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MB Actros Pole loading truck with portal jib crane | 
| Brand: Bruder Toys
Category: Toy
List Price: $92.99
Buy New: $60.82
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Seller: MMP LLC
Rating:  1 reviews
Sales Rank: 96211
Color: Green
Autographed: No
Memorabilia: No
Age: 3 - 7 years
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0
Dimensions (in): 35 x 7.1 x 10.2
MPN: 913564-10428
Model: 02666
UPC: 675930026668
EAN: 4001702026660
ASIN: B00009XNS6
Release Date: June 12, 2006
Shipping: Eligible for FREE Super Saver Shipping
Availability: Usually ships in 24 hours
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| Features:
| • | Made in Germany | | • | Constructed out of fade-resistant, high-quality ABS plastic, with no glue or screws | | • | Realistic details and functions encourage imaginative play | | • | Great for use indoors and outdoors | | • | Recommended Age Range 3+ Years |
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Product Description
Haul this portable jib crane to a site, then set it up to load large objects onto the truck! This Mercedes Actros truck has a telescopic crane with a claw to load and unload the large crane pieces, plus a viewable engine, soft tread tires and a bed unit that can be folded up when there is no cargo. The bed also features real chains and retainer poles that can be folded down to unload cargo. The portable jib crane is made by assembling the poles that are on the trucks. It features a sliding crane unit that can be lowered and raised with a crank.
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| Customer Reviews:
Too fragile for little kids April 7, 2010
C. Mitchell (West Michigan)
1 out of 2 found this review helpful
This is very, very big and, I thought, loaded with potential. Unfortunately, the example I bought was missing a rear stancheon (green vertical upright). The other uprights can easily pop off, and once they do so it seems that the truck will no longer have much point, since it can't carry the poles without the stancheons.
The crane is flimsy and weak -- I guarantee that it will break first, defeating the purpose of this truck. The crane can barely reach back into the rack to load/unload crane sections, so it is also too short.
I also doubt the play value of the jib crane. The only thing that it could be used for is to load crane poles and other parts onto this truck, but once you've assembled the crane, you have no parts left to move. Also, this toy does not "interact" with the other Bruder toys in the fashion that the various Bruder loaders (tracked and wheeled) can be used to fill the several types of dump trucks or way that the bulldozer and grader and asphalt roller can be used to progressively smooth sand dumped by the trucks. Kids love that stuff and it gives them a sense of process and progress. THAT is what makes Bruder a winner.
I've bought a lot of Bruder construction/sandpile type toys for my grandsons and they have all been great or at least very good. Ultimately, little kids are gratified by "moving the mountain", either by digging a deep hole or by building a ramped mound or by shifting a small mountain from over here to way over there. They love excavators, bulldozers, tracked loaders, motor graders, dump trucks and asphalt rollers. They love huge sandboxes and piles of sand (maybe with some round wash stones from a river for variety). Given all that, I don't know that this limited mechanical construction toy makes sense.
Now if only Bruder would instead build a big crawler crane with sturdy tower, strong cable, properly sized control wheels and a good size claw bucket in 1/16 scale. They should model it on the Tonka crawler crane of 35 years ago, which my son used constantly for several years, along with his Tonka dumptruck, bulldozer and motor grader. The Tonka came as either a bucket crane, a claw crane or a dragline crane (depending on which decade it was made -- and all were good for kids), but Bruder should combine the three via accessories, given their very high pricing.
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