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If you are into challenging Lego builds, then the Lego Technic line is the one for you. The Lego Technic is not just bricks and pieces like your ordinary Lego set. It incorporates to your Lego set quite a few more surprising and technical pieces. With the Lego Technic, you have motors, gears and pneumatics to put together in the set. This makes the Technic a great challenge for any builder.

Stud-less construction replaces the iconic Lego studs. But although studded pieces can still be joined with the Lego Technic pieces, it is the builder’s choice to add to the set using his extra Lego bricks. The stud-less constructions allows for smoother stud-less edges and sides and a more realistic feel.

One of the latest to come out of the Lego Technic line is the 8043-1 Motorized Excavator. Dubbed as one of the best set to ever come out of the line, it has gained quite a good fan base. The Excavator comes with two Power Function remotes to control driving the Excavator and the other one for controlling the boom arm and cabin. Just like a real excavator, the 8043-1 is fully-functional. The cabin can spin 360 degrees, and of course, dig like it was meant to dig.

Two receivers, 4 motors, and 4 linear actuators makes this Excavator a great building challenge. As for its playability, it proves to be a fun toy too. The tracks are great and can easily manage obstacles like someone’s flip-flops, and small Lego bricks. The excavator can also dig and lift and can be converted into a pay-loader.

Although with a rather steep price compared to other Lego sets, you will find it justified with all the functionality and its realism. Lego Technic line is designed to be as close to scale and realistic in functions.

What has six wheels, is yellow, can lift minifigs high up in the air, remote controlled, and is made of Lego? The answer is Lego Technic’s 8292 Cherry Picker! With the addition of and innovation brought to us by the Lego Technic line, there has been a surge of a new breed of Lego sets to come into the market.

It is such a far cry from what the earlier Lego generations are used to -just putting together studded bricks. Now, with the Lego Technic, Lego building becomes more technical in certain aspects.

Like the other Lego Technic sets, the Cherry Picker is an engineering challenge and a Lego collector’s delight. Putting together bricks has become more challenging with the integration of motors, drive-shafts, suspension, and other movable parts. It’s really just like building a miniature vehicle, albeit it is much easier than putting together the real truck itself.

The Cherry Picker is functional -a trademark of the Technic line. It is fully movable just like the real truck. You can control its movements (forward, reverse, left and right) just like any RC vehicle. It’s added surprise, however, is that its boom arm can also be controlled with the remote. Prop a minifig on the Cherry Picker’s bucket, and watch it rise up, go around and come back down just like a real Cherry Picker would.

Once put together, the Cherry Picker measures a over 12 inches long and the boom arm can reach about 16 inches high. It also comes with instructions on how to convert your Cherry Picker into a dump truck.

Fun and challenging at the same time, the Cherry Picker is a great addition to any Lego collection. Any serious builder would also have a blast putting together the pieces of the Cherry Picker and watch it go about cherry-picking!

We have seen so many Lego creations depicting notable events in history. Whether you’re talking about the Second World War or the First one or something as far back as the golden age of Egyptian civilization -Lego builders seem to have covered it all.

Lego has depicted life in so many ways and in a thousand facets -be it happiness, violence, greed, wars and even death. Death however is not the usual topic of interest and not the usual inspiration for Lego creations mainly because it is a rather grim future that not many look forward to. It is a good thing that most Lego enthusiasts use the bricks as a celebration of life, of goodness and of fun.

Also used as a form of entertainment and a challenge especially to its adult fans, Lego has gone far and beyond and have stretched itself to many different possibilities -possibilities that its creator must not have dreamed about.

Whether the carpenter who built the very first Legos dreamed about the way minifigures and other Lego elements are used today or not, he must be very pleased.

One Lego enthusiast from North Carolina said, “Legos are a part of my life and they will always be a reminder of my happy childhood. It’s a good thing someone made such a toy because it has taught me so many things in more ways than one.”

