Can you still get Technic kits to build machinery? All I seem to be able to find now is replica vehicles, albeit some still seem to have pneumatic parts.
Every set seems to have some unique pieces, which seems to go against the thought of building other or new models with combined kits, since those unique pieces are hard to integrate. For some reason, kids today just tend to like build-and-forget rather than create/build. It might as well be similar to assembling Playmobil.
Wow, this is more depressing to me than any of the worries around licensed sets. Most of the available sets don't even have any gearing. 42144 looks nice, but I swear I paid at most 2/3 that for 42121 ca. 2013.
