Product test

Tested by ampi1: The Claas Xerion 5000 from Lego

17.8.2016

Translation: machine translated

Every month we give away a Lego novelty. In August, Stefan alias ampi1 won the Claas Xerion 5000 tractor from Lego Technic. This is his test report.

I came across the Lego Technic competition on the Galaxus homepage, where there was a new Lego construction set to be won. I quickly posted my email address and comment, gave it a thumbs up and that was that. It was only in the small print that I read - after I had sent everything off, of course - that the winner would be writing a report. Well - it probably won't be me.

Wrong thinking. Two weeks later, I received an email congratulating me on my win. That's awesome. A new Claas Xerion tractor. Cool! I was really looking forward to the parcel and a few days later the postman rang the doorbell. However, due to the beautiful summer weather (at least for a few days), assembling the tractor was not the first priority on our "what-we-want-to-do-during-the-holidays" list.

Let's go!

In the end, the time had come and the box was opened. What is this? From other Lego building sets I'm used to the box, however big it may be, containing lots of little bags, each with a number. This time it was different! I also found a number of plastic bags in the box (for all you know-it-alls - I know they're called polybags) that had a number on them. However, only a 1 or a 2.

Lego cracks know what awaited me now: exactly - sorting by colour. All right, after all, this isn't fun, it's hard labour.

But then we could get started. Not all at once, but in several stages of about 1.5 hours each. There's not much to say about the build. The 331-page assembly instructions show the assembly step by step as usual and in great detail. If no mistakes are made by the "agricultural machinery mechanic" carrying out the work, it works straight away.

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Luminous children's eyes

After a total of 7.5 hours of building (with just under an hour spent on sorting), the huge tractor now stands in front of me and my son. His father built it, his 5½-year-old son is now playing with it and is really enjoying it. His eyes lit up when he switched on the engine and was able to discover the many functions for himself!

As a grand finale, I took our junior to visit the official Claas dealership in Oberbipp/BE, where a Xerion happened to be in the workshop. It wasn't a 5000 as in the Lego series, but "only" a 3800. But even this part is huge. The experts present were also very enthusiastic about the Lego model. So the machine was driven outside without further ado so that some cool photos could be taken. And as the icing on the cake, the youngest was allowed to take a ride on the monster - what an experience‼

Many thanks to Galaxus for this awesome piece of kit.