Name: Service Truck
Brand: LEGO
SKU: 42008-1
Rating: 77 (8 reviews)

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Recommendations

Indifference 43%

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Price Per Part (PPP)

better

Average PPP for Technic in 2013 is 0.13. PPP for this set is 0.11, 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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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

Eurobricks Recommendation: yes 9 / 10 → 90 / 100

Brickset Recommendation: meh 4 / 5 → 80 / 100

Sariel's LEGO Workshop Recommendation: meh 4 / 5 → 80 / 100

amazon.com Recommendation: no 3.9 / 5 → 78 / 100

The LEGO Car Blog Recommendation: meh 7 / 10 → 70 / 100

Eurobricks Recommendation: no 5 / 10 → 50 / 100

Unscored reviews

Rebrickable

Set information

Set ID: 42008-1
Name: Service Truck
Parts: 1276

Retail price (USD):
Original: 129.99
Inflation adjusted: 142.66

Price Per Part (USD):
Original: 0.10
Inflation adjusted: 0.11

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Eurobricks

Recommendation: yes 9 / 10 by mostlytechnic

For a non-flagship set, this packs a TON of features.

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Eurobricks

Recommendation: yes 9 / 10 by Xewyz2001

Very nice set, great parts pack.

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Brickset

Recommendation: meh 4 / 5 from 3 reviews

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Sariel's LEGO Workshop

Recommendation: meh 4 / 5 by Paweł Kmieć

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amazon.com

Recommendation: no 3.9 / 5 from 64 reviews

Totally awesome model that took about 12 or so hours to build. Last technics set I built was over 20 years ago and wowee a lot has changed! Moving wheel cradle, rear outriggers, tow boom crane and winch hook. Only bummer is I'll have to go online to build the second crane-truck and trailer model, as those three instruction books are sadly not included. Also it requires 6 AA batteries.Honestly it was worth just about every penny and I'll probably buy the huge crane 42009 next.On a side note the free shipping took from order status Sunday morning to delivery on friday and the wait was excruciating! Near as I could tell my precious order sat in amazon limbo for a day-and-a-half while other orders whizzed by it. Bottom line is the free shipping no longer shows up early :-(

This score from amazon.com is an aggregate of 64 reviewers. The snippet above represent only one of them.

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The LEGO Car Blog

Recommendation: meh 7 / 10 by The LEGO Car Blog Team

42008 will never be called pretty, exactly, but it looks… purposeful. There's a fairly minimal amount of detail around the cab, but there's enough. The doors open to reveal the usual pair of angled-liftarm seats and a rudimentary dashboard and (unconnected) steering wheel. As for the colour, it's certainly striking… I don't usually apply stickers to my sets, but with this it's very necessary; and they do successfully break up what is a big slab of green without them.

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Eurobricks

Recommendation: no 5 / 10 by mostlytechnic

The build is ok, the functions are ok, but the final thing feels definitely B and not main model material. The colors are random, the stickers are in the way, and the functions just feel haphazard.I'd recommend building it first so there's no stickers and you can see it for a day or two, and then take it apart and build the main model and leave that one built. [Editor's note: this review is about the alternate model, not the primary.]

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Rebrickable

by Nathan

This is definitely a good looking truck, and I love the colours. I could not find any images of the real life truck it is supposed to represent though, so am not sure if they are real colours or not. The new very small fairing panels are neat and will allow for some great looking MOCs and more detailed panelling in the future.

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