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LEGO Technic Tow Truck This is not the tow truck you call when your car breaks down. This is the tow truck you call when your tow truck breaks down. Designed for heavy-duty lifting and towing, the Tow Truck is among Lego’s most challenging, intricate model sets and is intended for serious model builders. It’s a part of Lego’s Technic line, which shows simplified versions of the workings of real heavy duty machines, such as farm and construction equipment. The set comes with 1,877 pieces and six full-color, illustrated instruction booklets that diagram tow truck model construction in 78 steps and the alternate model heavy-load truck in 95 steps, with many ministeps along the way. With that many pieces, it would be a good idea to grab a plastic portable organizer to make construction and storage a whole lot easier. Its real-world features include rear stabilizers, a working crane, rack-and-pinion steering, and a six cylinder engine with moving pistons and fan. Inside the box you’ll find 25 part bags, 2 plastic rods, 10 plastic tires, a sheet of 20 decals, and the instruction booklets. Also included is an illustrated block inventory with part numbers, in case you need to ever re-order a replacement block. –Porter B. Hall
Customer Review: Great set, but don’t pay too much
It is one of the best value sets in terms of the number of pieces per dollar, but only if you pay close to the list price of one hundered and twenty. That is what I paid on Amazon, and is currently available on Lego’s own web-site. Be wary of other sellers using the Amazon site trying to exploit ill informed customers with grossly inflated prices.
Customer Review: Adult Fun, Too
Although i am a few years beyond the recomended ages of this ‘toy’, and i spent a couple weeks talking the wife into the purchase, I do think that it was well worth it. We (yes, she was more than happy to [...] in and ‘help’ build) worked on the second model first and it took 2 days. (We both work but still took 10 hours of time to assemble.) After that we spent about the same amount of time on the main truck. Unique time spent together!
As far as how good this is for kids… definatly wouldnt recomend this for any kids under the recommended age. Even those above it should have plenty of patience, and probably a mom or dad there to help sort through all the tiny little pieces.