Potential Technic Group Buy - Porker & Excavator

[richtea78]

Bugger, seeing the B model on the bucket wheel I was going to ask to get one more!

Will wait for the sales

[Megaflow]

Excavator arrived today, thank you.

It was a pleasant surprise because I hadn't heard anything from DPD.

[boxster9]

A special thanks to Russ and Podie for arranging this. Look forward to next years!

[boxster9]

A special thanks to Russ and Podie for arranging this. Look forward to next years!

[Stig]

Despite the anonymous packaging, I returned home to 'What the hell is that lot'



Job done

[gazzarose]

I started my build tonight. I was going to wait but building the little truck on Monday night I had urge to do more. I started about 5.30 and stopped just before 10.30, and just finished the 4th group of bags. Really enjoyable build so far. Lots of bits where your trying to figure out how they are going to link things together. It's going to be BIG though. I think I'll need a big shelf to display it. Will probably do a bit more on the weekend.

[BertieWooster]

Stig said:

Despite the anonymous packaging, I returned home to 'What the hell is that lot'



Job done

What did you order?

[russy01]

BertieWooster said:

What did you order?

You'd be surprised, but we had about 40-50 orders go out in those huge boxes! Courier had a heart attack when they come in on their first collection, one said in a Jaws impression, "You're gonna need a bigger van!"

[David87]

Thanks again - got the M-B Arocs truck yesterday too. Now have lots of LEGO to be getting on with!

[Podie]

Stig said:

Despite the anonymous packaging, I returned home to 'What the hell is that lot'



Job done

WTF is that?!!?

That green thing...

[Podie]

David87 said:

Thanks again - got the M-B Arocs truck yesterday too. Now have lots of LEGO to be getting on with!

Saw the MB Arocs on the site for £128 and thought "ooh, bargain!"

[sorrento205]

Ive just finished the 911's first box. Very interesting build so far. Hardest part has been keeping it out of the reach of my 3year old!

One question if anyone else has got this far, the PDK paddle shifters don't actually seem to do anything and i'm starting to panic that i've messed up a step!? Should they be physically interacting with the gear changing mechanism by now?

[Stig]

Podie said:

WTF is that?!!?

That green thing...

LOL! That's one of my 5 year old's crocs. Included for scale

[Stig]

BertieWooster said:

What did you order?

Details in the spreadsheet!

[bobski1]

Picked my order up yesterday with a response from the Mrs of 'I thought you were going to order lego?'

Properly cannot wait to get started, dilemma is which one first

[Boydie88]

sorrento205 said:

Ive just finished the 911's first box. Very interesting build so far. Hardest part has been keeping it out of the reach of my 3year old!

One question if anyone else has got this far, the PDK paddle shifters don't actually seem to do anything and i'm starting to panic that i've messed up a step!? Should they be physically interacting with the gear changing mechanism by now?

Definitely should be doing something.



The orange 2 block in the middle should be rotating 90 degrees each time you pull a shifter, effectively engaging a different gear.

[sorrento205]

Yep. Working now, turns out i wasn't pulling the shifter hard/far enough to rotate the sequence mechanism

[David87]

Podie said:

Saw the MB Arocs on the site for £128 and thought "ooh, bargain!"

Yeah, I couldn't resist it. Have also bought the Beetle, so this month I've spent over £400 on LEGO.

[CocoPops]

Got mine today, collected from Neighbour.
Think I was first to order

[DeaconFrost]

Echo all the other comments - many thanks for organising this.

My Porsche is still in the box as I'm attempting to prolong the pleasure because I know once I start it it'll be finished far too quickly.