Lego City Cargo Train Red Train's 3677

Product Description

Lego City Train's Red Cargo Train 3677

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Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #125872 in Toys & Games
• Brand: LEGO
• Model: 3677
• Dimensions: 3.58" h x 18.90" w x 22.91" l, .2 pounds

Features

• target Gender: boy
• up to 12 years at the age of six: Age
• nine: battery type: AAA batteries AAA alkaline
• The main production country: China
• LEGO and the LEGO logo are trademarks of the LEGO Group. (C) 2012 The LEGO Group.

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Lego's 2011 Cargo Train
By R. Ferguson
**Lego delisted listed this set in December of 2012. Prices have now risen well above MSRP. See my Amazon guide to Lego trains (click through my name) to see what is currently available and what trains are coming in 2013.**

I am the nut-job parent that you'll see in some of the other train reviews. I grew up with Lego and returned to it when I had kids. Obviously I am terribly partial to Lego (ignore my star rating), but I'll give you the best review I can so that you can make the decision that is right for your kids. I do not receive free sets or compensation for my Lego reviews. This set began trickling into U.S. stores in early July, 2011.

A tidy and nicely designed set, 3677 includes a heavy switching engine (similar to a Deutsche Bundesbahn Class 290 diesel locomotive), a small green and white hazardous waste boxcar (with a pallet of lime green barrels), tipping ballast car, and maintenance-of-way (MOW) flatcar (which has a small cab, MOW truck, small crane and pallet). The MOW truck has flip-down rail wheels. There is also a trackside conveyor belt loader for the ballast, a trackside hopper, and four mini-figures.

The set includes all the necessary Power Function parts (i.e., it is a remotely controlled, motorized train) and requires only batteries. The red battery box (a new color for this part) holds six AAA batteries and sits inside the engine. Lego also included the gray battery cover as a spare. If you don't like changing out AAAs, you can opt for the more expensive rechargeable lithium-ion battery and DC charger available directly from Lego. The lithium-ion battery has a gray cover, but if you are handy you can swap the covers using a small screwdriver. The set includes 16 pieces of curved track, 8 pieces of straight track, and 16 pieces of flex track (enough for an oval).

This set sits between 7938 and 7939 in price, but may have the most playability of the three. I find that kids love all the trains and naturally expand them with their own bricks and mini-figures, but this set has a bit more going on than the other two. While 7939 gives you two switches and a crane, with 3677's maintenance car, ballast car/loader, and hazardous waste car, there are more plot lines available (inevitably kids will stage a crash regardless of the train you buy).

I like the engine design; it is the latest in a long line of Lego switching engines, the most recent being #4512 from 2003, and one of the most classic being #7760 from 1980. This new engine is very long and has a lift-off top to access the cab. The louvered doors on the side open to reveal engine controls (a sticker). My favorite part of the set is the brown tipper wagon. The green and white boxcar is merely okay. I don't like how the double doors overhang the end when they are open; a single door would have been fine. As for the MOW flatcar, I would have preferred a car that was a piece of MOW machinery (e.g. a ballast spreader) or carried something other than a truck (perhaps a flatcar full of rails). The MOW flatcar has a small cab with a hinged roof.

I do recommend that you purchase #7936, Level Crossing, which has another Maintenance of Way vehicle that ties-in perfectly with 3677.

Not many stores routinely carry Lego trains and even fewer have them built for you to view. I recommend going to Youtube and doing a search for "Lego 3677 brickshopholland" so that you can get a better feel for this set. If you want to get a complete overview of what Lego offers for trains, you can go to the Lego site (go to the "Shop" and organize by "theme") or you can click on my name, go to my Amazon page, choose the "Guides" tab, and then choose "Get a Lego Train."

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