75827 Ghostbusters Firehouse Headquarters official images

Nice interior. Probably won't buy this set due to price, but I might need to copy the furniture here to give my old Cafe Corner a real interior...

Beautiful. The interior is awesome, and the way it opens is genius. This set is shaping up to be one of the best ever.

This is a day one buy for me!!!! Can't wait!!!

Wow. I'm not too familiar with Ghostbusters in general but this is a really amazing model. So much fun detail. The exterior is almost as impressive as the interior.

This is an amazing set. I won't buy it due to price and the fact that I am a KFOL, but this would make a nice birthday or Christmas Present :-P. I like the pool table from The Detective's Office better, however. The bathroom looks nice, but the sink looks a little flimsy.

350$ and no giant containment unit like this:
http://vignette3.wikia.nocookie.net/ghostbusters/images/d/d5/Be_right_there_guys.jpg/revision/latest?cb=20110605170749
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Easy pass.

I like the way the side wall swings out in two parts. It looks very robust. Fire escape looks great too - much better than having a plain wall on that side.

That being said, I don't understand the reluctance on LEGO's part to giving us fully finished floors. The set is already one of the most expensive ever - why not thrown in a few more tiles?

The interior is nice but there is a lot of empty space. Is this for play reasons? It feels like an inefficient use of real estate. There's all that room but the barracks only has 3 beds, for example.

I understand this is a very expensive set, and that because of that, the price will be prohibitive for many people. As best as I can determine, when this releases, it will be the 3rd largest set ever released in terms of piece count, trailing only the Taj Mahal and the UCS Millenium Falcon. And considering the Falcon sold for $499 for 5197 pieces, back in 2007, I think the $349 price point for this is very reasonable. It only has 563 pieces less than the falcon, and it is $150 cheaper.

They have finally priced me out of something I would really love to have. Oh well...admire from afar ;-)

Will Ecto 1fit in there? I think I'm seeing 20 studs between the doors and the desk, Ecto 1 is about 27 studs long. Will it angle in, or will the doors have to be open for it to park inside?

Awesome set but hard to justify the purchase. Will wait to see the parts list and hopefully see it 'in brick' somewhere.

The interior is a bit lacking. I think the way the removable floors are done on the modulars is better than this. It's all the bit too friendly if someone uses the bathroom :-)

In contrast to modular buildings this one comes with double thick walls - like a real brick-build building. Super detail! Here you will find quite a lot of the 4.600 bricks.

(-??) Lego, stickers like those in a £275 set. Great looking thing though, is it modular compatible?

Why do my comments never post here?
Anyway, @FreewheelBricks: Due to the way it opens, its footprint, and the lack of 2x2 pin bricks in the side, this set is not compatible with the modulars on a street layout.

Phew! Now I know I don't want to buy this. The interior is good, but not a patch on Sergio's. Then again, it would probably cost even more to have that much extra detail in it. It doesn't help that this thing just looks so empty to me...

@semantic This is a set based on the movie, which had a much smaller containment unit. The one in the set is appropriate.

There was a comment on the other article before it was deleted that mentioned it not seeming like the Ecto would fit inside - it seems the car should fit, but not far enough in to allow the doors to close. This would have been impossible to do without making the office area collapsible or very distorted.

The door area is a very difficult part of this model to do, given the source material. Two different buildings were used for the interior (Los Angeles, recessed doors that swing outwards with a taller arch) and exterior (New York City, shorter roll up door). I believe false recessed doors were built for the NYC building to make it match more closely the LA building.

The interior swing doors on the model are not accurate but the designer may have chosen to use them to maintain the lower arch of the NYC building while keeping the additional windows on the doors. There may have been no way to maintain enough clearance for the Ecto 1 model while also having outwards swinging doors, AND windows on the upper part of the doors, AND the smaller minifigure door within the door. There's only so much you can do to fudge details when the building and car are at two different scales.

Marcos Bessa stated that the ECTO will fit inside, but the ground-floor furniture will have to be removed to do so. It's an okay compromise.

That makes sense too. I hope he designed the furniture to be easily removable and replaceable with locating tiles/studs, but easy to do if not

I really like how this folds open. Very neat. In still not sure on the price, but I guess this and the new 66 Batcave will be my Christmas next year.

