LEGO City Harbor with container ship fan review! Good builds & value, but incomplete | 60422

[@craigtheng]

This set is really begging to be doubled: buy 2 and make the dock have 2 cranes; nearly double the length of the ship so it can hold 4 containers; make the building 12 studs deep with removable levels; have a longer boardwalk; and have a wider beach area.

[@Karemaker]

I feel like you being unsponsored gives you the freedom to give your real, true opinion, and that's what makes your reviews the most fan friendly! And I always appreciate your integrity.

[@stefansauvageonwhat-a-twis1369]

My goodness im starting to imagine Jang reviews that never happened lol

[@deadmagikarp]

no cuz i thought he reviewed this one already too. you're not alone!

[@lukasfire7fly789]

@@deadmagikarpAgreed!

[@JoeyPeligro69]

Me too! Guess his first look video was just so in depth

[@kevinm5940]

​@@deadmagikarp didn't he review a similar set from the 90s?

[@cooldude8547]

@@stefansauvageonwhat-a-twis1369 deJang vu

[@dustybricks113]

This is the first City set at 100$ that I want on day one and am willing and happy to pay full price. Maybe it's nostalgia for a harbor set I had as a kid... I think it's a good set. Thanks for the great review as always. 😊

[@kentslocum]

6:08 The cluster of buildings shown directly to the left of the crane on that stickered map has already been released: it's 60417 Police Speedboat and Crooks' Hideout. The shapes match perfectly, and the Crooks' Hideout even has the Technic pin-holes on its side for connectivity to this Harbor set. Plus, it works well with the Harbor becauso the Crooks' Hideout is disguised to look like shipping containers! 😊

[@RoscoeWasHere]

I love this being a callback to 6542: Launch & Load Seaport.

[@holgerdornseiff3202]

Nice playset. I´m sure kids will figure out their own fantasy ways of using it, as it gives enough room for harbour adventures. Wonderfully detailed review as always. Thumbs up for all your charity work!

[@jakedaonlysnake]

I feel like this review captured some of the "classic" feel of Jang's older reviews that got me hooked on his channel. Cant quite put my finger on what it is, but I know it when I see it.

[@TheFeatheredGod]

To address your concerns at 13:15, the best set to complete the play patterns is the 2017 Cargo Terminal (60169). The trailer beds are compatible with these shipping containers, and the crane truck is exactly what you need to move shipping containers from the Harbor's crane to a truck or train. Perhaps one of the implied sets on the dock map is something similar to 60169?

[@ven950]

Wow! Im totally gobsmacked by this set! The theming, aesthetic, builds are all on point! And not insanely bank breaking! Awesome!!!

[@furkanaydogmus96]

I can listen to these reviews forever. :) So calm to listen and fun to watch. Thanks, Jang. :") 🎉

[@warrennewman5325]

Looks amazing fun city harbour set awesome review congratulations jang on reaching 27k on charity 👏👍

[@PuuberZ]

Looks like a really fun play set. The small blue boat is a throwback to set 6508. A set I still have from when I was a kid.

[@cooldude8547]

The crooks hideout that realeased earlier this year is meant to connect to this set it has the connection points built in

[@JANGsLEGOreviews]

Oh. Weak.

[@grootsChannel]

@@JANGsLEGOreviews why is that weak?

[@JANGsLEGOreviews]

Because of what I said in the video. This set needs an expansion that adds to the cargo play.

[@grootsChannel]

@@JANGsLEGOreviews Fair enough

[@firionrazar3797]

The set that goes well is 60169. The containers can be put in the border slot by crane, picked up by the telehandler and loaded onto truck and trailer. Now I didn't like this set because it seems to be missing pieces. The ships bridge seems unfinished with this open design (since you got access from the top) maybe a little crane on the ship would have been nice, or a bigger ship with 3-4 containers would made more sense without a crane to be a pure container ship. The small cargo storage at the front of the ship is designed for the crate with the 3 fishes. It's not mentioned in the instructions but it's the only place it fits within. Yes, a truck at this price would have been nice. Since I'm saying the set is missing parts: The tavern should be inverted. The small piece that angles the tavern towards the bay should be inverted so the tavern would face the other way, making more room in and on the set. The only part missing would be another chain for the pier area. The tavern roof could have been completed in putting a 2x10 plate instead of the 2x1 piece. Small things that add up.

[@Lolcatterie]

I love the 90s equivalent of this set. Those “platform” docks were a lot bigger but I appreciate the brick built details on this.

