City

Space Ride Amusement Truck

A truck that unpacks into its own carnival ride, which is exactly as fun as it sounds.

Brick Rated Score

3.8/5

Set 60313 · 2022

Pieces433

Minifigs3

Year2022

Set number60313

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The verdict

What sold me on this one is the reveal, you build a perfectly ordinary flatbed truck, unfold the trailer, and suddenly there's a spinning space ride with a crank handle and a ticket booth standing in your living room.

My kids cranked that arm about thirty times in the first ten minutes. It's not a deep build and it won't challenge an adult fan, but as a piece of functioning theater for a six or seven year old it earns its keep. I'd grab this one for the play value more than the building experience.

Best for: kids six to nine who want a toy that actually does something after it's built

The full review

What it is

This is a LEGO City set with a genuinely clever party trick. You build what looks like a standard cab and flatbed truck, then unfold the trailer and it opens into a small carnival ride, complete with a crank on the side that spins two little rocket arms around a central post. The first time it clicked together and I gave the handle a turn, I actually laughed, it's such a simple mechanism but it delivers exactly the payoff a kid wants from a toy like this.

The catch

I won't oversell the building itself. At 433 pieces and roughly an hour of assembly, it's not going to test anyone's technique, and once the ride is set up there isn't a ton of variation in how you play with it beyond loading minifigures in and cranking the arm. A few reviewers online called out that limited replay value directly, and I get where they're coming from. It was a $49.99 set at launch, and now that it's retired the price has crept up on the secondary market, so the value math isn't quite as friendly as it once was.

Who it's for

Get this one if you've got a young LEGO fan who loves amusement parks, carnivals, or anything with a crank and a spin, the payoff moment alone makes it worth having in the collection. Skip it if you're shopping for an adult builder or someone who wants a serious engineering challenge, this is a kids' playset through and through, and it's honest about that from the box art on down.

The parts story

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

Building this one moves fast. You start with the truck cab and chassis, a compact little build with a real sense of a working vehicle, then move into the trailer, which is where all the actual engineering lives. The transformation from folded trailer to standing ride is the whole reason this set exists, and LEGO paced the instructions so that moment lands well, you're not just placing the last brick, you're watching the thing open up into something new.

The three included minifigures are all exclusive to this set, including a space ride attendant who comes with fun printed pieces like an alien hat, a ride photo tile, and a little mug, small touches that give the set personality beyond generic City figures. There's no flashy new mold headlining the parts list here, it's more about the mechanical crank function than a rare piece, but the part count feels fair for a $49.99 truck and ride combo, and nothing in the build feels like filler.

Fun facts

01The set was released in June 2022 and officially retired in December 2023, giving it about a year and a half on shelves.
02All three minifigures included, among them the space ride attendant, are exclusive to this set and don't appear anywhere else.
03The trailer's transformation from flatbed truck to standing carnival ride is a functioning mechanism, not just a display pose, the crank actually spins the ride arms.
04On Brickset the set carries a 4.0 out of 5 average from over 50 community ratings, a solid showing for a smaller City playset.