LEGO Inspiration

LEGO Inspiration: 42060 Roadwork Crew, Part 1

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In LEGO Inspiration today, we will show you what we found interesting in LEGO Technic set number 42060 Roadwork Crew. This is one of the smaller Technic sets available, but it has some great functionality that we can carry over into EV3 robot building.

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LEGO Technic set number 42060 Roadwork Crew has 2 models included, so we decided to split this into 2 articles to make it easier. Today we will be talking about the tracked digger.

This tracked digger part of LEGO Technic set number 42060 Roadwork Crew that we will talk about today, we named Scoop. She is a very close friend with Mr. Cherry Picker that we discussed the 42031 Cherry Picker article. Although different pieces are used, there are a lot of similarities in how they work.

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LEGO Inspiration: 70008 Gorzan’s Gorilla Striker

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In LEGO Inspiration today, we will show you what we found interesting in LEGO Legends of Chima set number 70008 Gorzan’s Gorilla Striker.

This is a discontinued LEGO set from The LEGO Legends of Chima series. In Chima, Gorzan and other members of the gorilla tribe use these mechs to swing from vines and walk/run to cover more distance than they could with just their minifigure bodies. The mech’s arms move to help grab the vines, defend themselves, pick up people and things, and make hand gestures, like when they need to give directions to the rhinos.

This set offers a lot of movement with LEGO joints for fingers,  hips, and knees, as well as several missile sites. However, for the purpose of helping EV3 builders and FLL teams, we are going to focus on the gearing that allows the arms to move up and down by turning a knob in the mech’s back.

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LEGO Inspiration: 41237 Batgirl Secret Bunker

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In LEGO Inspiration today, we will show you what we found interesting in DC Super Hero Girls LEGO set number 41237 Batgirl Secret Bunker.

For many LEGO sets we took for granted the Technic elements within them. We decided to look back at some of these sets and show you the things we thought might help in your building efforts. We can learn a lot from LEGO Master Builders!

This set is really cool. So many parts are moveable by using Technic. We will go through the set, section by section.

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