[@JamesBrophy]

I love how your full opinion critical points and all can end up winning me over. The way this is an intersection between multiple spaces, the sea, transport trucks or trains, the town and the beach make it feel like a great starting point for a city that you can rebuild and add to and spread out in multiple directions. Your right that it's a shame the crane is so manual and single use without an implied area to load to a truck that drives under but perhaps that jet sky o ly needed to be delivered as far as the rental place. :)

[@WizardOfOss]

Excellent review! At first glance I expected lots of praise for this set: it looks great, and by today's standards it seems pretty great value. Just by the looks of it, I wouldn't have been surprised if this had been a €150 set. But it's not all sunshine, and I think you bring some excellent points about the playability. Seems like this set tried to be a jack of all (or at least several) trades, but a master of none. They really should turn this into a harbour subtheme, with more sets to expand on this.

[@bertbergers9171]

I love your reviews for things like you pointing out the hint at an expanded harbor on the mapsticker. Thanks for sharing!

[@guleri]

I hope Lego will release more harbor sets that can fit with this. Would love to see a little transport hub with a forklift and a truck to carry the containers to the customers.

[@Mario6732]

As someone who does not like modern lego this seems like a Surprisingly solid set that value wise seems pretty alright too. I do find as things are right now things seem a little cramped. I wonder if it would have been better to have the recreation area as a separate set.

[@coraldiamond1922]

I agree, should have been split into 2 sets and more budget given to the whole unloading process. Maybe they could have thrown in a truck like Jang suggested.

[@xinlu2806]

This is nice and I like the modularity. I think I would habe preferred it split into 2 sets though: One with the ship and the crane (and maybe some additional cargo stuff) and one with the more leisurely stuff.

[@aslamc9288]

Ha, I said basically the same thing! I agree completely, I’m much more interested in the building, dock, and pedestrian area than the crane and boat.

[@林佑-z9h]

Yeah, one set dedicated to cargo and another for beach and tourist

[@zarda1484]

I'm so glad LEGO are going back to making good city stuff. This set has its clear shortcomings but those sacrifices make sense to bring so much for the price (for lego anyway). The set begs to be finished off but doesn't force you to pay a huge price to play and encourages your creativity.

[@MrHangman56]

i like the hands on offloading with this. it's nice when things work by just pressing one button or turning one gear to unlatch, but as a play feature, having to do it yourself makes it much better imo.

[@1pfuller]

Happy to be able to donate Jang. Love the work you do!

[@istvannagy2681]

Great review as always!☺️ The building on the map that you mentioned you hope is a good industrial one is indeed already out, is the Police speedboat and Crook's hideout 60417. I have the set and as I was looking at it above just clicked and realised that what's on the map next to this.☺️ They look nice together, but yeah unfortunately it doesn't gives more help to unload the cargo. I was thinking of having a road plate in the back and use a forklift for the containers.

[@Youandfourothers]

They should have a little street that goes along and a flatbed truck to haul the containers and a forklift which would be sick

[@bricktoadbuild]

Thank you for the review. Very interesting build and set.

[@Bas1cbuilds]

The cargo truck included in the cargo terminal set has areas to hold Lego crates

[@radical_dog]

Such a nice total package, this is already on sale in high street shops at about half the price of the equivalent sized licensed set, £75. Pretty but also very efficient use of parts to make 1200 bricks go a long way. Well done Lego. Maybe it helps that I grew up near small boat cranes and such, so this feels very familiar.

[@charchar635]

I can't be the only one who's gonna get out my brick arms and set this up like the gta v harbor heist right

[@NuclearXpotato1100]

One of the expansion sets is actually already released! The Crook's Hideout set from January's wave is the structure to the west (according to the map) and even includes container crates of the same colours. To the north there's a Park (also hinted at in the Sightseeing bus) and there's an unreleased Cargo truck set seen on the Burger Truck's box art which would thematically make sense.

[@legoman716]

Good to see a harbour for Lego city again. More of this stuff with an own subtheme to expand it

[@josephharrison5639]

I think that cargo truck from a few years back with the container loader would go great with this

[@stuchly1]

Me clicking super fast because I thought it's a look at your custom harbor 🙈🤣

[@jamesmorgan3623]

The value on this seems really good. In the UK it's already discounted by about 25%.

[@kerryj5182]

I'm managed to get it off Amazon on prime day for £71. Which I thought was a great price

[@ethanbird5399]

If they are doing more sea stuff I would love to see coast guard sets come back

[@pbsraptor]

Great review and good work with the charity streams. Hope you’re resting up soon. Such little sleep is bad for the brain!

[@jeddiewan3286]

Great review! This set looks great too!

[@jimm244]

This is a great play set. Ida loved this as a kid! I would have wanted the crane to shift cargo off the dock to a truck though.

[@francoisregis2155]

Looks like a nice set that could be add to a city layout with lots of changes like train tracks more containers the sky is the limit. Thanks for the review. Its an interesting set to modify (especially the harbor) the rest is ok

[@DavidCase-s5h]

I prefer a different kind of oil on my crab!

[@DavidConant]

This feels like a solid set waiting for an expansion.

