A driller in a City police set, really? Sure itt has play value, but very unrealistic.

60272 - Car is too chunky and the set looks fairly bland
60273 - Concept though unusual I actually like with the driller and tbh I do like the execution of the build but the police car is so lack luster and like every city car recently horrendously chunky
60274 - The helicopter though a build we see at least 4 of every year with city is a really good build, the lighthouse is cute and the shark and raft are nice little inclusions, definitely considering getting this one if its £18 - £20.

Though i love that 60272 has Lloyds hair in brown and 60273 has Finns hair in a nougat colour very useful parts that will more than likely be on Bricks and Pieces plus the Boat hull in that bright yellow is pretty cool.

These all look very juniorized and unappealing visually to me... so, intended more for the kids to play with, I guess...?

In my personal opinion 2020 has been the year with the worst police sets since the dark ages at the turn of the millennium

The lighthouse is fine, and that makes it the best of this wave. But the others are pretty mediocre. The driller in particular is just ridiculous.

All of these feel a bit half baked.

A set consisting of a lighthouse and helicopter? I think Lego is trolling us now.

Given the current real-world debate about the militarization of the police in the United States, what an unfortunate moment to release an “elite” team of police.

Don’t make it political or try and make some social deal out of this guys. You all are the ones that would complain if they stopped selling sets.

The drill might be ridiculous, but there’s nothing wrong with doing something fun and wacky. Do you really want another police car chasing a truck?

Yeesh, I couldn't think of a worse time to release "Elite Police" sets

But I do quite like them, especially if they all really are 20€ here, if that's true, I really might get them

are these the 4+ sets?

@monkyby87 said:
"Don’t make it political or try and make some social deal out of this guys. You all are the ones that would complain if they stopped selling sets.

The drill might be ridiculous, but there’s nothing wrong with doing something fun and wacky. Do you really want another police car chasing a truck?"

Well said pal. On both fronts.
The drill has great play value and so do police figures that are the heroes in almost every kids‘ play. Don’t even think about taking that away from them.

All of these sets are huge step back from the previous generation of Police sets. They remind me the early 2000's sets. That was a wrong was of the TLG and paid a huge price, almost ruined the whole company. I hope they have learned that lession and will produce much more creative sets then these ones...

@monkyby87 said:
"You all are the ones that would complain if they stopped selling sets."

I can't speak for every AFOL, but I'm... pretty sure it's the opposite?

Every time new City Police sets are announced the reaction is usually of tiredness at yet more police stuff alongside the reluctant acceptance that it probably sells, so if they suddenly stopped pumping them out every year in favour of more varied City-type things I'm sure the reaction would be more positive than anything. And that's without even factoring in the current police-related situation!

The timing is poor, though LEGO has donated to BLM charities and slowed down marketing for police-based sets. Nothing's ideal but it's a good show of faith, or the start of one. I've never thought of LEGO City as being the US police force anyway, due to their uniforms and lack of guns (mainly the latter). The real litmus test will be seeing whether parents want to buy these for their children in the wake of these atrocities.

Anyway, back to the brick. This wave is a bit poor, though I for one love the goofiness of the gigantic drill. It's the kind of thing I can see a kid really latching onto.

Honestly, the last few years have seen LEGO include more non-police/fire/emergency sets in the City theme - a ski resort, a hospital, random bikers, a mechanic's, a street sweeper etc - than they ever used to, so I'm not going to get myself in a twist over a few very basic police sets. Kids will enjoy these, and we've been getting some other great stuff too, there's peace in the balance.

@Bison_Bricks said: "Given the current real-world debate about the militarization of the police in the United States, what an unfortunate moment to release an “elite” team of police."

You know, I just had that thought. Is this really a good time to be releasing super special police sets?

It's not like the sets are that great. The car is blocky, the lighthouse is *okay*, and the driller is just ridiculous.

@Zordboy said:

“You know, I just had that thought. Is this really a good time to be releasing super special police sets?”

I can’t think of a worse time, tbh.

