My eyes absolutely *bulged* when you pulled the bumpers off of these. When 60406 and 60415 both didn't have them earlier this year, I was positive they'd abandoned the system.
It’s awesome seeing non-Speed Champions LEGO cars step up their game, the 3 cars here definitely look better than something that would’ve released a few years ago in City
This set and the new Jurassic World sets show that Lego has figured out how to make 6-peg wide vehicles that can still sit two minifigures side by side, which is great
I really love that Lego is putting openable engine bays into more and more vehicles. I really hope they continue this trend. It really adds to the play value.
For sure, this set is meant to be a continuity for the previous set 60389 Custom Car Garage, that's why there is space for two more cars at the bottom of the trailer and the possibility to change fronts and rears of all vehicles.
I think it's a good call with those three car inspirations. Obviously not replicas for legal reasons but as close as they could get and have plausible deniability. Good review, if I see this on sale I might be tempted.
Crazy it's about the price of the harbour set. The difference is the harbour makes things a bit smaller to fit it all in, while this goes huge to fill the budget. I could imagine a car transporter with a slightly smaller trailer and only 2 cars for £60, while as-is it's just unnecessarily big and expensive.
Sooo good to see this bumper switch feature continue, and this truck and trailer looks amazing. I dont usually go for City stuff because it often feels like too much stuffed into a budget so things need to be cut back, but this set flourishes under its $100 price point. Thats a lot of cash, but it looks very worth it to me
That lorry to me looks amazing! Definitely my favourite looking Lego city lorry they've made without even taking into consideration the fact that the cab can go forward to work on the engine! To me it looks like some type of Scania very cool :)
11:53 Just a note, in the UK, you can pick this up for £79.99 in Smyths Toys which makes it even better value for money. It's what I did, and I'm happy with what I got for that money.
I really like the size of the set. It'd feel wierd if it could only carry 3 cars (or even just 2, since some people think it should've been that small). 5 cars is the perfect amount to not feel too rediculous for a lego set, nor too empty with only the cars in the set, while still feeling like a realistic capacity.
That is wickedly cool, the kid in me loves it, the adult in me is trying to stop me from running out and buying it since I've spent too much on Lego this month.
So, as a concept, the swappable bumpers is a great idea. But in practice the color mismatch just makes me only want to keep the bumpers on the intended cars. Maybe it’s more fun for young kids.
Maybe kids care more about that kinda stuff nowadays, but when I was a kid everything I built looked like an explosion in a crayon factory. Nevertheless, even if the kids do care about the colours, the system incentivizes them to build their own custom bumpers since you just need some clip pieces to attach them.
I'm not a city buyer, but this is something I'd seriously consider for my modular city. I'm glad LEGO has brought a decent amount of detail into these sets so that they appeal to both younger and older fans.
much improved over the previous white version but I enjoy the compact size of the 2014 yellow version and 1995 Indy transport more. imo the scale of LEGO city sets is way too big for the target age range
Just commenting to let you know I agree with your breakdown of what the lego cars were inspired by. The first one especially. I was thinking it even before you said it. 😂 The rest of them were a bang on match as soon as you've shown the pictures. I also wanna say I think it's cool that all of these lego cars were designed to represent cool cars and not just featureless "filler" for the trailer. I really appreciate the extra effort that's gone into the cargo 😅
I picked this up reduced to £60, and that price point feels more comfortable. If you priced the cars at £9 if sold as separate builds, £30ish for the truck feels about right though I feel they should have still included *something* to make it a more comfortable purchase at £90 rrp. Maybe an additional car, or a sidebuild of a petrol/gas pump or even an extra fig to fit in the cab as it seats two.
Designer from speed champions team now switched to city and his influence is visible. I like trailer shape, its perfect. But maybe you are right that its too much for kids, seems a bit more model for AFOL
I am so tempted by this set, but don’t have the space or spare cash to drop $100 on a car transporter. Maybe I could justify it as a project to recolor to Ultra Magnus.
Yes! This is the set I was looking forward to the most in the August Wave! I do believe this is the first full-sized car carrier we've gotten in City! I remember some in Technic or Creator or both, but not City. Also, very cool that the cars have the removable front and back ends and also engines seen in previous sets. Good call on what the cars are inspired by. The slammed Merc was definitely a factor in my buying the set. And turns out its driver minifigure looks like me! :D Also, I didn't realize the 'Cuda was purple until I opened the bag. I thought it was dark blue. So, all around, I'm very pleased with this set.
