LEGO Launch & Load Seaport 6542 review! A classic Town set from 1991 

Lego in this era had such a clean, beautiful aesthetic. Primary colors; minimalist detail.

This set is Fantastic....The true golden age of sets

I still remember when I got this as a christmas present from my parents. I actually remember a whole lot from that day; building it with my older brother and then running upstairs to play with it everytime there was a "pause" in the christmas celebraions. Even today I get filled with joy when I see pictures of the set, and now there's a great video of it. Thank you Jang and thank you patreons!

I remember absolutely begging my parents for this set. Never got it though. This was pretty much THE top-of-the-line city set back then, if I remember correctly.

Really cool vintage set... Lego should do again this tipe of sets

Oh my gosh. My childhood! 🤗 Best regards from Poland man 🇵🇱🤟

That's a very satisfying set, it's probably the best of the 'old' harbour sets that you've reviewed before. It's surprising how much i like the cab truck even though it's so basic. 13:13 I bet Jang is really good at Arcade crane games.

For 1991 this is a pure gem! Thank you for such a nostalgic review, I wish there were more of these :)

I got this as a kid and still have it, one of my all time favorite sets!

I have the smaller variant of this set, with the yellow crane and blue boat.

11:12 You're not missing the "1" sticker. There was only "2" and "3" in this set. Pier 1 was in set 6541 - Intercoastal seaport. The sets 6540 (Pier Police), 6541, and 6542 (all from 1991) are meant to be combined. 🙂

Nice lot of lego for $90 in 1991 - Equates to about $175 in today's monetary value.

I always wanted that set

This is exactly the kind of set people point to when talking about how much "better" classic LEGO was compared to the stuff we get today. And this does look like a fantastic and complete play experience. Love it.

This makes my soul happy, I remember getting this set for Christmas one year and spending most of the day building it. Thankyou Jang for showing this. Now, who has a complete copy of this set for sale...

From a set from 1991 I am quite impressed on how tall and big it is

Back when Lego sets used to be complete.

I was saddened to read your community post about haters recently. How can you not love this man? Such a bright light of the AFOL community. Cheers jang 😁

One of my three sons got this set. We still have it with box and instructions. The winch on the front of the ship is not an anchor but used to tie up to the dock’s yellow peices. The pilot boat is for meeting the ship out of the harbor so that the pilot could transfer from the boat to the ship and pilot it to the dock. Thanks for a wonderfully informative review (as always)!

I don't know they could have tried creating a friction system for the forklift prongs rather than the spring/elastic system. I don't know how well it would have worked though,

I had the 2008 cargo ship, it was my first set ever and still one of my favorites. They don’t make em like that no more :(

Fantastic choice, fantastic set, fantastic review. All thanks to Crankybricks, Lego and Jang!

Oh the memories...one of the most great sets of its time

Another set from the good old days🕰

I think my grandma might have this set, she has kept a hold of my mom and her brothers old lego

It's really fun to explore older Lego sets and see how things have progressed over the years, for the best or sometimes for the worst, but this is a very cool set, certainly one of the best of those times, not much could be improved on it, maybe ships that can float? Those would certainly be even better and add to the play value.

Cool sweater Jang.

This set is bonkers!! We need lego to make a set this glorious. But I never saw this retro set before I love it

The details on newer legos are pretty impressive but I think there's something really compelling about the simplicity of a set like this.

The nostalgia is strong with this one!! Thank you very much Jang for the opportunity!!!!

amazing and so complete play set.

I love the sunroofs on the trucks. Its so wholesome and cheery.

My favourite set from childhood. Thanks guys for bringing us this one.

Ah the year i was born! Golden era of sets. Always looked into the booklets of my brother drooling for all these big sets. Amazing set!

Was this not a very first Lego set in the history that sported 1000 pieces?

Love this set! This really was a showcase of just how good the Town theme was in the 80s and early 90s. Stunning with so much value in the form of the sheer playability it had.

JANG’s videos serve as time capsules which help younger viewers to relive the memories of older LEGO sets through the reviews.

Love seeing these old set reviews. Brings back memories. Thanks mate

Very nice set. Gotta love classic LEGO. And yep, the Town stuff was good well into the 90s. It's funny I just noticed this, the modern ships seem out of scale to the old pirate ships. Though I suppose it's possible these were simply smaller cargo ships. :)

My kids would drop all their fancy modern LEGO sets to play with this in an instant.

I remember this set.. as a child i bought this masterpiece during holidays with my parents. I did not realize back then what a good childhood i had.

Underrated aspect of the unusual little hitch mechanism for the tractor-trailer is the fact that it so seamlessly allows for the vertical pivoting to drive up the ramp. Not something you'd be able to do with some of the trailer systems Lego's done over the years. Really like the playsets from this era, reminds me of a town version of the Imperial Trading Post pirates set, has everything you need.

