you know nintendo uncle? Well my mum was lego's first employee in Australia, she spent a summer holiday playing lego with kids at the Melbourne department store Myer. She had a cool lego enamel pin that as I a kid I was obsessed with to the point of losing finding, wearing everywhere all the time, breaking, losing traumatically forever. I ended up with not the 8880, but the 8860. It was mind blowing (the diff and the steering!) I'm still building stuff with the bits with my own kids 40 years later.
8880 Super Car (2010)
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Re: 8880 Super Car (2010)
#22I had the 8440 as a kid[1]. I loved that set.
Re: 8880 Super Car (2010)
#23As 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…
I wonder if there is literature about improvement in Lego instructions. Current instructions still don't highlight specific changes, although they do list out the parts to be used. As I've watched my kids grow to work it out for themselves it is interesting to see how much tacit Lego knowledge is needed to complete a particular step.
Some of them actually do highlight specific changes, but Lego Group isn't consistent about it, even in sets of similar scale released around the same time.
For example, the instructions in the Lego UCS A-Wing from 2020 don't highlight changes; the Space Shuttle Discovery (released 2021) instructions do (with a red outline around the pieces added). The Shuttle set's a bit bigger, but the two sets are fairly similar in terms of scale and build complexity; it seems that it's really up to the designer to decide how explicit the instructions are (whether or not things are highlighted, how many things happen in each step, when specific parts are called out with arrows, etc.).
Re: 8880 Super Car (2010)
#24Site stopped updating models after 2016 (hope blakbird is alright), had to pop on wiki to find relief that technic line is still ongoing. Great memories. Donated my collection worth $$$$ to an orphanage after graduating, still a decision that I guiltily regret to this day.
Re: 8880 Super Car (2010)
#25I got this when I was about 8 as one of my first Technic sets yet, what a great memory. Think I prefer the Formula 1 version of 8880 though :D ( https://www.flickr.com/photos/125424377@N04/23490561113/in/a... ).
I was thinking that it also has a semi truck configuration, but I was confusing this set with 8458: https://www.worthpoint.com/worthopedia/lego-technic-8458-sil... The permutations in these sets are extraordinary.
I bought and built this for my 21st, which is now over 21 years ago.
Re: 8880 Super Car (2010)
#26Was given the 8880 Super Car as a kid. Pretty sure it's the only reason I survived a vacation on an island having, unexpectedly, no automatic transmission cars.
Why was no automatic transmission cars a problem?
Re: 8880 Super Car (2010)
#27Despite the claim that the driven wheel hubs are only in 8880 they also show up in the Porsche 911 GT3 RS (42056) which is fascinating for the combination of technical detail (no rear-wheel steering, though, sadly; maybe speed-dependent direction is simply beyond Lego) and fairly accurate appearance.
What has always bugged me a bit is that the large car models are a bit too heavy for standard Lego motors to power them.
Re: 8880 Super Car (2010)
#28I had this set as a kid, and loved it. Unfortunately, it didn't survive moving houses, and my parents have already passed away. Nowadays, you'll need to pay a fortune online to get one of these.
Re: 8880 Super Car (2010)
#29I bought that with my student loan. No regrets :)
Re: 8880 Super Car (2010)
#30I'm a few years too young to have had this set, but I did have the Space Shuttle/submarine set (http://technicopedia.com/8480.html) and the red supercar with some flexible part (http://technicopedia.com/8448.html) and the pneumatic crane (http://technicopedia.com/8460.html). Was I spoiled? Sure sounds like it now.
I can only hope to give the same joy to my own kid some time i a few years