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8424-1 Mater's Spy Zone

8424-1

Mater's Spy Zone

Mater's Spy Zone is LEGO set 8424-1. It has a score of 73. This is average compared to all other sets. The set is recommended by 1 reviews, based on 4 scored reviews and 6 reviews total. It is ranked in the bottom 22.22% scored sets on Brick Insights. We know this set was released in 2011, and it is categorised in Cars.

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Average rating

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Recommendations

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A review is considereded a recommendation when its score is above the reviewers median score or if it's explicitly said so in the review. Read more in our article about recommendations.

Price Per Part (PPP)

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Average PPP for System in 2011 is 0.17. PPP for this set is 0.15, 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 2011 is 17.71. PPM for this set is 17.04, 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

Eurobricks Recommendation: yes 9.2 / 10 → 92 / 100

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

Brickset Recommendation: no 3.1 / 5 → 62 / 100

Lugnet Recommendation: no 58 / 100 → 58 / 100

Unscored reviews

Just2Good

From Bricks To Bothans

Set information

Set ID: 8424-1
Name: Mater's Spy Zone
Parts: 114
Minifigs: 1

Retail price (USD):
Original: 14.99
Inflation adjusted: 17.04

Price Per Part (USD):
Original: 0.13
Inflation adjusted: 0.15

Price Per Minifig (USD):
Original: 14.99
Inflation adjusted: 17.04

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Recommendation: yes 9.2 / 10 by LuxorV

Overall, this is a nice little set for Cars' fans. It includes the most popular character (so much so he got his cartoon spin-off line from the first film), a cute spy car in a rare colour, and a bit of background to add to playability. As one would expect, the main goal of this kind of set is to prompt you to buy more, and it has been achieved pretty well. On the other hand, even if I do not expect anybody to go army-building with Agent Mater and Holley Shiftwell, it is a nice and cheap way to get more characters.

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Recommendation: no 3.9 / 5 from 11 reviews

I had a hard time finding this item which was a Christmas gift for my Nephew. So glad I found it on Amazon. It seemed the local stores had a smaller sellection than previous years. Maybe its the economy and brick and mortar stores are keeping less inventory. Well that might be a mistake. My Nephew and I put this together Christmas day and he liked it. There are stickers you put on the control panel. The car and tow truck are cool. My Nephew was looking for the tow truck character so this fit the bill and bonus with the other sport car and spy set stuff that comes with this product. It does have small delicate parts etc. as a lot of Lego now a days and also custom parts. These small parts can be difficult to keep together and I would imagine get lost in the big Lego box a child might have which makes it difficult to put it all together again. Perhaps keeping the part for a set in a separate baggy may be in order. Hmm, but how to get a kid to do that.

This score from amazon.com is an aggregate of 11 reviewers. The snippet above represent only one of them.
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Brickset

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Recommendation: no 3.1 / 5 from 4 reviews

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Lugnet

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Recommendation: no 58 / 100 from 3 reviews

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From Bricks To Bothans

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by Ace Kim

It's a boring set and nothing about it screams must-have. If you're bent on getting all the minicars, you can probably skip this one and go straight to Big Bentley Bust-out or Spy Jet Escape since those sets include Holly and Angry Eyes Mater and have more minicars that aren't available elsewhere.

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