It's the wrong colour!!! either something darker like black, or the Land Rover Defender 42110 green.

It’s ugly but on the plus side I really do like that new piece.

Glad to see a LEGO and official Jeep partnership. I really miss my '98 TJ...

The grille does look printed, and I suspect piece count (and consistency) is why it's made of those panels rather than brick built - that and a big brick grill would probably take it into Creator Expert territory. It looks like it'll appear pretty good without the stickers, but the door handle(s) are maybe a bit of a disappointment. It looks like there are no printed 1x3 liftarms, but maybe it could have had one made of two stacked 1x3 thin liftarms (6632) in different colours? I suspect the fact that all those beams are connected would make the swap a bit tricky, but I don't think it's insurmountable and since 6632's available in pearl grey you'd get the chrome handle.

Anyway, a minor gripe for a pretty chunky looking licensed set. I like it.

Lools good, it might make a nice present to my father.

Nice set, color could have been better. I think that white would have been better in my opinion.
I will buy it anyway, maybe Bricklink white parts to change the yellow ones.

Although I drive a Toyota Corolla for the gas mileage, I really like Jeeps and think this is cool but I'd prefer a Creator or Speed Champions version rather than Technic.

It’s a modern version of 5510 Off-road 4x4! Looks pretty cool to me, I’ll probably pick it up eventually if there’s a decent discount.

Definitely looking forward to this. I am just hoping for two live axles, but I am not sure after looking at the few pictures. If it is indeed so, then I need to get two to build a proper Defender on this chassis.

I like the smaller scale, just enough room to get the general shaping and helps keep the price within reach

Maybe because it's such a simpler shape but I'm liking this a lot more than the 42098-1 compatible racecars. A very well done set IMO and for about $50 I will happily snap this one up. Not a big Technic MOCer myself so I'm not likely to repurpose them but I really love those new tires.

@TomKazutara said:
"+ a lot of yellow parts and small tractor wheels
- looks a lot like china technic set"

No kidding, there's this yellow Chinese Jeep set:

https://www.amazon.com/dOvOb-Creator-Racing-Building-Blocks/dp/B085DK6YP6/ref=sr_1_4

Also featuring the authentic "RUBIOCN" logo. :D

If the grille graphic is printed and not stickers, why is it not perfectly aligned? Either the panels are bi-directional and they didn't take care to place them all in the same orientation for the photo shoot (a careless oversight) or they're stickers.

As a set - it's bad. As a part donor - it's ok.

Button operated steering?

I'm glad it's not a creator expert vehicle, I may have bought that..
..and then the mustang
..and then the fiat
..and then-

Don't care much about the car, but the tyres are great!

I look forward to the reviews of this set. The pictures and marketing-speak are not enough to make up my mind (they rarely are).

Will it even be in stock because their stock is horrible right now. Can't get anything. Black Friday and Cyber Monday was an epic FAIL. Deals were horrendous. In and out of stock. I ordered a Diner twice and had it canceled citing out of stock, and then it would come back into stock. This happened three times.

@TheOriginalSimonB said:
"Button operated steering?"

I wondered about that too. The fact that the whole front axle is articulated undoubtedly complicates any mechanism. The obvious location for 'hand of god' steering via rack and pinion would be that rear spare tyre, but you'd have to have the pinion assembly mounted such that it rotated with the front axle and that's likely to get bulky pretty quickly. My suspicion is that the "button" or "buttons" will offset a beam one or two studs to the left or right with no real granularity - I think you could probably do it with something like a rocker arm.

Of course having gone looking for other photos I've found this - https://www.motor1.com/news/458188/jeep-wrangler-rubicon-lego/ - which says "For pushing around your floor, the Lego Wrangler has steerable wheels from a turning button on the back." - is that maybe because it's inset into that rear wheel rather than being the wheel itself?

@yacoub said:
"If the grille graphic is printed and not stickers, why is it not perfectly aligned? Either the panels are bi-directional and they didn't take care to place them all in the same orientation for the photo shoot (a careless oversight) or they're stickers."

The liftarms used to make the grille are "bi-directional" in that they have rotational symmetry on 2 axes. As to why they're not perfectly aligned, there is variation in LEGO's printing process (just ask anyone who built 10265) and not everyone is as particular about alignment as us AFOLs.

All of this is overlooking the obvious difference between the appearance of decorations that are clearly stickers (e.g., the door handle, the Rubicon badging, the Jeep logo on the door) and the distinct lack of the raised outline that distinguishes stickers on the grille decorations.

Been a while since we've had a yellow Technic set that wasn't a crane

@SeekerBear said:
"Been a while since we've had a yellow Technic set that wasn't a crane"

With the presence of a winch that seems a pretty obvious alternate build now that I think about it...

@Volfogg said:
"Didn't they make a jeep when they made the army men on patrol set? 7595"

Yep, though not licensed from Jeep, they also have the poly version as well (30071).