[@ColeAnderson-g9z]

I like that crab sign, would love to see those on PAB

[@DanBowles]

Having just re-built the big freight ship from my beloved Launch n Load seaport, I may adopt some of the build techniques here to make the build a bit more modern. Great review as always Jang!

[@jimblojo]

it would be cool to see lego do a loading dock or some sort of warehouse that could be connected

[@cowerdnerddespacito9518]

I’ve been waiting for this review! I’m glad the leak was correct on this one!

[@beatrixwickson8477]

Wow, I kinda overlooked this but it's really great. Appreciate the review, Jang.

[@rc-fannl7364]

It feels unfinished. You'd expect a truck to handle the containers instead of the big ship constantly shipping recreational boats. This set tries to be too much and fail at almost all goals it was hoping to achieve

[@dlaucher]

The boy’s t shirt reminds me of the classic tank top design from the 90s

[@ColeTheBug]

I actually kinda wanna get this. put it next to my favorite shrimp shack. Make the little touristy seafood harbor of my dreams

[@charchar635]

I don't know why but just looking at this set makes me smile every time Maybe cos nostalgia for the old harbor in the 2000s idk but I love it

[@charchar635]

Also this seems way smaller but way better it's so much more dense with so much detail The bit I love most is the stairway in the front cos the original had similar but it was basically a plate covering a moulded hole

[@jrthe3rd821]

was waiting for this one, cant wait to build this when it comes in!

[@lbricks7631]

I feel like this should have been 2 sets. Ship and Wharf as one, and then seaside cafe as another.

[@mrgizmo182]

Normally I agree with you but I think kids like my 7 year old son wouldn’t care too much about the missing play features. He would use his imagination to fill in the blanks. I love all of the little details in this set.

[@Justakidthatrantsisapimp]

I love this set so much because it reminds me of the 2014 Cargo train (which I got after seeing your review at the time :) and I feel I need to get this as a companion piece.

[@chutas]

Wow, that orange minifigure look very much like Max, from the Lego Club thing!

[@nutherefurlong]

Was revisiting your old Ideas book video a few days ago, good timing :)

[@undead.rising]

This reminds me a lot of set 7823 from 1986 that I have, however it takes containers from a train section instead of a ship, but actually goes over a road, so the derrick (although not on wheels) can offload the cargo straight onto a truck. It has A LOT OF CLEARANCE and even has a person operating it. Until I looked up this set that I own on Brickset just now - I had no idea that it was that old - I thought it was about 1992 or 1993. This is how this new crane should have been. It goes side-to-side on a guided rail. I love everything else about this new set otherwise.

[@Anfernyrocks]

The color scheme of the ship reminds me of the Buster Gundam! Great set and review as always

[@nicklockk]

"I can't wait to see how there gonna expand this set!" The cope is real. And not in the mean meme way, I very much know this feeling! I too often wanted to believe brands and big companies are just teasing us with a bad product for the next product. But we all know in out hearts that that's not whats gonna happen 😔

[@frstrspndr1478]

Well, they're due for a new set of trains. So there is possibility

[@vincentwiddershoven2122]

Ave Jang. Thank you for this honest revieuw. Somehow this set looks Dutch to me 😁 and yes, there should be more to do in this set. It looks like they combined two halfbuild sets and wanted ut to work. 😂

[@duartevilelas9688]

Stealth Hunter is loading 👀 Exo-Force G2 confirmed😃

[@cooperchiacchia]

A port with a bigger crane, Truck, and small coast guard boat and a seperate big $160 cargo ship would be much better imo. This set just seems way too busy/cramed. Still glad we got a port set after a long time tho

[@redsaints]

I like the containers seem to be the same size as for the train set that my daughter loves to play with. Might pick this up for Christmas when it is on offer somewhere.

[@DaleWesley]

I find it interesting that the cargo containers are the same style as the containers from the previous (now retired) cargo train with the loop on top for a crane with a hook. I would think they would have used the newer, current production, cargo train containers that grab the containers from the sides of the top plate. It makes me wonder if the next cargo train set will interact with this.

[@duncanjones744]

I would love a full minifigure scale cargo ship

[@ColeAnderson-g9z]

Like that crab on the sign, hopefully PAB will get those

[@Timmeh-s4n]

You can also use the containers from the ship on the Lego city green cargo train

[@MechanicalShockwaveBow]

I like the look of the gantry crane and It's the most realistic choice of crane design for doing container work like this, but I think they maybe should have done a more conventional boom crane that could rotate on its base. this would let it get both containers without moving the ship and reach the areas that the current design couldn't. It could also free up some more space on the dock itself.

[@BinhLe-mj1hk]

The city set that is on the right of the sticker is the crook hideout that came this year. The other one in the corner I’m not too sure

[@jaxonarcand9682]

Great video as always thank you

[@starpencil]

Really hope we get another larger scale cargo ship at some point again. I'm pleasantly surprised with how this one looks though, better then I thought.

