Name: Space Shuttle
Brand: LEGO
SKU: 8480-1
Rating: 96 (4 reviews)

Space Shuttle is LEGO set 8480-1. It has a score of 96. This is good compared to all other sets. The set is recommended by 3 reviews, based on 3 scored reviews and 4 reviews total. It is ranked in the top 1.17% scored sets on Brick Insights. We know this set was released in 1996, and it is categorised in Technic.

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Recommendations

Recomended 100%

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Price Per Part (PPP)

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Review breakdown

Scored reviews

The LEGO Car Blog Recommendation: yes 10 / 10 → 100 / 100

Lugnet Recommendation: yes 95 / 100 → 95 / 100

Brickset Recommendation: yes 4.6 / 5 → 92 / 100

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Set information

Set ID: 8480-1
Name: Space Shuttle
Parts: 1368

More sets:

1996 Technic

Statistics:

Best Technic sets of all time

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The LEGO Car Blog

Recommendation: yes 10 / 10 by The LEGO Car Blog Team

Whatever you do with it, you'll be impressed. Not only does it do plenty of impressive stuff, but it looks good doing it. A strong contender for the best Technic set ever.

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