Stuff like this really shows how cool of a company Lego is. They seem to have a passion for their work that you don't really see in other toy makers now or really ever. Truly amazing.
BrickVault I understand. Can you guys change it up and make a video showing us how to improve it? I would love to see what it can do a huge Lego pile :D
What an insane build, thanks for sharing. I remember when I was really young and regular X-Wings and trucks would seem massive, but this is just crazy. Hope you guys find somewhere to store it!
Is that the white cargo plane from about 2-3 years ago? That's only about 1350 pieces (I have it and I love it). This set is just under 4000 pieces, which makes it about 3x the amount. So yes, as a person who has both sets - it dwarfs almost every set I own.
Thanks for the review. Santa bought me this for Christmas. I got keen on this model when I saw it last year. I live in a city that has a coal port, so we literally see these massive machines digging away filling up ships with coal every time we go down to the harbour. So when a Lego version became available I just had to have one. While it does contain a kazillion parts, I didn't find this model took all that long to complete. I did it in 4 nights, probably spending 3-4 hours each night while having a movie or the sport on TV. I wasn't in any particular hurry but could have probably knocked at least one night off the build (as the time i did spend was fairly interrupted). Night 1 did the truck and base + tracks (bags 1-3). Night 2 was the support and lower conveyor (bags 4-5). Night 3 was the main digger assembly (bag 6) And the final night was the motor and bits to pretty the build up (bags 7-8). By far bag 6 was the biggest portion of the build with the most parts....and took the longest. It was also the most difficult as the component becomes quite cumbersome to manoeuvre around as the build progresses. I probably slightly disagree with one thing you said about the difficulty of the build. I would consider it to be one of the more technical builds, just in the point that it has a tonne of gears and parts that need to be set up. While it wouldn't have been too difficult for me to have built when I was in the recommended age range on the box, I would probably say its more of a +16 model than a 12-16. Though having said that I was building large technic sets solo when i was about 9, as my dad was fairly useless at anything mechanical. Things I love about this model are the scale and functionality. Its probably why technic is my favourite brand of Lego as they tend to be things that work and display how they work. And who doesn't love a big Lego model?!?! I also liked that the motor came as part of the set. These days, these items are usually added extras for another $100 or so, so its great Lego didn't gouge more money by selling it separately. Things i wasn't so impressed about was the manual raising and lowering of the digger. It really would have been 50 simple parts more to integrate it with the other gear-sets. So they probably skimped a bit on design here. It was also fairly good value for money, with a LOT of smaller and less interesting sets costing a fair bit more. All in all a great model, and a great talking point when people walk in to see it displayed on the coffee table.
When I was a kid, all larger-sized LEGO set boxes had a front flap. Through the cellophane sheet underneath, you could see the included minifigs and a selection of the more specialized elements in the set.
I use dry garbanzo beans as rocks for my Technic construction equipment. Very realistic. A mountain of uncooked rice would probably work really well with this set.
Bought this yesterday from my local shop, took me 16 hours to build it. Fingers feel like they are recovering from burns but it sits proudly above my computer. Tried to use it to destroy my kids lego village as "the bad guy" but it didn't have the power to do much. Did most damage walking over stuff than bucket damage. Get's stuck easily such a shame the motor lets its down with such an incredible and huge build.
I got it for Christmas and it took me about the same time it took him. I built it in two days, each about 6 hours of building. It was a ton of fun I must say!! I just wish it was easier to take it apart because I want to build the second model.
Of the numbered bags, all the bags with a *6* on them take about about a third (or maybe just slightly more) of the entirety of the set's pieces. For slow builders, this section will take you at least a day. I'm fast, but I like to multi-task and watch a TV show on my laptop at the same time, so I build at the rate of about 200-300 pieces per hour, which I would think is a moderate-fast speed, and got section 6 done in about five hours.
My dear friends!! I do have to say that you left some pretty important feature left out! The lock on the second belt SEEMS a bit functionless but do keep in mind it locks on a Base level, so even when the rotation of the big arm is engaged the second arm stays in place! This makes it possible that the dump truck stays on one place while the unit is grinding along the hillslide.
