10258 London Bus revealed!

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London Bus

London Bus

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10258 London Bus, the next in the Creator Expert vehicle series, has just been revealed!

The set contains 1686 pieces and will be available to purchase on the 1st of August, with VIP early access from the 17th of July. Furthermore, the five LEGO brand retail stores located in the Greater London area will be selling the London Bus exclusively from tomorrow, the 1st of July.

US $139.99 - CA $179.99 - DE 119.99€ - UK £109.99 - DK 999.00 DKK

You can read the full press release and view more images after the break...

All aboard the London Bus!

Celebrate iconic design with this charming double-decker London Bus, featuring a wealth of authentic details, including a bright-red color scheme, panoramic windshield, specially made standard-tread tires, destination sign, and an open rear boarding deck with a hand pole, ticket bin, fire extinguisher and a half-spiral staircase that leads to the upper sightseeing deck. Functions include an opening hood with engine, detailed driver’s cab with a sliding door, and a removable roof and upper deck for access to the detailed interior with worn look seating and additional authentic details, including a forgotten umbrella, newspaper, empty beverage can and discarded chewing gum. Reversible transit advertising posters are also provided as printed labels with a 1950s or present-day London promotion. This LEGO Creator Expert model has been designed to provide a challenging and rewarding building experience with a touch of nostalgia and charm.

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  • The London Bus comes with an array of brick-built features and details, including large windows, bright red curved bodywork, panoramic windshield, reversible transit advertising posters provided as printed labels, specially made standard-tread tires and a destination sign. It also has an opening hood with engine, detailed driver’s cab with sliding door, and a removable roof and upper deck for access to the detailed interior.

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  • Interior details include worn look seating, open rear boarding deck with a hand pole, ticket bin, fire extinguisher and a half-spiral staircase that leads to the sightseeing deck. Additional authentic detailing includes a forgotten umbrella, newspaper, empty beverage can and discarded chewing gum elements.

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  • Choose your favorite decade with the miniature, reversible transit advertising posters, featuring a 1950s or present day London promotion.

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  • Remove the roof and upper deck for full access to the detailed interior.Slide open the driver’s door to access the detailed cab with panoramic windscreen.

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  • Lift the hood to access the engine.

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  • Special elements include a new-for-August-2017 tire with standard tread, quarter bows and arches in red, and 1x1x1 A2/3 bricks with vertical studs.

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  • This model includes more than 1,680 pieces.

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  • This model is scaled for shelf display alongside other models in the LEGO Creator Expert vehicle series.

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  • Measures over 7” (18cm) high, 13” (34cm) long and 5” (13cm) wide.

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LEGO has also provided a designer video, featuring the set designer Morten Graff-Wang:


What do you think of the set? Share your opinion in the comments.

63 comments on this article

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By in Germany,

Oh, Lego, come on! What you are doing is just unfair! How am I supposed to afford Ninjago City, the new Destiny Bounty, the Old Fishing Store, the Saturn V AND now this all this summer!? Lucky me I am not a Minecraft fan. Wow, what a great set.

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By in Belgium,

Neat set for those who love London.
Should match nicely with the Creator Mini...

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By in New Zealand,

Must have! Got to park the biggie against one of the littlies that I picked up when I was in London back in April. If only this had been on sale then - could've saved myself a bleedin' fortune against the likely NZ price!

Cracking set though. I especially like that it's minifig size - perfect for slotting into a city scene (but annoyed about the inevitable stickers!)

Maybe I need to buy a fleet .... ?

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By in Australia,

Wow, I just can't wait to build that discarded chewing gum! What an amazing feature!
Seriously, though, do Lego really expect this to be successful financially? Not that it's a bad idea or anything, but everyone's going to be out of money by the time this comes out. Mountain Cave, Saturn V, Destiny's Bounty, Ninjago City, Ultimate Batmobile, Assembly Square, UCS Snowspeeder, Old Fishing Store... the list goes on and on.

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By in Germany,

Honestly, I was secretly hoping for something classic American this time around, but I kind of suspected it would be London when thinking about what car to expect a few months ago. But then I'd rather wanted the classic London cab than the bus.
Well, whatever, it's a very nice model of the bus and likely fun to build, and since I have all the others I'll get this one as well. But probably not this year anymore, too many other big sets still to get (fishing store, some modulars, maybe the Ninjago city etc.).