BEFORE anyone continues the discussion about IRL police, reminder that lego sets aren't designed and then released in a few days - it takes months + packaging and the fact that retailers already ordered summer sets before all this happened - they aren't going to cancel a few sets over this. As someone else said - unfortunate timing.

As for the sets themselves, the builds are kinda neat (but not realistic, unless someone has actually robbed a bank in a driller), but I'm biased for the police colourschemes; dark blue + light yellow!

People complaining about the drill being 'unrealistic'; guys, these are the -elite- police, they're tackling the abnormal stuff XD

Everybody has already commented on the timing of these police sets, but is nobody going to mention the LEGO City cop show these ties into?! Personally, I find the show more problematic than the sets (crooks are 100% evil, have Italian names - Italian MINORITY in predominantly American society, police are always the heroes and save the day etc.) Yeesh...

On a less serious note, these sets look pretty dreadful. I know that they are for 5-year-olds, but the vehicles are so blocky! Just compare the police cars to Gordon’s from The Riddler Heist or Hopper’s from the Stranger Things set. That said, I would love to see somebody rob a bank in a giant cardboard-box-shaped driller.

I have zero problems with the idea of elite police sets, but these all look terrible.

@TheRightP_art said:
"Everybody has already commented on the timing of these police sets, but is nobody going to mention the LEGO City cop show these ties into?! Personally, I find the show more problematic than the sets (crooks are 100% evil, have Italian names - Italian MINORITY in predominantly American society, police are always the heroes and save the day etc.) Yeesh...

On a less serious note, these sets look pretty dreadful. I know that they are for 5-year-olds, but the vehicles are so blocky! Just compare the police cars to Gordon’s from The Riddler Heist or Hopper’s from the Stranger Things set. That said, I would love to see somebody rob a bank in a giant cardboard-box-shaped driller."

To be fair, any children's show is going to have a simplified approach to ideas like good and evil. Coding all the villains as Italian sounds a bit problematic if that's actually the case, though.

Concepts are ok but they seem to be rather simplified.
But yet again police...?
Paradoxically, when you look at Playmobil, a more set-in-stone toy, the variation in offered ideas and concepts is remarkably much larger, wider and inspired than the brick company is proposing.

@Admiraltyphoon said:
"BEFORE anyone continues the discussion about IRL police, reminder that lego sets aren't designed and then released in a few days - it takes months + packaging and the fact that retailers already ordered summer sets before all this happened - they aren't going to cancel a few sets over this. As someone else said - unfortunate timing.

As for the sets themselves, the builds are kinda neat (but not realistic, unless someone has actually robbed a bank in a driller), but I'm biased for the police colourschemes; dark blue + light yellow!"

I don't buy it: Lego pulled the plug right quick on the original Las Vegas skyline set. So they can do it if they want. And while the may have no control over retailers selling these sets that have already shipped to stores, that doesn't mean they need to keep sending more.

I've just about decided that cops and robbers in Lego City are really just two sides in an elaborate ongoing form of cosplay tag, and that driller chase proves it.

@Anak said:
"A driller in a City police set, really? Sure itt has play value, but very unrealistic."

Unrealistic is probably the right place to be right now, don’t you think?

Honestly I quite like these sets. They’re 20 dollars and come with enough to play out a Cops vs Robbers scenario, and you’ve got a few options on whether you’d like an air, land, or sea chase!

As for people complaining about the show or thinking LEGO is a bit tone deaf for announcing these given recent events, I think you’re overthinking it. It’s just a game of cops and robbers. LEGO City doesn’t the place for harrowing social commentary on police brutality and such. Heck, I’m glad shows like it are around so kids can have an idea on what a good cop should be like so they know whenever a person in the real world isn’t doing what they’re supposed to do.

Plus there are a lot of legitimately evil people in this world that cops do help put away. Is the system perfect? No, of course not. No system made my man will ever be without it’s flaws. But the mentality of “cop bad” when applied to the police as a whole is going to be one that is damaging in the long run. The system does have issues, it does need some work, but I don’t think throwing a hissyfit over a LEGO set showing a games of cops and robbers is really going to help. Heck, the LEGO cops don’t even carry guns or weapons so they already discourage you from trying those methods to bring criminals down and even the show has it so the characters need to be creative and not just use brute force.

