Review: 60422 Seaside Harbour with Cargo Ship
Posted by FlagsNZ,The last LEGO City harbour set was 4645 Harbour, released in 2011. This year sees a major update with the release of 60422 Seaside Harbour with Cargo Ship.
Read on as I take a detailed look at this set that took me on a nostalgic trip down memory lane.
Also, have a look at how there is a possibility that this LEGO set could integrate with other LEGO City and Friends sets.
Summary
60422 Seaside Harbour with Cargo Ship, 1,226 pieces.
£94.99 / $109.99 / €109.99 | 7.7p/9.0c/9.0c per piece.
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A long overdue update on the LEGO City harbour
- Plenty of play options
- Diverse group of minifigures
- Integrates with other City and Friends sets
- Operating the gantry crane is slightly awkward
- It should have included at least one seagull
The set was provided for review by LEGO. All opinions expressed are those of the author.
The box
The front of the box shows the cargo ship underway next to the port. There is a shipping container suspended from the container handling gantry crane. A man is on a stand-up paddle board in the choppy sea while a few people ashore are looking on with concerned expressions.
The rear of the box shows some of the play features:
- The container handling gantry crane's winch and hook slides in and out.
- There is a lime green jet ski and a blue planeboat.
- There is a wharf shed that has now been repurposed into an icecream kiosk and a harbourside café.
- There is a small jetty where the public may fish from and steps down to a small sandy beach
There is a note on the box indicating that the models do not float.
Instructions
The instructions come in four booklets:
- Book 1 assembles the ship and the cargo of two shipping containers
- Book 2 assembles the container handling gantry crane and the commercial wharf
- Book 3 assembles the public area of the wharf
- Book 4 continues assembling the public wharf with the harbour side café and icecream kiosk.
Stickers
There is a medium-sized sticker sheet. I'll comment on the stickers during the build, but I want to point one thing out here: the Cargo logo is a new design.
Here is the Cargo logo that was previously used. This logo had a manila coloured shipping box in front of a green sphere with two red arrows.
The new cargo logo seen on the ship in this set is a white box with four white arrows.
Parts
There are 1226 parts that are divided up into nine numbered bags.
The larger parts come in two serrated bags.
Of note are the parts in the new colour introduced earlier this year: Reddish Orange.
Minifigures
The set comes with eight minifigures. Four minifigures are wearing bright orange life jackets.
The three maritime workers:
- The female ship's captain wears an Aran jumper. She is wearing sunglasses and a red peaked cap. She has a screwdriver spanner tool.
- The two stevedores (dockworkers) wear high visibility vests with blue gloves. They both have a portable radio.
The ship's captain has an alternate face print. Both of these female's hats include their hair while the male stevedore has an alternate hairpiece for when he is not wearing his helmet.
There are three younger members of the public.
- The small girl wears a sleeveless top with a strawberry/fruit print. This part has been seen in only four sets. She comes with a fishing net as an accessory.
- The taller minifigure is wearing an orange jacket. This is a new print and exclusive to this set.
- The other small child wears a sleeveless top with a windsurfer print. This has been seen in nine sets.
The two small children have alternate face prints.
There are two senior minifigures.
- A fisherman wearing blue sleeveless overalls. He is wearing a black knitted cap and has a fishing rod as an accessory.
- A lady who works at the icecream kiosk. She wears a top with pink and turquoise stripes. This part has been seen in nine sets.
The lady has an alternate face print.
The build
The build is divided into four components:
- Bags 1, 2 and 3 assembles the ship and the cargo in the two shipping containers.
- Bags 4 and 5 assembles the container handling gantry crane and the commercial wharf.
- Bag 6 assembles the public area of the wharf.
- Bags 8 and 9 continues the assembly of the public wharf with the harbourside café and icecream kiosk.
Bag 1
The build starts with the bright yellowish green (lime green) jet ski and a bright blue planeboat with their respective drivers.
There are two brick-built open-sided shipping containers. One is coloured bright bluish green (dark turquoise) while the other is coloured dark orange.
Bag 2
The small ship's hull is fully brick-built and assembled with the parts in Bag 2.
The hull is made up of white, earth green and dark orange parts.
There are round slide shoes, otherwise known as boat studs, allowing the ship to slide on a textured floor.
Bag 3
Bag 3 finishes the ship.
Here is a view into the wheelhouse. The ship has a set of navigation lights. You can see the green, starboard side light on the starboard bridge wing.
The white, earth green and dark orange colour scheme is repeated on the ship's funnel. Shipping companies usually have distinctive livery or funnel colours as part of their brand.
