This Lego Technic set of the Lamborghini Hurácan has been around for a long time and was launched in the color green. Both this detail and the slightly overly stylized reproduction of the car have always made me doubtful about purchasing this set. As I have said before, I have a love-hate relationship with Technic sets and in this case there were two other doubts regarding both the color and the design. It's not that I don't like the color green but I already had the Ford Mustang Shelby GT500 set, I didn't want another car of the same type and size, which also had the same color. In other words, I always left the purchase of the Hurácan on hold until recently when they presented the orange version. At that point I immediately purchased the set, without further thoughts and doubts, indeed with the right curiosity both to see a set of this color and to finally see the design of this reproduction. Starting with this post, I will not talk in detail about the assembly process I have done so far with all the other sets, but I will summarize the process in the final considerations. This is because it led me to not fully enjoy the assembly phase which for me is a moment of relax. In fact, to describe in detail the entire assembly process, it was necessary to write a lot of notes during the phase and this distracted me. With this post, therefore, I also give a more synthetic cut to my posts about Lego sets so that I can enjoy them more and make reading easier. Assembling this Hurácan was a sort of complicated relaxation because in the case of the Technic categories a different approach is needed. To assemble this car I made many mistakes, both small and trivial and more important ones where I had to think a bit before solving them. However, I always used curiosity as a solution to the problem and I never let myself be overwhelmed by frustration, this was my winning weapon. The assembly involved seven different steps for seven envelopes, I managed to assemble the contents in five days. The individual steps themselves were not long and in general the phases were quite linear with the first steps where the car's axle immediately appeared and gradually the rear, front and side parts. Surely one of the most beautiful steps was the assembly and installation of the ten cylinders, a component that once assembled sees the cylinders actually move by activating them via a lever. I made the most serious mistake almost immediately and in reality I saw that there was something wrong, however I did not investigate immediately. Only at step 102, having to assemble a piece to form the dashboard, did I realize that something was wrong. Mainly, both this problem and others arose from the fact that many times the 3D view does not reproduce the depth in the right way and therefore leads me to make mistakes. Precisely for this reason, I had to correct the error using logic and not the instructions in a sort of reverse engineering. I must say that in the end I only lost a few minutes to correct the dashboard error while for a simple fixing, many steps later, I lost much more time. Except for the first seat, even the application of the stickers went well, I even managed with a bit of luck to center them well and initially I was not confident about it. Even though it is not the largest Technic, the Hurácan was certainly the most complex set of this kind to assemble despite it taking fewer days than the assembly program. This car is the fourth Technic that I assemble and I realized that in essence they are something different from Lego. What I mean to say is that more than a category, Technic deserves its own status; for example branding them only “Technic” and not Lego. From the type of bricks, to the method of attachment and up to the assembly method, these sets are a world apart. Even for this car I had pain in my fingertips that I never have assembling other Lego, this is because the attachment of the pieces is done in a different way. The final design of the car really excited me, both for the proportions and for the interpretation of the elements. The car has a narrow and long look, perhaps not faithful to the original, however in the case of the Lego set it is very beautiful and impactful. Added to this is the combination with the orange color, an uncommon and very bright and vibrant color that highlights the angular shapes of the car. The car is beautiful from any side, the rear part is definitely the one reproduced in a more conventional and faithful way while the profile and especially the front are more stylized. However, it is precisely the front that I love with the very small hood that ends up to the lower part but then gives a feeling of continuity by lengthening the car to the rear part. The front part also has a series of splitters and flaps that despite being "angular", paradoxically give more of a sense of harmony. Seeing the car assembled, made me remove all my doubts, both from the point of view of the design and from the point of view of the type of Lego set. Assembling this car in fact led me to mentally separate the Technic typology that I now see with different eyes and whose sets I will program differently. Finally I changed the approach and I already have two other Technic sets in mind to buy, assemble and share here. GalleryA.M.
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