@guachi:
Are you referring to that unpaired roller skate in the background?

So, is this a harbor from hurricanes or a harbor for hurricanes?
I always did like the windscreen piece on the helicopter. I'd love to see them do an updated version.

So the beach in the background ends on the left side with a sharp cliff straight down? ...or did they poorly crop the background?

@MCLegoboy said:
"I get you want alliteration, but Hurricane Harbor? Sounds like a bad place to have a happy-go-lucky harbor if it has a reputation of being bombarded with hurricanes because of poor placement. But hey, this is the coast guard, maybe they detect hurricanes and make sure everyone is prepared when one appears and where the projected path will put the most damage."

Yeah I was gonna mention that.

For a place called Hurricane Harbor, this looks very idyllic!

Man that building does not look strong enough to withstand a hurricane. I think even a moderate sea breeze might give it trouble. This coast guard really might want to consider, say, proper foundations instead of pillars everywhere?

Good times on Lego Island

I can't tell if this is a police station or sea rescue HQ.

The 90s had some nice Harbour sets in a row :

1991: 6540: Pier Police
1994 : 6543: Sail N' Fly Marina

1996 : 6598: Metro PD Station
1998 : 6479: Emergency Response Center

I so miss part 2617 and 2642 (the platforms). There were so many great parts in the past that have been discontinued. It's a shame and quite sad. We have a few new parts every year, but I'm always wondering how do they decide to discontinue a given part. Cost of moulds is not a reason because the Friends theme alone churns dozens of new parts every year.

I like the platforms, as normally only see at train stations or dockyards. From memory the palm tree had unusual separate pieces to build the trunk. The upstairs control room with radar screen and PC keyboard with screen plus tape deck was fairly impressive and made up for the ground floor which was a bit sparse, with just a map across two square 2x2 tiles rather than a single 2x4 tile? There are suggestions for alternative builds at the end of the instructions for larger boats or a watch tower style lifeguard station.

3 of this set's boxes were also shown next to the score cube in Lego Island 1^^

I didn't know they had Lego dolphins back in the 90s!

@AustinPowers:
I can't remember the last time I used a single 2x4 brick in a MOC (I do use them, just infrequently, and probably most often as filler in large constructions). The last vehicle I built is a 6-wide 1960's Ford Good Humor ice cream truck that's about the size of that boat, and has 304 pieces, excluding the minifig. It looks like the largest brick I used was a 2x2 corner brick, the only basic brick is a single 1x1, the largest plate was 2x10, and the only plate wider than 2x was a 4x4 plate w/ 2x2 opening. But it uses 28x 1x2 plates, 26x 1x1 plates, 15x 1x2 tiles, 12x 1x1-1x1 up brackets, nine headlight bricks, and nine cheese wedges. Four of those cheese wedges aren't even attached to anything, but are floating, trapped in all six directions, to form the pontoon fenders over the rear wheels.

There's a guy in my LUG who specializes in replicas of art deco skyscrapers from Detroit. Four of his buildings are taller than me. The last one of those four was built primarily with 1x2 bricks, because he found that it was too hard to figure out what parts he'd need if he used bricks in multiple sizes. I don't think he uses many 2x4 bricks either, but he did have a photo of one of his MOCs mistaken as a photo of the building it was based on and printed in material promoting our appearance at an event.

I've seen LUGs where the entire layout looks like this set, and people immediately know it's a LEGO layout when they walk up. My LUG frequently has people walk up and not even realize that they're looking at a LEGO layout right away. So, if you want your MOCs to look like tiny Duplo models, that's your choice, but it's a little surprising to see you praising such a simplistic design when all you have to say about modern LEGO sets is how much more detailed clone brand sets are these days.

@PurpleDave : since when do I praise clone brands for offering more detailed sets?
I praise them for offering stuff that LEGO doesn't offer at all anymore, like vehicles and trains modeled after German prototypes. Or railway buildings. Or in general sets that offer great value for money.
I also didn't mention the 2x4 brick at all. My old layouts I built as a kid (and like I said that was what I was referring to) also didn't include many 2x4 bricks, but rather many 1x2s, 1x4s, 1x6s, 1x8s for the walls, large plates, in addition to doors, windows, roof pieces etc. I once built a "studio lot" like Paramount, with (Star Trek TNG) stages, a backlot (for filming stuff in outer space for example, or doing car chase scenes, and so in), etc. This was one of my longest standing play areas, directly adjacent to my city layout with monorail (not the official one but one I devised myself), Formula 1 racetrack, skyscraper etc. Mind you, that was over thirty years ago. MOCs are not my primary focus anymore, I currently built a lot of sets that have been lying around the house for too long. Plus some new sets in between. My last set I finished two days ago was the Dresdner Frauenkirche by Xingbao for BlueBrixx. I am also currently building the Ideas Tree house and the Ninjago City Gardens.

@Zordboy said:
"Beautiful classic Town set from the mid-90s. Gorgeous.

My only complaint is that the lower floor is too open. Why even bother putting in the big window, there, if there's nothing but open air on every other side?

That side, I still love all the details here. Car, boat and helicopter, with a baseplate? Winning."

Exactly why its not really a classic town set to me. Actually I see it more as a beginning of the dredded 'juniorization' of the Town line with its lack of substance with the building and that beach..buggy? I guess, with no doors (even though it looks like to could have had them). The Blue window frames, dolphin piece and the coast guard hats still make this a somewhat interesting set part wise. However, if a had to chose a set for this type of design I would probably go with 6540. Despite less pieces, it just seems like there is more to do with the set, and was actually about 5 dollars cheaper than the Hurricane Harbor set (I guess that helicopter or dolphin sent it over the line).

I know everyone has their own meaning of Juniorized, but I personally won't call this juniors yet, as LEGO has been using wall panels in Pirates and Castle and Trains used rather large windows as well.

This is basicly the predecessor :

6387 : Coastal Rescue Base

A set like 6330 : Cargo Center , or 6478 : Fire Fighters' HQ are a much worse example of Town.Jr where there are hardly any plates left.

@AustinPowers:
From the comments I've seen you post, that's not the impression I got. You seem to praise brands that compete with the D2C market, not the 4+ lines.