City

Yellow Delivery Truck

A big yellow truck that delivers actual LEGO sets, and yes, that's the whole joke.

Brick Rated Score

4.0/5

Set 60440 · 2024

Pieces1,069

Minifigs4

Year2024

Set number60440

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The verdict

This one made me grin before I even opened the box, because it's a LEGO truck whose entire cargo is little printed LEGO boxes.

It's a warm, clever, deeply self-referential set, and the fact that nearly every decoration is printed instead of a sticker is the kind of thing that quietly wins you over. My only hesitation is the sticker price, which asks a lot for a City truck. Grab it on a discount and you'll be delighted.

Best for: City fans who love printed tiles and want a little LEGO delivery scene for a brick-built store

The full review

The Yellow Delivery Truck 60440 is a 1,069-piece LEGO® set with a premise so cute it almost dares you not to smile. It's a big articulated truck, tractor unit plus semi-trailer, and its whole reason for being is to haul pallets of tiny printed LEGO boxes to a LEGO store you'd build yourself. So it's a set about delivering sets. The 2024 City team clearly had fun with this, and that playfulness shows up everywhere, from the curtain-side trailer that opens for loading to the little working forklift that trundles the pallets in and out. At 47cm long it has real presence on a shelf, and it feels like the grown-up cousin of the old 2010 City truck rather than a straight rerun.

The thing that got me, honestly, is the printing. Nearly every decoration here is a printed part rather than a sticker, and that includes the 8x16 branding tiles, the 4x4 tiles wearing the LEGO logo, and a whole run of printed boxes made to look like real current City sets. If you've ever wanted authentic printed LEGO-box tiles to stock a brick-built store, this set is basically a parts pack with a truck wrapped around it. Only the hot dog stand's little sticker sheet and one screen tile break the printed streak. That's a genuinely generous choice, and it's the strongest single reason to own it.

Now for the honest bit, because I won't pretend it's flawless. At $99.99 it asks a lot for what is, structurally, a City truck, and City is the theme that goes on sale more reliably than almost anything else. Jay's Brick Blog landed on a fairly cautious take for exactly that reason, noting it feels much more defensible around 20 percent off. The cab is also weirdly bare, all that yellow and not a logo in sight, so as a standalone vehicle it's a touch plain. And the four minifigures, two logistics workers, a manager in a checkered vest, and a bearded fellow in blue, get the scene done without ever being memorable. None of that sinks the set. It just means the magic lives in the cargo and the concept more than the truck body.

So who should bring this home? If you love City, if you build your own LEGO store or town, or if the idea of printed LEGO-box tiles makes your heart do a little skip, you'll adore this and you should absolutely watch for a discount to seal the deal. If you're strictly a display-vehicle person who wants a beautifully liveried truck to sit on a shelf, the plain cab might leave you a little cold. For everyone in between, it's a warm, witty, very well-printed set that Brickset's community has rated a solid 4.3 out of 5, and I think that's about right.

The parts story

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

The build runs in two clear acts. First you assemble the cab, which uses some tidy SNOT work and an engine hood that actually opens, and it's a pleasant, moderate 8+ pace that never gets fiddly. Then you move to the star of the show, the trailer, with its opening curtain sides, a bed sized for the pallets, and the little forklift that loads them. It's not a hard build, but it's a satisfying one, the kind where the play features reveal themselves as you go and you find yourself sliding pallets in before you've even finished.

The pieces are where fans will really perk up. Nearly everything is printed, so you get 8x16 branding tiles, two 4x4 LEGO-logo tiles, and a stack of printed box tiles standing in for real City sets, all parts that would normally be stickers or simply not exist. There are drum-lacquered silver engine elements, medium nougat sausages for the hot dog stand, and a genuinely clever trick where red minifigure chairs become the forklift's wheel housings. The red crates with grey lids are a lovely touch too, since they mirror the actual containers LEGO uses on its production floor. At roughly 8 to 9 cents per piece it prices fairly on paper, and the printed-tile haul is the real value story here.

Fun facts

01The entire cargo is a joke about itself: it's a LEGO truck delivering pallets of miniature printed LEGO sets to a LEGO store you build separately.
02The bearded minifigure in blue wears a six-dot motif on his jacket, the symbol LEGO's internal Design Team uses for itself, a quiet nod hidden inside an already self-referential set.
03The red crates with grey lids in the trailer are modeled on the real containers LEGO uses to move parts around its own factory floor.
04It revives the LEGO-branded delivery truck idea from 2010's set 3221 after a 14-year gap, and it's noticeably longer, taller, and wider than that predecessor at around 47cm long.