What would you ask the LEGO Technic Team, if you could?

I was thrilled when I found out that TechnicBRICKs was invited to attend the FAN MEDIA DAY event happening next 3rd of June, at the LEGO headquarters in Billund, Denmark.

Can you imagine?... We will have the great pleasure to get together and interview the LEGO Technic team, and by the way also a few other LEGO teams and franchises.

Help us - What would you ask if it was you going there?

Post your questions and we'll take some with us.
But please understand certain questions may collide with TLG trade secrets and also LEGO does not comment on future products and releases. This means it is not worth to ask such questions like, will you ever do this set, release that new element, when will the first LPF 2.0 elements start to appear in Technic sets, etc.

Let your imagination run wild and ask about anything else Technic.

We still have no idea how to make it fit, but this could be also an opportunity to ask the designers about some technicalities that we never completely understood, like certain friction pins that sometimes are used where apparently their frictionless counterparts should have been used instead. We remember this happening for instance with the outriggers in 42009 Mobile Crane MK II and the shaft that turn changeover catches in 8043 Motorized Excavator. Both in parts of flagship hence large sets where friction penalizes performance and easily the batteries struggle to make the respective functions work flawlessly [1, 2]. Do you recall any similar situations which made you wonder .

If you fill likely you may also raise some other general questions. There will be opportunity to interview a few other teams and franchises (e.g LEGO Worlds, LEGO Ideas, Rebrick, etc.) and depending on the questions raised we will book a slot to interview them as well.


Thanks for your contribution. It is much appreciated!

Technicopedia New Update (1999)

Today we made a return to tell you Technicopedia recently got yet another update. This time Eric Albrecht (Blakbird) added his usual detailed descriptions and images for all the LEGO Technic models released in the year of 1999.

This was a year with many new sets (25) but most of them were small vehicles and weird figures which I hardly can identify as Technic, but we all know these kind of obscure years when LEGO was entering in a dark era that almost took the company into bankruptcy...
But since not everything needed to be bad news, this was also the year that brought a major change for the Technic theme. A new supercar was born - 8448 Super Street Sensation aka Super Car Mk II.
By this time the innovative Technic beams had already been introduced, but a new world of curved panels and flex cables just emerged.

Out of curiosity this set resulted from styling exercise. LEGO sponsored a design project at Coventry University and used those ideas in creating the model. They used rounded beams and new fairing panels to suggest body panels and the new flexible cross axles and corrugated tubes to create a curves that were simply not possible with older construction techniques. The result was by far the most realistic looking of the auto chassis released to date.

Apart from the 8466 4x4 Off-Roader, which is super but not exactly a car, the 8448 was in the opinion of many the last LEGO Technic supercar released, but just until we get our hands in the upcoming 46056 Porsche 911 GT3 RS...