It's cool. The price though!! (says the guy who spent nearly £300 on the Roller CoasterOMFG. I am getting this.
https://shop.lego.com/en-GB/product/4X4-X-treme-Off-Roader-42099
That is crazy. I bet it'll sell well though even at the rumoured price of €450. Not for me though, went off Technic years ago.… and this one out in October is amazing, though I don’t think I want is as it’s sooo big and not enough of a toy.
I may need to build a garage in the garden for that liebherr...
I had to stop that Adam Savage video 45 seconds in.
Built this with my Son at the weekend.
I can't afford the silly prices that the genuine, out of production Lego sets are going for on ebay at the moment (£600-800 when they were orginally £370 from Lego) and this came up for £70.
I have to say, bar for 2 missing pieces (I've also had this with a recent genuine Lego kit), the set is of very good quality. As the bags/instructions aren't numbered, building is more of a challenge as there are pieces everywhere, all the time. 16 hours it took us.
Almost 4000 pieces and over 1.35m in length. Now - where to put it...
Daffy - what are the chances of hanging that? I am tempted by the Star Destroyer but all of my other Star Wars stuff in hanging in my Cinema room.
For this one, I'd say pretty good. It's fairly solid when handled and everything is clipped/pinned together. BUT, it's very heavy, especially at the back end. As for the proper 10030 Imperial Star Destroyer (which I also have), I'd say no chance as It's quite fragile and held together by magnets.
There's a new Star Destroyer rumoured to be getting released on September 19th, but also that it'll be close to £600.
are there any movable elements to it Daffy?
I'm normally against non-Lego Lego but at £70 for 4,000 pieces, what's not to like.
Lepin version of the 10030 is what I was thinking, thanks for the info, will avoid that for now.
A part of the centre section can be removed revealing a couple of crew pits inside along with the command walkway. The big Millennium Falcon is slightly better in this regard as there are 3 areas.
in a ****ing skipNow – where to put it
started my X-treme Off Roader (42099) build yesterday.
very exciting.
though I did have to do some unbuilding as one of the gears fell out of a differential box...
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A snip at £649.99. Same price as the Falcon, just over half the pieces, 110cm long.
Its got almost 5000 pieces, the Falcon had 7500. Its substantially bigger than the Falcon, so a lot of those 5000 pieces are bigger.
Seems fair to me. I’ll be buying one, but from ebay after someone else has bought, built it, found its waaaay too big to keep and then sold it.
Ill then do the same and sell it.
Blimey!
https://rover.ebay.com/rover/0/0/0?mpre=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.ebay.co.uk%2Fulk%2Fitm%2F143360540060
Some nice discounts today in the Argos toy sale (most of which are automatically applied to Amazon as well!) such as the new blue-tooth off-roader 42099, down from £200 to £133. Still a fair chunk but it looks really cool, more torque than ever for a (official) rock-crawler due to the new in-hub planetary gearboxes (cue everyone complaining about "specialist" pieces ) Apparently the phone app is great fun also, massive improvement over the old infra-red remote control system.
Also Smyths have a promotion running, £10 off every £50 spent (in store only I think) which equates to about 20%, bringing the massive Millennium Falcon down to £520 which I think is the cheapest ever (new) price, and the only place currently you can get the Friends (TV show) set discounted AFAIK.
Yeah, I've read a review that makes me want it, some clever stuff going on with the build. But it's enormous (a foot longer than the Falcon which is not exactly small itself!) and yet relative to the Falcon seems poorer value so I won't be investing (yet...)
The Star Destroyer apparently has nothing going on inside so apart from being massive is a bit dull compared to the Millenium Falcon.
Must admit seeing it in the flesh made the price more palatable, it is bulky. Apparently very sturdy as well unlike the Falcon which explodes if you look at it.
The Star Destroyer apparently has nothing going on inside so apart from being massive is a bit dull compared to the Millenium Falcon.
