This truck is complet and very interesting.

I like so much pneumatic set and this one is one of the best.

Also, the red color is nice and it has a lot of functionnality.

The price is also ok for what it offers.

If you find one, buy it.

I found the set kind of weak (both psychically and build wise). I've never seen a truck that quite looked like that. But nonetheless she had a bunch of cool looking moving parts

Pros

• If you take off the crane arms in the back I think the truck is very good looking, in addition, if you use the model where it is like a tow truck i think she looks more realistic
• I was able to attach a compressor to the truck (but unfortunately the battery box had a hard tome staying on) but he had endless re playability that way (as all legos, but this set made modifying easy!)
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Cons

• Like i said a bit of an unrealistic truck
• not an overly complicated base model
• while the claw is the coolest, it certainly is unrealistic, the hook us also to be desired.
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Overall, good value for the price, and lots of modifying that can be done

why lego didn't just put independent suspension on this model? it would make the set perfect... other than that, design is very cool and attractive, it really looks like a powerful road bull. if you want to buy it, go on, you won't regret.

This is among the 5 best sets i own. As a proffesional truck-driver myself I easily can recognice a number of features taken from real life. The first you build is the truck itself, and that alone is impressive, allthough suspension and transmission would not do any harm (yes I know it would make the model bigger and without doubt alot more expensive), but even without these features the model is very life-like.

Then you build one of three add-on features; a truck mounted crane, a car tow feature or a timber crane. The one i adore the most by far is the truck mounted crane. It was the first feature I build, and allthough I also tried the other two it is this feature the model stands with. The crane itself is as near reality as I think is possible.

One thing I miss about this model is the possibility to build a trailer to the model, but as a good Lego-fan I of course build one myself.

The truck has a stylish and aggressive look to it, but its features are standard, suspension on this would be great. The chassis should have been made with old style beams-with-studs. If the patent ran out, I haven't seen them being used by other building-bricks manufacturers?!

The cab can open and is completely separate from the chassis, except for the hinges. When it's open, this design probably looks good on a "Lego town" model, but looks dumb on a technic model of this level, (the silver champion 8458 alternative model truck has steering at the steering wheel, not the top of the cab, so to open the cab, the steering design had to be more complex than here, as well as having hydraulics to push the cab up)

The best design is the crane-with-a-hook, I don't know if it's based on a real life design, but it has an interesting mechanism.

The crane-with-a-claw and the car lift-and-tow mechanism (fits 8435) are also good, and each gives the truck a different look.

The colour scheme is very striking, and the new greys change shade depending on the lighting, the panels are the old bright red, the yellow lights look like a new shade of trans-yellow?!

There's plenty of standard parts and useful pieces for making other models, and I think it's gonna be really popular because it's so appealing, Lego might even start making a continuous line of trucks, like they did with their super cars. The end :)