Is there a new panel like part used in the door (with the recessed bit)? I think I saw a similar part in olive green in one of the 2016 sets (the firefighter helicopter) in that Italian brochure posted recently.

It's hard to tell from the pics but might it be possible to mod the doors so they open outwards? With a small tweak of the office layout as well then ECTO-1 should fit comfortably. Of course, you'd lose the arched look at the top of the doors, but I'm sure that could be fixed with a hacksaw, scalpel, glue, brute force, swearing, ...

Holy....wow that looks a lot better on the inside. I am however incredibly skeptical of the firepole... I've seen something like it in quite a few other toys, and they never seem to work correctly

Anyone else notice the new fireman pole & handle (grip). The pole is twisted. I am guessing this combo makes the minifigs spin around it as they slide down (like a spiral). This, along with the Slimmer figure (and possible other new pieces) is why LEGO is not releasing it under the Ideas theme since they have a "mold no new parts" policy for those sets.

Excited to see what other surprises this set holds.

@ Semantic In the GB movies the master containment unit was located in the basement of the headquarters, so yes, it might be a disappointment that it is not included in this set, but it is at the sake of remaining closer to accuracy. The set does include a disposal chute for the portable containment units.

We will just have to wait for someone to mod this set to include the basement and the MCU.

It looks really great. If I can find the funds I will buy this. Perhaps skipp on a few SW sets coming year.
Shame Ecto-1 does not really fit the garage.

I do feel the building a bit scarcely decorated. It has an empty look. For a 400 euro set....I think I expected a bit more. But OMG how great will this look with my cafe corner, green grocer, market street, etc etc. etc,

Looks great, but stickers on a set this price is wrong and there are loads of them. For that reason only , I am likely to give is a pass.

The price is the very reason why I'm not going to buy this beautiful set.
I like the exterior and the interior as well, even if it seems pretty empty.
The minifigs are awesome, especially the Sigourney's one.

As it has been said, too many stickers for such a pricy set.
Last point, I would have appreciated to see the car inside the building.

I too am very disappointed at the shear number of stickers. Not good on a set of this price.

I'm getting this during the first Double VIP Points promo that comes around after its release (usually around March or April)

superbe ensemble pour une declinaison sur les modeles avancés, on espere pouvoir l'acheter malgre le prix

The good news is that it looks to be dark red. That makes me happy.

Awesome. Must have!

Wow! This looks awesome!

@tkatt According to the official set description Ecto 1 will fit inside.

This set is an absolute day 1 purchase for me along with the Brick bank. Ghostbusters is one of my all time favourite movies and the set looks awesome on both the inside and the outside. I can't wait!!!

Awesome set! 1st day purchase for sure. But _really_ need to add some walls between the bedroom and bathroom.... ;) The stickers are bugging me tho... At least half of the amount of stickers should be printed, the outside sign included.

The bedroom and the bathroom are connected and enclosed when the set's folded up, so the bathroom is only accessible through the bedroom. If the bedroom is empty, then the bathroom's completely private. Only when unfolded does it look awkward.

@8BrickMario, if you fold it together the bathroom is the same room as the bedroom...! Definitely needs some more walls and more interior in general.

Agreed that the stickers are such a dissapointment. It feels like the Simpsons got a lot of printed parts (and granted, a lot of stickers too).

So beautiful pictures of a set I will never own.

Wow, that interior looks quite good... where's Sergio's opinion on it?

I was very lucky to be able to speak with a designer recently, and apparently the extra cost of printing parts is just one consideration when deciding whether to use printed pieces or stickers. Yes, it costs massively more to print than to just create a sticker sheet, but there's also storage space to consider. Each printed part is effectively a new element, so has to be stored separately - they can't store a printed 2x2 white tile with blank 2x2 tiles, for obvious reasons. So if you have 17 printed pieces, that's effectively 17 new elements to store, which would be ridiculous, and maybe not actually possible for just one set. However, if they're all stickers instead, there's no new elements needing to be stored, all they need to do is print sticker sheets.

