City

Yellow Bulldozer

A chunky City dozer with a real working engine hiding under the hood, and I did not expect to be charmed by it.

Brick Rated Score

4.0/5

Set 60466 · 2025

Pieces682

Minifigs3

Year2025

Set number60466

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The verdict

For a mid-size City vehicle, this one earns its keep.

The camshaft mechanism that runs three little pistons up and down as you roll it along is the kind of clever touch I usually only see in Technic, and it is right there in a set aimed at eight-year-olds. It is a touch pricey and the engine is more fun to know about than to actually watch, but I came away genuinely fond of it. Great for a kid who likes machines that do something, and for the adult builder who wants a cheerful desk model with a secret.

Best for: Construction-mad kids who want a vehicle with a real moving mechanism inside

The full review

What it is

I will be honest, a yellow bulldozer is not the set I expected to lose an afternoon to. It is a solid mid-size City build at 682 pieces, with a raisable pusher blade up front, a dual-shank ripper on the back, and tracks that actually roll. What got me was what happens when you push it. Inside the body sits a small engine, and a camshaft connected to the tracks drives three pistons up and down as the dozer moves along. You can watch the whole thing through lattice windows on either side, or lift the top panel off and stare straight down into it. In a set pitched at kids ages eight and up, that is a lovely bit of engineering to sneak in, and it is the reason this one stuck with me.

The catch

Now the caveats, because there are a few. The price is the first. At $64.99 it sits at the expensive end for a vehicle this size, and if you buy it purely on part count you might feel it. The working engine itself is more satisfying to understand than to actually watch. It is a tiny three-cylinder motor, it barely makes a noise, and once the novelty of spotting the pistons fades you are mostly just admiring that it exists at all. There is also a genuinely funny design flaw that reviewers kept flagging: the driver sits so deep in the cockpit, with the exhaust stack planted right in front of the windscreen, that the poor minifig can see almost nothing at ground level. Charming, but not exactly realistic operator ergonomics.

Who it's for

So who should get this. If you or a kid in your life loves machines that do something, that hidden engine turns an ordinary construction vehicle into a little demonstration you can show off, and I think that is worth a lot. It slots neatly into an existing City construction site alongside the wheel loader and tow truck that arrived the same year. If you only care about display looks or raw value per brick, though, there are punchier City sets for the money, and you might find the tiny engine underwhelming once the surprise wears off. For me it lands as a very good set with its heart in exactly the right place.

The parts story

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

The build is a comfortable evening, not a marathon. It runs about 682 pieces and the instructions are generous with clear, well-illustrated steps, so it suits a confident younger builder working solo just as well as an adult unwinding. The most interesting stretch is assembling the engine bay, where you set up the camshaft and thread the pistons so they ride correctly off the drive. It is a satisfying little sub-build, the kind where you roll the model a few times just to confirm it all moves before you close the panels up.

The standout parts are the mechanism pieces. The pistons run on new eccentric crank disks and matching pins that let the camshaft convert rolling motion into that up-and-down pumping, which is not something you see in a standard City box. There is also a spinning cooler fan tucked in for good measure. Beyond the working bits, it is a clean yellow-and-black parts pull with a good stack of useful Technic connectors and no stickers anywhere. The minifig printing is a highlight too: Ted Brickle gets a detailed torso with red suspenders and an ID badge, and the two workers wear sharp reddish-orange hi-vis with reflective striping carried over from the previous construction wave.

Fun facts

01As the dozer rolls, a camshaft geared to the tracks drives three pistons up and down, a working-engine trick more common in Technic than in a City set for ages 8 and up.
02The foreman is Ted Brickle, a named character lifted from the animated LEGO City No Limits series, rather than a generic worker figure.
03The whole set uses no stickers at all, relying on a small number of printed parts, so there is nothing to align or peel.
04The pistons rely on newly introduced eccentric crank disks and matching pins created to translate the rolling motion into the pumping action.