At $60 USD retail, the #60291 LEGO City Family House is the most affordable LEGO City set in the batch. It features a three-story home complete with carport, charging station for an electric car, yard, and a street section that has been taken over by the family to play some street hockey.
My main goal of getting this set was to see how it uses the new road plate system. In essence, we get one and a half road modules. A full module is 1616 studs in dimension and sits two plates tall in height. LEGO also makes a half module, which is 816 studs in width and length and also two plates high.
As this set only has two road elements, your options for modifying the street are limited, however the set still does a decent job at showing how easy it can be to take a single building and make it compatible with a much larger city that features the new road system.
And, of course, we get quite a good selection of road modules. We also get to see how crosswalks are handled. The 816 half module is decorated with dashed lines along its entire length. Astonishingly, you simply add in some printed 24 tiles with the same line pattern, which then complete the crosswalk. These decorated tiles are also what are used for making the dashed lines on the main road, providing a very slick and polished look that really classes up the entire set.
The buildings in this set are straightforward. They are also built as modules of their own. As each is finished, it gets slotted into a section along the road. Additionally, the instructions have suggestions for other arrangements of how you can lay out your growing city.
At $80 USD retail, I like the look of the #60306 LEGO City Shopping Street the best. It features a straight bit of road with a couple of stores. Minifigs can get some fresh baked goods at the bakery and get their cycling needs met at the sports shop. There is even a small park area with an outdoor exercise fixture where minifigs can get in shape by either doing some pull-ups or bar dips. And LEGO designers managed to maintain their environmental message by having a couple of solar powered street lights.
The only downside is trying to get enough of these road plates for your city. The #60304 LEGO City Road Plates set is only $20 USD retail and therefore the most affordable way to get more road plates. It does seem like LEGO is set on going forward with this system, so they will likely release more sets (and perhaps even more configuration options) in the future. In the video below, I share some additional thoughts about the new LEGO City sets and the road plate system.
What do you think? How do you like the new road plate system introduced with the 2021 LEGO City sets? Do you have any of them already? Did you incorporate them in your own LEGO City? Feel free to share your thoughts and own reviews in the comment section below!
Jason, if you already have an established city, there is no need to redo it. However, if someone is just starting out the new road plates are actually better as they can be used in so many different ways. Including, making narrow roads to save space.
Mark, there is no need to retrofit such a huge city as yours. However, for people, and especially kids, who are just starting out with their cities, the new road plates offer more options for customization. Both systems have plusses and minuses, so just go with the system you like. ?
The goal of the Game is to simulate every aspect of the Scrum process learned in theory the day before. The Team and the Scrum Master will have to put in practice everything learned during the theoretical part.
Here you can have (it is optional though) a release planning meeting session, where the team(s) focus in estimating as many stories as possible to have an initial idea of the Release Costs. This assumes that the Trainer guides the Product Owner in setting a reasonable Release scope (that can be adjusted anyway after every sprint).
At the end of the 4th Sprint the Product Owner should make the Release Review and together with the Teams analyze the results. Discuss the outcome of the whole Release cycle in comparison with the initial Vision and Goals
Learn to organize a Backlog properly, prioritizing what is more important first Learn to measure the Team velocity and based on that make decisions, and re-prioritize the Product Backlog Learn to negotiate with the Team about acceptance criteria and the deliverable
Experience self-organization and pressure given from the time-box Learn to communicate focused on the sprint goal Learn how to plan and organize tasks during a sprint Learn to estimate fast and precisely based on the experience Learn to measure performance and improvements Learn to deal with unexpected events
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There are over 2000 plastic souls in the City of Bricks. Each of them has a story to tell, and some are yet to be written. Here are 14 such stories, playing out against a backdrop of colour, lights, pizza shops and a colour scheme to challenge Heartlake city for its sheer variety.
This year, we have seen some changes in LEGO City. In the past, when we have built a city centre, we have had a variety of shop fronts, occasionally with a business upstairs, a public transport hub, and very little tying the shops together. In fact, an undisciplined builder could occupy the entire room, with individual components disconnected from each other.
The city centre is utilizing a new modular format, based on new 88 and 8x16x2/3 plates, a similar size to the road plates, but with studs. We have eleven brick-built modules, 32 studs of roadway, a park and mall. While I will be descibing the modules in the order of building, there is no obligation to stack them in any particular order.
Peter and Lucy are huge Ninjago fans, and Lucy is really excited for Dragons Rising because of the character of Sora.MostlyThe shop has remarkably few comics on the shelves but does feature a couple of Ninjago trading cards along with a Lloyd action figure. A large gauntlet, as well as a Green mask are on display, while a copy of City Tales #5 sits in the display rack outside the store.
Next, tricked out in white and teal is a hotel reception. Here you will be greeted with a cheery smile by Yvette, who has been tossing up pursuing a full time career in hospitality, or trying to put that degree in fine arts to work. There are a number of brochures for local dining and entertainment venues, including the pizza shop, and 60366 Winter Sports Park. Anthea has just arrived from out of town, and iskeen to get checked in.
Before we go further up, we go across. There is no one here, in particular, but possibly everyone at some time and another. this upper level walkway allows people to go from one side of the street to the other without touching the pavement. Bringing back the transparent arches that were a highlight of LEGO Town back in the 90s, the roof opens up to allow you to get people moving. The tribute to the LEGO Brick at the darker end
Now, each of these Modules can be stacked o top or beside each other, and I suspect this set can be combined with other city sets this year, such as the apartment block to allow mixed retail/industrial/residential zoning.
Unlike other LEGO City omnibus sets this one feels short of vehicles: no trams, no helicopters, no emergency services and no traffic. Virtually none of the mainstays of LEGO City. But plenty of what we need for a real city to thrive: food, hospitality, maintenance, content creators, comic shops, ad places to stay. Every building has its own design language, and vibe, bringing a fresh look to the city. I love the shoutouts to other LEGO Themes and other sets in this one.
I am particularly fond of the modular nature, allowing you to set the city centre up in your own way. It is not a particularly complex build, as you would expect of a city set. And there are plenty of simple, effective building techniques used. I particularly appreciated the fact that large window panels were not the sole form of glazing in use. It was a little fiddly in a few parts, in particular the lighting over the plaza and the dance floor, but not so much as to detract from the build experience.
Under new design-lead Simon Lucas, the City theme has received a long-awaited shot in the arm and is, I think, heading in an immensely positive direction. Fire and Police are still there, but so is a hospital, and more and more other shops, and even residences. Something virtually unknown in LEGO City until a year or two ago.
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The Lego City theme traces its origins to Lego Town, a theme introduced with the first minifigures in 1978, when a completely new range of buildings and vehicles were introduced for the European markets, although Lego sets with city buildings and vehicles had been commonplace since the late 1960s.[2]
Prior to 1978, LEGOLAND-branded sets were focused mainly around buildings and vehicles which were intended to function more as static models. In 1975, a precursor to the minifigure was introduced, in the same scale but without moving parts. These "stiffs" (as they are nicknamed by LEGO enthusiasts) were still unable to ride the vehicles. This was changed with the new minifigures - in 1978 in Europa and 1979 in North America the first vehicles that were minifigure compatible were also released. In 1980, the Trains theme was completely revamped to complement the Town sets. By 1983, the remaining vehicle based sets that were not minifigure compatible had been discontinued.
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