Indeed, Lego has inspired many children and adults from all around the globe and these Lego enthusiasts are builders in their own right. Although not many are certified Lego builders, adults who only play with the bricks during their spare time still find joy in creating and building with Lego elements.

According to experts in the toy industry, Lego bricks are one of the very few toys that will endure a hundred years of playtime or maybe even more.

Lego fans, enthusiasts, brick addicts, builders and collectors must have been partying when Lego announced a new addition to an already large and growing line of miniature versions of the various landmarks of the world.

August 6 was the debut of Lego’s 10214 Tower Bridge at the BrickFair, and it was a sight to behold. With a great deal of detail, Lego’s miniature version of the Tower Bridge of London is a must-have set in addition to any collector’s Lego world buildings. The set features a lot of surprising details based on the real bridge itself: the two iconic towers and the walk-way that spans the gap between them, the suspension cables on both ends of the bridge, and even the drawbridge -and yes, the draw bridge works too!

The set  also comes with lots of interesting brick shapes and rare brick colors.  Specifically note worthy are the tan-colored angular bricks and arches, and hundreds of 1×1 slopes. Also included in the set are miniature vehicles like the iconic double-decker bus, a black cab, a yellow truck, and a green car.

Another reason why this set is more interesting  with its new rare brick shapes and colors is that the other things a Lego builder could do with them on a separate project or in MOCs.

The entire set, when put together, measures about forty inches, seventeen inches high, and ten inches wide. The pieces all fit together nice and snug and makes a very sturdy bridge, but it is also easy to take apart in to pieces for travelling or moving it around the house.

The Tower Bridge of London is one of the most iconic piece of architecture in the world. In its time, it was a monumental achievement that followed the peak of development in London. With commerce booming, a need for another crossing over the river Thames was needed. An open competition for the design of the bridge was done and over 50 designs were submitted. However, it was Horace Jones’ design that was approved in 1884.

When on the walkway between the two towers of the bridge, you will see a spectacular view of London and with that vantage point, you’ll also get a glimpse of some of London’s other landmarks such as St. Paul’s Cathedral, London Eye, and the Canary Wharf.

Commonly mistaken as the London bridge, the Tower Bridge of London gets its name from another iconic landmark,  the Tower of London which is located near the bridge. Being a very historic landmark, it is one of London’s most visited tourist spot.

And now that this tourist spot, and one of London’s historical landmarks, has a Lego miniature, you can build one right in your own living room and visit it via the comfort of your own home. Aside from the fact that it is fun to build this set, it is also a great visual aid when it comes to teaching children about the rich history of the landmark.

The trucking industry is a lucrative business and it does not really hurt if you expose your children to trucking and to trucks at an early age because trucks are fun. Apart from that, Lego trucks are also very educational.

A truck or a lorry is the king of the road. Trucks transport cargo on land and are very important elements for different businesses. Varying in size, trucks range from mid-sized to mammoth-like vehicles. The smallest of them are like your regular automobiles while the commercial ones are large and powerful.

Although Lego trucks do not need gasoline, real trucks are powered by gas and consume a lot of it just to make a delivery.

According to experts, the word truck was derived from the Greek term “Trochos”. When directly translated, the word means wheels. The word has evolved has evolved through the years though because in the US, the word truck is usually used for vehicles a bit larger than cars and for pickup trucks or other vehicles that have load beds. In the UK and in Ireland, the term lorry is more accepted when talking about a cargo truck.

There are many kinds of trucks and some of them are not used for business purposes. This includes the fire truck used by fire departments all over the world. Tanker trucks on the other hand are only used for the transport for chemicals, gasoline and other materials that may be toxic. These chemicals can either be in liquid or gas form. Some trucks such as the tanker are also called HGVs or Heavy Goods Vehicles. HGVs also carry large equipment from one point to another.

Trucks are also used to carry different kinds of goods. It could be perishable goods or soft drinks (soda) like the truck on the picture below: