Nice-looking set, albeit a very idealised view of what the actual things look like nowadays - may serve as a small culture shock for those not familar with em!!

I like it. As in 'I will probably buy it at some point' like it. @bro_bricks that makes it five, and one outside the UK :)

I like it, it's a nostalgia set that I will definitely have for my birthday a month later, I hope.

As a ex-pat (ex-pol? ex-cit?) Londoner, I have bought all the other London-themed sets, I would love to get this one, but for that price, and not city-scale, hmm.....

Nice to see one of the red portaloos made up as a set. This would be ideal to mod as the Banksy bendy one.

Battery-powered bricks and still at a decent price? Guess they learned their lesson from the lighthouse!

Needs yellow tiles on the floor, and some dodgy postcards in the windows!

Glad they dropped the pillar box from the design - it was too much.

Looks lovely, smashing, ace, right and proper, jolly good, and however else the Bri'ish would describe it!

I will say, even with the price-per-piece, $115 seems kinda expensive for this. I think $80 or $90 would probably have been more reasonable. Still, it looks pretty cool, even if I am a Yankee!

Red London, where is that?

I mean, it looks really nice, but I have no interest in owning this. If my club did regular UKified layouts (we’ve only done one _once_), I could see maybe PABing the red windows to make a bunch of minifig-scale versions, but even that would be unlikely to see any use.

Not enough dog poo, vapes, or any other unpleasantness on the floor. Very innaccurates

When I saw it, I told myself: having lived 10 years in London, I might eventually get this (expecting to pay somewhere around CAD$70-80). When I saw the suggested Canadian price ($150) this set is now definitely not on the buy list. 50% rebate in Canada are practically inexistent so I guess I won't get it in the end. Nice model though.

Some phones might fit at the back of the telephone box, which could add a sound feature of dialling or ringtones.

I guess among AfoLs this may no sell that well but I can see this being sold in brand stores in the UK for years to come...
By the way, @Huw, why does the submit button say Submi?

Well my comment in the other thread about this probably not being a big set so that tourists could get it home easily from a London visit didn't really happen but I still like this. The doors look a bit heavy though due to the 2 x 3 windows used making the glazing bars too thick for the sizes of the doors, even allowing for about 70 years worth of additional paint coats! I will still probably get this at some point though, hopefully at a discount and when I have found somewhere to put it!

I just noticed: In the main picture, the new phone sitting by the side of the model is upside down.

@WemWem said:
"It’s very cute and should appeal to Anglophiles, and the phone-stand feature is one of those charming touches that I really encourage from LEGO. Just isn’t my cup of tea, so to speak.

Maybe this will be super popular and we’ll get a new annual phone booth release. I demand a fithy, delapidated 1980s NYC phone booth for my minifigs to place calls from when they’ve fallen on hard times."

Now we need early 80s Times Square Modulars.

City of Brickston! *When they kick out your front door, how you gonna come? With your hands on your head, or on the trigger of your gun?*

@Huw said:
" @MrClassic said:
" @Zink said:
"Are there no pictures of the phone stand? Or am I overlooking it?"
For some reason Brickset never seems to publish all images, but on other sites there are many more, including photos with a mobile put into the "stand" (the fence and the barriers in front of it), doesn't look very convenient."

We don't need to clutter the article with them, they are readily available on the set details page."
I meant that you usually don't add all images to the set details pages either. When this article was posted there were no images on 21347 - now there are 11, on other sites there are more than 20, most of which are so called lifestyle photos.

Because only London has red telephone boxes.....

HOLY GALLIFREY!

"the design also includes a stand for your mobile phone."

Reminds me of 60228 where the control room brilliantly allowed you to slide in your mobile and an app provided a countdown screen along with exciting FX. Seemingly (but predictably), this LEGO CITY Explorers app doesn't work any more, even though it's listed on the main website.

I'll call it now*, the next modular will be a traditional tea room with a hat shop on the side or above it + a minifig red telephone box on the street. Just 10 or 11 months to wait and see!

(*pun intended)

Simply perfect! My most looked forward to set since Concorde, and this doesn't disappoint. The only fault that the original submission had was the lamp post being shorter than the phone box, but that's been sorted. Now, if they could just remake Tower Bridge and the Houses of Parliament in a similar scale....

