Name: 6x6 All Terrain Tow Truck
Brand: LEGO
SKU: 42070-1
Rating: 64 (9 reviews)

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Recommendations

Avoid 75%

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Price Per Part (PPP)

worse

Average PPP for Technic in 2017 is 0.13. 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.

Price Per Minifig (PPM)

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We do not currently know how the average price per minifig for this set compares to other sets.

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 4.4 / 5 → 88 / 100

amazon.com Recommendation: no 4 / 5 → 80 / 100

Brickset Recommendation: meh 3.9 / 5 → 78 / 100

LEGO Recommendation: no 3.6 / 5 → 72 / 100

Eurobricks Recommendation: no 6.8 / 10 → 68 / 100

Blocks Magazine Recommendation: no 68 / 100 → 68 / 100

Sariel's LEGO Workshop Recommendation: no 2 / 5 → 40 / 100

Sariel's LEGO Workshop Recommendation: no 1 / 5 → 20 / 100

Unscored reviews

Brickset News

Set information

Set ID: 42070-1
Name: 6x6 All Terrain Tow Truck
Parts: 1862

Retail price (USD):
Original: 289.99
Inflation adjusted: 302.46

Price Per Part (USD):
Original: 0.16
Inflation adjusted: 0.17

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amazon.com

Recommendation: meh 4.4 / 5 from 38 reviews

My son has been asking for this set forever but I couldn't drop this kind of money on a toy until Christmas. I'm so glad I did! While it took him three days to get it put together he is ecstatic and he hasn't stopped driving it around Our house! It's much larger than I thought. The perfect gift for my 11 year old creator!

This score from amazon.com is an aggregate of 38 reviewers. The snippet above represent only one of them.

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amazon.com

Recommendation: no 4 / 5 from 1 review

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Brickset

Recommendation: meh 3.9 / 5 from 3 reviews

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LEGO

Recommendation: no 3.6 / 5 from 60 reviews

This is a good build, you'll be getting tired when you get to the 4 cylinder engine. For the money Lego wants for this thing I would expect LED lighting, at least 6 motors and completely remote control with a fully independent suspension with shocks. I just played with mine for 5 minutes, setting the out riggers and my brand new Energizer batteries are dead! The truck has good speed but no torque to climb small obstacles . If the rear out riggers hit the ground before the front outriggers it causes the Lego cylinder at the rear to pop apart. I think the truck looks rather Awesome.

This score from LEGO is an aggregate of 60 reviewers. The snippet above represent only one of them.

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Eurobricks

Recommendation: no 6.8 / 10 by Jim

After building the set and spending some time playing with it I can only come to the conclusion that I really like it. I am even thinking about modding this set and that is something I seldomly do. This set reminds me of the 42039, where I felt like the president of a fan club with very few members. Sometimes a set just works for me and this is such a set. And that's not because it's the best set right out of the box, but it has potential to have a lot of fun with it. Some sets are perfect, but you will hardly touch them after building. The real question is whether people will be forking out such an amount of money for a non-licensed set.

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Blocks Magazine

Recommendation: no 68 / 100

42070 6X6 All Terrain Tow Truck was reviewed in issue 39 of Blocks Magazine.

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Sariel's LEGO Workshop

Recommendation: no 2 / 5 by Paweł Kmieć

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Sariel's LEGO Workshop

Recommendation: no 1 / 5 by Paweł Kmieć

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Brickset News

by Huw

In summary, then, it's a nice looking (albeit probably fictional) vehicle but it lacks features you would expect in a flagship model. The price is astronomical and I think most people would find it hard to justify spending such a sum on a set such as this, particularly this year when there are so many strong sets in other themes competing for our money.

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