There is a hatch on the forcastle (or fo'c's'le) that leads down into a locker below.
The 1x2 round tiles form part of the brick-built panama fairleads.
The ship's accomodation block lifts off to reveal a small engine room with a yellow V8 main engine.
Bag 4
Bag 4 assembles the commercial section of the wharf and the legs of the container handling gantry crane.
Just like a real wharf, tyres have been used as fenders and are held in place by chains.
Bag 5
Bag 5 competes the container handling gantry crane. The red and white hatching at both ends of the main girders are brick built.
There are two stevedores. One is wearing a life jacket. It is common, nowadays, for people working in a commercial port to be required to wear life jackets when working at or near the wharf edge.
The lifting trolley slides along the gantry's main girders. The lifting hook can be raised or lowered by rotating the 16-tooth gear.
Bag 6
Bag 6 assembles the middle section of the wharf. There are a couple of ladders enabling people to climb down to the water. Otherwise, the wharf is fenced off with chains.
A life ring is there ready to use if someone were to fall into the water.
The young girl is fishing with her net.
Bag 7
Bag 7 includes the final section of the wharf and an icecream kiosk. The lady is holding a coin in her hand.
There is a stand-up paddle board, paddle and life jacket available for hire at the kiosk.
Bag 8
Bag 8 completes the wharf café. There is an old wooden ship's wheel and two wooden oars on the side of the building. The dark red blade of the oars has been seen in only two sets.
There is a tower viewer at the edge of the wharf.
Bag 9
Bag 9 assembles a small fishing jetty and a beach at the end of the wharf.
There is a red umbrella shading a yellow beach towel. The red umbrella part has been seen in only four sets.
The fisherman has had a good day fishing. He has three fish in the bin and one fish in the barrel. He is fortunate that there are no seagulls lurking about trying to snatch his fish away.
The completed model
Here are the three wharf sections clipped together along with the small fishing jetty and beach.
There is a tourist map on the public part of the wharf.
A theme of this year's City sets is a subtle (and sometimes not-so-subtle) cross-reference to other LEGO sets.
The map shows the Seaside Harbour seamlessly attached to 60417 Police Speedboat and Crooks' Hideout and 42626 Adventure Camp Water Sports sets.
The blue spot on the map could mark the location of a park referred to as one of the four destinations of the 60407 Double-Decker Sightseeing Bus. The Harbour (spelt Harbor) is one of the other destinations of that bus.
The cast iron lamp post has two banners flying from the ladder bars.
The banners make reference to:
The two stevedores from this set are the two go-kart race drivers.
There is an advert for 60421 Robot World on the back of the 60407 Double-Decker Sightseeing Bus. Maybe the blue spot on the tourist map marks the location of the Robot World theme park.
There is also a reference to 60421 Robot World on the 60409 Mobile Construction Crane set: the 2x4 printed blueprint tile contains a plan of the Robot World.
Here is a view of the rear of the wharf café. The upper level has a table and two chairs where customers can partake in a light refreshment. There is a prawn dish with dipping sauce for the two customers.
The upper level of the café is reached by climbing the stairs. A cow horn has been used as the handle for the door at the top of the stairs. Underneath the stairs is a shower for rinsing off after a swim.
The lower level is an ice cream kiosk where the jet ski, planeboat or paddle board may be hired.
There is a sign showing the prices of the chilled refreshments and the fees for hiring the paddle board, planeboat or jet ski.
The small coastal ship is berthed at the wharf. There is room aboard the ship for the two shipping containers provided they are stowed athwartships (i.e. across the ship). It is not that common to stow containers in this way in real ships.
The shipping containers are landed under the gantry crane fore and aft (i.e. in line or parallel with) the ship, so the containers must rotate 90° between wharf and ship.
Plus, the ship has to move up and down the wharf to be in the right position for the gantry crane. I have been in ships where this was frequently needed - warping the ship up and down a wharf using the ship's lines - to position the ship adjacent to the wharf infrastructure.
Here are the gantry crane controls. I have noticed that round plates with shafts are being used in this way in lieu of mini-antennas.
So LEGO City has a busy harbour with a mixture of commercial shipping and recreational boats and a place on the wharf where the public can see all this activity taking place.
Overall opinion
I really enjoyed building this set. At the start, I was focused on the ship, the cargo and the red port gantry crane because, as some of you must know, I have had a career at sea working in, amongst other things, coastal container ships.
I also grew up in a time when there was freer access to the waterfront and, as a child, I often rode my bike around the wharfs before modern port security prevented this from occurring.
