Name: Arctic Mobile Exploration Base
Brand: LEGO
SKU: 60195-1
Rating: 85 (7 reviews)

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Recommendations

Avoid 50%

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Price Per Part (PPP)

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Average PPP for System in 2018 is 0.15. PPP for this set is 0.15, which is average.

All prices are in $USD, adjusted for inflation. This set is compared to other sets categorised as System. Read more about this in our article about price comparisons.

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.

Price Per Minifig (PPM)

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Average PPM for System in 2018 is 14.16. PPM for this set is 20.36, which is worse.

All prices are in $USD, adjusted for inflation. This set is compared to other sets categorised as System. Read more about this in our article about price comparisons.

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

Review breakdown

Scored reviews

amazon.com Recommendation: yes 5 / 5 → 100 / 100

LEGO Recommendation: no 4.14 / 5 → 83 / 100

Brickset Recommendation: meh 4.1 / 5 → 82 / 100

True North Bricks Recommendation: no 75 / 100 → 75 / 100

Unscored reviews

Brick Fanatics

The Brothers Brick

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Set information

Set ID: 60195-1
Name: Arctic Mobile Exploration Base
Parts: 786
Minifigs: 6

Retail price (USD):
Original: 119.99
Inflation adjusted: 122.16

Price Per Part (USD):
Original: 0.15
Inflation adjusted: 0.15

Price Per Minifig (USD):
Original: 20.00
Inflation adjusted: 20.36

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amazon.com

Recommendation: yes 5 / 5 from 51 reviews

Our grandson adores creating Lego sets and playing with them! At age 9, this is one of his favorites! It's unusual and requires imagination (hooray). Very pleased with this item!

This score from amazon.com is an aggregate of 51 reviewers. The snippet above represent only one of them.

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LEGO

Recommendation: no 4.14 / 5 from 7 reviews

Lego designers did an awesome job on this set. They have lots of great details inside and out in of the compact units. The vehicle and base units are small and they use little extensions between each unit to make it appear much bigger than it actually is. The design and detail is great, the price well it looks like your paying $60-$65 to get that mammoth.

This score from LEGO is an aggregate of 7 reviewers. The snippet above represent only one of them.

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Brickset

Recommendation: meh 4.1 / 5 from 3 reviews

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True North Bricks

Recommendation: no 75 / 100 by Tom

In general, you are getting a really nice set in the AMEB. I love the story behind the set, and I love the look of the set. I think this set will inspire young minds to delve deeper into science after playing through some adventures. Getting a mammoth figure is also amazing. Where the AMEB falls flat is value. You are paying A LOT for this kit at $149.99, and you don't get a lot of bricks for that price, or a lot of initial build time. While I do recommend this set, I also recommend waiting for a sale. I think the price point for the AMEB should be about 20% less ($120). At that price, your cost per brick goes down to $0.15, and the build-time ends up being $0.90/minute. In the end, that changes the overall score to 80%. So, the AMEB is certainly worth picking up, but wait for a sale of 20% or more.

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Brick Fanatics

by Jme

All things considered, it is difficult to recommend this set at full price. There are definitely some bright spots, but with such a lack of useful parts, the set doesn't offer much for builders. Even though children will likely enjoy this set, it's at a pretty high price point. If you cannot find one on deep discount, I would suggest taking a look at some of the smaller sets in the theme.

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The Brothers Brick

by Andrew

Despite my quibbles with certain aspects of the star mammoth, I love this set. I've been fascinated by mammoths since I first saw a mammoth skeleton in Hokkaido as a very young child. Where other kids were obsessed with dinosaurs, my extinct fauna of choice was of the Pleistocene variety. The orange, dark blue, and azure elements are great additions to any LEGO collection — I can't wait to take this apart and see if I can build a deep-space research starship from the parts. And the vehicles themselves are full of fun details and play features, including the crane and laboratory in particular.

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