The Bucket Wheel Excavator will soon hold the honor of being the largest LEGO Technic set in history. This isn’t just an enthusiast build – it’s a real-deal for-purchase set from LEGO. Users will be putting together 3,900+ pieces to create one of two sets. This set allows you to choose between two sets of directions, building either the Bucket Wheel Excavator or the Mobile Aggregate Processing Plant. This model also has a motor and battery box to make its final build as engaging and authentic as possible. According to a LEGO release, this set’s Power Functions motor allows users to “activate the conveyor belts, rotate the massive superstructure and maneuver the colossal machine into position.” The boom allows the user to “lower the gigantic, digging bucket wheel and convey the mined material to the waiting mine truck.” The mine truck can be built from the same set – at the same time as the the Bucket Wheel Excavator – so the user can drop “mined material” in and haul it away.
On the Excavator, users will find hand-railed walkways, lights, and mined-material elements for transport. A joystick allows the superstructure to be maneuvered, while the bucket wheel and conveyor belts can be activated with this machine’s motor. The Bucket Wheel Excavator measures over 16” (41cm) high, 28” (72cm) long and 11” (29cm) wide. If the user takes this model apart and builds the Mobile Aggregate Processing Plant, they’ll have a model measuring in at over 8” (21cm) high, 34” (88cm) long and 8” (21cm) wide (with boom retracted). With boom extended, this model is over 12” (33cm) high with boom extended. The Mine Truck on its own measures over 3” (10cm) high, 7” (19cm) long and 3” (10cm) wide. This set will be in stores on the 1st of August, 2016. It’ll have over 3,900 pieces in its box, and is set for an age range of 11-16 years. This set’s price has not yet been revealed. Stick around as we get our hands on this massive set ASAP!
LEGO Technic is a subset of LEGO System that, although 100% compatible with standard LEGO Bricks, is based on beams and pegs instead of studded components. The whole point of LEGO Technic is about creating complex, realistic, working machines like the one in this Top Ten List… What would be of a LEGO Technic blog without a top ten list? I have built a list with the Technic sets I have been more impressed. I have a few of them and I will try for sure to get the rest. So here is the listBecause the Unimog 400 is a big big vehicle which includes Power Functions set and features a pneumatically powered, articulated crane with working grab and a recovery winch on the front. Read here my review of the LEGO 8110 Unimog. You can still buy LEGO Technic 8110 Mercedes-Benz Unimog U 400 at Amazon but you better hurry up because it is already retired.I could give you a thousand reasons why this model should be here, but you better read my review of this fantastic set and discover it by yourself.
You can buy the LEGO Technic 42009 Mobile Crane at Amazon.Because it features a double IR control and lots of Power Function motors. You can buy LEGO Technic 8043: LEGO Power Functions Motorized Excavator at Amazon but the price is plainly nuts.Just look how cool it looks, I couldn’t but buy it. Also it has IR remote control, two L Motors and one of the new servo motors ( no more rubber bands on the steering ). Read my review of this fantastic set here. You should definitively buy LEGO Technic 9398: 4X4 Crawler at AmazonAlthough it won’t take off the ground it is a really cool looking helicopter and you can add Power Functions so the rotor spins like a real helicopter. This is one of the next model I will buy. Here is my review. I really enjoyed this set. You can order LEGO Technic 9396: Rescue Helicopter now from Amazon. There has been a few great cars on LEGO Technic, like an Enzo Ferrari. This supercar is an example of how cool it can look… although if you google a bit you will see MOC by people that make this car look like a toy.
You can buy LEGO Technic 8070: Supercar from Amazon.You won’t believe how big and cool this car is. When I built it I was simply amazed. In my opinion one of the best LEGO set I have ever built in price/quality. Don’t miss my review. It is not yet late to buy it at Amazon. I am sure you won’t regret it.This is maybe the coolest set ever released by LEGO in the Technic range. With Mindstorms you can create your own robots and machines. It is so nice that I already have two EV3 and one NXT 2.0 Here you have some examples of robot I have built like the Line Follower or the Color Sorter Go and buy one before you regret about it at AmazonI am a 100% serious. This is one of the most enlightening Technic sets that I have touch. When you build it you have the sense of understanding. You are one with the LEGO. And what the hell… the experience only cost 9€. You must read my review of the Model A and Model B. Go and check if Amazon still has it in stock because it is worth every pound you spend on it.
When LEGO retired the Unimog they had a new secret weapon. This is the new set that add Power functions and pneumatic pumps for a fraction of the price of the Unimog. Right now available at Amazon I couldn’t end this list without a bike. And this bike is at the same time wonderfull and affordable. You can’t be serious? Did you see this beauty? Read my review and know why you shouldn’t miss this bike. Get one from Amazon for barely £20 Here you have the instructions booklets to build this LEGO Technic model, given that you have the parts. My best advise is get a big model and buy the rest of parts from Bricklink. Name your favorite LEGO Technic Model, help me complete this list. Just one constraint, it has to be created by LEGO. Related Posts :MOC LEGO Technic RC Car LEGO Technic 42000 F1 Grand Prix Racer Review LEGO Technic 42011 Pullback Race Car Review LEGO Mindstorms EV3 ReviewWe’ve got the biggest LEGO Technic set in the world here this week and we’re about to get in deep with how much we dig it.