However, it was building the upper level of the wharf café that took me "right back to my childhood."
As a teenager, I rowed and coxed for the Wellington College rowing team. The college's rowing club was part of the Star Boating Club and the rowing skiffs were stored in their historic boat shed on the Wellington waterfront. The upper level of this building is now a venue for corporate events and private functions. Putting the LEGO wooden ship's wheel and clipping the two oars on the side of the LEGO building triggered this massive trip down memory lane!
This link takes you to an image taken at about the time I was in the school rowing club. This link also shows an aerial view of the same commercial wharf area (with the Star Boating Club boat shed and lagoon just above the big ship). As I said above, reviewing this set has taken me on this memory trip.
That being said, there are plenty of heritage yacht club, surf club and boat shed buildings in nearly every coastal city that have been converted into restaurants and cafés. Their prime waterfront location and heritage value make an attractive mix.
Summary
There have been several LEGO harbours and seaports over the years and 60422 Seaside Harbour with Cargo Ship sits nicely in this group of LEGO sets.
With a small ship, two shipping containers, a gantry crane, three recreational water craft and eight minifigures there are plenty of play options.
This set integrates with other City and Friends sets, so there are expansion options.
In this year's City sets, there are several sets that have been cross-referenced through the use of printed and stickered parts.
Pros
- Unlike the ships released in the more recent harbours and seaports, this ship's hull is brick-built and not one large moulded hull piece.
- It comes with eight minifigures with a diversity of ages, genders and roles.
- This set has plenty of great play options with big and small water craft.
- At 7.7p/9.0c/9.0c per part, this set is great value for money.
Cons
- The ship in this set is quite small and has a cargo capacity of only two shipping containers.
- The alignment of the shipping containers on the wharf does not match the alignment when loaded in the ship.
- There should have been at least one seagull included in this set.
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They should not have changed the cargo logo.
As a super fan of 6541 and 6542, this set was a welcomed successor. Seagulls would’ve been nice, though, as would a truck.
Only complaint would be you can get actual realistic shipping containers which are lego compatible on temu. Couldnt they have made them for a set which is literally about them? Id always rather buy genuine lego.
Feels like more parts should have been dedicated to the ship- I think it would have looked better being at least one container unit longer. A fully enclosed shipping container would have been nice too, considering how infrequently we see those wall parts in these colours. Honestly, the cafe could have been its own, more substantial set?
There's no way anyone would be out in the water if this is an industrial access port. Not that Lego should be 100% realistic but couldn't this have been two smaller sets?
@oukexergon said:
"There's no way anyone would be out in the water if this is an industrial access port. Not that Lego should be 100% realistic but couldn't this have been two smaller sets?"
Agreed. Could have done a slightly more meaty & industrial looking Seaside Harbour accompanied by a quaint Seaside Boardwalk with Dock.
I used to do some crabbing back when I lived on the East Coast in the US. All you needed was a Turkey neck on a string and a bucket, with a small net. Love the little girl crabbing off the side of the pier.
Not mentioned in the article, but the shipping containers are supposed to be for the two mini boats. Having some other cargo like LEGO sets to have continuity with the delivery truck or boxes of product would have been better to see.
This is such a beautiful set! I love everything about it… it feels like a celebration of everything about coastal life. The wharf’s geometry and architecture are really high-effort for something that could be written off as just concrete, and I love the (return of?) modular wharf construction. I also love how much was fit into a set of this size… sure, that means everything is smaller, including the ship, but everything is so well designed that it captures the essence of what it’s going for with its personality rather than size. The highlight for me might actually be the plinth with the map, because details like that capture the essence of real-life walkable areas along waterfronts. Definitely a 10/10 set for me. Thanks for the great review!
I really love the dark green and orange color scheme of the ship. Feels very classy.
The beach nearby feels a little out of place but it DOES remind me of the people I saw swimming in Aquatic Cove right next to Fisherman's Wharf in San Francisco. Sure, FW is a bit more of a tourist area, but it's still an area with a lot of large, industrial boats going in and out and there WAS beach nearby, and the seafood restaurant has the vibe as well.
Fun set! Reminds me of the Town cargo wharf set I had as a kid.
@Murdoch17 said:
"They should not have changed the cargo logo."
While I liked the older logo better, they changed the cargo logo like every 5 years now, since the first one was introduced in the early 80s already using the parcel with arrows as the basic concept.
In general TLG keeps changing City logos and uniforms too quickly nowadays for my taste, but maybe I'm just getting old...
Such lovely looking set. Its shame it fails to having propper play system.
