WOW, this thing is amazing. The fact that it's dark azure instead of normal blue makes it even better.

Only $100 too, wow.

day 1 buy.

Ooooooh, this will be MINE !!
Is it to scale with the Camping Van or the Mini ? (I'm terrible with measures...)

Will there be a video ?

It looks to be roughly to scale with the Mini Cooper - at least as close as Lego sets get.

Really like it.

It is not the same scale as the VW T1 Camper Van. They were built on the same wheel base. So in fact all Lego had to do was use the frame of the t1 and add an other body.

But never the less this one is very nice!

Nice model, but to be honest I would've liked it a lot more if it'd come in a bright red or yellow colour. Something more popping. Or tan so you could turn it into Herbie.

Designer video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o313JXCAev8

Is the designer known - or can it be guessed from the license plates?

Huge VW fan so certainly looking forward to this one!

Each time LEGO release these Creator Expert vehicles around August it's a perfect treat for me as my birthday is early August too; I'll definitely be adding this to the collection!

Very nice, and a great price for a licensed set! I will be picking this up as soon as I can.

Amazing set and perfect color, yet chrome details would have been the way to go in place of gray fenders, hubcaps, etc.

Wow, so much looking forward to this! It is gorgeous!

About scale:

The first generation VW Transporter ( T1):

Wheelbase 2,400 mm (94.5 in)
Length 4,280 mm (168.5 in)
Width 1,720 mm (67.7 in)

The VW Beetle (1960):

Wheelbase 2,400 mm (94.5 in)
Length 4,079 mm (160.6 in)
Width 1,539 mm (60.6 in)

If the wheelbase of the two models is the same then the length is the same scale. However, it appears both models are 14 studs wide which would indicate that the Beetle is too wide - or the T1 too narrow

@TheBrickPal The promotional images do make the set look like it is dark azure, but the model in the designer video looks more like medium blue. Unfortunate, because that is a more common color.

I also have trouble telling on box art if a set uses flame yellowish orange or regular yellow. Such as Speed Champions 75909.

Holy Mother of God it looks more gorgeous than I ever imagined.

I like it to the point I'd like to buy all Creator cars at once and I don't have any.

What happened to the dimensions in the description? If it's eleven inches tall it can't be four inches wide. Going by the metric measurements, it seems it should be six inches tall, eleven inches long, and four inches wide.

I'm going to have to find a second job if Lego keeps putting out beautiful works of art like this.

Wow! Each Creator Expert vehicle seems to be the greatest example of LEGO designers' skills. It looks like a promise of the same fun building like F40. A perfect way to use VIP points for me and a 1st day buy!

Not into these VW models, but its a vast improvement from the 2008 version.

Looks like a 2CV to me.

Although Lego wouldn't admit to it the green can looks a lot like a Heineken can. Even has ice cubes for the cooler. Nice but not something I would look to buy.

I wish it came in bright yellow, and also that it changed into a robot. You know somebody's going to customize it that way!

Love it! First day purchase without question!

Too many good sets this summer! Coming on the heels of the 911 GT3 RS and Big Ben. Never liked the original LEGO Beetle, but I love the charm of this new one.

Clever use of designer's name on a California number plate :) Is there anything like this in F40? Did anybody notice anything?

Are the Advanced Vehicle Models (VW Van, Mini, Ferrari) all in the same scale, or close? Or is there a large variance?

Anyone gonna change it to all yellow ?
Anyone get the reference

Damn, LEGO are killing it with Creator this year! And the value too...

Batcave and Hoth are becoming more and more distant memories.

love the new reprints of "Flat Tile 1X1 ½ Circle" now in trans orange and medium gray

I'd happily lose the surfboard and cooler to have printed windows, but there you go. Love it all the same.

No question at all.

Wow. I do not care for car builds, but even I think this is gorgeous!
They did a wonderful job.

Wow! Nostalgia City!

My friends and I all learned to drive stick shift VW bugs in the ninth grade in West Texas. The high school parking lot looked like a junkyard with all the bashed in fronts, rears, and sides, but the easily changeable parts saved the day. Most of the cars contained multiple colors of parts as we replaced the bashed in ones with whatever color we could get. Fortunately it was not a fast car as we were terrible drivers at age 14 for the most part. And if we could not afford one, we drove our parents' Beetles and Vans when we could. Love the azure color, too!

Perfect!

Looks great!
I am a little surprised on the size factor, however. Seems a little small for a set in this range. Cash saver I guess.

The back looks more like a 2CV !

I was thinking gosh, they just had a VW Beetle not that long ago. But then I noticed the last one was 8 years ago! Time has flown by. I remember building that one and falling in love with the different blue's. It was also substantial car at 1500 pieces. I wonder how this one will compare.

@BigDumbWookiee:
No. At least Mini Cooper is definitely gigantic compared to VW Van! ;)

Got back into Lego 3 years ago - a definite buy for me but it's going in the queue (still a few 2014 items I want let alone 2015). Looks fab, will have to find somewhere else to put my model team sets when I do get it so I can display with t1, mini and Ferrari (when I get it) :)

It's really quite charming, and very good value for money...

@kane prime

I get the reference it would be cool to turn it into bumblebee from Transformers of the 80's

That color. That price. My wallet's dead and the Death Star hasn't even been revealed. LEGO pls ;-;

On a side note, the original Beetle doesn't look so great anymore.

Beautiful model! I love seeing new pieces, too.

Scale, y'all:

Real Beetle: 4070mm long, Lego Beetle 290mm. 4070/290 --> aprx. 1:14.03 scale

Real Camper: 4270mm, Lego Camper: 300mm. 4270/300 --> aprx. 1:14.23 scale

Close enough, I'd say. The real T1 is quite tiny, actually, about the size of a modern compact car rather than a modern van. It just does everything it can to turn those dimensions into useable interior space.

