LEGO City / Construction Sets

Construction is the LEGO City subtheme for building sites, road works and the machines that go with them, almost all in the bright yellow LEGO has used for work vehicles since the Town theme. It was there from the first City year in 2005, when 7249 XXL Mobile Crane and 7243 Construction Site led the range.

The machines are the heart of it, diggers, bulldozers, dump trucks, road rollers, wheel loaders and cement mixers, many of them with moving arms, tipping beds or working cranes. Some waves have a story of their own, like the demolition crew of 2015 that knocks buildings down before the builders put up new ones, and road works with sweepers and rollers return now and then. Construction rarely goes more than a few years without new sets, and some later sets are named simply for their machines, such as 60480 Yellow Backhoe Loader.