Come on guys. It’s a freaking toy. If you want to make things better, turn your attention to something that will actually make effort instead of wasting anger on something so trivial.

I am of Italian descent. I wish I was in the mafia. I hope lego releases the long-ago-proposed 1920s prohibition-era theme so I can role play being the hit man that tosses that guy into lego city river.

@ToyTownBreakDown no no no you have all it all wrong, the man "fell into the river" in LEGO City...

@Snazzy_Bricks said:
" @TheRightP_art said:
"Everybody has already commented on the timing of these police sets, but is nobody going to mention the LEGO City cop show these ties into?! Personally, I find the show more problematic than the sets (crooks are 100% evil, have Italian names - Italian MINORITY in predominantly American society, police are always the heroes and save the day etc.) Yeesh...

On a less serious note, these sets look pretty dreadful. I know that they are for 5-year-olds, but the vehicles are so blocky! Just compare the police cars to Gordon’s from The Riddler Heist or Hopper’s from the Stranger Things set. That said, I would love to see somebody rob a bank in a giant cardboard-box-shaped driller."



It's just a toy. Don't waste anger on something so insignificant, you'd be complaining if the sets were pulled because of police problems. the sets are for kids, who just want to play with cars and stuff. Young kids are innocent to this stuff happening with police. City Police is one of the best selling themes Lego has. also, I don't know where you're seeing the Italian minority stuff. Looking through recent sets, the criminals have names like Big Betty and Daisy Caboom.
Saying "Police are always the heroes and save the day etc. Yeesh" is about the same as saying you'd wish the police DIDN'T save the day, which would make our problems MUCH worse with crime and shootings and etc."

THANK YOU for being sane!

I don't care about City Police because I have enough of them, but these are quite ugly, even for City standards. Also, I don't see anything "Elite" in these, except the goggles, which are nice, I guess

@monkyby87 said:
"Don’t make it political or try and make some social deal out of this guys. You all are the ones that would complain if they stopped selling sets."

Don't presume to speak for me. I, for one, would be more than happy to see the world of Lego City branch out into more topics other than "Police vs. Bad Guys"

2017, for instance, had a great Coast Guard theme focused around saving lives and rescuing boaters from storms. I'd like to see more of that! Personally I feel it allows for much more imaginative play than just "Here's the good guy and here's the bad guy. Make them chase each other" which seems to be the only purpose of the constant police sets Lego City is constantly flooded with. And if a child with a Coast Guard set really wanted to play "Good Guys vs Bad Guys", there was nothing stopping them from using their imagination and pretending the boaters the Coast Guards were tasked with tracking down were really smugglers!

I hope next year we see a shift away from these constant police sets. There are a million other topics that are rife with potential for imaginative play. Let Lego make another line of sets based off of these topics for a change!

I can't wait to see how disturbingly overpriced these will be in the US.

Defund the Lego City police!

Am I the only one who sees the lighthouse arrest set as a great starting point for a Jaws 2 vignette?

These are... Awful... Just awful.

Just what City needed, more cops. Hard pass.

I’m glad Lego is backing off promoting police sets so I’m less likely to see these ugly things.

Man, even before all of the police brutality in the United States took center stage I've been tired of all the police sets. Give us literally anything else Lego, please. Where is the medical/rescue city theme?

@monkyby87 said:
"Don’t make it political or try and make some social deal out of this guys. You all are the ones that would complain if they stopped selling sets.

The drill might be ridiculous, but there’s nothing wrong with doing something fun and wacky. Do you really want another police car chasing a truck?"

You can't make something political because everything is political. If something doesn't appear political that is simply because it is representing the status quo and doesn't affect you personally. However, since we are in a time where it is clear the police should no longer be a part of the status quo I fail to see how this isn't political.

