LEGO City Tow Truck and Sports Car Repair Vehicle Toy Set for 4 Plus Year Old Boys & Girls, with 2 Minifigures and Accessories Including a Cochlear Implant, Creative Gift Idea 60435

My son, who is almost 4, had great fun building his first 'real' Lego set over Christmas. Instruction were easy to follow and by the end he was able to do a few pages on his own. MY only minor critique would be the two poles (on the tow truck), that are placed near the crane, get knocked off quite often and that sometimes involves a bit of searching afterwards to find where they have been dropped.

Bought this for grand nephew at Christmas and he absolutely loved it.

My grandson played with the toy for hours.

Our 4 year old had to concentrate but very much enjoyed making it

Brilliantl

Arrived very quickly and perfect for my grandson.

This is a great set for the money. Lego is expensive but this was very reasonable and a nice set. Excellent value for money.

This is one of the latest in a long long line of Lego City vehicles, and I’d have to describe it as nothing special.It is potentially a good entry level build for kids graduating from Duplo and not wanting anything too challenging, but I still find the design and build too prescriptive because of the pre-built grey chassis. It’s not that it’s too easy, it’s that it limits imagination, and once the toy starts to evolve beyond life as an instruction-made tow truck, the shape of it is quite restrictive. It doesn’t lend itself to building crazy six-wheeled mega-vehicles, or sideways wheels, or double-decker wheels, or all the other stuff that you want to mess around with as a kid, the stuff that gives Lego its real imaginative scope.It is a nice piece of representation that one of the characters has a cochlear implant, though it might have been nicer if Lego had not tried to score some PR points from doing it. It’s also unfortunate that the face of the motorist character in question looks concerned or angry. I understand that’s because the story is that their posh sports car has broken down, but it has the unfortunate side-effect of making the semi-deaf character the grumpy character. Maybe the truck driver could’ve had the implant instead?The RRP of this set at time of writing is eighteen quid, and by Lego standards I suppose that’s technically reasonable value compared to other City sets, since you get two vehicles and two minifigures. But the build is a little too prescriptive (and too quick, though I’m biased by experience) and it doesn’t quite end up shining as a really essential set.