LEGO 42108 Technic Mobile Crane Truck Toy, Construction Vehicles Building Set

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Eager to get building? Let's go! With easy-to-follow instructions included in the box, the fun starts straightaway.

Open up a whole new world of building fun for LEGO® fans young and old with LEGO Technic™. With cool vehicle designs and awesome functions, the fun goes on long after the model is built. The thing you'll notice about this LEGO® crane is its size. With a 30" (78cm) crane arm, it's certainly tall! Its impressive dimensions make this a super display model at 18" (48cm) long and 4" (11cm) wide. LEGO® Technic™ pieces are tested to the extreme to create toy building sets that meet the highest global safety and quality standards. Great news if you're looking for the best gifts for a LEGO fan.There's plenty to learn about engineering and movement with this cool building toy. 8-wheel steering, 4 individually controlled outriggers, 2 cabins and super-high telescopic arm all add up to create an awesome crane!

It takes about 2-4 hours to finish the model. No doubt, the last stage is the most engaging as it includes the assembling of the boom and involves a handful of gears and a string. Those at the front have to be pulled out manually using the red ball pin. It's not easy for big fingers to get in the hole to do so, though! You don’t have to be a keen LEGO enthusiast to notice that every LEGO product eventually finds its audience. Although the new LEGO Technic 42108 Mobile Crane is definitely not the most playable toy of this year’s lineup, it doesn’t make it an entirely terrible product. As was mentioned above, this model will be a solid choice for any LEGO Technic beginner and is also full of excellent Technic elements. And even if young builders will be disappointed with the new model, at least they will learn how not to engineer mobile cranes.The blue seats provide some welcome contrast to the body colour, as indeed they have in nearly every yellow crane released. The mobile crane as a toy concept is an amazingly playable thing. It combines so many children’s favorite play features that it is almost impossible to play the wrong card releasing such a building set. Almost. Any child will be let down if anything doesn’t work right! Let’s put the model to the test and see whether it is up to the mark. The sleek appearance is marred slightly by the ugly great control knobs protruding from the sides but they could be replaced with something more discreet should you wish. Crane fans aged 10+ will love this amazing LEGO® Technic™ (42108) set. It's a great choice if you're looking for the best gifts for anyone who loves LEGO Technic and is ready for a new building challenge. It looks great and does everything a model of a crane should. The functions work fairly well, with the exception of the front outriggers, which are a bit fiddly. It would have been nice to have them controlled from a single point but I concede that the model is not big enough to fit the required mechanism in.