LukefromNJ

Released as part of Lego's "Cargo" subtheme, this set is intended as a companion set for the 60021 Heliplane and 60022 Cargo Terminal. 3 bags, 2 booklets, 1 sticker sheet. In bag 1 came the parts for one of the minifigs, the handtruck, pallets and loads, and forklift. Bag 2 had another minifig and parts for the truck cab and frame. Bag 3 held parts for the truck's cargo carrying space. Contents of bag 1: To be honest, I found the choices of cargo to be a bit odd. The motor seems much larger than the kind of motor that would be found on the logger's ATV, and I'm pretty sure the fuel cans are NOT the kind of cargo that would be loaded onto a plane! That said, I really like the build and detailing of the engine itself; I see this as having plenty of potential for either an MOC vehicle of some sort, or for those building a diorama of a garage or maintenance depot or similar facility. Also included in bag 1 is a forklift, an orange (and somewhat diminutive by comparison) version of the forklift in the cargo terminal set: As usual, I replaced the offset rooftop beacon with a central cone: Just like the forklift in the terminal, this forklift uses a rubber band to keep the fork in a raised position. Bags 2 and 3 contain the truck itself, and I must admit it is quite a good-looking vehicle (I especially like the streamlined section on top of the cab!): In Lego, there's often a certain amount of balance between functionality and realism. In this set, it seems like realistic appearance was sacrificed somewhat for ease of loading and unloading (maybe they should have somehow made the truck look more like a "curtainside" design?): One thing I really like with this truck is how the grille is mostly made of bricks: Compared to many other recent city trucks ,which are much more likely to use just one row of bricks plus a large sticker. In this respect, the cab reminds me of the somewhat older 3180 tanker truck (cab pictured to the left) than its more contemporary companions (pictured on the right): The entire set: My thoughts: a pretty good set overall (I like the back-to-basics approach to the grille), let down somewhat by its odd choice of cargo and high price (40USD compared to 20-30USD for most of the other vehicles, although admittedly the forklift is much more substantial an accessory than what you usually receive with a vehicle set consisting of a single truck). Works much better as a component of the cargo terminal series than on its own: On the balance, I would give it a 7/10 on its own, and an 8/10 in conjunction with the other cargo sets.

This review is of the 60056 Tow Truck: Set comes with 227 parts, separated into 2 bags (plus a small sticker sheet). Each bag has its own manual: Bag 1 makes the chassis and minifig, while bag 2 makes the upper body plus wheels and tools that clip to the truck's side (a broom and a wrench in this case): Bag 1 after assembly. The minifig is a typical construction/road worker, with blue and orange clothing that fits well with the truck's blue and orange color scheme (I wonder how many Mets fans will buy this set?). The overall truck assembled. Given how many of Lego's truck designs feature the European flat-front design, I was very pleased to see a more American or Australian-style cab: How the crane arm works: These: Go into these: Like so: They clip to the arm of the crane (pictured below on its own): When the arm is raised and lowered, the above parts slide back and forth, like the pistons on the real thing: One other detail that I LOVE is the entirely brick-built grille: The tow truck in action: Towing a car. In all honesty, having this huge truck towing a City-sized car seems like a bit of overkill compared to having this truck towing other trucks: You can also tow with the hook, but unless I'm doing this wrong, it seems like you have to maintain constant tension to avoid the hook dropping down: My overall thoughts: If I must criticize this set for anything, it's that it is a bit oversized for a tow truck, but as I said above, it looks fine towing other trucks. This is an outstanding set. It's a great-looking model with a lot of functions, an attractive color scheme, and a minimum of stickers. A perfect 10! -PS I must admit I may be a bit biased, seeing that "The Castle" (made in 1997) is one of my favorite films and it featured a tow truck driver as the main character