Having talked to the designer about that, and listening to what he said, I actually have a new appreciation for the thought process involved in deciding whether to print elements or whether to use stickers. I guess in this case, they decided that (because of the price) there wouldn't be enough sold to justify taking up so much extra space in their warehouses with new printed elements.

So while I would have preferred printed elements, I can understand why they aren't.

just big, nothing wow, pass

ah, one thing wow, 99% similar to Sergio512 's Ghostbusters HQ
which got banned from lego ideas

That GB logo needs to be printed. If anyone knows someone that is printing them, please post here.

@CapnRex101, @Paperballpark - it is obvious that they could not introduce a lot of new printed pieces - but GB logo should have been printed. They could have done it for $49.99-worth Ecto-1 - so I see no reason for not doing it in case of GB HQ.

Wow, the more I think about it - the more it bothers me. It is the most iconic piece in an iconic set (that will probably be featured in press) - and it is a sticker?

Inside is really cool, but I'm still not spending $350 on Ghostbusters

The set is gorgeous and I love all the interior details ...

... but my only thought is that, in terms of the Australian price? This is going to be *soooooo* expensive.

I'm buying this when it comes out for sure

I hate to complain about something so awesome, but I have complaints about the Ghostbusters HQ. First...I do understand why all of the pieces can not be printed and, as much as it annoys me, having stickers for things like the arcade are necessary. But I can not understand why the Ghostbusters logo on the front is not printed. Look at Dimensions, off the top of my head there's the Back to the Future Hoverboard, Portal Companion Cube, Itchy & Scratchy TV screen and Midway Defender arcade machine (assuming the arcade pieces are printed, we don't know yet (do we?)) none of those pieces would be of any use outside of of their theme. Admittedly the Dimensions are pretty expensive, but they do include the NFC base and game content. Oh, yeah there's also that piece they ALREADY MADE for the Ghostbusters Ecto-1. Just annoying. But that's not why I'm boycotting this set...

My reason for boycotting is the lockers: E Spengler, R Stantz and P Venkman...where is W Zeddemore? I know he didn't show up until half way through the first movie and OK, yes, I'll give you the fact he wasn't on the poster even, but come on! He was in the second one and did stuff...I think. I actually don't remember much of the second at all. He is pretty awesome in the Ghostbusters comics though. Plus Ernie Hudson is so famous he played himself on Hot in Cleveland, Regis Philbin didn't even play himself on Hot in Cleveland!

One final comment, If I can somehow find this for $200 or less I will buy this. One final final comment, I'll really drop up to $250 on this bunch of brinks...the Ghostbusters arcade game sold me!

There's something very..... "plain" or "simple" about the interior. I'm not sure what I was expecting, but it's not very exciting. Not bad, just not much "wow" factor.

The stickers, though. Good god, each and every one is painful to witness. Something at this price point should never have stickers. Especially pieces that used to be printed. For shame, Lego.

Really love the look of this set, but won't get it because of the price. I think it would've been nice to have Venkman's office instead of the bedroom, but I don't really mind. Also, is the mirror in the bathroom a sticker, I can't tell.

Very much overpriced and so much stickers... This set is a such a failure. But I do love the traffic light!

The price makes it an unlikely buy for me, but I think that interior is excellent!

I Will buy 2 !!

"Very much overpriced"?

As stated above, for what it is it is a steal.

@Dez Slade: unfortunately, even Ernie Hudson himself has always been slightly disappointed at the way Winston Zeddemore's character was handled in the Ghostbusters movie.
http://www.ew.com/article/2014/11/05/ghostbusters-ernie-hudson

[tongue-in-cheek]There's a reason there are only three seats in the 21108 Ecto-1 set![/tongue-in-cheek]...

It's still a day one purchase for me, but I'm finding it a little underwhelming on the inside detail. The opening mechanism is superior to the MOCs. The stickers for the sign really bother me. If they could print for Ecto-1, then surely they could have included the GB sign (at the very least) as a printed tile.