[@ledekou1983]

Comment for the algorithm! Thanks for the great video, Jang! 🙂

[@yuotueb]

I think providing play opportunities not just related to freight, but also city life and leisure in a harbor set was an interesting choice that also makes it have a more gender-neutral appeal than past editions of this concept did.

[@MrGrumpy1834]

Personally, I feel as though the restaurant half of the set could have been replaced with more industrial setting in order to complete the set. Having some kind of truck to load the containers on would have made much more sense so one could transload containers from ship to truck. The restaurant half of the set could have been used as a sort of expansion or addon to the rest of a fully fleshed out sea port set. Either way, I'm sure Lego did their research and kids loved the set the way it was produced and released. Great review as always Jang!

[@real_swiftydragon]

This set is still pretty cool and all but my favorite harbor will always be set 7994! Since it including a roadway for trucks to load/offload their cargo to the ship. If they managed to reimagine that set with the crane design from this current one then it would make for a great looking, and more interactive harbor. I think it would have been better for LEGO to focus more on the industrial side for this set and then introduce the tourist side for another set that could be attached onto it.

[@jacoboguzman9653]

Another thing is having a beach next to a dock doesn't feel as safe to me there's gonna be a lot of big ships coming in but it's still a nice little build to come with it

[@Robotfan987]

Pretty sure 60417 is the set to the left of the crane on the sign. You can see a crane on the box art for that one and the shape is right.

[@cowerdnerddespacito9518]

I think I might get two of these and modify it with some parts from the display stand of the orient express and tiny train wheels from the Christmas train polybag to get it to move side to side then connect it up with my cargo trains.

[@user-hn1md7xq6r]

this set reminds me of a level from super mario sunshine! makes me wish that the super mario line got minifigs instead of those oversized checkout scanners

[@mptrowdy]

Got this day 1 and with my limited space, it fits well. Officially out of table space now

[@JoseEnriqueAguirreGonzalez]

Out of this world!!🎉🎉

[@Zenlore6499]

Crab, served with butter and extra diesel

[@NicolasMiari]

Those containers are compatible with the current freight/cargo train, right?

[@BDD_Builds]

Part of me feels like this one set should have been two separate sets. Have a single pier entertainment set with shops, beach, boardwalk, etc. And have a separate set featuring a larger shipping yard with a more functional crane, ship, and a truck/train to transfer the cargo onto. Thankfully, LEGO can be taken apart and modified 😁

[@MayoHosko]

I wish the harbour was its own set and the boardwalk cafe was its own set

[@napkinx4341]

if this was any other theme i think this would be way more than 100 to be quite honest

[@timaclaren]

6:20 - that’s 100% set 60417 Police Speedboat and Crooks’ Hideout.

[@GameMageVideos]

I think this is a fantastic set. And it actually has a decent price!

[@marcch72]

It feels like the plan was for a line of harbor sets, but that got canceled and just these sets were combined into one big set

[@MrEoin1986]

I think this is better than the yellow lego truck

[@mtwi]

The blue boat is a small copy of 6508 ❤️

[@lopoa126]

I wish the random dude in orange should have medium legs to suggest he's a younger lad we get three different leg sizes. Even saves LEGO a little plastic. Needed to shift the "beach" budget over to the crane to make it longer and able to offload to a truck. Hopefully there are some other sets coming that will complete this, like a police set with a warehouse robbery where they are stealing a truck with similar containers (a cop on a motorcycle so the budget can go the good stuff). The set is so close to being a good solid set.

[@kjerins]

One thing that seems to be missing to me - why are the containers not stackable? Of course if you only have two containers there's not much point, but I imagine people would expand the build with more containers.

[@theBLARGSTORM]

The mechanic reminds me of jack from bioshock, fitting for a water set

[@luukvelthoven]

I think they tried to fit to much into one set. If they split up the cargo area and marina/rental + beach, I think they would have been albe to create two sets with more playablity. The cargo area could have gotten a more playable crane with a truck or something else to complete the chain of play. And the marina could have gotten a bigger beach and maybe a larger docking area for a tiny boat (rental or fishing boat). That way both sets could function more on their own and you could ofcourse still connect them.

[@yuotueb]

How would a truck complete the chain of play? Where does the truck go next? In this set, the small craft are being delivered to the rental store, so you can play with them all the way from delivery to rental & use... seems like a more complete chain to me.

[@pewpewdragon4483]

I think it would've been better to have the boat and crane as its own set, and the beach and restaurant as its own set. Or perhaps if the boat was not a cargo ship but a fishing boat, then it would make more sense to have the boat haul the catch to the restaurant.

[@Huntress236]

Loving the little cargo ship though.

[@The_CardWizard]

I like the colors they chose for the ship