City

Fire Command Truck

The City fire set that finally stopped feeling like the last five City fire sets.

Brick Rated Score

3.9/5

Set 60374 · 2023

Pieces502

Minifigs3

Year2023

Set number60374

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The verdict

I came into this one braced for another red truck with a ladder, and the six-wheeled hull with its two hidden drones is what turned me around.

It packs a genuine amount of play into 502 pieces, and the metallic silver firefighter is a real surprise in a City box. If you want a display piece for a shelf it is not that, but as a toy that a kid will actually maul for months it earns its keep. Just know the dart shooters and interchangeable arms are the whole personality here.

Best for: A LEGO City fan aged 7-10 who wants a truck with real gadgets to play out

The full review

What it is

The Fire Command Truck is a 2023 City set built around a long six-wheeled fire vehicle, a detachable command center, and two drones that ride hidden on and inside the truck. What got me is how little of it feels recycled. City fire sets have a way of blurring into one long red smear of ladders and hoses, and this one actually tries something. The roof carries an aerial drone with four blades, the middle of the truck has a flip-down door concealing a land drone with a robotic arm, and the whole rig runs on a working winch. For 502 pieces it is doing a surprising amount of work, and the build never got boring because each section handed me a different little mechanism to figure out.

The catch

I will be honest about where it wobbles. The headline feature is that the accessories swap around, the winch, the arms, the shooters all clip onto shaft connectors you can move between the truck and the drones. Lovely idea. The problem is there just are not enough accessories in the box to make swapping feel rich, so you end up moving the same two parts back and forth rather than kitting things out. The dart and stud-shooter play (rear panels flip up to reveal blue water bolts and trans-opal gas bolts you load into a spring cannon) is fun for a child and slightly tedious for anyone building this to sit on a shelf. And at full RRP the value is fair rather than generous, because a chunk of the price is riding on printed and specialized play pieces rather than raw brick count.

Who it's for

So this is a set for a kid, and I mean that as a compliment. If you have a City fan somewhere in the 7 to 10 range who likes vehicles that actually do things, this will get played into the ground and the drones alone will justify it. If you are an adult collector chasing a clean display model or the best price-per-piece on the shelf, keep walking, this is not built for you and it will feel like it. But as an honest, gadget-heavy City toy that breaks the fire-set mold a little, I think it lands well.

What works

Two full drones (a four-blade aerial one on the roof and a robot-armed land drone hidden behind a flip-down door) genuinely expand the play beyond one vehicle
Three strong minifigs, including a metallic silver firefighter with a unique torso you do not see anywhere else
Shaft-brick connectors let you swap accessories between the truck and both drones, so the winch and arms are not locked to one spot

Worth knowing

The interchangeable accessory idea is good but under-supplied, so you spend more time wishing for extra arms than swapping the two you get
The stud-shooter and dart flame gameplay is aimed squarely at kids, and adults building for display will find it fussy
At its RRP the part count is only average value for a City set with this much specialized play printing

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The parts story

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

Building it feels like assembling three connected toys rather than one truck. You get a long chassis with the winch and cannon mechanisms, then the command center that pops off the back, then the two drones, and each stage has its own small satisfying trick, the flip-down door for the land drone is the one I kept opening and closing like a fidget. Nothing here is a technical marathon, this is a 7-plus set and it builds smoothly in an afternoon, but the mechanisms keep it from ever going flat.

On the parts, the standout is the roster. The new yellow firefighter helmet (introduced the year before) shows up here, and the metallic silver firefighter with a bespoke torso is the piece collectors will actually want, it is a genuinely different look for a City fig. The utility worker gets a fresh face print under a ponytailed construction helmet. Elsewhere the trans-opal bolt elements standing in for gas are a nice color note against the blue water bolts, and the shaft-brick connectors that drive the whole swap system are useful, reusable parts. It is not a parts-pack set, but the minifigs punch above the price.

Fun facts

01The set includes two separate drones: a four-blade aerial drone that lives on the roof and can carry a pair of stud shooters, plus a land drone with a robotic arm hidden behind a flip-down door in the middle of the truck.
02The rear flip-up panels are color-coded to what they hide, a blue panel over blue water bolts and a transparent opal panel over gas bolts, both of which load into the roof-mounted spring cannon.
03The metallic silver firefighter uses a torso print unique to this set, and all three minifigs are exclusive to 60374, which is unusually strong figure value for a mid-size City release.