So beautiful!
But yeah, the stickered logo out front is a major bummer!
The slide looks interesting. It seems to work a bit like the slide of the Real Ghostbusters HQ playset (without a platform).
Wasn't there a row of file cabinets to separate Janine's and Venkman's "offices" in the movie?
Is the fact that there are only three beds and three lockers a nod to the 1st half of the movie ('pre-Winston')?
I still wonder why the LEGO building is gray with dark red bricks whereas the real-life building is more beige/sand-color with "terracotta"-red bricks and, imo, much more beautiful.
The Fire Brigade has the beige/sand bricks on the lower front and some GBHQ MOC I saw had the more orange/terracotta bricks in the upper half. That combination would be perfect, methinks.

The price for 4600 pieces is OK. But somehow I can't see this part count on pictures. It looks like 3000+ set to me.
Stickers are really pissing me off. I can't be objective when I look at those in such quantities. I'm also angry because I'd like to buy the set this size very much, but this one disappoints me.
Anyway... opening walls look great. Far greater than modulars in my opinion. Superb access to play features!

This is the first proper expensive set I am proposing to buy. Beautiful, clever and I love the theme. About the stickers - Yes they are an eyesore to the perfectionist, but reading comments about storage and costs unless you want this to be £500+ can't see what LEGO could do. I can't imagine it will be very long before printed parts become available through the interweb if you want to display this model, and if you're buying it as an investment - As iconic as the Millennium Falcon and only a few bits shy of the UCS. Stickers or not, this is going to be very expensive in ten years.

This set has gone from must have to MUST HAVE for me. I even love that the box matches the ecto 1 box!

I've been looking forward to the release of a non-Star Wars marquee-type set to build and display. This isn't it, sadly. Hate to say it but the abundance of stickers in what should be a premium set has put my right off.

Day 1 purchase for me

wow, can't wait untill the set is release, day 1 purchase for me.

Looks great! It's just a shame that the reception/office area is so large that you have to physically remove Janine's desk in order to park ECTO.

Looks like a great set. But it would be cooler with a Walter peck minifigure. I really like the ne piece for the fire pole. I will definitely be adding this to my collection

This isn't the first time a D2C has used stickers. I don't recall hearing complaints about Arkham, for instance. I think the stickers are there because these sets are so large and detailed. If it had fewer parts to recolor or to include in the set, they might have afforded to print some pieces, but it doesn't always work out that way. Printed pieces haven't been the standard for years, so I don't know why people think they "deserve" them when even a $12 City set doesn't have any printed tiles either.

@8BrickMario. So they can include printed pieces for the 50 euro Ecto-1, yet don't think the the margin is there to include at least the Iconic GB logo for a 350 euro set?

It continues to amaze me how this community reacts to sets of this caliber when it has perceived flaws in it.

Interior Looks Sparse:

I know it's been at least a while since I watched my copies of these films again, but honestly everything inside the Firehouse seems to be suitably appropriate. The interior shots of the Firehouse for most scenes were rather limited and if I recall it was rather cluttered with equipment and other unnecessary stuff. Heck the Ghostbusters Video Game showed quite a bit of the firehouse and honestly this set seems to have captured many of the key components perfectly.

We have the living area with a kitchen ('This represents the last of the petty cash'), a bedroom and bathroom which Slimer seems to have invaded and I don't recall that bit from any of the movies, but it is fun for the younger builders to enact new scenes and stuff.

There's the recreational area with the pool table and arcade machine, plus the lab for Egon, sure it doesn't have a couch like when he interrogated Tully, but realistically fitting one in wouldn't be that simple.

They even gave us the dark room from GBII with images of Prince Vigo on the wall. It isn't a giant picture of Vigo, but it's a nice nod to the second film.

The containment unit is small to accommodate the stairs as well, quite frankly I don't believe they could have made one any larger, considering that it would have been far too massive to work in.

The ground floor is pretty nice, sure Zeddemore doesn't have a locker, but at least we have the others and Janine's desk. Plus Venkman's desk and the partition between them.

All of the key scenes are nicely compacted into the set. So a bed is missing. So what? Judging from the pictures it doesn't look like you could realistically fit four beds in there, not without majorly disrupting the flow of the set.

And as to the whole stickers should be printed mentality. Good grief, stickers are quite annoying, I'll grant you that, however have we really become so conceited that we demand all expensive sets should include only printed pieces because that's how we perceive the price point situation?

