Quick look: 60463 Fire Truck
Posted by benbacardi,
Along with police, fire trucks have been a staple of LEGO City for decades. 60463 Fire Truck is one of this year's 4+ City sets, aimed at easing the transition from Duplo to LEGO for younger builders, and provides an easy-to-build fire truck complete with ladder, water jet, and a pair of minifigures in just 82 pieces.
I handed the set to my six-year-old son, who is an avid and adept LEGO builder, and made very short work of putting it together for me!
Summary
60463 Fire Truck, 82 pieces.
£17.99 / $19.99 / €19.99 | 21.9p / 24.4c / 24.4c per piece.
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A great introduction to the world of LEGO City for younger builders.
The set was provided for review by LEGO. All opinions expressed are those of the author.
Surprisingly for such a small set, two minifigures are included, portraying a male and female firefighter. The torso and leg parts are very common, but the print is detailed and they look excellent. It's good to see that they included two distinct torsos.
Both come with neon yellow helmets with visors and face shields, and both heads are dual printed —a wide grin on one side, and a smaller smile on the other.
Hair pieces are included for when the firefighters aren't wearing their helmets, and a small yellow extinguisher can be used by of them on smaller fires. A couple of trans-orange flames provide the necessary fire.
The truck itself consists primarily of a large single-moulded chassis common in these 4+ sets, a boxy windscreen, and a ladder on top that can be raised and lowered. There's room for two seats inside, so both minifigures can ride at the same time, one behind the other. I like the fire emblem printed on the side panels, and the detailed radiator and light cluster print on the tile on the front of the truck is unique to this set.
One of LEGOs newest colours, I'm a big fan of the neon yellow, and is used to good effect here to make a strip running around the vehicle. Finally, a trans-blue and clear flame piece is attached to the front of the ladder, excellently representing a large jet of water coming out of the fire truck's hose.
The set is perfectly targeted to its age group, helping younger builders move from the large blocks of Duplo to the more intricate construction of LEGO. The instructions are clear, and while smaller fingers may need help with some pieces such as the minifigures initially, they can largely build independently. The resulting model has a lot of play value for such a small set, particularly with two minifigures included, and will soon have young builders hooked on LEGO City!
60463 Fire Truck is available at LEGO.com for £17.99 / $19.99 / €19.99.
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This is the "most 4+" 4+ set from the recent past. I especially don't like the chassis of the car. I'd probably say it's more like a €13 then a €20 set.
Not bad parts, roller coaster track, panels and windows. I wouldn't mind picking up a couple for building Ninjago City mocs, but maybe at a cheaper price. Not sure how I would use the lower half of the truck as well. Maybe a land train?
I agree it's not worth the stated price - even with the 2 figs. However, managed to pick it up for £13.95 which is more in the range it ought to be.
Great review though - THANKS
I can’t get on board with neon yellow. It always looks quite cheap in quality next to other colours in sets at the moment.
The most Duplo-like System set in a long time.
4+ big chassis always have been like €20 + for a single car.
More recent examples :
60403 Emergency Ambulance
60435 Tow Truck
42644 Heartlake City Ice Cream Truck
41715 Ice-Cream Truck
And Licenced cost even far more :
76264 Batmobile Pursuit: Batman vs. The Joker €27!
Older examples :
60220 Garbage Truck
76147 Vulture's Trucker Robbery
41397 Juice Truck
60280 Fire Ladder Truck
76180 Batman vs. The Joker: Batmobile Chase
That said, the older sets have notably more side build content.
@Goujon said:
"Not bad parts, roller coaster track, panels and windows. I wouldn't mind picking up a couple for building Ninjago City mocs, but maybe at a cheaper price. Not sure how I would use the lower half of the truck as well. Maybe a land train?"
Just so you know, that's not a roller coaster track part. It's this piece: https://www.bricklink.com/v2/catalog/catalogitem.page?P=70646
@Murdoch17 said:
" @Goujon said:
"Not bad parts, roller coaster track, panels and windows. I wouldn't mind picking up a couple for building Ninjago City mocs, but maybe at a cheaper price. Not sure how I would use the lower half of the truck as well. Maybe a land train?"
Just so you know, that's not a roller coaster track part. It's this piece: https://www.bricklink.com/v2/catalog/catalogitem.page?P=70646 "
Ah Thank you for pointing that out! Still, useful for detailing.
@Brickes_ficko said:
"This is the "most 4+" 4+ set from the recent past. I especially don't like the chassis of the car. I'd probably say it's more like a €13 then a €20 set."
I'm sure kids in the target range will love it, though, no matter what certain adults think of it. Also, the price seems fair in 2025 compared other sets of this size.
Don't like these. Apart from it being prohibitively expensive, there's just so little kids can do with these pieces. In that regard 5+ sets are such a huge step up. Well, except for the stickers, that is.....
Oh hey, I guess Lego *did* make a Fire Emblem set.
There's a lot to like here that would be good in larger sets, too.
The chassis piece isn't too bad, most vehicles these days are built with about 50 pieces to do the same thing.
I like the open roof rather than a removable one.
I want some of those printed panels for my own Lego fire department.
The big downside are all the small extras that kids just lose: the flames, fire extinguisher, extra hair pieces etc.
@DoonsterBuildsLego said:
"There's a lot to like here that would be good in larger sets, too.
The chassis piece isn't too bad, most vehicles these days are built with about 50 pieces to do the same thing.
I like the open roof rather than a removable one.
I want some of those printed panels for my own Lego fire department.
The big downside are all the small extras that kids just lose: the flames, fire extinguisher, extra hair pieces etc. "
Even adults can sometimes have a hard time keeping track of all those little extra bits.
Heh, looks nice. It is crazy that a 4+ junior set gets 2 leg printing while some of the Marvel superheroes get none.
20 dollar seems a bit much but i am sure that this will definitely go to clearance so i will get this one with a sweet discount
I'm not the target audience, but I'm really missing a roof and especially a turntable for the ladder. It feels like they tried to simplify it just a little bit too much whilst still keeping small parts anyway.
20€? TLG must be drunk
I was thinking to myself $9.99 and hopefully not $14.99. I must be very out of it these days.
@yellowcastle said:
"I was thinking to myself $9.99 and hopefully not $14.99. I must be very out of it these days."
A fire vehicle of this scale hasn't been $10 in over 10 years, possibly even 15.
@Nuclearxpotato said:
" @yellowcastle said:
"I was thinking to myself $9.99 and hopefully not $14.99. I must be very out of it these days."
A fire vehicle of this scale hasn't been $10 in over 10 years, possibly even 15. "
I guess I never got down with 24c per piece. My 4+ will have to make do with the more affordable 5+ sets.
Man, I'm sure they've released an extremley similar set at least once... Oh, I remembered, 60280 - almost identical, isn't it? And while some big 4+ chassis sets look reasonably good (like 60220 for example), this is sadly dull and uninteresting... even for 2 figs and 20$.