This review is for the set 60059: You get 2 bags, 1 very small sticker sheet, and 1 manual: In common with other 2014 trucks, the Minifigs and truck chassis are in one bag, the wheels and truck body in another: Contents of bag 1: Minifigs from bag 1, both come with an appropriately lumberjack-like appearance (the figure on the left has the kind of facial hair that would also fit in well with a Medieval or Victorian era set): Fire Chief: Nice to see a familiar face! Lumberjack (center): This is coming back in style, I swear! Lumberjack (right): WHAAAAT? Chainsaw: WHHIRRRRRRR!!!! If you've read my other reviews, you know I much prefer brickbuilt to stickerbuilt grilles, and this set does not disappoint. The protective structure on the cab roof is quite nice as well: The crane on the back is particularly well done, with many points of articulation for a variety of poses: In my opinion, this is a superb set. The only complaint I have is that you cannot "fold" the crane for travel, as is often seen on trucks with this kind of crane, but other than that this set is great. 9.5/10 Also, this set nicely complements the lumberjacks and equipment from last year's 60021 Heliplane:

Willkommen zu Eurobricks! Ich habe von Görlitz gehört weil es gibt eine Personenwaggonfabrik da (ich bin großer Eisenbahnfan).

Welcome to the forum! Given your user name, you might find this review I just wrote interesting: http://www.eurobricks.com/forum/index.php?showtopic=93952

Here's my review for Lego set 60060, Auto Transporter: Contents of set are 3 bags, 3 manuals, and 1 (very small) sticker sheet: Bag 1 makes the 2 cars being transported, as well as the 2 minifigs and their accessories: I really like the 2 cars, I think they're quite stylish (especially the red and black one). The driver's a fairly generic truck driver figure (the mirrored shades are a nice touch, however) while the car dealer seems to be going for the "sleazy car salesman" look (or alternately is a huge fan of Gordon Gekko from "Wall Street"). The clipboard is made from attaching a sticker from the sticker sheet to a 2x2 SNOT brick piece. The 2 figures close-up. Would YOU buy a car from this man? Bag 2 makes the truck, minus the upper level: In bag 3 are the pieces for the trailer as well as the upper part of the truck. One thing I really liked was the use of the ladder pieces in gray to make the "tracks" for the cars to drive onto: The upper levels of the truck and trailer lower for loading like so (note the yellow hook to secure cars on the upper levels): In order to load the top level, the bottom level must be empty: With the top level loaded, you can now drive a car onto the lower level: The set only comes with 2 cars, so if you want to load it fully you must use extra cars: Overview of what you get in a set, truck and trailer, 2 cars, 2 minifigs, clipboard and briefcase: In my opinion, this is a great set. i really like the look of the truck and LOVE the way the upper level raise and lower. The 2 minifigs are perfect for the set (although perhaps a "buyer" minifig [or minifigs] could have been included as well?) As far as having only 2 cars goes, while part of me wishes that they had included all 4 cars for the truck, it may have either raised the price too high or been too repetitive to build 4 of the same car in one kit (and this kit already has plenty of repetition as it is). My score? 9/10.

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That's pretty much how I feel about this set as well; I feel that the whole is much greater than the sum of its parts.

Pretty much all of the tires on the cars and trucks I have are the same size, so it doesn't bother me that they're the same size in this set.

