Name: Dwarves' Mine Defender
Brand: LEGO
SKU: 7040-1
Rating: 74 (5 reviews)

Dwarves' Mine Defender is LEGO set 7040-1. It has a score of 74. This is average compared to all other sets. The set is recommended by 0 reviews, based on 4 scored reviews and 5 reviews total. It is ranked in the bottom 24.86% scored sets on Brick Insights. We know this set was released in 2008, and it is categorised in Castle.

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Recommendations

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Price Per Part (PPP)

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Average PPP for System in 2008 is 0.13. PPP for this set is 0.14, 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.

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 2008 is 16.01. PPM for this set is 3.95, which is better.

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.

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Review breakdown

Scored reviews

amazon.com Recommendation: meh 4.6 / 5 → 92 / 100

Brickset Recommendation: meh 3.7 / 5 → 74 / 100

Eurobricks Recommendation: no 34 / 50 → 68 / 100

Lugnet Recommendation: no 61 / 100 → 61 / 100

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Set information

Set ID: 7040-1
Name: Dwarves' Mine Defender
Parts: 86
Minifigs: 3

Retail price (USD):
Original: 9.99
Inflation adjusted: 11.86

Price Per Part (USD):
Original: 0.12
Inflation adjusted: 0.14

Price Per Minifig (USD):
Original: 3.33
Inflation adjusted: 3.95

More sets:

2008 Castle Fantasy Era

Statistics:

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amazon.com

Recommendation: meh 4.6 / 5 from 12 reviews

Nice to see Lego gave the dwarfs something to defend their mine from the trolls.This is a good set for building an army unfortunately the troll army!! Just kidding it just seems like the dwarfs are always outnumbered! I know 1 machine is better than 2 trolls.This is a small fun toy for defending your lego dwarf mine, it comes with 1 dwarf and 2 troll minifigs.I recommend this to defend the trolls mine a couple is even better for war!!!

This score from amazon.com is an aggregate of 12 reviewers. The snippet above represent only one of them.

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Brickset

Recommendation: meh 3.7 / 5 from 20 reviews

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Eurobricks

Recommendation: no 34 / 50 by cagri

It's a nice set and I'd recommend it if you like the castle theme. You'll find some good use for the figures and this is the cheapest figure set of the year.

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Lugnet

Recommendation: no 61 / 100 from 14 reviews

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Eurobricks

by pedro

Overall this set is really great value. For £6.99 you get three great minifigures including a fantastic Dwarf and a great little war machine with some nice new parts. At that price how can you say no?

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