True I would have preferred at least the logo sign be printed, but perhaps it includes stickers for that to customize? Maybe they have extra logos for GB II and possibly even TRGB cartoon series or something, who knows. We haven't seen the sheet yet, so it's entirely possible.

Nothing has dampened my enthusiasm for this set, seeing the toaster, the arcade machine, the iconic photo development room that almost killed some of the boys from GB II, everything looks spot on to me from what was on screen in LEGO form, and I for one look forward to January 1st with baited breath.

Wow, the detail and care taken in designing the interior is AMAZING!! BUT, for $300 I'd rather get the Brick Bank which is equally cool looking.

@Odeinoichus - " So a bed is missing. So what? Judging from the pictures it doesn't look like you could realistically fit four beds in there, not without majorly disrupting the flow of the set."

Take a look at the Ideas version, and note that that builder fit 4 beds and 4 bedside tables in a 11x10 space with a better layout than the official set did with 3 beds and one table in a 12x11 space.

While I do like the official set over all, I think this exemplifies the difference between the potential for the interior given how roomy it is, and the reality of what the final set is.

Of course, this being LEGO, that will be easy to change ourselves.

I love how it opens. Really neat. I think the interior details are fun. It definitely makes me want it more than I originally did, but very difficult spending that much on ONE set...maybe Christmas next year will consist of this set.

I wanted one more modular scale and I am building one. It definitely will be smaller than this, but still the same basic idea.

Either way, the interior is fun. I do hate that Ecto-1 can't fit in there without removing things. Seems silly to me.

Stickers aren't great, but I didn't really notice them when building Simpson's sets..odd. I mostly hate transparent stickers on transparent pieces. Fingerprints galore. I've attempted using other things so I don't have to touch them, but that didn't seem to help the smudges any.

So the description is out there and it says this will be 14" high. Thats a full 6" shorter than the Town Hall and the same height as the Fire Brigade. I thought it would be taller. Maybe the increased depth of it will make up for the height to make it appear more substantial.

I'm really looking forward to this set. It should look great either next to my other modulars or as a 1 off display piece.

@sethro3 I use a brickseparator to put see-trough or even most stickers on.I read about that tip somewhere, decided to try it and it works really well! No smudges at all... It's a bit difficult for larger ones but after a while you get quite good at it. Just use the tip.

About the set, I think it looks lovely. It's price is steep but okay for what you get. I love the detail and the way it folds open.

Well, this set is nice but as other people, I am missing the WAOUH effect.

First, I am not convinced by some details. Fire ladder seems lacking to me, as well as the roof arrangement. There was so much potential there. I also miss the idea of removing one character. There might be a reason behind, but I missed it.

Second are the stickers: I share everyone's contempt for those, mainly because I always fail to set them right, so forget about the pleasure to build this set with my 5-year old daughter. Then it prevents any reuse of the brick, since the sticker will either fall-off, or be damaged in the process. I may reconsider if Lego comes with stickers with help to position them on the bricks, like a two part sticker: you have the external part of the sticker fitting exactly the edge of the brick(s), then you can remove it to leave the nice part perfectly centered and aligned.

Third is the price of the set: you can argue about the set behing extremely large or overpriced. I always compare prices per brick. Usually for modulars, you have an average price per brick around 6 or 7 € cts. The bigger the set, the smaller the price. Here we have 8.5€cts ... I would accept similar price level than a smaller set to cover license, but here I fail to get the rational.

Then think it is due to the fact the the set has been announced for 390€ in France and 340€ in Germany...I fail to understand the logic behind and feel a bit flustered to be honest. It is not like we were so blessed economically that we have to pay so much more than our neighbours. So Ok, I always have the option to purchase abroad but it is definitely not common sense.

So all in all, I have nothing against this set, but this won't be a priority, mainly because of my perception of its value for money.

purdy....

Is it weird that my favorite part of this set is the new printed arms on the Ghostbuster minifigs? That's something that I was disappointed wasn't in the Ecto-1 set.

I'd love to own this, and park Ecto-1 in there, but it's way out of my price range. Sad.

No More Stickers, Please !
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Very awesome. Still not even close to being worth $350.

$350? agh! that means $429 probably in canada

Did you guys see the back of the building? It is awful!