Name: 4x4 Crawler
Brand: LEGO
SKU: 9398-1
Rating: 82 (7 reviews)

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Recommendations

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Price Per Part (PPP)

worse

Average PPP for Technic in 2012 is 0.12. PPP for this set is 0.17, which is worse.

All prices are in $USD, adjusted for inflation. This set is compared to other sets categorised as Technic. 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.

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All prices are in $USD, adjusted for inflation. This set is compared to other sets categorised as Technic. 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: meh 4.6 / 5 → 92 / 100

Brickset Recommendation: meh 4.1 / 5 → 82 / 100

Eurobricks Recommendation: meh 8 / 10 → 80 / 100

Brickpicker Recommendation: meh 7.45 / 10 → 75 / 100

Unscored reviews

The LEGO Car Blog

Eurobricks

Sariel's LEGO Workshop

Set information

Set ID: 9398-1
Name: 4x4 Crawler
Parts: 1327

Retail price (USD):
Original: 199.99
Inflation adjusted: 222.69

Price Per Part (USD):
Original: 0.15
Inflation adjusted: 0.17

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amazon.com

Recommendation: meh 4.6 / 5 from 124 reviews

My 8 year old son got this for his birthday and loved it. It went together pretty easily for him. It is a little slow moving but works beautifully. Maybe a little pricey for the use that it will get, but otherwise a winner.

This score from amazon.com is an aggregate of 124 reviewers. The snippet above represent only one of them.

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Brickset

Recommendation: meh 4.1 / 5 from 5 reviews

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Eurobricks

Recommendation: meh 8 / 10 by legomuppet9

I do really like this set, it looks great, performs ok and its part selection is really nice, with the PF and suspension pieces, so I will personally, like with all my sets, be breaking this set down into my collection. [Editor's note: this review is for the alternate model.]

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Brickpicker

Recommendation: meh 7.45 / 10 from 2 reviews

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The LEGO Car Blog

by The LEGO Car Blog Team

In my opinion if you're planning to buy an RC LEGO set, you can do better than 9398 4×4 Crawler. On Amazon 9398 costs around $325, almost the same as 8376, and it's this set which – alongside the other RC Racers sets from 2003 – earns my recommendation.

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Eurobricks

by Blakbird

So in summary this thing does everything you might expect a LEGO rock crawler to do. OK, it is not as fast or capable as a real R/C rock crawler, but those are made of metal, put together with screws, and not at all suitable for younger children. This thing will keep the kids busy for years, and the adults as well. If I take this to work, all the engineers will lose productivity for days as they study it.

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