City

Downtown

The biggest LEGO City ever, stuffed with 14 minifigs and a dozen little stories.

4.0/5

Set 60380 · 2023

Pieces2,010

Minifigs14

Year2023

Set number60380

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The verdict

If you want one City set that feels like a whole neighborhood in a box, this is the one to grab.

You get 2,010 pieces, 14 characters, and eight-plus little scenes ranging from a barbershop to a rooftop disco. Just know going in that it spreads itself thin, so no single building gets modular-level depth. It's a brilliant playset and parts box, less so a display centerpiece.

Best for: City fans and families who want maximum play and characters in one box

The full review

What it is

Say hello to the biggest LEGO® set City has ever put out. Downtown packs 2,010 pieces into a sprawling block that includes a barbershop, a vet clinic, a comic store, a tech store, a pizzeria, a juice bar, a noodle stand, a hotel, a blogging studio, and a rooftop disco. Then it throws in a park, a street-food corner, and 14 minifigures to run the whole place. It sits on LEGO road plates too, so it slots straight into any City layout you've already got going. If your idea of a good time is a bustling little world you can play with, rearrange, and add to, this set delivers that in spades.

The catch

Here's the honest part. This is the classic City trap of cramming in so many features that none of them gets the room it deserves. The hotel is the clearest example: for a build this size, getting a lobby and a single room feels stingy, and a lot of reviewers wished those bricks had gone somewhere useful. There are no internal stairs or elevators, so the floors don't really connect the way you'd hope. And a few sections, the janitor's closet, the smoothie cart, the blogger's studio, feel like filler that padded the feature list without adding much play. The buildings are also open-backed, which is standard for City but does limit how you place them in a custom layout. At an original 199.99, it was priced fairly for the part count, but you're paying for breadth, not depth.

Who it's for

So who's this for? Families and City fans who value play and characters over a polished display piece will love it. The sheer number of minifigs and accessories means kids (and honestly, plenty of adults) can spin up stories for days, and the modular chunks let you build it over a few sittings or split it up with someone else. AFOLs chasing the tight detail of the Icons Modular Buildings should temper expectations, because this is a different animal with a different goal. But as one big, characterful City centerpiece and a fantastic parts haul, it's an easy set to recommend. It sat at a solid 4.0 on Brickset, and that feels about right: not flawless, but a lot of fun for the money.

The parts story

What the build is actually like, and the pieces worth knowing about.

Building Downtown is a marathon of bite-sized sprints, and that's the appeal. Because it's fully modular, you tackle it section by section, each building its own little project, which makes it easy to build over a few evenings or hand chunks off to a friend or kid. Most builders clock in around four hours or so. The techniques stay approachable (this is an 8-plus set), but there's enough variety across the barbershop, the pizzeria, the hotel, and the rooftop that it rarely feels repetitive. The standout moment for a lot of people is the glass walkway crossing the street, which uses a clever clamshell mechanism so you can pop a minifig inside.

As a parts box, this thing is a gift. You get a broad, varied assortment of elements, some of them fairly rare at launch, and enough small detail pieces to make it a genuine bits haul. The T-Rex costume shows up in a new color here, which is a fun grab for collectors. The minifig printing is generous too: all 14 have front and back torso printing, eight have double-sided faces, and a couple even have printed legs. Add roughly 55 accessories (food, tools, animals, and more) and you've got serious storytelling ammo. The one printing gripe is that two of the kid figures have the fixed stubby legs. At around ten cents per piece, the value stacks up nicely against anything else in the range.

Fun facts

01At 2,010 pieces, Downtown was the largest LEGO City set ever released when it launched in 2023.
02It was designed by LEGO's Leon Pijnenburg and sits on standard LEGO road plates so it links straight into other City sets.
03The set includes a new color variant of the T-Rex dinosaur costume, a favorite Easter egg for parts collectors.
04It was only available from June 2023 to the end of 2024, and secondary prices have since climbed well above the original 199.99 RRP.