8880 Super Car (2010) • Hacker News Board

Re: 8880 Super Car (2010)

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Post by howenterprisey » Mon, Nov 29, 2021, 8:10 AM UTC

JonathonW wrote: post #23

adolph wrote: post #11

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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…

Tangentially, I own a LEGO fanmade book with a detailed guide on how to create instructions for your own creations. I don't have it on hand, but I recall POV-Ray was involved.

Re: 8880 Super Car (2010)

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Post by spockz » Mon, Nov 29, 2021, 8:13 AM UTC

djmips wrote: post #26

ectocardia wrote: post #18

Was 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?

Apparently manual gearboxes are rare in the states and beholden to “sporty” cars. “Driving stick” is a specialty. In Europe it is the other way around and automatics were rare. Now with hybrid and electric cars automatic transmissions are becoming more popular.

Re: 8880 Super Car (2010)

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Post by shimonabi » Mon, Nov 29, 2021, 8:20 AM UTC

My parents bought me this set for my 13th(?) birthday. It cost a lot of money, maybe a third of the average monthly pay in my country.

It was gathering dust on some window sill for a long time and when I went to college, they donated the assembled car to some kid without my permission. He wasn't even poor and they didn't give him the box or assembly instructions.

I'm still angry about that. I never built the alternative F1 car.

Re: 8880 Super Car (2010)

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Post by muro » Mon, Nov 29, 2021, 8:20 AM UTC

bensun13 wrote: post #12

Awesome site. Wish it kept going after 2016. The Range Rover (42110) released in 2019 has a lot of the same features.

+1 The Range Rover is amazing. I don't have the English vocabulary to correctly name what they do, so I'll just summarize with: if you can still get one, it's an amazing experience to build it, how things come together, especially how rotation elements go around some pieces.

Re: 8880 Super Car (2010)

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Post by [deleted] » Mon, Nov 29, 2021, 8:31 AM UTC

shimonabi wrote: post #33

My parents bought me this set for my 13th(?) birthday. It cost a lot of money, maybe a third of the average monthly pay in my country. It was gathering dust on some window sill for a long time and when I went to college, they donated the assembled car to some kid without my permission. He wasn't even poor and they didn't give him the box or assembly instructions. I'm still angry about that. I never built the alternat…

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Re: 8880 Super Car (2010)

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Post by tromp » Mon, Nov 29, 2021, 8:34 AM UTC

mdmglr wrote: post #9

I just completed the Bugatti Chiron 42083 set which has a lot of similarities to this set. https://www.lego.com/en-us/product/bugatti-chiron-42083

While I'm sure there's a large audience for all these highly realistic looking sets using tons of custom parts, I can't get myself to like them. I love the 8880 set for showing how much can be achieved in functionality and aesthetics by adhering to universal building blocks.

Re: 8880 Super Car (2010)

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Post by blunte » Mon, Nov 29, 2021, 8:47 AM UTC

I thought this was pretty technically advanced in 1980.

http://www.technicopedia.com/8860.html

Re: 8880 Super Car (2010)

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Post by skhr0680 » Mon, Nov 29, 2021, 9:59 AM UTC

djmips wrote: post #26

ectocardia wrote: post #18

Was 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?

OP learned how to drive stick from the technic set

Re: 8880 Super Car (2010)

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Post by vestrigi » Mon, Nov 29, 2021, 10:07 AM UTC

dirtyid wrote: post #24

Site 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.

A very noble decision. I bet your collection sparked the interest in mechanics or kept the mind off some trouble for some less privileged kids rather than collecting dust in a collector’s show room.

Re: 8880 Super Car (2010)

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Post by matja » Mon, Nov 29, 2021, 10:30 AM UTC

glandium wrote: post #3

I was more into computers than into Legos when the 8880 came out, but I liked this one: http://www.technicopedia.com/8865.html ... which I never actually had, but I had enough pieces from other sets to build one from the pictures in catalogs.

Impressive! I had set 8865 and it was the only set I had which had those suspension and wishbone pieces.