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8865-1 Test Car

8865-1

Test Car

Test Car is LEGO set 8865-1. It has a score of 79. This is average compared to all other sets. The set is recommended by 2 reviews, based on 3 scored reviews and 3 reviews total. It is ranked in the bottom 47.32% scored sets on Brick Insights. We know this set was released in 1988, and it is categorised in Technic.

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Average rating

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Recommendations

Recomended 67%

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Price Per Part (PPP)

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All prices are in $USD, adjusted for inflation. This set is compared to other sets categorised as Technic. 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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All prices are in $USD, adjusted for inflation. This set is compared to other sets categorised as Technic. 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

Lugnet Recommendation: yes 89 / 100 → 89 / 100

Brickset Recommendation: yes 4.4 / 5 → 88 / 100

The LEGO Car Blog Recommendation: no 6 / 10 → 60 / 100

Set information

Set ID: 8865-1
Name: Test Car
Parts: 900

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Lugnet

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Recommendation: yes 89 / 100 from 44 reviews

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Brickset

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Recommendation: yes 4.4 / 5 from 10 reviews

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The LEGO Car Blog

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Recommendation: no 6 / 10 by The LEGO Car Blog Team

Overall, this is a curious device. There's plenty of good stuff going on here, but it falls down badly on it's – for want of a better term – fashion sense. It's colour scheme has more clashes than a war zone and it's proportions are just plain odd.

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