Cargo Center
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Place:
20Km from Paris, France
Joined:
2015, nov 15
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2016, jun 27 11:41 |
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Introduction
This
is the first set I ordered directly from overseas. My copy of this
set comes from Australia and was only sold in North america,
Australia, and also Germany. This is, for me, one of the most
originals sets of the Classic Town era. It is a very unusual type of
buildings, a Cargo Center, it can be considered as an industrial
building, one of the very few of the Town, and even actual City line.
We can notice that a year later, a similar set was released: 6377
Delivery Center that includes a airplane and a small building, it
coincides with the release of the first Lego Town Airport.
Building
The building has a garage, two cargo bays and two offices. The building color scheme doesn't corresponds with any of the eras's cargo vehicles, exept maybe 6367 truck. The building is surelevated, with 2x2 round bricks, to be at the unloading level for trucks, so it makes trucks unloading faster. The left baseplate, that is very rare, because of it is in only two sets, that are North America exclusive sets, this one and 1981 6383 Public Works Center. This baseplate is also the only one to have the two "garages" on the left side.
Vehicles
In this set, there are three vehicles : a truck, an helicopter and a forklift.
The truck is simple and contains not so much pieces (less than I expected), but it looks right, maybe some details could have been added but it is correct. Its size is rather small, it can hold properly one pallet and a second but it will overhang on the rear of the truck.
The helicopter has a usual design for this era, for example 6384 Police Station's helicopter or 6685 Fire Helicopter has the same cockpit design. These are nice helicopters models, more than with the 1988 helicopter cockpit piece (like in 6357) that, for me spoils the models and make too light helicopters. This helicopter is made to transport express mails, it has two containers on its sides and contains four enveloppes. The color scheme is the same white and red as for the truck.
Scenery
A small scenery will come. A day... :)
Summary
I think that this is a very good set, with a very nice building. Vehicles are a bit light, espicially the truck and the forklift, but helicopter is very nice, and without the not-so-good cockpit metapiece. This set has very rare parts in it, like the yellow doors, that opens in another way than usual ones, the blue phone and the expensive gray rattle antenna. I had to order my copy from Australia, so it made a very long way to France, and expensive shipping costs. It was expensive, but I'm happy with it. It costed me the price of an actual Modular Building, with 1/4 of its piece number...
2016, aug 11 23:10
Aww man, i`m so jelous :) This set is ultimate Lego set. I won`t write more for know because it would be another review alike :) Cheers and thanks for this. Pit
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2016, jun 29 15:15
Now, all pictures I made are here, I was interrupted. :)
I hope, during my two monthes of holidays, rebuild the set (actually, it's dismounted because of I also make all the alternative models, as these are all very nice) and make a scenery. I will make various sceneries in the next weeks, so you can open the section. :) The sliding doors were also part of a 4,5V train's boxcar, so it make them a bit more common than the 1x4x5 doors that are horribely expensive. And you can see more than 20 in a 1990 official Lego Town layout... These were in residential towers. What a dream... |
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