LEGO Technic App-Controlled Top Gear Rally Car 42109

Love this set. As a big fan of Top Gear which I watch with my son who loves LEGO, anything with wheels and Top Gear this has appeal on so many levels. It's not a performance RC car. Get that straight. It's slow. But still it's very fun to drive it around after it's built. It's quite suitable for driving it indooors, which is not something cant do with regular RC cars. I don't do a lot of LEGO builds myself and rarely buy LEGO for myself but I loved this one and vastly enjoyed putting it together and playing around with it after.

Pretty cool fast and fun build, no numbered bags, didn't really need them. Wish is was a bigger set. Love the colors scheme, no real major technic motor build. Very simple set. Fun for all ages, must buy of you dont have it already.

What an awesome find. My son (> 9 years now) is very keen on online games and apps. This thankfully managed to excite him enough to the extent that he skipped his usual distractions for several days before and after school. It took him maybe 10 odd hours over two weeks, including play time with the app when the car was half complete. The app is very easy to use and a lot of fun, with both steering and tilt functions. The best part of the set is the Excellent and clear instructions, very detailed with same-size pictures for pieces where there are varying sizes in the lot. As expected, the set has been well designed and the stickers are very sturdy, unlikely to be worn out ever. The motors and gears are excellent quality and should work for eons as well. All in all, very happy!

Enjoyed building rally car but when I switch on the motor and App the front wheels move to left so car only goes left or straight. With app and car switched off I can manually move the wheels in both directions

Great little car for the price and really looks the part . But when played with the fun soon stops as the sounds off the app are great and make it sound fast and fun .. which it isn't .. it's far too slow exactly the same as the 4X4 we bought very slow will look at changing the gearing to get more speed out of the motor.. but please lego let's get the kids into lego as it's your future customers .. so please next time speed them up on new releases.. if you want to try out a new product send it along we will willingly try it out before it goes on sale .. as a 9 year old is very honest lol ..

This looks like and is a cool model and works well with a phone. It does not work or pair with the lego Bluetooth remote. My kids do not have phones yet so there is no way to play with this in that case. I bought the Bluetooth remote thinking it would work, but it will not pair. It pairs with other PoweredUp move hubs but not the ones in this remote control car series. It is frustrating, since these cars are cool, but requiring a phone to drive when you sell a perfectly good remote control is annoying. They are both Bluetooth so it should just work.

I received this as a gift for my birthday and had a good enough time building it. I was shocked it needed 6 AA batteries to use but thats minor as I enjoyed playing with it but not enough to permanently devote all those batteries to it full time. My personal beef with it is the high price for the small amount of pieces the set contains and ease of the build. While i'm grateful for the set, I personally would have recommended spending the money on a different set.

I'm a big Lego Technic fan and have grown up building and enjoying increasingly expensive and complex kits. I was bought this for my birthday and at first was very pleased, but as my 2 hour build time suggests this kit isn't very complex at all, visually apparent when scanning the parts bags by the severe lack of gears, springs, pneumatics or any of the cool stuff that makes the more expensive builds generally more fun and challenging. What you get instead is a Bluetooth controller module and motors which are very impressive, but make you quickly realise is where all the cost is for this kit (along with the Top Gear branding), as the parts list is really quite basic. The inclusion of a differential is cool, but it's lacking any sort of suspension - without it the car simply beaches whenever you go over a bump. The smartphone app (at least for Android) is quick, intuitive and works well - presumably another factor in the high cost of the kit though. And if the hardest part is fiddling with all the decals then you know you're in trouble ;) Personally I think it would have been worth spending a little more and getting the actual 4x4 truck, or saving up and getting the big digger. But I won't tell my wife that...

I bought this set with the project of using the motors and pieces to help me make MOC cars. So I'm not really disappointed. Overall, I think the price is decent when you compare to powered up items sold separately, plus it comes with many pieces. I have a few problems with this rally car. - There is a problem in the front wheels alignment which make it lean left when supposed to go straight. Also, the design does not make it possible to fine tune it. - The car is really heavy, so it's not as fast as it could be, and make it almost impossible to climb hills. - The powered up app does not have any instructions so I guess I'll have to figure out myself how to program. I'm lucky to already have done a little programming a few years ago in university, but I'm pretty sure I'll struggle a lot to make something out of it... and look for advices. I guess for now I'll stick to the rally car template. But for kids, it could have been nice to have a friendly user environnement to use the motors.

My son made this after coming back from Lego land and made it it is very slow and the tires keep on falling of He's checked loads of times but still it comes off