I meant to write this review quite a while back, but a power surge fried my last computer and writing this review kind of slipped through the cracks. Anyway, here's my review of the 60025 set. What you get when you open the bag: The Dreaded Sticker Sheet with plenty of Octan logos (it curled like crazy even before I started peeling them, hence the presence of my fingers at the bottom): Bag 1 contains parts for the car and toolchest, bag 2 contains parts for the truck cab, and bags 3 and 4 contain parts for the truck trailer. The racecar is a nice little set, quite speedy-looking and liberally decorated with everybody's favorite fictitious fuel company. I kind of wished they made it so there weren't those black pieces sticking out from the side of the body between the front wheels (looking from the instructions,however, it seems unavoidable), but otherwise it's excellent. Also included in bag 1 is a toolchest and the 3 figures (racecar driver, mechanic, truck driver/second mechanic) decorated in team logo and colors: The toolchest comes with numerous tools, many (I believe) for the first time ever. I see this having a lot of potential use for a diorama or MOC of a garage or airport hangar or locomotive shed. I wasn't able to fit them all into the toolchest at once; did anyone else have this problem or was it just me?: Bag 2 has parts for the truck cab. It's for the most part a pretty conventional flat-fronted truck cab build, but what I find interesting and welcome is that it uses bricks to duplicate the red and white stripe on the sticker on the roof of the cab. The only problem with that is that the stripe is continued to the bottom, meaning that the license plate must either be: a) Not mounted on the bottom of the front of the cab b) Centered and mounted over 2 separate bricks, effectively "gluing" them together if you want to avoid the sticker tearing c) Like below, placing the sticker to 1 side Despite this, as I said above, I like that Lego is making this stripe with SNOT bricks rather than just stickers. Bags 3 and 4 contain parts for the truck trailer, which carries both the car and the toolchest: The trailer has 2 side openings, as well as the back opening (which doubles as a ramp for the car): The car being transported in the trailer: My overall thoughts: I love this set, everything goes together quite nicely. I I seemed a bit overly critical in the review, to me those are all minor nitpicks and do not significantly take away from a great set. 9.5/10 That said, one car does not a Grand Prix make; I'd love to see Lego make more racecar sets in different colors and with different sponsors (either real-life or in-universe). They need not be more sets like this, with a car and transporter truck; in fact, one set I'd love to see is an announcer's booth and/or pitstop with 3 or 4 different racecars.

Does the cargo area of the 7733 open sideways as well? Also, is the 7733's forklift operated the same way as the one in this set?

The black parts I was talking about was the studs sticking up between the red "5" on the front, and the green "Octan" logo on the side.

Well, Berlin has a much bigger collection of full-size rolling stock, but I thought Nuremberg did a better job presenting the context of the railway system as a whole, with the employee uniforms, dioramas, and information on the railroad's role in Germany's history (good and bad). When was that display put in? I don't remember seeing it when I was there (summer 2011). One Lego thing I did see when I was there, however, was a group of life-size brick-built statues of Chewbacca, Yoda and a Stormtrooper (plus a ~1 meter diameter Death Star) in a display window in Alexanderplatz. Also, in the Alexanderplatz U-Bahn station, I saw this life-size product from a rival company:

I haven't really done any MOCs yet, just adjusted some details on the trucks here and there. Otherwise, I mostly collect.

Hi everybody! I'm currently living in Newtown, CT but I'm originally from New Jersey (hence the name). I had a few Lego kits here and there growing up (along with a brick bucket), but in general I only started seriously buying Legos recently. My other interests are (scale) model trains, cats, reading, travel, learning foreign languages, and watching TV (especially Britcoms).

This is my first review, so feel free to offer advice and/or (constructive) criticism. Growing up, I had a "brick bucket" but few actual Lego sets. One of the only sets i remember having was the "Eagle Stunt Flyer", which at some point was "borrowed" by my younger brother, and half the pieces were never to be seen again... This set feels like something of a spiritual successor to that set, with the addition of the ground support vehicle thrown in: Back view of packaging: Bags and manuals: bag 1 is the ground cart and mechanic figure, bag 2 is the plane itself. Bag 1 assembled: With driver and toolchest together. I find it somewhat odd that it has the driver driving in a standing position; I think it would have been better to include a seat or something: I didn't like the single offset beacon, so I added a second orange cone from my spare parts bin for symmetry: The plane itself. I must say, this really captures the look of a modern stunt plane, with the large engine "scoop", the bubble canopy, and the use of bright colors and eye-catching patterns. The pilot minifig is excellent as well, with his mirrored sunglasses and pilot's uniform. With the pilot at the controls: Overall, I'd give the set a 9/10: it may be a bit bare-bones, but overall it does what it has to do, and at only $20, it's quite a bargain by Lego price standards. Other than a few niggles with the cart, I can see the set providing hours of fun, as the plane is an inherently whooshable design and so far it holds together well through sharp maneuvers (I had to test fly it after all ). I know some people don't like stickers, but here the stickers aren't excessive and they're easy to place.

