This one popped in my feeds and I suddenly wanted to do the build. Pixar did such an awesome job giving this little creature so much personality and heart. Coming late to my appreciation of all things LEGO, I missed the window of when I could order this now-retired kit from LEGO for $59.99, which currently lists for $367 on Amazon. Yeah, that’s a bit much for a non-function model. Thus, when I started teaching LEGO robotics using EV2 Mindstorms one of the first things I did was look for a working robot version of Wall*E. One google/YouTube search later, I found the works of Daniele Benedettelli, aka Prof. Bricks, Master of Science cum laude in robotics engineering and author of five book on LEGO Mindstorms AND by 2015 he published instructions on how to use the Educational core set of the EV3 Mindstorms kit to build your own working WALL*EV3.

I eagerly experimented with the school’s EV3s and eventually bought my own LEGO mindstorms EV3 and the extra needed parts to build my own WALL-EV3

I’ve since dismantled the poor guy because I needed to use my home robot to prep for teaching middle schoolers basic robotics (they were NOT ready for this level of a build… though I did try one time to let my Fitzgerald 5th graders build one…. Only the most determined builders were successful). Anyway, as I mentioned I was encouraged to seek out the official LEGO WALL-E kit, seeing the $59.99 price in the video, then finding it listed as “retired” on the official LEGO website, I switched over to Amazon and ran into the staggering $367 price tag. Undeterred , I downloaded the official building instructions and saw that except for the WALL-E faceplate, most of the parts looked like they were common parts. So off to the Rebrickable  I went looking for the price of the parts. I thought I saw a price for the parts that was over the Amazon retail price this morning, but it could have been my lack of sleep getting the best of me. The instructions calls for over 650 parts and one of the parts suppliers says that it has 615 of the needed parts for $155. Ack. What I really need to do is see what parts I don’t have and set up a shopping list… Of course I need to first use the parts that I have to rebuild my WALL-EV3 and also first use parts to build a working Mars Rover (with my LEGO Inventors Kit parts)…. Funny, that these were the projects that I never had time for when I was teaching, but having not been in the classroom for five months now, I’m just getting around to trying to figure out how to do all of these fun things. 

For LEGO Mindstorms EV3 folks, if you’re interested in the WALL-EV3, go to Benedettelli’s site where you can download his instructions for a very small fee . I’ve also included the instructions for the original LEGO 21303 WALL-E build below. Enjoy (and build something!)

  • LEGO Wall-E ASMR Unbox & Speed Build
    LEGO Wall-E ASMR Unbox & Speed Build
  • LEGO Wall-E ASMR Unbox & Speed Build
    LEGO Wall-E ASMR Unbox & Speed Build
  • LEGO Wall-E ASMR Unbox & Speed Build
    LEGO Wall-E ASMR Unbox & Speed Build

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