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Last month, I bought this garbage truck MOC set from the BuildMoc store on
Aliexpress.
This MOC is based on the Mochi Master designed garbage truck that was submitted to Lego Ideas back in 2019. Two years later, Lego has yet to produce this truck. Here's the Lego Ideas submission: https://ideas.lego.com/projects/7d7f4e15-55e7-44c4-bb30-3a66b9cc0598.
I just finished building it and I just want to say that this set disappointed. Don't get me wrong, the original design of the mechanism that pick up the garbage cans and empties them into the truck is excellent. It's just that this MOC set used some really bad quality bricks.
This truck is really cool in that you can twist a knob on the side of the
truck and the mechanism arms will grab the garbage can to lift and dump the
contents into the truck. There is another knob that is used to push the
collected refuse into the rear bin. That bin is hinged so you can then
unload it by lifting it up.
Pictured above is the truck using not Lego bricks. The set comes as
shown with three garbage cans and some assorted bones and 1x1 circular
pieces. After I completed the build, there were 2 extra pieces left
over.
The instructions are in booklet form. As you can see on the cover, the
set is designated as C5333 and has 379 pieces in total. As this is a MOC set,
there is no branding associated with it.
Here's the back cover of the booklet describing the features of the garbage
truck.
There are eight bags of parts, six of them are numbered plus one bag of tires
and one bag of transparent pieces.
The issues I have with this truck:
The garbage truck has three main colours, green, white and light grey.
The white bricks were somewhat yellowed. The light grey bricks had some
yellowing as well. The green bricks had different shades of green depending on
the part, although hopefully not as noticeable in my pictures.
Some of the technic pins and pieces are lacking clutch and tend to fall off
(see second pic above). If I get the pieces to stay on the mechanism
to unload the garbage can works fine.
Also, the wheels on the garbage truck do not turn at all. The problem
seems to be with the protrusion going into the back of the rim, it's too
tight.
Lastly, there is no interior in the cab of the garbage truck.
I saw on Aliexpress that the Xingbao brand also has a garbage truck. I think it's set uses the same unloading mechanism in their truck. The set is listed as XB-18017 and has 550 pieces. This model seems to be a bit more detailed and probably the bricks used would be better quality than the C5333 MOC.
If you are thinking of getting this garbage truck MOC, hopefully your set
will be better than mine. I would only recommend it, if you have
replacement parts to fix the deficiencies.
Update! I fixed the Garbage Truck! See my fixes here:
