Wet Sunday Afternoon - Part 2

Second Instalment of the two part blog

Well if you haven't read the first one.WHY NOT? go hand have a good old read, or at least a skim of it. If you have, well welcome to the second part :)

At the end of the last blog, readers will remember that I signed off just before starting the build on my current Lego set.....Well this is me on the other side, with a couple of sore fingers and a complete model!

The building process wasn't as long as I had thought and only really took me an hour and 20 mins, of which I thought was fairy speedy. Its a very well designed model I have to give Lego that, and the way that its constructed has kept up with what I remember from my childhood, but there are a few things I have noticed that have changed, and that is the tollances of the parts, they seam to be a lot smaller then I remember, as pushing some of the parts together was at times a lot harder then I expected. 

Have Lego missed a trick here?

Once the whole thing was created, my brain started to produce some marking ideas that Lego might have missed a trick on, with the ability to remove the hay spreaders from the back of the tractor, why not produce other attachments?? 

Each being sold separately, would allow people to collect a range of tractors doing a range of tasks. Or just allow the people who "play" with them rather then collect them like me, to have one tractor, that is able to provide an even larger range of situations to play. 

But either way I'm sure Lego is missing out here, as I would be happy to buy and construct a tractor that has a plow on it. Or with a water tank, and I would very happily collect the whole range, and a new tractor for each one. Or even just another one would look very nice next to my current one. (Of which now has pride of place on my desk, next to my screen)

Modifications

The other thing I noticed, is that given some extra parts it wouldn't be hard to automate the back end of the tractor so you don't really have to do anything but drive it. I'm sure Lego have looked into. But like me I'm sure they came to the same conclusion about the cost of doing it. Because for me to do what I would want to do would actually cost more the the total cost of the whole model, which seams crazy and kinda put the whole idea out the window really. Which is a shame, but that's just life. 

Anyways till next time people! 

Have fun and stay safe

The blogging cyclist