First picture of new City set
Posted by Huw,
StoneWars has just posted a picture of a new City set that's been found in the shop at LEGOLAND Billund.
60271 Main Square has a lot crammed in to it including a town hall, diner, monorail and performance stage. In fact, it seems to lack any sort of coherence at all.
It's not know when it will be available elsewhere but if it was going to be sold at LEGO.com tomorrow I would have expected the set to be listed there already.
Let us know what you think of it in the comments.
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Return of monorail? Nope!
Based on the minifigure names, it looks like it is part of the LEGO City Adventures.
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt10332322/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lego_City_Adventures
https://legocityadventures.fandom.com/wiki/Lego_City_Adventures_Wiki
Why is the mayor in a corncob suit? Is this Hartlepool?
@Jackthenipper said:
"Why is the mayor in a corncob suit?"
Havent you watched the Lego City Adventures?
Im annoyed that pieces were wasted on a fire helicopter and police ATV again... Its great to finally have a non-modular town hall although personally I think it looks like a 8 year olds attempt to recreate Newbury High School. The diner is nice, tad small though. Stage is good to get as is some trees! The limousine is okay and the monorail looks pretty cool.
I would need to see more details, but at a glance I don't see that "it seems to lack any sort of coherence at all" is a problem - that it might give someone 4 or 5 "things" to play with for a reasonable price rather than buying 4 or 5 separate sets to create a broader City landscape will have it's audience.
@LegoRobo said:
"Is it just me, or is city just on a downhill spiral?"
No summer sets I was interested in, so you are not the only one. Doesn't help that the summer Police sets came not only at a bad time, also have bad prices for the USA, and thus straight to the 60132 Wall of Shame.
https://brickset.com/sets/list-32252
The "monorail" looks interesting - is it really elevated though? - and then we get the third burger place (all with a large brick built burger sign) in what, three years? Guess the other two must have been really popular then, as before that there was none (in City/Town) for like 35 years or something?
Oh boy, I am sure having a "psuedo-monorail" riding on a fictitious track only seen on the boxart isn't going to fly well with the people who want Lego to bring back monorail!
Looks like a monorail to me. Why are some of the previous comments so certain it is not? Maybe I'm not seeing some important detail that gives it away. How are we so sure it's not a return of monorail? Or a new monorail system?
I got momentarily excited, but then looked around more closely and realised it's all kind of a mess. The Town Hall itself looks good, but then they include it in a set with a polybag quad bike. I can't even identify that red object with the odd wheels.
Looks like another literal Potemkin Village with almost no interior space.
It is certainly not an actual monorail. It has an electrical spot on the top. Also you can see that the "station" portion of the track is superimposed. BOOOO...
@Wewalter said:
" @Jackthenipper said:
"Why is the mayor in a corncob suit?"
Havent you watched the Lego City Adventures?"
Nope and this is not inspiring me to do so
I doubted it included actual monorail tracks, but doesn’t that price translate to around $200? There’s not much to that set without the monorail tracks, so maybe it really does include them? I just can’t decide. My gut is telling me that it’s a deceiving picture on the box art and it doesn’t come with a track. That would be too good to be true, right?
Edit: I just spotted a mini monorail ‘station’ in the top left of the box art, which makes me even more convinced that there’s no track. Darn it!
Why do they tease me with a non-functioning monorail?!
I instantly thought Back To the Future. That townhall!
The corn-on-the-cob mayor will be familiar to those with kids who watch the Lego City show (or those without kids who watch it anyway). The show itself is sadly quite annoying, but it’s nice to see some of the characters in this set. If it really is $200 then I doubt I’ll be picking this set up, which is a shame.
I really wanted to like this, but the more I look at the box-art, the less enticing it becomes.
The Town Hall building looks nice ... but it seems very thin. I don't think there's much of a building, there, it just looks like a facade (like the vast majority of Lego buildings, these days). Why couldn't they release a building like that, just by itself, but give it some depth and make it a proper building? Remember when City used to have buildings that weren't an endless line of police stations?
I don't mind the diner. The park seems very ... unusual, and the outdoor stage just makes me think that Outdoor-Stage-itis from Heartlake City is contagious and has spread to the main Lego city. Meanwhile, the "monorail" just looks like a tram, that the box art is tricking you into thinking is a monorail, but it's still just a tram.
