Seaside Harbor Review  

Although the ship looks small with it, LEGO City has been using 10x6 shipping containers since 2007 (for Harbour, trains, trucks etc) so makes sense for compatibility

That little beach area seems so unnecessary, yet it's such a good addition! It almost feels like the designers finished the set but still had some budget left over and added that part in. Kudos for that!

The 6x10 cargo containers seem to be the LEGO city standardized size for newer set. The containers on the Freight Train (60336) are the exact same size. This allows the pallets inside them to be compatible with various forklifts in recent LEGO city sets such as the Grocery Store (60347) & Yellow Delivery Truck (60440). I don’t have it, but I believe the Cargo Train set from 2018 has both containers & a fork lift that again fit the same dimensions. I like that there is the same standardization across multiple sets, it adds playability and is a much more subtle cross reference across sets than when they put a sticker that mentionions 1 set in a different set (like the banners in this set).

I think combining 2 of this sets could give some awesome harbor

You may be frustrated with the size of the 6x10 shipping containers in this set, but those are the standard size LEGO has been using for a long time. The 6x10 size is necessary to handle the 4x6 pallets that LEGO has standardized in other sets. Take a look at the most recent Cargo Train set, which uses the same size containers.

I had the red cargo ship too.... it was awesome, especially the yellow grabber for the containers. As for the new one...... they could have split it into two sets... An industrial cargo port, complete with a truck of some sort. And the a marina/fishing harbour, with a little fishing boat.

Very nice set. it's great how it combines the casual life of a city with the industrial part. The colors are good, the ship looks good, and the minifigures are good.

The 6X10 containers were on City Harbour Set 7994 from 2007 (which had a much bigger boat and longer quayside) and the 2018 Cargo Train (Set 60198). So, what seems to be the standard container size for some years. I guess it isn't about big containers, but the boat being to small, although obviously bigger boat means bigger harbour, but it's all down to cost and the fact that this set also has such great other features makes it fantastic w.r.t. playability. Thanks for the great preview of this set.

4:12 I don't mean to alarm you Alex - but you said "space" a couple times without doing a Shatner impression. Hope you're feeling okay. Also now i want a load and launch seaport. That set looks amazing!

Having bought the previous container port, 7994, back in 2007, I especially love that the shipping boat is more brick built, it gives an impression highlighting the best of what the World City line offered. I could see myself doing small adjustments to make this boat more akin to what floats up and down the Miami River for my personal layout. It is interesting seeing them mix in the restaurant and beach scene, not sure the minifigs would want to swim in the same water that the less polished container boats use...... :))

Thank you for sharing your review 🎉

I never had the old set but I love that loading/unloading mechanism on it. Those were my favorite types of features on my childhood sets.

I think Lego is doing a good job. With these new sets. They are colourfull. Almost a must these days to pop out. More details then in the past. But really nice special playabillity details are missing

Ohh snap didn't realise this set came out in June, was caught up with other sets and forgot about it. Definitely looking forward to eventually getting it 😊

The old one looks a lot better in almost every way.

I feel the harbour and beach should have been two seperate sets with more about them, ie a truck and a bigger beach, which could then be put together.

Love the ship and the harbour, the crane is OK, not bad but also not great. I think LEGO have upped their City game this year.

Thank you for this review. I am not sure if I will keep the restaurant and the beach in my harbor area, but I will find another place to keep it in the area. I really like the brick built ship and the crane we get in this set. Hope to add it to my collection soon as I live in Norway so it has beeen released here.

I would have much preferred this set separated into a light commercial harbour and a New England or jersey shore style boardwalk

Good price. I just hate the curved bend of the set. Makes it much harder to expand and integrate into a city. Those old harbor plates they used in the 90s sets were perfect and easy to expand on. Very glad I have the launch and load seaport. Still need to get the marina and intercostal seaport.

I’d love to see a Lego city cruise ship

I think that with some small modifications this set could be much better. For me that would be: -enlarging the pier for the fisherman -making the chain run all along the harbour front, without open spaces -remove the view point Thanks for the review. I will probably get this, but make these modifications.

