Well actually, there are forklifts where the rear wheels are significantly smaller than the front ones- a quick image search brings up quite the variety.
11:55: it's not the first one, Lego Made several of them. They even had a dedicated set back in the 9V era (Set number 4552). Also they had 7814, 7817 in 12V era and 3 more even older.
As a railfan and electric locomotive enthusiast, I really like this locomotive! It seems like the ones made in the Eastern bloc. Also the colour gives away that!
This was an expensive set, but here in the Netherlands only a few months after release the price dropped to around €130, and never went up again. That seems like a pretty good deal for everything you get. The one thing I keep wondering: what does Lego do with all of the right-hand switches they don't put in a set? And obviously it's a shame Lego hardly does anything with trains anymore. Every few years 2 new train sets, the bare minimum of track sets (and who needs all those curved tracks?), and nothing else. As a kid of the '80s, when Lego even had a separate catalog for their trains, I think this is just sad. And the kids I know still love trains...
Nice review, quite liked the spreading out of content. Just thought I'd also add Lego has made train cranes before, 4552 is an example, and there are other more basic 4,5V and 12V cranes too
It's nice to see a review of a Lego City product every once in a while. Brings me back memories of my childhood, when the best gift I could possibly get was the the Lego fire station
You are late. but no problem. at least you know it existed. when i was 7 i was aware that there are LEGO trains. especially Lego trucks. i saw a long one. i was like "Woah. this is new"
A small comment about the buffer stop. I don't know how it's mentioned in the instructions, but in reality modern buffer stops look like that on purpose. The buffers themselves are supposed to be pressed all the way out. That way, if a train car approaches the buffer stop too fast, the buffers generate friction which slow the car down before reaching the firmly mounted structure. Most of the time the buffers get pushed just a small bit in, and have to be re-adjusted by a railroad crew.
This brings me so much nostalgia! I got the 4563 set when I was a kid, and it was by far one of my favorite sets. I also had a train crossing and extra tracks. :D
A surprise, to be sure, but a welcome one :D Regarding the Crane, though, it's not the first one. In fact, since the dawn of LEGO Trains, they tried to include one in the freighters, starting with the old 12 Volt sets where they where still sold as accessory carriages (like L128 or L134). Whenever a Railroad Mobile Crane wasn't included, the set usually came with a cargo-terminal style crane, mounted on its own tracks, either adjacent to the railway tracks or straddling them. The most iconic one I remember is actually the 9 Volt one that was the basis for the L4552 accessory set though L7817 wasn't bad either (it combined the idea of having the wagon as both a crane and a usable cargo-carrier). From more recent history, the last set to have a Mobile Crane was L7898, the only Cargo Train that used the RC System remotes. To date, that one is the most complex carriage to carry a crane, as it not only included the platform and functionality (it also made use of outriggers, a turntable, winch and extendable boom), but also a separate cab with its own doors and head-lights (studs only, they were not linked to a lighting brick), as well as being built on an equal-length train-base as that set's locomotive (implying it was supposed to be a kind of self-propelled crane that could work without a dedicated locomotive). Anyway, pardon my rambling, I've been a fan of the Train line for many years, along with the Technic one, but I hope it's at least some kind of useful trivia.
@@marcoschwanenberger3127 Glad I could be of service! Incidentally, it was mine too :D It was out of production already, but I got a used one from a lady in California. Being Romaninan, LEGO was, and still is, a luxury good, so I was pretty excited when I managed to finally buy it after starting my first job. I hope yours still works too, I eventually packed and stored mine after I had too many close calls nearly stepping on it in my living-room :)))
11:53 Set 163 is also a railroad crane. rebrickable.com/sets/163-1/cargo-wagon/#parts The first ever was set 128. rebrickable.com/sets/128-3/mobile-crane-plate-base/?inventory=1#parts
Perhaps the only thing missing here is Sariel himself in his videos or a voice over... No complaints against the existing format but a face or voice to go with the rolling captions would really elevate the human element... Just my two cents. City Sets are a great way to begin the weekend and now am off to cover my floors with tracks! 😁
and before that we had these 4 railroad cranes and 1 more after those in 2006 with the first wireless control trains from 2006 blue rail era year 1971 set 128 year 1975 set 134 grey rail era year 1980 set 7814 year 1985 set 7817 wireless control era year 2006 set 7898
Wow, I didn't know about those! Also I think for a 230$ set it should have 2 railroad switches, since the 2006, 2010 and 2014 ones also had two, even the current duplo cargo train has two switches.