I don't know. I like the idea of the set, but I think the execution is off, all over the place. And why did they need to call in a helicopter to get the cat down off the balcony of the town hall? It's a building. Couldn't they have just used the stairs?
Are those dual-molded arms on Duke?
Interesting to note that the "Build Together" motif in the upper right corner features the buildings from the set itself. Makes me wonder if we will see the same design on other box art?
This set may not have gotten the PR if it releases soon thanks to LEGO decision to reduce promotions to sets featuring the cops, I like that they seem to have brought back the monorail and that the Corn Guy suit is being reused by the mayor. I am sure people will find some use in this set thought.
It's a new LEGO City UCS line, I'm guessing. "60271 Main Square" is just a working title for the box render, but "60271 Assault On The Eyeballs" is going to be the official name.....
Main concern would be the price, 1400 Danish kr = almost €190, maybe rounded up to 200.
@woosterlegos said:
"Looks like a monorail to me. Why are some of the previous comments so certain it is not? Maybe I'm not seeing some important detail that gives it away. How are we so sure it's not a return of monorail? Or a new monorail system?"
Not doubting you, buddy, but when they've teased monorails in the past few years, it's usually just https://brickset.com/parts/6185387/rail-2x8-w-3-2-shaft and the other parts like it.
Umm interesting!
Monorails don't have pantographs... Obviously the set designers created a tram, but the box designers decided to create a mess instead.
I like it.
Sure it has those weird City Adventures figures, and the questionable ‘monorail’. But...
It has an actual town building that isn’t a fire station or police station.
It has a cute nostalgic burger stand that isn’t a monster truck.
It has a nice DJ stage area that isn’t Friends, Trolls or Unikitty.
The yellow tram and limo are nice.
"Hmm. That's odd."
-Mayor Fleck
“Build Together”
This will be awkward to look at as I build this set alone.
so, now every City set is based around that television show?
I often chain windows to my motorbike and take them for a ride whilst jousting with keys too.
^ At least the tram has doors. That makes it better than the vast majority of railway traffic Lego has released in the last 20 years.
That's not a monorail - it's a tram. I fear kids looking at this box art may feel cheated. That said, not a bad collection of small builds for a LEGO city.
There’s a Lego City tv show? First I’ve heard of it
It'll get cancelled...
Yes I'm bitter but honestly it looos like my type of set... It would fit well with my existing builds.
@Jackthenipper said:
"Why is the mayor in a corncob suit? Is this Hartlepool?"
It's based on the LEGO City Adventures. The mayor wears a corn cob costume in the show.
Looks kinda similar to some previous sets.
"Is there a chance the track might bend??"
So is there a monorail? Because the box is very deceptive, marketing wise? I wonder how many folks will buy this thinking “there should be track in my box?” If it was a monorail I would buy 10, however I will be passing on this.
I like some of the police and fire sets. But, does LEGO have to cram police and firefighters in every set? I'm getting the Fire Chief truck, and I really don't need another Freya, although a head swap would be all I'd need to do. Duke is in a ton of sets too. Three civilians and an extra car or two would look better than a somewhat crude helicopter and too-big ATV. But, I have to admit, Snake Rattler is pretty cool.
I'm glad to see more actual CITY type buildings in a CITY set. LEGO might as well call CITY SOS Responders or something like that, given how that now is the bulk of town sets. And we don't even get many hospitals or EMS sets. And I prefer generic, nameless figs. I was not a fan of CITY sets being based on the new TV series.
Mo... No rail.
Pretty ugly set and box art. 2020 is definitely one of the worst (perhaps the worst) years of the City theme.
I hope Costco gets it. I am looking forward to it. It seems better than 60200.
At least the tram is using a recolor of the 2018 CITY passenger train piece in yellow. I have a MOC with just the place to use this piece! (British Rail anyone?)
@kolaxanthe I’d say that was a monorail as opposed to a tram. It’s running on an elevated single rail whereas trams tend to run on the ground via two rails.
Edit: I see the ‘monorail’ is fitted with a tram piece on it’s roof for some reason. So it’s a monorail AND a tram? Lego, pull yourself together please.
@namekuji It appears the bad guy on the bike has pulled off one of the town hall windows and is riding away with it chained to his bike. Why anyone would do this is beyond me. It’s not like it’s a bank, which is their usual target.
It's like an entire city in one box, might be a great starter set for kids!
Perseverance is heading to Mars.
