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"The Snowplough earns its Recommended BrickScore of 78.2 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.
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Unlock with Collector or Reseller"Roof issues aside, this one looks great."
RacingBrick
"I think 60083 Snowplough Truck marked a step forward in LEGO City vehicles in 2015, given the truck's authenticity and clever functions. 60490 Snowplough will surely struggle to stand out as much as the prior snowplough,…"
Brickset Reviews
"I'm actually happy for LEGO that they were able to get this product to market during the appropriate time of year."
JANG's LEGO Reviews"Roof issues aside, this one looks great."
"I think 60083 Snowplough Truck marked a step forward in LEGO City vehicles in 2015, given the truck's authenticity and clever functions. 60490 Snowplough will surely struggle to stand out as much as the prior snowplough, considering the quality of LEGO trucks nowadays."
"I'm actually happy for LEGO that they were able to get this product to market during the appropriate time of year."
Owners find the Snowplough a clever and well-detailed small set with a satisfying salt-spreading mechanism and multiple working features, though a recurring friction-binding issue with the spreader and rear wheels is a consistent complaint.
Amazon4.9Walmart4.6LEGO.com4.8