For the price of this set, it seems empty, I had the #7939 lego yellow diesel cargo train set, and it had quite a bit more detail and the fact that it had an overhead crane that unloaded the train and put it on a truck,
if you can find the Maersk train for a reasonable price, new or used, get it. Well worth it in my opinion. Mine looks weird next to the old BNSF set, but might blend in better with newer sets.
they removed the cardboard boxes some of the powered up parts where in in the earlier packaging for this set (could also be a difference between NA and EU packaging.). still a step in reducing packaging costs and resource usage.
11:52 - I'm going to correct you ... that is not first lego mobile railroad crane ... a very similar crane was in set Lego System 4552 from year 1995 ... it was really great set, still have it stored in my closet ... :)
@@searme Yea, it's really great set, it's part of my 90's train collection - 4552 Crane, 4532 Crossing, 4565 Freight Train and 4553 Train Wash ... I just love train sets from 90s ... there were really great
I feel like this review is missing the main thing: what about the train itself with Powered Up motors? We only see it running barely one full loop at the beginning of this video and it seems to be struggling? Also a test on how long you can run it with one set of batteries? It seemed that some of the bad customer reviews on the online LEGO store were related to that. It's nice the spend time to play with the crane and comment on the forklift's wheels, but the price tag is the train and the Powered Up components... Also the title says 'Parts List' but these are not included as in previous videos.
Sorry about the parts list. As for the performance, all these trains perform exactly the same and I've already tested the 60197's performance thoroughly so I didn't think this would matter.
@@searme Thanks for the reply! I just watched that video, looks like the train does go fast :-D I got the two sets recently, but haven't got the space to build them yet. Doesn't look like the app on the phone is going to let you control 2 or more trains at the same time? At least they come with remotes...
please add a loading bar animation below every comment, so that I know when I have to pause the video if it's going too fast for me to read. it would also clarify the confusion I sometimes have, when the comment stays there but the scenes switch through - when I'd see the loading bar did not reset, I know immediately that the comment didn't change. thanks
There was a dedicated crane set No. 4552. Looked more realistic to my taste but sadly didn't have outriggers. On the whole, modern train sets look too childish.
... hum... I'm not an expert in Lego train, but I'm 100% positive that I already saw a railroad crane set... But I think it was in the very olds ones, the venerable ancestors as some would say...
Oh wow the latest Lego trains are already three years old. Man how the time passes. In my opinion it is a stupid decision to include only one switch. If you decide to use it, you can only build a dead end, which you'll have to stop and reverse the train out of. And if you decide not to use it, you'll have the most boring track possible. I think, in a starter set, which this one is, because at this price you're not gonna buy something else just to have a complete thing, there should always be at least two switches. EDIT: I totally forgot to mention: I guess it's nice we get a buffer stopper though. Has there ever been one in a Lego trains set before? (When I inherited my dad's ancient Lego trains stuff, there were four switches. And a 90° crossing. I could build a figure-eight that was also a figure-zero. And I'm certain they were all from the same set of track pieces, because there was an instruction for that exact layout.)
Because he doesn't want the Lego to get infected... (PS: not a single brick, book or sticker is touched by human hands during packaging, so Corona-safety can't be the reason...)
For such price LEGO could do a little better and add some professional cord instead of string pulled from the pants (no matter if even of the Chairman himself)- kids pay attention on such things and it makes them decide that because of greed of the producer they don't spend they long saved money for such set. The set itself looks also rubbish because of that.
