floats your boat It's a singularly useless feature, unless you get bored in the bath, but woe betide anyone who tries to re-enact Titanic adventures with the stickers applied. A steering wheel for the helm and a radar display are Gerald's only controls; at least he has somewhere to put his walkie-talkie. I imagine it will keep six-year-olds amused, but they'll be screaming for parental assistance when it comes to threading the winch cable and fishing line.

It's length is 38 studs from the rear of the tapered bow section, exactly the same as that of the 7287 Police Launch, which I suspect uses the same upper dark bley deck piece. Brickset, the Brickset logo and all content not covered by The LEGO Group's copyright is, unless otherwise stated, ©1997-2024 Brickset ltd. The twin cargo holds are each covered with a bley grille plate attached to two 1x8 plates with door rail; these allow a little movement, as you can see from the forward hold. This is reflected in the build process, which is a little tedious; most of the parts are large blocks which don't require much brain-power to assemble, and as I've already commented the build crawls along. Use the crane to unload the grain from the cargo ship, then drop it onto the conveyor belt and move it into the awaiting truck.With that out of the way, I can congratulate you on a fantastic review - of a set that remains to be judged in a sensible way! It's average at best to me, with no particular element that interests me so it's an easy pass for me. I imagine it will be a while before the transition is made to doing this in all sets (if that happens at all).

But this requires the jib to move into upright position, and doesn't allow that much room for big adult fingers to place Clive inside. Note the small but nicely striped funnel; what purpose it serves I don't know - this ship has neither engine nor propeller. The cab itself is a little bare - not even a gearstick breaks the monontony; there's also no handy place for Terry to put his mug. The tan rounds apparently represent grain; I'm happy to believe instead that they are much needed bricks for CITY construction projects.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. But people were able to build Lego sets for decades using instruction manuals with less luxuries than modern day ones.

Yes, it was a Technic build and thus arguably more advanced than a City set, but these were kids well within the Technic age range. Bags 2 and 3 contain the most pieces, and come together to form the rather colourful harbourside structures.You can change your choices at any time by visiting Cookie preferences, as described in the Cookie notice.

The house sections have a lift-of-technology) Outside you can see the stalls with fish, packages and barrels and a lot more. The ship is great because it has a big hull, it's blue (blue is my favourite colour), it fits as many cargo boxes as you want, it floats, and is very detailed. Like you imagined, the ship floats and has underneath the hull the spot to attach an electric motor (not included in the set).Here, a few bricks and a mast are the only decoration, but there's a nice perspective view up to the bridge. Some of this room is under the brown plate at the front, unfortunately rendering a few errant bricks out of reach of the grab bucket. This picture also highlights another complaint about this set - the unsightly gap between the baseplates, which brings me to. I own the Intercoastal Seaport (this is my favorite piece for creating harbour docks) and the 2007 Harbour and the comparison is really inevitable. Like the one you have pictured, they have often been bent when I open a set but almost never creased, and once applied they don't make any real difference.