I have
It is one of my greatest achievements
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I can’t believe I’ve found an even worse sticker:
Since the official instruction scans suck, here’s a clearer image of the actual pieces:
(This one’s from Set 8155)
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I often like to use physics rather than actual connections and usually it ends up making a connection that when looked at wrong will fall apart.
This connection however works okay. Not exactly sure when you would use this but it holds.
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How solid is this? Can it be posed as easily as a normal ball joint, or do you have to take care to keep it pressed in place?
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This could be useful for slightly offset shoulder armor, maybe… neat connection nonetheless
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It is sometimes a little wiggly but it doesn’t seem like it will fall out.
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While I’m not sure if this quite counts as “illegal”, Set 70706 Crater Creeper has always stuck out to me for requiring such blatant, yet also extremely minor, bending of parts:
In order for the jaws to cross each other like that, the blades must bend out of perfect tolerance ever so slightly.
I get that it’s not a big deal given how thin and flexible those blade pieces are (heck, some of them were probably more deformed straight out of the box), but it’s interesting that Lego would have such a necessary bending of pieces in such a recent set.
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this set is 11 years old
Worth noting that it is possible to get the jaws to pinch together without overlapping, but overlapped is how they naturally want to sit. Like you said, the thinness and flexibility of the pieces likely makes this a non-issue but I similarly can’t imagine such a technique happening today
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good grief thanks for making me feel older than I am
Yep this set is a funky one. Then again, a lot of HF parts like those claw pieces have a natural bend in them so chances are they don’t actually even hit. Furno 3.0’s blade pieces are a good example - no matter how much you try to de-flex them, they bend back to an angle slightly less/greater than 180 degrees.
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“Recent” in the context of how obvious bending of parts generally went extinct decades ago.
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I actually think that one of the sets from that line was one of my first sets. Probably wasn’t though.
Shame that now sets from that line are really expensive.
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