Name: Cole's Earth Driller
Brand: LEGO
SKU: 70502-1
Rating: 74 (5 reviews)

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Recommendations

Avoid 100%

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Price Per Part (PPP)

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Average PPP for System in 2013 is 0.15. PPP for this set is 0.13, 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.

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 2013 is 20.12. PPM for this set is 10.97, 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.

Review breakdown

Scored reviews

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

Brickset Recommendation: no 3.6 / 5 → 72 / 100

The Brick Fan Recommendation: no 3.5 / 5 → 70 / 100

Unscored reviews

The Brothers Brick

BZPower

Set information

Set ID: 70502-1
Name: Cole's Earth Driller
Parts: 171
Minifigs: 2

Retail price (USD):
Original: 19.99
Inflation adjusted: 21.94

Price Per Part (USD):
Original: 0.12
Inflation adjusted: 0.13

Price Per Minifig (USD):
Original: 10.00
Inflation adjusted: 10.97

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amazon.com

Recommendation: no 4 / 5 from 169 reviews

I bought 2 of these sets for my kids. They liked them fine to build and play with for a little bit, but this set was not the huge hit I thought it would be.Take note that the current price is much too high for any Lego set of this size. Unless you're a completist that absolutely has to have this set, pass on it.A good standard for Lego set prices is ten to fifteen cents per piece unless it's choke full of minifigures or specialty made pieces.

This score from amazon.com is an aggregate of 169 reviewers. The snippet above represent only one of them.

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Brickset

Recommendation: no 3.6 / 5 from 3 reviews

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The Brick Fan

Recommendation: no 3.5 / 5 by Chad Collins

The set has two minifigures: Cole wearing a kimono and a Stone Swordsman. The Earth Driller itself is pretty sleek looking.

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The Brothers Brick

by Chris

This seems a very solid set for the price, though I do wish it had at least one more play-feature, like rear suspension or a pop-up missile or something. It's a very chunky, heavy vehicle with a huge drill on the front, which I suppose is precisely what you'd want on a real earth driller, but it leaves me wishing for something more. The minifigs are great, and I'll definitely be getting more of the stickered pieces.

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BZPower

by Jason

I cannot get over how good this set looks. And it has some decent functionality on top of that. Of all the Ninjago sets released this year, this one is my favorite, and I would recommend it to Ninjago fans, steampunk fans, and anybody else who's into vehicles with giant drills on them.

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