This can be easily fixed if the crane was slightly higher (there is no enough clearance space to move crate over, and longer so you can deliver the crates to the road at the back.
Great set, colourful and plenty of play options and tons of figures. Only thing bothers me is the angle next to the coffee shop as it'll make it a bit tricky to fit in blue baseplate/plates to represent the "sea" for those that do that. The price represents the value you get from this one, which is a rare for Lego these days, moreover if you're taking into account the mandatory 20% off City sets from Amazon/Toys r us later on.
I like it, but it seems odd to have an industrial cargo facility right next to a tourist spot. I would have preferred more industrial set pieces (but I am a boring engineer ) lol
@lordofdragonss said:
"Such lovely looking set. Its shame it fails to having propper play system.
This can be easily fixed if the crane was slightly higher (there is no enough clearance space to move crate over, and longer so you can deliver the crates to the road at the back."
I made my version three studs higher. It looks better, but the chain doesn’t go all the way down. Plus, with my modification, the technic pieces holding the gantry are a bit too short.
That's a perfect set in my opinion. I love water related sets from Lego and this one is just great in every aspect and very reasonably priced, especially after discounts! Thanks for the thorough review.
I have the ship from 6542 and a few crane parts, but not the rest of it. This might actually work decently to make a harbor for two ships, and I can make smaller shipping containers or use the kind from 6539 (which don't even fit on the truck from that set). I suspect I could modify this set easily to make it high play value.
You Are Here. Here is all there is. If you're not Here, quite frankly, you aren't (and this discussion won't be of much interest to you).
Also, there's an alien riding the green jetski.
@oukexergon:
What? There's no way anyone would be allowed to tool around on personal watercraft right next to a dockside crane like this, and there's no way anyone would try to run such a rustic-looking waterfront tourist business right next to one either. But you don't get to use River A for pleasure craft and River B for cargo shipments. I grew up in a tiny resort town with a permanent population of about 6000, and we had an industrial dock coming into the harbor. There was at least one charter fishing service, and most of the rest of the harbor was stuffed full of pleasure sail and power boats. There was at least one boat ramp where people could launch jetskis, so while you would get chased off if you just kept doing laps past the industrial dock (not to mention it being a no-wake zone), you had to go past it to get from the public ramp to the harbor mouth.
I want this but, I would need to modify the set a bit (close the back of the store) and move the recreational spot further down the line). I also need to make another crane to use the 2011 cargo ship (which floats) into the place.
Yet another great review @FlagsNZ !
And yet another great City set. This year's sets have got to be the best waves ever!
6542 was the best harbor playset. 7994 was the best ship. 6541 was a great combination at a lower price point. But this harbor isn't doing it for me. The proportions on the ship in this set are just weird. They look cartoonish. It's dwarfed by its own containers. The stern and the bow are symmetric. The crane is big, but somehow it doesn't feel like it has the same heft without the operating cabin. It should have been compensated with some more diagonal members. The rest of the set is devoted to recreation instead of other interesting pieces of port infrastructure, as seen in the other sets I mentioned.
It's too bad that 7994 still feels modern, but much better than anything on sale today. It's a truly excellent set. But 6542 is still the one I'd want to play with due to its abundance of port vehicles. My appreciation for the aesthetic may be nostalgic, but it also enabled packing a lot more features into sets. At a 4-wide scale you get a whole pilot boat at the size of a modern one-man speed boat, and somehow it doesn't look ridiculous.
@AllenSmith said:
" 6542 was the best harbor playset. 7994 was the best ship. 6541 was a great combination at a lower price point. But this harbor isn't doing it for me. The proportions on the ship in this set are just weird. They look cartoonish. It's dwarfed by its own containers. The stern and the bow are symmetric. The crane is big, but somehow it doesn't feel like it has the same heft without the operating cabin. It should have been compensated with some more diagonal members. The rest of the set is devoted to recreation instead of other interesting pieces of port infrastructure, as seen in the other sets I mentioned.
It's too bad that 7994 still feels modern, but much better than anything on sale today. It's a truly excellent set. But 6542 is still the one I'd want to play with due to its abundance of port vehicles. My appreciation for the aesthetic may be nostalgic, but it also enabled packing a lot more features into sets. At a 4-wide scale you get a whole pilot boat at the size of a modern one-man speed boat, and somehow it doesn't look ridiculous."
I added the crane section to the end of my 6542. I never got 7994. Then I took the bench section and cafe separately and across my water area and put it next to my beach (coming off my amusement park) and added stairs to wharf level.
