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8880 Super Car (2010)

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Re: 8880 Super Car (2010)

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Post by Swizec »

So many fond memories with this set. I mustve assembled and disassembled it dozens of times from elementary school to college.

But most of all it fed my own inventions and experimentation with parts. I knew them almost all by heart.

I think the coolest build it fed were the 6 or 7 generations of crash test cars I built to “study” how car crashes work and how to build a car that’s safe. The satisfaction you get from building a crash car to the latest design from memory then smash it into the wall from across the living room. Man that was fun.

One day I tried a rollover test and the custom wheel hub pieces broke. Now I can never rebuild the 8880 set again … sad

I wonder if the new Bugatti build comes close to the awesomeness of the 8880? Been thinking of getting that to relive some fond memories

Re: 8880 Super Car (2010)

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Post by ocdtrekkie »

I had this set and sadly never finished it. I ran into a lot of issues putting it together (I forget my age at the time) and then at a given point I found a manufacturing defect in a piece that halted my progress and never moved past that.

Today it's incredibly easy to order a replacement for a missing or defective piece online. I imagine if I had this set intact today, it would've been trivial to continue.

Re: 8880 Super Car (2010)

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Post by dbcurtis »

Swizec wrote: post #5

So many fond memories with this set. I mustve assembled and disassembled it dozens of times from elementary school to college. But most of all it fed my own inventions and experimentation with parts. I knew them almost all by heart. I think the coolest build it fed were the 6 or 7 generations of crash test cars I built to “study” how car crashes work and how to build a car that’s safe. The satisfaction you get from b…

The wheel hubs are probably available on Brinklink.

Apologies in advance for enabling your Lego addiction.

Re: 8880 Super Car (2010)

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Post by sossles »

As a kid I always wanted the 8860 set: http://www.technicopedia.com/8860.html. It was well beyond the means of my family at time, and I had almost forgotten it existed until I discovered my wife's family had it in their Lego stash and thus I had a chance to live out my childhood again.

Building the 8860 made me realise how much Lego instructions have improved, as every step is basically a game of spot-the-difference trying to work out what pieces have been added. Not so bad for a small build, but in these complex builds it's a long process, especially when all the parts have been mixed into a larger collection of bits.

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