60204 Hospital revealed!
Posted by CapnRex101,
The Brothers Brick has published images of the much-anticipated 60204 Hospital. CITY hospitals are fairly rare, the previous set being 4429 Helicopter Rescue which was released in 2012, so this set may prove very popular.
You can view images of the front and back of the box which display the hospital's interior after the break...
Let us know what you think of this set in the comments.
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I absolutely love it! There are places where I would have liked walls, but I understand why the designers would want it open for kids to access (it's easily modded anyway). The ambulance is cute, the amount of minifigs is amazing, and the building itself looks wonderful. I'm very excited for this!
I’ve been wishing for a Lego hospital since I was a kid, except of course during my dark ages! I can’t wait!
That's a very good looking ambulance, I'm impressed. The modular build looks fun to... but somehow it seems more cramped inside than it should need to be? Looks like there's barely any useable floor space, as is a trend in these more facade-like builds.
So the "mailbox" on the side of the helicopter must be for donated organs for transplants?
Why does Lego every year release large sets of police and firefighters, but so rarely do hospital? In addition, they are sucks.
Many mini-figures, but completely boring building. Why not to release the set of sets on a medical topic. From small to large. With different transport, locations and buildings. This is what I really want.
I love it already because I've been waiting for this for sooo long! When the Friends Hospital came out I transformed it into a detailed City Hospital, and while I love that one, I'm also looking forward to this new official one! I'll definitely change the rooms a bit but I love the ambulance and the minifigs!
Love it!! Great color scheme... Modern looking.. fun doctor's stuff... Good looking ambulance.. Only downside that pops into my mind is the size... Way to small ;)) ... but hey if you have jangbricks' hospital as a reference then everything LEGO comes up with would look a bit pale..
I like it but I don't love it.
The design of the building (making it wrap around a corner) seems to have seriously limited the actual amount of available play space. It'd be easy enough to modify and fix, but I wonder why they didn't just make a straight up and down building? Style over substance?
I do give them props for the sheer number of minifigs. And a light-brick for the x-ray machine? That's a nice feature.
2 or 4 copies of this, then we're talking. Longe overdue and very welcome. They should release a new hospital as often as the police/firestations. Nice ambulance and good minifig selection.
One of the first city building-based sets I will be buying in a long time. I may even buy 2 for easier expansion. More non-police non-fire sets, please!
Have been really looking forward to seeing pictures of this since it popped up on the Brickset database a while ago, will definitely be picking one up... Been trying to save for all the upcoming Harry Potter sets but this, along with rollercoasters and Ninjago Docks, is putting that plan right out the window!
So all we're really waiting for are pictures of the new train sets? C'mon internet, get on that.
Friends one was way better Imo.
For questions"why City havent got hospital sooner"- because most boys dont like playing doctors.
A hospital! At last! Looks good too :o)
Btw, I love this time of the year, soon summertime but also all the deilightful news and pictures of Legonews, can't wait!!
Poor guy on the second floor didn't received any help, waited till te end ;-) :-)
I dare say it puts both the 2006 and 2012 hospitals to shame.
What I find most surprising is that it contains over a dozen minifigures.
I was waiting for this to be revealed for quite a while! This looks awesome and has great potential!
Looks interesting, and very mini-figure rich for something that doesn't seem all that huge.
Well well well, The doctor will see you now indeed, this is brilliantly constructed, great colour scheme, im smiling lots, just seen the rest of it on brothers brick, the Ambulance is spot on lego, heartlakes one looked good but this is Amazing, I'm gonna buy it & call it Sacred heart, and call my minifigs JD, turk, Elliott and Dr cox, might even add Carla & Laverne in there too lol..
Super excited about this set! Great looking hospital with nice accessories and minifigures! Definitely will be buying this set!
Looks like the patient on the top floor has a cast on his hand. Is that a new part?
Has Friends become a product testing ground? Friends has a roller coaster, then Creator gets a roller coaster. Friends has a winter cabin, then Creator gets a winter cabin. Friends has a hospital, then City gets a hospital.