I then added simple stair railings up to the cafe just using black 1x1 bricks topped with alternating 1x1 cheese slopes and 1x1 tiles.
PS I use 1x1 round plates to anchor the curved sections to my blue baseplate water.
Lego; 18+ Seaport set please.
Just based on the looks, I do really this set. And it seems very fair value, considering the amount of stuff you get. But Jang's review (and to a lesser degree this one) does bring up some valid criticisms regarding playability. This set kinda tries to be a jack of all trades, but ends up a master of none. A bit more focus could have helped.
Is that Wave Racer 6508 ?
Great improvemend after 4645
Love the new crane design and the ship's hull parts.
People complain about Lego being expensive, and yet are here complaining about Lego not being realistic enough. Yep, it would be bad to have water recreation in a port. This is a distillation down of what all could be found in a nice city waterfront setting. It's not meant to be completely realistic, it's meant to have play value.
Would love to see 60417 and 42626 alongside 60422 as indicated in the map... anyone? ;>)
Leaving out a seagull surely is the most controversial moment for Lego for this year!
I can't be the only one who saw the front of the box and immediately thought, "A man has fallen into the ocean in Lego City!"
"There should have been at least one seagull included in this set." The fisherman would disagree; he doesn't feel like doing a Finding Nemo recreation. "Mine!" "Mine!" "Mine!" "Mine!"
I do like it, as a toy harbour.
But agreed on the point that, it just seems so odd having a pleasant beach and fishing dock literally metres away from a heavy-duty industrial port. Oh, and the Friends adventure camp is on the other side of the robber's dockside hide-out.
This really could've been two sets. Was Lego just impatient to do a new Harbour subtheme, without really committing to it?
Hmmm..."Models do not float"...in that case: Keep Christie Brinkley away from pools...and lakes...and oceans...:D
While I do like most of it, I think I'd rather not have the large boat (ship? nah, forget it; draggin' an ooooold debate:)) was 'unihull'/'floatable'...in fact, I wish they'd bring back 62792... which TLG could (last version was produced 2021, so...).
Nice review thanks.
For me the ship is too small and likewise the crane needs to be extended land-side so that it could unload crates onto a train or at least trucks (HGVs). It should ideally have been 2 sets focusing on their respective themes. However, it's crying out to be MOCed.
@Maxbricks14 said:
"Yet another great review @FlagsNZ !
And yet another great City set. This year's sets have got to be the best waves ever!
"
Thanks @Maxbricks14 and everyone else for your kind comments.
For everyone who says that the recreational boats have no place near an industrial port - I'd have to agree. But having piloted small cargo ships into and out of major ports, you would be surprised at how often people on jets skis (in particular) often play in the wake built up by the ship underway.
My intention is to fuse the crane's legs from this set with the red crane legs from set 7994 and put a cabin similar to the gantry from set 7939 all together to make a larger, more realistic portainer crane.
@FlagsNZ
Thank you for your review. It's great to get the perspective of someone who actually worked on ships including smaller coastal based ones and I always appreciate proper use of terms in reviews.
Usually the Brickset team is open to feedback so I'll post this.
Normally I enjoy your and other Brickset staff member reviews.
However this review I found rather bland. The following will sound mean, it is not intended that way, but around 80% of this review read like it was written by ChatGPT. The tone was very... I dont know how to describe it, robotic? It actually reminded me of written descriptions of leaked sets in describing everything.
I'm sorry but normally there's a bit more 'you' in the review, we only really saw that right at the end. Even then I found the 'review' part sort of lacking, it was more a basic, bland dot point of what is in the set, with little commentary on what you like, dont like, accurate, inaccurate, whether the set is good value or not etc.
All we get is a tiny 'pros and cons' section at the end, normally this comes through during the review and we would see some of those points expanded on a bit.
Keep up the good work though I hope feedback is helpful. I am aware some people like less 'opinion' in a review but to me that is very silly because what is a review other than someone's objective opinion?
While I do appreciate the detail, I think this set is a mixed bag.
Neither the harbour nor the beach gets enough attention to be satisfying, the cargo part in particular. Compared to sets like 6541 and 6542 which concentrated on being proper cargo port sets, this new one to me tries to be a little bit of everything yet succeeds at nothing.
The ship looks fine, as does the Cafe, but in the end I think they should have sold these as two separate sets. They could even have made it a small "harbour" theme, with sets at various price points that could be combined into one large port. Again like they did in "the olden days". Yes, I know, that makes me sound like someone proclaiming that everything was better in the past, but in this case I think the argument actually has merit. After all, having sets of a theme at various price points makes the whole thing more accessible to more kids. Shouldn't that be the priority?
