Excavator and Truck

All in all, it's a great set to round out the construction sub-theme for 2015. It has some great play features, and looks great, especially with the rest of the construction sets. This set gets 9.5 out of 10 sand green profile bricks. A matching colour truck would have been just perfect. more less

Kids can pretend that they are cleaning up the site to make way for a new building. The dynamite just did its job, so now the demolition experts are using the excavator to grab the rubble with its claws and dropping it off onto the conveyer. Turn the knob on the conveyer to move the rubble onto the truck's cargo bed. more less

Overall you get a nice trilogy of models that work well together; each in its own bag to construct one at a time. I think the play story is supposed to go something like this: workers blow up some old derelict brickwork, the crane picks up the debris and drops it onto the conveyor belt which loads it into the truck to be driven away and no doubt recycled. Why the conveyor belt is actually needed is not clear but it looks cool and works nicely. The six-wide truck is solid and looks like a lot of sets we have seen before. The rear tray can raise up and has a flap at the end which allows it to be emptied. The crane/excavator rotates on a four-wide clicking turntable and the arm is hinged three times. more less