God bless you. I was looking everywhere on the internet to find the letter in my language, no single lego website or other RU-vidr covered it with this much detail. Thank you so much.
Hi Sariel! About the escapement mechanism, I think there was one, but not in a real set... Look at the idea book 8888, there are some impressive idea inside, ( like a kind of motorized shovel ) and one of them was a clock I think, and it used an escapement mechanism... But I might be wrong and confusing with an other idea book, so no promise here... ( Still take a good look at it, I'm sure you will appreciate it :) ) about the light gray / metallic silver, I have a portable typewriter in my house, ( I don't use it since long ago though) and the metal was treated differently on some parts, resulting as some parts being shiny while other were mat... Still, I agree that Lego could make effort on inside colors...
Wow! That brought back memories. My parents gave me an Underwood I think it was to play with as a kid in the late 80's early 90's and it was fun. The sound and feel of it is unforgettable. If you like mechanical and tactile things nothing beats a mechanical typewriter.
I rarely watch lego reviews so I have to say the quality of this video came as a huge surprise. Like the presentation is incredible, with as much information as you could ask for. Even though I've bought this set (partially off of the back of this video), I can only imagine this video gives as close to the feeling of having the set in your hands it could possible have. Fantastic video
You got me impressed - I never thought it would house such a cool mechanism. Very nice review and I love the music you used here. Also thank you for flipping all the pages of the letter booklet - nice to see our language is also included.
This is the kind of set that some people will adore because it looks great and has a really neat mechanism, but some other people will hate because it looks great - besides the bright insides - and has a neat mechanism - but without corresponding function. Thanks for the review! Been binging them at work this week. ;)
The set could have a second sheet of blank paper to hide the text that "has not been typed yet". It could sit behind the ribbon, hiding the text to the right and bottom. I also think that with some tweaking (maybe using some of the piano mechanisms) they could make more arms move randomly. Still is an outstanding set!
I really enjoyed this build, and seeing that Sariel had issues getting the 32L axles lined up with the sides made me feel better about my own struggles. (I basically had to rebuild mine when I blew the whole thing up trying to ifx the alignment on mine.) : D I feel like there was an escapement-like mechanism in a set before, but in a line that was completely unexpected? Kind of like the feeling when you find a Technic mechanism in your daughter's Friends set to make doors move together, but I don't remember what it was that had it. It must have been Creator or Star Wars, as I don't build much else besides Technic, though.
I know of one other Lego escapement mechanism: the FLL Trash Trek field models included one that ejected an 8x8 round brick as a mission game piece. Yes, I know the FLL sets are not generally available to everyone, but they are official sets.
I forgot to add that the fan blade used in the escapement seems to be reasonably available, so I would expect to see a slight increase in escapement mechanisms being used in future MOCs and possibly even official sets using rubber bands to provide the driving force as the shock absorbers are still rare and have such short travel. Thank you for the great review.
2:53 I was imagining that 9x would merely indicate that one is to build 9 of them. But, yeah, these instructions are different. Like the new "turn over" symbol. I would prefer it to indicate which way one should spin the parts around.. Is this the first kit that uses that new multi-axis "turn over" symbol? (Also, Sariel, I like your work. I have one of your Technic books.)
This is truly a great set, the detail is astounding. So glad to see the printed pieces! The fake typebars do look interesting though, they look strangely not like lego. If I saw it from afar I would easily believe it to be a real typewriter. Imagine if they actually sent you the *cough* cash *cough* What does inspector muffin think though?
The only annoying parts of this set is the buttons and the paper i tried tearing like the manual did, ended up ripping half the page, so i had to scan it with my printer lol
Thank you very much for reviewing this optically beautiful, mechanically astonishing, of stability lacking and tremendously overpriced(my opinion) brick set mady by Lego™! It was a pleasure to watch
Another great video! And just a curious question - how long does it take you to make these videos, start to finish? You're doing so much (and it's still too bad RU-vid and the algorithm aren't helping)!
Meh. Bit like the Grand Piano, close, but still a miss. If only they could have got the separate type bars to move and have the option of putting a real ink ribbon in to actually type text. Now that would be impressive. As it is, it's elegant but pretty useless - just like the Piano.
@@searme I can count, RU-vid had 7 yellow dots, and they are double ads now a days, plus there was 2 ads before the video started playing, so adding it all together makes for 16 ads 😊
@@Ponk_80 The dots don't necesarrily mean ads. If you look at some really long video, sometimes a ton of dots are on the timeline but there's not that much ads at all
So what there are ads, I don't get why people moan about ads. Sariel pumps out brilliant content and if it means we have to watch a few seconds of ads to get this content for free then don't see the hardship.
Lego ciągle ma ekologię w d... Woreczki z klockami mogłyby być papierowe, a papieru to mają nadmiar. Zakładając, że ktoś to to kupi to wyrwie list w swoim języku a reszta pójdzie do kosza.