Max-D is one of Monster Jam's most iconic trucks and LEGO® handed it a D. At $20 for 230 pieces with zero Technic ambition, this one trades on the license and not much else.
The parts alone are worth about 63% of the street price — the basis for this F price read.
OverpricedYou're paying well above the parts' value — $17 of parts for a $28 price.
The Max-D name carries real weight in the Monster Jam world, which makes this set's execution sting a little more. You get a squat, chunky truck that reads recognizably enough from across the room, but up close the build is shallow — finished in under 30 minutes with nothing that makes you stop and think. Technic is supposed to be about clever mechanisms, articulation, something to interact with; this has none of that. Twenty dollars isn't a lot of money, but when the set clocks a 1.8 on price/value, that's not a rounding error — it's a miss. The Monster Jam licensing deal did the heavy lifting here and the actual product didn't keep up. Skip it unless the decal sheet is the whole point for you.