Nexo Knights

Axl's Rolling Arsenal

The last set Nexo Knights ever made, and it goes out swinging.

Brick Rated Score

3.4/5

Set 72006 · 2018

Pieces604

Minifigs4

Year2018

Set number72006

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The verdict

This is the final Nexo Knights set LEGO released, and there's something a little poignant about the biggest knight getting the theme's send-off.

The rolling arsenal opens from a travel truck into a wide attack platform, and that reveal is genuinely satisfying to work the first time. It's a chunky, busy, unapologetically toy-forward set that plays wonderfully but asks a real price for 604 pieces. I'd hand it to a kid who lives for the play feature, not to a display builder chasing value.

Best for: Nexo Knights fans and 8-to-12-year-olds who want a transforming battle vehicle

The full review

What it is

Axl's Rolling Arsenal is the last set the Nexo Knights theme ever produced, the closer on a run that started back in 2016, and I find that oddly fitting given Axl is the largest of the knights. The headline build is his mobile arsenal, which rolls along as a fairly compact armored truck and then opens out into a wide attack platform bristling with flick missiles, a lowering drawbridge, and a shield holder. The first time you work that fold-out mechanism it lands exactly the way LEGO intended, the whole thing spreading wider and meaner in a couple of seconds. It's a play feature that actually delivers, which is not always a given.

The catch

I'll be straight with you about the caveats, because they matter here. At $59.99 for 604 pieces the value math is not kind, and it feels tighter still when you notice how many of those parts are big molded shells doing the heavy lifting rather than small versatile bricks. The three scannable shields that came with the set were meant to feed the NEXO KNIGHTS app for in-story powers, and that app is long gone, so a feature LEGO put on the box is now just decoration. And the whole Nexo Knights aesthetic, all sharp angles and trans-neon-orange energy blasts, is polarizing in a way that classic Castle or City never was. You either grin at it or you don't.

Who it's for

So who's this actually for. If there's a kid in your life who plays hard and wants a vehicle that transforms and comes loaded with enemies to knock over, this is a lovely box to open, three builds and four figures and a genuine good-versus-evil setup ready to go. Collectors who missed Nexo Knights the first time will also care that this is the grand finale of the line, which gives it a little end-of-an-era pull now that it's retired. If you build mainly to display or you count every cent per piece, though, I'd let this one roll on past. It's a play set first, last, and always, and it's happiest in a pair of hands, not on a shelf.

The parts story

What the build is actually like, and the pieces worth knowing about.

Building this is a brisk, satisfying afternoon rather than a marathon. You put together three distinct models: Axl's main arsenal, which carries the clever fold-out attack mode, plus two smaller enemy flyers in the Jestroyer and the Vyro Glyder, and a little Critter Trapper mini-tank tucked in as a bonus. The arsenal itself is the star, with the transformation section engineered so a kid can trigger it without snapping anything, which is harder to design than it looks. Nothing here is fiddly or frustrating, and the pace keeps moving.

Parts-wise this is very much a Nexo Knights set, meaning a heavy dose of the theme's angular armor panels and a good scoop of trans-neon-orange elements for the energy and blast effects. The real draw for most people is the figure lineup: Axl in his printed armor, Jestro the jester villain, and two monster figures, the VanByter No. 407 and a MegaByter, three of which are exclusive or near-exclusive to this box. There are no headline new molds to chase, but the trans-orange pieces and the enemy figures carry genuine value if you build in this style, and the monster parts in particular are handy for MOC builders wanting something suitably nasty.

Fun facts

01Set 72006 was the final Nexo Knights set LEGO ever released, closing out the theme's 2016 to 2018 run.
02The three shields in the box were scannable NEXO Powers meant to open up abilities in the official NEXO KNIGHTS mobile app, which has since been discontinued.
03Of the four minifigures, three were exclusive or near-exclusive to this set, including the VanByter No. 407 and the MegaByter monster.
04Axl is the largest and heaviest of the five Nexo Knights, so it's a nice touch that the biggest hero got the theme's send-off set.