They are here! 2008 Technic sets:

July 4th, 2008 by Airkraft

The long awaited Technic sets (see below) have finally arrived on LEGO S@H

The guys over at TechnicBRICKs.blogspot also compared the prices of all these new sets for every country

		8293	8294	8295	8297
Austria	EUR	34,99	49,99	89,99	109,99
Belgium	EUR	34,99	51,99	82,99	109,99
Finland	EUR	33,95	69,95	99,95	121,95
France Metropolitan	EUR	34,99	59,99	79,99	109,99
Germany	EUR	34,99	49,99	89,99	109,99
Ireland	EUR	34,99	59,99	89,99	139,99
Italy	EUR	32,99	49,99	79,99	109,99
Luxembourg	EUR	34,99	51,99	82,99	121,95
Netherlands	EUR	34,99	51,99	82,99	109,99
Portugal	EUR	34,95	49,95	79,95	109,95
Spain	EUR	34,95	49,95	79,95	109,95
Denmark	DKK	249,75	499,00	799,00	899,00
Sweden	SEK	299,50	629,00	999,00	1.099,00
Switzerland	CHF	59,00	89,00	145,00	179,00
United Kingdom	GBP	24,99	39,99	59,99	89,99
Australia	AUD	49,99	79,99	129,99	179,99
New Zealand	NZD	49,99	99,99	149,99	199,99
Canada	CAD	39,99	74,99	109,99	149,99
United States	USA	29,99	59,99	89,99	119,99

I also noticed that Lego UK have lowered their prices for the snowmobile by £6 and the tractor by £12. looks like im going to be spending my birthday money after all!

I finally Bought Me a Crawler Crane

February 20th, 2008 by Airkraft

I have been meaning to buy myself the crawler crane set (8288) for ages, but Lego discontinued them in the UK at Christmas 2007. However, after spending my £5 Lego voucher in my local Lego shop yesterday, I went to Toys R Us and to my great surprise, they had ONE left in stock. So I bought it.

LEGO set 8288

And I must say, this is one of the best sets I have ever bought (apart from the NXT). It took me about 70 minutes to build, and it spent last night guarding my phone on my desk. Today I will build the second model that can be made from the set, and then tomorrow I will set about sorting out the pieces, so I can use them in my upcoming Mindstorms Models.

-Airkraft

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Heavy Lifter

January 27th, 2008 by snowblader13

The idea to make a crane to lift heavy objects came from Philo’s Webpage. His Crane Pimousse® uses an RCX but I only have an NXT so i decided to give it a try.I Used 50 pound test fishing line as the lift cable. It uses 8 pulleys to give it mechanical advantage to be able to lift an extremely heavy load.

It is designed to sit between two halves of a table and have the hook go up and down between them. At the time I built Heavy Lifter I did not have very many parts so I could not make it move as Philo’s does. If I were to build one today I would certainly make it movable. In my tests, It lifted about 40 Pounds about a foot in the air. It is rather slow because the lifting mechanism is geared down to be able to lift such a massive load.

It mostly uses parts from the Retail kit [8257] and the Crawler Crane [8288] and possibly maybe some other parts from other kits I’m not quite sure.

At this time I do not have any Videos, LDD file or Program, due to the lack of pictures and time to attempt to rebuild it. Sorry!!!

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