Helicopter, Fire Truck & Submarine Remix — C+ · The Brick Drop Score
C+
The Drop Score
Helicopter, Fire Truck & Submarine Remix
60462-1 · City
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Three vehicles in one box sounds like a deal until you realize $59.99 for a remix set means you're paying full price for leftovers. The build is fine, the play is fine — fine is the whole story here.
Is the price fair?DFull MSRP for a remix concept is a tough sell — you feel the gap between what you paid and what you got.
Will you love it?C+Three decent vehicles with zero wow factor; fun enough, but nothing you'll remember building.
Holds its value?C-Remix sets don't tend to develop aftermarket mystique — expect flat resale.
True ValueD
$60
MSRP
$75
Parts value
124%
Ratio
The parts alone are worth about 124% of the MSRP — the basis for this D price read.
What you get
Plain bricks
$60
Functional piecescalc
$9
Figures (×3)
$6
BargainThe parts alone are worth more than you pay — $75 of parts for $60.
The Full Take
'Remix' is LEGO®'s way of saying they took parts from existing sets, shuffled the deck, and called it new — and for $59.99, that creative accounting stings a little. The helicopter, fire truck, and submarine each do their job without doing anything memorable, which is the set's defining trait across the board. Three minifigs for a three-vehicle haul is at least proportional, but nothing here will stop a kid mid-scroll or make a shelf more interesting. The build experience is competent City construction — if you've built one emergency vehicle set in the last five years, you know exactly what this feels like. As a C+ overall, it lands squarely in the 'fine for a gift, forgettable otherwise' zone. The Remix branding is doing a lot of heavy lifting to justify a price that doesn't fully follow.