As a Spacer, I just thought I’d point that out. Perhaps if Western K-12 education were actually concerned with STEM, instead of just giving lip service, there’d be more demand for LEGO Space (Non-SW) instead of Cloud Dooku Land here.
Nope, no monorail. Looks more like a tram. Very similar to the one found on set 60097. Otherwise I believe there would be a reference to it on the box art, rather than a graphic designed elevated track... Will have to see more pictures of it, but for the moment doesn't interest me much...
I would love it if LEGO now and then threw in a few references to the LEGO Movie’s Bricksburg City. (The stage speakers reminded me of a scene in the movie.) It would make a fun Easter egg...
I'm sure the target demographic will be crushed that there is no "return of the monorail" and peeved that the box art has conflated trams and monorails.
But seriously, Friends long ago took the lead in offering the best "Town" sets. Heartlake City Restaurant (41379), for example, is as good as any town/city set; great details and classic design rooted in normal life. Just switch out the minidolls for minifigs and call it good.
City nowadays is so much cops and robbers that it bores.
A few obvious new molds excepted, all these builds look like they would have been considered subpar a decade or two ago. Really don't like the look of any of this and I suspect looking inside will make me like it less. But the fake monorail track on the box is hugely annoying and I expect will disappoint a great many small children... the biggest packaging blunder from LEGO since the whole design scheme for Hidden Side if you ask me.
@lynels said:
"Mo... No rail.
Pretty ugly set and box art. 2020 is definitely one of the worst (perhaps the worst) years of the City theme."
Getting there, but not quite...the late 1990s still have a lock on the "Worst Of" trophy.
Make LEGO City Great Again!
This is brilliant! The builds aren’t too heavily dumbed down or vechile-centric like the Police Station or Airport from this year, but still have plenty of appeal to all ages. If LEGO continues with this, then I will get back into these sets.
In particular, the Town Hall looks neat, as does the stage and diner. Nowhere perfect, but a step in the right direction.
Oooo boy, I can already hear the AFOLs of a certain age foaming at the mouth now.
No debate about it, this set contains an inner-city tram or "metrorail" train and decided to be cheeky on the boxart and show it on elevated rails. I guess, from a practical perspective, whoever was in charge of packaging thought the best way to insert the train and station model into the already-cluttered scene was to move it to the background and elevate it. In that situation, the only logical thing to do would be make the train a monorail (or perhaps a mag-lev?) for appearances sake.
@DaBigE said:
" @lynels said:
"Mo... No rail.
Pretty ugly set and box art. 2020 is definitely one of the worst (perhaps the worst) years of the City theme."
Getting there, but not quite...the late 1990s still have a lock on the "Worst Of" trophy."
I was considering only the current City theme, from 2005 onwards.
Looks kinda trash, tbh. When they try to do too many things in one set, each of the things becomes too much of a cheap facade and not a full-fledged experience of that thing.
What’s the statue’s hat? Looks kind of like Forestmen, but not quite.
Another big, sprawling City set featuring Duke DeTain?
Along with many other major LEGO City Adventures characters?
A cool-looking (by City standards, which I'm totally fine with) town hall façade?
A City Diner with a similar-looking 3D burger sign to 60214?
A light rail that somehow manages to reuse the mould from 60197 (but probably doesn't run on any track like the tram in 60097)?
A light rail station that's significantly better than the train stop from 60197?
A limousine that by all accounts doesn't look all that great or much better than the one from 3222 or 60102?
A park scene that has actual trees?
Looks exciting to me, I don't know what y'all are on about. However I personally am not interested in the limo, the helicopter, Duke DeTain (because I already have him), or the performance stage. And I think I'd be better served by getting 40221 separately, BrickLinking some brick-built trees, and drawing inspiration from the town hall and diner builds here to make my own.
But for those interested in the set as a whole, I think the colorful-ness and variety of things to play with are good things, and it would be pretty satisfying to Build Together as a family, incoherent as it may be (as is typical of big, sprawling City sets like this? Why is anyone surprised/dismayed?).
Everything in this set,from the town hall to the limo, looks very simplified and a bit ugly, and together it's very chaotic
My favourite part of this is the statue... Now my population of minifigs will have something to tear down in protest to Robin Hood's dubious and immoral past.
Would you believe it if I told you this was $200!!!
@LegoAthos said:
"What’s the statue’s hat? Looks kind of like Forestmen, but not quite."
