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Review 60081: Pickup Tow Truck Details: Series: City Qty of bricks: 209pcs Qty of minifigures: 2 Qty of bags with bricks: 3 big bags (1 smaller inside each big) Bricklist: BrickLink Price: ~16€ (Internet) ~23€ (in local shops) Brickset BrickLink Tow truck(s) it's a well known topis in TLG. Example is not far away 60056: Tow Truck released last year. Looking at the first pictures and previews of 60081 I was not impresed. Not much as during with 60056 - I still consider it's one of the best Lego sets! Pickup is confusingly similar to a Jeep from 60045: Police Patrol[/ url]. Am I right? It is also oddly overgrown, as if swollen compared to "traditional" sets and vehicles. Broken blue car also is nothing spectacular. It seems to be an average set. TLG in 2015 series of City rather not charmed me like a year ago, while during premiere day I was one of the first customers waiting for his copies of 60056 and 60059! This year I saved some money waiting for good discounts. BTW: Of course I was not wasting my time. I put much more effort to restore some classic sets and moste of the money I decided to spent buying separate bricks. Box: The traditional rectangle, quite high but thanks to the width and height can be significantly reduced. It looks neat. The dimensions and proportions are not stinging the eyes. As always, dominated by blue. Design has changed slightly, there were steel shells around photos and images cut lines are more angular reinforcing the feeling of "austerity" and industrialization. FRONT & REAR TOP & BOTTOM LEFT & RIGHT Instruction: Two traditional books. The first describes on 20 pages construction of a blue car. The second is almost 70 pages describes the structure of a white pickup. BTW: Inside the box we have three bags of parts, two booklets of instruction, template labels and pickup's chassis brick. Minifigures: The two men. I have a strange feeling that both look like two warm dumplings ;-) The Lord in a green sweater V-neck and service personnel. Mediocre in plain trousers. BTW: In my opinion pickup driver should have clothes in white/green colours to be in line with the pickup. Bricks: I did not notice anything in spectacular. One caught my attention because somehow I had no occasion to hold it in your hand. I think about 30125]30125[/ url] but I can see that this is nothing new. In total set does not contain any "special" bricks, what I treat as an advantage! Work in progress: A: BLUE CAR B: PICKUP FINISHED SET: BENEFITS: + pickup's construction is on a very high level; + it has a lot of details: antennas, hammer; + remarkable but simple design solutions (rearheel arches, front of the car, half-stud distance between front of the car with the lights and bumper); + perfect colours combination; + a lot of fun in kids hands; + simple construction of the tug "fork"; + interesting labels, nice design; WEAKNESESS: - lack of doors in white pickup; - oddly swollen and almost off the scale (see last photo with 60056) - seems to be in American style; - tug "fork" is too loose; - oversized and massive tug construction; - too many labels (I really don't like them :-/); Summary: I admit that during building of a set it positive surprised me. At the beginning, my attitude fluctuated within the limits of desire shooting more than build. However, with time, and especially after opening the bags with numbers 2 and 3, my attitude was changing. Pushing the limits into a positive feelings. Finally, pickup looks like a monster truck and distorts the proportions of the Lego city, but as a model on your shelf it pleases the eye. For sure it won't be a star of anyone's collection, because it leaves unsatisfied. I wonder if instead of blue car could be something else in this set, something what more would increase the attractiveness set as of model, and not toy? Maybe this blue car pulls down a general assessment?
