LEGO Technic Dozer Compactor, 171-pc

It was great fun building this. Did it tighter with my husband just for fun.

Something fun to do when in the mood. Very easy to build.

To start off, I am from Bulgaria, but the country can't be chosen on the site. The set is amazing and cute at the same time! Building of the two sets is fun, and they both look and feel sturdy and beautiful once completed. Nice color scheme! Nice set of parts too, you can make many other contraptions once you are border with the initial two models. Small drawback there is - the model B truck doesn't unload easily - it always gets stuck while doing so. I watched other videos specifically in order to ensure that it wasn't something I did wrongly. All in all - a great set. The tires are pretty cool, by the way:)

For younger builders, you can get this as their first dozer based set but this is actually the first time I got one like this, having missed out on past ones! Despite its fairly low pricing in the Technic line up, this dozer is actually relatively large. More so than I expected anyway! The wheels are indeed hollow, but they are much more durable in feel than they appear. And it's a nice change in colour scheme with blue, orange and grey as opposed to the usual yellow we've seen. The dozer may only have two functions, moving the blade and steering but it does both very well. The blade can raise quite high up to give a lot of space and clearance for the front wheels to potentially climb up obstacles if you simply pushed the model along. And the blade can lower and even lift the front of the model up, so nothing the model pushes will go under. Steering is articulated here, which is quite rare in a set at this price level; the last set to have such steering while costing so little was the 42004: Mini Backhoe Loader back in 2013. The dozer's turning circle is very small and tight, so you should be able to do a U-Turn on a table without resorting to doing many three-point-turns. Flaws? Minor stuff like the pins sticking out of the sides under the cab, but they are likely needed for the B-model, which may be why shorter ones are not used here (not built the B-model yet). And covering them up with bushings or half a liftarm beam is not suitable as the front wheels' studs will rub against them when steering on full lock. The knobs for the two functions are a little close to the roll cage but it's manageable though. Overall, it's a great set; well priced, has a decent number of nice parts like the small turntable, plenty of gears, the wheels and four sprockets in blue for the very first time ever, and very well done functions!

Nice and easy to build my son love it and it has two different machines in one package.