City

Emergency Vehicles HQ

Fire, paramedics, and police under one roof, and four vehicles roll out of it.

Brick Rated Score

3.8/5

Set 60371 · 2023

Pieces706

Minifigs5

Year2023

Set number60371

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The verdict

This is the set I keep recommending when a kid wants everything at once, because it genuinely gives you everything at once.

Four vehicles, a two-level headquarters, and five minifigures who all live nowhere else make it a proper play engine rather than a shelf piece. It is not clever architecture and the building itself is quick, but that is not the point of a set like this. If you want one City box that covers fire, medical, and police in a single go, this is the honest answer.

Best for: kids who want fire, medical, and police play all in one box

The full review

What it is

The thing that sold me on this box is how much actually spills out of it. You get a two-level emergency headquarters, a fire rescue helicopter, an ambulance, a police SUV, and a crook on a getaway motorbike, all in one 706-piece set. Most City sets pick a lane, fire OR police OR medical. This one throws all three departments into a shared HQ, which is a genuinely fresh idea and, as a nice bonus, finally hands you another medical vehicle, something LEGO City had gone quiet on. For a kid who wants to run a whole emergency response by themselves, it is close to a complete world in a single box.

The catch

I will be straight with you about where it gives ground. Because a road plate takes up so much of the footprint, the building interior ends up small. The ground floor is basically a break room with a chair and a TV, and the upstairs is a bank of three computer monitors. The sections can shuffle around and reconnect in different arrangements, but really you are moving two rooms, so the modularity is more of a gentle bonus than a headline feature. The police SUV roof only holds on with a couple of studs and feels loose, and the helicopter is the same silhouette you have built in plenty of other City sets. At the full sixty or seventy price, none of that is offensive, but it is a play set first and a display piece a distant second.

Who it's for

Get this for a child (or a young-at-heart adult) who wants breadth over depth, the kind of player who wants to stage a rescue, a chase, and a hospital run in the same afternoon without owning three separate sets. Skip it if you are after a detailed building or a clever engineering session, because the construction is fast and simple by design. Now that it has retired, secondhand prices are creeping up, so if the all-in-one concept appeals, it is worth grabbing rather than waiting for it to get cheaper, because it will not.

The parts story

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

Building this is a breezy, low-stress afternoon, and LEGO clearly designed it that way. It ships with four separate instruction booklets so up to four people can build at once, which makes it a lovely one to spread across a table with kids and split the vehicles between everyone. The Builder app 3D instructions are there if you want them. Nobody is going to be stumped by any of it, and that is the intent: the fun is in the playing afterward, not in the assembly.

The real value here lives in the minifigures and the vehicle fleet rather than any exotic single element. All five figures are exclusive to this set, so you cannot pull them from anywhere else, and the masked ambulance driver in her turquoise and neon-yellow safety vest is the standout and the most valuable of the bunch. Nothing here is a rare printed gem for the parts hunters, but the medical color scheme (dark turquoise and lime accents) runs across the ambulance and figure nicely, and the sheer count of usable vehicle parts, wheels, printed slopes, light bricks, gives the box a strong parts-to-price ratio if you ever break it for spares.

Fun facts

01Every one of the five minifigures is exclusive to this set and appears in no other LEGO release.
02The set had a short retail life, arriving in January 2023 and retiring by December 2023, under a year on shelves.
03It ships with four separate instruction booklets so up to four builders can work on it at the same time.
04It was one of the few 2023 City sets to bring back a dedicated ambulance and paramedic after a quiet stretch for medical vehicles.