2015 at 2:40 PM, davidmull said:

People don't really care about the fire plane it's small and less interesting. But three should be pictures up any day now.

He was being sarcastic.

And again, stop talking about pictures! And don't judge what other people might be interested in. Just because you don't care about the fire plane, doesn't mean that other's don't care either.

Hey all,

I'm nuts for the crane, Not so much for the Arocs. Anyway, I've been playing around with reverse engineering some parts of the new crane. It's much bigger than 8043 in a few ways:

The tracks are 25 cm long, using 45 track elements each. 8043 is 21cm long and uses 38 track elements each.

The boom with the extension installed is 61cm long (2 feet). The boom on 8288 is 50cm long.

You can see there is much more support bullt into the frame that the turntable is installed on. Sort of like how 42009 has. This is to add more resting beams / width to handle the weight of the crane. I can't see if there is a new turntable or not.

Now, any moc'er out there want to reverse engineer the gear box for me? ;)

Also, what is going on with the pair of strings that lead to the spool for raising and lowering the boom? Is that 2 strings on one spool??

  On 1/29/2015 at 1:55 PM, aol000xw said:

About the Fire plane I read somewhere the water are indeed 2x2 round tiles but I am a little skeptic.

i saw this on a website as well, saying it comes with translucent blue 2x2 round tiles :-\

can anyone confirm this?

  On 1/29/2015 at 2:43 PM, Jim said:

He was being sarcastic.

And again, stop talking about pictures! And don't judge what other people might be interested in. Just because you don't care about the fire plane, doesn't mean that other's don't care either.

Good on you Jim, and give davidmull a good spanking while your at it as his comments are starting to wear a bit thin now. Throughout this thread his comments have been out of order on many occasions and many members are getting fed up with it.

  On 1/29/2015 at 4:06 PM, thestericho said:

i saw this on a website as well, saying it comes with translucent blue 2x2 round tiles :-\

can anyone confirm this?

Technicbricks says:

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trans blue 2x2 round bricks

Edited January 29, 201510 yr by zux

  On 1/29/2015 at 4:14 PM, Technic-Kobaltz said:

Good on you Jim, and give davidmull a good spanking while your at it as his comments are starting to wear a bit thin now. Throughout this thread his comments have been out of order on many occasions and many members are getting fed up with it.

Please don't start a flame war. You can always send me a PM or better yet, use the report button (like some of you have done), but this doesn't add anything to the conversation.

  On 1/29/2015 at 4:19 PM, Jim said:

Please don't start a flame war. You can always send me a PM or better yet, use the report button (like some of you have done), but this doesn't add anything to the conversation.

No problem Jim, fully understand and apologies to davidmull no offence meant.

Regarding the lack of info on the fire plane, if I remember correctly for some reason we had a simillar situation last year with 42028 Bulldozer.

  On 1/29/2015 at 4:33 PM, Technic-Kobaltz said:

No problem Jim, fully understand and apologies to davidmull no offence meant.

Regarding the lack of info on the fire plane, if I remember correctly for some reason we had a simillar situation last year with 42028 Bulldozer.

Ur only new to the forum so no offence made.

I would presume the fire plane info will come last as this has happened other years.

And for anyone that didn't like my comments I apologise as i was only protecting the new sets :) everyone had there opinion even if i don't agree with people slating new sets before there even seen.

I wonder why TLG doesn't use the "FOR MEN" logo on the advanced models, in this case all the Technic flagships (Merc Arocs, Volvo, Unimog, Crawler Crane, etc.) and the Creator stuff like Mini Cooper, VW Camper, Sopwith Camel, ... I thought that would be a good idea, maybe instead of the age recommendation? 11-16 is pretty stupid and misleading anyways - I mean I'm 20, why can't I buy LEGO anymore? If they keep age recommendations it should be 16+ at least

Edited January 29, 201510 yr by Emmi

  On 1/29/2015 at 5:55 PM, Emmi said:

I wonder why TLG doesn't use the "FOR MEN" logo on the advanced models,

Is a penis, or stereotypically "male" attitude a requirement to build these?

Edited January 29, 201510 yr by mahjqa

Lego for men I had to check, and... I didn't know of www.legomen.de, but they sure know how to make it look "for men",

I was thinking lately, but I run the risk of saying something everyone had already found out, but anyways...

There had been some complaints over the past years about the lack of pneumatics in Technic. I think it's simpl because they were busy developing new pneumatics, and this is the result. I am also quite certain that we will continue to see pneumatics in Technic, probably now on a more regular basis than the past few years, after all they have all these lovely new parts now, which would open up new possibilities and at least brings their size and range up to par with LA's.

What will the next use of pneumatic be? I'm already curious what they will do with these new parts, and the truck isn't even out yet :D

  On 1/29/2015 at 5:55 PM, Emmi said:

I wonder why TLG doesn't use the "FOR MEN" logo on the advanced models

Because they'd get absolutely destroyed in social media, correctly so. TLG has enough gender-specific trouble with Friends.

Instead of the "for men" thing I think they should just get rid of the upper age limit to prevent offending any potential customers, not that I care what the all knowing twitter deems to be the evil of the day that we should all be offended by no matter how unimportant and trivial it may be

Edited January 29, 201510 yr by allanp

  On 1/29/2015 at 6:02 PM, aol000xw said:

Lego for men I had to check, and... I didn't know of www.legomen.de, but they sure know how to make it look "for men",

I love that site!To bad its only for germany.Also for volvo, there are two kind of commericals.One for kids and one for men.I suspect that men commerical is between so action movie or some sport.