Technic Mercedes-Benz Arocs 3245 images
Posted by Huw,
It's taken a while for official images of this much anticipated set to surface but now, thanks to Amazon.co.jp, we have pictures of the box and the model itself.
Building the year's largest Technic set is always an event I look forward to every summer and I don't think I will be disappointed with this one. It contains a number of new parts, not least of which are new sizes of pneumatic cylinders, 'Pneumatic System v2', and from what little we have been able to ascertain from a video taken at the German toy fair, appears to be packed with functionality.
It's due for release early August, but may well turn up a little earlier. In the UK, it will probably be available in the new Argos catalogue that's published at the end of July. Can't wait...
Via The Brick Fan, Eurobricks
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Can't wait. Hope it is available early as I'm travelling to the UK for most of July.
And I swore to myself that I wouldn't get more technic sets this year.. It's gonna be a hard one!
This is going to be a release day purchase.
This will go nicely with the Unimog.
I'm very happy that my birthday is also beginning of August; I know what I will get myself...
Wow ...another must buy ...I hope Amazon will discount it quicky as for the 24hcar or the artic pick-up
I'm kind of ho-hum on this one for some reason. Not sure why. Maybe it's the outriggers. It seems like lazy design to make the feet manually come down from a worm screw like they've done.
now is the MKII not the biggest set technic set annymore. there are a lot of big sets this year.
Box Preview of the other Technic sets is also available. The prices may also give a indication of what the sets will cost in Europe. I don't know if LEGO sets are usually cheaper or more expensive in Japan.
42040 - Fire Plane - http://www.amazon.co.jp/gp/product/B00SDTS5WA/
7533 Yen ~ £40 ~ 52€ ~ $61
42041 - Technic Mercedes-Benz Arocs 3245 - http://www.amazon.co.jp/dp/B00SDTS2CS/
32000 Yen ~ £168 ~ 230€ ~ $261
42042 - Crawler Crane - http://www.amazon.co.jp/dp/B00SDTS37M/
19780 Yen ~ £104 ~ 143€ ~ $161
Maybe include this information in the news post?
Wow, that's really amazingly awesome. How long would it take to assemble anyway?!
Really looking forward to this one. Best part is the printed Mercedes element, unlike the sticker you got in the 8110, although that's still one of my favourite Technic sets.
Looks like a great set! I wonder how many pieces it contains.
@Farmer_John 2,793 pieces, making it the largest Technic set by piece count to date.
I have been waiting for news of a release, July/August sounds fine by me. I ordered mine back in January so it's about bloody time for this info to be made available.
I hope the pneumatic parts are in the Pick a Brick site ASAP. For me it does not have enough unique bricks to justify buying the whole thing. Lego should really consider making Service Packs again. A simple service pack with two 11x2 and two 11x1 cylinders would make me drool 10 times more than this humongous repetitive-built truck.
And good to see the plane is a small set. I always thought the 999 bricks number was nonsense. Guess its more like a 300 piece box, that is nice to get white panels on the cheap.
Now the fire plane is really something new to me, like never been done in Technic. I do understand the majority is construction, but it's always nice to see something unique and new.
The other 2 are amazing models. It's interesting seeing how the Technic models evolved in a rather short time. Or perhaps, every line did massively evolve in the past 15 years.
I want this, and its the reason I am not getting some of the other sets I would otherwise purchase. I don't have anything with pneumatics yet. $260-ish is kind of tight...
@osuharding1: Only the larger sets, the smaller ones can be found at Targets (my store has those between $12 and $40).
@osuharding1, Technic is not exclusive to TRU for while now, Target carries them all, right now 42009 is on sale at target.com. Also check Amazon UK for deals on Technic sets, I bought 42039 24 hour race car several month ago on sale, $80, delivered in 3 days, box in mint condition.
I never trust Amazon when it comes to LEGO. Every box I got was from China and the box was always terrible. I stick to my local stores. Need to see this one more pics wise before I make my choice on this guy.
@osuharding1, agree, there is rarely big Technic sets beside TRU and LEGO, but that does not make TRU exclusive as you mentioned.
I was just mentioning 42039 in case you want to buy it now and not wait for US release. Just trying to help.
Cheers.
I hope more pneumatic sets are on the way! They were a rare thing, sort of, only available in the biggest sets like the Unimog. This is still a huge set, but if they are going to invent new pneumatic cylinders, they'll want to get their money's worth out of them. Maybe someone can figure out how to make these into an LPE.
you guys do know, this one's alt model is a tractor trailer, right?
je souhaiterai savoir quand il sort en France, s'il vous plait