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VOLVO CONSTRUCTION EQUIPMENT AND LEGO® TECHNIC TEAM UP WITH CHILDREN TO CREATE AN AUTONOMOUS CONCEPT WHEEL LOADER OF THE FUTURE.

Volvo Concept Wheel Loader ZEUX is a revolutionary autonomous concept wheel loader. Jointly developed by Volvo Construction Equipment and Lego® Technic.

Last months I was cruising barns for Lego Technic gems. Sometimes I am lucky most of the times I run into tear jerking situations where owners or former owners just left their sets victim to the destruction of time. Even ones who try to fix up their sets with new parts completely out of chronological sense. Like this 8860 famous car chassis I ran into lately. This one is for its time a great set and full of functions and high level of play-ability and can really be used as a chassis to build all kind of bodies on. I even saw once a guy who build a Porsche body on top of it. The one  found was in a really sad state. There was one thing I could go along with and that was the fact that the grey front box was enriched with a lid. Because this set doesn't have any room or place for bagage storage. You could store some belongings behind the chairs but that will get them dirty during your ride. 

Browsing through the rich history of Lego Technic sets I discovered that there are a lot of small sets. Scanning all these 'small' technic sets I decided that I would consider sets with 100 or less parts as small.

Reading our Dutch equivalent of Cosmopolitan..., hmm should I mention this at all in this article intro? Anyway reading the Linda. of November 2015 I ran into a picture of Mastermind game. This is a game from the 70-ties, which immediately spawned memories of my youth spending time at my grand parents. My grandpa was a mathematician in both profession and hobby. So he teached us all kind of fun number-games or logic-games. One of them was Master Mind. 

Since a few weeks I am busy collecting photo material for Technic Set history. This is a very interesting action. going through the history of Lego Technic. I do have already this idea for a longer time to collect all technic Lego sets and put them in a picture collection. Currently I finished the 70-ties and 80-ties.

With this collection/way of representation you should be able to filter on type of set like farm, car or race or filter by year. Currently you can do that via menu 'Pages' and select either 'Technic Sets' or 'Set Time Line'. I only concentrate on sets or idea books so no educational sets or replacement part sets.

As I wrote before where I ran into set 857 Motorcycle I rebuild the 855 Mobile Crane. In 2009 I picked up Technic Lego again as a hobby. However it started all in 1980 when I got the 8860 as a birthday present. So I do have some history with Technic Lego. This set is again amazingly great considering the limited technic parts available in that time. First thing is the color scheme with just the basic colors bleu, red, yellow, black and grey for technic parts. Unfortunately I couldn't build the set precisly in the same colours. Find the differences :-).

The Lamborghini Aventador LP 720-4 50° Anniversario is a limited and numbered series of 200 units worldwide and thus one of the most exclusive models ever produced in the history of Lamborghini.

The model features:
- full independent suspension
- V12 engine
- 5+R all wheel drive transmission gearbox
- functional steering wheel
- opening leaf doors
- opening hood

This model is including free building instructions which are very detailed and reveals the genius design of this car. The lines of this care are really greatly mimiced. With some very creative ways of using certain parts he made it possible to get it as close as possible. Like using panel fairings for the engine cover.

Watch through the pictures and the buidling instructions to see this yourself.

This week this Sporty snow mobile catched my eye. This is a compact motorized tracked vehicle. I like the way the engine is connected to the tracks via an angled compact transfer from the engines to the tracks. The images for the buidling instructions are clear enough. You can find more details here.

The Lego Movie Sequel has landed a director.

Rob Schrab of TV's Community and The Mindy Project will mark his feature directorial debut in the anticipated animated sequel to The Lego Movie.

Phil Lord and Christopher Miller, who wrote and directed 2014's The Lego Movie, are writing the new feature based on a story by Lord, Miller, Jared Stern and Michelle Morgan.

Every week I browse the internet for information on Technic Lego. Last week I ran into this BMW R-12 motor cycle with sidecar. This model is originally from 1939 a real classic. What I like in this moc is the creative way of building by Miguev. Reading the text it is surprising that this model is even foreseen with remote control. Comparing it with the images this one has great similarities and is immediately recognizable.

More details you can find here BMW r-12 sidecar.

Lego Overtakes Ferrari as the World’s Most Powerful Brand

• Analysis of the world’s top brands shows Lego has replaced Ferrari as the most powerful
• Success of The Lego Movie has propelled the already well-loved brand to the #1 spot
• Ferrari was last year’s most powerful brand, but has dropped to 9^th
• Apple caps a record-breaking month with the highest brand value in history, $128.3bn
• Twitter is the fastest growing brand; its brand value has nearly tripled in a year
• Results, graphs & analysis can be found here and in the Brand Finance Global 500 report

Every year, leading brand valuation and strategy consultancy Brand Finance puts thousands of the world’s top brands to the test. They are evaluated to determine which are the most powerful, and the most valuable.

‘Everything is Awesome’ for Lego

Full article you can find here.

Lately I was working on the Lego© Technic history pages and run into the 857 Motorcycle from 1979. In fact a great model for the time. So my kids and I have a lot of Lego so first investigated if we would have the majority of parts in right color. This turned out to be positive. I was stunned by the complexity for this age and 'puberty' of Technic Lego©.

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The most exciting release from Lego Technic for a long time. This very faithful representation of the Mercedes Unimog go-anywhere light truck could mark the beginning of a return to form