I find the standalone helipad a strange inclusion. I guess the final design of the building meant there was no space in the roof?
I will have to rectify that!
The City seeing has expanded, I am so going to join both this and the Friends hospital and by the way, this has a more modular look with only a corner missing so as to place a costume elevator.
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Just when you think your City has been planned out sets such as this come out. Or I could make this the City hospital and the Friends version an industrial version for goverment personal (the colors that Friend set has coudl help sell the vision that the Empire is benevolent and in no way horrible
Not weird to have a helipad off to the side. I took my mom recently to the hospital and they had a small helipad area on the ground to the side of the care facility. Fenced off with a small booth/shack for crew or attendant I believe.
It'll be fascinating to do a comparison between the Friends hospital and this one. I think this one wins on the number of minifigs/minidolls for sure.
Probably won't buy this but good to see City covering some different subject matter (Beach or Farm next please??)
Maybe I can't see it but does this set really not include the moulded crutches from the CMF clumsy guy, or the cap and xray tile from the CMF surgeon? Seems a bit daft to me that those parts haven't been reused here.
YES! A helicopter is included.
Lots of great interior detail it seems. I feel like it compares favorably with the Heartlake Hospital even if that one outshines it a bit in terms of space and playability. It's certainly a lot less austere than many past LEGO City and Town hospitals. There's a lot of stuff that kids might be able to relate to from their own experience in hospitals, either as patients or to visit loved ones.
I understand some of the concerns about size and shape (Heartlake Hospital felt more roomy and accessible for play), but at the same time, I feel like the modular buildings have given us AFOLs unrealistic expectations for building size in some of cases. By LEGO City standards or even classic LEGO Town standards anything over two stories tall is in fact pretty big! While this set could have been a bigger building without the ambulance and helicopter, that would have removed a lot of the more action-oriented play potential that is such a big part of the City theme's appeal for kids. The modular design of this set will also make it not too difficult to add more stories, especially since none of the parts used for the walls or windows seem particularly rare. I definitely anticipate some enterprising AFOLs converting this into a full 16x16 modular building.
As a doc in real life, I love it!
Was the last LEGO hospital really from 2012? Geez, I could've sworn we had gotten a newer one, but compared to police and fire stations they always were pretty rare.
Interestingly there are no doors in the set, I'm assuming there is a brick built sliding door with the little ramp. However no door pieces.
Better than the friends hospital at least
It has an initial wow factor (the building is attractive and the range of minifigures is great) but then looking closer it has some glaring problems: 1. The helicopter is so small; it cannot deliver patients. It has a helipad on the ground to the side. Why include it? 2. The wrap around L shaped building makes it hard to get fingers inside. 3. There is no baseplate. No parking, no greenery.
I really wish LEGO would create a series of modular hospital pieces that could join together.
My city hasn't gotten a new hospital since 1987's 6380, so I think this was due. I'd love to start out with two of these and the Heartlake Hospital, for the cool interior bits and clear panels, to create a big modular size hospital. And now I'm dreaming... darn you TLG, why must you come out with so much cool stuff all at once!
To be frank, it looks very mediocre and vehicles, esp. the helicopter, are plain bad.
Don't know why LEGO show so little love for Hospital sub-theme.
Also, on completely another topic, I would loved to have tv-news / mass-media sets.
^^^1. A small helicopter is still good for play and can deliver medical supplies; including a helicopter large enough to carry a patient in the same set would dramatically increase the price point. The hospitals closest to me all have the helipad on the ground across the street, not on the roof, so it's just as realistic and a whole lot easier to put a detached helipad in this set. 2. I agree. 3. Large City buildings haven't had baseplates, parking, and greenery for a long time, so no surprise there.
I like the design, but I won’t be buying it.
Everyone has different opinions on the set, but I can't believe no one has mentioned the aesthetics of the building. The color scheme and design look amazing! The red column on the right breaks up the pattern in a way you'd expect to see on a real building. I think the designers did an excellent job on this set.
