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I don't condone it of course but I hear they are ok quality and I guess it might be of interest to anyone who never managed to get an original. I must admit it's tempting. They have gotten pretty outrageous with the bootlegging recently, Technic Porsche, Ghostbusters fire station, star destroyer, Millenium Falcon (force awakens AND Ultimate collectors) Disney castle, Big Ben etc etc http://www.aliexpres...ad-ac1169e2095b

Did anyone post this yet? I wasn't sure where to post it but I guess this is like THE thread for bootleg stuff. Damn... Also the Big ben set and helicarrier.

Looks like cab roof lights is one of the things you can add with power functions? Interesting.

I would have preferred it if this set was the biggest but even as the smallest it's still got 1100 pieces and pneumatics so it's not all bad. Thank god the flagship was so enormous, it left room for the other two sets to still have decent complexity and part counts. I'll always be sad that the one chance to have a lego volvo ew160 wasn't a flagship but it's probably one of the best "smaller" sets I've even seen. As close to a spiritual successor to 8837 as we'll get too!

Looks like the weight is somewhat balanced across that verticle column so the load on the actuators probably isn't as high as it seems.

I wouldn't get one personally, I don't think these machines look that interesting in real life. What makes them impressive is their immense scale compared to their suroundings which is lost somewhat even though this is a monstrously large set. I still think it's an incredible and impressive set, I bet it's rewarding to build and it's scale and part count is amazing. I would rather take the volvo or claas with that part count any day though, I just them much more interesting and better to look at. I feel disappointed that the set with huge size and part count wasn't used on one of the other two, especially the Volvo. I know many will be delighted with it though and that's great. These are all amazing sets really, the baby of the group still has pneumatics and over 1000 pieces! We've been spoiled.

I really hope the Volvo is one of the largest ones, I loved (still love!) my 8837 and this could be the ultimate spiritual successor!