I thought it might be too difficult for a four year old, but it was only a bit too tough and with my help we build all the featured parts. Gerald uses his walkie-talkie to help Clive guide the grab bucket into the cargo hold (I don't know how, since Clive doesn't have a corresponding walkie-talkie; maybe he has the Power of Telepathy in addition to Levitation). I imagine it will be a while before the transition is made to doing this in all sets (if that happens at all). The LEGO Harbour/Harbor is a subtheme of City that was introduced in 2005, and was discontinued in late 2017 and focuses on seaside and ocean sets.

I have a larger stack of manuals from the past 3 years of collecting than I do from the 20 years before that - simply because manuals are so much longer or else there are multiple ones.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! Use the crane to offload the grain form the cargo ship, place it onto the conveyor and load it onto the truck. The dock could have been really good if they would have constructed it the 'Creator way', with a combination of big plates and 8x16 tiles. Round tan bricks rain from the crane, and pelt from the belt into the waiting truck, while a distracted fisherman concentrates on his catch, ignoring the drifting ship approaching at his rear. My 4 1/2 year old managed to put this together by himself with the clear instructions and loves the little beach buggy that is part of the set.

It wouldn't have added much to the piece count to put a door in the rear recessed area, with a full-headroom cabin beneath, surely? From a technical point of view, the interaction of compressive and tensile forces can be seen best in bridges. On the brighter side, it's always a pleasure reading through your comprehensive and in-depth review Rufus! I anticipated bricks bouncing out of the truck onto the roadway, into the 'water' or - worse still - back into the ship, but they landed on the tipper and stayed there like the well-behaved little tan angels they are. The ship has arrived, carrying her precious cargo of Round Tan Bricks, but Gerald and Clive need to work together to offload them onto the waiting truck.From the left, as I've named them: Frederick the Fisherman, Terence the Truck Driver, Clive the Crane Operator, and Captain Gerald.

The bridge/accomodation part could have been a little more detailed though (the one on the 7994's ship was much better). normally, I don't give very thorough feedback on reviews, but this one is so loaded down with inaccuracies and uncertainties (almost all minor ones) that I feel I might as well go the extra mile here. The floor of the harbour, and the road the baseplates form, is a mere baseplate-thickness above the waves, with a meagre brick-wall separating road from water. Back when I was nine or ten years old, I had a LEGO-themed birthday party, and my dad bought several of the then-current ThrowBots/Slizers sets for people to build for a disc-throwing competition. The 103 third parties who use cookies on this service do so for their purposes of displaying and measuring personalized ads, generating audience insights, and developing and improving products.I can't forgive the 'sea level' harbour platform; the ship is ok but it's not a patch on the big blue leviathan from 7994.