Inside Tour 2018 exclusive set

Spoiler alert! If you don't want to know what this year's LEGO® Inside Tour set is, look away now. Because Márton Ferenci was fortunate enough to attend and has given us this brief insight into the set, which can now be revealed to the public.

Being part of the LEGO Inside Tour is part luck, part madness. 3000 people signed up and a lucky 170-ish got chosen. Each year the participants receive a limited edition set, the subject of which is handpicked by the Kristiansen family to commemorate this special occasion.

The box gets handed out at the end of an intense 2.5 day journey deep into the real LEGO “land”. After learning so much about moulding, visiting the factory and meeting the LEGO designers (above), it is a true highlight to be given one of these.

After Automatic Binding Bricks were introduced in 1949, the portfolio of LEGO products was far from being dominated by them – their bestselling toy at this time was an honest piece of machinery, helping the good people of Denmark on the field and at home: the Ferguson tractor.

A year after the 1951 launch of this plastic toy, more than 75,000 had been sold – “Ploughing the way for the LEGO® brick”, as is noted on the back of the Inside Tour set box.

This homage to LEGO history is nothing short of awesome, thanks to Steen Sig Andersen who designed the set based on the proposal from Stuart Harris.

No new parts were designed specifically for this set – given the limited production number – however we were very pleased to learn that the tyres are a re-issue of a retired design, Tyre Ø81.6 X 15 (Element ID 290226|Design ID 2902), introduced in 1991 and last used in 2010.

We can see some really nice parts usage at the back:

Applying the décor:

And the steering actually works, mimicing the original toy, housed in the 3-stud wide chassis:

The brick built version is very much like the plastic one, which can be seen in the basement of LEGO House.

I'm inspired to build the red version as well; gold perhaps seems to be a challenge…

And for all the Hawkeyes out there, there's also another hiding under the stairs leading to the Green Zone.

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The final model in all its glory...

...containing two printed tiles, adorned with the Ferguson logo (in agreement with the successor company Massey-Ferguson).

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