Can I ask a potentially stupid question? Sometimes it seems to me that Technic parts work really well to flesh out shapes and sections of a thing. Other times it seems like using the standard parts from the rest of the LEGO inventory do a better job. Why aren’t these two things combined more often to achieve a better overall result? And I mean aside from just using Technic as interior support in a lot of standard models. Is it because Technic has to have a certain ‘purity’ of mostly Technic pieces?

Looks ok for what LEGO currently calls "Technic", but as soon as I read those hollow, over the top marketing phrases I am so turned off that I return to look at what CaDa et al. offer, which is far more Technic than this or any other current official Technic set.

@AustinPowers said:
"Looks ok for what LEGO currently calls "Technic", but as soon as I read those hollow, over the top marketing phrases I am so turned off that I return to look at what CaDa et al. offer, which is far more Technic than this or any other current official Technic set. "

If you're so interested in non-Lego then go for it, but to the best of my knowledge this is a Lego fan site, not a general brick toy site. I can't remember the last time I've seen a comment of yours that was just related to Lego and didn't heap praise onto some other brick.

And again, the marketing lingo affects no one in a positive or negative way at all. It's just not worth anyone's time to give a single word about it. When I see set announcements, I look at the photos and check the price and piece count. That's the relevant info. Nothing else matters. The marketing pitch isn't written for me, it would be silly for me to base anything off of it. Afols are not the intended recipients.

I like it a lot. 9/10

The real question is: Will there be a Speed Champions version? A Grand Cherokee SRT8 or Gladiator towing a CJ rock crawler?

Looks interesting. I hope it fits the car transporter. There are some more pictures on promobricks and a promotional video on hothbricks that show the steering mechanism. Simple HOG but at an angle.

Are the tyres new? They have 56x26 on the side of them. I have been looking for some smaller ones with the tractor tread. They look the same as the new City tractor set.

There are a few things missing for it to be a proper Jeep. Namely: (1) an engine, (2) 2-4 wheel drive mechanism, (3) differential lock mechanism. For me, the only positive aspect of this set are the new parts - I am looking forward(read hope) to see a proper backhoe using those wheels in the near future. "button operated front steering" probably means that there is not even a few gears to operate a HOG steering wheel - it might just be a left-right lever, sigh... The pricing is however attractive for this number of parts and this might prove to be a popular set (not just for those who love technical functionality).

@Mike_T_Bricker said:
"Will it even be in stock because their stock is horrible right now. Can't get anything. Black Friday and Cyber Monday was an epic FAIL. Deals were horrendous. In and out of stock. I ordered a Diner twice and had it canceled citing out of stock, and then it would come back into stock. This happened three times. "

The Diner was probably before Black Friday, or was it still there for a while?

@AustinPowers said:
" @fakespacesquid : it is so sad to see how small-minded fanboys can be.
I used to be like you, there used to be a time when even to me LEGO could do no wrong. But I have learned over the years that it really pays to broaden ones horizon. After all, even though I know this site is dedicated to LEGO, it is still called Brickset. And bricks is what I am interested in. Building with bricks. I want a certain level of quality, so I don't just praise any other manufacturer, but I have gained experience over the last two years or so what to expect from whom. And from that experience I know that there are serious contenders in terms of quality, both in terms of set design as well as the quality of the bricks themselves. All the while LEGO quality is declining thanks to cost-cutting measures on all corners.

That is not to say that I don't buy LEGO sets anymore. Over the last few weeks I have bought quite a few actually, small as well as large. The last one just today by the way.
I just broaden my scope and I can only encourage anyone interested in bricks to do the same.
No one is trying to force you to abandon your love for LEGO as a company. But don't be so small-minded to simply dismiss anything not out of Billund as either low quality, illegal or deserving of looking down upon. "

I'm criticizing Lego all the time, but man I'm cringing at the idea of mixing two or more systems together.

Wish Lego would do the 2021 Bronco

@yacoub said:
"If the grille graphic is printed and not stickers, why is it not perfectly aligned? Either the panels are bi-directional and they didn't take care to place them all in the same orientation for the photo shoot (a careless oversight) or they're stickers."

From zooming in I’m pretty sure they are printed. You can’t see a sticker edge.
As regards to the alignment, my Creator Expert Mustang was a nightmare with the white printed panels. I could not get them all lined up whatever order I did them in. So it wouldn’t be the first time a set has alignment issues.

@PjtorXmos said:
"I'm criticizing Lego all the time, but man I'm cringing at the idea of mixing two or more systems together. "
It's not that big of a deal. In some of my newer MOCs I use alternative bricks without hesitating now, but in storage I have different containers for bricks from different manufacturers.
Separating them is not too difficult, only when it comes to bricks by manufacturers who also put their name on the studs. These do indeed look almost like LEGO to the untrained eye at first.
But as most of my sets are used for display anyway, the chances of a mix-up are slim. And even if something did get mixed up, as I don't sell on my stuff there is no harm done.
Also, the alternatives often offer pieces LEGO doesn't even have in their inventory, like 1x5 or 1x7 plates and bricks, all kinds of different SNOT pieces (those are the ones I use in MOCs most often), hinges, slopes at different angles, or simply common pieces in part/colour combinations not available from LEGO. Or multitudes of printed pieces of all kinds (and with print quality far superior to what we have to contend with from TLG).
Like I said, it pays to broaden ones horizon, without having to give up LEGO at all.

