My best christmas gift.
8880 Super Car (2010)
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Re: 8880 Super Car (2010)
#42I have this car, get it on my 11th birthday.
It has indeed a lot of interesting items.
I build with lego from my 4th to around 18th almost everyday, and this was indeed one of the best i received.
I always build custom vehicles, cars, trucks, tractors, etc. and i used a lot of the parts of this car.
Now i see it again, i think i have to build it again, and hope i can find back all the parts in all my lego storage boxes :)
Re: 8880 Super Car (2010)
#43My 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…
That sounds really hard to deal with! Sorry.
Re: 8880 Super Car (2010)
#44I had a lot of other big technic sets at the time. I remember this one, and I also remember my parents telling me it was too expensive.
They were not joking.
Not too long ago I wanted to gift a technic set and I was shocked at the prices. The fact that most modern sets also use a lot of custom parts was also something that goes against the lego mindset IMHO.
It would still be something that I would totally buy for my children, but not as a gift for somebody else.
Re: 8880 Super Car (2010)
#45> For this reason, among others, I rate this as among my top 5 sets ever. The only reason I can't rate it #1 is that all 5 are so good.
I wonder which are the other 4 sets.
Re: 8880 Super Car (2010)
#46Site 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.
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Re: 8880 Super Car (2010)
#47As 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…
It's sad that they don't keep these sets going. Somehow my parents bought me a Technik set when I was a kid. I say somehow, because it's expensive to me now, and I grew up in the economic climate of the 90s in the USSR. I am almost 100% sure this set is the reason I am comfortable working on technical stuff ranging from code to mechanics to building computers, etc. The set in the OP actually teaches you how a transmission works - that's something few adults understand from tutorials, but its hard not to understand it when you build it.
Re: 8880 Super Car (2010)
#48Earlier quoted context omitted.
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.
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Re: 8880 Super Car (2010)
#49I thought this was pretty technically advanced in 1980. http://www.technicopedia.com/8860.html
I had the previous one:
http://www.technicopedia.com/853.html
- which didn't have a rear differential. My father (an engineer) made one from regular bits which was spun by a large pulley with (trigger warning!) the centre drilled out so an axle could freely pass through it.
Re: 8880 Super Car (2010)
#50I 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.
I am in the same boat - to me the "generic" Technik is the only lego that's worthwhile.