Seems like a good deal. Close to the cheapest price..
Build a durable Forest Machine with motorized pneumatic crane boom and grabber with this advanced building set!
CamelCamelCamel.
Accurate but depressing
Teach them to chain minifigs to the tree in protest. Life lessons all around.
while sitting in his wooden house at his wooden table, which is on wooden floorboards.
Plantations produce over 85% logs harvested in AUS however I'm not saying there are not problems with de-forestation of old Forrest/rain Forrest but its not that simple saying ALL wood harvesting is bad.
don't worry, unobtainable deal anyway
So you don't use any timber in your life (house, furniture etc)?
Plantation grown timber is a thing, and thank goodness, because life would be pretty expensive for most people if no timber was available.
I'm surprised you're not complaining about the petroleum-based plastics these Lego bricks are actually made out of.
Edit: beaten to it.
I'm surprised you're not complaining about the petroleum-based plastics these Lego bricks are actually made out of.
Lego actually devote an inordinate amount of resources and energy into offsetting the environmental cost of their products and are making inroads to producing Lego using only sustainably-sourced, non-petrochemical plastics, which is what makes this lazy, uninformed hippy criticism of the supposed questionable ethics of a tree-cutting toy hilarious.
Meanwhile, this bobby dazzler poster probably has a personal carbon footprint equivalent to that of a hundred Indian and African villages combined and throws out enough waste each year to fill dozens of garbage trucks.
But sure, the simulated tree-cutting action of this toy and its subliminal influence on children's impressionable minds is the real problem with society.
Another brilliant example of the Unified Lego-Loony-Soapbox Hypothesis in action. Something about Lego just sets people off on self-righteous tirades that have absolutely nothing to do with anything relevant.
Poo-litical shoulder-patting from the professionally-outraged aside ("Oi m8, you got a loisence to operate your toy tree-cutter?"), this a fun little set and one of only 5 pneumatic sets to come out since 2011, so worth owning for that reason alone due to their rarity in Technic sets these days and this price is only $7 dollars more than the all-time historical low.
The idling sound of the pneumatic pump sounds pretty close to an industrial diesel motor and the arm raising/lowering and log-chopping action is quite satisfying to actuate and very swift and smooth.
I didnt know Lego stilled Pneumatic!
My bad I didn’t know it had a crane till reading this thread . A good Lego keyword.
How many sets do you own to be able to comment in such detail? :)
Built or unbuilt? I don't know which number is more embarrassing. Actually I do, it's the amount of games in my Steam library.
Practical question: where do you store it?
@ihbh: Ah, the age-old Lego dilemma. The walk-in closet in the master bedroom contains the pile of shame (boxed, unopened sets), the closet in the spare bedroom contains the boxes for finished sets I intend to potentially resell one day and the two, 2-metre tall, 160cm wide display cabinets contain all the sets I want to put on show currently (I also have some shelves that can hold a few sets for overflow capacity).
As I collect predominantly Star Wars and Technic sets with the odd Lego Ideas set here and there, I have a much easier time of displaying and storing stuff compared to the AFOLs who have all of the Lego Creator Modulars or like to have entire Lego cities taking up a spare room; that stuff gets out of hand real fast. Ordinary Star Wars and Technic models can be pretty densely arranged on my display cabinets (sometimes I managed to cram 10 onto one shelf in a cabinet), it's only the UCS behemoths and Technic flagship sets that I have to weigh up as to which will be on display long-term and which will be stored disassembled after their first build (maybe to be rotated back into the display cabinets later on).
Also, some acrylic display stands like the kind Zacparis (Australian-made) puts out help tremendously in maximising your display area real estate. When you have your models floating at different heights, you can tightly arrange your Star Wars sets, as the the spacecraft really lend themselves very well to tight formations that make them look they're in a space fleet mid-flight or something. Highly recommend his display stands, the quality and finish is top-notch (the laser-etched model names on the stands look brilliant in person too) as well as most of the acrylic ones you can find on Etsy, though for Star Wars sets, the Zacparis ones are a bit nicer.
Great just what I want my kids to play with, a machine that cuts down forests. I think I will pass. Maybe Lego can have a coal fired power station in its next set.