And remember children. This set isn't for everyone. Lego still make plenty of toys for you to play with!

@nrith said:
" @WemWem said:
"It’s very cute and should appeal to Anglophiles, and the phone-stand feature is one of those charming touches that I really encourage from LEGO. Just isn’t my cup of tea, so to speak.

Maybe this will be super popular and we’ll get a new annual phone booth release. I demand a fithy, delapidated 1980s NYC phone booth for my minifigs to place calls from when they’ve fallen on hard times."

Now we need early 80s Times Square Modulars.
"

It’d allow LEGO to make proper use of that 18+ branding, at any rate.

@Huw said:
"We don't need to clutter the article with them, they are readily available on the set details page."

While I do agree with that for the current format, but some kind of slide show with all available pictures would be best of both worlds...

I'll wait for the Creator 3-in-1 set version next year.

If I get this, I'll probably put a white 80677 on the floor of the booth.

@Aardtacha said:
"It's lovely and I want it, but "turn of the Century" to me will always be the 19th/20th century change."

Why? Were you alive then?

One of the best Ideas sets for a while. Though, as a few people have pointed, it's a shame that there aren't a few 'special' stickers to put in the windows.

And to make it even more niche they could do a cream recolour for the Hull version*

*Of course, this will trigger the many US members even more who think that anything without an American link won't sell.

Only in places where tourists like to take pictures. They’re pretty rare these days!

Like many here, agree that it's a nice model but don't quite know who's buying it. Love the little posters inside.

Shame a few more of those stickers couldn't be prints, but I love it and will definitely be getting one at some point.

Best ideas set ever, in my opinion!

Congratulations to the fan designer. I like it. I think it would look great with an expanded sidewalk and brick built pedestrians.

@MrClassic said:
" @Zink said:
"Are there no pictures of the phone stand? Or am I overlooking it?"
For some reason Brickset never seems to publish all images, but on other sites there are many more, including photos with a mobile put into the "stand" (the fence and the barriers in front of it), doesn't look very convenient."

Another missed call, trying to extract my phone from this LEGO model without breaking it to pieces in the process!

@ShinyBidoof said:
"*Of course, this will trigger the many US members even more who think that anything without an American link won't sell."

1. I’ve never said that all approved projects _should_ be something that’s geared for the US market. I have, however, said that everything based on licensed IP that’s been approved since the two Japan-only projects has been something that does have strong appeal in the US (although Adventure Time didn’t appeal well enough).

2. Just because it’s not based on or drawn from the US doesn’t mean it won’t appeal to people in the US. The Beatles and Doctor Who were two UK-originating projects that did very well (but again, both have their followings in the US). And two of the most iconic things that people this side of the pond associate with the UK (or more specifically just London) are the Routemaster and the red phone box. I don’t think it’s going to perform as well as the Ecto-1 or DeLorean here, but I certainly don’t think it’ll be a flop.

@MegaBlocks said:
"I can see this selling well outside of the AFOL market and more generally at adults (not traditionally into Lego), similar to the flowers market.

For AFOLs all they want is a Spaceman in a different colour or yet another Castle set."

Untrue! I'll gladly take Castle figures with all kinds of emblems or yet another Galaxy Spaceship!

I like the sticker advertisements inside but I'm not sure if I'll be getting this one

The door handles are rubbish. Making it so large and expensive seems a cock-up. Not my cup of tea. Cheerio!

@MorkXII said:
" @IgelCampus said:
"Wow, what a sticker hell. Not even Lego manages to put the stickers for their own marketing photos straight."

I'm just glad it doesn't say TELOP HONE at the top."

No, it says TELEP HONE at the top.

I'd consider it, if it where minifig scale. This is just too big. Looks good, though.

If it's too big, see Tiago Catarino design on YouTube. It's definitely minifig scale. I've used old style 2x2 windows instead.

Nice design, but I' not interested in a phone booth set. If it was a British police box (like from "Doctor Who"), I would've definitely bought it.

Not really any parts included in this that makes me want to pay £100 - the parts that may have convinced me if they were printed are all stickers - yuuuuccckkk!

