City

Spaceship and Asteroid Discovery

A tiny scout ship that punches way above its 126 pieces.

Brick Rated Score

4.0/5

Set 60429 · 2024

Pieces126

Minifigs3

Year2024

Set number60429

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The verdict

I picked this one up expecting a throwaway filler set and ended up genuinely charmed by it.

For under twenty dollars you get a little scout ship with a crane arm and a drill, an asteroid chunk to mine, a brick built alien figure, and an astronaut, and none of it feels like an afterthought. This is a set built for a small kid's hands and imagination first, and it succeeds completely at that job. If you want a serious display piece skip it, but as a first space set or a stocking stuffer for a four to seven year old, I think it earns its spot.

Best for: parents introducing a young kid to their first space set

The full review

What it is

This is one of those small City Space sets that could have easily been a boring afterthought and instead turned out to be a lot of fun. You get a compact scout ship with an opening cockpit, a crane arm, and a spinning drill bit, plus a chunk of asteroid rock to dig into and a little alien figure hiding inside. For a set that costs less than a couple of takeout coffees, that is a genuinely generous list of features.

The catch

I will be honest about the tradeoffs. At 126 pieces this is a fifteen minute build at most, so if you or your kid are looking for something to sink an afternoon into, this is not it. The scale is small and toylike rather than display-shelf impressive, and there is no base pad or second vehicle to round out the scene, so once the novelty of the drill and crane wears off there is not a ton left to do with it. It is also squarely aimed at younger builders. an adult AFOL looking for engineering complexity will finish this one and immediately reach for something bigger.

Who it's for

Where it shines is exactly where it is supposed to. this is a fantastic first space set for a four to seven year old, or a good stocking stuffer to pair with a bigger set from the same wave. The two instruction booklets use oversized, single step graphics that a beginner reader can follow without help, and reviewers who bought it specifically for younger kids reported the finished ship looks more polished than a lot of sets aimed at that same age bracket. If you have a small space fan in the house, this earns its shelf spot. if you are shopping for yourself, look elsewhere in the City Space lineup.

The parts story

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

The actual build is deliberately simple, which is the whole point. Two instruction booklets walk through the ship and the asteroid separately, each step shown large on its own page so a young builder can match pieces without a parent hovering over their shoulder. It comes together fast, but the steps are sequenced so the ship actually starts looking like a ship almost immediately, which matters a lot when your builder is six.

The parts payoff is better than the price tag suggests. You get a brick built alien figure rather than a simple minifig substitute, which gives the set a bit of character you would not expect at this size, plus a printed astronaut minifig, a mining drill piece, and a small crane arm that actually swings and lifts. None of these are rare or exclusive molds, but packed into a set this size and this cheap, the feature-to-piece ratio is genuinely solid.

Fun facts

01The set was designed by Kenneth Lylover and released as part of the 2024 City Space wave.
02It carries an official age rating of 4 plus, making it one of the more junior-friendly entries in the City Space lineup that year.
03Community tags on Brickset link it to Classic Space nostalgia, pairing a retro-styled alien and mining theme with a modern small-scale ship.
04At roughly 15 cents per piece, it lands well within typical LEGO City pricing even with three figures included.