Very well then, I refuse it! You won't see me talking about this set.

Imagine having a truck just so you could refuse people's collections.

My white whale. It’s so expensive now! Beautiful set, though.

Funny, I just bought this on Bricklink last week and built it yesterday. Love it!

Must’ve been one of my first sets. I loved the tipping garbage can feature, and then you could lift the whole back up.

@N1ckBr1x said:
"My white whale. It’s so expensive now! Beautiful set, though."

I totally know how you feel. Can't get my hands on it, too!

I love this set. I used to save the sprues from the 1x1 round plates and use them as refuse in this truck. (Remember that 1x1 round plates always came in 2's with the sprue back then?)

@N1ckBr1x said:
"My white whale. It’s so expensive now! Beautiful set, though."

I paid $35 for mine. Got lucky I guess. It’s in pretty good shape. I only replaced 3 pieces with better ones.

One of the original big Lego garbage trucks. Good times.

Those little trash cans are far older than I thought!

MY first Town set. I wish I still had it. Superb playability.

One of my all time favorite sets. Just look at those colors... How beautiful is that brick built red strip going across and around the truck? From it's red tilting mechanism to yellow hubcaps it's a flawless set from the golden days of Lego. Magnificent.

I bought this set as a child and it is one of my all-time favorite City sets from the 1980s!

@jkb said:
" @N1ckBr1x said:
"My white whale. It’s so expensive now! Beautiful set, though."

I totally know how you feel. Can't get my hands on it, too!"

You need to get on eBay uk there are loads for £20. Unless you’re after a box of course!

I have fond memories of this set, the problem is my mum is laying claim to all our Lego for the grand kids! Biggest mistake was not taking it when I moved out!

I think the biggest question is who’s been leaving bins out in the middle of nowhere like that? That’s a whole new level of littering that is

@NotProfessorWhymzi said:
"Normally, i’m not one to complain when Lego’s current set lineup doesn’t fit my expectations. (Unlike some people...)

But darn it, i think we’re about due for a new minifig-scale garbage truck. Or maybe a recycling truck."

Last one was in 2016, its 60118 and I have it and its a proper 6wide garbage truck.

I had this, and was one of my fav town sets. The logo shows it is actually a recycle collection truck. But in a world where everything is made from Lego bricks, even the rubbish, then you can recycle and reuse everything.

One of my favourites, firmly remember this and the other 1987 Town range appearing in a nice display unit at one of my local toy shops. I would have been the same age then as my son is now!

Loved the new parts appearing that year which enabled the new style headlamp and grille arrangement, and the dustbin was new too. I got this one early on, with 6501 and 6523, all the pieces are still there with boxes and instructions. I’ll get round to rebuilding my 1980s town sets one day!

I have this set!

Had this set as a child, haven’t thought about it in a very long time but as soon as I saw the tipping mechanism made from a chair it brought a smile to my face.

An update with working lifter was provided in the 2019 Lego Ideas Garbage truck https://ideas.lego.com/projects/7d7f4e15-55e7-44c4-bb30-3a66b9cc0598 that reached 10k after the father and son went around all the brick conventions to promote it (see 16 updates), but was sadly not approved even though there were 717 comments of support.

I received this for my tenth birthday, I was so excited to get it that I got up at three in the morning and crept downstairs to build it, still got it and is still one of my favourite sets.

I had a lot of fun with the this set.

First it was a garbage truck, but later it became the vehicle for my version of Lego Ghostbusters.
The garbage cans got a blue transparent stud on the lids and became the traps.

I think in the end some busters had air tanks and some had the Imperial backpack to reflect the poster of Ghostbusters 2. Not sure what the end version of the wands was.
All trials before that were brick build and too bulky.

@BovineBrick said:
"Those little trash cans are far older than I thought!"

Remember that those are the original moulds, not the current ones. The older ones had 2 large protrusions to hold the lid instead of 4 small ones on the current one.
I wonder why they changed it, because the only time one of my trash bins broke (and yeah it was from this set), it was one of the quarter-circle things on the bottom...

Really fond memories of this set, so many rare pieces and a nice solid build. I alway loved the simple but clever loading/unloading mechanism on it's back (it was my first set to have one of those space seats). It was also my first set that used the 4x5 'chassis plate' aligned in reverse. As a kid I was always amazed to see the headlights align with the front end of that part.

@NotProfessorWhymzi said:
"But darn it, i think we’re about due for a new minifig-scale garbage truck. Or maybe a recycling truck."

2021 has a recycling container truck 60292 : Town Centre
2022 has a garbage truck in 60316 : Police Station

None of them sold seperately though, but City isn't like Town these days, most special vehicles come in the bigger sets, and there are only a few slots for €10/€20/€30 vehicles a year.

An exception for a small set was : 60249 : Street Sweeper just retired

The last garbage truck from 2019 was a 4+ 60220 : Garbage Truck

Must-have vehicle for your 12V train town.

@Lego_lord said:
"One of my all time favorite sets. Just look at those colors... How beautiful is that brick built red strip going across and around the truck? From it's red tilting mechanism to yellow hubcaps it's a flawless set from the golden days of Lego. Magnificent. "

That was another wonderful thing about the 80's LEGO sets, the vibrant color palate. Don't get my wrong, I love earth tone colors for realism, but 80's LEGO sets just 'pop', everything was in a 'LEGO world': The vehicle '4 wide' scale, the vibrant colors, the same yellow smiley face.
I think this was one of the first sets with the actual trash can part and I just recalled wanting those parts so bad at the time (and got one in the 6380 Emergency Treatment Center).. Sadly this was right before my dark ages started.