@AustinPowers said:
"While I do appreciate the detail, I think this set is a mixed bag.
Neither the harbour nor the beach gets enough attention to be satisfying, the cargo part in particular. Compared to sets like 6541 and 6542 which concentrated on being proper cargo port sets, this new one to me tries to be a little bit of everything yet succeeds at nothing.
The ship looks fine, as does the Cafe, but in the end I think they should have sold these as two separate sets. They could even have made it a small "harbour" theme, with sets at various price points that could be combined into one large port. Again like they did in "the olden days". Yes, I know, that makes me sound like someone proclaiming that everything was better in the past, but in this case I think the argument actually has merit. After all, having sets of a theme at various price points makes the whole thing more accessible to more kids. Shouldn't that be the priority? "
I agree with everything here.
@Brickchap : All valid points that I will take on board. I have one more review to do in this current series and I will try to accommodate some of your ideas. Thanks for the feedback.
I don’t like it and here is why: The only relevant play feature of a container Harbour is to load/ unload the ship. This set fails in this regard and I wonder why they didn’t extend the crane to the back so it could unload behind the quay? What’s a container supposed to do on the quay? In that regard: where is a truck to transport the container? I think the set could have easily profited from being separated into three individual sets (harbor/beach/inn) and improving every set while giving the customer a chance to combine and create an own harbor scene. It is sometimes beyond me how the quality of sets 33 years ago (6541, 6542) are yet not matched.
Weirdly my favourite part of this set is the construction of the wharf - those olive green masonry bricks really sell the whole look.
@yamaki said:
"I don’t like it and here is why: The only relevant play feature of a container Harbour is to load/ unload the ship. This set fails in this regard and I wonder why they didn’t extend the crane to the back so it could unload behind the quay? What’s a container supposed to do on the quay? In that regard: where is a truck to transport the container? I think the set could have easily profited from being separated into three individual sets (harbor/beach/inn) and improving every set while giving the customer a chance to combine and create an own harbor scene. It is sometimes beyond me how the quality of sets 33 years ago (6541, 6542) are yet not matched."
Another comment I fully agree with.
@Big_Jarv said:
"Only complaint would be you can get actual realistic shipping containers which are lego compatible on temu. Couldnt they have made them for a set which is literally about them? Id always rather buy genuine lego."
The 1x6 wall pieces are relatively new and have been made specifically for more realistic shipping container models.
I think this is a fantastic set for the target audience. It's got play features and lots of details. The angled quay side makes it look interesting and I love that the hull of the ship is brick-built.
It's not all realistic but hey, this is Lego City remember? Where passenger trains have one carriage, building have no back and most cars are single-seaters.
Buy two and you can have a longer quay, longer ship, extend the crane and the cafe.
I do agree about the missing sea gull though - that's inexcusable.
@Big_Jarv said:
"Only complaint would be you can get actual realistic shipping containers which are lego compatible on temu. Couldnt they have made them for a set which is literally about them? Id always rather buy genuine lego."
Just my two cents!
I agree that Temu containers look real but you can find a lot of Lego built containers on Rebrickable. Some examples:
https://rebrickable.com/mocs/MOC-109390/JG%20Locomotive%20Works/20ft-container-with-corrugated-walls/
https://rebrickable.com/mocs/MOC-126323/Romaclego60/container-18-orange/ (my own)
And you can obtain companies logo on BrickStickerShop:
https://www.brickstickershop.com/website/index.php?Show=Search&KeyWord=Containers%20filter:089467a97b6e97cd239387f6b358b5cb
@FlagsNZ said:
" @Maxbricks14 said:
"Yet another great review @FlagsNZ !
And yet another great City set. This year's sets have got to be the best waves ever!
"
Thanks @Maxbricks14 and everyone else for your kind comments.
For everyone who says that the recreational boats have no place near an industrial port - I'd have to agree. But having piloted small cargo ships into and out of major ports, you would be surprised at how often people on jets skis (in particular) often play in the wake built up by the ship underway.
My intention is to fuse the crane's legs from this set with the red crane legs from set 7994 and put a cabin similar to the gantry from set 7939 all together to make a larger, more realistic portainer crane.
"
I live near the biggest port in New Zealand, and there are many jet-skis and recreational fishing boats in and around the harbour, so this set is definitely realistic. When a cargo ship or cruise ship comes into dock however, the harbour police come to warn us that we need to move for they are coming in.