['Rumors' of this set have been around for quite some while, so I knew about it for at least three or four weeks now. Still, I wanted a pink Cadillac :)]

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By in France,

Nice to see the new ticket tile again!

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By in United Kingdom,

need! and i dont even like buses!! :) where are these London stores you can get it, located? Obviously the Flagship, but didnt know about any others

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By in Norway,

So nice, I love it! Great amount of pieces and details. Love the boxart. Excellent!

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By in United States,

It's a well-designed but niche model. Seems like this set is mainly targeted at AFOLs...I have a hard time picturing younger fans choosing this set over all the other attractive options released recently. I'm expecting the US price to be somewhere around $120-130. Anything more than that is poor value compared to sets like the Saturn V, even if they aren't direct competitors.

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By in United Kingdom,

@colay I presume they mean the two Westfields, Bluewater and Watford.

May have to get two now just to display both sets of adverts at once...

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By in United Kingdom,

Nice model! Am loving its destination as 'Brickston' rather than Brixton - genius!

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By in France,

very nice but this sits behind Old Fishing Store and Ninjago city on the wanted list (my tastes are more modular than vehicular). Looks like the build will be a bit repetitive...

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By in New Zealand,

Wow I want one to go on my London Bridge

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By in United Kingdom,

Sorry to say but as a Londoner I'm disappointed. The face of that bus is awful and bears very little resemblance to a Routemaster, it looks more like a Chinese knock off then something the skilled Lego designers would put out. It's such a shame as all the cars up to this point have looked amazing and have captured the look of the real thing. Weirdly it feels rushed like it needed to go through a few more design phases but why rush it out with so many other high quality large kits coming out for the next few months? If you want to see how a Lego Routemaster should be done check out the Idea page here https://ideas.lego.com/projects/3e87452c-2e28-4b87-8136-18398b01b20d the quality of which puts this official attempt to shame.

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By in United Kingdom,

Is it just me, or is the Clock Tower on the box art positioned way too high?

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By in South Africa,

Early mentions of this set were that it would possibly be minifigure size however this review and others don't say anything about it being minifigure size... is it or not?
The chap in the video would surely have mentioned this if it was...
Being a Brit and a huge fan of all things English this set is absolutely splendid!
Now to find the cash...

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By in United Kingdom,

Lego uk showing the price at £109.99

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By in United Kingdom,

@Luke-Comins It's not Minifig scale, it's Creator scale. Similar to the VW Camper Van, Mini, etc. It's much larger than Minifig scale.

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By in United States,

Wow! I love it. It's beautiful, really.

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By in Sweden,

Am I the only one who's hooked by the biscuit advertising?
Gosh, what a great set. Too bad I'll never have it.

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By in Slovakia,

@Arpie regarding the Ideas project, you need to consider the scale, that one is considerably bigger allowing for better building techniques. Take almost any official set, allow for >40% more parts and >20% in dimensions and in the hands of skilled builder (and I have to admit the Ideas one seems reasonably made) you will get a better looking set. The Ideas one can have that one more brick space where it is needed, like the front wheel arches or mask.

Would I like to have such bigger model ? Yes. Would LEGO be able to produce it ? Technically yes. But do they want to produce such a set that would be maybe around 160-170 Euros, almost double of the most Creator Expert cars ? Well, I guess it is their risk to take and they did not. Just see around for peoples complaining it might be niche, a too expensive year,...

So if to choose between no big bus due to costs and current scale bus with some imperfections due to scale and building techniques limited by general population, I take the second option. I can always MOD it to my liking...

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By in Australia,

Oh c'mon Lego, you're killing me here!!!! How am I supposed to afford all this, especially with the Ninjago Movie and SW Episdoe VIII sets coming out? Good thing DC and Marvel are substandard this year, otherwise my family would have to sleep on the street......

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By in United Kingdom,

My first reaction on seeing the images is the same as @Arpie's. The front profile looks nothing like the real thing.

Also, while it's true that some people leave litter on buses in London, LEGO models are often idealised. It wasn't necessary to highlight the rubbish and it's a bit insulting that TLG chose to. As a FOL, you don't have to include them in your own build of course, but it wasn't kind of TLG to point it out.

