The Lamborghini set is awesome! I just put mine together last week, and aside from all the stickers, it was really an enjoyable build!
I like the new 8 wide Speed Champions, but not super into the current releases. I picked up the GT-R and the Audi rally car, but would really love them to go back and redo some of the previous cars in the new 8 wide format like the American muscle cars and such!
I'd like 8-wide versions of the Dodge Charger and McLaren Senna specifically. Those ones bother me the most, being obsoleted so relatively quickly. I suppose the Porsche 911 as well, although I never bothered to get those ones. The white was boring, and I didn't care enough about the larger set to get the green version. You should get the Ferrari though, that one's spectacular.
Is the $15 Senna and Racing Camaro 8-wide? Thats the scale I’d like to stick too. Also, yeah I got the Tributo, unless your reffering to another one? I kinda stopped paying attention to what was coming out around the time Speed Champions started. So I don’t know what I missed.
There's only one Ferrari right now and there isn't a Senna or a Camaro 8 wide yet but this is the first year of lego speed champions 8 wide
Yeah the previous Speed Champions (how long have they been going? 2-3 years or so?) until recently have been 6 studs wide. This year they switched to 8 wide. This allows them to actually fit a driver figure on the driver's side rather than just sitting in the middle. You can even get a passenger side-by-side with them. They are a little crowded though still and you have to put their arms in certain positions sometimes to get them to fit. The extra size and part count also allows for better detail, especially on those interestingly-shaped cars that are hard to recreate with LEGO. I wouldn't even mind going to 10 studs wide which I would think would allow them to sit more "comfortably" and maybe even scale a bit better with mini-figures. But that might push them out of the part count/price range they are trying to hit with SC. Also they might have to redesign/rescale some parts like the wheels & tires if they went that large. I think it would be great though to have true-to-life scale with the figures!
I think 8-wide is also the limit that they can plausibly fit with Lego road plates. The Senna and Camaro were 6-wide, unfortunately. And yeah, the Tributo. Just saw you mentioning the GTR and Audi, didn't realize you had it already.
Never really thought about using them on plates. Was more just focused on "realism" (as much as you can with Lego anyway) and scale. Would be cool to basically be like scale models that fit the mini-figures. They've had the previous SC which are a little small and the Creator Expert stuff like the 67 Mustang, Mini, etc. that are too large. It would be cool to have something between that's actually like the real cars but at the right scale for the figures! They are getting closer with SC but not quite there.
While larger size allows for more detail, I think 8-wide is also the absolute limit in terms of minifig scale. It's already pushing things as it is, but 10-wide would be a bridge too far.
Doesn't seem like it would be. Think about yourself sitting in a car. In the front seats you should be able to sit two people comfortably with space in the middle for a center console. In the rear seats on something like an SUV (to pick an actual set - like the Urus) you should be able to fit two comfortably and even squish three in there! Now think about that 8 stud wide Lego SC cars. Think you could do that with them? Seems there is a bit more room for growth. Hard to say for sure I guess unless someone went out and started actually measuring stuff and comparing to a real car and scaling it out, but I don't think it is quite there yet.
3rd party Lego is way better than current Lego IMHO. Cheaper, decent quality so far (Cobi being nearly Lego level) military vehicles aplenty. I mean I got a Panlos T-90 tank for less than 60 bucks with over 1200 parts.
People in general are taller and more slender in proportion than a minifig, so that's not a great argument. Because of block dimensions, interior spaces always wind up being more cramped than they would in real life. See any of the modular buildings. You go to 10-wide, and these things start looking 3 meters wide and 2 meters tall, which is hilariously ginormous.
Honestly if Speed Champs went 10 wide and just axed the minifigs and became a sort of collectors line then I'd be all for it. But damn I do love just how much extra the cars look with two extra studs in width. I'd wantlove to see Lego revisit the Ford Focus Rally in 8 wide. Oh! The Mini Cooper Rally too!
I personally disagree. As a guy who grew up with LEGO, I was, am and always will be loyal to The LEGO Group and no other construction toy company.
