Cargo Truck

"A BrickScore of 73.5 reflects a Recommended City set that earns its place through an excellent forklift design and a clean, customizable truck, with the rubber band lift mechanism being the one frustration keeping it from a higher tier."

Both Brickset and JANG gave this 2013 City cargo truck a solid but not exceptional reception, praising the forklift as the best LEGO had produced to date and highlighting the three-piece truck design as clean and customization-friendly. JANG noted the rubber band forklift mechanism as the set's one meaningful frustration. Owner data is thin at just 11 ratings, averaging 4.89 out of 5 with a 100 percent would-recommend rate, though that small sample limits statistical weight.

Where they split: JANG's sentiment is listed as mixed, reflecting genuine ambivalence about the rubber band mechanism which he called a really poor decision by LEGO, while otherwise expressing strong enthusiasm for nearly every other element. Brickset's review is fully positive, rating playability at 80 versus JANG's 55, suggesting the mechanism bothered JANG considerably more.