City

Downtown Streetcar and Station

A friendly little tram that quietly did something the City theme rarely bothers with.

Brick Rated Score

3.8/5

Set 60423 · 2024

Pieces811

Minifigs6

Year2024

Set number60423

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The verdict

The thing that stuck with me here wasn't the tram itself, it was the extendable boarding plates and the guide dog and the ramp, all built so a wheelchair minifigure can actually roll aboard.

That is genuinely lovely, and the cafe roof is one of the nicer small builds City has done lately. The couplers leave big gaps between the cars and there's no motor option, so as a display piece it looks a touch unfinished. I'd get it for a kid who plays stories more than they display, and I'd think twice if you want a sleek shelf tram.

Best for: Families who want an inclusive, play-first City train under the tree

The full review

What it is

The Downtown Streetcar and Station is exactly what it says on the box, a three-car tram that rolls on track plus a little downtown stop with a coffee shop, but the part that got me is quieter than the tram. LEGO built the platform with extendable bridging plates, added an access ramp, tucked in a guide dog, and gave you a wheelchair minifigure who can actually roll straight aboard. City sets talk about play a lot and rarely design for this, so seeing it done properly, and done as a feature rather than an afterthought, honestly warmed me up before I'd even finished the station.

The catch

Now I have to be straight with you about the tram, because it is the reason this isn't a higher score. The three cars connect with standard couplers that leave big visible gaps, so on a shelf it looks like three separate boxes rather than one flowing streetcar. Several builders online landed on the same complaint and wished for magnetic couplers to close those seams. There's also no motor and no Powered Up compatibility, which for a track-running vehicle in 2024 feels like a missed trick, you push it by hand and that's your lot. And the head and tail cars are near-identical builds with their own separate instruction steps, so a chunk of the build is you doing the same thing twice. At 811 pieces for around ninety dollars, roughly eleven cents a piece, it sits a little above where I'd want a fairly straightforward City set to land.

Who it's for

So who's this actually for. If you have a kid who plays with their sets, who wants figures boarding and doors opening and a cafe to run, this is a warm, generous little world and the inclusive design gives their stories somewhere real to go. If you want a display-grade tram to sit next to a nice city layout, or you were hoping to motorize it and watch it loop, I'd steer you toward a Powered Up train instead and let this one be. It's a good-hearted set that plays better than it poses, and I think that's a perfectly fine thing for a set to be.

The parts story

What the build is actually like, and the pieces worth knowing about.

The build itself is gentle and quick, well within reach of the age 7 and up label, and it moves along nicely for a City set. The cafe and kiosk are the highlight by a distance, the little roof in particular is a satisfying bit of building with some genuine cleverness to it. The tram is more repetitive, partly because you build two very similar end cars, but the ramp mechanism and the extendable platform plates are a treat to put together because you can feel the accessibility feature coming to life as you go.

On standout parts, the headline is a new minifigure head printed with sunglasses, created to represent a visually impaired rider though it's handy for all sorts of custom figures too. Pair that with the guide dog and the wheelchair and you've got a small but meaningful accessories haul, plus the usual City extras like a coffee cup, newspaper, phone, and ticket. There aren't rare recolors or exotic elements to hunt here, so parts collectors won't find much treasure, but the printed head alone is worth noting and the track and ramp pieces are useful for anyone expanding a City layout.

Fun facts

01The set includes a minifigure head newly printed with sunglasses to represent a visually impaired character, paired with a guide dog on the platform.
02The station platform has extendable bridging plates and an access ramp so a wheelchair minifigure can board step-free, a deliberate accessibility design from LEGO.
03It launched on 1 August 2024 at 89.99 dollars for 811 pieces and six minifigures, all six unique to this set.
04Both end cars of the tram are built almost identically, with LEGO printing separate instruction steps for each rather than telling you to repeat the first.