I thought the same. Looks a tad wider, so might be a new mold or just a strange angle.
One of my biggest criticisms of Lego sets in the last 10ish years has been the extensive use of SNOT and plates versus regular bricks, particularly in builds aimed at younger audiences. I've built a number of city sets that use ingenious building techniques for stability, but on a practical level, make the set hard to take apart. Younger children, specifically the demographic City is aimed toward, are the ones most likely to take their completed models apart for play. This set finally offers something like that, and it feels long overdue. For everyone calling the box chaotic - isn't that the point? The City demographic is young children, lets say the target audience is 12 and younger - this kind of box art is exactly what will appeal to them (although, if we're being real, the messier the cover, the easier it is to hide a lack of volume, but that's a different topic still worthy of a discussion).
Comparing this set to two from last year:60233 - the Donut Shop, and 60203 the Ski Chalet - this is far, far better. The Donut Shop set had its appeals, but the roofs of both buildings are flat, there's a gigantic technic piece on one of the buildings for structure/detail that has zero reusability value. Chalet has a lot of SNOT details, the roof on the main build is made via plates, and overall the set doesn't contain a lot to rebuild with.
I know City has gotten flak this year for its simplistic/boxy looking builds, but I think that's the point. Lego's new campaign is "Rebuild the World." and it's about time they actually have sets that can be built and rebuilt. Traditional bricks are the stepping point into this. As a builder gets older, they will start to appreciate how great some of the SNOT techniques are, or the presence of special mold or curved piece, but when a builder is 12 or younger, they are trying to play with a toy, not build a model. Lego's brick pallet 20-30-40 years ago was teensy compared to the library it has now; there is beauty in that simplicity, and I am ecstatic Lego is making an effort to re-capture that without fully regressing.
Last note @everyone complaining about the monorail: this set wasn't designed for adults who grew up with the classic monorails as a kid. It's also pretty obvious that there isn't track included.
My advice for you: Lego has released MANY 18+/Creator Expert/Ideas sets aimed at your demographic this year - the NES set is already crashing LEGO.com, the Pirates Ideas set has been backordered for months, as is the Lambo, and now we have the Piano, the Art mosaics, and literally dozens of other sets. All of these have complicated, detailed builds that eschew simplicity and go all in on the model building experience.
City is one of my fav. themes but honestly this year is by far the worst since the ‘00s.
Big pieces everywhere with lame design. For example: How is possible to build a new helikopter if the model only has one “helicopter” piece? (Not this set)
I know this one is for kids but come on. We have awesome city sets 2-3-4 years ago.
Note to all the whining winnies: hey people, it’s aimed at 6 year olds
"In fact, it seems to lack any sort of coherence at all."
Just like about every Lego City set lately.
I really want to like these new Lego sets but they pale before the coherency of earlier sets.
What a corny town :)
I will let myself out
Whoa this looks very compact but good.
Harl Hubbers! Haha =)
I like theres lots goin on the Tram looks cool Reminds of the yellow ones here in Manchester...
The Limousine is a nice build too!!
Looks like a total mess from the box art.
What happened to City recently?
LEGO City Adventures? Never heard of it. Why does every theme need a TV show? Aren't kids able to play out their own ideas anymore? Does everything have to be based on some stupid pre-conceived lore? Hate this direction. So glad my kids are not interested in TV shows for LEGO.
Random, disorganized, and missing the point is how I feel about the design of this set. It begs for multiple Brickset part purchases to make it approach completion.
Nice idea, terrible conception. The town hall clashes greatly with the pop star stage. Kids probably won't care though. At least there's rare parts like a seagull and the corn suit. And is that a new duster piece at the top of Harl Hubbs' pole?
@AustinPowers said:
"Looks like a total mess from the box art.
What happened to City recently?
LEGO City Adventures? Never heard of it. Why does every theme need a TV show? Aren't kids able to play out their own ideas anymore? Does everything have to be based on some stupid pre-conceived lore? Hate this direction. So glad my kids are not interested in TV shows for LEGO. "
Yeah I dunno why City is being railroaded like that lately. I watch and love the TV show, I like Duke DeTain as a character and am happy owning a minifig of him even though I have no interest in City Police, but having nearly every medium to large set feature one or more characters from the show is coupling the sets too much with the show. Needs more generic everyday people. Possibly in more generic everyday houses but we all know that's in Creator's realm anymore these days.