It will go on my holiday list, but only if the price (per piece) is right!
Finally! Like I mentioned somewhere else, LEGO cities tend to have a lot of crime, fires, and hungry people, but no sick...so thankfully we can get this. Definitely will attempt to modify this and make it bigger.
Same old thing, and yet I absolutely love it
So many minifigures! Looks like a really great set. I wonder if the back part is on hinges, difficult to tell. Also, this is a great place to put your collectable minifigures: nurse, surgeon, clumsy guy.
*sigh*
Disappointing. I don’t see any facilities for leeches or blood-letting.
Wish the hospital actually had a landing pad on it’s roof...
When will we get a legitimate modular line hospital is what I want to know...like a base plate or more in size, adult build oriented.
As expected TLG ruined this with another crappy helicopter.
Nevermind I can use the parts for something else.
Maybe the helipad as a separate location (not uncommon in real life hospitals outside cities) is so that the Ambulance Helicopter 60179 can deliver patients?
As expected TLG ruined this set with a crappy helicopter.
Nevermind, the building can fit with the Helicopter Rescue set, which also has a much more realistic chopper.
The minifigs are the highlight of this set, which I will be purchasing during a sale. :)
^^Or the 60116 from 2016 as well. An imaginary runway by the hospital perhaps?
I think Lego has fallen victim to it's own success. With the advent of modulars and spectacular sets the expectation level is really high for AFOLs. I personally think it looks decent and is certainly a set my young boys would enjoy playing with.
From an AFOL perspective, yes, it could be larger like the fire or police stations but since there aren't too many unique bits or minifigs that are included with those sets the piece count can be greater relative to the set cost.
The best hospital LEGO has ever made, but it's a very low bar. But I can understand why LEGO does Police and Fire Stations far more than Hospitals. All you need is a garage and an office with a couple of vehicles, equipment room or jail cell, and you're there.
To do a Hospital properly you need at a minimum an Ambulance, an Emergency Department (or ER or A&E depending on where you're from), a Ward (preferably several with surgical, medical, maternity, paediatric), an operating theatre, a radiology department, a helipad and helicopter, a cafeteria ... you could go on and on.
Even for a Assembly Square sized Modular you would struggle to do a hospital justice.
Looks pretty good IMO and I already own the last City Hospital. I'll probably pick this up when it goes on sale.
Excellent! When I heard the rumor about this one I was hoping for a slightly larger version, maybe more in line with the Friends hospital, but they packed a lot of detail into this version even at this scale.
Especially impressed with the minfigures - past hospital/rescue sets have seemed a bit understaffed lol. This actually has some doctors and seems like more than just a triage unit.
It's like a minifig pack with a building added on.
Why is the helicopter shown flying with a crate attached to the landing skid?
Very poor indeed. Lego seem to be getting better with the large sets but worse with the city sets. Again no base plate and it just looks tiny. Lego city hasn't had street signs for years in its sets so with no roundabouts there are bound to be many car accidents in lego city. But again there is no decent hospital to accept the injured lego people. After years of waiting this is just plain bad and mediocre from Lego.
Surprised to see that the ambulance can't enter the garage and there's no space for the helicopter to land on the roof. These (especially the garage for the ambulance) are 2 of the most classic features of Lego City emergency services sets imo. They did that already back in the days of Lego Town and the garage even in Legoland (yes, I happen to have 2 pre-minifig Legoland hospital in my collection!)
Lego does deserve credit for trying something a little different deviating from tradition and more of the same, but unfortunately it does diminish play features of the set as well....
I am not really interested in 'emergency' Lego, but I think this looks rather promising. Of course there's a helicopter (and the patient will be transported underneath it? Inside doesn't seem to offer enough space at least), and a rather good looking ambulance. The building itself looks surprisingly substantial (yes, still small), it could have been much more sketchy. If I ever wanted a hospital, this would be an excellent candidate...
This is a very nice looking building. I wish my kids were into Lego, so that I could get one. I literally have no space left for large sets.