@dazzay : you took the words right out of my mouth.
+1000

It's what I have been mourning for quite some time, the death of Technic as a theme. Those new sets aren't Technic. At best they are Creator vehicles built from Technic pieces.

@AustinPowers said:
" @PjtorXmos said:
"I'm criticizing Lego all the time, but man I'm cringing at the idea of mixing two or more systems together. "
It's not that big of a deal. In some of my newer MOCs I use alternative bricks without hesitating now, but in storage I have different containers for bricks from different manufacturers.
Separating them is not too difficult, only when it comes to bricks by manufacturers who also put their name on the studs. These do indeed look almost like LEGO to the untrained eye at first.
But as most of my sets are used for display anyway, the chances of a mix-up are slim. And even if something did get mixed up, as I don't sell on my stuff there is no harm done.
Also, the alternatives often offer pieces LEGO doesn't even have in their inventory, like 1x5 or 1x7 plates and bricks, all kinds of different SNOT pieces (those are the ones I use in MOCs most often), hinges, slopes at different angles, or simply common pieces in part/colour combinations not available from LEGO. Or multitudes of printed pieces of all kinds (and with print quality far superior to what we have to contend with from TLG).
Like I said, it pays to broaden ones horizon, without having to give up LEGO at all. "

I only mix them up when the colour is not available in real Lego bricks. Otherwise, I only build an occasional Cobi model, an keep the parts separate in case I dismantle it.

There have being so many jeeps on Lego Ideas that I was hoping that
https://ideas.lego.com/projects/ba4cebf3-1f80-497d-9ecb-faee2dbc1df3
would eventually reach the 10k limit, as the small compact size with low weight, reasonable ground clearance and suspension would make a great motorized vehicle.

Seems that TLG also got tired of waiting, although I'm not knocked over by this particular design, I will wait until I see the functionality in more detail to see if they have done anything clever and once motorized it should be more fun.

@Eaglefan344 said:
"Any idea if this will fit on the car transporter?
"
This appears to be 15 stud wide including the black arches over the wheels whereas the corvette is 13 stud wide. The car transporter lower deck is 15 stud wide between the red uprights, so depends how much the wheels slightly extend beyond the wheel arches, but may just squeeze onto the upper deck between the rails.

Hm... Not really that good looking. The Range Rover was definetly more attractive. That grill with prints or stickers doesn't work for me. But I guess since it is a destinctive mark of the Jeep brand there was no other way to build it. The Offroad tires don't really fit to me. Even rock climber cars have a diferrent profile on their tires. Would be more suitable for a mud racer. This is definetly a skip to me, if no one is gifting it to me. I wouldn't buy it.

Oh dear, the 1H 2021 Technic selection is really one of the worst IMHO. Will have to see what the hovercraft and excavator turn out like in the official pics, but I don’t hold out much hope. This could be the first time ever I don’t get any of them. As others have said, this, the Mclaren and the Ferrari would have been far better in Creator Expert than Technic. Oh well...

@ianzzf said:
"People whine when Lego releases "too many" high-end models. People whine when Lego releases affordable models. Oh well."

I came to the conclusion recently that the main purpose of internet is providing a platform to whine about everything and get offended for no reason. All communities. Fortunately, Lego is one of the least toxic ones, but seeping in already. And that wallets talk in the end, and not forum comments.

Good good
-Palpatine

From another review video it looks like the steering is hand-of-god from a small wheel/knob in the rear bed and they've used a turntable (assembly 99009 / 99010) for the shared axis of the suspension and the steering. I don't know why they've used the phrase "button operated" for us all to hatch paranoia from.

While I find the design to be a little underwhelming, I like it. A nice size and price-point. Hoping there will be another larger one somewhere down the line.

This would be best as a Model Team ;) (keep working steering, keel working suspension and everything that can work and make it also pretty with regular bricks)
I hope this is yellow and not bright light orange...
I like it, and the tyres are great!

@cody6268 said:
"It looks so little like a Jeep, you'd think they wouldn't have even bothered to get the Jeep license. I personally would have preferred something in the CJ family, or even the MB/M38. Or the Jeep Gladiator/J-Series, or most suited to Technic, the Jeep Forward Control with some sort of equipment mounted. These squarish vehicles are a bit more easy to replicate. And, the old Jeeps could have PTO-driven tools/winch like a Unimog. The winch on my '48 CJ-3A is PTO, not electric like modern Jeeps. "

Aw man, a Technic FC-150/170 or an old CJ with working PTO would be siiiick.