I hope TLG gets the Mazda license one day soon for Speed Champions. Never saw any of the F&F movies, but now I need to look that car up as I'm a big Mazda/rotary engine fan! This set was not on my radar, but it is now. Well designed and I definitely see Mopar in the purple and that old custom Marc! Wow! This is a slick set!
When I first saw this set, I thought it was terribly overpriced. $100 for 3 small cars, 4 minifigs and a semi with a trailer? Now I see that the builds are beautiful and intricate and it has a great play value. Still, $80 feels like a justified and psychologically comfortable price.
I also get the price point, and that $80 feels more appropriate. At this price point I'd rather get the lego semi truck set at costco. The bonus cars are a worthy addition but not enough to make me feel comfortable at this price
In Poland it was already available for ~77$ after tax and it normally available for ~82$. I would expect that it will hit 65-70 bucks at some point. It is a great set!
This one looks a lot nicer and a lot more detailed than the last one; but then that's no surprise and should be expected when it's around three times the price of the last one! And that's really my issue with this set, that we had a Car Transporter from the City theme only three years ago, set 60305 which only had one car and was generally a smaller set as it could only hold three cars. But it was substantially cheaper at $30/£25 at the time which was great value for a City set at the time when almost every City set was overpriced. It wasn't flawless though as it was very bland set in design and colour scheme. I agree, knocking 25% to 30% off for this would be more acceptable; it's just too much when positioned next to the Lego Yellow Delivery Truck and Mobile Crane which offer more value for the same price or not much more.
Great review! I don't like the chassis pieces, which make so much of the bottom of the car. I wish the whole structure could be brick-built. Even more so with Speed Champions. But this set looks excellent to me. Great to see the extra hairpiece, and the colors are all great. Yay purple!
I like the set and have bought one myself. The thing i like most is that LEGO apparently finally made a standard for the fifth wheel. I have all 3 trucks for this year and they all can swap trailers - something LEGO havent done ever before (each truck had its own coupling that wasnt compatible with any other trucks), and i hope they continue to make semi trucks with this as standard. I wonder where they got inspiration from for the truck though - i get Renault vibes when i look at it.
I would adquire this set the moment it comes to my country if it wasn't for the fact I already have set number 60305. Smaller than this one, one car only, more or less same system to upload cars in the upper level. The rig on this one is superior, though, and the 3 cars are just lovely, but yeah, it feels a little redundant to have 2 similar sets, even if this one is objectively better... If it goes to a huge discount, I will think if I buy it.
The purple vehicle reminded me a lot of Brick Daddy's vehicle from Space Police III! I don'r think its meant to be a nod or anything but its cool eithrr way haha
for some reason I've completely ignored these 3 absolutely fantastic cars until now. They were just set dressing for this truck I feel meh about, but they're at least 40% of the value here.
This set kinda makes me want a licenced truck (lika Volvo or Scania) with a car transporter trailer in speed champions scale. Although, I bet that would be a pretty expensive set 😅
I don't like six stud wide vehicles. I get that they work with all the Lego City sets better. I get that they are probably more cost effective for a kid's toy. But, the Speed Champion proportions are what I feel are true mini fig scale vehicles. If the toy has to represent what a car should look like , then you have to at least have a space for a driver and a passenger. As always, great video though.
The truck by itself could be a Speed Champions set, maybe a Scania or a Renault ! No need for the cars, to me they are clearly for young kids to play...
Easily the best car transporter they ever made, but the, price, oh, the price! Even though this has a lot of pieces, ceompare price an piece count to other LEGO sets with equal (or close to) these numbers...
When I started looking at those Lego sports cars, I was drooling over them (even if the rear wheels are wrong). And the interchangeable parts are genius!
That truck looks great, and the fact that it can lift up to reveal some engine detailing is real nice. I made a truck MOC of my own at the same 6-wide scale that can do the same, but its not done anywhere near as elegantly as this lol. Wasn't expecting the trailer mechanism to work so simply, that's pretty nice. The cars look quite good, the slammed one especially, and I'm very glad to see they've kept the interchangeability around, hopefully they'll keep it around even past this set too. All in all this looks like a really great set. Thanks for the equally great review as always JANG :)
I really want this but I’ve got such a small city that I don’t know if it’s needed, not to mention I have the 2022 cargo train which has the similar car carrier
Ive not bought a city set in years and more about speed champions, technic and icons cars but was genuinely interested in this one. £90 though is very steep though.
