Thats 10 percent of the bricks for 10 percent of the price. 
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You ordered that before your graduation…
What if you flunked?
Well deserved!
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He wouldn’t of flunked, he’s the man!
X wing away ted, you deserved it 
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Good lord man, graduating while married, with a young family, and mudspike…
…you deserve the Death Star.
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Treated myself to a little technic set for my 46th birthday:
It’ll take some time to build. It has a motor to turn the rotor and tail rotor and a working cyclic and collective!
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That one is really cool!
I haven’t got it myself, but I have an earlier Technic heli that sports a similar setup.
Great for learning how all that rotating and flapping junk actually works…
Happy birthday, btw 
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Oooh my he grew up so much!
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Ooh boy, do I have a story there about my Capstone project and group.
But needless to say, I wasn’t one of the group members in danger of failing the class.
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Finished the build. What a machine. I love it, kids love it. Only took about 16 hours total to build.
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That looks amazing!
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Oh it is, the main mass is an ingenious gearbox that allows the single motor to turn the rotors at two speeds, raise/lower the gear and operate the winch through a series of clutches and gears. And then there’s also the real honest-to-God working rotor head. It’s a beautiful set. Easily the best big technic set I have gotten since the big mercedes dump truck.
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How well does the cyclic work for you? I find mine isn’t ‘great’ … which has be wondering if I blundered through a few of the early steps and messed something up.
Also, I noted when putting it together that there are some steps that seem … difficult … to undo. IE: things get put together in a way that is hard to disassemble.
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Yes, it’s not perfect. The asymetry in it’s mechanism puts the load on too few supporting bits. But it works and that’s what matters.
One of the great lessons building lego teaches is that perfection is hardly ever attainable. Your shape will always be an approximation and mechanisms always end up chunky and slow .
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Thats why i havent bought the D11R yet. The blade movement is horribly slow
nice one, looks huge!
Oh for sure. Lego, because of the nature of the product, adds some design and technical complexity (or shifts some design and technical complexity) to pieces that are not optimal. I was looking to make sure that I had not messed something up. My ADHD sometimes has me missing/skipping steps. Usually I can tell from the left over pieces if I have missed something critical - which I have done (and discovered) in the past
Holy Brickstuds, Batman!
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Holy caped crusaders Batman! Wow!
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