Name: Excavator
Brand: LEGO
SKU: 8851-1
Rating: 73 (4 reviews)

Excavator is LEGO set 8851-1. It has a score of 73. This is average compared to all other sets. The set is recommended by 1 reviews, based on 3 scored reviews and 4 reviews total. It is ranked in the bottom 22.75% scored sets on Brick Insights. We know this set was released in 1984, and it is categorised in Technic.

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Recommendations

Avoid 33%

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Price Per Part (PPP)

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Review breakdown

Scored reviews

Lugnet Recommendation: yes 87 / 100 → 87 / 100

Brickset Recommendation: meh 4.1 / 5 → 82 / 100

The LEGO Car Blog Recommendation: no 5 / 10 → 50 / 100

Unscored reviews

Eurobricks

Set information

Set ID: 8851-1
Name: Excavator
Parts: 347

More sets:

1984 Technic

Statistics:

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Lugnet

Recommendation: yes 87 / 100 from 30 reviews

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Brickset

Recommendation: meh 4.1 / 5 from 11 reviews

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The LEGO Car Blog

Recommendation: no 5 / 10 by The LEGO Car Blog Team

8851 does have one redeeming feature; the second model is a rather fine bulldozer with (lightweight!) lifting and tilting blade that works fine even with the early pumps and manages to be better looking than the main model.

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Eurobricks

by MadMax1998

The model really packs some punch with the new actuators and also looks more modern. Constructing it is still very much a pain after attaching the arm to the structure (who came up with the idea of putting rubber bands on it in a place as inconvenient as this?) and leading four hoses on top of each other is quirky, but it's worth the final product. The only design choice I could criticize is the strange skeleton of a cockpit. It doesn't even sit on top of the structure, but is attached in line with it – that just looks weird from any angle other than left! And it doesn't even have a floor.

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