I think it is a really cool set and a nice value too. I need it

Gotta say, I think the old boat and crane has more soul.

I think you should maybe keep it for a while, maybe you’ll want to change up your harbor area someday, and that boat would match pretty well with your older ones

Your harbor and industrial area looks great I've watched different RU-vid cities that don't look that good

I love this set

I like the set and will be on the look out for it. the ligt orange building looks promising. Maybe you could keep it a bit longer and I might be able to change your mind on whether to keep it or not 😄

I got the intercourse seaport ca. a month ago, still looking for a decent deal for the launch load seaport. The new City one looks really good and there is a high change that I will get it.

This set reminds both on 6542 Launch & Load Seaport and 6543 Sail N' Fly Marina. Putting both of these in one set of that size doesn't work out well, imo, though. It just feels incomplete and a lot less detailed than the classic sets. I'm usually not nostalgic but like how new sets have more detail by having more pieces and colors available. Making something that can't match 90s sets in detail and complexity nowadays, feels a bit weird to me. Although I'm very happy to finally see a harbor set, once again, I'll probably pass on that one for this reason. I'm happy, I still have all the 90s harbor sets around. :-)

Got this set last week, was even 30€ off!

I feel sad that it's not going to the city in the basement. This would look awesome there.

of course your childhood was better, thats the nostalgia getting a hold of you :) but its all good, taste cannot be discussed, I think the new set is nicer to be honest. peace out!

110$ for all that is extremely fair alongside 100$ for the new yellow truck

I think the new one is better than the old one

Awesome set IMO the store and beach area should have been a separate set The older port sets were better Should be cheaper

This set can be good or bad. Yes, someone says it in here it's really odd to have beach and small pier in same set (think about the pollution for the cargo ship!). I think that's bad. The good if you miss the set of 7994 (in 2007), 6541 (in 1991) and 6542 (in 1992), this is a new good harbour to put it in the city. The price is reasonable (compare to Lego truck). So I would say it's going in right direction (yes, the cargo is too big.. but it's truth all the cargos has been too big since early 2000s). If you don't any harbour sets. I would suggest you should buy it if that's discount. But like me, if I own at least 1 of the harbour sets. I would skip this set. (it's because the harbour set is quiet big! I am not talking about bulky for this set, this one is in right scale!) 😁

I can picture it near Ninjago City and City docks

Yay harbor

Красный погрузчик из набора товарного поезда 2022 года будет хорошим дополнением к этому портовому крану. Правда, погрузчику очень не хватает рулевой задней оси, для хорошей маневрености. Привет из Украины ❤

Does the cargo ship and the jet skis float?

I'll wait, maybe they'll do a better job next time...

The crane is weak in terms of functionality, both the controls as where it is actually unloading. No truck can easily fit near or under it. You'd expect the entire crane to stick out to the rear and perhaps have a road plate with unload/load area. But it does not. As quick as they introduced the road plates as quick they are to simply abandon them. This would be THE set to have them. And obviously a truck. But then they had to drop the restaurant or bump the price. The restaurant is nothing really. A sign and some seats. No kitchen no nothing. And then the ice-cream shop underneath is redundant. We have so many trucks and ice-cream shops already. Heck we had one last year! And we also got a beach site 2 years ago. It seems they squeezed a lot in this set but without dedicating 1 way or the other. And this is actually the flagship set for this wave. I'm not impressed with this set. Even though it has display value.

Eh, meh, without trucks and cooler cargo that's about all the enthusiasm I can muster

compare this set to the harbor from 2007 its just embarrassing

That restaurant is 5 studs deep, plus it has no back, at best its maybe a quarter of a building. It looks pathetic and ridiculous, Lego couldnt have given us at least half a building for over a hundred bucks? Every fibre of my being despises this open backed half a building horror show. The number of times Lego has fooled me into getting excited over a set only to be devastated once I see its only half a building. At least there was zero chance of fooling anyone this time with this barely 15% of a building...the boat n crane look cool though.