Lego City Harbor -551pcs.

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The Sydney Harbour Bridge in particular, with its beautifully curved steel truss arch and its impressive dimensions, is a modern building that is, without a doubt, a masterpiece of modern engineering and is admired by so many people. It's average at best to me, with no particular element that interests me so it's an easy pass for me. Take a closer look at the tipper mechanism: this is comprised of some SNOT bricks attached via clips to the 4x6 plate with hinge pins introduced earlier; four SNOT brackets then attach the tipper.

It's the bearded Captain's turn to reveal the play details on the box rear with his grandiloquent 'Hey! 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. It seems such a step down from the previous harbour incarnations, with second-rate buildings that look like mere support for the working features, a smaller than expected ship on an ugly hull, and flood-prone baseplates that are next to useless.Notable for their absence on this truck are wing mirrors, which could easily have been attached via clips at the sides of the black stripe above the windscreen. Measures over 15" (38cm) wide, 9" (22cm) long and 8" (20cm) tall Large cargo ship measures over 16" (40cm) long, 3" (7cm) wide and 5" (12cm) tall Truck measures over 5" (12cm).

For me, it'll supply a few useful but rather expensive pieces to the collection, while the boat hull and baseplates will go into the useless parts bin next to the Fight in the Flying Wing's wing-piece. The boat looks fantastic looking from the bow of boat, but I do agree that dock could be subject to flooding. 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. However, now we've scrutinised the various features in some detail, some major flaws have started to show.Looking beyond the size, the three main elements come together nicely, and form a colourful arrangement that does promise a load of fun play features, the centrepiece of which we'll look at presently. My sticker sheet came out of the box only slightly curved, which is a blessing as so far I've seen no sign of the 'cardboard backed' instructions and stickers promised this year. I wasn't thrilled when I first saw photos of the new one and although that this review shows every detail of it I'm still not impressed. 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).