Construction Crew
17" Vehicle Transport with Excavator
4.6 out of 5· 167 owner ratings
- Working lights
- Sound on board
- About 17 inches long
- 3-piece set
$24.32
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17" Vehicle Transport with Excavator sits in our construction crew collection of Maxx Action toy construction trucks, and it is a straightforward piece of kit with a clear job. It works excavator boom and bucket and a drop-down loading ramp; it carries its own light and sound set; the body measures about 17 inches end to end; the box holds 3 pieces rather than a bare truck.
The specifics, straight off the box: The cab of the semi truck makes four different vehicle sounds. Lights flash when you push the buttons for maximum fun. The detachable cab can stand alone or pull the excavator with a friction-rev motor. Just pull it back, rev it up, then let it go to watch it roll.
The treaded rubber tires really spin, enhancing imaginative play. Dig up some fun with the excavator truck - featuring real scooping action, with the articulated arm and 360-degree swivel motion.
Pretend to take the driver’s seat and dig up the trenches with the Excavator Transport Truck and Trailer! Push one of the four buttons on top of the cab to hear different vehicle sounds and see the flashing lights. Equipped with a friction-rev motor, just pull it back, rev it up, then let it go to watch it roll! Soft super grip tires allow for a long and smooth ride to your next destination. When kids want to play in the dirt or sand box, the excavator is the perfect choice for fun sensory play. Featuring real digging action with the articulated arm to help encourage more realistic play. It even has 360-degree swivel motion and rubber tracks to really get the job done.
Add something to haul the spoil and the yard turns into a working loop rather than a shelf.
What the box says
- The cab of the semi truck makes four different vehicle sounds. Lights flash when you push the buttons for maximum fun.
- The detachable cab can stand alone or pull the excavator with a friction-rev motor. Just pull it back, rev it up, then let it go to watch it roll.
- The treaded rubber tires really spin, enhancing imaginative play.
- Dig up some fun with the excavator truck - featuring real scooping action, with the articulated arm and 360-degree swivel motion.
- This two-in-one toy is complete with a lift gate to load and unload the excavator. It clicks into place to hold it in for the ride when you’re on the move to the next job.
- Young construction workers ages three and up can get to work while exploring their imaginations with this action-packed vehicle.
Living with this toy construction truck
The only performance figure we argue about internally is whether excavator boom and bucket still works after a season on a hard floor, and that is what 17" Vehicle Transport with Excavator was drawn around. Everything else on the box is description. That is the performance test it has to pass before we will put our name on the cab.
Service on this one is deliberately dull: grit brushed dry out of the hubs instead of oiled, a barely damp cloth on the bodywork, and the accessories washed properly in warm water. That is the whole maintenance list. If it fails inside normal service rather than wearing out, raise it through the order page of the partner store that handled the sale.
Where this toy construction truck fits on a kids’ site
On a working site this is the digging end of the loop. Everything it does starts with the bucket, so the spoil has to go somewhere afterwards. A single truck is a toy; three that can hand work to each other are a site, and the jobs this one leaves open are these:
- Loading — a skid steer loader or a wheel loader, scooping with forks or a front bucket.
- Hauling — a dump truck, or a long hauler with a trailer behind the cab.
- Lifting — a crane truck spooling a line off a drum, or a forklift raising its forks up a track.
- Clearing — a bulldozer, pushing spoil ahead of a blade until the ground is flat.
Add cones, a barrier and a worker figure from whatever comes in the box and the floor stops being a floor. Built tough matters more once several vehicles are in play, because the one that gets dropped is always the one somebody else needs next. Big street haulers and the quad runners in our off-road collection run the same wheels and take the same punishment, so they mix into a yard of construction toys without looking out of place.
Kids who have the whole loop keep going long after the fun of unwrapping has worn off, and that is where the hours come from: not from one impressive model, but from a sequence that closes and starts again.
What owners wrote about this model
Small but good
Smaller than expected but it's still a good toy for my 2 yr old son. He broke a small piece after a cpl days but it's still moving just fine.
Construction toy vehicle
The truck lights up and makes sounds. My son loves using the digger to play in the dirt. It is well made and a lot of fun.
Great for 3 year old
Got it for my 3 year old dropped it a bunch of times did not break
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