I actually just got my hands on some vintage 1980’s sets (including some classic space stuff for the first time!), so I’m becoming more interested in this era of Lego. Thanks for another great review Jang!

Sick

It's a beautiful set. I had it when I was a kid. It was the most expensive set I've ever had. Thank you for reminding me of many wonderful memories. 8:55 - When you put those pitchforks all the way down and lean them towards the cab, they'll hook up. I remember it worked this way.

As an ex longshoreman (and AFOL), that is a really neat set.

Thank you so so much for reviewing this set. This set was the first big set I ever had and the first set my mum scrimped and saved by herself to buy me after my dad left us. It brings back so many memories of all the hard work she did to buy it and how much I played with it ❤️

I often think a lot of people are blinded by nostalgia for old Lego sets, but this is geuinely so good!

I have the Lego emirates 1973 set from 1989. I love the old Lego sets.

Fantastic!

This is the set I wanted the most when I was young, and never received it. My wife disclosed that she, in fact, had it when she was little. She then told me that the pieces from it were mixed with other toys, such as Playmobil, and the set was never used as the set it was. Depressing. That cut deep! I used to look at the scene including this set in the 1993 Lego Catalogue (a booklet I still own) and would dream about owning it... nearly 30 years on, perhaps I should finaly acquire it and let my wife nowhere near it. Thank you for this review. Absolutely loved it.

I love this set. I did not own it as a child, but I had it's little brother which had a lot of play time and memories. I bought two of these 6542 as an AFOL because I think it's such a great set and I have a goal of building an 80-90s era Lego City some day.

something I like to consider when evaluating a lego set is comparing the playability when compared to more recent sets. this set is way ahead of its time.

This set looks great... and it is awesome, that they included "security"minifig, which we dont get nowaday sets...I love these cargo ships, I always wanted a cargo ship as a kid...great review!

The best era of Lego. I had the blue ship set. Man how much time I spent playing with it...

I saved up all my money from my Christmas birthday and bought this set with my own money when I was 8 or 9 years old. I kept it in a trundle bed drawer under my bed with the International Jetport and the dock police. I found the box in my mom's attic in 2018, and some of the pieces, but not the crane, or the big boat. I have to hope they're in a box my brother took or perhaps somewhere else. I wish I took better care of my Lego after I stopped playing with them in/after high school. Love this set!

@3:30 - this isn't an anchor, but a hook so the container ship can be hooked to the pilot boat for it be guided into the harbour (at least that was my interpretation). I bought this set with birthday/Christmas money I'd saved up when it was on sale in a shop (pretty sure I was 10 or older, so it was at least a couple of years old by then). I've still got it, including the box, and still love it. I recall how enjoyable it was that every element functioned in a process (the pilot boat guides the ship, the crane lifts the cargo off the ship and onto the lorry, the forklift can remove the containers off the lorry). I also really liked the simplicity of the worker's torso print with the simple black anchor print on white, combined with black legs and red hard hat. The aspect I never really liked was the number of stickers used (the ones on the white container panels are now ringed with trapped dust 🤢), and those that stuck over multiple bricks have long since been peeled off and disposed of. This video has been absolutely delightful to watch - a fantastic set, one of my favourites.

This would be a set where I could see the new road pieces being very useful, used as some kind of dock

I always wanted this set when I was growing up. It was always the set I wanted the most

Great review. I like the pier made of baseplates. It ties the whole set together rather than having the individual elements floating around on their own. Thanks.

This is honestly one of the greatest sets I have ever seen

I loved this set back in the days and still have it (as well as the other harbor sets from the time). It was nice how you could connect the yellow crane set, the harbor police and the yard harbor to it and have the one entry point from this set for them all.

Thank you Jang for the great review, and to the mysterious benefactor who shared their opportunity to pick the set. This set is just peak Lego to me, with such great play features, and I've got many happy memories of playing with it with my brother ❤️. It's now in my own Lego city as an AFOL!

I wasn't born yet in 1991 and therefore have no nostalgia for this set- but I can definitely see and *feel* the appeal behind it and can understand why there is so much love for 'old Lego'. And I agree that the price for it is pretty much perfect.

I remember Drooling over this set as a kid, The container Crane is STILL top notch.

oh need to get home to check if this is not one of the harbor set I had as child

man I loved the ports sets they brought out that year, the Police Pier was so good and the smuggling speed boat. I wish I had more but alas, at least you could enjoy the catalogue with their wonderful scene dioramas.

The Playability of this set is huge 😍

This has got to be one of the absolutely coolest lego sets from the '90s. I would have loved this as a kid.