This is what’s putting me off, it’s essentially a display shell. That and I’ve nowhere to put it, unless we forego the the use of dining table...
@daffy where did you find that lepin destroyer for £70? ebay?
I've picked up quite a lot of sets for xmas in the current sales for 5 boys nothing too flash as all under 7. looking forward to building (and rebuilding again and again) the police hq picked it up for £35
Liebherr R 9800 Excavator was released yesterday, biggest ever Technic set, despite costing £400 the first batch sold out immediately and it's now on back-order for 2 weeks! Way cooler than the Star Destroyer IMO, not only is it pretty massive & impressive looking, it actually DOES something. Anyone snag one yet?!
It's controlled by a smartphone app rather than the fairly shitty IR controllers Lego have used in the past, apparently really well done, has a block-based programming language for stringing together moves, recordable macros, plus it's multi-touch so you can move ALL the motors independently at the same time rather than just moving one motor.
I have the smartphone app for the X-treme offroader, it's really neat and works well. Real plus point for my 7 year old as he gets to play with a mobile phone and brings a gamification element to Lego. There are two ways of moving the car too - a standard RC controller layout and a 'follow my finger' layout.
Shame the vehicle is so slow and under-powered. I might look at changing the gear ratios so you can actually crawl over stuff. It needs partially rebuilding anyway as it fell off the slide... and the rear drive exploded.
I thought that was the whole point of the new hub gear piece! (To make it torquey so it can crawl, I guess it's never going to be fast as well unless you have a shifting gearbox). Seen a couple of other comments that say the same thing, shame.Shame the vehicle is so slow and under-powered.
You'd hope for either speed or torque. It doesn't really have either. It's a heavy truck. I do wonder if smaller tyres would help too.
And today's Lego want is...
The biggest Technics set ever...
Liebherr's R 9800 Excavator
https://www.lego.com/en-gb/product/liebherr-r-9800-excavator-42100
Saw that in the Lego shop. It’s errr BIG! And not cheap.
That's a monster!
Costco are doing it for £320 inc vat I've, err, heard...
The biggest Technics set ever…
And the dullest. The app control stuff looks cool but... it's kinda just a big grey box, isn't it.
It's like the Star Destroyer, cool and all and I'd love building it, but it's basically a two metre long monochrome door wedge.
And the dullest
Not if you really like diggers.
I like diggers.
Or if you really like Mk I star destroyers.
Stop the presses, who is that?
https://brickset.com/article/46785/1989-batmobile-press-release
Yep. Want.
I only want it if it can deploy shields, like in the film.
Buy one, get one free.
^^^ that's what'll swing it for me I think The main set looks awesome, but is WAY too big. You need something Minifig scale so you can zoom it about & fight the Joker. So I might end up buying it mainly for the mini-version as that looks like being the only way to get it (bar buying it off eBay for an extortionate sum!!)
I really want that Liehberr, I would keep it on my desk at work. Lego should do a 797 at the same scale to load.
I'd be up for a swap for my Caterham. I need to make sure it's complete as it's been sitting in a kid's room for a year or so but I found the box the other day so I think it's good to go.
PM me when you fancy swapping.
@Merak I'm a couple of stages ahead of you. Top tip - when you get to page 93 make sure you get the red and yellow female pieces are orientated correctly. I got to page 131 last night and realised the reds were Ok but the yellows were not. I was 3/4 through a bottle of red wine so decided retiring for the night was the best plan as it isn't an easy task to fix.
As above, if anyone wants to trade after Christmas let me know.
Rich that sounds great.
Shinton, salient points there much appreciated. I'll probably be three beers in and think these yellow and red pieces look fine then I'll remember this post
I have the Technic 42053 Volvo excavator if anyone fancies a swap
I've got no lego to swap but will happily buy complete kits.
My family bought the Saturn V for my birthday yesterday. Took my time building it up yesterday evening and this morning. Brilliant!
Saturn V is 2/3 done.
I got the Lunar Lander. It is excellent.