60097 City Square: Small Buildings Vehicles and Accessories

The Coffee stand is pretty basic with a bike rack on one side and a picnic table with umbrella on the other. Inside there are a couple different types of coffee machines behind the front counter, which has a couple of red coffee cups and a creamer container. This building is supplied with a nice sign that reads "The Coffee Chain" and a detailed barista to work the counter. The building itself is fairly boring, and there is a 1x4 space behind the sign that should have a finishing tile on it to match the rest of the finished roof. Otherwise a nice little addition.

The Tram station is a glass roofed structure with a couple chairs with side racks to hold newspapers or suitcases. It also includes an electronic ticket dispenser, some nice signage and a grass area with tree to round it out. I like this building, but the tree seems just a bit off.

The news helicopter is a nice open sided vehicle with some decent detailing and a camera hanging off one side, its a bit of an upgrade above some of the awful smaller helicopters that have shown up in some other recent City sets. It also includes a helmeted pilot.

The tow truck is pretty standard fare with a winch to pull the stranded car up onto the tilting bed. It is done up in the same green and white "Auto Service" colors that the current 60081 Pickup Tow Truck has. Its a nice model that adds some playability to the service station. There are a total of three cars included in this set for the tow truck to tow, a red couple, a black sedan and a yellow pickup truck. All are pretty basic and are of the much maligned 4 stud wide design, but its still a nice bonus and lets you fill up your city streets quick!

The Lego delivery truck is a simple design but does have opening cab doors and doors on the back, along with a driver wearing Lego Store regalia and a hand cart with two printed Lego boxes. Again, much like the tow truck does for the service station, the Lego truck adds some depth to the Lego store.

The last major item is the orange and black articulated tram. This is a fairly large vehicle with three sections, the two main end sections each have a driver seat and seats for four passengers and the middle section is labeled to hold bikes. You can comfortably fit 10 minifigs in the tram. It uses small disc wheels and the glass sides all open upwards to gain access to the interior. There is very little internal detail an no driver controls to speak of. My only real complaint is the green dot "digital" tram number display, its hard to see even under normal circumstances, but the instructions have you placing all four stickers towards the ends (which makes sense) but behind those particular glass panels are white door frames, and those white door frames lighten up the back ground enough that its almost impossible to see the numbering.

Last of all, you get a decent hot dog stand with cook, a child minifig eating a hot dog, a pizza delivery guy one a motorbike with boxes of pizzas flying off the back, a pedal bike, a newspaper rack, dog and a couple other minifigures.

Overall, I love this set, the diversity of buildings, mini-figures, details and accessories provides a ton of play AND display value while still having a fairy solid detail level. The components offer some interplay that gives depth to the whole set and there are lots ways this set can add to a larger city and/or train display!