Snowplough

"The Snowplough earns its Recommended BrickScore of 78.4 as a 2025 City set with genuinely clever mechanical features for the price, though the friction-drive salt spreader's tendency to lock the rear wheels is a real engineering trade-off that prevents it from reaching the top tier."

The 2025 City Snowplough (60490) earns a Recommended verdict on the strength of its clever friction-driven salt-spreading mechanism and double-hinged plow, which reviewers found genuinely inventive for a 263-piece vehicle set at $27.99. Owner ratings are strong at 4.83 out of 5 across 152 ratings, though the LEGO.com recommendation rate of just 39% is notably lower than the raw score suggests, pointing to a split between younger buyers who love the play features and older reviewers who find the salt-spreader binding issue a real flaw. RacingBrick praised the design quality while noting a quality-control miss (a missing roof piece in the reviewed copy).

Where they split: The gap between the high raw owner rating (4.83 average) and the low LEGO.com would-recommend percentage (39%) reflects a real split: buyers who enjoy the set casually rate it highly, while those who test the play mechanics carefully take issue with the salt-spreader binding and the friction-locked rear wheels. One LEGO.com reviewer specifically called out the design decision, arguing a simple gear mechanism would have allowed free rolling and salt spreading simultaneously.