[REVIEW] 42001 - Mini Off-Roader

[yohai71]

Hello all. Usually I hover around the Town and Trains' forum, but recently I got my hands on some Technic models, which I thought I might share here.

I would like this to be less technical and more down-to-earth; after all, when you open the box, most of us are not interested in dry data, but want to start building right away (at least I do)... All the specs are readily available on the internet, so excuse me if I don't bother with that. Also, personally I'd prefer more pictures over words, so that's what I tried to do here. Oh, and you get a video at the end as a bonus.

So lets start (hands in pictures are mine, use them for scale...).

Obviously, the box is small- it's a MINI off-roader, yes?

Open the box and out slide two bags (un-numbered), and the tires...:

... and two manuals- one is for the chassis, the other for the (alternating) bodies:

Contents of bag 1- hang on, what's that white envelope doing there?

This one!

Ah, rubbers... I'll get to those later:

Contents of bag two- I really like those Orange sort-of shark-fins parts:

A few pages from the instruction manuals for your pleasure:

the building process- remember the rubbers?

All done:

Chassis is done:

See how it works:

Halfway through the body build:

Almost done:

Done!

The above and below photos are to show you how the body detaches form the chassis, so you can dismantle it and build the B model (see the manual):

Did anyone here ever win this?...

See the leftovers:

And now for some publicity photos:

Here's a nice comparison with a LEGO city model- the Fireman Motorcyclist:

Interesting- it's almost up to scale with the Off-roader- see?

Now for the video (why can't I embed the video into the post as I did with the photos? oh well):

And this is the real-life counterpart, the "Norwegian Jeep" I was talking about in the video:

Well, that's it. If you've reached here and saw the video, you'll know what I think of this model... Thanks, I hope you liked the review.

[afol1969]

Thanks very much for the review.

Although the Mini-Offroader only contains 100 parts, a lot of them are good for spare, like the towball pins, the 5L thin liftarms with axle holes, 90° axle connectors.

Interesting is the use of rubber bands instead of shock absorbers.

I think, I'll buy it....

Greetings

Alex

[Freekysch]

Nice little review, i like how they managed to put suspension on such a little Offroader.

[Lost_In_Noise]

yo have to insert media to embed videos ([media](url)[ /media ]). Make sure the url isn't shortened, like the embed function og youtube suggests. Thanks ever so much for the review, and the great pictures!

Edited February 28, 2014 by Lost_In_Noise

[yohai71]

Thanks very much for your kind posts.

:thumbs up: (I'm on mobile...)

Lost_In_Noise, thanks for your help- I tried that but no go. Purhaps the link was wrong.

[zux]

I've build one without building instructions - quite a fun challenge (too less photos on the box and BI)