City

Seaside Harbor with Cargo Ship

The most complete City harbor yet, working crane and all, with two honest catches.

Brick Rated Score

4.2/5

Set 60422 · 2024

Pieces1,226

Minifigs8

Year2024

Set number60422

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The verdict

This is the harbor LEGO City has been circling for years, and they finally packed the working docks and the sunny boardwalk into one set instead of making you choose.

The container crane is the heart of it, and hooking those two containers off the ship never stops being satisfying. Just know going in that the cargo ship doesn't float and there's no truck to haul the cargo into town, which are odd gaps for a set this thorough. If you love City play scenes and want real value per piece, this one earns its place.

Best for: City fans who want a working port and a beach in one box

The full review

There's a moment building this LEGO® set where you realize the designers stopped forcing a choice. For years the City harbor sets made you pick a lane, either the working industrial docks with cranes and containers, or the breezy tourist waterfront with a shop and a beach. Set 60422 just puts both on the table. You get a proper cargo ship with a gantry crane on one side, and a little boardwalk with a store, a seafood restaurant and a strip of sand on the other, all connected by the same stretch of dock. At 1,226 pieces it's a genuinely big City build, split across four booklets and nine bags, and it never feels padded. Every section pulls its weight.

The star is the container crane. It's not a fiddly gimmick, it actually works, and lining up the hook to lift one of the two shipping containers off the ship and swing it onto the dock is the kind of simple, repeatable play that kids and grown-ups both keep doing. Around it you get a nice spread of extras: a water scooter, a paddleboat, a fishing rod, a crab net, an actual little crab, a couple of walkie-talkies and a wrench. The eight minifigures are all unique to this box, and LEGO gave them a real mix of ages and roles so the harbor feels populated rather than staged.

Now the catches, because there are two real ones. The cargo ship does not float. Older harbor models could actually sit in water, and a chunk of the community clearly hoped this one would too, so it stings a little even though a floating hull would have pushed the price up. The bigger head-scratcher is that there's no truck or wheeled vehicle to carry the containers off the dock and into the rest of your city, which leaves the cargo loop feeling slightly unfinished. And yes, people noticed there's no seagull for the beach. None of these are dealbreakers, but they're the kind of small gaps you'd expect a set this complete to close.

So who should grab this. If you build City scenes and want a port that connects to the rest of your town, or you just love a set with a working mechanism and a ton of little accessories, this is an easy yes and the per-piece value backs it up. If you specifically want a ship you can float in the bathtub, or you were counting on a cargo truck to complete the supply chain, temper your expectations a touch. For most City fans, though, this is the harbor to own, and it's the best one they've made.

The parts story

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

The build breaks into clear chapters, which keeps a set this size from dragging. You start with the dock and the boardwalk buildings, where the store and seafood restaurant come together fast with satisfying detail work. Then you move to the cargo ship, and this is the interesting part: the hull is brick-built rather than one giant molded boat piece, so you're actually engineering the shape and it feels like building instead of assembling. The gantry crane comes next and is the most technical section, with the moving trolley and hook that make the whole thing work. The smaller watercraft and accessories round it out as quick, fun palate cleansers between the bigger sections.

On the pieces themselves, this is a set that quietly earns its keep. There's a lot of useful, general-purpose City stock here, the plates, brackets and SNOT parts that MOC builders raid sets like this for, plus the two printed shipping containers and a good haul of nautical and dockside elements. At around 7.7p per part it lands as strong value for a licensed-quality City set, and because the ship is brick-built rather than molded, more of your money goes into reusable bricks instead of a single specialized shell. The crab figure and the printed pieces add a little character, and the color spread of blues, reds and sandy tans is genuinely handy for future projects.

Fun facts

01The cargo ship's hull is entirely brick-built rather than a single molded boat piece, which means more reusable parts for your other builds but also why it can't float like some earlier harbor sets.
02All eight minifigures are exclusive to this set, and LEGO deliberately mixed ages, genders and roles so the harbor reads as a working community rather than a display.
03The set folds the industrial docks and the tourist waterfront into one model, something earlier City harbor releases usually split into separate sets.
04It comes with a tiny crab figure and a crab net for beachside play, but famously no seagull, which reviewers and fans pointed out almost immediately.