It's no problem, 8 hours not including food breaks. It's so much faster when you don't have to measure everything 1:1 but know the lengths and sizes by heart.
the movable boom conveyor is a very cool feature try lock it off and then put the rotation on the main body it will stay relatively in one place within its turn radius try it
if he likes Legos he'll love it even if not it's just a really cool set, and it's from his favorite person...trust me, as a dad I know who my favorite person is, he could give me a flaming paper bag of dog turd
I haven't wanted LEGO for a long time, but now seeing this... I suddenly want it. Being that I have the Mobile Crane MK II (awesome btw) I have a love for massive technic sets. Even though I only have one big one XD.
Much smaller version of a Bagger 288. But even Lego has engineering limits and capacities. I built a smaller version of the Bagger out of Legos, yet much larger than the kit featured here. Used almost ten thousand pieces, and it even walked the same way as the Bagger does in real life. As a kit, don't see how my version could have been done for less than five hundred though.
+Jacob H (MrGAEM) Yes it can ! Watch the technic designer vid here on youtube and it shows that all you need is the right setup and it will happily mine...
I wonder what kind of RC motor and LiPo battery we could install on this thing to make it a little more digging powerful. Just so it doesn't stall so easily. Maybe I'll try that
I remember before I got the set I watched this video and saw that you can disconnect the axle and I used that tip when I played with it, btw I responding 3 years after I got the set, just wanted to say thx
This looks like such a cool lego set but i would never even dream of buying it. I mean it would be so expensive and so complex and would take so long to make.
I replaced on every motorized lego-model i own the white dumb gear right in the front of the motor. Do this on the Excavator and you will be able to dig with it in a box of lego.
I personally have this set and I think they should have a separate motor and battery for the wheel and conveyer belts as it is quer slow and when the batter go abit lower than brand new it doesn't spin I think the gearbox and motors are the blame
I'm getting this lego set for my birthday and I am so excited. My biggest lego sets I have are the police station and the fire department that I got a long time ago but my grandma dropped the fire department one and I was sad because I spent around 5 to 6 hours building it. The police station only took me 3 hours to build. I think when I get this one, it would take me possibly 2 1/2 to 3 days to build, not sure 🙄. Even though it costs $280 🤑😂
I’m finally getting this set upcoming sunday for my birthday!, then i will decide if i’ll be an AFOL or quit the hobby entirely to prevent getting looked weird at when people see me buying lego at my age..... society’s norms i guess
Markus Kosman is a ledgend..designer extraordinare ! MK3. His third flagship design for lego. People seem to be missing the point when it comes to how this thing mines, if you want to see how it's done, look at the designer video for this, in lego's own channel, here on the tube!
First off, great build. :D These things don't really "pick'up" things in real life either, they mine sideways, usually just into dirt or other soft material. If you are working hard ground you would switch to the inverse excavators of equal impressive sizes. BTW, upgrade the model with a power supply, just like in real life, these guys run on Electricity so the are usually hooked up to a cable with it's own transformer. ;)
Stuff like this really shows how cool of a company Lego is. They seem to have a passion for their work that you don't really see in other toy makers now or really ever. Truly amazing.
I agree
Yeah it's a dream job
Yeah, right!
You are so right.
LEGO is awesome because you can actually build your models...they don't come prefrabricated or constructed!
Who else had fantasies of using this set to clean up a Lego pile?
with a second motor that could be a reality for this set, just needs a little more power
BrickVault I understand. Can you guys change it up and make a video showing us how to improve it? I would love to see what it can do a huge Lego pile :D
Lol :D
Yeah try to make it stronger
Dumps every Lego drawer out
😎🚬 challenge accepted
It’s Friday evening and I’m sitting here watching a man building a giant Lego Technic set.
Wow.
Linuxdirk same
Same here
mee 4
me 5
Linuxdirk I am getting this coming Monday.
What an insane build, thanks for sharing. I remember when I was really young and regular X-Wings and trucks would seem massive, but this is just crazy. Hope you guys find somewhere to store it!
dude i have a 2000 piece cargo plane and its small compared to this
Is that the white cargo plane from about 2-3 years ago? That's only about 1350 pieces (I have it and I love it). This set is just under 4000 pieces, which makes it about 3x the amount. So yes, as a person who has both sets - it dwarfs almost every set I own.
