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8479 Barcode Multi-Set

Description: Released in 1997 for a retail price of about 70 dollars, today this set sells MISB for an astonishing 350 bucks, clearly a collectors item. Containing 1280 parts, this set had a unique function in that it had a code pilot brick that could read barcodes, each one resulting in a different kind of function.

My take: Never had this set, I am still confused about the whole barcode thing. From what I have gathered, each time the code pilot reads a barcode, it results in the truck bed lifting, or the pincers in the front moving. Not sure what else could be done with it but at any rate, it is a valuable set and a neat part of technic history.