Meh, I'm surprised by how much I quite like this one.

Is this roughly in scale with 10258?

@HandPositions said:
"Is this roughly in scale with 10258 ?"

I don't think so. The bus is way, way too small... the telephone kiosk looks to be almost as tall as the bus!

@bro_bricks said:
"cool! definitely cool! but I feel as though it'll only be really desirable for only certian people in a certian reigon of the world, maybe a region more towards the west of Europe? maybe just the west of Europe? maybe just the UK? or maybe four people in the UK? (Legoland poster is sooo cool though)"

And every kiwi and aussie that spent time in london. So an extra 10 people maybe?

@MegaBlocks said:
"For AFOLs all they want is a Spaceman in a different colour or yet another Castle set."

Not true! All we want is dark-purple Spacemen. Lots of them. And modernized versions of the rest of the Blacktron I sets. Right, guys?

@HandPositions said:
"Is this roughly in scale with 10258 ?"
First thing I checked!
The bus is about 1:24.
Phone Box is about 1:9.

To be truly authentic the inside should smell of stale p***

London's Calling

Definitely a neat looking set, although not one I have any particular interest in getting.

Might as well call this set "Lightning McQueen" since it's so red and covered in stickers.

While the red telephone boxes are a piece of iconography everyone's passively aware of, I don't think a whole lot of people outside the UK like them $115 much. Undoubtedly it *will* sell, there's definitely a market out there, but it kinda feels like if they made a $115 American Football out of Lego. It's important to the local culture and the globe is generally aware of its existence, but it's not as marketable of a regional-based product as Architecture and related landmark sets.

put a village hall behind, and you have a scene from "Local
Hero" in Scotland

I really do love the look of it, but the price is just too high for me.

I know this isn't the Tardis but cannot resist a hearty Tom Baker "Jelly babies, anyone?".

@maffyd said:
"And the article is begging for the picture of the 'phone holder function' to be included. I'm never going to the set page for this. Luckily it's been described effectively."

Set details > images is another few clicks away. By the time I’ve looked at them, and returned to the article to comment, I’ve forgotten what I’ve looked at.

Agreed with @WizardOfOss suggestion of a slideshow or something to keep all images in the article. Single out the main pictures of interest but then also have the others easily accessible within the article.

Thanks I hate it. I will NEVER understand sets like these. But I guess People are crazy because Adidas Shoe sold well. We live in clown world.

Some people say mod it to the Tardis. I don't think they have the proper color needed for all the parts?
But what I did was just kept the Tardis from 21304 Doctor Who. Or if you don't have it, see if eBay just sells this separate from the rest of the set or use the instructions. Makes a nice desktop Tardis display. I love it.

Gorgeous! As a Londoner, this is a significant paet of my cultural heritage haha. But joking aside, it's a lovely set, and since i was unable to get the London Bus set of 10258 I'll focus on getting this one in lieu.

@MegaBlocks said:
"I can see this selling well outside of the AFOL market and more generally at adults (not traditionally into Lego), similar to the flowers market.

For AFOLs all they want is a Spaceman in a different colour or yet another Castle set."

What???! Do you have a camera/microphone in my house?

Also, you forgot to mention more Clone Trooper battlepacks.

I love the references to Modular buildings on the HELP phone numbers: 10278 for Police, 10197 for Fire, and 555 (!) for Ambulance.

@AustinPowers said:
" @legoDad42 said:
"Some people say mod it to the Tardis. I don't think they have the proper color needed for all the parts?
But what I did was just kept the Tardis from 21304 Doctor Who. Or if you don't have it, see if eBay just sells this separate from the rest of the set or use the instructions. Makes a nice desktop Tardis display. I love it. "
I don't understand the comments about the TARDIS at all. What has a London Phone Box to do with it?
The TARDIS was a police box, which not only is something very different to a standard phone box, but also looks completely different. Wrong size, wrong shape, wrong colour, wrong details. Other than the fact that both are basically box shaped they've got nothing in common.
Which parts would people suggest to use at all from this set for use in a TARDIS MOC? The base? Even that would have to be enlarged since a police box has a quite a bit larger footprint.