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By in United Kingdom,

Shoulda been able to switch bubble gum for chewing gum when changing to the older signs ;)

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By in Slovakia,

^^^ @Zander

if there can be rat in Parisian restaurant there can be a can and gum in London bus ...

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By in United States,

Am I the only one that feels kind of "meh" towards this?

Maybe it's the nature of the vehicle itself, but the Ferrari, Mini Cooper, and Beetle all excellently captured the intricate angles of their respective inspiration. In comparison this build looks rudimentary and boxy. The hood looks exceptionally bad.

Maybe my expectations have simply increased after the past few vehicles, but in comparison this looks like something more akin to the Enzo they released a while back. Not awful, but a heck of a lot less detailed and a lot more basic.

I also can't help but feel that the seats dramatically increase the piece count. Obviously it'd be hard to have a London Bus without putting seats in it, but with so many seats you're looking at hundreds of pieces. It looks like there's at least 30 in there and each one uses 10+ pieces. That's easily more than 300 pieces for the seats alone, which will barely even be seen from the outside.

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By in Russian Federation,

Has anyone asked for it though?

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By in United Kingdom,

Press Release states "This model is scaled for shelf display alongside other models in the LEGO Creator Expert vehicle series".
I take this to mean that it is a similar size to the other Expert models, rather than the same actual scale.
For instance, in real life a Mini Cooper is around 3.0 m long, a London bus about 11.25m. I doubt that this bus model is nearly four times longer than the Mini Cooper one.

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By in Germany,

The German price is 119.99 Euro by the way, per the LEGO.com details page.

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By in United States,

That is an amazing set!!

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By in Netherlands,

Price in the Netherlands predictably 10 euros more than Germany for no apparent reason at all - so € 129,99 over here.

That is in line with the other Creator vehicles in this series, but the Apollo V seems like a steal in comparison...

I also am not really sold on the front, but the vehicle as a whole looks better than I feared based on the grainy leaked pic from earlier this week.

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By in United Kingdom,

It's not just me then who thinks the front doesn't look right especially at the top front near where it curves over to the roof. It just doesn't flow like the rear of the bus does.

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By in Poland,

@Zander
Seriously? This paper, can and chewing gum is insulting for you?

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By in United States,

Argh - another big expensive set to add to my already long wish list! Well, I asked for more awesome AFOL-oriented stuff and I sure got it this year... Now how to prioritize this with the Carousel, Fishing Shop, Ninjago movie sets, Elves goblin castle, and City Jungle...? A star-studded year for LEGO expert sets.

I really like the driver's sliding window, the spiral staircase, the umbrella, and the flippable banners (especially the 1950's biscuit ads, but the modern London ones look great too). The new tires are flipping awesome, as is that cool new SNOT brick. Sigh, off to work to earn some dough :-)

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By in United Kingdom,

This set is obviously a no brainer for me because I am a bus driver!!!

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By in United Kingdom,

Great set. After Tower Bridge, Big Ben & now the London Bus (+ Buckingham Palace, Big Ben & London Skyline Architecture series), there's a high chance LEGO are designing a Creator Expert London Eye set in the next x5 years.
May have to buy this one.

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By in Netherlands,

@Steve_L18: indeed, 'MINI Cooper measures over 4” (11cm) high, 9” (25cm) long and 5” (14cm) wide.' so the Mini is even 1cm wider than the bus!

Although I have the other Creator cars, I'll pass on this one. It's simply not that cool... Maybe I can trade my 40220 for one of the other miniature Creator cars that I missed out on.

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By in United States,

As if the exterior wasn't already enough to make me want this set; the attention to detail on the interior is amazing! Love the chewing gum and used ticket box! Would be awesome to make a modern Routemaster to go along with this.

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By in Netherlands,

This is amazing! Will definitely be picking it up, but I'll have to make room in my London display for it...

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By in United States,

Very cool!

Shop is showing $139.99 in the US.

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By in Canada,

LEGO.com Price in Canada is 179.99 CAD.

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By in United Kingdom,

Thanks both, the prices have been updated.

