Joshua "O'Dulchaointig" Delahunty: "Highly overrated by (some) others. Lots of flash, middlin substance"
Gail Meagher: "impossible to resist at $70 Canadian"
Ronald Vallenduuk: "Almost as good as the Space Shuttle. Main issues: pneumatics on the boom lift, it simply crashes down, stickers over multiple parts and very noisy motor/gears for lifting. Still a brilliant set though"
Thomas Fulk, Jr.: "Awesome technic set, my #1 all time fav"
Robert J. Powell: "The most intricate Technic set I have ever built."
Steve Hickman: "Well, it's no Airtech Claw Rig, but given the trash that has been passed off as Technic for the past few years, I'll take it."
Bob Gomez: "Great set!! Thank you Lego!"
Martin Bruun: "It's big and fun to build. The boom is a briliant piece of engineering. The pneumatics are not powerful enough and the rest of the functions aren't that impressive. Good but not fantastic."
Ash Nickle: "Not the best (manual turning for the crane arm) but a long-overdue step in the right direction for top-end, complex Technic design"
Dean Maher: "A good fun build, technicaly well made, But Pnumatics no good (Cylinder leaking) and no good for this weight. Bring on srew jack system!. Cable dose not have an on / off, No control for turn table."
Vincent Benner: "Top ! Top ! Top !"
Andy Blake: "If you like technic and cranes, you'll weep with joy when building this. The final stages of build bring several sub-models together to form an incredible feat of engineering (for lego that is)."
Manfred Schroeder: "Got mine for half price in 2008, yippieh! Can not compete with the space shuttle, but great model and much fun building!"
Cyndi Bradham: "looks great, but there is a disappointing lack of integration. The pneumatics do one thing (only), the motor other things, and other functions are manual. However, still worth building"
Dave Church: "didn't buy it on release, now waiting for a lottery win"
David Geoffrey Koudys: "Wow! Spectacular set!"
Stéphane Simard: "Now THIS is a real Technic set. Replaced the white clutch gear with a real 24t gear to lift heavy weight!"
Daniel Valkenburg: "boy oh boy, it's gonna be great"
Harri Manni: "Fantastic set, it's however begging for upgrade, although the boom is pretty amazing engineering it has a few flaws, had it not been for a number of (understandable) compromises it had been a sure 100"
Jan Kaskinen: "Super crane"
Olof Dahlberg: "Impossible to operate, but a good solid build and nice parts, 9/10"
Tim (Smith): "It's pretty good. It's not the best ever, but best of the 21st century."
Hakan Kutluay: "Perfect design and engineering. You must own it."
Jeff McClain: "Just plain awesome, though I've about decided Lego can't design good pneumatic lifts (under powered)."
Paul De La Haye: "Totally awesome set"
Jack Lillie: "I was impressed by the size and enjoyability in building this model. The motor would've been better suited as just hand cranks in my opinion"