Eu vi no site da Lego mas, quando fui á constrolândia no El Corte Inglês de Gaia eu perguntei á funcionária quando é que saia o 8043 e, respondeu-me que era a inicíos de Agosto e que o preço era de 180€ e não como está no site da Lego a 169.95€
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Ó Alexandre, até parece que não conheces a "ementa para o segundo semestre"...[/quote]
Conheço, mas, pelas informações que me foram transmitidas, ainda não se sabia de que loja(s) era exclusivo!
- The Lego designers in Denmark are aware of the problems with the Excavator
- They have pulled 50 (fifty) models from storage and built them. ALL 50 had problems
- At first the models work OK, then the performance drops over time (as with mine and others)
- They think it might be transmission related but are not 100% sure
- Problems were not noticed during design phase
- Not a high population of users have complained about problems (I guess that doesn't mean they don't have issues, just not reported them)
- They think it could be a bad batch of models
- They hope to have full results in 7 days
- There will be a redesigned model with fixes, hopefully within a few months (3~ months)
I have been given a full refund on mine now which is great news. I am taking mine apart tonight and sending it off. I have to say Lego have been very good about this situation and they are working very hard to trying to solve the problems. For now though, I'd rather have the money back until it is fixed."
Concordo com o que por lá disseram: sendo este o set de 2010, devem ter a equipa Technic toda em overclock para resolver o problema o mais depressa possível.
A LEGO produziu um novo comunicado sobre o assunto.
"The LEGO group and the LEGO Technic product team are aware that a number of consumers have been experiencing problems with the recently launched 8043 motorized excavator, which was not identified during the intensive testing of the product before launch. Consequently, we have been testing this model over again and learned that a specific element is causing the error. The LEGO Technic team has corrected the error and is now in the stage of producing a replacement part which will be distributed to those consumers, who experienced the fault with the model they have purchased.
There is no safety concern regarding the faulty element!
It's really important to us that our products are of the highest quality and we sincerely apologize to consumers who have had an experience with this product that does not live up to their or our expectations.
We are currently doing everything we can to solve this issue as quickly as possible. As soon as new replacement parts are available, our Consumer Service will distribute a Service Bag with instructions and new elements to those consumers who experienced the problems."
É a ideia que tenho pelo que leio pelo fórum EuroBricks, mas não percebo é porque é que a LEGO se refere de uma forma genérica a um "elemento" e não mencionou especificamente o actuador linear, se é esse como parece, o culpado.
Talvez precisem de mais testes para confirmar? Devem querer enterrar muito bem enterrado este bug e ter certeza que ele não se escapa.
De qualquer maneira, espero que, como foi lá escrito, haja alguma maneira de distinguir as peças novas das antigas, nem que seja subtilmente como nos motores "geared" 9V.