Lego City Harbor -551pcs.

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Use the massive pier crane and cargo truck to empty the cargo ship and get it ready for its next destination. And yet you know that AFOLs would be whining to no end if regular plates like the new 8x16 or 16x16 ones were used instead.

I was worried there for a moment that you might use your amazing reviewing skills to sell me on a set that I'm really not keen on. I actually like this set, the crane mechanism area is so old school classic town look and that what this set is for a town not a city.normally, I don't give very thorough feedback on reviews, but this one is so loaded down with inaccuracies and uncertainties (almost all minor ones) that I feel I might as well go the extra mile here.

I imagine it will be a while before the transition is made to doing this in all sets (if that happens at all). The floor of the harbour, and the road the baseplates form, is a mere baseplate-thickness above the waves, with a meagre brick-wall separating road from water.I have had a number of similar experiences when building a set with someone who's less adept at the process, and witnessed even more when watching friends build independently. One is spare; in contrast to the ones found in the Collectible Minifigure sets, these have a very small closed hole at the tip - no handy slit - inducing needle-threading anxiety as we shall see later.

The LEGO Harbour/Harbor is a subtheme of City that was introduced in 2005, and was discontinued in late 2017 and focuses on seaside and ocean sets. I anticipated bricks bouncing out of the truck onto the roadway, into the 'water' or - worse still - back into the ship, but they landed on the tipper and stayed there like the well-behaved little tan angels they are. The previous harbor set was larger but a little impersonal and this latest release manages to capture the essence of the Lego . Yes, it was a Technic build and thus arguably more advanced than a City set, but these were kids well within the Technic age range. Now it is time for the first medieval harbor set and it comes with a lot of nice details and colors.The crane jib consists of a dark bley Technic liftarm inside the long yellow crane arm; the former then meets a derrick piece at an angle. On the whole, the offloading action - the centrepiece of this set - works really well, and is fun in the process (though I can't imagine doing this for hours on end). I found this difficult; I dread to think what kind of porcine auricle the average six-year-old would make of it! Whenever I build modern sets I often find myself flipping a couple pages ahead between steps so that I can add more than 1-2 pieces. Here are all three subsections together: the ship delivers her round, tan cargo, ready for the crane to lift it onto the conveyor, ready to deposit on to the tipper truck.

The Lego City Harbor Set 4645 comes on the heels of 2009’s popular City Harbor set (7994) which now sells for a small fortune on secondary markets.The precious cargo of round tan bricks is deposited safely, and without bricks flying across the room into inaccessible nooks. Here, a few bricks and a mast are the only decoration, but there's a nice perspective view up to the bridge. New to this design is the use of the aforementioned solid-red windscreen to form the rear wall of the cab, and the tipper action. As an owner of 7994 this set isn't highly compelling, but I still haven't got a hull of that design so we'll see!