I wanted to see chrome details such as the wheel caps and fender

PUNCH BUGGY!!

I wonder what this will do to the aftermarket prices of 10187. This Beetle looks way better.

Ditto, day 1 buy for me too. This is fabulous.

Definitely day one purchase, huge improvement over 10187.

Lovely, reasonably priced, probably the only set I've wanted this year!

It looks like a Citroën 2CV. Don't you think so?

Saw that and immediately thought it was a 2CV.

Seriously losing faith in TLG.

Much nicer than expected and in a lovely colour. But LEGO desperately need to come up with a better windscreen part if they are going to keep making creator cars at this scale (and I hope they do - forever!) It does make the whole thing look a bit Citreony, which is a shame as the rest of the design is excellent.

I think a lot of the 2CV impressions come from the rear end of this model being almost totally flat. Which is very ironic considering in the video he goes on about the amount of effort put into creating curves then completely ignoring the most curved part of the Beetle, it's rear end and windows.

The rest is gorgeous though.

Beautiful! I want one!

As if I wasn't going to buy this, since I have the camper van, Mini and F40, now I see California plates. As a Californian, I approve!

It may not be a perfect 1:1 reproduction of the real Beetle but those thinking it looks like a 2CV must have ZERO knowledge about the design of the 2CV.

Sorry, but I just don't see the resemblance to a Citroen 2CV. At the very least, the LEGO model looks no more like a 2CV than a real Volkswagen Beetle does. Apart from the fact that both real world versions were designed around the same era, and were intended to be affordable family cars. The headlamps on this LEGO model are much larger and slightly more recessed than on the 2CV, rear wheels are not concealed by bodywork, fenders are much more prominent, and the hood terminates in a distinct elliptical shape. The 10252 is a testament to the designer's prowess.

Speaking of Citroen, I would love to see LEGO do a Citroen DS at some point. But I think the appeal would be too limited outside of the European market.

Was just thinking to myself it wouldn't be too difficult to convert to a 2CV before reading the comments about 2CVs so think there is at least some resemblance there. If I cover up the bonnet / hood then the similarity increases. The Licence plate starting WOB is probably in reference to the Wolfsburg car registration area as Wolfsburg is the home of Volkswagen.

No hesitation, wife is a huge VW fan.

PRINTED VW logo piece? Thank goodness, the sticker drove me batty on the camper van.

While recent large ($250+) sets from LEGO (ex. Assault on Hoth) seem to have been unsuccessful, medium size sets ($100-200) are always right up LEGO's alley.

Love the shape and colour of the car but I'm not mad about the surfer stuff. I'd happily have traded the surf board and cooler box for some chrome details, a printed dashboard (where's the radio?) and a better engine...
Also disappointing that it's another car that relies on stickers for the shape of the windows.
Still, it's on my Santa list.

Nice, I can park it next to my VW bus.

Best car model this year. Forget that Porsche full of holes. :). This one screams cuteness .. The only set to get me excited at first sight. Day one buy.

I really don't see the 2CV resemblance. It's unmistakably a VW beetle!!! It's also unbelievably cute and reasonably priced to boot. I would love them to do a Lexus LS400, only because that's my car though lol. A Rover SD1 would be cool too.

Between this, Big Ben, that upcoming Deathstar... ugh. My poor wallet. I almost hope the Death Star is awful so I can not buy it, because the other two sure aren't

A stunning little set. The comby is still my favourite, but all the expert creator vehicle sets are awesome. Cannot wait to build this :)

The first time I ever saw a 2CV my reaction was "Who rolled the sides of that Beetle flat?" So I'm not surprised that some parts of this model look a bit like the 2CV--but I think it's a very persuasive Beetle! Not an instant buy for me but it does go on my want list--unlike the Mini, which just doesn't resemble the real car enough to suit me, and the VW Van, which somehow doesn't appeal. And the Beetle's price rocks!

One of the main characteristics of the 2CV is the four doors with the rear wheels arranged behind the rear doors without cutting into the doors.

It's nice but I think the overall shape of 10187 VW Beetle is more accurate than this. From the side and rear this is more akin to a Citroen 2CV.

Left hand drive , No use for the UK

The rear side windows are far too small, they should almost reach the back windscreen. Some older 2CV s had a large amount of bodywork like the model here has. Newer 2CV s incorporated another window. As for the rest of it forward, it's all Beetle.

I've just found this on the parking lot on my way to an exam... Those stickers! :D
http://tinyurl.com/zyzubmv

To me, 10187 was more for display and 10252 will be more for play... :)

@PolarBomber: Shouldn't it be fairly easy to just build the entire dashboard and pedals mirrored to give it right-hand drive?

I'd love to see the van, Mini, Ferrari all side by side. Any shots out there?

I'm a car guy and I do understand people saying it's a 2CV. I've read similar replies to this on a car blog as well, so it's not just on here. I think the T1 was amazing, the F40 was spot on, the Mini looked good but this one? Nah...And what's up with all the different scales? I'm skipping this one.

No LMW 281F license plate?

I prefer the first VW BEETLE (10187) it was more impressive and accurate. But this one is also nice and will look good next to it. Good year for LEGO cars what with this and the Technic Porsche. Now I hope we will get a year with some great looking Technic (a first?) and Creator trains?!

I hope there's a polybag to go with it like there was with the mini cooper.

I like it, but as some mentioned, my first thought was that it looks more like a Citroën 2CV, perhaps I should try to shorten it by one or two studs to make it "rounder" and less looking like the more elongated 2CV.

just my 2 cents, but that car looks more like a Citroën 2C than a VW Beetle to me.

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