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Can we build it? Yes we can! Before the Obama campaign pilfered the slogan, it belonged to the kid's show "Bob the Builder." But it could just as easily be applied to Legos. Or the perhaps even the Mercedes-Benz Unimog.

The versatile utility vehicle celebrates its 60th anniversary this year, and to help celebrate, the Danish brick-toy company has come out with an intricate working reproduction in 1:12.5 scale. The Lego Technic Unimog packs an unprecedented 2,048 parts - the most in any Lego kit to date - and packs all the working elements you'd expect to find in the real full-size thing: It's got a winch, a pneumatic crane, a reproduction of the engine with moving pistons and the whole shebang.

The kit is based on the U400 model and goes on sale in Europe in August with a list price of 190 Euros - about $275 by today's rates. In other words, a lot less than the 380,000 Unimog owners have paid for theirs over the course of the vehicle's six decades of production. Follow the jump for the press release and check out the trio of high-res images in the gallery.

Also, consider this the number one item on our end-of-the-year holiday wishlists...Continue reading Lego celebrates 60 years of the Mercedes-Benz Unimog with 2,048-piece kit

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06-02-2011 03:01 PM

Neat, those were some of my favorite toys as a child.

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That's amazing. The other day I saw a house, a real house, that was made entirely out of Legos. My son used to stay entertained for hours on end with Legos, when he was little.

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Max 1984 300TD 285,000 miles - Sold
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Leave it to James May

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1214729/James-May-size-Lego-house-wants.html

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1985 500SL Euro w/ AMG bits 130k
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2007 S600 Biturbo 149k Overheated Project, IT'S ALIVE!!!

That's really neat! I like it!

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1987 300TD 311,000M Stolen. Presumed destroyed

I wonder if it will have the same portal axles Unimogs are known for. I doubt Lego will make it realistic, but I want one!

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It sounds like it might. It's the biggest Lego Technic set ever, and it does look awesome. I think I want it too!

"The vehicle may be small in stature when compared with the real thing, but it has impressive features. A combination of electric drive and pneumatics has been produced in exlusive cooperation with Mercedes-Benz to provide a true adaptation of the original."

"The gear unit provides good ground clearance just like the portal axles in the orginal, an individual suspension deadens jolts and the four-wheel drive guarantees mobility off-road as well."

article @ http://motoring.iafrica.com/features/731985.html

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The article says it's about $275, so you'd better get that bad boy on your Christmas list and you'd better be nice . . .

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" We have nothing to fear but the main stream media itself . . . ."- Adapted from Franklin D Roosevelt for the 21st century

OBK #55

1998 Lincoln Continental - Sold
Max 1984 300TD 285,000 miles - Sold
The Dee8gonator 1987 560SEC 196,000 miles - Sold
Orgasmatron - 2006 CLS500 90,000 miles
2002 C320 Wagon 122,000 miles
2016 AMG GTS 12,000 miles

Ooh wow, I want it more!! Normally when I buy Technic models, I find out that Lego finds a way to modify it for their own design. It's been a while since I got a new Lego Technic model, but if this is similar to previous ones some modification might be required.

This is a cool way to celebrate both my interests

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I never really liked the technics but that is cool

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"The thing is Bob, its not that I'm lazy...its that I just don't care."

It took me 6 hours of straight building to complete the model!

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I just completed my build of the Lego Mercedes-Benz Arocs 3425, here it is with the Lego Unimog U400.






Because I've been so busy, it's taken me nearly a year to complete the build. I could not just start building because each "module" of the Arocs would take 3 hours.

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That is awesome! Wow!