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(More customer reviews)I just finished building the Rover with my 11 year old son over the last three evenings.For us, Lego's with lots of gears and manipulating parts are the best, and this model is great.Although hard to tell from the pictures and descriptions, it has a knob to steer the 4 corner tires in a coordinated fashion, a button that deploys and unfolds the 'solar panels', a knob that releases the 'camera boom' and then rotates it when upright, another knob to rotate the 'antenna', and lastly a knob to extend and move the 'drilling probe' and retract it again.
As usual, the pictorial instructions are very clear if you can keep your eleven year old from jumping ahead to build the cool parts.A small complaint is that the model contains white, light grey, dark grey and black parts of the same shape, and it's not always clear from the pictures if light or dark grey are to be used.The only consequence of picking the wrong color early is that you'll have to use the opposite color later in the construction.
My son and I have found a good way to share the building of Legos'.For each page, we take turns being "parts man" and "assembler".And then keep each other focused by doing Quality Control (playful ragging) on each others work.So find a kid (or the kid in you) and build it.
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Blast into outer space with LEGO. Be part of the 2003 Mars mission by building your very own Mars Exploration Rover. This detailed replica is modeled after the "robot geologists" that is set to explore the surface of the red planet. The Mars Rovers will make history in 2004, but you can create your own adventures today. Set contains 858 LEGO pieces.
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