Random set of the day: Mini Bulldozer
Posted by Huwbot,
Today's random set is 8259 Mini Bulldozer, released during 2009. It's one of 11 Technic sets produced that year. It contains 165 pieces, and its retail price was US$9.99/£9.99.
It's owned by 3,254 Brickset members. If you want to add it to your collection you might find it for sale at BrickLink or eBay.
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For tiny construction projects.
Compared to most sets market as mini or micro this is actually pretty huge. Imagine rolling up to any of the houses from 90 Years of Play in this thing
I have this one, and while it is not minifig scale, it's a good background prop for a construction scene. The smokestack connects to a worm gear that raises and lowers the blade. Nearly a third of the parts count is treads.
It's so cute!!
@MCLegoboy:
So it’s a Doozer ‘dozer?
cute
@Sandanista: Agreed. We need more cute Technic sets.
@MCLegoboy said: "For tiny construction projects."
... like Lego?
I have this set! I borrowed the dozer blade to make a System minifig scale 1949 International bulldozer, but the rest of it is still in tact. Not sure what happened to the tracks though :( I took them to make a halftrack but I can never find the whole lot anymore.
Why would anyone want to bulldoze minis?
Maybe it's for shrunk humans or maybe a construction pup?
I think I bought several of these as a cheap way to get those tread links and some Technic gears. But I don’t have it marked in Brickset.
Does anyone know if there have been similar small, yellow, ~$10 bulldozers like this since? I know it definitely wasn’t before.
@peterlmorris said:
"I think I bought several of these as a cheap way to get those tread links and some Technic gears. But I don’t have it marked in Brickset.
Does anyone know if there have been similar small, yellow, ~$10 bulldozers like this since? I know it definitely wasn’t before. "
There is 9391 Tracked Crane
It was £14.99 / $19.99 so more expensive but the same scale and cuteness.
I somehow got three of them ... together with my other technic dozers, they form the dozer squadron. to be member, you have to be a dozer - size, on the other hand, does not matter.
their mission: dozering.
@watcher21 said:
" @peterlmorris said:
"I think I bought several of these as a cheap way to get those tread links and some Technic gears. But I don’t have it marked in Brickset.
Does anyone know if there have been similar small, yellow, ~$10 bulldozers like this since? I know it definitely wasn’t before. "
There is 9391 Tracked Crane
It was £14.99 / $19.99 so more expensive but the same scale and cuteness."
8419 has a bulldozer b model too.
Qutesy-whootesy teeny-weeny bulldozer.
It's a cute desktop-wiping-putt-putt
The best part of spring is traveling through the countryside and seeing all the newborn tiny animals grazing and playing along their parents.
Nature sure is beautiful.
Unfortunately, their natural enemy the construction equipment become active again as well. They sometimes hunt patches of land to be dozed to teach their young. It might look cute, but make no mistake. They grow up to be unfeeling machines. And they're a major ecological threat if left unchecked!
Good thing the numbers of dozers have been driven back (to their garages). If you see one out in the wild terrorizing a patch of land without a license, make sure to act quickly and call your local authorities. Especially if they have minis following them!
Only together can we protect the land from dozer infestations
This message has been approved by the mini dozer hunting society
@watcher21 said:
" @peterlmorris said:
"I think I bought several of these as a cheap way to get those tread links and some Technic gears. But I don’t have it marked in Brickset.
Does anyone know if there have been similar small, yellow, ~$10 bulldozers like this since? I know it definitely wasn’t before. "
There is 9391 Tracked Crane
It was £14.99 / $19.99 so more expensive but the same scale and cuteness."
Oh my gosh.
I bought four of those cranes! As soon as I checked my collection for the yellow boom part, I remembered what happened.
I did not get multiple copies of this dozer, but I wished I had! So when the crane was released, I bought four of that set on sale somewhere. I just can’t remember where. Thank you for the link! I wouldn’t have remembered otherwise.
This is a rare case where it seems like it would actually be cheaper today. Technic sets of this size and complexity are a consistent £8.99 at present. There's what, a small bike, telehandler and the race plane on the market at the moment?
Now I've said that, watch the upcoming profits hike 'correct' this oversight.
I got this one on a whim one weekend when I was a kid. Cute little build, very fun, actually my first-ever Technic set. I loved the play features, basic as it was to raise and lower the shovel.
Next RSotD: 7685 - a City bulldozer at technic scale.
Dang, how did I miss this one? I'd have totally gotten it!
Ow, that's just cute. Love it!