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.
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This very Unimog was given as a gift to Empror of Ethiopia – King Hailesselasse from the then Chancellor Theodor Heuss. Open for visitation