7635-1: 4WD with Horse Trailer

Saddle up for a horseback ride!

What a great day for a horseback ride! Load the horse into the trailer, hitch it up to the powerful 4WD vehicle, and drive out to the countryside for a day of fun and riding. Includes 2 minifigures, horse and fence! Vehicle with trailer attached measure 9.5"(24cm) long and 3"(7cm) high!

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Sometimes one should be moderate

Posted by Night City Dream in Russian Federation on 15 October 2009

This set is interesting as in 2009 it restarts a rural life which was so popular in the 90s. However, some things about this set seem to me excessive. But I'll start with positive aspects.

The set has 2 minifigs. It's not that much but still more that, for example, there are in the 7631.
The set has a horse. This is probably the first Horse in LEGO CITY (not Town or World City). Fine.
The 4WD really looks like the Range Rover and this woks to its advantage. I personnally dislike this car but I like the way it was reproduced by Lego. The colour scheme is nice, too. The trailer is excellent.
I don't like much that the 4WD being so huge, can't normally contain minifigs inside.

However, the set is not as good as it might seem:
- it has only 176 pieces.
- it has a very big box
and as a result,
- it is much overpriced.

Moreover, I don't like that the 4WD is 6 studs wide. Yes, it should be if we try to be accurate but this fact harms the whole System. LEGO CITY system. If so, we have to build trucks that are 8 studs wide and I really don't think it's worth doing.

So, I give this set only 3.

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I’m Really Not Sure About This One…

Posted by LegoCoastalPatrol in United Kingdom on 02 October 2009

I’ve recently picked up a few of the later City sets (7686, 7990, 7991) and out of them all this is my least favourite. I looked at Argos for this (£13.99) but it was constantly out of stock, but I found mine in John Lewis at the Trafford Centre for £9.99! For that price I think the set is OK but if I had paid full price for it I would have felt a little cheated.

Essentially there is nothing wrong with the concept of the set; I just think it could have been done better. I must admit I was in two-minds about returning mine as some of the decals (stickers) seem discoloured and some of the parts didn’t fit as snugly as I would have hoped. The set is divided into 2 main parts:

The Jeep:

The jeeps looks OK in my opinion, I am not sure if it is based on a production car at all, it doesn’t look much like the current models offered by Toyota, Land Rover etc. It also looks unfinished; there are two minifigs with the set but only one seat! There is room in the rear of the jeep for the second minifig to sit, but this involves removing the cab roof and then the roof next to that, which results in the roof rack and associated ‘vents’ coming off! There is no dashboard or control console. The wheel arches seem a little high in comparison with the wheels and tyres and the rear number plate is attached to a sloping panel which faces down towards the ground! The mirrors could also have been better. It is also rare to find a jeep without a spare wheel on the tailgate. I like the grill and provision of ‘spot lights’ low down, but if this jeep is supposed to be representative of the high-end Range Rovers etc, why not offer those Xenon headlights (blue headlamps)?! I like the colour scheme of the jeep and the use of the transparent panels, the roof rack area is also good.

The Horsebox:

The horsebox is very, very basic and although it is provided to do a job, I think it takes minimalism too far! There is no dedicated storage area for tools, riding equipment or provisions (not that any of these items are provided with the set). Also, horseboxes usually have a side door for personnel access to the box, this does not, nor are there any windows in the box. Additionally, every horsebox I have seen comes with a spare wheel usually under a cover, this does not. The rear ramp / door is OK but doesn’t make a good contact with the sides of the box when it is in the closed position. There is also a roof-mounted floodlight which doesn’t seem to fit in somehow. Lastly, there is no undercarriage at the front of the trailer, and although the trailer has two axles and does stand alone, it looks odd when disconnected from the jeep.

The set also comes with two minifigs; these are quite attractive and fit the scheme of the set well. The one piece of fencing and the horse are also fine.

This is the first and only Farm set in my collection, the rest of the series doesn’t interest me so I won’t be expanding this line at all, I’m glad I got this set while it is available but having built it once and already dismantled it, it’ll probably remain boxed for a long time to come.

It has however, provided me with the inspiration to build a proper coach built horsebox complete with office, over-cab sleeping area and two stables – so something good came of the purchase.

Why didn’t Lego do this?

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Great SUV, well all of it.

Posted by legomaniac in United States on 30 August 2009

I love this set, 2 figures, a horse (lost my old one :[ ) nice trailer and truck, but the truck was missing an engine!

I changed the yellow brick that holds the front of the truck on and put a 2x2 plate with a lego 2x2 engine with the blower on top. and added a stick shift in the inside.

perfect for my lego town

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The middle classes have come to Lego City.

Posted by jim2301 in United Kingdom on 26 August 2009

There is so much you can do with this set. On the face of it, it may not look like much, but there is so much more! First of all, You have a doting father taking his daughter to the gymkhana on a saturday morning. Then you know exactly where he's going after!! That's right, he's taking that "Discovery" off-roading! Who'd have thought you could have made a proper looking "Disco" with a handful of bits? The whole set is brilliant. The 4WD, the horse box, even the minifigs, it's just so right. Take a bow, Lego, You've earned it!

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Worth the Price of Admission (albeit an expensive admission)

Posted by jcilkmfoster in Hungary on 25 August 2009

I posted a review of this set (my first review, regrettably) before we opened it. Tragic at worst, overzealous at best.

At any rate, we have since opened it, built it, "stickered" it, and played with it.

Here's what I have for you all:

Pros:

Fun build - particularly for the indicated age range (5-12)
Challenging build (again, for the indicated age range - my seven year old daughter loved to build it the first time and a few weeks later took it apart and rebuilt it)

Another plus: the truck is just plain cool. Way out of the norm for any other City-themed cars that I've seen. Besides, what LEGO city doesn't need a sweet SUV on it's roads?

Playability - great. My children (9, 7, 6, 4) all love it.

Parts - great set if you're just looking for parts

Stickers - I normally can't understand TLG's relatively new insistence upon using stickers instead of printing directly to the elements. Having said that, this set made it (at least partially) clear: if you don't want to build the truck and trailer, you're stuck with pieces with horse pictures on them. Horse pictures don't really work with most other genres. So, you have options, and that's a plus.

All in all, this is a great set BUT the price tag is a bit on the steep side ($22.99US - 176 pieces? Really?). I'm sure the steeper price is due to some of the elements being on the bigger side (fence, horse, bigger elements for the trailer, etc).

Hope this helps!

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