As a PFOL, I love this set. It’s got three brand new mini figures from City Adventures, and even has Helpful Harl Hubb’s handyman vehicle he drives (the red vehicle heaped with stuff). This is a great set and will be picking it up and stashing away for my kids.
Is Snake Rattler from season 2? Don’t think I’ve seen him in Season 1.
@jdm said:
"Note to all the whining winnies: hey people, it’s aimed at 6 year olds"
Then why can't 6 year olds have nice things? All the stuff from 2006 wasn't exactly AFOL material and it still was miles ahead of most of the things we got in the past few years.
@woosterlegos said:
"Looks like a monorail to me. Why are some of the previous comments so certain it is not? Maybe I'm not seeing some important detail that gives it away. How are we so sure it's not a return of monorail? Or a new monorail system?"
Because there is no track. I guess you could say the vehicle itself seems to be, but without any rails it doesn't really count in my books.
@387Brick said:
"Nice idea, terrible conception. The town hall clashes greatly with the pop star stage. Kids probably won't care though. At least there's rare parts like a seagull and the corn suit. And is that a new duster piece at the top of Harl Hubbs' pole?"
It’s difficult to tell but it could be the mop head ( https://www.bricklink.com/v2/catalog/catalogitem.page?P=24085&name=Minifigure,%20Utensil%20Cleaning%20Mop&category=%5BMinifigure,%20Utensil%5DT=S&O={"iconly":0} ) in a new colour for that part.
100% picking this up
I really don't like the way they give minifigures names nowadays.
Looks to me like a nice enough set (though expensive--not over-valued, "just" not pocket-money priced) with a very misleading box design. As for "incoherent," how many cities nowadays actually present a coherent look? Each building and vehicle looks the way I'd expect it to look, and all of them seem to be reasonable things to include in a city--even the downtown open-air concert area, which is a major element of my own home town, Raleigh, NC. I could do without the helicopter, but it's fun to have ways to move figures around the city other than rolling cars down the street. My biggest complaint is that someone seems to have chopped the park's trees down to make room for some (invisible) power lines. How often is a statue taller than the trees that are supposed to be shading it?
As for identifying the minifigures with characters from a TV show, the kids that watch the show will probably like that, and the ones that don't won't care.
If you want to make the tram into a mock-monorail, or an "el" train, that's easy enough to add by bricklinking track. Even my problem with the trees is easily enough addressed by using Pick a Brick or Bricks and Pieces (or, of course, Bricklink). I don't see why all the criticism--at least until someone actually builds it and writes a review based on that experience.
Can anyone tell what kind of bird that is swooping the mayor?
@Brickchap said:
"it looks like a 8 year olds attempt to recreate Newbury High School. "
An 8-year-old would use more pieces. I expect the whole thing at around 1500 pieces, from which no more than 500 go into the Town Hall. The main problem is written above the set number: Aiming a set of this size at 6 year old can't work – in my days they got 40 pieces at best; everything bigger was "7+" or even (yes, a Town-Set!) "8+". So instead of one big model and a few small additions, this will just be a compilation of 10 small sets.
Say, if this set was previously 'hidden' does this mean a Fun at the ???? could still be coming?
Mind you, by the current trajectory it looks like Fun at the Police Station will be next.... :(
As someone who doesn't get to collect as much City as I like, this looks like a fun little grab bag -- as often happens, the models would be better if sold individually and therefore had more room to function, but as a 'City Square in One Box' I think it's actually quite nice.
when I was a kid ('80 and '90), all City sets had one or more plates to connected to the rest of the town (IE: airport had 4 roadplates, monorail 2, victory lap 2 ecc...). you had to buy road only to connect sets each others!
I don't understand why LEGO no longer includes them now, with the result of having bricks setted randomingly (the sky resort, for exemple)!
And the buildings were playable, with rooms inside, while now they have just facade!
I think it's fun for what it is
its a town hall...
not a school...
The Diner, Tram/Monorail, and stage look pretty good.
The City Hall looks like it's ex-Fabuland.
The limo and ATV look like LEGO c.2001
...and I'm not even sure what's happening with the town square/fountain.
I'm not a fan of this set at all, but I think it's too harsh to say LEGO City is downhill this year.
Yes there have been some weak juniorized sets, but also some great ones like the Tuning Workshop, Ice Cream Truck, Street-sweeper, and mail plane, just off the top of my head.