This is the LEGO Bucket Wheel Excavator, a “Technic” brand set that utilizes mainly Technic pieces, but a small set of standard LEGO bricks as well. This set is more than just a Technic set – it’s not just a model. It’s not the sort of thing an adult builds and lets sit on a shelf, as some LEGO Technic sets are prone to do. Instead, this set, be it on purpose or by complete coincidence, works with LEGO Minifigures. As we were very, very big fans of the LEGO Movie (see our original LEGO Movie Review), we’ve got a lot of Emmets on-hand. More Emmets than we do regular construction workers, as it were – and so this photo session came into being. NOTE: LEGO makes no claim that this set is able to work with Minifigures (Emmet or otherwise), it’s just us here at SlashGear that’ve decided it should be so. The set is built completely according to the instructions included with the set (minus the extra dump-truck, which we’ve not photographed here), and Emmet looks like he’s right at home in nearly every location a person might stand on a machine such as this.
Emmet fits in the Bucket Wheel Excavator’s driver’s seat – not perfectly (unless we wanted to mod it), but close enough. Emmet runs along the Bucket Wheel Excavator’s access decks. Emmet hangs from the ladders – which are, of course, standard Minifigure size. Emmet sits in a shovel! SEE ALSO: MetalBeard’s Sea Cow LEGO Review. FUN FACT: This is currently the largest LEGO Technic set in the history of LEGO. This Bucket Wheel Excavator has a LEGO motor and battery box that, with the help of a large number of gears and bars and three switches, makes for an interesting set of abilities. The battery box and the motor sit right next to one another at the tail end of the crane – the end opposite the shovel wheel. There, 6x AA batteries later, the builder is able to control the excavator. Actions are controlled by three switches at the top of the tail end of the crane, just to the side of the battery box and motor. We are able to activate several functions here.
The shovel wheel can be turned on and off on its own. The other two functions require that the shovel wheel switch be activated. As such, if the builder wishes to activate the treads so that the bucket loader moves forward or backward, they’ll also need the shovel wheel moving at the same time. The same is true of the entire top portion of the crane moving left or right – that requires that the switch be flipped for the shovel wheel, too. STEP 1: Shovels dig up bricks. STEP 2: Shovels drop bricks down slide to first conveyer belt. STEP 3: Conveyer belt moves bricks up crane arm. STEP 4: First Conveyer belt transfers bricks to Second Conveyer belt. STEP 5: Second Conveyer belt drops bricks off in any direction, 180 degrees. around the back and to the sides of the vehicle. As the shovel digs up LEGO brick “rocks” (standard bricks, included with the set), they’re dropped on to one conveyer belt, up the arm of the crane, and down to a second conveyer belt.
This second conveyer belt drops the rocks out the back or to the side of the vehicle. The digging bit is a bit complicated – it doesn’t just pick up masses of bricks with ease. Instead, it’s a situation where the builder has to push pieces near/into the shovels as they rotate. That is, unless they happen to have a very deep pile of bricks that’s forever filling in the area where the shovels pull bricks up. Note too that the builder will need to dig only bricks within the size ratio given in the bag-o-LEGO-rocks in the set (unlike the digging bit of the video above). The correct bricks are “Round 2 x 2 Dome Tops” for the most part – large enough not to get caught in any cracks, small enough to go down the slide between chutes. The second conveyer belt moves automatically, but the direction the chute is pointed is controlled manually. The builder can let it move freely, or they can flip a switch (much like the switches at the top of the rig) that’ll keep the chute in one place.
ABOVE: The second chute (Emmet’s in the way if we’d want to move it). BELOW: The lock switch to keep the second chute in place. Also in the mix are a variety of little bits that can move – ladders, for example. The top of the driver’s seat console moves as well, so that we can drop our favorite version of Emmet in as we wish. The crane arm can be lifted and lowered precisely by a set of Technic Linear Actuator pieces included with the set. These arms are not common pieces, by any means. They’re LEGO brick plastic on the outside and metal on the inside, and with the setup the instructions provide, the builder will be turning a tiny wheel connected to these actuators to move the entire crane arm up and down. This is just about the only part of the whole build that I believe could be improved upon by an intrepid builder. Employing another battery pack and motor somewhere in the build (good luck) could potentially allow this arm to raise and lower with a switch – but we leave that to them.
ABOVE: Front bumper with specifications tag for this unique vehicle. This set is 22.8 x 18.81 x 6.61 inches in the box (that’s the box’s dimensions) and weighs in at 13.16 pounds. The Bucket Wheel Excavator on its own is 16-in (41cm) high, 28-in (72cm) long and 11-in (29cm) wide. For transport from room to room, this model can be picked up by the handy handle at its top. Easy as can be. As you’ll see in our original write-up, this model can also produce a dump-truck in addition to the excavator. The excavator can also be taken apart and reconstructed into a Mobile Aggregate Processing Plant. Or a very interested builder could buy TWO sets and put both machines together to work in concert. This set goes by the name LEGO Technic Bucket Wheel Excavator (LEGO SET 42055) and costs a cool $279.99 USD. This set became available to the world on the 1st of August, 2016, and comes with a whopping 3,900 pieces. Builders should be experienced in LEGO, very patient, and hopefully both experienced in LEGO and very patient.