It's HUGE! But so are real combine harvesters.

At first glance I thought this was a very recent set but it has been ten years since this set came out. Not much have changed since then I guess.

Lovely model, gives me an oddly quaint and cozy nostalgia feeling.

I remember this line and really wanted all these sets, but I only got the red tractor in the end.

Still want the biggest set...

I had this one back in the days. I can honestly say, it's a really good looking model, but not a very good toy. It has only 1 minifigure, did not have parts for a symbolic field of crops. The vehicle is so big that even City buildings dwarfed by the size of it.

I won this for coming 2nd in a Lego competition. The wheels were a bit dicky though.

I bought it in February 2009 in a toy shop on Times Square, NYC because it was so cool set and because on the box was written "limited edition" so I supposed that will be a rare set once. In final it wasn't but still stayed cool and I'm glad I have it in my collection. And I clearly remember how hard was put this large box into my suitcase back to Europe. :D

The scale of this model was for the city too big, it's bigger than any regular house in the Lego city.

@Veyniac said:
"From now on I will try to a parts analysis for each RSOTD. Let me know if you find it interesting! Today's parts analysis: Each of those black hoses is now worth upwards of $3 (USD). Part 4872 (windscreen 3x4x4 inverted) is exclusive in green to this set. This part was later redesigned to get rid of some of the sharp corners, and is now known as part 72475."

Good stuff. Keep it coming.

BTW: I bought this set to my father-in-law. He used to be a driver of one of these. What a beast this vehicule is. :-)

Well, you definitely have a limited edition of this set since there is written Limited edition. I have this one without Limited edition written on the box. This make your set literally limited edition right?

For me it's terrific a day one buy! Tha havester made by Lego last year was ok and somehow cute. But THIS is the real thing!
Please Lego bring such farm stuff back alongside with cows (lots of cows), goats and so on!
Please!

Loved the farm subtheme, hopefully we will get a new wave one day!

There is a really god farm set on ideas you can vote on while waiting for the city subtheme to return ;)

https://ideas.lego.com/projects/299064a7-4585-425b-8ee2-73ab7730c498/comments_tabcontent_nav_tabs

I really miss the Farm sub theme, it brings me so much nostalgia. Weird that we still haven't had another iteration..

And now is there really anyone trying to tell me the dozens of licenced themes we got in recent years instead of proper stuff like this are better?
We so need an new farming theme @TLG!

When I was age 5 or so and we used to sing Kumbaya at school I thought it was about a combine harvester. No idea why. Try it - sing this to the Kumbaya tune...
"Combine
Harv-esss-ter
My Lord
Combine
Harvvvvv"

Good lord, the farm subtheme is nostalgic. So is anything from 2007-2011 imo

I missed out on this sub theme. I would love for it to come back.

This might be my favorite non-Space/non-Pirates themed set of all time. I display this set next to my Emerald Night train. The farm kid in me loves the realism of this set.

I had this set MISB, but sold it at a yard sale in 2011 for $50.... I guess I needed some cash at the time. What a maroon I am....

This is why I visit Brickset! It's not only to offset the boredom of my work load being reduced by 50%, it's for the educational value. For example, in just this article's comments section I learned that true to his/her Brickset username @BovineBrick wants a return of LEGO cow pieces (I sure do too, just any animals, especially farm-type would be super nifty), @Brickchap likes to use cheeky adjectives when describing his wheels, and @Roebuck is familiar w/some amazing farming technique known as "god mode," which must cut down on need for chemicals (sounds organic).

So thanks for enlightening me, my fellow Brickset users. Also, this is a great set! Makes me want a dozen green 32x32 baseplates and thousands of bricks to make corn stocks, just so I can knock them all down w/the Harvester as I make loud engine sounds... I am such a 43 y/o man-child.

Now city sets aren't that... For me the best city sets was in years 2005-2009. In 2010-2011 there was few nice sets, (8404, 7498...) but it isn't THAT. Overall I have same experiences with other themes (creator, technic, star wars). Happily most of UCS sets are awesome. I still look for good old sets. For example I bought this week MiSB 6212 X-wing starfighter from 2006.

I can't believe it was more than 10 years ago. The set is so great. I regret not buying it.

Farming is definitley something Lego is missing this day. If you ask a five year old boy what he wants to become when older, it is very likley that he will say farmer. Especially on the countryside. And it is not even that hard to make a variety of sets for the theme.

When i was about 9 years old, in 1975, I made combines already. There is a picture in my parents photo album of me and 5 combines. Of course pretty simple with the choice of bricks, but still nice. I didn't have this set, but I do have a real one , a Case IH 7120.

I love it when city branches out into the countryside. More of this please.

This was one of the non-Star Wars sets to bring me out of my dark ages. Having grown up on a farm and Lego, it just made sense for me. We really need this theme back.

As a farmboy myself, I loved this wave. The combine set of the whole farm wave mainly due to its size. I bought the tractor and SUV with horse trailer from this wave, but not the combine. A non-purchase I kinda regret. That puny thing on a lowboy from the Great Vehicles subtheme doesn't hold a candle to this beast!

Imagine if LEGO would do a Claas (or even generic) harvester in Technic. Now that would be awesome!

^They did. 8274.

https://brickset.com/sets/8274-1/Combine-Harvester

I agree with some of the comments I'm seeing about the scale being a little ludicrous, but in fairness, that was a pretty common issue among early LEGO City sets. Other examples include 7244-1, 7249-1, 7344-1, 7723-1, and 7685-1.

I'm generally grateful that this trend has fallen by the wayside… bigger isn't always better, and I feel like in hindsight, a lot of those bloated-looking sets were still clinging to some of the weak design standards of LEGO's darker years, even as other sets of their time like 7239-1, 7890-1, and 7634-1 were already demonstrating a more detail-focused approach that pulled LEGO out of those doldrums and lifted them to new heights. As much as I love big, powerful-looking vehicles in other themes like Agents or Ninjago, I think they typically manage to turn that size into an opportunity for greater intricacy and playability in a way that sets like this one did not.

@AustinPowers: The City theme has been MUCH bigger in recent years than it was in 2009, so I don't think there's any reason to think the lack of a new farm sets in recent years has anything to do with licensed themes getting in the way.

As sad as it might be, I feel like the Farm sets just weren't a huge hit in the first place compared to stuff like police, fire, construction, or space subthemes of Town/City, which have sustained decades of popularity. Hopefully if LEGO does give Farm sets another shot, they'll make more of a splash than they did in 2009–2010, but so far they haven't been at all the sort of reliable success a lot of us might expect them to be.

This is one of my favourite sets ever. It just looks so good built and on display.