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By in United Kingdom,

@papluh whilst I see your point about parts count and cost (I agree much more and it would become far too niche) I still think a better design could have been achieved within the confines of the scale they set themselves. For one thing why waste pieces on those odd running boards above and below the windows that run the length of the bus, the real one doesn't have them. The top front corners whilst tricky I will admit could still be far smoother and the problem with the grill is it is actually at least 25 to 30% too large so changing that to be accurate would actually take less pieces!

I'm sorry with the wealth of free reference material there is out there nowadays I can't see why this model looks like it's what the designer vaguely remembered when on a weekend in London 6 years ago. We are never going to see another large scale Lego Routemaster so it's a missed opportunity and is all the more disappointing when we see the amazing models that have been coming out of the Creator Expert, Ideas and D2C lines.

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By in Germany,

Okay. London again.
But WHY?
I really like London, but why are they doing a car/bus that's famous for one place on earth exclusively?
Furthermore I second the comments on the somehow not so great shape.

The first Creator exclusive I will skip. And this will make it psychiologically easier to skip other sets as well. The first step to taper my LEGO dosis. :-)

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By in United States,

I wish this set was 1/2 to 3/4 the size of this set, that would look nicer on my shelf. But overall this looks excellent, I'm tempted...

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By in United Kingdom,

Sold on this one, will be getting it as soon as possible.

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By in United Kingdom,

I've always felt the Red London bus was particularly ugly. Its a poor choice for a series that so far has been classic cars. But also where is my next creator train?

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By in United States,

Totally stalled and wanted a Quality Bisquit! ;)
Dangit LEGO!!! Soooo many large delicious sets this year!
At this rate, they'll have that UCS Millenium Falcon by year's end to totally bankrupt me...lol.

Another iconic vehicle. Will look great on display.

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By in United Kingdom,

Damn. Might see some of you in London Leicester Square store on Monday then...

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By in United Kingdom,

@Holodoc It's because London is the greatest city in the history of civilisation lol!!!

@Zander This is just Lego having a bit of cheeky fun, lighten up a bit!!!

To make this set even more accurate they should've included a smashed window piece along with brick to smash it with because we get quite a lot of those on our buses!!! ;-)

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By in United States,

I'm sad to say that I'm also disappointed in this set. There are some interesting aspects, like the ability to change the advertisements, but overall, as others have said, it feels rushed. Even the intro video was edited poorly. It lacked the LEGO intro reel and music, had awkwardly long pauses, and an anti-climactic finish.

Bottom line: At the $140 price point, it's not worth it, and the video didn't do a great job of selling it either.

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By in Canada,

Going from a series of iconic, classic cars to a bus that exists only in a small corner of the world seems a bit weird. As a big fan of the series, I couldn't have less interest in this!

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By in Croatia,

With so much to like about this offering - is that really the best Front aspect the Designer could manage? The rear is just about perfect...

The expression: "Looks like the back end of a bus" should in future perhaps be "Looks like the front end of a Lego Bus!"

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By in Poland,

@mrdoofa
"It's because London is the greatest city in the history of civilisation"

To quote Obelix: "These Britons are crazy" :) :) :)

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By in Netherlands,

Going to state the obvious in response to all the 'It (the front) doesn't look like a Routemaster'.
That's because it ain't a Routemaster, Although obviously it is... At the same time it ain't, Lego calls it the London Bus.

Question is why, Why isn't this set a licenced Routemaster replica?
Didn't Lego bother to get a licence to use the name, Thinking a London Bus wil sell anyway.
Or was Lego not able to get a licence to use the Routemaster name?

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By in United States,

I'm going to be broke indefinitely.

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By in Sweden,

This has to be the most expensive year! Around 30 sets that cost more than 99 USD, and 7 of them cost more than 199 USD and one of them cost 299 USD. Yikes

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By in United States,

I can't really picture this selling very well in the US, but the amount they're going to sell in GB is probably going to make up for that.

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By in Germany,

When I saw the designer take of the upper level in the video, I immediately thought of how well one could reenact that "low bridge" scene in the classic 007 "Live and let die" - if the bus were blue
;-)

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By in Switzerland,

Nice set at first sight, but still quite a few (too many) weak points in the design (the front, the windows). Considering its size, I think that the front wheels should be definitively driven by the steering-wheel. So, I'll wait for an improved version of this set, as it happened before we the Shuttle Adventure 10213 -> 10231

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