City

F1 Garage & Mercedes-AMG & Alpine Cars

A pit lane you can fold up and carry, with two race cars and a launch feature the kids will wear out.

Brick Rated Score

3.9/5

Set 60444 · 2025

Pieces686

Minifigs6

Year2025

Set number60444

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The verdict

This is City doing what City does best, turning a big grown-up thing (an F1 team garage) into something a seven year old can carry across the room by the handle.

You get two race cars, six figures, and a launch mechanism that fires the cars out of the bay at real speed. The printing on the cars is a little hit and miss up close, and at $79.99 it feels a touch small, but as a playset it earns its keep. I'd point families here before I'd point pure display collectors.

Best for: F1-mad kids (and the parents who play along) who want a garage that actually does something

The full review

What it is

I have a soft spot for the way LEGO City takes something huge and grown-up and shrinks it into a thing a kid can actually play with, and the F1 Garage is a clean example. It is a self-contained team garage that opens up into a full workshop, wheels folded arches computer screens and all, then closes back around a carrying handle so it can be picked up and moved without shedding half its parts. Sitting inside are two F1 cars, one in Mercedes-AMG colors and one Alpine blue, plus a tire tower, tool carts, an air compressor and a little winner's trophy. It landed on January 1, 2025 as part of LEGO's first ever official Formula 1 lineup, and you can feel the brief in every corner: this is meant to be busy, quick to set up, and fun to knock about.

The catch

I'll be straight with you about the rough edges, because there are a couple. The printing on the cars is where builders have grumbled most. Some of the color matching between printed elements and the bricks around them is uneven, and the teal arches on the Mercedes-AMG in particular look a bit clumsy when you view the car from above. The six figures are fun to have but not exactly distinct, the four garage crew all share the same torso and leg combination, so once they are lined up they blur together. And the value question is real. At $79.99 for 686 pieces, roughly eleven cents a part, it is not badly priced by LEGO's standards, but the built footprint feels modest, and if you are chasing sheer brick-for-your-buck this is not the set that wins that argument.

Who it's for

So who walks away happy here. Families and F1-obsessed kids, easily. The launch feature is the sort of thing that gets used a hundred times in an afternoon, the garage sets up fast for a race scenario and folds away just as fast, and having two liveried cars in one box means two drivers can go head to head straight out of the packaging. Pure display collectors and adults hunting a detailed static model should look at the Speed Champions or Icons F1 sets instead, because this one is built to be handled, not admired behind glass. Buy it for play and it delivers. Buy it for a shelf and you'll feel the compromises.

The parts story

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

The build itself is quick and satisfying rather than challenging, which suits the age it is aimed at. The clever bit is the folding garage: the walls and roof section come together so the whole workshop can hinge shut and lock around a handle, and getting that mechanism to sit right is the most engaging part of the assembly. The launch bay is the other highlight to build, a pressure-activated slider that reminds me of the classic Technic power-slam launchers, and it is genuinely fun to test as you go. The two cars go together fast, which is the point, they are meant to be grabbed and raced rather than fussed over.

On the parts front, the draw is the printed and liveried elements rather than exotic new molds. The Mercedes-AMG and Alpine cars use printed panels and arches to carry the team colors, and while the print consistency is the same thing builders flag as a con, those pieces are the pull for anyone wanting on-brand F1 parts. The trophy, the stacked tires, the tool carts and the bank of screen tiles all give you handy City detailing you can reuse. It is a solid parts pack for the money, just do not come expecting a wave of brand new molds, the value here is in the theming and the play parts, not rare collector bricks.

Fun facts

01This set arrived on January 1, 2025 as part of LEGO's first ever official Formula 1 partnership, a multi-year deal that covers all ten F1 teams and coincided with the sport's 75th anniversary.
02The City F1 range is made up of six sets that connect into a full Grand Prix weekend, from the transport trucks to the paddock, and this garage is the team workshop piece of that puzzle.
03The whole garage folds shut around a built-in carrying handle, a design lifted straight from LEGO's long line of portable, take-it-with-you City playsets.
04The car-launch bay works on a pressure slider that echoes the old Technic power-slam launchers, firing the F1 cars out of the garage at real speed.