Quick look: 40894 Koenigsegg Sadair's Spear Steering Wheel
Posted by Huw,
When you buy 42232 Koenigsegg Sadair's Spear Megacar at LEGO.com this week, you'll receive the 228-piece 40894 Koenigsegg Sadair's Spear Steering Wheel as a gift with purchase.
I am still part way through building the Swedish supercar so I am not ready to review it yet. It arrived just before it was announced, which coincided with a heatwave here in the UK. I built the first few bags in the garden, but then it became too hot to carry on out there and too hot indoors as well. I've cracked on with it this week, though, and must have spent 10 or 12 hours on it in total, and I still have four bags of the 30 to do. It's a long and challenging build, that's not to be rushed.
In the meantime, I thought I had better get this GWP built and reviewed, given that it's only available for a few more days.
Summary
40894 Koenigsegg Sadair's Spear Steering Wheel, 228 pieces.
A realistic model of the car's distinctive steering wheel, with some neat functionality built-in
The set was provided for review by LEGO. All opinions expressed are those of the author.
A model of a steering wheel does not sound too exciting, but the one in the real car is unique because the instrument cluster is built into it, and as the wheel is rotated the display rotates with it, so it's always vertical.
This feature, and the paddle-shift gear selectors, have been faithfully replicated in the model.
Below you can see that when the wheel is turned, the information shown on the instrument cluster at the top remains level. There are five stickers in the set and the one on the inverted circular tile is the only one that need be applied: the other four just add a carbon-fibre pattern to the panels on the base, so I didn't bother to apply them.
The circular dial on the right is not present on the real car but here it's showing which gear has been selected, and it rotates when the paddle shifters are operated.
Of course, there is no gearbox attached to the shifters, but the mechanism behind them is similar to that in the model of the car, incorporating a new 9-tooth cog which is spring-loaded and moves round one position left or right when the shifters are operated, which in turn rotates the gear indicator dial.
It has some interesting functionality built in to it, and overall it's a very decent GWP.
Technic GWPs are something of a rarity (this is only the second, excluding polybags), and it's only available until Tuesday, 7th July, so go and secure it at LEGO.com while you can!
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We should have had the controls from the Volvo EC500 as a GWP to accompany 42215.
I like the car, but this type of GWP does nothing for me. Apologies for being a bit negative, but here's how I see it. I wouldn't buy this separately as I don't think it displays well, and it would be boring to play with immediately after building it. So it doesn't lure me in to spend big money now on something that will likely be discounted later anyway.
It looks crap, but I do like the functionality! Function over form!
Wait....wasn't that exactly what we wanted from Technic sets? ;-)
I wouldn't say the GWP model is not ok, but is are still only 228 technic pieces.
Since the Koenigsegg Sadair's Spear will most likely be going on retail for aroud 30% off, makes this a very pricy GWP.
The car is on my wishlist, but i'll pass the GWP.
I must say, I'm pleasantly surprised by the functionality. Suddenly it feels less like a random tie-in display model and instead an actual technic model, and an unusual non-car one at that. It even allows you to see the mechanism.
No idea how it works though.
At first I was negative about this, because it has rather poor visual presence with those red and black pieces all over the place. But then I realized that it is finally a real Technic model that shows interesting mechanics and not just the looks. Since the koenigsegg is such a complicated build this gwp looks like a cool thing for the kid to build alongside parent.
"The Koenigsegg Sadair's Spear pays tribute to Christian [Koenigsegg]'s father, Jesko, who rode a horse named Sadair during his final race. It's the Jesko turned up to 11."
If it's named after the horse, it doesn't really pay tribute to its rider, does it? Who even cares about Jesko when his horse had a SPEAR? I want to know more about that horse and its spear-fighting adventures. Forget Jesko and... well, not the horse he rode in on, obviously.
@Crux said:
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The Koenigsegg Sadair's Spear pays tribute to Christian (Koenigsegg)'s father, Jesko, who rode a horse named Sadair during his final race. It's the Jesko turned up to 11.
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If it's named after the horse, it doesn't really pay tribute to its rider, does it? Who even cares about Jesko when his horse had a SPEAR? I want to know more about that horse and its spear-fighting adventures. Forget Jesko and... well, not the horse he rode in on, obviously.
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They already made a set of said horse: 010423
The big L just be making sets of anything. Just buy a real steering wheel at this point bro