No matter how you display the V-22, it looks stunning from any angle. The top, the sides, and even the bottom are decorated with panels, so there no gears or axles exposed. I wonder why they used double cross connectors in light gray instead of dark gray. The piece can be found in dark gray in several other sets available today. A bunch of light gray connectors here and there ruins the color scheme a little bit.

OPLYSNING: Vi kan optjene en provision, hvis du bruger et af vores links til at foretage et køb uden omkostninger for dig. In July, the German Peace Society issued a warning against LEGO releasing the licensed V-22. Despite rebranding of the aircraft in the set to make it a search and rescue aircraft, the German Peace Society released a statement saying: On 1. August 2020 LEGO® plans to release its first ever military set while internal corporate value documents forbid the production of current military vehicles. The German DFG-VK also criticises the license placed on the set. With every buy, customers help to finance arms companies. I wonder if part of the mindset is that Lego (being a European company) has a kind of aversion to modern military sets due to the company having lived through WWII, a kind of hard stop built into the company’s DNA. I do feel that they bent the rules to include Indiana Jones sets. I think they ran afoul of their own policy because the Osprey was a licensed set. I think of the Blue Power Jet (31039), which is remarkably similar to the F35, as an example of modern military-like set. I find it bizarre that people insist that Lego is trying to hide the real reason it was cancelled. A bad gearbox design makes tons of sense. Yes, they could have sold it then sold fix kits like the did with Wall-e. But who really wants that. Here is the official statement, confirming that following yesterday’s news, the set is indeed cancelled:It turns out that adding a second set of three gears is actually much simpler. Rather than have one set of gears surrounded by two 3l beams in the middle of the gearbox, why not have 2 sets of gears with one beam between them, like this: LEGO® has a policy of not releasing modern war vehicles as a set. After the LEGO® 42133 was unveiled, it was therefore criticized from various sides and even announced to demonstrate at LEGO® Brand Retail Stores. LEGO® therefore decided to postpone the launch and therefore cancel it entirely. Addeddate 2020-12-15 23:19:32 Identifier 42113-instruction Identifier-ark ark:/13960/t6261fg81 Ocr tesseract 4.1.1 Ocr_autonomous true Ocr_detected_lang ky Ocr_detected_lang_conf 1.0000 Ocr_detected_script Latin The Lego distributor in Vietnam put the set on the shelf early. I bought it. I paid a photocopy shop to have it scanned. I've concluded that it matters whether you engage the gearbox before turning on the motor, or vice-versa. If you do the former with the gearbox switched ready to rotate the blades, the motor struggles to get up to speed due to the friction it needs to overcome and the first couple of 8t gears in the chain can't handle the torque.

Whilst I agree the Wall E set had a design flaw,it was easily rectified with the parts supplied from Lego. No physical damage was done to the actual parts. In recent years, LEGO has limited the scope of their military restriction to modern military vehicles. This allowed them to create sets based on historic military vehicles like the WWI-era Sopwith Camel biplane and Fokker Dr.1 triplane. Worked a treat and so simple! Thank you for saving this incredible model. Given how great the whole thing is designed, we can forgive them one boo-boo (it’s happened before).V-22 Osprey model fills the gap: here comes a simple hub with two ports and two physical switches. The new simple hub has no sensors onboard and no Bluetooth support, so you can’t control it using a smart device. From a functional standpoint, the smart hub is similar to a combination of the Power Function regular battery box and an IR receiver, while the new simple hub is practically just a battery box with two switches. Physically, both hubs are identical. However, the simple one has only two ports and a LED indicator instead of a button on top. Just imagine what kind of quality of sets we could have if people like Huw (or Sariel, or Jang for that matter) worked for TLG. EU: 6288785 Availability Retail Notes This set was cancelled. However, a large number were distributed to stores and sold prior to its cancellation. Rating ✭ ✭ ✭ ✭ ✩ 4.1 The way the gearbox has been designed makes it possible to channel power to all four movements at once, although everything pretty much grinds to a halt if you do so. It's prototypical to tilt the engines forwards once the blades are spinning and it's certainly possible to do that, but the motor strains a bit. I will not be discussing its suitability as a LEGO model, or the company's decision to cancel it at the last minute in this article.