For LEGO City I think it looks great, has a great selection of mini figures and fun play features. After all the clamoring for a hospital, I’m a bit surprised at some of the criticism. Note that at plenty of hospitals the ambulances never make it inside.
“Why is the helicopter shown flying with a crate attached to the landing skid?”
The helicopter is rushing in or out with life-saving materials such as plasma or donated organs. The helipad adjacent to the building is probably more common that on the roof which presents all sorts of logistical problems.
For the last 24 hours or so, I have been returning several times to look at the pictures of the new hospital. It has only grown on me. And I liked it from the very beginning.
I wonder what people have been expecting, now we see such a negative reaction. It is not the biggest City set, I know. TLG is not supposed to make the sets ever bigger. And the hospital is already the biggest one made - and very detailed compared to earlier. - Base plates? I certainly miss them, too. But the last time, I can see base plates have been used in a City set was in the 2013 re-release of City Corner (66031). Besides re-releases, the last year base plates were included in City sets were in 2011. It really cannot be a surprise that base plates are not included anymore. Actually, it would be a pleasant surprise if they indeed included a base plate again. - And the helicopter? It ought not to be necessary to include a big helicopter when such a one is available as a separate set (60179).
If I were to point at something, I would say the extensive use of panels. A surprise? Not really. And I do miss the use of bricks for walls, that we used to have in the Town era. - And the odd shape of the building making it hard to access the interior, I agree on that one.
On the other hand, I like the decent looking and decent sized ambulance (not like the weird little one in 4429 Helicopter Rescue or the giant 4431 Ambulance), the richness of details and accessories and of course the number of minifigs. Even the architecture is fine for a modern type of building. Not an architectural pearl, but still...
It is a most welcome extension to my 4429 Helicopter Rescue which I for a long time have been planning to expand due to its smallness. And yet, I can easily see that I MOD myself to fit my needs. After all, it only takes a few panels and bricks ;o)
There seems to be a clear pattern in Lego's releases of fire stations, police stations, hospitals, and construction sites.
2005: Fire station, police station, construction site
2006: Hospital
2007: Fire station
2008: Police station
2009: Construction site
2010: Fire station
2011: Police station
2012: Hospital
2013: Fire station
2014: Police station
2015: Construction site
2016: Fire station
2017: Police station
2018: Hospital
No surgeon minifig? Thought they might use the cap from the cmf one.
@phi13: Good observation. Really, LEGO hospitals were never common even in the Town era. There were, what, two hospitals total from the start to the very end of the Town theme? And those were spaced 7 years apart over a span of like 20 years. Having three hospitals in 13 years means LEGO City is doing BETTER than Town did!
I think what skews people's perception a bit is something you didn't note in your chart: the fact that there's been a City police station EVERY year from 2011 onward. With as common as fire stations and ESPECIALLY police stations have become, a lot of AFOLs probably feel like other emergency services are getting the short end of the stick, even if hospitals are still coming along basically as often as they ever did.
Another factor could be the fact that sets in general rotate more often than they used to. I wasn't a LEGO fan in the 80s so I don't know how long 6364-1 and 6380-1 were on shelves — I know my dad had the latter, but with its generic smiles it already felt something like a relic by the time I started collecting LEGO in the early to mid 90s. But in any event, nowadays there are so many new sets per year and sets tend to stay out for a shorter time than they did back then that it's easier to notice when a new set of a certain type hasn't been launched in a while.
Great number of minifigs, but a small and unimpressive building.
I rather like the design of this set. Neat and clear color tones, elements. As some has said, the helicopter doesn't have a roof to land... A few more larger pieces for the roof top will then make this perfect and adds further play-ability.
This looks very nice to me. I can't wait till hits shelves.
The figures in particular look like the biggest draw, a lot of regular folks there just trying to get medical care =)
Every Lego creator, especially those in City line, will beb inevitable helicopters collector too
I'm really looking forward to adding this to my City! Cracking set. Love how much extra detail is creeping into these City sets lately!