I for one would love if they removed all police sets from shelves. A lot of people are saying they are just toys, but I think that makes an even better case for removing them. I don't see how normalizing the police in a child's formative years, when it is clear they are an inherently racist institution, is a good idea.

@Bison_Bricks said:
"Given the current real-world debate about the militarization of the police in the United States, what an unfortunate moment to release an “elite” team of police."

Some of us live in countries where we are happy to have police around...
Current US situations is ridiculous and US is less and less center of the world. Maybe delay for US market would be appropriate, we Euros could not care less.
We DO care about quality of LEGO City police sets though.

@SaggyCloud said:
" @monkyby87 said:
"Don’t make it political or try and make some social deal out of this guys. You all are the ones that would complain if they stopped selling sets.

The drill might be ridiculous, but there’s nothing wrong with doing something fun and wacky. Do you really want another police car chasing a truck?"

You can't make something political because everything is political. If something doesn't appear political that is simply because it is representing the status quo and doesn't affect you personally. However, since we are in a time where it is clear the police should no longer be a part of the status quo I fail to see how this isn't political.

I for one would love if they removed all police sets from shelves. A lot of people are saying they are just toys, but I think that makes an even better case for removing them. I don't see how normalizing the police in a child's formative years, when it is clear they are an inherently racist institution, is a good idea. "

And you went and made it political when it didn’t need to be...*sigh*

In my opinion this is the worst year for city sets since early 2000's. Doesn't seem to be much effort being put in to them these days and very basic looking, but I'm sure Lego have done their homework. This is the first year I haven't bought a city set since 2009 when I came out my dark age!

2020 sure is harsh to the city theme. Lackluster builds (for the most part) and named characters (why!?), do the theme a huge disfavor. Why not do a big construction line, with a big crane truck, etc (the one from 2005 sold like crazy)? Why not pay the Farm sub theme a visit? Instead we get ugly ripcord helicopters, that don't work properly, something, that I wouldn't even try to call police station and absolutely bland and overpriced builds. Deep sea explorers is kinda nice, but 2015 had a way better lineup.

@Snazzy_Bricks said: "Don't waste anger on something so insignificant, you'd be complaining if the sets were pulled because of police problems."

I can say, without almost one hundred percent certainty, that ... given the truckloads of new police sets that get released every year on a continuous cycle ... if Lego decided to go for six months without releasing new police sets?

Nobody would care. In fact, I'd bet money on the opposite, that people would be grateful for the reprieve.

Personally I think these sets are a huge improvement from the ones at the start of the year. Perhaps I just like dark blue. The truck and boat are okay, I think kids will like the hummer style truck thing. The police car isnt too bad, I dont like it. but there has definitely been worse ones. The drill is stupid but fun for kids, and it could be used in a mining layout.

My favourite is the helicopter and lighthouse, FINALLY lego used a different cockpit windscreen piece for a small helicopter! Its actually not too bad of a helicopter, the lighthouse is good and the raft is fine.

I like the torsos, the ones from 2015? Chase McCain elite police theme were better but these are good and its nice to see the face prints and hair in cheap sets.

But George Floyd or not, why more police??? I think this would have made a solid theme at the start of the year, a dark blue police station might have been alright. Personally I am a tad skeptical that kids ONLY like police sets, why dont we get fire sets that often then?

Regarding militarisation of police and all that: Undoubtedly hundreds of people will whinge when these sets are released, lego will probably get sued for 'racism' but no one will have the guts to actually criticise the actions of US police (eg the unprovoked beating of Australian press, attacking the elderly, taking a shotgun to unarmed, non protestors to name but a few atrocities post Mr Floyd's death) everyone just rants about how "they're not all bad" forgetting that an awful lot of Americans, black but also white, have probably never had a positive encounter with the police force, and that was not by their own actions.

So, I've got a kid turning 6 in a few days and he isn't even interested.

As a mom, the price point is too high for birthday presents to random other kids.

We have so much police, firefighters, and whatnot already that our kids lego city looks like a police state.

I think we'll go for the airport sets this summer. And we're hoping for more city space sets too. :-)