The harbour is very unique as it comes with not one but two big plates to put your crane on, which makes up about 9/10ths of the harbour. The twin cargo holds are each covered with a bley grille plate attached to two 1x8 plates with door rail; these allow a little movement, as you can see from the forward hold. The bridge was added to the List of Historic Civil Engineering Landmarks in 1988 and was listed as a national monument on the Australian National Heritage List in 2007.

For this reason the instructions often like to alternate between colors whenever possible, and use vivid contrasting colors in areas that aren't likely to be seen in the finished model. I was worried there for a moment that you might use your amazing reviewing skills to sell me on a set that I'm really not keen on.It comes with 3 cargo boxes, light green, light yellow, and a red one that is hollow with a mini boat inside of it. The three modules each get their own manual, the surface area and thickness of each corresponding to the relative size of that build. I actually like this set, the crane mechanism area is so old school classic town look and that what this set is for a town not a city. On the whole, the offloading action - the centrepiece of this set - works really well, and is fun in the process (though I can't imagine doing this for hours on end). This makes it all the more satisfying to be owner, builder, planner and construction company in one person if your building project is made of Lego.

Use the crane to unload the grain from the cargo ship, then drop it onto the conveyor belt and move it into the awaiting truck.This is the one and only part of this set which seemed to have any thought put into it; the colour scheme of blue and yellow is quite striking, and the use of the blue train piece, bows and slopes contrast nicely with the long yellow jib, making this quite attractive. The open bridge with its green floor reminds me of a cross-Channel ferry: prior to the early Nineties - and the advent of the Channel Tunnel - it was the usual means for us Brits to access the great Continent of Europe and its plethora of cheap booze . 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. This is actually a design feature; the instructions show this as a means to decant any bilge-water that accumulates during bathtime adventures.

The previous harbor set was larger but a little impersonal and this latest release manages to capture the essence of the Lego . The two red knobs turn to move the belt forward; the red slopes form a hopper allowing the cargo to fall onto the belt ready for moving. The Sydney Harbour Bridge in particular, with its beautifully curved steel truss arch and its impressive dimensions, is a modern building that is, without a doubt, a masterpiece of modern engineering and is admired by so many people. At face value, it seems to offer a lot: a sizeable ship, harbourside structures with working crane and conveyor, an attractive and useful tipper truck.The superstructure of the ship is terrible as the bridge is open on both sides and the bridge is small for a large ship.

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.The ship is great because it has a big hull, it's blue (blue is my favourite colour), it fits as many cargo boxes as you want, it floats, and is very detailed. But people were able to build Lego sets for decades using instruction manuals with less luxuries than modern day ones. This particular set has been a lot of fun given there is a lot more to it than just a boat and he can integrate the pieces into his other sets. To be honest, I'd have preferred those I think-- that way the end product would have been more sturdy, and there'd be no awkward unevenness between the bottom of the main dock and the supports for the small pier that the fisherman fishes from. This is all the more likely since, while he's snoozing down there, there is no-one piloting the ship.