@Maxbricks14 said:
" @FlagsNZ said:
" @Maxbricks14 said:
"Yet another great review @FlagsNZ !
And yet another great City set. This year's sets have got to be the best waves ever!
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Thanks @Maxbricks14 and everyone else for your kind comments.
For everyone who says that the recreational boats have no place near an industrial port - I'd have to agree. But having piloted small cargo ships into and out of major ports, you would be surprised at how often people on jets skis (in particular) often play in the wake built up by the ship underway.
My intention is to fuse the crane's legs from this set with the red crane legs from set 7994 and put a cabin similar to the gantry from set 7939 all together to make a larger, more realistic portainer crane.
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I live near the biggest port in New Zealand, and there are many jet-skis and recreational fishing boats in and around the harbour, so this set is definitely realistic. When a cargo ship or cruise ship comes into dock however, the harbour police come to warn us that we need to move for they are coming in."
That's a subtheme we need: Harbor police!"
@TheOtherMike said:
"That's a subtheme we need: Harbor police!""
There was a classic town set called Pier Police which was a great idea. Awesome set too, from memory had a very decent police station building, wharf and a good sized police boat.
I'd actually support a harbour police subtheme. The Crooks Hideout set is a good example of what that might include.
A nice opportunity to expand our harbours including warehouses (which we dont get much).
Maybe the crooks could be using a stolen telehandler, forklift or other harbourside vehicle to steal a container of valuables.
It would also be cool if lego leaned into a kid friendly smuggling operation, perhaps they are smuggling much needed crowbars or black beanies.
I could see lego city crooks hanging out on a vintage/classic style freighter (think Karabujan from Tintin/Liberty ship from WWII). Good playset possibilities with the older style cargo ship like the police catching the criminals in cargo nets, someone being bumped by the ship's crane boom and falling in the water. Someone falling down a dorade box etc.
Harbour police would also make sense (unlike swamp police for example).
Unfortunately I'd be concerned lego would do like they did with airport/sky police and mountain police where they ignore the realistic but still interesting and fun possibilities and instead go some generic cartoony route that barely relates to the chosen location/theme.
@Brickchap said:
" @TheOtherMike said:
"That's a subtheme we need: Harbor police!""
There was a classic town set called Pier Police which was a great idea. Awesome set too, from memory had a very decent police station building, wharf and a good sized police boat.
I'd actually support a harbour police subtheme. The Crooks Hideout set is a good example of what that might include.
A nice opportunity to expand our harbours including warehouses (which we dont get much).
Maybe the crooks could be using a stolen telehandler, forklift or other harbourside vehicle to steal a container of valuables.
It would also be cool if lego leaned into a kid friendly smuggling operation, perhaps they are smuggling much needed crowbars or black beanies.
I could see lego city crooks hanging out on a vintage/classic style freighter (think Karabujan from Tintin/Liberty ship from WWII). Good playset possibilities with the older style cargo ship like the police catching the criminals in cargo nets, someone being bumped by the ship's crane boom and falling in the water. Someone falling down a dorade box etc.
Harbour police would also make sense (unlike swamp police for example).
Unfortunately I'd be concerned lego would do like they did with airport/sky police and mountain police where they ignore the realistic but still interesting and fun possibilities and instead go some generic cartoony route that barely relates to the chosen location/theme."
I'd kill for a classic freighter or tramp steamer. I MOC'ed a 104 stud long one up for my Adventurers, but I'd love to see Lego tackle it.
@Brickchap: I just looked up the set you were talking about, 6540, and was surprised that it wasn't already on my wanted list.
@Brickchap said:
"There was a classic town set called Pier Police which was a great idea."
The Pier Police! Investigating crime everywhere from Pier 1 Imports to Navy Pier. But not the Boardwalk. That's the jurisdiction of the Boarder Patrol.
@Brickchap said:
" @AustinPowers said:
"While I do appreciate the detail, I think this set is a mixed bag.
Neither the harbour nor the beach gets enough attention to be satisfying, the cargo part in particular. Compared to sets like 6541 and 6542 which concentrated on being proper cargo port sets, this new one to me tries to be a little bit of everything yet succeeds at nothing.
The ship looks fine, as does the Cafe, but in the end I think they should have sold these as two separate sets. They could even have made it a small "harbour" theme, with sets at various price points that could be combined into one large port. Again like they did in "the olden days". Yes, I know, that makes me sound like someone proclaiming that everything was better in the past, but in this case I think the argument actually has merit. After all, having sets of a theme at various price points makes the whole thing more accessible to more kids. Shouldn't that be the priority? "
I agree with everything here."
