Custom Police Car garage
A police set that cares more about the garage than the getaway.
Brick Rated Score
Set 60457 · 2025
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What won me over here is what the set doesn't do.
There's no chase, no crash, no villain hiding in a getaway van, just a squad car up on a lift, half built, wires and panels missing, with a mechanic in an oil stained jumpsuit standing over it with a wrench. That's a genuinely different note for City Police to play, and it works. I'd hand this to a kid who likes fixing things more than one who likes cops and robbers, and honestly that's a bigger audience than LEGO usually writes for in this line.
Best for: kids (and adults) who'd rather build and tinker with a car than chase one
What it is
The first thing that got me was the car. It's up on a rolling chassis, missing body panels, engine bay wide open, sitting on a turntable lift like it just rolled in for a diagnosis. That's not how City police sets usually work, they're normally mid chase or mid arrest. This one is mid repair, and that small shift in story changes the whole feel of the build. You get a police chief, a driver, and two mechanics, and the mechanics are clearly the stars, complete with a wrench, hammer, handcuffs, and even a donut and cup for the break room joke.
The catch
I'll be straight with you about the size. This is a 489 piece set with a compact footprint, about 4.5 inches high and 16.5 inches wide, so if you're picturing a sprawling precinct this isn't it. It reads best as a supporting building next to a bigger City police station or a garage row, not as the one big set in a City collection. The price sits around $55, and for a set with a genuine gear driven lift mechanism and modular wall panels, that's a fair trade, but don't go in expecting a huge build session.
Who it's for
I'd get this for a kid who likes taking things apart and putting them back together more than one who wants a big dramatic rescue. The turntable lift is a nice, honest introduction to how gears translate motion, and the customizable attachments (road, off road, snow, even airborne gear) give it real replay value once the main build is done. If your kid needs sirens, chases, and a jail cell to feel like it's really a police set, look elsewhere in the City lineup. If they'd rather pop the hood and fix something, this one's for them.
The parts story
What the build is actually like, and the pieces worth knowing about.
Building this one feels less like assembling a vehicle and more like assembling a workshop around a vehicle. The garage goes together in movable wall sections, which is a small design choice that pays off, you can reconfigure the layout instead of being stuck with one fixed shape once it's done. The worm gear lift is the mechanical heart of the build, and watching it lift the rolling chassis for the first time is a satisfying payoff after the fiddlier gear assembly steps.
The standout piece for me is the Police Mechanic minifig, printed with oil stain detailing and a tool belt that you don't see in a typical City figure. The project car itself is built to look intentionally incomplete, exposed engine, missing panels, which is a clever bit of part usage since LEGO didn't have to mold a whole car's worth of body panels to sell the workshop scene. At roughly $55 for 489 pieces plus four minifigs and a working mechanism, the price per piece lands in reasonable territory for a City set with genuine play function rather than just static scenery.
Fun facts
- 01The squad car in this set is built as a deliberately unfinished project car, missing body panels and showing an exposed engine, to sell the workshop story rather than a finished cruiser.
- 02The vehicle lift runs on a worm gear system that converts horizontal axle rotation into vertical lift motion, a straightforward hands on gear mechanism for younger builders.
- 03The garage walls are built in separate modular sections that can be rearranged, so the building layout isn't fixed to one configuration.
- 04The set includes small story props like a donut and a cup for the mechanics, alongside a wrench, hammer, and handcuffs.
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