Quote from Wikipedia:

"Between 1929 and 1938 around 1,000 examples of the Mackenzie Trench police box were installed. They measured 9 ft 4 in (2.84 m) tall, and 4 feet 6 inches (1.37 m) wide."

The K2 Phone Box otoh was 1 m wide and 2.74 m tall, which is substantially smaller.

As for the shape:
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Earls_Court_Police_Box.jpg

versus

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Big_and_small_red_phonebox.jpg "

Yep, that’s why I said just get the 21304 Tardis. Or use that sets instructions just for the Tardis model alone. It’d be too much to mod and moc off this red telephone booth and have the proper colors and parts.

Looks good to me, but the price is way too high

Ring, ring. It's your gift, a cute set for those who want it.

@CCC said:
"With the railings that haven't had their spikes cut off, the Victorian style lamppost, the flowers, it all looks a bit twee. Less reality and more like something out of Notting Hill or any other London based movie starring Hugh Grant in his floppy hair days."

I was expecting an alt model with the coin box on the floor, strange smelling puddles, and broken glass for the authentic experience.

Wonder how many people from the UK will actually buy this as opposed to tourists who visited London maybe once. I bet the majority will be the latter ones.

@zootlewurdle said:
"Lacks authenticity; not enough fliers for adult services."

Lol was thinking the same

@AustinPowers said:
"To me, the 2000/2001 change was the turn of the millennium."

Ooh, someone else who knows when the true change between 20th and 21st centuries happened!

@alstba:
Honestly, I’d rather have this sitting on a shelf than the Concorde, and that’s before finding out that it’s a fatally (literally) flawed design that was the beneficiary of a government coverup.

@legoDad42:
Different color, different shape. Basically, it’d mean keeping the base and designing a completely different phone box. And possibly setting it at a jaunty angle because it wasn’t installed to spec.

@AustinPowers:
The blue police boxes _do_ have a phone inside. It’s just of limited use/access, and a lot of people who’ve never been to the UK might not understand the difference. For a long time, I thought it was the old-timey equivalent of dialing 911 in the US (i.e. you pick up the phone if you need to report a crime or call for help). Then I became an adult, and the internet happened.

@PurpleDave said:
@AustinPowers said:
[[To me, the 2000/2001 change was the turn of the millennium.]]

Ooh, someone else who knows when the true change between 20th and 21st centuries happened!]]

I wrote that I lived in London just before the turn of the century. That was 1999-2000. Perhaps there is a definition of "just before" that I am not aware of?

@ForestMenOfEndor said:
"I wrote that I lived in London just before the turn of the century. That was 1999-2000. Perhaps there is a definition of "just before" that I am not aware of?"

How many years are there in a millennium? How many years are there in _two_ millennia? If you left before 01-01-2001, then your statement is correct, and that should make three people. But a lot of people would say you moved there in the 20th Century, and left in the 21st.

I don't understand why Lego releases so many sets based on grimey London. There are a lot more interesting and better cities in the world.

@Goujon said:
"Just hear me out: mod it to be the TARDIS."

They did hold the license to produce lego dr who sets, so they could produce a Tardis this size.

@Kazashimo said:
"I don't understand why Lego releases so many sets based on grimey London. There are a lot more interesting and better cities in the world."

Yeah! When is Nome, Alaska gonna get it's due? After all as the Wizard of Oz said, 'there is no place like Nome!' ;-P

But really, what did London do to you to make you hate it so much?

@Murdoch17 said:
" @Kazashimo said:
"I don't understand why Lego releases so many sets based on grimey London. There are a lot more interesting and better cities in the world."

Yeah! When is Nome, Alaska gonna get it's due? After all as the Wizard of Oz said, 'there is no place like Nome!' ;-P

But really, what did London do to you to make you hate it so much?"

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=qlSQgfYycvY

Yes, London. You know: fish, chips, cup 'o tea, bad food, worse weather, Mary f'in Poppins... LONDON!

@PurpleDave said:
" @AustinPowers said:
"To me, the 2000/2001 change was the turn of the millennium."

Ooh, someone else who knows when the true change between 20th and 21st centuries happened!

