Customer Reviews

Caterpillar Construction Truck- Backhoe Loader

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The Mega Bloks 7800 CAT Construction Backhoe Loader is a great toy for our son. It is well made and has a lot of details, such as a Caterpillar diesel motor in the engine compartment with a hood that hinges up for access. The design and quality of construction are very good. This is compatible with LEGO Duplo bricks. The front end bucket can be used to load a dump truck with pretend brick-rocks or actual small pebbles.
Know what you're buying: this is not suitable for use outdoors in actual dirt, because the fine details that make this interesting will get messed up in the dirt. It is at home indoors with LEGO Duplo bricks and other medium sized toy vehicles and construction equipment.

The tires are very nice with interesting details such as actual metric sizes moulded into the sidewall. (Really!) The vehicle rolls well - straight and smooth - across a flat floor. This is the most realistic and functional backhoe loader I've seen for preschoolers.

I started this CAT collection 2 years ago when my boys were close to 2. I started with the Tower crane, grader, another truck that escapes me and the transport station. At 2 they were a bit too difficult to build alone; however by the time they were 2 1/2 to three, they were loving all of these and so were we! They are the BEST construction blocks for kids in my opinion. Far superior to LEGOS and a lot more fun. We have since added the backhoe, dump truck, articulated dump truck, material hauler and excavation site. The boys (who now just turned 4) build the most incredible,creative trucks and sites. As to the reviewer complaining the parts do not stay together, we have not had this problem unless the boys crash their vehicles together or get rough with them. They ARE building sets not traditional trucks and do have to be played with differently. That being said, the boys drive their trucks all over the room without a problem and play interactively with the other pieces of the sets-ramps etc. without mishap. We love this set and wish Megabloks had more add on and accessory kits so you could build more buildings or additional trucks like a cement mixer.

We got my 3 year old son a lot of these Cat truck sets for christmas last year and he is still playing with them. They are building sets, which come apart, not regular trucks like another reviewer mentioned. I think that is one of the main plusses of these toys. You wouldn't believe the different combinations of trucks and vehicles my son comes up with by combining pieces from other truck sets. We took some of the tiny pieces and packed them away since we also have a one year old, but most of the pieces are just fine for both kids.

My 2 1/2 year old son LOVES trucks...thought this was a fun. Not what I imagined and small. All the pieces keep falling apart. May just glue it together...OK, wouldn't recomend.

What arrived was not the merchandise shown or described at the time of purchase. It was very very small and had 12 peices instead of 20 and no rocks, detail etc. described at that time.
We called the company who tried to tell us we must have ordered it elsewhere since they did not stock a tiny 12 piece set. The company's name was clearly on the box and the invoice WAS from them. Eventually, the customer service rep found our order and said they would send the 20 piece toy out immediately. Right before Christmas, we once again received the same tiny 12 piece set that sells in the store for about 1/2 the price we paid to this company. The larger set we ordered was never received.

I bought this for my son's 2nd birthday and he loved it. It is a little tricky for him to put together by himself but he has an older brother to help him.