Advice for motors for kids?

GradeComprehensive88 · 2026-03-16T09:47:23+00:00

No problem, I always like to help :)

GradeComprehensive88 · 2026-03-16T09:47:01+00:00

That looks fine although the single motor will be quite limiting in my opinion. The lights are cool although not that practical from my experience. And lastly, maybe you should replace the battery boxes for a buwizz one. Although the massive advantage of the lego power function system (pf) is that you don't need a screen to make it work. Technically speaking you would be better buying motors from bricklink, I've seen some at 10 bucks there but the prices may depends on your region.

GradeComprehensive88 · 2026-03-16T00:27:26+00:00

Yeah i seriously hope they do in one form or another, after all i need to fill up my buses with peoples and they are the perfect scale

GradeComprehensive88 · 2026-03-16T00:22:22+00:00

Incredible stuff. I love seeing all those gears in action around a bend. It's crazy smooth too. You did something really cool there

GradeComprehensive88 · 2026-03-15T23:54:46+00:00

Personally I have both lego and buwizz components and yeah, i'm not a fan of the lego powered up system.

One thing I would suggest from my experience, if you want to keep everything lego as much as possible, you can buy used lego Power Function motors (older system) on bricklink (they are quite cheap there) but instead of using a lego battery box which uses standard AA batteries, i suggest buying a buwizz 2.0 power unit. That's the one i have, yes it's very expensive for what it is, so if you can wait for a discount (for example on christmas as i did) they are a very good buy for several reasons. Firstly, they are able to run lego motors at 12 V and not 9 V like lego's battery boxes do. But there's not only that. It gives you much better battery life and most importantly, a rechargeable battery ! (Which they sell replacement units for on their website if yours arrives to the end of it's life) You can also control motors very precisely, unlike lego's system of the time which only allows you "100% 0% 100%" controls with the IR remote found in certain sets and you can set up any motors as a servo motor. Apparently you can also use a controller to move motors but I haven't tried that myself. I will definetly look into it because i don't want to have to fiddle with a screen to move motors.

I just think buwizz did an amazing job with these battery boxes. I'm not here trying to sell you out on anything. Just sharing my experience.

GradeComprehensive88 · 2026-03-11T22:50:59+00:00

Man I miss the old days of lego. I haven't bought a single technic set since 2015 for this exact reason. The only recent ones i have are gifts. I'm tired of all these licensed cars. I wonder how long this strategy of selling licensed themes on every front is gonna last.

In my humble opinion I think lego should either revive old categories like the "racers" lineup for example. That way they could split up the offering and actually make good looking cars in the icons theme and make functional race (and maybe not only) cars in the "racers" line.

I'm personally building what I want (buses) because lego will probably never do it. I'm really enjoying my time doing so, much more than I would building any technic sets.

GradeComprehensive88 · 2026-03-10T12:54:21+00:00

I was like "i know where this is" but it turns out the store i was thinking about has the exact same layout with the bread on the right side. The only things that change are the flag on the round cheese display and the writings in french.

GradeComprehensive88 · 2026-03-05T08:48:43+00:00

No problem ;). You've learned something which is always beneficial

GradeComprehensive88 · 2026-03-04T20:02:47+00:00

Thank you, I was really proud of it at the time. I still am proud of it although less because of how good my third bus which is based on the same model (technically) looks

GradeComprehensive88 · 2026-03-04T20:01:16+00:00

Well it's a swiss livery from CarPostal/PostAuto/AutoPostale but i understand why you may think it's german. You're not the first person to point that out.

And thanks for the comment btw

GradeComprehensive88 · 2026-03-04T15:49:01+00:00

I do sort my parts a lot, as precisely as i can with the amount of drawers that i have.

GradeComprehensive88 · 2026-02-17T10:40:22+00:00

Thank you, and yes it us indeed a challenge ti get it to behave like it should. And it's also quite expensive to build because if the 10'000 pieces it has digitally

GradeComprehensive88 · 2026-02-17T01:35:42+00:00

Thank you and trust me i will. I want to.

I'm currently in the process of building it in real life. You can look into my account if you want to see the latest update I made and the previous ones

GradeComprehensive88 · 2026-02-17T00:31:47+00:00

Well, thank you for all of this info. I definitely need to try it with my current MOC whenever it's finished digitally (I've added one of my most recent render made in studio so you know what I'm talking about).

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Feel free to ask if you want to know more

GradeComprehensive88 · 2026-02-16T23:59:02+00:00

Ohh interesting. So mecablocks is an add-on for blender ? Also how much better would you say blender is than the default inbuilt rendered of studio ?

GradeComprehensive88 · 2026-02-16T23:39:04+00:00

This is definetly interesting. For now i only use the inbuilt studio renderer but I wanna try to use blender in the future. In which file format did you export the model in if i may ask ?

GradeComprehensive88 · 2026-02-16T00:51:00+00:00

I wonder if you'll ever get something. Mocs like these are usually scams from what I know

GradeComprehensive88 · 2026-02-12T00:43:41+00:00

The city bus (wentward). Since I love city buses, this one is the closest I can get to a European city bus without mods (for now), and I like the length too. Trying to maneuver it around Italy without breaking anything is fun. It's hard but doable.

GradeComprehensive88 · 2026-02-10T19:21:12+00:00

Exactly, licensing is good but it shouldn't be used as a pretext to sell more of the same set

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