Ignoring 7994 ?
To bad about the seagull and the small ship. Also, diversity should be regarded as a con, not a pro.
Looks nice.
@Captain_Soybeard said:
"To bad about the seagull and the small ship. Also, diversity should be regarded as a con, not a pro."
If you mean you'd rather the minifigs were all seafarers and dock workers, fine. Otherwise, yikes!
@watcher21 : not ignoring, but 7994, while looking great, happened during my dark ages, which is why I have no recollection of it. The two sets I mentioned I have fond memories of, even though I never got them. My cousin had those and we played a lot with them.
@FlagsNZ said:
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@Brickchap : All valid points that I will take on board. I have one more review to do in this current series and I will try to accommodate some of your ideas. Thanks for the feedback."
If you don't mind some additional, unsolicited writing advice: change up your sentence structure. Starting a sentence with "there is / there are" is extremely weak writing, as the sentence lacks a subject. You tend to use that structure a lot. Try mixing things up. For example, your description of the back of the box includes 4 bullet points, 3 of which start with "There is ..."
@JDawg5 said:
" @FlagsNZ said:
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@Brickchap : All valid points that I will take on board. I have one more review to do in this current series and I will try to accommodate some of your ideas. Thanks for the feedback."
If you don't mind some additional, unsolicited writing advice: change up your sentence structure. Starting a sentence with "there is / there are" is extremely weak writing, as the sentence lacks a subject. You tend to use that structure a lot. Try mixing things up. For example, your description of the back of the box includes 4 bullet points, 3 of which start with "There is ...""
All feedback is welcome. I have my next review underway. I'll try to amend my style and see where it gets to.
@PurpleDave: Hmm....where do the 'Wave Cops' fit into that discussion? Come to think of it: Do they come into conflict with the 'Wave Savers'?...:)
@FlagsNZ said:
"The hull is made up of white, earth green and dark orange parts."
It's not dark orange but the new reddish orange.
Everyone talking about cranes and social watercraft, I'm more concerned that the ice cream advert doesn't actually match the colours of ice cream included in the set.
Perhaps switch the ice cream parlour for a Fish & Chip shop and you'll be guaranteed the seagulls will make an appearance as well!
I like the set and I'm thinking of actually getting two copies and enlarging the ship. Has anyone of you done it already?
It's nice to see a brick-build city ship.
I absolutely love the fact that the lack of seagull pieces was included in the top-line summary of this review. AFOL priorities.
@SirRobin
People complain about Lego being expensive, and yet are here complaining about Lego not being realistic enough. Yep, it would be bad to have water recreation in a port. This is a distillation down of what all could be found in a nice city waterfront setting. It's not meant to be completely realistic, it's meant to have play value.
Exactly right! When I built Lego harbors as a child, the jetskis always had to dodge tugboats (and, for that matter, sea monsters).
@N1ckBr1x said:
"As a super fan of 6541 and 6542, this set was a welcomed successor. Seagulls would’ve been nice, though, as would a truck."
thats what I was saying! this is an obvious reference down to even using the same hull pieces for the boat
I got this set in Ireland recently on my annual visit and it will always be my first set with 100% paper bags! So, seeing the old ones above threw me a little. I really enjoyed building this, but the lack of a full roof for the building was a huge let down for me. For the sake of 2 extra rows of studs it would have felt so much more complete. Otherwise the set is fantastic and I would still recommend it. I guess as there are no chips to steal the seagulls have gone elsewhere.
I can’t believe how low the bar has become for Lego Sets. Comparing this to 6542 is shameful.
No truck.
No forklift.
No pilot boat.
Two vs 4 containers…
And the problem people see are more seagulls ahah
Who else noticed the BricksByMind cameo??
"Standard con for nearly every non-modular building: Building cannot be fully enclosed, is front facade only." If the review complains about lack of a seagull, I'll complain about this!
@PurpleDave said:
" @Brickchap said:
"There was a classic town set called Pier Police which was a great idea."
The Pier Police! Investigating crime everywhere from Pier 1 Imports to Navy Pier. But not the Boardwalk. That's the jurisdiction of the Boarder Patrol."
Boarder Patrol: Pierless Law Enforcement
@tne328 said:
" @PurpleDave said:
" @Brickchap said:
"There was a classic town set called Pier Police which was a great idea."
The Pier Police! Investigating crime everywhere from Pier 1 Imports to Navy Pier. But not the Boardwalk. That's the jurisdiction of the Boarder Patrol."
Boarder Patrol: Pierless Law Enforcement"
No-one walks all over them!