What an epic set! Too bad the nowadays equivalent would be $350+ lol

One of the few sets that I have to this day from my childhood...

10 / 10. excellent video, amazing set that even for todays standard is good. That boat looks so good.

This was my absolute favorite set as a kid.

The first set with over a thousand pieces, if I remember correctly. Just a beautifully executed playset with more than everything you need. Could almost imagine it as the first UCS set!

This brings back lots of memories...of staring longingly at the pictures in the catalogues for hours, knowing that my parents could and would never afford to present me with a set like this. I was six years old at the time and sets like these were just to beautiful and desirable to be true! So yes, for me also: The first golden age of LEGO! Thank you for bringing us these occasional "gold nuggets from the past"!!

big set

So great that after all these years have you review this! So much appreciate your reviews of classic sets, and of course the supporters that enable it. Very interesting those roadplates, also used for the classic train station from the same era, would be nice to see you examine them in another video.

Please review more of these old sets they bring so much joy 😃

This was one of those sets I really wanted as a kid.

I used to fantasize owning this a s a kid. The catalogue it was in was my favorite.

See this Lego? This is how you create a good set/ Not that oversized hulls(that EATS set cost) and no cargo space. I wish they brought back that longe inversed tile. Its amazingly well designed piece that has MANY uses!

One of my dream sets when I was young (in the end I chose 6081 - King's Mountain Fortress, which is absolutely adored as well).

I used to look at and dream of these port sets in the 1991 catalog when I was young, knowing they're too expensive too ever call them my own. I got this one as a birthday present one+ year ago from a friend and it is as good as I always imagined it to be! Need to get 6541, 6543 and 6338...

One of the coolest town sets ever!

Those red blow-horns (like on the pilot boat) are so old school that when I got 4 of them with the Ninjago City Gardens I had to take a moment to sit in my nostalgia, lol!

Fantastic set Jang, when I saw the thumbnail I thought it was gonna be a 2021 set...Impressive!

I had entered into my dark ages of Lego the year prior. I saw this set later in 92-93 and was like: Aw man, that's awesome. Still is an awesome set to this day.

This is one of those " Lego just does not make a set like this anymore" set. While made of simple pieces it has a lot of functions and thought into it compared to modern Lego sets. 1) it is a complete port set that mimics a real working harbor operations. There is sufficient minifigures to fulfill each of the roles, something rare with lego sets these days. 2) the pilot boat is small because in a real port the large container ships need a local pilot to enter and navigate a port. The local pilot gets onto the visiting ship via a small boat as the ship apporoaches the port. 3) the 4x8 stud containers are standard size containers which can be loaded onto the Lego train sets and cargo sets from the Classic town era. This mimics the standard 20ft container used in the real world. 4) the trailer has a suspension so that when the trailer is slightly lifted on the stand all of the wheels of the trailer are touching the ground. 5) the 'anchor' on the ship is actually a hook for the ship to hook onto the bars at the dock. 6) the dock have bumpers to prevent the ship from knocking into the dock 7) the way to load and unload the containers in this set is similar to how real container ships are loaded and unloaded. I got this set when a used set appeared in singapore one day on bricklink. This was before the lego movie so classic lego sets were easy to come by. Even when i saw it as a kid back in the early 90s i already knew just how realistic this set was. Lego should really rereleased this classic again!

Old Lego builds are so comfy

Thanks Jang. This set needs one container filled with lego studs and micro figs. This will represent the one that goes overboard in the storm and the lego washes up on shore.🤠

This was my favorite set as a kid, saved up for a while to buy it. Still have it, missing a few pieces but probably 90% complete.

WOO WHOOO!! classic set reviews! These are why I started watching your channel. So much nostalgia.

I remember when this set came out. I had a fair size Lego collection and really wanted to add it. $90.00 was alot to my parents in the early 90's. That year for Christmas I got the Harbor Police set. This set and the Airport Monorail where on my wish list!!! Fast forward 18 years and I was able to find a incomplete set on eBay. I have slowly been piecing it back together, almost have it done!!!!!

It's pretty funny how the wheels that used to be used for large vehicles are for small vehicles now

There is so much stuff going on in this set. Kinda wish Lego would return to this scale so we still got sets like this.

This was one of the sets I always wanted as a kid! I never got the chance to get it, as it was way before my time. But I remember seeing it in my older brothers old Lego catalogue.

A friend of mine had this when we were kids. Really cool set!

Oh man, I always wanted this set as a youngster.

This was a lot of fun to watch! This was one of the first big sets my parents got me as a kid, and I always wanted to figure out some way to run train track under the crane as part of a bigger train loop. Maybe it's time to get this set out of storage and give it another shot!

This is a lovely little set! I always loved the shipping sets and my favorite videos on your channel are the updates to the dock area.