It doesn't dwarf the Saturn V though.
The sheer enormity of this build is astounding
Thanks for the review. Santa bought me this for Christmas. I got keen on this model when I saw it last year. I live in a city that has a coal port, so we literally see these massive machines digging away filling up ships with coal every time we go down to the harbour. So when a Lego version became available I just had to have one.
While it does contain a kazillion parts, I didn't find this model took all that long to complete. I did it in 4 nights, probably spending 3-4 hours each night while having a movie or the sport on TV. I wasn't in any particular hurry but could have probably knocked at least one night off the build (as the time i did spend was fairly interrupted). Night 1 did the truck and base + tracks (bags 1-3). Night 2 was the support and lower conveyor (bags 4-5). Night 3 was the main digger assembly (bag 6) And the final night was the motor and bits to pretty the build up (bags 7-8). By far bag 6 was the biggest portion of the build with the most parts....and took the longest. It was also the most difficult as the component becomes quite cumbersome to manoeuvre around as the build progresses.
I probably slightly disagree with one thing you said about the difficulty of the build. I would consider it to be one of the more technical builds, just in the point that it has a tonne of gears and parts that need to be set up. While it wouldn't have been too difficult for me to have built when I was in the recommended age range on the box, I would probably say its more of a +16 model than a 12-16. Though having said that I was building large technic sets solo when i was about 9, as my dad was fairly useless at anything mechanical.
Things I love about this model are the scale and functionality. Its probably why technic is my favourite brand of Lego as they tend to be things that work and display how they work. And who doesn't love a big Lego model?!?! I also liked that the motor came as part of the set. These days, these items are usually added extras for another $100 or so, so its great Lego didn't gouge more money by selling it separately.
Things i wasn't so impressed about was the manual raising and lowering of the digger. It really would have been 50 simple parts more to integrate it with the other gear-sets. So they probably skimped a bit on design here. It was also fairly good value for money, with a LOT of smaller and less interesting sets costing a fair bit more.
All in all a great model, and a great talking point when people walk in to see it displayed on the coffee table.
Lego is a toy that you are never to old to play with
When I was a kid, all larger-sized LEGO set boxes had a front flap. Through the cellophane sheet underneath, you could see the included minifigs and a selection of the more specialized elements in the set.
His poor fingers after that...
Lol 😂😂😂😂
Lol xD
decon 42042 is messy as hell^^
i literally build this set last christmas...took me 12 damn hours...twice as long as expected....
My one of these took me 3 days but I was younger than the age guidelines
I use dry garbanzo beans as rocks for my Technic construction equipment. Very realistic. A mountain of uncooked rice would probably work really well with this set.
youre right
This is the coolest Technic set I have ever seen! This is so big! 😜
Bought this yesterday from my local shop, took me 16 hours to build it. Fingers feel like they are recovering from burns but it sits proudly above my computer. Tried to use it to destroy my kids lego village as "the bad guy" but it didn't have the power to do much. Did most damage walking over stuff than bucket damage. Get's stuck easily such a shame the motor lets its down with such an incredible and huge build.
Wow! The biggest Technic set! I'm not a big technic guy but OMG 😱😱😱
That instruction manual was so thick, wow! What an awesome build!
11 hours 15 minutes!!!! now that's commitment to building a lego set
this looks like it was a lot of fun to build! awesome model!
I got it for Christmas and it took me about the same time it took him. I built it in two days, each about 6 hours of building. It was a ton of fun I must say!! I just wish it was easier to take it apart because I want to build the second model.
Of the numbered bags, all the bags with a *6* on them take about about a third (or maybe just slightly more) of the entirety of the set's pieces. For slow builders, this section will take you at least a day. I'm fast, but I like to multi-task and watch a TV show on my laptop at the same time, so I build at the rate of about 200-300 pieces per hour, which I would think is a moderate-fast speed, and got section 6 done in about five hours.
A Lego set this big would make me want to organize the pieces by color!
