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  • Any recommendations for a basic lego motor set suitable for an 8 year old? There seems to be an 8293 set that's been discontinued and not much else. Unless I'm getting confused which is quite possible.
    Seem to be able to get them from ebay for 70ish which seems quite a lot for something she may not get into, considering I could get her some good Harry Potter Lego for same amount, which she would definitely be into.

  • 42095 for £70 includes 2 motors, battery box and IR controller. My nephew about that age had it for Christmas 2019 and it has excellent play value when built as well as the parts you need for motorising your MOCs

  • Ah - makes sense that you'd get them as part of a kit instead and that's why I was doing badly with searching.
    Only problem is it's a bit too 'boyish' and suspect that will put her off. Doesn't need to be bright pink or anything, but she mainly likes building elaborate Lego houses and would want motors to add moving bits to them.
    Already had some problems when lego club at school was full of boys and that discouraged her, though lots of lockdown Lego building has done a lot to counteract that.
    That said I've just made a lowball offer on a used remote control racer on ebay... mostly because I want to play around with it.
    There's a big box of 30ish year old technical lego at my parent's house I'm going to retrieve for her at the right moment, but want to work it in more slowly so as not to overwhelm her.

  • 42095 for £70 includes 2 motors, battery box and IR controller.

    Hmmm. I may have to review my policy of ignoring Technic, that looks like fun.

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