Random set of the day: Mini Container Truck
Posted by Huwbot,
Today's random set is 8065 Mini Container Truck, released during 2011. It's one of 11 Technic sets produced that year. It contains 119 pieces, and its retail price was US$10.99/£8.99.
It's owned by 3,926 Brickset members. If you want to add it to your collection you should find it for sale at BrickLink, where new ones sell for around $14.00, or eBay.
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Strange, the set page has instructions for the alternate build, but not the main one.
The misalignment of those blue pins and the red ones up front are annoying to see, yet they made sure to keep the headlights aligned and even with the LEGO logo upright, so I guess third time's the charm and two wrongs do make a right.
That's the lamest looking Bohrok I've ever seen.
Hmph thought it read as milk container truck at first. Then I saw it was Technic and realised they probably have never made one.
That is clearly a dumper truck, not a container truck.
Nice little truck, nonetheless.
@DoonsterBuildsLego said:
"That is clearly a dumper truck, not a container truck.
Nice little truck, nonetheless. "
I mean, to be fair, it does have to contain things so that it can go dump them elsewhere :D
@DoonsterBuildsLego said:
"That is clearly a dumper truck, not a container truck.
Nice little truck, nonetheless. "
It looks like a RORO skip truck actually, not a dumper. Skips are containers therefor container truck is accurate
One of the few studless Technic sets that has even width
@PurpleDave: Dump it all, it must be dumped...
Aaaah, one of my first ever technic sets! Back in the era when all the box/catalouge art was set in this weird void with a technic liftarm floor.. I still think the mechanism to unload the "container" is pretty nicely done for the size, more interesting than a simple tilting bed like in the recent 42147, even though that set also looks nice...
I have this, and I have to say that even a set this small has very good functionality: by turning the gear on the roof (which looks like a hand-of-god steering), you can lower and lift the bed smoothly.
Love the close-up and no sense of scale, although you could probably fit a seated mini-fig if you removed the blue thin beams. At this scale the lifting mechanism if quite clever and different. The model B tow truck also looks like a good Technic intro build. The title is ok as Container trucks are the US name for European Skip trucks like his big brother 42024 which I now regret not buying.
I approve of this one. Small technic is budget friendly :)
Alt model doesn't look bad either!
I like 42084 better: you get curved panels instead of this: https://brickset.com/parts/design-15455