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The male E-car driver's ginger hairpiece is a new colour and his face print is new. His torso has only been seen twice. I am not a great fan of the Powered Up system. I had this train set up at a recent public display and was unable to pair up the hub with the controller. This could be due to spurious Bluetooth signals that occur whenever there are lots of people, with lots of smartphones nearby.
The open wagon makes very effective use of those 4x6 hinge plates from the Vidiyo theme, and the car carrier (like this year's passenger train) does a great job showcasing how useful that new-ish 6x16x2 2/3 chassis piece can be for train models. I'm also impressed with how unique the container wagon assembly is compared to usual City train cars, which are generally built on one large plate or some other dedicated chassis piece. There are two Dark Orange containers. This is the first instance of the Wall 1x6x5 part in this colour. Regarding part size, I have to imagine that the *average* size of a parts in each set is roughly the same across the board. I'm fine with larger parts being undervalued and smaller parts being overvalued. It's an approximation that some people find useful - which is very much the approach engineers take in the real world. I'm referring to design engineers, but quite possibly also train engineers ;) I can make my own judgement about the locomotive for instance, but I'd be curious to know what a real train enthusiast thinks of it. Does it mirror anything in the real world? Does the colour scheme and shaping look good from a train perspective? Etc.Another price per part analysis. Meaningless to me. You look at the set and immediately think of its value. Price per part is pseudo science as all parts are different. When you buy a real car do you divide the price by how many parts are in it? No, you look at features, quality, design, etc. And how can you possibly give the same value to a 1x1 plate and a Power Up hub? Can we stop the insanity???" Regarding this set, I am very disappointed with the automobile transport car. It's way too high, specifically higher than the pantographs on the locomotive, which makes absolutely no sense. Something like that should have been noticed early in concept design. There is also no logical way for the bottom car on the transport to get out—the focus is all on the top platform, so maybe the entire thing should have been designed to be single-story.
However, I would have certainly appreciated more opinions throughout this review. Bar a couple of sentences here and there, the majority of this review reads like a description of the images. It's handy having the recolours pointed out, but what about the design of the train? Now that they’ve making sets with sequences of numbered bags being opened at the same time, maybe they plan to do away with duplicate bag numbers. If they do, all you’d need to know going forward is the highest number…assuming all the bags are from the correct set.
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First, there're already third-party BT apps to control PU, both for PC and Mobile. Even if Lego will delist theirs, you'll find a way to connect and run the motor. I'm also positive someone will find a way to extract the latest firmware and update it via an app. Same goes to Mario. BT as a technology is here to stay, at least in our lifetime, and software can be re-written by fans.
The significant changes of this fifth edition with respect to the previous edition are detailed in Clause E.6. These changes are:
When loaded, the cars pose a height hazard and will challenge train layouts that include bridges and tunnels. Shame to hear about the trouble syncing the controller in a big convention/expo type setting. I suppose some of the strengths of a Bluetooth connection compared to an IR connection (e.g. having a greater maximum range, not requiring a clear line of sight between the controller and receiver, not experiencing interference from bright sunlight, etc) aren't always worth the trade-offs. agreed. This review is nothing but captions of pictures, with very little analysis or critical thought provided. Comparisons to real world trains, discussion of building techniques, anything? "
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