Ten bucks for a loader with a functional scoop and a hard-hat minifig — this is a City entry point that doesn't feel like a punishment.
The parts alone are worth about 169% of the street price — the basis for this A- price read.
BargainThe parts alone are worth more than you pay — $15 of parts for $9.
The Loader sits at that sweet spot in the City lineup where the price is low enough that you don't overthink it and the model is just complete enough that it doesn't feel like a leftover. At 61 pieces it's not trying to be a centerpiece, but the scoop mechanism gives it a functional hook that most sets at this size skip entirely. The minifig is solid — hard hat, work vest, the whole blue-collar package. It won't dominate a shelf or anchor a collection, but as a desk accent or a kid's first construction vehicle it clears the bar with room to spare. The B overall is fair: nothing here is broken, nothing is extraordinary, but the A- on price means the entry cost matches what you're getting. Resale isn't the play here — the C on holds tells you that up front — but that's fine because this set was never asking to be a vault piece.