Lego City Harbor -551pcs.

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Join the LEGO City minifigures for some fishy adventures down at the harbour in this awesome activity book. The harbour is very unique as it comes with not one but two big plates to put your crane on, which makes up about 9/10ths of the harbour. Round tan bricks rain from the crane, and pelt from the belt into the waiting truck, while a distracted fisherman concentrates on his catch, ignoring the drifting ship approaching at his rear. Several foreseen snags didn't occur - for example, I was worried that bricks would fall into the small gutter either side of the conveyor belt, and either remain there for eternity or worse still jam the mechanism, but the belt carries them all the way.

Now it is time for the first medieval harbor set and it comes with a lot of nice details and colors. I imagine it will be a while before the transition is made to doing this in all sets (if that happens at all). When I first heard the rumors regarding the release of a new harbour I was more than excited because the Maritime subtheme is my all time favorite and the last harbour that TLG released in 2007 (7994) was a really great set for my standards. I'm not so keen on Clive's 'bad tan' eyes, which are mean to represent spectacles; none of these faces are new or particularly rare, and Freddie's face and hat combination might be more at home in the Police range. you know when I do I should rebuild my 7994 city harbour along with this and post some images to compare between the two which is better or worse.Here, a few bricks and a mast are the only decoration, but there's a nice perspective view up to the bridge. I have a larger stack of manuals from the past 3 years of collecting than I do from the 20 years before that - simply because manuals are so much longer or else there are multiple ones. The red-and-white blob at the end of the line looks like it could represent a float; it seems to catch fish without the need for any cruel hooks. He recently turned 9 and has gotten to the point where he is building pretty much everything independently (much to the chagrin of my hubby who likes to build too).

Having missed out on the previous Harbour offerings, I was looking forward finally to getting my hands on LEGO's latest seaport diorama.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. Bags 2 and 3 contain the most pieces, and come together to form the rather colourful harbourside structures. Note also the right side fuel tank is different, using a printed Star Wars round tile instead of the black bits; I don't know why the fuel tanks themselves are white . 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! Even the crane (which people say was a good point) couldn't handle large loads and was very easy to break.

The conveyor is held in place only by the two dark tan axles with stud towards the rear; these allow the whole conveyor to tilt backwards to about 90 degrees: an accident of design rather than functional feature I fear; I could see no use for this.From a technical point of view, the interaction of compressive and tensile forces can be seen best in bridges.

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. The big blue piece (see the underside here) is a train part, ID 87619, appearing here for the first time in blue. And while I like the idea of keeping the farm theme alive in this new subtheme, I still would have preferred 'traditional' containers as cargo.it's ok for the ship hull, but as you pointed out, either the conveyor belt and also many details missing, not to mention the "not raised" baseplates, make this set (imho) a fail. Bley, blue and yellow are the featured colours; the parts selection consists mainly of large bricks and panels. Back when I was nine or ten years old, I had a LEGO-themed birthday party, and my dad bought several of the then-current ThrowBots/Slizers sets for people to build for a disc-throwing competition. However, it is of course possible to build two halves and then join them together to represent the entire length of the bridge.