@alstba:
Honestly, I’d rather have this sitting on a shelf than the Concorde, and that’s before finding out that it’s a fatally (literally) flawed design that was the beneficiary of a government coverup.

@legoDad42:
Different color, different shape. Basically, it’d mean keeping the base and designing a completely different phone box. And possibly setting it at a jaunty angle because it wasn’t installed to spec.

@AustinPowers:
The blue police boxes _do_ have a phone inside. It’s just of limited use/access, and a lot of people who’ve never been to the UK might not understand the difference. For a long time, I thought it was the old-timey equivalent of dialing 911 in the US (i.e. you pick up the phone if you need to report a crime or call for help). Then I became an adult, and the internet happened."

Yep, that’s why I said just get the 21304 Tardis. Or use that sets instructions just for the Tardis model alone. It’d be too much to mod and moc off this red telephone booth and have the proper colors and parts.

Is there still anything left to do in Lego about London?... A "gap", maybe?...

I wonder: is there anyone that sees this and that get's an instant "i-need-to-have-this-now-orgasm"?
I wonder,...wonder I do...

@edmi: A London Eye that can actually turn, unlike the one in 21034. And that's just off the top of my head.

I suddenly have the urge to pee.

@edmi said:
"Is there still anything left to do in Lego about London?... A "gap", maybe?..."

Indian restaurant? Punk rock version of 21334?

Just noticed the word "London" in the title and it has annoyed me enough to reconsider buying it. Red telephone boxes in no way unique to London (which is a dump).

@edmi said:
"Is there still anything left to do in Lego about London?... A "gap", maybe?..."

Westminster Abbey would be on a must buy list for me.

@jbss71 said:
"Just noticed the word "London" in the title and it has annoyed me enough to reconsider buying it. Red telephone boxes in no way unique to London (which is a dump)."

If you wade through the sea of comments, there’s one that explains how this is one of the original red phone boxes, which actually is exclusive to London. The UK in general got a different model of phone box that has different dimensions. I can’t speak to the truth if that matter, but it did make sense when I read it.

@560heliport said:
" @Aardtacha said:
"It's lovely and I want it, but "turn of the Century" to me will always be the 19th/20th century change."

Why? Were you alive then?"

No, but that's what all my history classes meant when that phrase was used unless they actually specified which centuries were going out/coming in, as in "at the turn of the 17th Century, King Bugfoozle caused a diplomatic crisis when he absent-mindedly knocked Queen Weezel's nearly completed Lego 10307 off the castle wall, resulting in the loss of 512 pieces."

@Fandabidozi said:
"I suddenly have the urge to pee. "
London Phone Box or King Charles' prostate!

@jbss71 said:
"Red telephone boxes in no way unique to London."
But the K2 box, which this model represents pretty much was!

@PurpleDave said:
" @jbss71 said:
"Just noticed the word "London" in the title and it has annoyed me enough to reconsider buying it. Red telephone boxes in no way unique to London (which is a dump)."

If you wade through the sea of comments, there’s one that explains how this is one of the original red phone boxes, which actually is exclusive to London. The UK in general got a different model of phone box that has different dimensions. I can’t speak to the truth if that matter, but it did make sense when I read it."

Almost all the surviving K2 telephone kiosks are in London. Liverpool and Oxford have one each plus a few other localities. The K4, with a stamp vending machine attached on the back, is even rarer! Apparently people using the telephone didn't like the noise when someone used it for stamps. That's if the stamps hadn't curled up and stuck together in the damp! You can find a K4 at Cranmore station on the East Somerset Railway.

@FuddRuckus said:
"Dear Lego,
Please stop using push tabs on big sets, which require cutting and tearing the boxes. Tape seals are much better."

Pro tip: buy a letter-opener without any sharp edges. Mine is a mini Excalibur sword. It's perfect for opening Lego boxes, including those cardboard boxes for collectable minifigures. No visible damage to the box at all. I have a picture on my Flickr where I use it, I hope it's okay to share a link here: https://flic.kr/p/2kzUfL3

Tape seals are the worst. I had to tear it off the box (or else the sticky edge will remain on it after cutting), and if done wrong, it can easily damage the print on the box.