So it's ok to talk about the negatives, but let's not forget about the positives!
One last point - as I kid I really liked LEGO trains/monorails.
Wanting a new monorail isn't just some old farts trying to re-live the past - monorails and trains are cool for folks of all ages young and old!
Huw a few questions maybe you can give your opinion. This set definitely has a lot of potential but the pictures I have all seen here and elsewhere hard to tell much. I don’t suppose you have seen a parts list to know what track is or isn’t included? From the picture doesn’t look like roller coaster track I’m pretty sure. Could it be a modernized monorail track? Looks quite similar. The supports/ columns for the track look great. That’s what I always didn’t like about the monorail. The supports being black looked poor.
My other point is I think “build together” could mean several things. From the whole Covid virus encouraging families to either build a large set like this together. Or some interaction app based thing maybe? Side note someone with vision issues I’m very disappointed with LEGO not including instructions for the Mario starter kit. Makes no sense. Shouldn’t have to go online to build the set.
Back on subject. I think the “build together “ means something else similar to Mario though. I believe this is the starter kit / set for a large wave of coming sets and they are all meant to be built together / or make the city layout bigger.
Similar to the monorail expansion track sets of the 90s. I can see this set only coming with the tram station and all the Buildings but not any track. You will have to buy track kits. This is just a guess on LEGO has learn very well how to get us to spend money and buy more. The last few years they have definitely made it where the themes work better of you buy most or all of the theme.
Adam.
@ak41984 said:
"From the picture doesn’t look like roller coaster track I’m pretty sure. Could it be a modernized monorail track? Looks quite similar. The supports/ columns for the track look great. That’s what I always didn’t like about the monorail. The supports being black looked poor. "
Even with this single picture I can tell the supports are not LEGO, just part of the box art. I'm not sure if it was meant to be sneaky and get people's hopes up or just help fit everything on the box, but the "monorail" excitement is far overdone. We will be lucky to get flanged wheels on the underside of the tram, if anything.
Great Scott! I can't believe no one has thought of this yet!
Almost makes me want to whip out Delorean time machine set 21103 (or at least my MOC of it) and have it wired to the clock tower to send Marty BACK TO THE FUTURE!
@DaBigE said:
" @lynels said:
"Mo... No rail.
Pretty ugly set and box art. 2020 is definitely one of the worst (perhaps the worst) years of the City theme."
Getting there, but not quite...the late 1990s still have a lock on the "Worst Of" trophy."
yeah the only city sets I got this year have been older sets of Ebay
Everything about this looks fishy. The box art, supposed set contents, brick to cost ratio,etc. I suspect this is photoshop. Is it 100% confirmed its for sale at Billund?
I like a lot of this set. I really hope this is the return of the monorail so we can possibly someday get a reprint of the airport shuttle. I like all the builds like the town hall, diner, park, and stage. I don't like how they always cram police and fire into sets like this because it just pumps up the piece and part count. If this set is not ridiculously overpriced, I will try to get it.
I…like this set. Now understand: I haven’t seen the whole L.C.A. series, it is something close to what Lego fans wanted for years...I just wish its animation style was closer to Ninjago’s rather than…well, this cel-shaded thing; but I digress.
The set captures ‘a’ Lego City in a variety of activities (concert, restaurant, fire dept.,…). It has a ‘mass transit’ (which I’m gonna call an ‘L train’, as that’s what they’re called in Chitown/Chicago, home of one of my fave movies: The Blue Brothers), which the only bad I can say on it is: the middle car should be a little bigger. Well, that and Harl’s (who I had to play ‘Where’s Harl’ in that image-jumble to find him) cycle also looks ‘small’…but then if it were ‘to scale’, no kid could move it:) (That thing towered with ‘gear’).
Good cross-section of characters, though I’d swapped Snake for another crook…not sure who, wouldn’t even have to be Vito…Hacksaw Hank maybe? Oh, and the Forestman statue is a nice touch, as it harkens back to the City Center set that had a statue of a Knight. And that family in the center, going about things as ‘normal’…that makes me smile:).
Overall, well not ‘perfect’; defiantly a good ‘starting component’ for a ‘proper’/personalized Lego City, like part of its core or its ‘heart’.
Legos website says 1 Sept release. I like this set for the kids' lego city. Lots of small bits to make stories from. :)