I hope that the Lego company still keeps making Legos for years to come.
My dear friends!! I do have to say that you left some pretty important feature left out!
The lock on the second belt SEEMS a bit functionless but do keep in mind it locks on a Base level, so even when the rotation of the big arm is engaged the second arm stays in place! This makes it possible that the dump truck stays on one place while the unit is grinding along the hillslide.
you know im old and i still play with lego but since then and now damn legos have evolved
This is still my favourite lego set after 6 years
The thickness of the box is just insane 😱
This set is huge!
I've got this set and it is awesome, it took me 12 hours to build, I can't wait for the next massive set to come out
Whoever Builds this In A Day Has My Everlasting Graditude.
Xander Shukites It's not that difficult. It's my 11th lego technic vehicle and I just got for christmas and built in in 11 hours
its not hard just follow the instructions. and also all the bricks are in nice packages so they are easy to build whiteout loosing bricks
***** if you open all packages at once you are stupid
Xander Shukites I did dat
It's no problem, 8 hours not including food breaks. It's so much faster when you don't have to measure everything 1:1 but know the lengths and sizes by heart.
the movable boom conveyor is a very cool feature
try lock it off and then put the rotation on the main body
it will stay relatively in one place within its turn radius
try it
I want to give that to my dad it is his bday soon
Does he even like Lego?
+Soffor Unessa well if he doesn't they could buildit together so it could be fun for each look good and have a bonding experience
if he likes Legos he'll love it even if not it's just a really cool set, and it's from his favorite person...trust me, as a dad I know who my favorite person is, he could give me a flaming paper bag of dog turd
Max knows his dad better than you...
+AquatiBrick yes
Legend says the boxes at the back are still filled with Legos
I enjoy knolling the pieces. Nothing too crazy r time consuming just organizing like colors and pieces together. Not in a rush to finish a build.
I haven't wanted LEGO for a long time, but now seeing this... I suddenly want it. Being that I have the Mobile Crane MK II (awesome btw) I have a love for massive technic sets. Even though I only have one big one XD.
11:44 what are those parts called that hold up the bucket part, when the gear is turned the scooper raises and lowers?
thank you for entertaining me whilst i build my Lego excavator
the lego guy is like noooo 8:27
I could imagine how reliving it would be to put the last piece on
This may be big as hell but I love it, honestly that's so cool
So cool!😊
Great video. Great set. I want one :)
i love brick vault and legos
the fast forward is a little bit like long
I almost want to buy just the manual. I'll put it on my bookshelf with my dictionaries and it'll fit right in.
Im a huge fan of this set and guess what, IM GETTING IT😄
You did your best doing that and i'll drop a like
That's huge!
I'm just going to say it. The Excavator isn't big enough! Needs more batteries, more motors, more everything! Do it Lego. DO IT.
Good God, there is no chance that I'd have survived this build - tip of the hat to you
Much smaller version of a Bagger 288.
But even Lego has engineering limits and capacities.
I built a smaller version of the Bagger out of Legos, yet much larger than the kit featured here. Used almost ten thousand pieces, and it even walked the same way as the Bagger does in real life. As a kit, don't see how my version could have been done for less than five hundred though.
Undecided on this set, I will have to make space for it. I like the music on this build though..
His Lego movie t shirt is so awesome
my dad and I plan to build this set together! We built the Porsche together too
Great fun and informativereview
This really grinds my gears
This is my dream job, just building Lego sets for TH-cam
I Love The Phone That Came With It
a good tip is to speed the video up to 2x speed if you impatient but want to watch the build
Could you PLEASE make a video of it cleaning up a pile of lego!
Did you watch the video? It can't do that.
+Jacob H (MrGAEM) Yes it can ! Watch the technic designer vid here on youtube and it shows that all you need is the right setup and it will happily mine...
I remember back when I wanted the Crystal Sweeper for that exact purpose.
+Ace Dynamike Me too! I never had a change to get it but now... MUAHHAHAA!
ThePlanemadness
I think it goes for pretty darn high on Ebay.
