Name: Back-Hoe
Brand: LEGO
SKU: 8455-1
Rating: 91 (4 reviews)

Back-Hoe is LEGO set 8455-1. It has a score of 91. This is good compared to all other sets. The set is recommended by 3 reviews, based on 4 scored reviews and 4 reviews total. It is ranked in the top 5.75% scored sets on Brick Insights. We know this set was released in 2003, and it is categorised in Technic.

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Recommendations

Recomended 75%

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Price Per Part (PPP)

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Review breakdown

Scored reviews

Lugnet Recommendation: yes 94 / 100 → 94 / 100

Brickset Recommendation: yes 4.6 / 5 → 92 / 100

The LEGO Car Blog Recommendation: meh 9 / 10 → 90 / 100

Brickpicker Recommendation: yes 8.8 / 10 → 88 / 100

Set information

Set ID: 8455-1
Name: Back-Hoe
Parts: 704

More sets:

2003 Technic

Statistics:

Best Technic sets of all time

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Lugnet

Recommendation: yes 94 / 100 from 75 reviews

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Brickset

Recommendation: yes 4.6 / 5 from 23 reviews

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The LEGO Car Blog

Recommendation: meh 9 / 10 by The LEGO Car Blog Team

8455 is just too good. it shows that even in 2003, during Lego Technic's ‘dark age' , someone still cared enough to produce this brilliantly engineered jewel of a set, and it lit up an otherwise pretty bleak line-up at the time. It's not flawless (unless it's an 8043 with a smaller bucket, what is?) but it's very, very good and with all those pneumatic functions it feels properly luxurious. Expensive but worth it.

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