Name: Ultralight Helicopter
Brand: LEGO
SKU: 42057-1
Rating: 80 (8 reviews)

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Recommendations

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Price Per Part (PPP)

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Average PPP for Technic in 2017 is 0.13. PPP for this set is 0.1, which is better.

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PPP is a guide, not a rule, and affected by the type of parts included. A set containing small generic parts generally have better PPP than one containing larger specialized parts.

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PPM only takes the number of minifigs into account and discards everything else. It's a guide, not a rule.

Review breakdown

Scored reviews

LEGO Recommendation: meh 4.69 / 5 → 94 / 100

amazon.com Recommendation: meh 4.6 / 5 → 92 / 100

Blocks Magazine Recommendation: yes 89 / 100 → 89 / 100

Brickset Recommendation: meh 3.8 / 5 → 76 / 100

Eurobricks Recommendation: no 7 / 10 → 70 / 100

Sariel's LEGO Workshop Recommendation: no 3 / 5 → 60 / 100

Unscored reviews

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Set information

Set ID: 42057-1
Name: Ultralight Helicopter
Parts: 199

Retail price (USD):
Original: 19.99
Inflation adjusted: 20.85

Price Per Part (USD):
Original: 0.10
Inflation adjusted: 0.1

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Recommendation: meh 4.69 / 5 from 13 reviews

This is what Technic sets should be! Lots of gears, things that move/work, cool design/colors, asymmetry here and there. A really great set at a good price. It doesn't get any better!

This score from LEGO is an aggregate of 13 reviewers. The snippet above represent only one of them.

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amazon.com

Recommendation: meh 4.6 / 5 from 111 reviews

Way cooler than I expected! Side note... I'm a 37yo single male and don't have much better to do. Still, cooler than I expected.

This score from amazon.com is an aggregate of 111 reviewers. The snippet above represent only one of them.

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Blocks Magazine

Recommendation: yes 89 / 100

42057 Ultralight Helicopter was reviewed in issue 32 of Blocks Magazine.

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Brickset

Recommendation: meh 3.8 / 5 from 5 reviews

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Eurobricks

Recommendation: no 7 / 10 by Siegfried

This is an excellent set for someone starting out in Technic, and a good parts pack for others.

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Sariel's LEGO Workshop

Recommendation: no 3 / 5 by Paweł Kmieć

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Brickset News

by Huw

Despite the problem with wheels and the lack of a crank to rotate the blades, I actually quite like this model and it looks cool enough to excite young Technic builders thanks to the stickers: without them it would be a bit bland. AFOLs are not really going to be excited though, and it is nowhere near as good as similarly sized helicopters that have been released in the past such as 8232 Chopper Force (which has a very clever mechanism for rotating the blades), but it does look to be one of the better small Technic sets of next year.

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