City

Fire Station with Fire Truck

The City fire station finally grew up, and the color blocking is what got me.

Brick Rated Score

3.9/5

Set 60414 · 2024

Pieces844

Minifigs5

Year2024

Set number60414

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The verdict

This is the LEGO City fire station done properly, with a real control center, sleeping quarters, two garages with tall up-and-over doors, and a fire engine that carries modular ladder and extinguisher attachments.

The white, red, and dark azure color blocking is fresh and honestly a little grown-up for the theme, which I loved. Five firefighters and a dog give you a full crew for the price, and at RRP it was one of the better-value City boxes going. If you want a play-first station that also looks tidy on a shelf, this is an easy yes.

Best for: families who want a proper play-and-display City fire station without spending Modular money

The full review

What it is

I have built a lot of LEGO City fire stations over the years, and most of them blur together into the same red-and-white box. This one made me stop and look twice. The color blocking is the thing that got me, white and red broken up with dark azure, and it reads as a modern municipal building rather than a toy. You get a tall structure with a control center up top, a kitchenette and sleeping quarters, an equipment bay below, and two garages with those satisfying up-and-over doors that clunk shut. At 844 pieces it is a proper afternoon of building without ever getting fiddly enough to frustrate a six-year-old.

The catch

The honest caveats are small but worth knowing. The fire engine, which is a nice build in its own right with a modular ladder and an extinguisher attachment you can swap, is a snug fit and some builders found it does not slide cleanly into the station bays. There is also a toy drone that comes with its own helipad, and I will be straight with you, that felt like padding to justify a footprint more than a feature anyone asked for. And the sticker sheet has a genuine goof, it numbers the helicopter as vehicle three in the fleet when three is actually the little boat from the companion set. None of this sinks the set, but it keeps it from being flawless.

Who it's for

If you have a child who loves emergency play, or you just want a City centerpiece that ties the whole fire subtheme together, this is the one to get. It plays beautifully with the smaller 2024 fire vehicles and gives them somewhere to live. I would steer away only if you are chasing rare parts or a challenging engineering build for its own sake, because this is squarely a play set first. For everyone else, especially at or below its RRP, it lands as a very good buy with a couple of quirks you will forgive by the time the doors are on.

The parts story

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

Building it is smooth and paced well. The station goes up in clear sections, walls, then the equipment bay, then the upper floor, so a kid can build one recognizable chunk at a time and feel progress. The up-and-over garage doors are the standout mechanism, they use a simple linkage that clicks into place and stays put, and getting them working is the little payoff moment of the build. The fire engine is a satisfying sub-build with its swappable ladder and extinguisher rig.

On the parts front, this is a color-blocking set more than a rare-parts set. The joy is in the dark azure accents against white and red, which give you a useful stash of that trending shade in plates and tiles. The five firefighters bring fresh torso prints, including a crew member in fire-themed pajamas who looks like he genuinely just rolled out of the bunk, and the fire dog is a lovely little printed extra. For the piece count and the RRP, the per-part value is strong, and mercifully most of the detailing is printed rather than sticker-dependent.

Fun facts

01The set carries a Brickset user rating of about 3.7 out of 5, while dedicated reviewers landed closer to 4 out of 5, praising the modern color blocking.
02It was designed to work alongside the other 2024 City fire vehicles, with space and sticker references pointing to the helicopter and truck from companion sets.
03The sticker sheet contains a small fleet-numbering error, labeling the helicopter as vehicle three when that number actually belongs to the rescue boat.
04Launched with a US RRP of $79.99, the set was scheduled to retire around the end of 2025.