My top 3 are: -Railexpo, Quebec, Canada (maybe an hour outside of Montreal) -The DB Museum in Nuremberg, Germany (I also liked the Berlin Technikmuseum, but it has a lot of non-railway content so I'm not sure if it counts) -Illinois Railway Museum: off the beaten path but worth it (in Chicago itself there's the excellent Museum of Science and Industry, which has NYC engine number 999, plus an enormous HO scale layout depicting Chicago to Seattle)

Here's my review of set 60022, which is so far the largest and most expensive set that I've bought. Does it stack up (no pun intended)? Read on to find out (and don't worry: all pictures after the first three are on a white background)... Packaging is pretty straightforward, you get 6 bags plus a unbagged wing piece: I forgot to take a picture of the 2 sticker sheets, but there are a lot of stickers included. One thing that I really liked about the packaging was that the sticker sheets and manuals both came in a separate bag with a cardboard backing, which kept them all nice and flat (although the sticker sheets curled like crazy once I started to apply them). In the first bag you get the pieces for a hydrant fueling truck and an air traffic control tower: The fueling truck is used at airports where there is an existing network of pipes running through the airport: While most pictures I've seen of airport hydrant trucks look like a full-sized truck with a pump and hose, I must admit I really like the look of this cart, it looks appropriately "airport-y" if you know what I mean: It uses 3 stickers, which seems like quite a lot for such a small vehicle. In airports without such a pipe network, a truck like 60016 would be used: Also included in bag 1 is an air traffic control tower: I really like the use of the upside-down windshield pieces to achieve the wider-at-the-top design so common in airports. The lattice pattern on the radar array and the checkerboard pattern below the windows are both stickers. On the inside, the radar display is printed on. The array and the chair both can swivel a full 360 degrees. Bag 2 has a forklift and 4 pallets of cargo: The forklift in this set comes with a rubber band, which makes the default position of the fork raised: In order to lower it, you must press down: I wasn't too fond of the single off-center beacon: ... so I replaced it with a centrally-located cone: The first cargo is a disassembled ATV/Go-kart style vehicle, which comes on 2 pallets: I guess it's going to be transferred at the airport to the heliplane and sent over to the lumberjacks from the 60021 set? Here's what it looks like assembled: Which I thought looked kind of weird, compared to being assembled like this: The next cargo is a set of individual packages on a pallet: The last pallet is a wooden crate... ... which is filled with gold bricks! Let's hope the Lego police are doing their jobs! In bag 3 comes a conveyor belt loader: The conveyer belt raises and lowers: and the belt itself turns with a handle: I really like the conveyor belt loader; in fact, I think that it's my favorite piece after the plane itself. And now, for the piece that is the focus of the set, the cargo plane: It's not a very whooshable design, compared to the stunt plane or star wars fighters; I think this may be one of the few toy planes that is more fun on the ground than in the air! The plane has 2 opening hatches on the port fuselage: and the tail swings open as well: One feature I really like is how the nosewheel can rotate a full 360 degrees, allowing the plane to realistically move and taxi (in fact, I wish they included this on the forklift): The nose comes as a single piece, which I can see many MOCers using to create a 100-series Shinkansen train: I like how the stickers continue the lines made by bricks. This is so far the only piece I've seen that uses screws: The interior is easily seen through the windshield: Inside is a quite well-done flight deck: The middle control panel is a sticker, the 2 side pieces are printed on. What, no copilot?! The wing comes as a single piece: The plane comes with 4 engines mounted on the underside of the wing: Other large pieces include the tail and rear of the fuselage: The set comes with 5 minifigs, 3 cargo handlers (with ear protection), a female air traffic controller, and a somewhat unhappy-looking pilot (maybe he's upset that he has to fly the plane all by himself, and probably violate some FAA rule in the process...) Here's an overall view of the set: A view of the set in action (I think that purple mark on the wing is some kind of reflection or something): Legos transporting Legos. How meta. (it looks like the packaging for the 60018 cement mixer) My overall thoughts on the set: I would definitely recommend this set for anyone who likes airplanes or airports. In addition to the excellent plane, you get 3 great ground vehicles that look right at home in just about any kind of airport setting and a very nice control tower. Is this set perfect? No, in addition to the aforementioned lack of a copilot, there is a great deal of wasted space in the fuselage, with only 2 relatively small compartments available for use. As a result, this immense plane has a cargo capacity only slightly higher than the average Lego cargo truck: Those caveats aside, while at $100 this set isn't cheap, in my opinion this set is worth it, and currently takes a proud center place in my Lego collection: My rating: 8-8.5 out of 10 (if money is no object or if you're a diehard aviation enthusiast add another point for a 9 to 9.5 rating. Had there been 2 pilot minifigs and the whole fuselage was usable for cargo, this set would've been a perfect 10 even with the high price tag) PS as you can see by the above picture, my other major hobby is model trains. The interesting thing is that in N scale, trains are stored in plastic, stackable jewel cases like so: Hmmmm... plastic blocks that can easily be piled on top of one another... now that reminds me of something, but what?

