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Do you build the B model?

  • 21-01-2014 07:28PM
    #1
    Closed Accounts Posts: 944 ✭✭✭


    Ideally one would have two sets of everything to build A+B, but that is very expensive :( ....considering the high price of Technic sets i personally build both :)

    To add value and longevity to the buying/building experience before the A model goes on the shelf.

    Pity though Lego don't create C models...good thing about Lego is if you have enough sets you can build any other set in their catalogue :D


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 29,293 ✭✭✭✭Mint Sauce


    jenjenten wrote: »
    Ideally one would have two sets of everything to build A+B, but that is very expensive :( ....considering the high price of Technic sets i personally build both :)

    To add value and longevity to the buying/building experience before the A model goes on the shelf.

    Pity though Lego don't create C models...good thing about Lego is if you have enough sets you can build any other set in their catalogue :D

    Have a cojple of my childhood models on display at home. One of them is the B Model, due to missing peices, and not the correct 'doner' peices from a third model, I was unable to rebuild the A Model. Even the B Model had to be built with few 'doner' bricks. Ie. A black/yellow/gray brick instead of red one.

    I like to think of the third model being a breakers yard for the other two.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,994 ✭✭✭sullivlo


    I regularly break down my A models to make the B models and leave them on display.

    I had a few spare parts so did my very first MOC. Just a pullback car and very basic but I will build up to it. And the next time I see a kit with a motor on offer I will buy it for parts.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,787 ✭✭✭prospect


    I will always build the B model at least once, but usually the 'display' sets are the A model.

    However, one of my first technic sets was 8862 (A=Backhoe & B=Combine Harvester). I loved it as a kid and made both the A & B model regularly. In later life I spotted the set on EBay and bought it, so now I have both A&B models built on display.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 22,911 ✭✭✭✭ShadowHearth


    When I was a kid I would build those regularly. I have not built a single one as afol yet though.

    I haven't seen a single B model that would I the rest me too.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 944 ✭✭✭jenjenten


    When I was a kid I would build those regularly. I have not built a single one as afol yet though.

    I haven't seen a single B model that would I the rest me too.

    I built the B model of the new 42024 and it was brutal! :mad:
    Loads of parts not used, and it looked like crows had picked it clean!

    It was all "framey" with no meat!....you need a tons of parts to fill in all the blank spots

    The B model of the tractor is really good!....a dune buggy with a lovely working piston engine....very clever design!


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