One of the coolest Technic sets out there. Lego has done it again😎
This is very cool nice video
Holy crap that was alot of connector pegs and friction pegs
I wonder how long this took him! but im sure he did every perfectly :P keep up the work!! ily
I wonder what kind of RC motor and LiPo battery we could install on this thing to make it a little more digging powerful. Just so it doesn't stall so easily. Maybe I'll try that
I've got this set it is awesome I built it in 12 hours
David Truman good nice i have it to i use it to clean up my legos
12 hours? It took me over 2 weeks
I remember before I got the set I watched this video and saw that you can disconnect the axle and I used that tip when I played with it, btw I responding 3 years after I got the set, just wanted to say thx
so cool!
Thinking of getting this as I love lego
This looks like such a cool lego set but i would never even dream of buying it. I mean it would be so expensive and so complex and would take so long to make.
It took me 1 day from 7am to 9pm to build had lots of fun
that is a big lego set !!!!!!!
I got one for Christmas and it is HUGE
I replaced on every motorized lego-model i own the white dumb gear right in the front of the motor. Do this on the Excavator and you will be able to dig with it in a box of lego.
how do you build the small dump truck with it can you do that separately because i want to make that
the dump truck here is super similar to the one released not so long ago
First three unit numbers, 420... YEEEAHH BOII
I personally have this set and I think they should have a separate motor and battery for the wheel and conveyer belts as it is quer slow and when the batter go abit lower than brand new it doesn't spin I think the gearbox and motors are the blame
10189 Taj Mahal. Top honors goes to 10189 Taj Mahal as the largest commercially available set LEGO has made to date. you should make this next
That looks so cool I wish I had it
Im getting this for christmas!
Thats a set i can't afford sadly, but really looks fun.
wow. that thing's a mechanical monster
Oh my god that Lego set is big
I could sit here forever and list the alternative sets you could make
Jack you should build the London Bridge set.
What I think the texts said on his phone- Honey, when are you going to be home? Um, at like 8:45+ pm, don't count on it >:)
Would it be possible to modify it with a stronger battery pack and motor?
I'm getting this lego set for my birthday and I am so excited. My biggest lego sets I have are the police station and the fire department that I got a long time ago but my grandma dropped the fire department one and I was sad because I spent around 5 to 6 hours building it. The police station only took me 3 hours to build. I think when I get this one, it would take me possibly 2 1/2 to 3 days to build, not sure 🙄. Even though it costs $280 🤑😂
Nice video
wow this is very cool I might get it MAYBE I wish
I’m finally getting this set upcoming sunday for my birthday!, then i will decide if i’ll be an AFOL or quit the hobby entirely to prevent getting looked weird at when people see me buying lego at my age..... society’s norms i guess
Getting mine in the mail tomorrow I will see if I can find a way to increase torque on the bucket wheel
Tiny drop of "3 in 1" lubricating oil on the teeth of the inside of the bucket wheel....
its amazing
I was wondering what type of camera did you use for the time lapse?
Markus Kosman is a ledgend..designer extraordinare ! MK3. His third flagship design for lego. People seem to be missing the point when it comes to how this thing mines, if you want to see how it's done, look at the designer video for this, in lego's own channel, here on the tube!
First off, great build. :D
These things don't really "pick'up" things in real life either, they mine sideways, usually just into dirt or other soft material.
If you are working hard ground you would switch to the inverse excavators of equal impressive sizes.
BTW, upgrade the model with a power supply, just like in real life, these guys run on Electricity so the are usually hooked up to a cable with it's own transformer. ;)
These do mine into some pretty tough materials irl; granite, coal, etc.
This would never be used for granite. They were always used for soft overburden.
Nicholas House Nope
Mate the buckets are supposed to dig in to the dirt and the conveyor belt at the back loads the dump trucks
I built this! It took meh a while but I did it. But, the FREAKING GEARS WONT WORK CORRECTLY *AAARRRRGGGGHHHH*
Then you built it wrong
I mean they were grinding together.
so good
You'd need to use micro mini figures for that thing.
in real life the machine usually doesn't scoop up dirt off the ground but scrapes it off of walls of the mines since is sits at the bottom
OMG I need this set!!!!!!!!
Did you make another episode or part of this video to make the ultimate one???