You can load at least 5 pallets on the plane if you fit them sideways-2 in front, at least 3 in back.

Actually, the cargo plane can carry at least 4 pallets.

Yes, they're HO scale.

If you do get the set and make the modifications, please post them on this thread!

Don't get me wrong- if you (like me) really like planes or the cargo/transportation subtheme, this is an outstanding set (and in my view the ground vehicles really make this set stand out- with just the plane or the plane and control tower, this would have just been a pretty good to excellent set). That said, if space and/or money is at a premium, you may want to think twice about buying this set. This is still one of my favorite non-Star Wars sets!

As far as swooshablilty goes, it's a pretty subjective subject. When I swooshed this plane, the wings flexed somewhat every time I banked; they're quite thin, and although I'm sure they can stand up to a fair amount of stress, I didn't exactly want to do a stress-test on them. Also, when I swoosh planes (including Star Wars fighters), I prefer to hold them from behind, like so (starboard panel removed from TIE fighter for clarity): In comparison, I could only really hold the cargo plane easily like this: or this: or from below (not pictured). Actually on reflection, I don't mind this aspect too much, as it gives the different planes different handling characteristics! As far as making the entire fuselage available for cargo use, that's a pretty easy modification (that is the point of Lego after all...) but I still would have rather had that configuration and its parts by default. It does take up quite a lot of space, as would an airport display with other jets, but hey, that's just like the real thing, so you can't fault Lego for being accurate in that regard! And finally, the trains on the table are HO scale, not N. Here's a quick size comparison with a minifig (HO scale is the larger size at 1:87, N scale is 1:160):

Addendum to review: the search for a copilot begins: Stunt Pilot: Now I know a lot of the cargo in the back has the "fragile" symbol on it, but what do you say we take off, do an Immelman turn, then a corkscrew, then a split-S, then a Pugachev's Cobra, and then... Pilot: NEXT! Han Solo: Which button is the hyperdrive again? Pilot: NEXT! Imperial Pilot: How can this thing even fly without huge black panels on the side? Pilot:NEXT! Luke Skywalker: It'll be a tight squeeze doing a trench run in this... Pilot:NEXT! Jek Porkins: There isn't a weight limit on this plane, is there? Pilot: NEXT! A-Wing Pilot: I'll be fine as long as we don't fly near any Super Star Destroyer bridges... Pilot:NEXT! The search continues...