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LEGO 8527: Mindstorms NXT

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from: LEGO

September 11, 2006
This is an excellent educational robot. You can make many autonomous or remote robotic devices. Spares and more parts and sensors are easily available and include third party support, or make your own. There are many programming environments for the nxt, all easily available. Much web support too. Great for experienced and new programmers. All in all superb value.

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LEGO Racers 8142 Ferrari 248 F1 1:24

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from: LEGO


This is an excellent educational robot. You can make many autonomous or remote robotic devices. Spares and more parts and sensors are easily available and include third party support, or make your own. There are many programming environments for the nxt, all easily available. Much web support too. Great for experienced and new programmers. All in all superb value.

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LEGO Technic 8296: Dune Buggy

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from: LEGO


It's Lego. We all know what it is and what it's capable of.
The booklet with this gives you easy to follow blueprints for turning pieces of plastic into either a slightly bland digger type construction, or the much groovier dune buggy, complete with rear suspension and rack and pinion steering.
It took about an hour or two to make the digger and around the same for the buggy. If you're buying for someone younger it would likely take them a little longer, but the instructions are easy to follow.
Most of all, it looks pretty snazzy parked up in front of my bookcase. ;)
For a budget Lego set you can't go wrong.

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LEGO Technic 8285: Tow Truck

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from: LEGO

August 10, 2006
i love technic lego and have always done so - I used to be deprived of them in my youth but have now starting buying them after getting a job! They have the same appeal as they did back then but i am gutted that the classics are no longer purchasable - the big dinosaur/helicopter, the yellow drawing technic lego etc - i really wish i could buy these today.

This product is the best best thing so i shouldn't be moaning - far better than mecano and knex in my opinion - these require more thought, care, and the cog work is very intricate and a pleasure to see in action! buy it - but do shop around- got my set for £90.

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LEGO Racers 8156: Ferrari FXX 1:17

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This is classic Lego. I have to admit that I am not a fan of all the new shapes that are only applicable to one model and cannot be easily integrated and re-used by children in their own models.

This is true classic Lego that uses all the standard bricks that we know and love to gradually build up to create a very life-like representation of this car.

My 9 year old built this with little or no help, even though the vast majority of bricks are red making the diagrams a little harder to follow than for some models.

Fully recommended.

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LEGO Technic 8293: Power Functions Motor Set

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This is classic Lego. I have to admit that I am not a fan of all the new shapes that are only applicable to one model and cannot be easily integrated and re-used by children in their own models.

This is true classic Lego that uses all the standard bricks that we know and love to gradually build up to create a very life-like representation of this car.

My 9 year old built this with little or no help, even though the vast majority of bricks are red making the diagrams a little harder to follow than for some models.

Fully recommended.

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LEGO Racers 8149: Midnight Streak

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This is classic Lego. I have to admit that I am not a fan of all the new shapes that are only applicable to one model and cannot be easily integrated and re-used by children in their own models.

This is true classic Lego that uses all the standard bricks that we know and love to gradually build up to create a very life-like representation of this car.

My 9 year old built this with little or no help, even though the vast majority of bricks are red making the diagrams a little harder to follow than for some models.

Fully recommended.

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LEGO Technic 8297: Off Roader

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from: LEGO


This is classic Lego. I have to admit that I am not a fan of all the new shapes that are only applicable to one model and cannot be easily integrated and re-used by children in their own models.

This is true classic Lego that uses all the standard bricks that we know and love to gradually build up to create a very life-like representation of this car.

My 9 year old built this with little or no help, even though the vast majority of bricks are red making the diagrams a little harder to follow than for some models.

Fully recommended.

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LEGO Technic 8275: Motorized Bulldozer

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I recived this fantastic lego model for my 11th birthday. It is probaly the best lego model they have ever made- it goes, it can climb piles of books, it can pull anything from the sisters school bag to dads size 12 slippers that weight about 25KG! It is a fantastic model and deserves to go down in history. There are few bad points- maybe it drinks battery power like it is going out of fashion, its tracks may lack grip in some skiddy areas. But all in all it is a very clever model and I made it in 8 and a half hours.

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LEGO TECHNIC 8270 Rough Terrain Crane

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from: LEGO


I recived this fantastic lego model for my 11th birthday. It is probaly the best lego model they have ever made- it goes, it can climb piles of books, it can pull anything from the sisters school bag to dads size 12 slippers that weight about 25KG! It is a fantastic model and deserves to go down in history. There are few bad points- maybe it drinks battery power like it is going out of fashion, its tracks may lack grip in some skiddy areas. But all in all it is a very clever model and I made it in 8 and a half hours.